Lawrence R. Spencer's Blog, page 518
April 30, 2014
WISDOM
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves
after a journey that no one can take for us, or spare us.
~ Marcel Proust ~
April 29, 2014
STATES OF SUPERSTITION
The idea that human beings in biological bodies can travel throughout intergalactic space, raise families on board a space craft, and freely interact with alien life forms is an example of superstition, based in science fiction, conjecture and wishful thinking....
LET'S TRY TO FORGET ABOUT THE HISTORY OF HUMAN SUPERSTITION AND STUPIDITY
AND PRETEND THAT WE HAVE EVOLVED INTO HIGHER STATES OF SUPERSTITION.
ELECTRIC SHOCK: HOW OBEDIENCE WORKS
In the aftermath of the Nazi Holocaust the world was shocked that normal citizens could be ordered to carryout heinous crimes.
Stanley Milgram developed experiments to test people's obedience to authority and determine how far regular people would go in inflicting pain on others simply because some authority told them to.
The experiment consisted of two people on Milgram's team, an Experimenter and an Assistant. The Experimenter represented the authoritative figure and the Assistant was secretly assigned to represented the citizen subject.
A newspaper advert for a Psychology Experiment offering $4.50 per hour Recruited willing participants who became the Teacher representing 'government' workers under officials.
On arriving the Experimenter explains to the Recruit that they will be testing the effect of punishment on learning ability. 
The Assistant and Recruit draw lots to determine who will be the "Teacher" and who will be the "Student". The lots were rigged so as to ensure that the Recruit always became the Teacher.
The Assistant Student is then strapped into an electric chair connected to a switch marked with increasing shock voltages controlled by the Teacher. The switch started with 15Volts and increased in 15 Volt increments all the way to 450 Volts. The switch is also rated with labels starting from "slight shock" to "danger: severe shock" and the final two switches are labeled "XXX".
The Teacher then reads two-world pairs from a list and the Student has to repeat the two word pair. If the Student answers correctly the Teacher moves on to the next two-word pair in the list. If the Student gets the answer wrong, the Teacher administers a shock to the Student starting at 15V and increasing the shock 15V for each incorrect answer.
The Student is actually part of the test team and acts as though being shocked.
Astonishingly every Recruit shocked the Student up to the 300 Volt switch.
65% of the Recruits shocked the Student to the maximum 450 Volts.
Milgram also conducted several follow-up experiments. In one experiment the Recruited "Teacher" was required to hold the hand of the Student when shocking the Student at any level above 150V. 32% of the Recruits held the hand of the Student when administering shocks in excess of 400V. Other experiments revealed that Recruited Teachers were less obedient to Experimenters instructions to shock the Student when the Experimenter communicated with the Recruited Teacher remotely via telephone.
The experiments have been replicated by may other researchers around the world from 1961 to 1985 revealing the same astonishing obedience of Recruits to inflict pain on Students just because they are told to by someone claiming 'authority'.
What is also interesting from Milgram's research is that some "Teacher" Recruits would question the Experiment as to who was responsible for any harm to the Student. When the Experimenter told the Recruit they accepted full responsibility, the Recruits, often despite being extremely uncomfortable continued to shock the Student.
"I observed a mature and initially poised businessman enter the laboratory smiling and confident. Within 20 minuets he was reduced to a twitching, stuttering wreck, who was rapidly approaching nervous collapse. He constantly pulled on his ear lobe, and twisted his hands. At one point he pushed his fist into his forehead and muttered 'Oh God, lets stop it'. And yet he continued to respond to every word of the Experimenter, and obeyed to the end." - Milgram
The Big Question is whether recruits under some sort of authority are not guilty when they commit crime when their authority tells them to. Milgram's experiments were inspired by the Eichmann Trials. Eichmann was a high ranking Nazi official largely responsible for setting up concentration camps and exterminating millions of Jews. When he was caught in South America many years after the war and brought to trial in Israel, Eichmann's primary defense was that his authorities told him to do it and that he was just following orders. Eichmann with his calm, cool and collected posture on the stand during trial shocked the world. Here was what appeared to be a reasonable man calmly saying that he slaughtered millions of people in the most horrific way because he was a good respectable official simply obeying the orders and wishes of his authorities. Eichmann was properly found guilty and executed. (See also Bushes and Bush Bolt Hole).
Clearly a key to this behavior, as reflected by the Recruits who asked who accepted responsibility for hurting the Student, is accountability. Clearly authorities are accountable, despite the fact that they are seldom held accountable. Those carrying out the crime for the authorities are also obviously accountable. However, unless their is a clear and obvious understanding in society and law that if you commit a crime, no matter who tells you, you are responsible, their is little to prevent criminals running amuck in our government.
Results from Milgram's experiment would be interesting if the Recruit "Teacher" was told that they would be held fully responsible for any injury suffered by the Student. At what voltage level would the Recruit stop shocking his subject?
Biblical Law which is defined in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, perhaps reflects a severity intended to bring the realization of responsibility and accountability to everyone. Judge law, or "Case Law" as it is more commonly referred to, while obviously void it is however currently the de-facto law in U.S. Courts, is creating exactly the opposite problem. See 11th Amendment which eliminates Judicial Power and how the U.S. Judiciary is absurdly claiming that the 11th Amendment grants government officials "sovereign immunity" when in fact the 11th Amendment and the very construct of the Constitution states just the opposite. Criminals are often not held accountable by U.S. courts because they claim something in their past made them do it..
April 28, 2014
YOU ARE THE POWER
"If you please, I am Dorothy, the small and meek."--Dorothy
"SILENCE!"--The Wizard
Ultimately, you are the only person who can decide what is true in any universe --
is it black & white like Kansas, multicolored like the Land of Oz, or is it all really just a dream?
The Oz Factors can help you decide what is true for you...
April 25, 2014
RESPECT
April 24, 2014
FEED AND WARM YOURSELF
A shepherd has many dogs to control his sheep. And, every shepherd learns to hypnotize his sheep to prevent them from trying to escape. This is because the shepherd is a human who cannot feed themselves. They have no wool to keep themselves warm. His sheep keep him fed and warm. So, he tells the sheep that he loves them, and that he will protect them from harm. He convinces the sheep that they really are NOT sheep. He tells them that they are lions, eagles, men, and even shepherds! The sheep believe the shepherd and fear his dogs. The sheep are content to remain hypnotized, and do not try to escape. The shepherd kills and eats sheep whenever he needs their meat and wool. He encourages the sheep to breed and to grow more wool. The sheep do not remember that they have been hypnotized.
They forget that they are sheep.
Sheep don't need a shepard and dogs to be content.
Sheep can feed and warm themselves.
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Story idea via Arnaldo Lerma at http://www.lermanet2.com/
April 23, 2014
TECHNICAL POTENTIAL
VISIT THE WEBSITE and BLOG for the book at www.alieninterview.org and www.alieninterview.org/blog
"Can you imagine how much progress could have been made on Earth if people like Johannes Gutenberg [i] (Footnote), Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington Carver, [ii] (Footnote) Nicola Tesla, Jonas Salk, [iii] (Footnote) and Richard Trevithick, [iv] (Footnote) and many thousands of similar geniuses and inventors were living today?
Image what technical accomplishments might have been developed if men like these never died? What if they were never given amnesia and made to forget everything they knew? What if they continued to learn and work forever?
What level of technology and civilization could be attained if Immortal Spiritual Beings like these were allowed to continue to create -- in the same place and at the same time -- for billions or trillions of years?" -- Airl, Pilot-Officer-Engineer of The Domain
[i] "... Johannes Gutenberg..."
"Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (c. 1400 – February 3, 1468) was a German goldsmith and printer, who is credited with inventing movable type printing in Europe (c. 1439) and mechanical printing globally. His major work, the Gutenberg Bible, also known as the 42-line bible, has been acclaimed for its high aesthetic and technical quality.
Although Gutenberg was financially unsuccessful in his lifetime, the printing technologies spread quickly, and news and books began to travel across Europe much faster than before. It fed the growing Renaissance, and since it greatly facilitated scientific publishing, it was a major catalyst for the later scientific revolution. Gutenberg is thought to have said: "Give me 26 soldiers of lead and I shall conquer the world."
Printing was also a factor in the Reformation: Martin Luther found that the 95 Theses, which he posted on the door of his church, were printed and circulated widely; subsequently he also issued broadsheets outlining his anti-indulgences position (ironically, indulgences were one of the first items Gutenberg had printed). The broadsheet evolved into newspapers and defined the mass media we know today."
-- Reference: Wikipedia.org
[ii] "... George Washington Carver..."
"George Washington Carver (July 12, 1864 – January 5, 1943) was an American botanical researcher and agronomy educator who worked in agricultural extension at the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, teaching former slaves farming techniques for self-sufficiency.
George Washington Carver reputedly discovered three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes. Among the listed items that he suggested to southern farmers to help them economically were adhesives, axle grease, bleach, buttermilk, chili sauce, fuel briquettes, ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonnaise, meat tenderizer, metal polish, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving cream, shoe polish, synthetic rubber, talcum powder and wood stain. Three patents (one for cosmetics, and two for paints and stains) were issued to George Washington Carver in the years 1925 to 1927; however, they were not commercially successful in the end. Aside from these patents and some recipes for food, he left no formulas or procedures for making his products. He did not keep a laboratory notebook.
Carver's most important accomplishments were in areas other than industrial products from peanuts, including agricultural extension education, improvement of racial relations, mentoring children, poetry, painting, religion, advocacy of sustainable agriculture and appreciation of plants and nature. He served as a valuable role model for African-Americans and an example of the importance of hard work, a positive attitude and a good education. His humility, humanitarianism, good nature, frugality and lack of economic materialism have also been widely admired.
One of his most important roles was that the fame of his achievements and many talents undermined the widespread stereotype of the time that the black race was intellectually inferior to the white race. In 1941, "Time" magazine dubbed him a "Black Leonardo".
-- Reference: Wikipedia.org
[iii] "... Jonas Salk..."
"Jonas Edward Salk (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American biologist and physician best known for the research and development of the first effective polio vaccine.
While being interviewed by Edward R. Murrow on "See It Now" in 1955, Salk was asked: "Who owns the patent on this vaccine?" Surprised by the question's assumption of the requirement of a profit-motive for his creation, he responded: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"
-- Reference: Wikipedia.org
[iv] "...Richard Trevithick..."
" Richard Trevithick (born April 13, 1771 in Cornwall - died April 22, 1833 in Kent) was an English inventor, mining engineer and builder of the first working railway steam locomotive."
-- Reference: Wikipedia.org
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. -- Reference: Wikipedia.org (Tesla is an Officer of The Domain also, according to these Top Secret interviews)
YESTERNOW
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence from economic slavery imposed on India by British Imperialism and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, including Martin Luther King, the American Civil Rights Movement and other leaders of non-violent resistance to oppression.
