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White House spokes person Flip flops on child molestation ... ... and this is where we've come to, folks.

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Wow. Ok. So. re: the video I posted of Beverly Young Nelson, R.Moore's most recent accuser... Obviously too much to ask, but it seems to me that the first appropriate considerations, reactions are: 1. Acknowledgement of sincerity. You'd have to be blind and deaf to not recognize that this woman has been through trauma and is speaking sincerely. 2. Compassion for her. Seems to me that whatever consequences (or lack thereof), whatever surrounding context, whatever your partisan bent, yadda yadda yadda ... to first take a few moments for simple empathy, jeez.

I suggest that you look up the filmed interview of R.Moore's accuser on youtube. Watch that (post it here if you like) and see for yourself whether it looks sincere or not.

1. Lots of sourcing went into the Roy Moore reporting. 2. Under-aged dating is not the only accusation. There was coercion, violence.

I thought this thread was mostly sexual accusations in politics... Seems it kind of loses its focus now but whatever

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000158-26b6-dda3-afd8-b6fe46f40000

I wasn't aware that it was with anyone employed by him. If so, that's a significant boundary-crossing.

... about throwing things ... Seems to me that Louis CK has been unjustly thrown under the bus (caught up in the social momentum of the moment, imho). My current understanding is that: 1. Everyone involved was an adult 2. He always asked for consent 3. No physical restraint of any kind 4. Didn't touch anyone (except himself) Depending on how you look at it, some of his actions could be seen as inappropriate, or upsetting for some people... but I don't see legitimacy in raising to the level of scandal nor warrants punishment / defamation. (FX and his publicist dropped him, other business consequences.)

Huge topic, obviously. Much bigger than Roy Moore ... all that is happening in the recent wave of renewed / increased societal awareness / openness re: sexual impropriety. The #metoo hashtag, all the comments around that (especially from my own friends on social media), I found to be moving. The story w/ Roy Moore has been heavily sourced, lots of interviews. The women who were targets, towns people, workers at the mall. DJT is in a bind because if he denounces R.Moore’s behavior it serves to highlight his own (which is already happening). It’s an interesting social process. Partly it is sorting out real predators from ... more benign sexual adventurism. Freudian territory, Jungian shadow work. And at what point/s does it become legitimately politically relevant? (... or professionally?, in other cases.) Lots of pain surfacing for processing from individual and collective wounds... which I applaud and think of as overall in a healthier direction.

p.s. This esoteric process of deep-centering ... It's like the invention of the wheel. Q. How do you get from "round rock" to "Flintstone car"? A. The hole in the center. Get that, in your practice and whole bunch of other things will come together and make sense, and a lot of the right things will happen of their own. It ignites the right things A modern metaphor is the light bulb: We see light, and the objects illuminated, generally throughout the room... but where is the light bulb concentrating? On it's filament. That's where it's happening for the light bulb. You ignite, deepen into layers of emptiness and light, at the potent points along sushumna. After a while of that (months, seasons, years), the whole of sushumna ignites. Get fluent at that process, step by step and a lot of the right stuff will happen. Different traditions emphasize different centers, or different sequence of working with centers. Various issues around all that. It's typically easier to access / open any of the upper centers first ... but there's problems around doing that excessively. Hindus tend to start high. Taoists tend to start low. All that stuff is a topic (or at least a beefy post) in itself.

Nice thread. imho&e, there are a number of potent points (Tibetans: "bindus" or "drops", Taoists: "mysterious pass", etc) at various places all up n' down along sushumna (the central channel). When feeling into the center of your self (along the center line, in the body) they initially feel where feeling disappears. There is nothing there. And that's the big secret: it's where the deeper alchemy, the deeper resolutions occur. It's where the structure of the human form is built to integrate with The Vast and Powerful Transparent Fields of Awareness. (visualize wizard of oz speaking that) It's where concentration integrates with Openness. The Tibetan's instruction on what to do in those deep still places (what I've called the "deep-centers"): enter, abide, and dissolve. You enter into that place, you stabalize concentration there, you abide, and the nature of the alchemy there is that energies and layers dissolve. This is where the partially true training of accumulating energy will not serve you. It's not what is going on there. Let things dissolve there. There, at the drops, the alchemy 's about Nothing. It's the skillful way of integrating with Big Formless Stuff.

She's out from my book, fwiw. What I read is that it was switched off for 11 minutes by an employee who was leaving the company. Then it was turned back on.

Happy Halloween and Dia de los Muertos! 2017

Interview with John Boehner about the Republican Party, speaking freely now that he's retired.

So cool that with the new software you can now follow a person (as well as a thread).

Quality articles, videos, personal experience re: manuka honey. I'm just starting off exploring manuka. Seems too good to be true, but am having extraordinary initial results. Cautiously optimistic. Too new to it to sort out what is b.s. and what is sound on this topic.

Thanks and interesting... curious where you got that? (Sounds like you quoted it from somewhere but can't find it in the links in this thread. No worries if it's a link that's flown the coop.) I had to look up glycation: Obviously it's pretty sweet. I don't know all the implications all down the line for that in this case ... but it seems one obvious area of concern is teeth, tooth decay. One precaution might be to: 1. Rinse: Chase the makuna honey with hot tea, swish it around. 2. Brush right away. I did some reading that honey is actually good for diabetes ???, counter-intuitive. Yup. It's the rating, from 1 - 30, of the concentration of whatever super-duper chemicals that are unusual to manuka. It's the most popular scientific testing basis of manuka honey that's been broadly agreed upon (there's several rating systems). At 10+ it has moderate medical properties, at 15+ pretty strong, at 20+ it's very strong and beyond that it's overkill ... from my memory of the various videos I've been watching (I've been trying to post only the best ones). That table of bacteria that it is proven to kill (could be that there's more that've not been tested yet?) that I posted previously is worth a quick scan. It's like a list as long as your arm, pretty impressive. In that particular article they said that they only found 1 illness-bacteria that was unaffected by manuka. - Keith

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A Mexican invention is allowing farmers around the world to grow crops in arid climates.

This is a good over-view scientific article, which includes a table of bacteria that are, in vitro, susceptible to manuka. p.s. .. from wikipedia

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