Owledge

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  1. Your posting is confusing. I just wanted to comment on this: Unless peyote is profoundly different from ayahuasca, it's bold to generalize what there is in the "state" of peyote and what not. There definitely can be fear of death during an ayahuasca trip. BTW liking your own posting is my favorite part of it.
  2. The War on Kids

    CDHD - Civil Disobedience Hyperawareness Disorder
  3. Demand A Plan

    "Demand that President Obama stops killing innocent women and children all around the world with his illegal drone attacks." Demand that President Obama stops killing innocent people all around the world with his illegal drone attacks. Demand that President Obama stops killing innocent people all around the world. Demand that President Obama stops killing people. Make Obama stop killing people.
  4. The Fuhrer

    Yet, aborigines are still suffering, still not treated fairly and with dignity, no? It's not even new. The US government abducts whoever they want and send them to obscure torture prisons in other countries. They don't distinguish between US and non-US. If they say "We believe you might be a terrorist", then your rights are gone. And they're doing it. During the Obama regime, Somalia has been a popular place for renditions. There's a torture prison in Mogadishu that gets regular visits by the CIA. People just don't realize how far it has come with the tyranny in the USA, just because the gov hasn't gone totally crazy yet. But if people resist properly and simply demand that their rights are respected, you'd have Nazi Germany conditions in no-time.
  5. Hobbit Lifestyle

    Well, knowing about how the system works and how not to be driven into ruin by it is not THAT helpful. It only enables you to cripple your means. Although I guess if one is really radical, it could still be beneficial. I think the best way to get free energy technology out there is through guerilla tacrics. Give autonomous energy generators for households, for free. Let people witness the miracle, so to speak. Once people have a gold-shitting donkey in their house, they'll be surprisingly rebellious. ;-D Except the worst of the sheeple, of course. Just phantasizing here. Trying to play the system doesn't work. The game is fixed. If you decide to play it, you have already lost.
  6. Whore's stance? Spread your legs? Sorry, but the setup was too good not to make a pun.
  7. Saving the World & Solar Energy

    The wildlife in the Tchernobyl area are in parts massively radioactive. Lucky that they don't know that. Less chance for cancer to develop if people don't scare you by telling you you're carrying death inside. Also a healthy natural diet. Saw a documentary a while ago and the wildlife there indeed seems to show no visible signs of radiation poisoning, despite making a geiger counter go crazy. It's always interesting to have a desolate area, for studying how nature reconquers areas. In eastern Germany there are areas where military exercises used to be performed, devoid of any vegetation. Now it's almost a paradise there with many different and rare species.
  8. Hobbit Lifestyle

    True. Although that was not the reason for his failure. JP Morgan cut funding when he learned Tesla wanted the world to have electricity for free, and the government plundered his lab.
  9. Sorry, gotta correct myself. It 67. It used to be 65, but was changed recently, with the exception of people born in a certain range. The government did intend to raise i to 70 though. Guess there was too much outrage. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regelaltersgrenze has a table about the exact ages. I guess they expect people to have private insurance to be able to retire earlier. You know, the creeping privatization of everything. Some are supported by the government, although private. The country is selling out. Nothing unusual. The railway system belonged to the people. Then the government sold it to the private sector. (You know, they promised they could run it more efficiently. Of course, because they don't give a shit about decent standards of any kind.) The people had no say in that. We get to vote in an undemocratic system, that's all.
  10. "Compassion means skillful action" - huh?

    You are arrogant for believing that my behavior towards you is sufficient judgment for my capacity for compassion. Talking in quotes is unoriginal, especially when not marked so that foreign and own thought easily get confused by others and maybe by oneself. One can take stuff out of the Dao De Jing just like from the bible to make a point. Like "One who is good will never argue; One who argues is not good.". "The compassionate man does not taunt others, nor does he gloat over their failings." - Where does that come from? "Kind words are not sincere, Sincere words are not kind." - So what? We're both sincere or both not? Stating not to further engage in a forum discussion is either a sign of lack of self-restraint or intended to fool oneself with superiority and self-importance. One who is above mud-wrestling does not go preaching in the mud pit.
  11. Not always. I also don't trust TI's corruption index that much. It's practrically impossible to measure corruption in a non-biased way. The few examples mentioned in the article read like a Western interests sympathy ranking.
  12. Doesn't look like Libya and Egypt are the same case. Also, Egypt aids Gaza now. That's nice. How is the new Egypt government corrupt?
  13. The War on Kids

    Don't generalize cause and effect. Home-schooled kids might be so much 'healthier' not because of the home-schooling per se, but because people who choose to home-school are a different kind of parents.
  14. Probably why still so few people know he's a war criminal / mass murderer.
  15. Martin Luther King Jr

    Relative to body size, the barnacle is the animal with the biggest penis.
  16. If I'm not mistaken, they're in the process of raising it to 70 in Germany. (Correction: it's 67 now, raised from 65. They originally intended 70.) I'm wondering how high they have to rise it before people realize the government is owning them and overthrow it.
  17. "Compassion means skillful action" - huh?

    Corrected for making sense... Man, are you confused! You are calling yourself a liar, while you yourself state in the same posting that at the time you believed it was your last words. You could only have been a liar if you didn't actually believe that, if you knew the decision to let it be your last words was fake. So if that was the case, then your above statement is a lie - either that you used to believe or that your were a liar. Whichever it is, it would make you ... a liar! I love it!
  18. "Compassion means skillful action" - huh?

    Tell me how to make a living with that understanding without clashing with adverse dominant belief systems. You can study psychology, spend years listening to crap, then you can show a paper and are authorized to either apply more or less insightless teachings in practice or muse about alternatives in academic journals. It might sound cynical, but if a kindergarden teacher is immensely successful at figuring out what's troubling the kids, parents will start demanding that the teacher should be fired. Without authority (which is often nothing more than a psychological trick) you won't get people to let go of their crap. And as studies show, WITH authority you can even make people torture others. Great advances in science have been made by people who are not burdened with indoctrination. (one example: Watson&Crick - figured out the DNA molecule structure. Used paper cutouts, like a puzzle game. Got it horribly wrong the first time due to an amateur mistake. Were laughed at by the professors. Got it right the second try though.)
  19. "Compassion means skillful action" - huh?

    K, that invalidation thing is almost omnipresent. I'd say it's one of the few major problems in society. Very basic stuff. The battle of mind vs. heart, fear vs. love. One could use many other terms than "invalidation" for the same thing. Sadly, from my own experience and many accounts from other people, at least where I grew up, female teachers, who are supposed to have studied pedagogics, suck at not being invalidating. They are horribly emotionally cruel to children without noticing it, they are succumbing to all the ugly psychological violence that children throw around. They appear weak, not radiating respect at all. It's a bad state. There are few exceptions, and strangely, male teachers seem to naturally bring with them what's needed to not make those mistakes. One would think that women are more capable of dealing with matters of emotional intelligence, but I guess those women who want to become teachers have personality issues, maybe themselves having been invalidated.... and also pedagogics courses around here might suck. Personal anecdote, not so much about emotional, but personaliy invalidation. Sports classes at school, basketball. I am lively and agile, like to feint and quickly change direction and all that, using my natural abilities to gain an advantage. ... And then the sports teacher tells me to slow down. I mean, seriosly... many people might not realize what's going on. A comment like that is absurd. It's sport, it's a game, it's about trying to perform well and win, and the guy tells me to give up an advantage, maybe because it painfully reminded him of the agility he doesn't have anymore.
  20. "Compassion means skillful action" - huh?

    No, it's a cat-back exhaust system.
  21. "Compassion means skillful action" - huh?

    Toilet owners around the world aren't aware they have a shamanic ritual chamber in their houses. Shamanic principle: If you receive something from nature, you should give something back.
  22. I found another example of how truth is gradually allowed to seep into popculture so that the liars and deceivers don't have to be outet and can come up with new lies and continue their scheme. For well-informed people it would already be an example that Montagnier, so-called discoverer of HIV, said that a healthy immune system can get rid of the virus, but... ...in the TV show House MD, season 2, episode 24, a doctor casually mentions that HIV tests are only 99% accurate and that some people live years with a false positive diagnosis and how if they eventually learn they're fine, might cling to their new identity and not wanting to accept the truth. Wow, this must by a severe WTF?!-moment for some heavily indoctrinated people. Popular propaganda, stated by many doctors, is that to be sure of the results one would take several tests if a positive is shown, eventually making sure the results are accurate. Of course that's mathematical bullshit, but still is/was the dominant doctrine. This is how big lies end: They exceed their best-before date and are then gradually defused in pop culture until everybody regards the tuth as self-evident and doesn't remember having been lied to all the time. Pretty much the same with psychological effects on cancer development. First it's absurd new-age bullshit, then it's casually mentioned in 'medical popculture' as fact, with a huge gap between it - the gap of propaganda, lies and deception. A least one genius doctor has died in prison because this very idea - scientifically documented - has been suppressed. It's almost like revealing lies is a taboo in society. It's not polite, you know. Probably because many people have a habit of lying, and the thought of revealing lies makes so many people feel uncomfortable, thus a widely socially accepted rule not to talk about lies.
  23. The Fuhrer

    By the way, "Sieg Heil!" might be shunned because it was a common phrase of the Nazi regime, but its informational content is nothing else than something like "Blessed be victory". If propaganda wasn't still the same after the Bush jr. regime, then the phrase "Mission accomplished" might be forbidden to say in public, haha.
  24. "Compassion means skillful action" - huh?

    Which by your definition makes you a superficial poster, too.