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June 27, 2013
EXPLOSIVE ROMANCE
And now, for something COMPLETELY different!! A few explosive scenes from romantic films.....
TEMPTATION REMEMBERED
DEFINITION OF "RESISTANCE"
1. A force that tends to oppose or retard motion.
DEFINITION OF "TEMPTATION"
Synonyms:
allure, charm, entice, influence, invite, lure
Often used in the same context:
allure, contempt, dreamt, entice, exempt, infatuation, lure, seduce, temp, temptation, tempted, tempting
More general:
appeal, arouse, attract, bid, excite, invite, persuade, provoke, sex, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir, turn on, wind up
More specific:
bait, bewitch, call, decoy, lead on, magnetize, mesmerize, spellbind, stool, tweedle
June 26, 2013
THE ABYSS
(Photo by David F Sloh)
"WORSHIP THE SHRINE
TO REACH THE SUBLIME"
IS A WALL OF LIES
TOO STEEP TO CLIMB!
WE CANNOT BE FREE
WITH PRIESTS IN CONTROL
OF EMPTY PHILOSOPHY...
WHERE TRUTH IS UNKNOWN.
WE CHOSE NOT TO CLIMB
THE WALLS OF OUR MIND.
YET, WE ARE THE LIGHT
WE SEEK TO FIND!
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Lawrence R. Spencer. 2013
June 24, 2013
TRIBUTE TO TESLA
“Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.”
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943)
In recent years it has become widely recognized that Nikola Tesla conceived the fundamental inventions that caused Mankind to leap from darkness into the light. Alternating current electricity, radio, remote control, wireless communication, television, and hundreds of electric and electronic conveniences that make global travel and communication possible. I recently read the most comprehensive book about the details of his life, inventions and struggles to be of service to Humanity.
During his life he was fought, opposed and ridiculed. His original ideas and inventions were uniformly stolen by others who made personal fortunes from his work. His "partner", J.P. Morgan -- the financial king of the age -- personally prevented Teslas greatest invention from be constructed and put into use: the GLOBAL transmission of FREE ELECTRIC ENERGY and COMMUNICATION. At the time of his death the FBI confiscated all of his personal property and "secret" inventions. Tesla died alone and impoverished after having created the pivotal inventions that have proven to be a greater practical value to Humankind that ANY other inventor in history.
A Few Facts about Nikola Tesla:
Tesla read many works, memorizing complete books, and supposedly possessed a photographic memory.
He was a polyglot, speaking eight languages: Serbo-Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, and Latin.
Tesla related in his autobiography that he experienced detailed moments of inspiration. During his early life, Tesla was stricken with illness time and time again. He suffered a peculiar affliction in which blinding flashes of light would appear before his eyes, often accompanied by visions. Often, the visions were linked to a word or idea he might have come across; at other times they would provide the solution to a particular problem he had encountered. Just by hearing the name of an item, he would be able to envision it in realistic detail. Tesla would visualize an invention in his mind with extreme precision, including all dimensions, before moving to the construction stage. He typically did not make drawings by hand but worked from memory. Beginning in his childhood, Tesla had frequent flashbacks to events that had happened previously in his life.
Tesla claimed to never sleep more than two hours.
For exercise, Tesla walked 8 to 10 miles per day. He squished his toes one hundred times for each foot every night, claiming that it stimulated his brain cells.
Although Tesla opposed war and believed that war could not be avoided until its cause was removed, he concluded that some wars might be justifiable.
Later in life, Tesla made claims concerning a "teleforce" weapon.The press called it a "peace ray" or death ray.Tesla described the weapon as being able to be used against ground-based infantry or for antiaircraft purposes. Tesla gives the following description concerning the particle gun's operation: "[The nozzle would] send concentrated beams of particles through the free air, of such tremendous energy that they will bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 200 miles from a defending nation's border and will cause armies to drop dead in their tracks."
Tesla worked every day from 9 A.M. until 6 P.M. or later, with dinner from exactly 8 to 10 pm. Tesla would then resume his work, often until 3 am.
Tesla became a vegetarian in his later years, living on only milk, bread, honey, and vegetable juices.
Tesla never married, claiming that his chastity was very helpful to his scientific abilities.
Opinion on the Theory of Relativity: "I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing."
Tesla had many pigeons he fed and cared for, but one, he was particularly fond of. "I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a woman, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life."
He described it as being a beautiful female bird, pure white with light gray tips on its wings. One night the bird flew into Tesla's room at Hotel St. Regis, and he perceived that she was attempting to tell him she was dying. Tesla said a light came from her eyes more intense than he had ever produced by the most powerful lamps in his laboratory. The bird then died and Tesla said that at that same moment, something went out of his life and he knew his life's work was finished.
Learn more about Tesla:
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla : Biography of a Genius by Marc Seifer (Feb 1, 2001)
June 23, 2013
PATHLESS LAND
"Truth is a Pathless Land. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation...".
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti --
WELL ADJUSTED
"Jiddu Krishnamurti was born on 11 May 1895 in Madanapalle, a small town in south India. He and his brother were adopted in their youth by Dr Annie Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society. Dr Besant and others proclaimed that Krishnamurti was to be a world teacher whose coming the Theosophists had predicted. To prepare the world for this coming, a world-wide organization called the Order of the Star in the East was formed and the young Krishnamurti was made its head.
In 1929, however, Krishnamurti renounced the role that he was expected to play, dissolved the Order with its huge following, and returned all the money and property that had been donated for this work. From then, for nearly sixty years until his death on 17 February 1986, he travelled throughout the world talking to large audiences and to individuals about the need for a radical change in mankind.
Krishnamurti is regarded globally as one of the greatest thinkers and religious teachers of all time. He did not expound any philosophy or religion, but rather talked of the things that concern all of us in our everyday lives, of the problems of living in modern society with its violence and corruption, of the individual's search for security and happiness, and the need for mankind to free itself from inner burdens of fear, anger, hurt, and sorrow. He explained with great precision the subtle workings of the human mind, and pointed to the need for bringing to our daily life a deeply meditative and spiritual quality.
Krishnamurti belonged to no religious organization, sect or country, nor did he subscribe to any school of political or ideological thought. On the contrary, he maintained that these are the very factors that divide human beings and bring about conflict and war. He reminded his listeners again and again that we are all human beings first and not Hindus, Muslims or Christians, that we are like the rest of humanity and are not different from one another. He asked that we tread lightly on this Earth without destroying ourselves or the environment. He communicated to his listeners a deep sense of respect for nature. His teachings transcend man-made belief systems, nationalistic sentiment and sectarianism. At the same time, they give new meaning and direction to mankind's search for truth. His teaching, besides being relevant to the modern age, is timeless and universal." -- http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/
June 21, 2013
TRANSCENDENCE
TRANSCENDENCE:
a Solitary Climb
from Decadence
toward The Sublime.
Religions all say
Their Path is well Known.
But how do they know The Way?
At Death, You must Ascend Alone.
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Lawrence R. Spencer. 2013
June 20, 2013
June 19, 2013
BEING YOU
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi or Bapu (Father of Nation), was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world.
The son of a senior government official, Gandhi was born and raised in a Bania community in coastal Gujarat, and trained in law in London. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from British domination.
In London he committed himself to truthfulness, temperance, chastity, and vegetarianism. His return to India to work as a lawyer was a failure, so he went to South Africa for a quarter century, where he absorbed ideas from many sources, most of them non-Indian. He was exposed to Jain ideas through his mother who, was in contact with Jain monks. Themes from Jainism that Gandhi absorbed included asceticism; compassion for all forms of life; the importance of vows for self-discipline; vegetarianism; fasting for self-purification; mutual tolerance among people of different creeds; and "syadvad", the idea that all views of truth are partial.
Gandhi strongly favored the emancipation of women, and he went so far as to say that "the women have come to look upon me as one of themselves." He opposed purdah, child marriage, untouchability, and the extreme oppression of Hindu widows, up to and including sati. He especially recruited women to participate in the salt tax campaigns and the boycott of foreign products. Gandhi's success in enlisting women in his campaigns, including the salt tax campaign, anti-untouchability campaign and the peasant movement, gave many women a new self-confidence and dignity in the mainstream of Indian public life.
In his last year, unhappy at the partition of India, Gandhi worked to stop the carnage between Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs that raged in the border area between India and Pakistan. He was assassinated on 30 January 1948.
Gandhi's philosophy was not theoretical but one of pragmatism, that is, practicing his principles in the moment. Asked to give a message to the people, he would respond, "My life is my message."
