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PLANETARY PESTILENTIAL POTENTIAL

Originally posted 2016-01-23 03:11:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

THE ICY FLAME

Before Being was the Icy Flame.

You and I and All.

The Flame conceives.

And From that Eternal Fire comes Thought:

Joy and Love and Pain.

We pretend. We betray.

We deceive Our Selves with play.

We invade the dark relentless void with incandescent Light.

Like candles in a forge we play a game that melts the soul.

Each victory drowns the flame within Our Selves.

And yet The Flame still lingers in us all.

We flicker faintly far from The Hearth of Home.

Burn brightly Lonely spark.

Remember You and I and All:

We are the Icy Fire.

— Lawrence R. Spencer, 2012 —

Originally posted 2012-06-01 00:53:45. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

PI SOUNDS LIKE A NICE NUMBER

via What pi sounds like – YouTube.

Originally posted 2012-06-23 09:40:48. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

KNOWING

“Intelligence is understanding what One knows and what One does NOT know.

Wisdom is knowing that One is The Source of Knowing.”

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Lawrence R. Spencer

Originally posted 2013-06-13 11:51:09. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

THE TAO

Tao or Dao is a concept signifying ‘way’, ‘path’, ‘route’, or sometimes more loosely, ‘doctrine’ or ‘principle’, or as a verb, speak.  Within these contexts Tao signifies the primordial essence or fundamental nature of existence. Tao is thus “eternally nameless”, or Immortal Spiritual Beings, and to be distinguished from the countless ‘named’ things which are considered to be its manifestations, as the space, energy and forms of, and within, the physical universe, and other universes.

The Tao Te Ching, Daodejing, or Dao De Jing (道德經: 道 dào “way”; 德 dé “virtue”; 經 jīng “classic” or “text”) is simply referred to as the Laozi. According to tradition, it was written around 6th century BC by the sage Laozi (or Lao Tzu, “Old Master”), a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court, by whose name the text is known in China. The text’s true authorship and date of composition or compilation are still debated, although the oldest excavated text dates back to the late 4th century BC.

Many different translations, versions and interpretations of The Tao have been produced through the past 2,500 years, or so, since the original appearance.  Like any “religion”, the “opinions” and “interpretations” of “priests” MODIFY and INTRODUCE FASLE IDEAS into the original.  Therefore, I suggest that anyone who wished to sincerely study The Tao as a Body of Wisdom, study many difference translations in order to DECIDE FOR YOURSELF what is “true” or not.  

Here is a link to a website containing many different translations, and COMPARISONS between translations. 

Originally posted 2013-09-03 16:01:53. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

CARNAL CARNIVORE

Definition and derivation of carnivore

any of an order (Carnivora) of typically flesh-eating mammals that includes humans, dogs, foxes, bears, raccoons, and cats.  Derived from Latin carnivorus “flesh-eating”

c. 1600, from Middle French carnage (16c.), from Old Italian carnaggio “slaughter, murder,” from Medieval Latin carnaticum “flesh,” from Latin carnaticum “slaughter of animals,” from carnem (nominative caro) “flesh,” originally “a piece of flesh,” from PIE root *(s)ker- (1) “to cut” (see shear (v.)). In English always used more of slaughters of men than beasts. Southey (1795) tried to make a verb of it.


Definition and derivation of carnal



relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites, especially when marked by eating and sexuality.  c. 1400, “physical, human, mortal,” from Old French carnal and directly from Medieval Latin carnalis “natural, of the same blood,” from Latin carnis “of the flesh,” genitive of caro “flesh, meat“

MILAREPA

Jetsun Milarepa  (c. 1052 – c. 1135 CE) is generally considered one of Tibet’s most famous yogis and poets.

Milarepa is famous for many of his songs and poems, in which he expresses the profundity of his realization of the dharma. Through the illustration of his own life, Milarepa set for all Buddhists an example of the perfect Bodhisattva, and a model of the incorruptible life of a genuine practitioner of Buddhist Tantrism. His life is an unmistakable testimony to the unity an interdependency of all Buddhist teachings – Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana – for Buddhahood is not attainable if any of the three is lacking. He made it clear to all that poverty is not a kind of deprivation, but rather is a necessary way of emancipating oneself from the tyranny of material possessions; that Tantric practice by no means implies indulgence and laxity, but hard labor, strict discipline, and steadfast perseverance; that without resolute renunciation and uncompromising discipline, as Gautama Buddha Himself stressed, all the sublime ideas and dazzling images depicted in Mahayana and Tantric Buddhism are no better that magnificent illusions.

Originally posted 2013-03-15 17:25:26. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

QUESTION

Originally posted 2014-11-03 21:01:52. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

EDGE OF EVOLUTION

As I revealed in my book THE OZ FACTORS in 1999, the “theory of evolution” is essentially a bunch of bunk.  Darwin based his THEORY largely on geology, rather than biology.  During the intervening decades the new religion of “science”, as well as old religion (The Pope) have accepted and championed the unfounded THEORY that life on Earth spontaneously “evolves” to create new and unique species of life.  The problem is that all the EVIDENCE demonstrates this has never happened, without the intervention of “intelligent design”, i.e. people, aliens, gods, etc..  The theory of evolution another of the fundamental lies (false information) that trap and enslave the minds human beings on Earth.

Here is a brief description of a new book published recently by the brilliant biologist and writer. Michael Behe,  that I referenced in THE OZ FACTORS:

“When Michael J. Behe’s first book, Darwin’s Black Box, was published in 1996, it launched the intelligent design movement. Critics howled, yet hundreds of thousands of readers — and a growing number of scientists — were intrigued by Behe’s claim that Darwinism could not explain the complex machinery of the cell.

Now, in his long-awaited follow-up, Behe presents far more than a challenge to Darwinism: He presents the evidence of the genetics revolution — the first direct evidence of nature’s mutational pathways — to radically redefine the debate about Darwinism.

How much of life does Darwin’s theory explain? Most scientists believe it accounts for everything from the machinery of the cell to the history of life on earth. Darwin’s ideas have been applied to law, culture, and politics.

But Darwin’s theory has been proven only in one sense: There is little question that all species on earth descended from a common ancestor. Overwhelming anatomical, genetic, and fossil evidence exists for that claim. But the crucial question remains: How did it happen? Darwin’s proposed mechanism — random mutation and natural selection — has been accepted largely as a matter of faith and deduction or, at best, circumstantial evidence. Only now, thanks to genetics, does science allow us to seek direct evidence. The genomes of many organisms have been sequenced, and the machinery of the cell has been analyzed in great detail. The evolutionary responses of microorganisms to antibiotics and humans to parasitic infections have been traced over tens of thousands of generations.

As a result, for the first time in history Darwin’s theory can be rigorously evaluated. The results are shocking. Although it can explain marginal changes in evolutionary history, random mutation and natural selection explain very little of the basic machinery of life. The “edge” of evolution, a line that defines the border between random and nonrandom mutation, lies very far from where Darwin pointed. Behe argues convincingly that most of the mutations that have defined the history of life on earth have been nonrandom.

Although it will be controversial and stunning, this finding actually fits a general pattern discovered by other branches of science in recent decades: The universe as a whole was fine-tuned for life. From physics to cosmology to chemistry to biology, life on earth stands revealed as depending upon an endless series of unlikely events. The clear conclusion: The universe was designed for life.

SELF-DELUSION

“SELF-DELUSION IS THE FIRST  STEP OF AMBITION”. — lawrence r. spencer

Originally posted 2012-08-20 13:52:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter