Lawrence R. Spencer's Blog, page 344
September 24, 2018
TEMPTATION REMEMBERED
DEFINITION OF “RESISTANCE”
1. A force that tends to oppose or retard motion.
DEFINITION OF “TEMPTATION”
Synonyms:
allure, charm, entice, influence, invite, lure
Often used in the same context:
allure, contempt, dreamt, entice, exempt, infatuation, lure, seduce, temp, temptation, tempted, tempting
More general:
appeal, arouse, attract, bid, excite, invite, persuade, provoke, sex, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir, turn on, wind up
More specific:
bait, bewitch, call, decoy, lead on, magnetize, mesmerize, spellbind, stool, tweedle
Originally posted 2013-06-27 17:31:33. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
September 23, 2018
CREATURES OF NATURE
Equality is an idea that individual members of a mass of beings have equal rights to action, self-possession and thought.
Aristocracy is the unchallengable right of power, control and possession of an entitled few over subservient individuals.
In nature these ideas are pre-programmed into the essence and behavior of every living creature, according to their nature.
Humans beings are creatures of nature.
~ lawrence r. spencer ~
Originally posted 2016-03-09 13:39:06. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
September 22, 2018
IF YOU CAN DREAM IT YOU CAN DO IT
If you can dream it
You can do it
Anything in every bit
With your own talent and wit
If you can see through
All dreams will come true
Anything at all
Each day has its call
Wonder on by
Through the dreams you see
Open up your sky
Come and follow me
Dreams are a notion
And feelings from your heart
Through its timeless ocean
With each new start
If you can dream it
You can do it
Never feel unfit
When you can prove it
Anything out there
Is for your dreams
Come follow me from here
With what it seems
Have your own try
Through in what you see
Like clouds fly on by
So it must be
Give it magic potion
That never shall depart
Opportunities and emotion
Are its main part
(A poem by Peter S. Quinn)
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Originally posted 2010-12-15 10:36:55. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
BEING ON THE OUTSIDE
HOW IMPORTANT ARE OUR POLITICS, OUR RELIGION, OUR MONEY and OUR BODIES WHEN WE SEE THEM FROM 200 MILES ABOVE EARTH?
Originally posted 2013-12-11 00:36:15. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
September 21, 2018
September 20, 2018
THE END OF TIME
Captain Travis Widely, First President of the Founding Chapter of The Order of Omega Time Travel Cult, Parnassus, MN., travelled to visit The God of The Physical Universe at The End of Time to ask the question, “What happened?”
— Excerpt from the forthcoming book by Lawrence R. Spencer The Order of Omega Time Travel Cult
Originally posted 2011-10-24 12:56:39. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
September 18, 2018
ARCHAEOLOGY AND ALTERED TIME
A VEDIC CONCEPTION OF TIME
“The time concept of modern archeology, and modern anthropology in general, resembles the general cosmological-historical time concept of Europe’s Judeo-Christian culture. Differing from the cyclical cosmological-historical time concepts of the early Greeks in Europe, and the Indians and others in Asia, the Judeo-Christian cosmological-historical time concept is linear and progressive.
“Hindu historical literatures, particularly the Puranas and Itihasas, place human existence in the context of repeating time cycles called yugas and kalpas, lasting hundreds of millions of years. During this entire time, according to the Puranic accounts, humans coexisted with creatures in some ways resembling the earlier toolmaking hominids of modern evolutionary accounts.”
THE YUGA CYCLE
“Each yuga cycle is composed of 4 yugas. The first, the Satya-yuga, lasts 4800 years of the demigods. The second, the Treta-yuga, lasts 3600 years of the demigods. The third, the Dvapara-yuga, lasts 2400 years of the demigods. And the fourth, Kali-yuga, lasts 1200 years of the demigods . Since the demigod year is equivalent to 360 earth years, the lengths of the yugas in earth years are, acording to standard Vaishnava commentaries, 432,000 years for the Kali-yuga, 864,000 years for the Dvapara-yuga, 1,296,000 years for the Treta-yuga, and 1,728,000 years for the Satya-yuga.
“This gives a total of 4,320,000 years for the entire yuga cycle. One thousand of such cycles, lasting 4,320,000 years, comprises one day of Brahma, the demigod who governs this universe. A day of Brahma is also called a kalpa. Each of Brahma’s nights lasts a similar period of time. Life is only manifest on earth during the day of Brahma. With the onset of Brahma’s night, the entire universe is devastated and plunged into darkness. When another day of Brahma begins, life again becomes manifest.
“Each day of Brahma is divided into 14 manvantara periods, each one lasting 71 yuga cycles. Preceding the first and following each manvantara period is a juncture (sandhya) the length of a Satya-yuga (1,728,000 years). Typically, each manvantara period ends with a partial devastation. According to Puranic accounts, we are now in the twenty-eighth yuga cycle of the seventh manvantara period of the present day of Brahma.”
“This would give the inhabited earth an age of about 2 billion years. Interestingly enough, the oldest undisputed organisms recognized by paleontologists – algae fossils like those from the Gunflint formation in Canada – are just about that old.** Altogether, 453 yuga cycles have elapsed since this day of Brahma began. Each yuga cycle involves a progression from a golden age of peace and spiritual progress to a final age of violence and spiritual degradation.”
*This material is from the Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 3, Chapter 11, with translation and commentary by A.C. Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupada (1973), Los Angeles: Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. **Stewart, Wilson N. (1983) Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
September 17, 2018
TIME IS NOW
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Originally posted 2012-10-24 00:36:08. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
