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It is an interactive Uni-Verse and "It" can and will communicate with you via any means available -- any means you are open to. The exact symbols do not matter. It is the process. It is called the process of consciousness awakening inside of matter, which is energy -- so we get energized consciousness; consciousness aware of its interactive and co-creative status.
I suggest that scattered seating should be the routine, when in session.
The ONLY way Astrology could be true is that the first month(s) of your life are affected by the season like length of day, general temperature and humidity and maybe the electromagnetics of the earth. For example, Capricorns which are born on the shortest days of the year do seem to be the most serious of all the signs.
George Carling?
You must have had one foot in your own hole while you were settling your bar bill with Mabel.
Read the blog again from the 13th regarding stochastic terrorism I hope you continue to follow Thom and engage, it is through that sort of self-motivated application of effort that will offer the best opportunity to reshape your thinking and possibly open you up to another point of view. I applaude your open-mindedness!
Apparently, I used to be a Saggitarian, but now I'm just Ophiuched up... (sorry)
;-)
Wow, this astrology caller is so misguided. He needs to explain why human physiology would be affected only at the moment of birth, why angle rather than distance means anything (since he's making the gravity argument), and I couldn't follow his argument about water because it's complete nonsense. Also, there is absolutely no investigation by astrologers to measure the forces described by the caller or verify any of their hypotheses about how those forces affect people.
If I'm not mistaken, I recall hearing a similar story a few years ago where a deer "shot" and killed a hunter... sounds like the critters are catching on.
Yep, you caught us. At all the Tea Party meetings we read the communist manifesto and love seeing the American flag burned…YOU Thom ARE A LIAR AND I FIND YOU OFFENSIVE, SO SHARPTON SHUT THIS IDIOT DOWN before he preaches more racism, hate and violence.
Since guns kill people, not the people themselves. We need to ban knives, bats, tire irons, pens, cars, etc. Then we will be safe from liberal wackos!
WATCH YOUR WONDERFUL LIBS AND THEIR ANTI-VIOLENCE MESSAGES! WON'T SEE THESE ON THE STATE CONTROLLED RADIO AND TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF0ObwMBUzc&playnext=1&list=PL7F710934B24FDC82&index=33
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9eDmw_2tJA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELvINNajtCQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIhEPT5Fz3w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFlSrlS-vtM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b63bBCC2-yM
Astro:
I'm no astrologer, but Joe Friendly explained it to me as a function of humans being the only creatures whose birth season isn't governed by natural laws--instead, our birth times are governed by the whole universe's configuration.
Thom, you pronounced Ophiuchus (the Serpent Bearer) correctly [OH-fee-OO-kuss]. I think your larger topic is precession of the equinoxes, which makes the sun appear in different zodiacal constellations at the same time of year over the course of about 26,000 years. Also, astrologers divide the zodiac into 12 exactly equal parts, whereas the International Astronomical Union has made its own borders for the constellations, and the result is that Ophiuchus pokes into the zodiac a little and the other 12 signs are uneven in how much of the time the Sun spends there.
The American dream has died.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Vision-Of-An-America-Tha-by-michael-payne-110112-758.html
quick FYI - the "cat on a jury" story smells like a likely hoax (aside from the obvious) - the jury pools aren't drawn from Census data (which can't even legally be released for what, 75 years?). It has a certain "truthiness", though.
Then the electeds pay for this protection out of their own pockets or resign, If they want American Taxpayers to pay for it... then put Americans back to work where we can pay for it!
King is also introducing legislation to ban carrying firearms within 1,000 feet of himself or any of his 534 colleagues.
I want the idiots in Congress to pass a law that no one can have a firearms within a mile of ALL AMERICAN CITIZENS. King needs to understand that his SHIT STINKS LIKE MY SHIT.
Corporate America knows Palin can't win in 2012 so she'll probably quit after the Iowa caucusses, but she's great for rallying the stupid.
And for her, personally, it's an easy way to make a living.
Is anybody else having trouble getting a web-stream of progressive broadcasts today?
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/opinion/25670012-47/eugen...
Take the time to read this editorial printed in the Eugene Register Guard today. The writer is the Associate professor of communication for the Northwest Christian University. I think it adds to Thom's arguments made the past few days.
Nader: Progressive-libertarian alliance ‘the most exciting new political dynamic’ in US... So how will this left-right alliance begin?
Nader suggested that it already has, thanks to the unity of Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the most conservative and most liberal members of their respective chambers ...
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/progressive-libertarianism-the-exciting-political-dynamic-ralph-nader/
It WAS the Nazis who perfected the methodology that you are referring to - repeat a lie enough time, it becomes the truth.
Do some reading of Hitler and his henchmen, and you will learn. Oh yeah, the other method is to accuse your enemy of the crime that you yourself are committing. It's called "scripting".
This is the typical LIB "modus operandi". I must say that this method worked very well for the Nazi regime in Germany, so that must be the reason the DemocRATS adopted it.
It goes as follows:
Take an occurrence (the more violent the better) that everyone can relate to, and connect it to an agenda that you want to achieve. Keep repeating your "mantra" over and over again, in face of evidence to the contrary. No matter how many times it is refuted and proven that your agenda has nothing to do with the occurrence or is blatantly untrue, just keep repeating your "mantra". No matter how unbelievable, just keep repeating the "mantra". If you repeat it often enough, IT BECOMES A FACT in people's minds.
This methodology is documented in the writings of Hitler and his henchmen. You can look it up.
This worked for the Nazis against the Jews prior to the Holocaust. In fact, this was the methodology that was used to perpetrate the "Blood Libels" against the Jews.
Wait a minute..... so (future President) Sarah Palin actually was correct!
So how can we prevent a Political Holocaust here in America? Luckily we now have the Internet and Talk Radio to keep the intelligent people informed. Oh wait... THEY are trying to get rid of Talk Radio and gain control of the Internet.
OH MY GOD! THE NAZIS ARE BACK
www.unmitigated-truth.com
The voice of reason.
Here's what I would consider to be an authoritative source of the use of blood libel: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0111/tobin011311.php3 "The fact is, those who are trying to link her or other conservatives to this crime are, in fact, committing a kind of blood libel. Take issue with her politics or dislike her personality if that is your inclination, but the idea that she has even the most remote connection to this event is outrageous. So, too, is the manufactured controversy over "blood libel.""
And a really good example of what these accusations lead to:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/my_name_is_betsy_im_a_killer.html
"My name is Betsy. I'm a wife and proud soccer mom, a writer, and a small businessowner. I'm also a killer.
On the morning of January 8, 2011, I intentionally entered a gathering held by Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and shot her at near-point-blank range. I injured fourteen others, killing six -- among them a beautiful, curious, doe-eyed, nine-year-old girl. I didn't actually pull the trigger, but I'm as guilty as the psychopath who did.
Here are just a few of the charges against me:
I am a conservative.
On occasion, I listen to Beck, Limbaugh, and Fox News. . . ."
I guess I'm one too.
Tom; lets remember "W" statement of "if you tell a lie over and over it will become the truth". To this we add red states education level as shone in 2008 report that on average they had at least a 22% of adults without a high school diploma and the conservative corporate media controlled outlets repeating over and over there fact-less talking points; it's little surprise that right-wing-nuts haven't caused more violence then what happened in Tucson. Don't you think its weird that skinheads and Nazis waring clowns only appear with the far right members at there rallies and yet there pundits keep calling people on the left nazis? Remember, what ever the right accuses the left of is really what they are doing.
I appreciated Thom's hang up as soon as he heard the garbage currently put forward by the hate broadcasters concerning "if he is for the flag being burned, the shooter must have been liberal." There are something like 43 or 45 recorded instances of flag burning in our nation's history. If you read about them, there is absolutely no reason to pre-suppose any sort of political bias. The earliest instances were during the Civil War, some during Spanish American, some during World War I. One instance was children starting a bonfire. A couple during Viet Nam and most during that era were in reaction to the Kent State shootings. Many were when they were attempting the flag burning amendment efforts during the 1980's. As always the "party of small government" was seeking big government solutions for problems that mostly did not exist, other than in their minds, thus creating a problem. If you fact check, you find there is one party of big government, restricted freedom, runaway budgets, and Himmler style propaganda. That is the GOP. Purveyors of fear and hatred. Keep fact checking and don't hesitate to nail liberals who are out of line. They make mistakes too. They just don't make it the national pastime.
Anarchic Incendiarism, or AI, belongs to the corrupt faction of Walker's CIA. It sets up people and knocks them down for the cause of Eugenics and the Fatherland. How many times do we have to see it to believe it?
Do we not see that CIA is AIC backwards, or AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION?
Par-a-noi-a –noun
1. Psychiatry. a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts, which are ascribed to the supposed hostility of others, sometimes progressing to disturbances of consciousness and aggressive acts believed to be performed in self-defense or as a mission. 2. baseless or excessive suspicion of the motives of others.