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November 13, 2017
November 12, 2017
THE “V”
Originally posted 2012-01-05 11:31:40. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
November 10, 2017
99% of MUNCHKINS ARE EXTINCT (Beetles not)
HOW MANY SPECIES OF MUNCHKINS ARE IN THE LAND OF OZ?
“We represent the Lullaby League …”–The Munchkins
“We represent the Lollipop Guild …”–The Munchkins in ‘The Wizard of Oz’
On this planet, there are five major kingdoms of life forms categorized as follows:
1/ Bacteria
2/ One-Celled Organisms
3/ Mushroom, Molds, Fungi
4/ Multi-Cellular Plants
5/ Multi-Cellular Animals
The number of different forms of life–the tremendous variety of life on this planet–is virtually beyond comprehension. Think of how many different kinds of birds you’ve seen. Take a wild guess as to how many species of fish swim in the waters of the world. How many mammals or reptiles might there be, not to mention plants and insects?
Biologists are still trying to count the number of different life organisms on the planet. Consider the probability that an estimated TWO BILLION SPECIES have lived on Earth, of which as many as 99.9 percent are now EXTINCT! So, there probably aren’t that many left, right?
Wrong.
There are still estimated to be about 30,000,000 (thirty million!) different species of organisms still living on Earth. There are estimated to be more than 400,000 species of plants, alone. Do you like bugs? There are more than 1,000,000 species of insects (yes, that’s one million). There are 30,000 different subspecies of spiders! Not to mention the 30,000 species of beetles, 20,000 species of moths and 20,000 species of ants, bees and wasps. Researchers have estimated that for every human being there are one billion insects on Earth!
There are more than 9,000 species of birds, 4,000 species of mammals (1,700 are rodents), 10,000 species of roundworms, 4,000 species of amphibians, 21,000 species of bony fish and 6,000 species of reptiles. Don’t even think about the nearly unfathomable variety of invertebrate life in the oceans. Scientists will be working for a very long time to identify everything that lives in the waters of the world.
That’s just life in the macrocosm of Earth; i.e., just those life forms that we can see easily with the naked eye. How does this apply to the microcosm of relatively invisible animals?
There are 4,000 known species of bacteria. On the average human body, about 600 million bacteria live on the skin. The skin under your arms carries close to 500,000 bacteria and your forearm is a thriving metropolis that is home to over 12,000 bacteria per square inch! The bacteria population INSIDE your body is too numerous to count.
Then there are all the species of protozoa, algae, fungi and bacteria that eat carbon dioxide and hydrogen and produce methane as a byproduct.
In addition to the vast number of species, consider the fact that each individual cell in any complex organism is, in fact, a separate, distinct life entity. There are about 75 trillion cells in the average human body. The size of a single cell varies from the thickness of a few thousand atoms, to the largest single cell (an ostrich egg), measuring about 20 inches in diameter.
The sheer volume and diversity of life forms would seem to defy the probability of any coincidental, circumstantial, accidental or spontaneous development of the unthinkably vast, complex, intricately coordinated, precisely structured, cooperatively balanced, and yet, ingeniously bizarre, incongruously grotesque and downright peculiar variety of life on Earth. (Remember, we aren’t even counting the 99 percent of life forms that USED to live on the planet, which are now extinct!)
In the 150 years since Darwin and others have re-proposed the Theory of Evolution, no one has ever demonstrated it to be true. Not a single one of any of this immense number of species have ever successfully interbred and created a fertile reproductive combination of two different species.
The point is this: Darwin’s theory does not provide us with a workable solution. The missing pieces of the puzzle are still missing, namely: where did man and the other life forms on this planet come from?”
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— Excerpted from the book, THE OZ FACTORS, by Lawrence R. Spencer
Originally posted 2015-08-02 09:09:54. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
SEX EDUCATION FOR BANANAS
FREE INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO: TEACH YOUR BANANA ABOUT SAFE SEX
Originally posted 2011-09-22 00:56:14. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
November 9, 2017
ESCHER HAIKU
Drawing by Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972). Haiku by Lawrence R. Spencer
M. C. Escher was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations.
Originally posted 2010-12-05 01:01:17. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
November 8, 2017
WOKE UP AND CHANGED
http://lawrencerspencer.com/2013/07/10/lawronia/
Originally posted 2014-05-19 13:40:46. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
November 7, 2017
RANT ON THE RECLINING FALL
Nothing is as aesthetically harmless as a shower of rose petals. So it is with the decadent opulence and aesthetic excesses of a declining empire. In the western world the “peasants” are smothered with glitz and glamorous televised special effects, entertainments, athletic spectacles and indulged in gluttonous festivals on a daily basis. Conversely, during the Black Death plague that wiped out 2/3 of European civilization, people wore flowers around their necks to disguise the smell of their rotting flesh, just before they died. This is the origin of the children’s song “Ring Around The Rosey, Pocket Full of Poseys, All Fall Down“.
We are the very same beings who lived in Rome. We died. We were reincarnated. This process repeated, again, and again, and again, explains the rise and fall of human civilizations on Planet Earth. So far, EVERY civilization on Earth has failed and disappeared. Without exceptions. Why is that? Simple: we are the people our mothers warned us about. It does not matter whether you “believe” it, or not. What is, is. What will be, will be. Unless each one of us decides to change our personal behavior. Unless we create a sustainable civilization for everyone, every day, our civilization declines and disappears. When we allow criminals and maniacs to rule our lives (Secret Societies, Private Bankers and Politicians) we are doomed to repeat the same decay and death we’ve already endured a thousand times. Personally, I’m tired of it. It’s too fucking boring and absurd!
Last year I read The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (27 April 1737– 16 January 1794) which was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. I am also a painter and a student of art history. The decadent murder attempt rendered beautifully in the painting titled, “The Roses of Heliogabalus” was painted in 1888 by the Anglo-Dutch academician Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
“According to Gibbon, the Roman Empire succumbed to barbarian invasions in large part due to the gradual loss of civic virtue among its citizens. They had become weak, outsourcing their duties to defend their Empire to barbarian mercenaries, who then became so numerous and ingrained that they were able to take over the Empire. Romans, he believed, had become effeminate, unwilling to live a tougher, “manly” military lifestyle. In addition, Gibbon argued that Christianity created a belief that a better life existed after death, which fostered an indifference to the present among Roman citizens, thus sapping their desire to sacrifice for the Empire. He also believed its comparative pacifism tended to hamper the traditional Roman martial spirit. Finally, like other Enlightenment thinkers, Gibbon held in contempt the Middle Ages as a priest-ridden, superstitious, dark age.” (Wikipedia.org)
Any student of history, especially of the Roman Empire, cannot be otherwise than overwhelmed by the nearly identical parallels in the decay and decline of the American Empire. This principle difference is that the American deterioration has taken only 200 years, whereas the collapse of Rome took about 1500. I cannot resist commenting on the decadent, aesthetic irony embodied by this painting: It is based on an episode in the life of the Roman emperor Heliogabalus, (204–222), taken from the Augustan History. He is portrayed attempting to smother his unsuspecting guests in rose-petals released from false ceiling panels. “In a banqueting room with a reversible ceiling he once overwhelmed his parasites with violets and other flowers, so that some were actually smothered to death, being unable to crawl out to the top.”
The emperor was cut to pieces by swords at the age of 18, by the Praetorian Guard, — at the instigation of his own grandmother — who was outraged and incensed by the perverse sexual and political behavior of this boy-emperor. Heliogabalus was bi-sexual, rampantly promiscuous, and unabashedly disrespectful of Roman Law and moral codes.
“Members of the Praetorian Guard attacked Heliogabalus and his mother: So he made an attempt to flee, and would have got away somewhere by being placed in a chest, had he not been discovered and slain, at the age of 18. His mother, who embraced him and clung tightly to him, perished with him; their heads were cut off and their bodies, after being stripped naked, were first dragged all over the city, and then the mother’s body was cast aside somewhere or other, while his was thrown into the river.”
What do you think the Praetorian Guard might do with Emperors, Wall Street Banksters and Congressmen today?
How much longer do you think American civilization will endure before it is smothered in its own decadence?
Originally posted 2013-01-05 01:42:01. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
