Lawrence R. Spencer's Blog, page 154
July 6, 2021
SELF-DELUSION
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“SELF-DELUSION IS THE FIRST STEP OF AMBITION”. — lawrence r. spencer
July 5, 2021
A MASTER OF INTELLIGENT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
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The Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker is a master of natural resource management, conservation, symbiosis, and being a good neighbor!
On a walk through the forest you might spot rows of shallow holes in tree bark. In the East, this is the work of the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, an enterprising woodpecker that laps up the leaking sap and any trapped insects with its specialized, brush-tipped tongue.
The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker makes two kinds of holes in trees to harvest sap. Round holes extend deep in the tree and are not enlarged. The sapsucker inserts its bill into the hole to probe for sap. Rectangular holes are shallower, and must be maintained continually for the sap to flow. The sapsucker licks the sap from these holes, and eats the cambium of the tree too. New holes usually are made in a line with old holes, or in a new line above the old.
The sapwells made by Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers attract hummingbirds, which also feed off the sap flowing from the tree. In some parts of Canada, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds rely so much on sapwells that they time their spring migration with the arrival of sapsuckers. Other birds as well as bats and porcupines also visit sapsucker sapwells.Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers have been found drilling sapwells in more than 1,000 species of trees and woody plants, though they have a strong preference for birches and maples.Sapsuckers tend to choose sick or wounded trees for drilling their wells, and they choose tree species with high sugar concentrations in their sap, such as paper birch, yellow birch, sugar maple, red maple, and hickory. They drill wells for sap throughout the year, on both their breeding and wintering grounds. In addition to sap, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers also eat insects (mostly ants) and spiders, gleaning them from beneath a tree’s bark like other woodpeckers. And at times they perch at the edge of a tree branch and launch after flying insects to capture them in midair, like a flycatcher.LEARN MORE: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow-bellied_sapsucker/lifehistory/ac
HELHEIM
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For a Viking warrior, Valhalla is the reward you get for living and dying honourably: in battle. What could be for glorious than spending Eternity in the Great Hall drinking, fighting and wenching with Odin and your buddies? It’s a Fate worth living, fighting and dying for! But, what reward can you expect if you go to the OTHER place? Watch “The Saga of Bjorn” and discover why the Vikings named the “other” place Helheim!
July 4, 2021
HOW TO PEPARE FOR YOUR REINCARNATION
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Everyone lives, everyone dies…and almost everyone is reincarnated, usually. Reincarnation planning is not socially acceptable in Western culture, where most people believe whatever they are told by priests and preachers, who don’t know anything at all about what happens when you die! However, many people in India, China and Tibet take the whole idea in stride. However, what very few people do is plan ahead for their next lifetime BEFORE they die!
So, if you are pretty sure you’re going to be coming back (again, and again, and again) as a newborn baby, here are a few common-sense suggestions to prepare everything so you will have a healthy, safe, sane, joyful and secure next lifetime.
The first thing you will need to find is a Mother and a Father. The Mother is much more important than the Father, so your most careful research must be to find a really good Mom!
A really good Mother should be a woman with the following qualities:
Your New Mom must be very aware of the spiritual universe, and be very certain that she knows that you and she are both Immortal Spiritual Beings.Ideally, Your new Mom is someone you love, and trust and admire and desire to be with, and care for, for her entire lifetime, and yours.Your New Mom should be your very best friend, as you will be closer to her and depend upon her more than any other person in the world.She should be wise, educated, and cultured, physically fit and strong.She should be a great cook, and know how to grow her own organic vegetables.She must be a great dancer, artist, and music lover.Your New Mom should be willing and able to communicate with you about anything.She should be an intelligent teacher, a good listener and a student of wisdom and a seeker of Truth.Most of all, Your New Mom should be full of Joy and Love and Compassion for all living creatures, especially You!It is also very nice if Your New Mom has perfect breasts! (This makes feeding time much more pleasurable.)Once you have found and created a loving relationship with Your New Mom (before you die, of course) there are a few practical matters to take care of:
Next, get your legal and financial affairs in order. Instead of leaving all your hard earned money from this lifetime to your ungrateful kids or your lawyer, plan to leave everything to YOURSELF so you can enjoy it in you Next Lifetime!
Arrange your Last Will and Testament to bequeath your money, property, assets, insurance benefits, investments, and any other valuable goods to Your New Mom. (If, for any reason, your new parents get divorced you will want Your Mom to have the money to support BOTH of you, so she doesn’t have to go to work for a living, and take you to a stupid day care center or public school!)Make sure Your New Mom has copies of all your legal documents, and financial documents BEFORE you leave the body.
Now, give Your New Mom a number of your special, personal possessions, photographs, and your personal memorabilia to keep for you. When you enter into you next body at birth, you will be able to identify these objects. This will be “proof” that you and Your New Mom can use to verify that YOU and really YOU! (The Llamas of Tibet use this trick to identify their fellow Llamas after death and rebirth.)
When the Blessed Event of Your Reincarnation draws near, leave your body as painlessly as possible, and hang out with Your New Mom until your Birthday comes! ( Read the book “1,001 Things To Do While You’re Dead” ) for handy tips about things to do while your waiting for your next body to be born.
Finally, swoop down into the body, assume complete responsibility for it, and for Your New Mom, and begin enjoying your Next Life!
DO WHAT THOU WILT
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(Image by Marianna Stelmach)
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François Rabelais (c. 1494 – 9 April 1553) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs. His best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel. Rabelais is considered one of the great writers of world literature and among the creators of modern European writing.
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“All their life was spent not in laws, statutes, or rules, but according to their own free will and pleasure. They rose out of their beds when they thought good; they did eat, drink, labour, sleep, when they had a mind to it and were disposed for it. None did awake them, none did offer to constrain them to eat, drink, nor to do any other thing; for so had Gargantua established it. In all their rule and strictest tie of their order there was but this one clause to be observed, “Do What Thou Wilt;” because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden and to desire what is denied us.”
— Rabelais, description of how the Thélèmites lived and the rules they lived by.
OVER AND OVER AGAIN
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“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Albert Einstein (attributed)
July 3, 2021
BLISSFUL IGNORANCE
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THE ORDER OF OMEGA TIME TRAVEL CULT, MAXIM NUMBER 17: “DO NOT WORRY ABOUT TRUTH. A STATE OF BLISSFUL IGNORANCE IS CHERISHED IN A UNIVERSE BUILT UPON TERRIFYING LIES.”
