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100 MILLION SPECIES

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Mankind is only one SPECIES of life on Earth.  According the leading “scientific authorities”:  ...the “estimated total number of species on Earth is 6.5 million species found on land, and 2.2 million (about 25 percent of the total) dwelling in the ocean depths.  However, a study, published by PLoS Biology, says a staggering 86% of all species on land and 91% of those in the seas have yet to be discovered, described and cataloged.”  

If we do the math, we learn that 8.7 million is roughly 80% – 90% of ONE HUNDRED MILLION species on this planet.  That’s a LOT of life!  How many even MORE bizarre life forms are as yet undiscovered?  And how many more might there be living throughout the rest of our own galaxy?  (I won’t mention the whole universe….).  

Many more imagined creatures are described in science fiction stories on other planets and galaxies.  But, very few of these fictional “monstrosities” are as strange and bizarre at the real creatures that inhabit the microcosm on our own planet.  Here are pictures of a few common insects viewed with the aid of an electron microscope.  It is a challenge to imagine creatures more bizarre than these!

CONFRONTING EVIL

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AN AVERAGE HUMAN BEING CANNOT DETECT OR CONFRONT EVIL, EVEN WHEN IT’S STANDING IN FRONT OF THEM.SOLUTION: DON’T BE AN AVERAGE HUMAN BEING. LEARN TO CONFRONT EVIL.“EVIL:  The calculated intention, whether covert or overt, to diminish the well-being or survival potential of spiritual beings or sentient life forms in any universe.” – Lawrence R. Spencer

HERE ARE A FEW OTHER DEFINITIONS THAT WILL HELP YOU DETECT EVIL IN YOUR ENVIRONMENT:

1. Having qualities tending to injury.

2. Morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.

3. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days. — Evil speaking, speaking ill of others; calumny; censoriousness. — The evil one, the Devil; Satan; Syn. — Pernicious; injurious; hurtful; destructive; wicked ; corrupt; perverse; vicious; calamitous.

4. Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings.

5. Wickedness, malevolence, the desire to do people wrong. To take power for yourself at the expense of others, and then using it in the most ruthless and vile of ways. It is hurting people for no good reason at all, horrifically destroying their lives. It is tying damsels in distress to railroad tracks and then twirling about in a mustache and black cape. It is hate and wrath and rage.

MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES SPEAKS FOR HIMSELF

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“The written record of my adventures as conveyed by Dr. John Hamish Watson, rather than myself, as you will read herein, are a fallacious perversion of the reality of my own identity and activities.  None of the facts you will read herein have ever been surmised, supposed and imagined with respect to any of my adventures.  Indeed, the nature and identity of the dramatis personae on the stage of the intrigue I relate to you now have never before been revealed.  I invite you to join this escapade, if you will indulge me, into my ultimate adventure.  Moreover, I trust that posterity will inherit some small benefit from these observations upon the volatile process, distillation and residue of my life. “

Sherlock Holmes,  Sussex Downs, England”

— Excerpt from the book SHERLOCK HOLMES: MY LIFE, by Lawrence R. Spencer

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Here is some background information about the alleged creator of the “fictional character” of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.  In fact and reality, Mr. Holmes was a real-life person, as you will discover when you read the book SHERLOCK HOLMES: MY LIFE.

UNIVERSAL TRUTHS

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In the history of this universe powerful spiritual truths – in the hands of priests – are perverted into religions confined inside the walls of stone temples constructed with enforced compliance to mortal men who teach empty rituals and superstitions intended to control and enslave souls.

Lawrence R. Spencer. 2001.

EGALITARIAN DREAMS

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Recently I received the following E-mail message from my friend Eduardo  in Thailand who read the book Alien Interview, and sometimes shares his thoughts related to the ideas in the book.  Here is the message he sent and my response:

“Hi Lawrence.  I’ve been imagining the potential of DNA studies in social theory. It is the sort of research that may or may not have been done without publishing results. It deals with the meaningful comparison of DNA samples from both a subject claiming to be someone’s reincarnation with that of the dead body. After some experiments, Scientifics, are sure to come up with a pattern of identification. A good number of studies will be needed to confirm the hypothesis. Then it could become a subject of speculation by politicians and social change geeks.

Perhaps one of the first and easiest policies could be making possible for every citizen buying some land for personal use -without property taxes, for fairness- and offering its return after death using the DNA data. It’s just a dream but -in my opinion- consequences could be far reaching.

– The citizen will be the basis of government power in itself, the sole beneficiary of government decisions, and the final responsible of upholding national integrity.  Biological constitution while subject to degeneration and death, does not need to be the target of exploitation by perverted policies as in the human past. Every citizen has the right to participate in society. Individuals in need will be the target of social reinsertion programs and dedicated installations during hardship. Animals, like humans, are sentient beings, the excuse of human superiority to make them suffer will not be tolerated. Biased social theories based on disguised vexation followed by adulation to claim control over a community are not the only alternative for government.

– The government will be the body dedicated to the management of individuals, resources, the healthy relationship between both, and ensuring their sustainability and safety. – All the land and resources within national borders will be the sole property of the government. Resources of concern are those regarded as finite by the government, hence its administration is regulated to compensate for its loss accordingly. Resulting scientific-technological improvements from government research will be available without further fees, licenses or patent rights to every citizen.

– Services required by property owners’ may be offered by the government for a fee. Property owners are under no obligation to contract these services as long as their replacement meets the standard for natural resources use.

– Wealth will be the reward of an individual or group of individuals diligence to provide a product or service in exchange for currency. The government, through its banking services, will be the sole manager of national currency. The government, through its employment office will be the sole manager of the labor force. The government, through its social security service will be the sole manager of individual needs. The government will manage national research and development programs. National employee wages in both public and private enterprises will be tiered to factors of preparation and experience level of the employee. The government source of revenue is derived from taxation on commercial enterprises.

Obviously, the big problems are collective amnesia between lives, lack of time for individual development, the need for a personal exclusive space, and intolerant short-sighted governments. This is just my point of view on something better.   How does it sound to you? ”

Cheers, Eduardo

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“Hi Eduardo,   How do it sound?  As I am sure you are aware, the ideas expressed in this article are an “Egalitarian Dream”.  That is, such a government and state of existence can exist only where the population is selfless, and the leaders and administrators of government are sane and benevolent.  On Earth, as described by Airl in Alien Interview, the population are prison inmates.  The self-appointed and anointed “leaders” of what is called “civilization” on Earth are repetitively (due to reincarnation and amnesia) the criminal psychopaths — parasitic thieves, mass-murderers, and predators in pursuit of nothing more than a single lifetime of personal power, control and immediate gratification.  Simply stated, Earth is a prison planet.  Like any prison its only purpose is to dispose of, or control, unwanted individuals deemed to be “undesirable” or “unmanageable” beings.  The egalitarian, selfless qualities of benevolence do not exist in “government” of Earth, any more than the “government” of any prison.

However, there are a multitude of social, selfless citizens of Earth.  Each of these have amnesia, and do not know they are INSIDE a prison. Yet  there remains a “feeling” deep within each immoral being that a society of beings can exist without brutality and inequality.  Egalitarian civilizations may have been possible in a dimly perceived, but unknown place in a forgotten past.

Perhaps, on Earth, a monastery, or isolated commune of selective individuals an ideal Egalitarian civilization could be realized beyond the reach and retribution of the “prison guards”. There have certainly been many attempts.  It has been written that any group of people is only as sane, and able coexist equitably, as the individuals members. Therefore, each individual being must be, or become, capable of egalitarian co-existence within themselves.  Alone we may tolerate, or even admire, our own behavior.  But can such equanimity be extended to include one other person? Three, twenty or ten million? Every “civilization” is composed of individual beings.  An benevolent, egalitarian civilization must have members who are each willing and able to co-exist as such. Personally, I am not sure that such behavior exists in the essential nature of any immortal spiritual being in this universe. But, one can dream of such beings — or be one.”  — LRS

BOOK BOUND WITH THE SKIN OF GUY FAWKES CONSPIRATOR

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“The skin of Father Henry Garnet, a part of the in the 1605 gunpowder plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament (made popular by Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V for Vendetta), binds a 1606 record of this offenses against him, entitled A True and Perfect Relation of the Whole Proceedings Against the Late Most Barbarous Traitors, Garnet a Jesuit and His Confederates. The conspiracy still holds a special place for those in Great Britain, with the fifth of November celebrated as Guy Fawkes Day.

Garnet regularly listened to the confessions from the collaborators, and while not an active in the plot to blow up the House of Lords and kill King James I, Garnet received a punishment of death by hanging due to his knowledge of the plan, with his body later drawn and quartered prior to the removal of skin for binding.

One copy of of A True and Perfect Relation bound with Garnet’s skin is particularly unusual, as an impression from the face of Garnet is seen on the front cover (there is an image of it above, but the face is actually fairly hard to see). This copy is not very large, approximately 4 by 6 inches, and sold at auction for $11,000 in 2007.”

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Medieval Monsters

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Medieval Monsters from Oliver Mueller on Vimeo.

CUDDLE TIME

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SHERLOCK HOLMES: MY LIFE

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One of the immortal statements made by the Insuperable Detective, Sherlock Holmes, was this:

“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”

This statement may be  accurate in the conventional sense.  However, I have observed that the following is also an accurate statement:

All “truth” is relative to all other truth.

Indeed,  in the history of humanity have we observed that “One man’s truth is another man’s heresy”.

Illusions, delusions, truth, reality, opinion, facts, history, fantasy and fiction all share an indivisible common denominator:  The point of view of each individual. Therefore, reality may be nothing more than a subjective experience!

You may discover a new “reality” in this adventure of a singularly ingenious investigation conducted by Sherlock Sherrinford Holmes, and his brother Mycroft Spencer Holmes.

Is reality an illusion?  Is history a fictitious trail of lies?

Read.  Discover.  Decide.

You can review and buy the book on the website of the publisher:  SHERLOCK HOLMES: MY LIFE

Suffragette Terrorist Surveillance

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One hundred years ago, women in Britain who wanted to vote were considered terrorists. Many were jailed, and although Scotland Yard wanted to record them in photographs, the women refused to cooperate. So in 1912, officials purchased a camera and hired a paparazzi-style photographer to shoot the inmates from a distance. BBC news explained how and why these photographs were taken. You can see an online collection of the photos, which give us a glimpse into the world of suffragettes and how they were treated by police.

SEE ALL THE PHOTOS AT THE FOLLOWING LINK:  Suffragette Surveillance.

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