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1. and 2. are always appropriate -- I can't imagine starting any day any other way. As for 3. That's interesting. Here's the account. I heeded all the warnings and took a very low dose -- which wound up feeling like it did nothing. So I went to bed planning to repeat the experiment with a higher dose the next day. And then all night long I dreamt of mushrooms. Not funny mushrooms in the psychedelic sense (I've never tried those) but definitely extraordinary. It was a blissful dream because I was foraging for wild mushrooms (this used to be one of my favorite pastimes on all of god's green earth) and finding humongous boletuses -- the king of mushrooms with no peers -- but in the dream they grew on trees rather than under them as they should, some very high, so I had to climb up to get them. So that small dose didn't entirely do "nothing," looks like. Detailed vivid dreams are unusual for me to begin with, and I don't remember ever dreaming of mushrooms before. Was that edible extending a gateway invitation?.. Please stay tuned.

I'm about to consume an edible for the first time in my life. Wish me bliss.

African Golden Cat

Covid-19fefe

"In the spring of 1979, the Archbishop of El Salvador, Oscar Romero, went to the Vatican. He asked, begged, begged Pope John Paul II for an audience, but in vain. Finally, standing in line of believers waiting for a blessing, Romero reached His Holiness to steal a few minutes from him. He tried to give the Pope a weighty report with photographs and testimonies, but the Pope did not accept it. “I don’t have time for that much reading,” he replied. Romero muttered that thousands of Salvadorans were being tortured and killed on orders from the military, that just yesterday the army shot 25 people right in front of the cathedral. The Holy Father interrupted him dryly: “Do not exaggerate, Mr. Archbishop!” And then demanded and ordered: “You must learn to negotiate with the government! A true Christian does not create problems for the authorities! The Church strives for peace and harmony! " Ten months later, Archbishop Romero was shot while serving in the Cathedral of San Salvador. Bullets hit him as he passed out the communion. John Paul II was recently declared a saint ... " From the book "Mirrors" by Eduardo Galeano, 2008

Many women left this forum -- and a friend of mine specifically because a mod team of that period was rotated out for the sole reason that "it had too many women."

I'll exercise my first amendment rights in private and PM. (Remind me if I space, please.)

Er... unlike our corporate Lords and Saviors, who are legally exempt from liability and free to recommend whatever they please with zero accountability or risk to themselves, a private citizen is lovingly encouraged by our betters to keep her mouth shut.

And where it wasn't the policy and med schools and employers did not discriminate based on gender, female doctors outnumbered male doctors. E.g. where I grew up. Before the patriarchal takeover of medicine, historically the majority of healers in all human societies were women. For the same reason the majority of mothers are women. The two tasks are closely related. To forcibly divorce mothering arts from healing arts was the beginning of the end of health. Mental, physical, emotional, social, and environmental. Taoism is, at its core, a healing/health restoring/health creating modality. It suffered the same fate every other healing art did. To wit, it got hijacked and thwarted. Online "spirituality" that is gender weird merely reflects that state of affairs.

“Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night’. Hammurabi would have said the same about his principle of hierarchy, and Thomas Jefferson about human rights. Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. But don’t tell that to our servants, lest they murder us at night.” ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind How confused a "civilized" thinker is. Natural rights are the ones I claim for myself if I can overcome opposition and assert them. They are whatever I say they are. When I was four, two slightly older girls in kindergarten tried to exclude me from playing with a particularly desirable toy which was supposed to be in fair communal use. I beat them up in a risky but decisive fight, taking on both at once, took that stuffed fox from them, and allocated the amount of time I deemed fair to playing with it myself before passing it along. I claimed that right for myself and acted on that claim to the best of my ability. I considered it natural. So did those girls, from that point on. I think a normal human being is born with an innate compass that tells her what her natural rights are. The problem we have is, there's not many normal human beings born and, especially, raised anymore.

https://healthandmoneynews.wordpress.com/2020/12/02/head-of-pfizer-research-covid-vaccine-is-female-sterilization/

A folk rendition of the sentiment expressed in somewhat more scientific terms by ex-Pfizer head of respiratory research Dr. Michael Yeadon.

Of wet crimson ink the words on Baltasar's wall. Woman's handwriting.

The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself. -- St. Augustine

To have another language is to possess a second soul. -- Charlemagne

A great reset in Iran was fast and easy. Before After

Depends on how deep down the FS rabbit hole you want to go. Here's a brief overview of do's and don't's toward heeding these Flying Stars' qi rather than going against it: Kan 1 White -- Northeast: avoid activating Fire in that area (of your home, business, country, planet, universe -- choose what applies depending on which of these is under your personal control.) Don't burn candles in that part; don't use red, purple, pink, orange, burgundy colors in the interior. If it happens to be your bedroom, put a heavy round metal object (e.g. a cast iron frying pan) under your bed. Kun 2 Black -- South: avoid activating, keep very quiet. No hammering, don't slam any doors if you have them in the South, etc.. Place a bowl with salt water in that area, and/or hang a "coin sword." Chen 3 Jade -- North: keep quiet. No renovations, no digging, no noise. Red is good here -- place a red mat in that area, e.g.. No metal decorations. Sun 4 Green -- Southwest: use for beneficial energy, aided here with blue, black, grey, charcoal colors. Creative projects and romantic moments are enhanced in this area. Watch for unwanted sexual advances and avoid them yourself in case you feel tempted under inappropriate circumstances. Lian Zhen 5 Yellow -- East. Ouch. Try to protect this area every which way you can. Do not activate. Some possible FS "cures": Place a salt water bowl Avoid orange, purple, pink, burgundy and red decorations Hang a six rod hollow metal wind chime Tell me if you are interested in heeding/doing any of these and I will address the remaining stars if you are. (Life is short, Xuan Kong is long... )

A very interesting month ahead -- to wit, December 7th through January 5th, the Rat month in the year of the Rat -- doubling up its qi. Even more strikingly, the Flying Stars of FS are also doubled up -- in each area, the Month Star matches the Year Star. Such an unusual energy chart is called Fu Yin. Everything is amplified. In areas influenced by benevolent stars their impact will be even more beneficial, while in weaker areas you need to be very careful.

@C T So sorry for your loss. May she find cat paradise. My cat of 11 years left us in July but not to pass on, just to move on. He got married. He used to live the happy, lazy, uneventful life of a staunch bachelor, celibate by choice although fully equipped for procreation and promiscuity alike but never interested -- yes there were female cats who tried to win his favors but he chased them away -- until that fateful day he fell in love. He started going out more and more to meet that pussy (I heard and saw them in the process of courtship and more, so I know what happened). Staying out all night, then five days and nights in a row, then a week... and then he left for good. I hope he's happy and well-fed wherever he is.

Black-footed cat, the smallest of African cats and the deadliest of all felines. It weighs from 2.4 to 4.2 lb and catches more prey in a single night than a leopard does in six months.

I second that -- it was the first resource that convinced me I can learn something for which I didn't seem to have any particular innate ability. I always doodled, had no problem drawing something imaginary, but had zero skill of realistic drawing and didn't know how to translate observable objects and scenes onto paper or canvas. That book showed me an inroad and gave a few excellent ideas. Then I took a few lessons from a guy who used to be an animation artist for Warner Brothers, he taught rapid drawing, using a live human model who was instructed to change his or her position every 3 minutes. You had to capture that human shape fast! Then -- every 2 minutes. A minute and a half. It was fun and exciting (despite the woefully hilarious original results) and accompanied by equally quick tips about proportions, anatomy, motion, etc.. It taught you to coordinate your brain, your eye, your hand and your awareness -- I often remembered those drawing lessons later when I started learning taiji. And then came the really challenging part -- Chinese "rapid ink" drawing and calligraphy. Stripped to bare bones, my desire to draw or paint boiled down to the desire to master calligraphy. Which is a personal challenge -- it goes against my tendency to do "too much" with a drawing, to seek elusive perfection... teaching me how to stop, if it makes sense.

Succeed in filling people with pride. Pride will make them stupid. And stupid people are yours for the taking. -- Genghis Khan

Japan, the poster child of success, just published their inspiring data. More suicides in just one month of October than covid deaths in all 10 months of the pandemic. I think it's time to add a few updates to the famous slogans of "1984" -- War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength, Freedom is Slavery: Despair is Civil Duty Suicide is Responsible Behavior Death is Life

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