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May 25, 2017
HEAVEN IS BORING
“The Eternal threat of Boredom remains when one abdicates recognition of oneself as the Source of Boredom.
When we carefully examine every instant of our personal existence we discover that we created it, agreed with it and willingly participated with others to cause it to continue to exist.
Why? Boredom. Nothingness. Our individual and collective unwillingness to admit that we are actively creating everything that we perceive.
Yet, this simple recognition of our personal responsibility for the existence of this universe, and all universes and of our own eternal nothingness is the solution to the Mystery of the Ages.
Every question provides its own reply:
What is Mystery? The Mystery is that there is no mystery. We create mystery by choosing to Not Know and to Not Be the Eternal Nothingness of Our Selves.”
— Excerpt from MORTALITY MECHANICS’ MANUAL by Lawrence R. Spencer
Originally posted 2012-11-30 00:37:01. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA EVER
One summer, while I was in college, I spent 4 months working as a fire fighter in Lassen National Forest and Park. I lived that summer with a crew of 10 firefighters at an isolated fire station near the entrance to the Lassen Park and fought quite a few forest and brush fires in and around the park. It was one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. My respect and reverence for our forests and the natural environment was heavily influenced by that adventure. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Together, we must protect and defend our National Park System: It Belongs To All of Us!
(Here is a link to 20 video excerpts from the Ken Burns documentary film about our National Parks. This film took FIVE YEARS to shoot and edit. I think it is one of the very best documentary films ever made.)
http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/watch-video/#914
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American Heroes who helped create the national park system: In 1901, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. (July 24, 1870 – December 25, 1957) was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as a member of the Senate Park Improvement Commission. In 1910, he was approached by the American Civic Association for advice on the creation of a new bureau of national parks. This initiated six years of correspondence, including this letter on January 19, 1912:
“The present situation in regard to the national parks is very bad. They have been created one at a time by acts of Congress which have not defined at all clearly the purposes for which the lands were to be set apart, nor provided any orderly or efficient means of safeguarding the parks . . . I have made at different times two suggestions, one of which was . . . a definition of the purposes for which the national parks and monuments are to be administered by the Bureau.”
His best contribution was of a few simple words that would guide conservation in America for generations to come and were preserved in the National Park Service Organic Act (1916):
“To conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”
National parks began to be designated in the second half of the 19th century, and national monuments in the early part of the 20th century. Each park or monument was managed individually or, alternately in some cases, by the United States Army, each with varying degrees of success. Beginning in 1911, Senator Read Smoot of Utah and Representative John E. Raker of California had submitted bills to establish the National Park Service to oversee the management of all these holdings. The bills were opposed by the director of the U.S. Forest Service, Gifford Pinchot, and his supporters. The Forest Service believed that a National Park Service would be a threat to continued Forest Service control of public lands that had been set aside for the timber trade. Beginning in 1910 the American Civic Association with the support of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs and the Sierra Club had led the call for a federal service to manage the parks. The noted landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead was also a booster of a single national organization to manage the National Parks.
Successful and influential industrialist Stephen Mather was challenged by Interior Secretary Franklin K. Lane to lobby for legislation creating a bureau to oversee the National Parks. Mather accepted pro bono (accepting a perfunctory salary of $1) and with assistance primarily by a young lawyer named Horace Albright a campaign was begun. By 1915, regular meetings were occurring in Washington at the home of Congressman William Kent of California. The group’s regulars were Congressman Kent, J. Horace McFarland of the American Civic Association, and the few Washington staff members of the Department of the Interior responsible the National Parks.
ABOUT THE VIDEO ON THIS PAGE:
http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks PBS brings you a preview of the newest Ken Burns documentary series, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICAS BEST IDEA. The 12-hour, six-part documentary series, directed by Burns and co-produced with his longtime colleague, Dayton Duncan. Premiered on Sunday, September 27th, 2009 (check local listings) Buy the DVD: http://www.shoppbs.org/entry.point?entry=3473255&source=PBSCS_YOUTUBE_NAP…
Originally posted 2012-10-25 00:17:45. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
May 24, 2017
KNOW THAT YOU KNOW
KNOW THAT YOU KNOW
As an immortal spiritual beingyou have lived forever.
You already know what you know.
We have been forced and trickedinto forgetting who we really are.
Know what you know.
Know that you know.
— Lawrence R. Spencer. 2011.
Originally posted 2011-04-22 15:11:50. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
HUMAN FAILURES
[image error]THROUGHOUT THE BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANITY THE SECRET INTENTION OF BEINGS WHO WISH TO CONTROL HUMAN ACTIVITY, I.E. THE SELF ANOINTED ECONOMIC, RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL AND MILITARY “LEADERS” OF HUMAN “CIVILIZATION”, IS TO SUSTAIN SELF-SERVING AND SELF-DESTRUCTIVE CONTROL OF MINDS AND BODIES THROUGH SECRECY, SUPERSTITION AND BRUTALITY. THE RESULTING SUPPORT OF “LEADERS” BY “FOLLOWERS” IS THAT EVERY HUMAN CIVILIZATION ON EARTH WAS FORMED, DECAYED AND DISAPPEARED WITHIN ONLY A FEW HUNDRED OR A FEW THOUSAND YEARS: A BLINK OF THE COSMIC EYE.
THE UBIQUITOUS EXISTENCE OF GLOBAL PREHISTORIC MONOLITHIC STONE STRUCTURES AND THE MODERN HUMAN DEVASTATION OF EARTH THROUGH “SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLOGY” INDICATE THAT COVERT ACTIONS AND EXTERNAL INFLUENCES, WHICH REMAIN UNKNOWN, WERE PUT IN PLACE LONG BEFORE HOMO SAPIENS APPEARED ON EARTH TO ENSURE THE PERPETUAL FAILURE OF HUMANS TO SURVIVE AS A SPECIES, OR AS INDIVIDUAL SPIRITUAL BEINGS.
– Lawrence R. Spencer, 2017
May 23, 2017
CREATING YOUR SELF
( See more Magical Paintings by the Spanish artist, Alex Alemany on his website — http://www.alexalemany.com )
QUOTE: George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. He was also an essayist, novelist and short story writer. Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems with a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. Issues which engaged Shaw’s attention included education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.
He was most angered by what he perceived as the exploitation of the working class. An ardent socialist, Shaw wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society. He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes, which included gaining equal rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthy lifestyles. Shaw was noted for expressing his views in uncompromising language, whether on vegetarianism (branding his own pre-vegetarian self a “cannibal”), the development of the human race (his own brand of eugenics).
~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw
Originally posted 2015-06-05 23:47:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
HOME IS NOT A PLACE
http://www.storypeople.com/storypeople/Home.do
Originally posted 2013-04-01 08:34:09. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
May 22, 2017
THE FIRST OF ALL PLEASURES
François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, freedom of expression, free trade and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform, despite strict censorship laws with harsh penalties for those who broke them. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day. Voltaire was one of several Enlightenment figures (along with Montesquieu, John Locke, Richard Price, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Émilie du Châtelet) whose works and ideas influenced important thinkers of both the American and French Revolutions. — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire
Originally posted 2012-12-02 23:22:07. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
STEAM PUNK FAERIE
STEAMPUNK
Steampunk is a genre which came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s and incorporates elements of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, horror, and speculative fiction. It involves a setting where steam power is widely used—whether in an alternate history such as Victorian era Britain or “Wild West”-era United States, or in a post-apocalyptic time —that incorporates elements of either science fiction or fantasy. Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology, or futuristic innovations as Victorians might have envisioned them, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art. This technology includes such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or the contemporary authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld and China Mieville.
Other examples of steampunk contain alternative history-style presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analog computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’sAnalytical Engine.
Steampunk also refers to art, fashion, and design that are informed by the aesthetics of Steampunk literature. Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical “steampunk” style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk. Steampunk is most directly influenced by, and often adopts the style of, the 19th century scientific romances of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Mary Shelley.
FAERIE
The word fairy derives from Middle English faierie (also fayerye, feirie, fairie), a direct borrowing from Old French faerie (Modern French féerie) meaning the land, realm, or characteristic activity (i.e. enchantment) of the legendary people of folklore and romance called (in Old French) faie or fee (Modern French fée). This derived ultimately from Late Latin fata (one of the personified Fates, hence a guardian or tutelary spirit, hence a spirit in general); cf. Italian fata, Portuguese fada, Spanish hada of the same origin.
Fata, although it became a feminine noun in the Romance languages, was originally the neuter plural (“the Fates”) of fatum, past participle of the verb fari to speak, hence “thing spoken, decision, decree” or “prophetic declaration, prediction”, hence “destiny, fate”. It was used as the equivalent of the Greek Μοῖραι Moirai, the personified Fates who determined the course and ending of human life.
To the word faie was added the suffix -erie (Modern English -(e)ry), used to express either a place where something is found (fishery, heronry, nunnery) or a trade or typical activity engaged in by a person (cookery, midwifery, thievery). In later usage it generally applied to any kind of quality or activity associated with a particular sort of person, as in English knavery, roguery, witchery, wizardry.
Faie became Modern English fay “a fairy”; the word is, however, rarely used, although it is well known as part of the name of the legendary sorceress Morgan le Fay of Arthurian legend. Faierie became fairy, but with that spelling now almost exclusively referring to one of the legendary people, with the same meaning as fay. In the sense “land where fairies dwell”, the distinctive and archaic spellings Faery and Faerie are often used. Faery is also used in the sense of “a fairy”, and the back-formation fae, as an equivalent or substitute for fay is now sometimes seen.
The word fey, originally meaning “fated to die” or “having forebodings of death” (hence “visionary”, “mad”, and various other derived meanings) is completely unrelated, being from Old English fæge, Proto-Germanic *faigja- and Proto-Indo-European *poikyo-, whereas Latin fata comes from the Indo-European root *bhã- “speak”. Due to the identical pronunciation of the two words, “fay” is sometimes misspelled “fey”.
Fairies are generally described as human in appearance and having magical powers. Their origins are less clear in the folklore, being variously dead, or some form of demon, or a species completely independent of humans or angels.[3] Folklorists have suggested that their actual origin lies in a conquered race living in hiding,[4] or in religious beliefs that lost currency with the advent of Christianity. These explanations are not necessarily incompatible, and they may be traceable to multiple sources.
Much of the folklore about fairies revolves around protection from their malice, by such means as cold iron (iron is like poison to fairies, and they will not go near it) or charms of rowan and herbs, or avoiding offense by shunning locations known to be theirs.[6] In particular, folklore describes how to prevent the fairies from stealing babies and substituting changelings, and abducting older people as well. Many folktales are told of fairies, and they appear as characters in stories from medieval tales of chivalry, to Victorian fairy tales, and up to the present day in modern literature. ( Reference: Wikipedia.org)
Originally posted 2012-04-29 09:47:31. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
May 21, 2017
This Is How Much It Costs to Own a Vagina: An Itemized List
Given the national debate regarding birth control coverage, it’s increasingly clear that many people have no idea how much it costs it to own a vagina — folks are getting up in arms about the idea that the pill could set uninsured women back about $1000 a year, but in the grand scheme of things, that’s nothing. Do you even know just how much you’re shelling out for yours? Were you aware of the fact that in your 20s alone, you will spend over $26,000 on vaginal maintenance? Herewith, we do the math for you.
READ THE ENTIRE ITEMIZED LIST HERE: This Is How Much It Costs to Own a Vagina: An Itemized List.
Originally posted 2012-04-06 12:39:29. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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