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Too bad the notions of "right" and "left" have lost all meaning. Bernie Sanders getting campaign contributions from Monsanto -- is that left or right? ??? People are being convinced they are left or right based on whether they stand to the left or to the right of the public urinal. What are they being distracted from while fighting for the right to be left of the urinal? From the devastating level of corporate-government interpenetration.

I knew you knew and I knew you knew I knew. I have several books on signs and symbols... some people learn a new word every day to keep their minds sharp, I try to learn a new symbol every day... ever since the world of man-made logos, insignia, regalia, marks, etc., first started whispering its secrets in my ear. It's not for nothing that the most famous text has this opening line, "In the beginning there was Logos."

Oh, of course. I know all about the fasces (among other things) and what they signify... Fascism definitely predates Benito by a long stretch, and was used as the foundation of many an empire. He just went ahead and gave the phenomenon a lapidary modern definition.

I always go to the original source. The author of the term fascism (not to be confused with nazism), Benito Mussolini, defined it as "the merger of government and corporate power." Everything else is side effects. Ask not if a country is trending toward fascism. Ask if the government and corporate powers in the country have merged. If they have, it's a fascist country. If they haven't, it is a feudal country.

If you want to go binary on the I Ching/ Yijing, check out the Tài Xuán Jīng, The Elemental Changes, by Yang Xiong (53 BCE--18 CE). It is organized into 81 tetragrams instead of 64 trigrams. If you want to stay with the trigrams, however, a good way to assess what they signify and what each line stands for is to study the 8 trigrams in their traditional context, that of the bagua superimposed on the wuxing. This is quite an endeavor, since each trigram must be viewed in several contexts simultaneously. To name a few: That of its origin, i.e. a traditional designation of a trigram as a member of a family of eight, with father, mother, eldest son, middle son, youngest son, eldest daughter, etc.. That of its type of qi (the names like Lake or Mountain are metaphors for that) and "personality." That of its timing (Spring, Late Summer, etc.). That of its strength or weakness... be careful with this one, lots of sources are confused on that issue and "carve in stone" that "yang is strong and yin is weak" -- this is a red flag raised by nincompoopness to announce its presence. The strength or weakness of a trigram is determined by its position -- e.g. Fire under Metal makes it weak, Earth under Metal makes it strong. Within an individual trigram, the position of the individual line is assessed for its 'appropriateness' -- that's where you look at yin-yang interplay closely and decide (or research) whether a yang line under two yin is an "appropriate" position for that line or not, and so on. (There's lots of "inappropriate" and "inauspicious" situations in the I Ching/ Yi Jing, that's because Yi refers to irregular changes, the kind of changes that happen in an off-balance world. The regular natural changes are described by different systems.)

Anyone who wants to understand what goal the EPA was really redesigned to work toward needs to research the UN Agenda 21 and the role the agency was set up to play in its implementation. Research in depth folks. Well worth it.

I would be up in arms against anyone who touches the EPA if the EPA was really something living up to its name. Well, here's a Forbes assessment from a year ago: https://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2016/02/10/last-chance-to-stop-epas-latest-biggest-worst-power-grab/#3db44baca344

I might write more here when I have the time, but for starters, RL, consider that a hexagram is four rather than two trigrams, i.e. the lower, the upper, and two nuclear. Consider also that the changing line (or lines) change the dynamics of not one hexagram but two, with not two trigrams in each but four. To a total of 8 trigrams to consider in every reading where you have obtained a changing line (or lines). The plot thickens... Later...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-23/1967-he-cia-created-phrase-conspiracy-theorists-and-ways-attack-anyone-who-challenge https://projectunspeakable.com/conspiracy-theory-invention-of-cia/ http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-conspiracy-theory-label-powerful-tool-of-media-disinformation-and-political-discourse/5375968

Yes, that's the thing. Almost impossible to explain. I used to read lots of books on cognitive neuroscience, among other things in order to figure out how to explain a nonlinear process of pattern acquisition by methods of linear discourse (which is what human speech is), and discovered a lot of proof to the effect that it is, sadly, impossible. A classmate of mine was a very talented mathematician who always got near-failing grades in language/literature but won all the math, physics and chemistry competitions. He was bullied something horrible by our resident bullies and had no idea how to defend himself, he had no linear discourse skills whatsoever. His current job: pattern recognition, aka industrial espionage -- mega corporations hire him to spy on competition in the open, by arriving at conclusions as to what they are working on behind closed doors based on visible information. Visible information does not reveal any of what's kept secret, but a pattern recognition pro can glean a picture and not just guess but know what's going on behind closed doors. They pay him a helluva lot of money to do that. To take "paranoid" guesses that is. Because his "paranoid" guesses are so damn accurate that they give his employers a competing edge resulting in billions in profits. Well, I process something else in this manner -- not what kind of new smartphone some corporation is up to concocting, but what kind of world is the world where this is happening alongside millions of other things happening all at once -- but the outcome is the same: certainties about things invisible based on processing gazillions of visible ones and watching the pattern emerge. It is impossible to explain to people whose ability to use this most fruitful cognitive venue has not only never been developed but has been actively suppressed -- by bullying, by ridicule, by teaching them to fragment, disconnect, snip by snip by snip, instead of creating a hypersaturated solution of 'everything' and watching it suddenly crystallize... suddenly whoosh... and the pattern, the structure, is there -- rock solid, unimpeachable, 3D (or more D) model or reality. By the way, even if the subject matter is gruesome, this whoosh moment is always a thrill. I experienced it for the first time in my life when I learned to read without anyone teaching me -- I was 3 -- pattern recognized! -- and I confess I've been addicted to that high ever since.

Who said they invented the term? Orwell's Newspeak was also English. I said they invented "a weaponized label." I.e. a way to reinterpret, implant and continuously reinforce the use of a particular word or word combination to mean something different from its original/neutral meaning and to acquire a new meaning designed to be used as a derogatory, dismissive, or incriminating label/marker. I know links are seldom read, but skimming through the first (not the best as intro to the subject goes but it was the first one to come up when I looked for that original 1967 dispatch) and then rushing into the arms of professional debunkers is not as useful a pursuit as trying to read them all and testing that trusty brain of yours for signs of spontaneous activity. But it's hard to convince anyone to read any links, I agree. However, there's a few people here who I think would positively flourish cognitively like spring crocuses if they did read the second and the third. There's a lot of untapped human potential out there. I was just trying to tap into that...

To me anyone uttering the words "conspiracy theory" or "conspiracy theorist" sounds like a well-trained parrot. The other day I saw a video of a parrot who grew up with a dog and consequently barks. It was an eye opener. I realized that those who keep repeating like a sacred mantra this meaningless "conspiracy theory" sound (whose only meaning is to present irrefutable evidence of their indoctrination) grew up around malicious memes. They didn't consciously choose this behavior, it's an involuntary reflex.

Not the first, not the worst.

CT, thank you kindly for the endorsement, but don't ask me about this one -- I was born on the 13th...

Nope, there's really nine stars in the Big Dipper, not seven. At the time of early taoism the two that are now not visible were visible and depicted on the celestial maps. I've seen those maps. Later they were referred to as "the invisible stars of the Big Dipper," but taoists knew where they are from earlier transmissions and depictions. And yes, they have everything to do with the River Map.

A New York Times journalist was granted an interview with Donald Trump, but the latter didn't want to do it at the office, he said he was planning on a walk in the West Village and would talk on the go. The journalist agreed. So they walk along the Hudson, the journalist asking questions, Trump answering, and suddenly a gust of wind tears the cap off the journalist's head and it flies straight into the river. Trump, the show-off that he is, jumps over the rail, runs on water, picks up the cap, climbs back and hands it to the journalist. The next day a huge headline in The New York Times reads, "Donald Trump Can't Swim."

The Ayurvedic recipe with turmeric I like is golden milk. I only buy raw whole milk, in summer I make kefir with it, in winter I make golden milk. I never use pasteurized homogenized milk, and those who can't tolerate it at all can substitute coconut milk. Here's the recipe: Whisk milk, cinnamon, turmeric, ginger, honey, coconut oil (or butter or ghee, which is what I use), black pepper, and a spoonful of sugar (optional) in a small saucepan; bring to a low boil. Reduce heat and simmer about 10 minutes. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve. If I don't have patience for this, I skip the simmer stage and just add everything to milk and bring to a boil and strain. The benefits: by itself turmeric is not all that bioavailable, but in combo with other spices, notably black pepper (due to pepperin-curcurmin biochemical love affair), and fat, it becomes massively more so -- something like 24,000 times more so if I remember correctly and if the study that asserted it wasn't lying. What is definitely true is that single-item formulas are extremely rare in Chinese, Ayurvedic, and many other traditions I've studied. If you liken your body to a piano, one herb is like one note you press -- miiiiii... ...one sound effect. A good traditional formula is a symphony. Also if it's orange or red, whatever it is, fat will improve its absorption, because all carotenoids are fat soluble and become vastly more bioavailable in the presence of fat.

Sweet dreams are made of cheese Who am I to dis a Brie I Cheddar the world and Gruyere agrees Everybody’s looking for Stilton

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A brain?

I asked the I Ching about this thing. Twice. Got the same hexagram both times. Not telling which. Luke, I no longer believe in good people doing bad things merely due to mistakes in methodology. Something inside good people got hijacked and replaced with a stuffing bad people are commonly stuffed with. I'm seeing a lot of eviscerated shells of what was supposed to be good people walking around with the stuffing of bad people inside them. Many traditions called this kind of developments "possession."

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