Lawrence R. Spencer's Blog, page 337
December 5, 2018
NOTHINGNESS and INFINITY
from the Preamble to the book: Domain Expeditionary Force Rescue Mission, a Science Fiction Novel by Lawrence R. Spencer, based on the book ALIEN INTERVIEW
“Once the IS-BEs expelled from the “Old Empire” arrived on Earth, they were given amnesia, and hypnotically tricked into thinking that something else had happened to them. The next step was to implant the IS-BEs into biological bodies on Earth. The bodies became the human populations of “false civilizations” which were designed and installed in the minds of IS-BEs to look completely unlike the “Old Empire”. All of the IS-BEs of India, Egypt, Babylon, Greece, Rome, and Medieval Europe were guided to pattern and build the cultural elements of these societies based on standard patterns developed by the IS-BEs of many earlier, similar civilizations on “Sun Type 12, Class 7” planets that have existed for trillions of years throughout the universe.” — excerpted from Top Secret government interview transcripts published in the book, “Alien Interview”
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“Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.” — Adolph Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945)
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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.” — Ayn Rand (January 20, 1905 – March 6, 1982)
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“When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.” — C. P. Snow (15 October 1905–1 July 1980)
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“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.” — Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
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“We are the people our parents warned us about.”
– Jimmy Buffett (December 25, 1946 — )
LISTEN TO A SAMPLE OF THE AUDIOBOOK The Domain Expeditionary Force Rescue Mission
Originally posted 2014-02-25 22:27:13. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
December 3, 2018
OUR SENTIENT UNIVERSE
Dr. Michael Clarage talks about his work with SAFIRE from a more philosophical perspective – what an empiricist might ponder outside the lab. He offers some intriguing if not startling observations about the astronomical and the biological, the dead and the living universe.
Essentially, examination of the universe using electron telescopes, combined with laboratory experiments concerning plasma energy have determined that our sun and stars are parts of an interconnected “living” organism connected through electrical plasma. The macrocosmic universe exhibits behavior similar to that of a living cell with a purposeful intelligence. It is sentient and “alive”.
Learn more here:
http://www.everythingselectric.com/safire-project/
The Thunderbolts Project Home: http://www.thunderbolts.info Essential Guide to the Electric Universe: http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/eg-co… Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thunderboltsp… Twitter: @tboltsproject Electric Universe by Wal Thornhill: http://www.holoscience.com/wp/
December 2, 2018
SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING
November 30, 2018
SERENE HAIKU
haiku, unrhymed Japanese poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively. The term haiku is derived from the first element of the word haikai (a humorous form of renga, or linked-verse poem) and the second element of the word hokku (the initial stanza of a renga). The hokku, which set the tone of a renga, had to mention in its three lines such subjects as the season, time of day, and the dominant features of the landscape, making it almost an independent poem. The hokku (often interchangeably called haikai) became known as the haiku late in the 19th century, when it was entirely divested of its original function of opening a sequence of verse; today even the earlier hokku are usually called haiku.
Originally, the haiku form was restricted in subject matter to an objective description of nature suggestive of one of the seasons, evoking a definite, though unstated, emotional response. The form gained distinction in the 17th century, during the Tokugawa period, when the great master Bashō elevated the hokku, as it was then known, to a highly refined and conscious art. Haiku has since remained the most popular form in Japanese poetry.
Originally posted 2013-02-14 00:02:26. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
November 28, 2018
HALLOWEEN HAIKU
Float above the crowd.
Spend Halloween as a Cloud.
Be ethereal.
Originally posted 2011-10-26 15:02:23. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
November 27, 2018
Warring Pacific tribes swap two young children to end violent feud
In a move designed by Vanuatu tribal chiefs to heal the rift, a young boy and girl will be exchanged between the groups.
Warring tribes on the tiny Pacific island of Tanna have agreed to swap two children to settle a long-running land dispute that descended into violence.
The clans, who have been arguing over property rights on the island for more than two decades, revived the ancient and controversial custom of child swapping in an attempt to end hostilities after the feud turned violent and several people were injured in a brawl.
Such a child swap has not taken place in more than 200 years.
Seth Kaurua, from the Vanuatu Council of Chiefs, said the feud between the two tribes had been going on for 27 years, but the chiefs had to step in when it turned violent and several people were injured.
“The practice on Tanna for resolving a dispute, whenever it turns to violence, is that we have to use our traditional way.
“One tribe gives away a child, female or male, to the other tribe and the other tribe has to do the same.”
The aim of the exchange was to “build a bridge between the two tribes and make the relationship stronger.”
Mr Kaurua acknowledged that the practice may raise eyebrows outside the Pacific, but said it was “a normal part of our traditional life” in Vanuatu.
Exchanging children is rare in Tanna, and frowned on by the court system, but it is does take place from time to time. It is not uncommon on the island for a female child to be given away to replace a lost family member – for example if a child is killed in a car accident, the driver could offer one of their own children as reparation.
However, a swap involving two large tribes giving up a child had not taken place on the island for more than 200 years, because peace had prevailed, Mr Kaurua said.
“We had a tribal fight 200 years ago and no one has been killed, no fighting since then. So when this dispute happened, people just go back to what happened in the past to resolve it.
“Many people in different countries might think it is strange but for us its normal practice, it is a highly respected custom, it is the way we make peace.”
The child swap itself takes place in an elaborate reconciliation ceremony, in which both tribes gather in a special meeting place. There, the child is paraded in front of the new tribe and the leader of the tribe shakes hands with the child and its parents, indicating that he will accept the boy or girl.
While the child does not have to move to its new tribe immediately, they will grow up in the knowledge that they no longer belong to their parents, and will eventually have to leave, Mr Kaurua said.
So far, one of the swaps had taken place, involving a girl aged seven, he said. The second swap, involving a boy, is due to take place in the coming weeks.
Kirk Huffman, an anthropologist who has studied the clans of Vanuatu, said the practice was an effective way of rebalancing relations between groups that had become strained or dangerous.
“This is not a barbaric, savage custom at all, it is a very sophisticated means of reestablishing a broken peace between two groups,” he said.
“It used to be done in the royal families of Europe, who would swap women to make the bonds between the families stronger. But it has been happening in Tanna since before the nations of Europe were formed.”
The children involved often benefitted from the arrangement because they could remain in contact with their family, while gaining a new extended family, he said.
Originally posted 2011-08-24 16:41:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
November 26, 2018
HUMAN DEVOLUTION
“We did not evolve up from matter; instead we devolved, or came down, from the realm of pure consciousness, spirit.” — Michael Cremo.”
Longtime Vedic scholar says humankind did not evolve from apes, rather, we devolved from a higher plane of consciousness into matter, as described in the Vedas, and how Alfred R. Wallace, whose theory of evolution by natural selection was published with Darwin’s, got co-credit until he later suggested that evolution was directed by cosmic intelligence. Where did we come from? Drawing upon a wealth of research into archeology, genetics, reincarnation memories, out-of-body experiences, parapsychology, cross cultural cosmology, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, Cremo provides a refreshing perspective.
November 25, 2018
THREADS OF ART
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Visit the site to see the fantastic thread art at the Beili Liu Installation Projects
Originally posted 2010-12-30 10:41:28. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
