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Postby Cordelia » Mon Jan 09, 2017 3:38 pm

A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation'.

~ Stephen Crane ~

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

~ Jack London ~
The greatest sin is to be unconscious. ~ Carl Jung

We may not choose the parameters of our destiny. But we give it its content. ~ Dag Hammarskjold 'Waymarks'
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Postby MacCruiskeen » Sat Jan 21, 2017 7:55 pm

"Ich kann gar nicht so viel fressen, wie ich kotzen möchte." - Max Liebermann,, Berlin, 1933

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." - Richard Feynman, NYC, 1966

TESTDEMIC ➝ "CASE"DEMIC
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Postby Cordelia » Mon Jan 23, 2017 8:31 am

"Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest..."

~ Shakespeare, King Lear ~

"The strangest kind of curse had been laid upon him: knowledge without hope of evidence."

~ David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle ~
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Postby chump » Thu Feb 02, 2017 1:32 pm

Hmm. I think we're being tested. What they want to know right now is, how far will people go to fight this? We have one last chance. This is it. And if we are not willing to march en masse, like the people in New Orleans, if they are not willing to march en masse, if we're not willing to, for instance, declare a day of, uh, a general strike! This will stop it. It will have the power.

One of the things about this trans-national cabal is that, it has been repeatedly told to me that the US holds the key. The US can stop this. They're in charge. So, it's up to the American people. Either we shut this down by just a peaceful, non-violent demonstration, or we will not have a second chance and there will be bloodshed the likes of which this world has never seen.
- I. Singh, 2005
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Postby Iamwhomiam » Sun Mar 05, 2017 7:55 pm

“The torch is now in our hands. And we will use it to light up the world.”
– President Donald J. Trump
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Postby Elvis » Sun Mar 05, 2017 8:55 pm

Iamwhomiam » Sun Mar 05, 2017 4:55 pm wrote:
“The torch is now in our hands. And we will use it to light up the world.”
– President Donald J. Trump

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Postby liminalOyster » Thu Mar 09, 2017 10:58 am

"PTSD actually damps down your ability to have a consciousness of freedom. It’s a political weapon. All these wars that send back traumatized veterans are a way to keep the population quiescent and obedient. In the interest of your liberty brain and my liberty brain, rape is a freedom issue. Fighting rape and sexual assault and the sexual abuse of children is a way to advance liberty."
-- Naomi Wolf
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Postby liminalOyster » Sat Mar 18, 2017 6:07 pm

"Julian Assange is not exactly a bastion of truth and integrity" - The CIA
"It's not rocket surgery." - Elvis
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Postby Elvis » Sat Mar 18, 2017 6:35 pm

"CIA officials are professional, systematic liars; they lie constantly, by design, and with great skill, and have for many decades"

— Glenn Greenwald
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Postby seemslikeadream » Sun Mar 19, 2017 1:59 pm

Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years
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225,000 Haiti children work as slaves
The Pan American Development Foundation’s report also said some of those children — mostly young girls — suffer sexual, psychological and physical abuse while toiling in extreme hardship.
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Terrorist or CIA agent? May be both?
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Don't Let The Disaster Capitalists Get Their Hands On Haiti
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Gone forever the Alaotra grebe
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Mazars and Deutsche Bank could have ended this nightmare before it started.
They could still get him out of office.
But instead, they want mass death.
Don’t forget that.
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Postby seemslikeadream » Mon Mar 20, 2017 8:27 pm

There’s a smell of treason in the air, Imagine if J. Edgar Hoover or any other FBI director would have testified against a sitting president? It would have been a mind-boggling event.

- presidential historian Douglas Brinkley 3/20/2017
Mazars and Deutsche Bank could have ended this nightmare before it started.
They could still get him out of office.
But instead, they want mass death.
Don’t forget that.
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Postby MacCruiskeen » Thu Apr 27, 2017 1:46 pm

The pun, when credited with the autonomous capacity to intervene unbidden in speech, can be the very devil. It draws together two sets of meanings and, in the moment before it is laughed or shrugged off, introduces the threat of ambiguity hence the risk of being, in this case, misunderstood. It is the last ditch before the abyss of the Freudian slip wherein, and this is true, a vicar introducing 50s blonde bombshell film star Diana Dors, who was born Diana Fluck, to an audience at a fete held in her home town of Swindon, referred to her as Diana Clunt.

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Postby Cordelia » Fri May 12, 2017 7:31 am

"Look he’s a showboat, he’s a grandstander,”

Trump describing Comey
The greatest sin is to be unconscious. ~ Carl Jung

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Postby identity » Fri May 12, 2017 7:50 am

(from Adidam, a chapter on the late Adi Da by Scott Lowe. Maybe RI would benefit from something comparable to the steps listed below before membership is bestowed?!)

In keeping with the routinized, exoterically demanding daily practices of Adidam,
it has become incredibly difficult to enjoy the guru’s satsang. The current
probationary process takes at least 9–12 months to complete and requires a significant
academic, temporal, financial, and devotional investment. The following ten
steps are the minimal requirements that must be met before new students are eligible
to receive the avatar’s spiritual transmission:

1. Take the introductory “First Word” course.
2. Take the Pre-student course, “The Only Truth That Sets The Heart Free” ($350.00 cost).
3. Sign and return copy of “Sacred Agreement.”
4. Sign and return notarized copy of “Membership Agreement.”
5. Sign and return notarized copy of “Legal Release form.”
6. Sign and return copy of “Health & Life Circumstance Questionnaire.”
7. Sign and return copy of “Form to calculate tithe.”
8. Receive a physical examination, including blood work.
9. Take the MMPI Psychological evaluation test.
10. Take the student beginner vow.
We should never forget Galileo being put before the Inquisition.
It would be even worse if we allowed scientific orthodoxy to become the Inquisition.

Richard Smith, Editor in Chief of the British Medical Journal 1991-2004,
in a published letter to Nature
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Postby BenDhyan » Fri May 12, 2017 7:59 am

:lovehearts:

Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it..

- Jalaluddin Rumi
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