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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?

SCHOOLED

Definition:   "SCHOOLED"  (from the Urban Dictionary)


"The act in which an educational institution kicks and kills the creativity and genius in a person."

GIRL WITH A PEARL iPHONE

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Vermeer: Portraits of A Lifetime is a revolutionary reexamination of the mystique and mythology surrounding the 17th Century Dutch Master painter, Johannes Vermeer. For the first time in over 300 years names of people who posed for his paintings are identified. An unknown portrait of Vermeer, painted by his friend, Gerard ter Borch, is exposed. This book is an empathetic retrospective, built on observations that reveal answers to dozens of speculations about his paintings, his wife, his daughters, and contemporaries who were the subjects of his art, and with whom he shared his brief life in Delft.

THE CREATOR

YOU MAY NOT BE THE CREATOR OF "THE" UNIVERSE BUT YOU CAN BE THE CREATOR OF YOUR OWN UNIVERSE.

Lawrence R. Spencer. 2013.

BEAUTY

BEAUTY IS THE OPINION OF THE CREATOR

INSIDE OUT

Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902) was an Indian Hindu monk and chief disciple of the 19th-century saint Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world.  Nikola Tesla used ancient Sanskrit terminology in his descriptions of natural phenomena. As early as 1891 Tesla described the universe as a kinetic system filled with energy which could be harnessed at any location. His concepts during the following years were greatly influenced by the teachings of Swami Vivekananda.

TIMELESS STATE

"IS-BE"...the primary nature of an immortal being is that they live in a timeless state of "is", and the only reason for their  existence is that they decide to "be". IS-BEs have been around since before the beginning of the universe.  The reason they are called "immortal", is because a "spirit" is not born and cannot die, but exists in a personally postulated perception of "is - will be". She was careful to explain that every spirit is not the same.  Each is completely unique in identity, power, awareness and ability."  ~ Airl

-- excerpt from the book Alien Interview

FREE SPIRIT

FREE SPIRIT - noun:

1. a person who knows that they are a spiritual being, and not a phyiscal entity, and thinks and acts accordingly.

2. any being who does not restrain themselves with ignorance and superstition considered to be "normal" by others: a nonconformist.

-- Lawrence R. Spencer. 2013.

AN IDIOT IN THE 33rd DEGREE

In November of 1905, an enraged Mark Twain sent the following superb letter to J. H. Todd, a salesman who had just attempted to sell bogus medicine to the author by way of a letter and leaflet delivered to his home. According to the literature Twain received, the "medicine" in question — called "The Elixir of Life" — could cure such ailments as meningitis (which had previously killed Twain's daughter in 1896) and diphtheria (which killed his 19-month-old son). Twain, himself of ill-health at the time and very recently widowed after his wife suffered heart failure, was understandably furious and dictated this reply to his secretary, which he then signed.   

Transcript follows:

Nov. 20. 1905

J. H. Todd  
1212 Webster St.
San Francisco, Cal.

Dear Sir,

Your letter is an insoluble puzzle to me. The handwriting is good and exhibits considerable character, and there are even traces of intelligence in what you say, yet the letter and the accompanying advertisements profess to be the work of the same hand. The person who wrote the advertisements is without doubt the most ignorant person now alive on the planet; also without doubt he is an idiot, an idiot of the 33rd degree, and scion of an ancestral procession of idiots stretching back to the Missing Link. It puzzles me to make out how the same hand could have constructed your letter and your advertisements. Puzzles fret me, puzzles annoy me, puzzles exasperate me; and always, for a moment, they arouse in me an unkind state of mind toward the person who has puzzled me. A few moments from now my resentment will have faded and passed and I shall probably even be praying for you; but while there is yet time I hasten to wish that you may take a dose of your own poison by mistake, and enter swiftly into the damnation which you and all other patent medicine assassins have so remorselessly earned and do so richly deserve.

Adieu, adieu, adieu!

Mark Twain

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REPOSTED FROM:    http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/01/youre-idiot-of-33rd-degree.html

GREATNESS WITHIN YOU

“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.”  -- Edmund Jennings Lee (1772–1843) was a prominent legal and political figure in Alexandria, Virginia.