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http://bigstory.ap.org/article/hagel-us-forces-ready-strike-syria-if-ordered

http://www.classicreader.com/book/1370/11/ The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain Chapter 11 For as much as a year Satan continued these visits, but at last he came less often, and then for a long time he did not come at all. This always made me lonely and melancholy. I felt that he was losing interest in our tiny world and might at any time abandon his visits entirely. When one day he finally came to me I was overjoyed, but only for a little while. He had come to say good-by, he told me, and for the last time. He had investigations and undertakings in other corners of the universe, he said, that would keep him busy for a longer period than I could wait for his return. "And you are going away, and will not come back any more?" "Yes," he said. "We have comraded long together, and it has been pleasant--pleasant for both; but I must go now, and we shall not see each other any more." "In this life, Satan, but in another? We shall meet in another, surely?" Then, all tranquilly and soberly, he made the strange answer, "There is no other." A subtle influence blew upon my spirit from his, bringing with it a vague, dim, but blessed and hopeful feeling that the incredible words might be true--even must be true. "Have you never suspected this, Theodor?" "No. How could I? But if it can only be true--" "It is true." A gust of thankfulness rose in my breast, but a doubt checked it before it could issue in words, and I said, "But--but--we have seen that future life--seen it in its actuality, and so--" "It was a vision--it had no existence." I could hardly breathe for the great hope that was struggling in me. "A vision? --a vi--" "Life itself is only a vision, a dream." It was electrical. By God! I had had that very thought a thousand times in my musings! "Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars--a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space--and you!" "I!" "And you are not you--you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. I myself have no existence; I am but a dream--your dream, creature of your imagination. In a moment you will have realized this, then you will banish me from your visions and I shall dissolve into the nothingness out of which you made me.... "I am perishing already--I am failing--I am passing away. In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever--for you will remain a thought, the only existent thought, and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. But I, your poor servant, have revealed you to yourself and set you free. Dream other dreams, and better! "Strange! that you should not have suspected years ago--centuries, ages, eons, ago! --for you have existed, companionless, through all the eternities. Strange, indeed, that you should not have suspected that your universe and its contents were only dreams, visions, fiction! Strange, because they are so frankly and hysterically insane--like all dreams: a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice and invented hell--mouths mercy and invented hell--mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him!... "You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks--in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier. "It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream--a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought--a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!" He vanished, and left me appalled; for I knew, and realized, that all he had said was true.

Your ass, your chair, and the floor, do not exist any more than you do.

Nothing exists.

http://gawker.com/obama-orders-release-of-report-justifying-air-strike-in-1205362037 Obama Orders Release of Report Justifying Air Strike in Syria

"Your body is empty; emptiness is your body. Emptiness is nothing but your body, and your body is nothing but emptiness." "Every existing thing is emptiness." "There are no eyes; no ears; no nose; no tongue; no body; no mind; nothing to see; nothing to hear; nothing to smell; nothing to taste; nothing to touch; and nothing to think of." "There is no part of you that sees. There is no part of you that is aware of what you see; and this is true all the way up to the part of you that thinks, and the part of you that is aware that you are thinking." -Buddha (quoted from The Heart Sutra) "All existing things are such that no living being exists, and nothing that lives exists, and no person exists." "A mind which is past is non-existent. And a mind in the future is non-existent. And a mind that is going on at the present is non-existent as well." "At that moment there came into my mind no conception of a self, nor of a sentient being, nor of a living being, nor of a person —I had no conception at all. But neither did I have no conception." "Bodhisattvas give all that they have, for the sake of every living being. And this same conception of anyone as a living being is a conception that does not exist; when the Buddha(One Gone) Thus speaks of "every living being," they too are living beings that do not even exist." -Buddha quoted from the diamond sutra Suffering alone exists, none who suffer; The deed there is, but no doer thereof; Nirvana is, but no one seeking it; The Path there is, but none who travel it." -Buddha quoted from the (Visuddhimagga) The Path of Purification sutra

No you don't exist either, no one does.

We don't exist.

When you think of time travel don't think in terms of linear time, as time is not linear. The past and the future are equally as real and exist just as real as the present moment does now. Past and future are a part of a solid object. The computer monitor you are looking at exists in the past and future just as real as it does now. Past and future exist only relative to the position of your consciousness as it moves. There also is not just one past and just one future, all possible pasts, and all possible futures exist just as real as the present moment, for all observers, they are also actively populated by minds just as real as your own. Let's say you invented a machine to "go back in time" you wouldn't actually go back in time, you would travel to a parallel universe that shared a common history, so if you killed your grandfather that universe would develop differently than this one. All realities exist just as real as this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY3JufoapBU

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/Russia-warns-US-against-Syria-military-action-says-not-to-repeat-past-mistakes-in-region/articleshow/22052710.cms Russia warns US against Syria military action, says not to repeat past mistakes

Pentagon prepares for "large scale economic breakdown" and the upcoming "loss of functioning political and legal order" leading to "purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency". http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/jun/14/climate-change-energy-shocks-nsa-prism

Here is the deal bro, every penny I save gets spent on things that matter more to me. The things I posted here are mostly common sense stuff to help you save money. The idea is to be wise in how you choose to spend the money you earn, to maximize the return on your investment from your job.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingvar_Kamprad Billionaire Ingvar Kamprad begs to differ. Kamprad drives a 1993 Volvo, flies only economy class, recycles tea bags and is known to pocket the salt and pepper packets at restaurants.

I am buying one soon, so I'll let you know how it goes. I've read the various reviews and forum discussions on that model and evidently they are much easier to mow with than previous generation manual lawn mowers.

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It will be 80 hours a week starting in January.

http://www.amazon.com/Fiskars-6201-18-Inch-Staysharp-Mower/dp/B0045VL1OO/ updated with link to manual push lawnmower.

Well thorium isn't free energy, but it is nearly unlimited as the sun will engulf the earth before we run out of it. We will always need intelligence to direct this energy to transform raw matter into different patters, to shape it into goods and provide services. In that sense we will all still work, just probably not as much.

About to hit the wall pretty soon, the problem is with infinite energy, machine intelligence and recycling, incineration of human waste to reuse base minerals for fertilizer, we wouldn't run out. With thorium we have thousands of years of fuel with proven reserves, and this estimate includes making synthetic liquid fuels from ocean water and CO2. The resources we cling to we are short of, but there are much better alternatives if we would embrace them.

http://tvpot.streamer.videofarm.daum.net/v2/vod_old/303fGnw8nFpU6nGpFwG8G/GG6G66wls6G88nFnjnJ6wnpFF/movie.flv This is a link to a korean (I think) mirror of the video, my google fu is strong grasshoppah.