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I read the lizard one, that was interesting, ordered his latest one as a result of these posts. Tip to bums. DON'T buy his books or DVDs via Ickey's website, they are half the price new via Amazon.

Lettuce Eat enough lettuce and you'll not need soma. Powerful stuff is lettuce.

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Rainbow Bridge.......... Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable. All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind. They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster. You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart. Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....

It's very Indian. Check out some current western popular novels via Amazon Look Inside , notice the different structure... Popular sellers to a western readership tend to be pacier with shorter episodes and much more action. I read similar works to yours when I worked over in India , they'd be those colourfully bound railway station bookstall novellas. Nothing at all wrong with those and they do help pass a long journey by train. India has the biggest English language publishing output in the world so if your work sells in India then you'll probably cover your overheads plus, if you can get it onto Kindle it'll sink or swim alongside the rest. All kudos to you for having a go at writing, the more you do the better you'll become. Keep it up.

Beans have to be the best protein source ever, loads of choice too. Mung for me then baked beans in tomato sauce (Mrs GMPs NOT the sugar saturated canned crap). Lovely grub. That hobbit lady who lives very simply in Wales I posted about a couple of weeks ago she does that no cook vegan diet and looks healthy from it.

If we're to have a new series then it really must open with the theme song..... Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable, Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could drink you under the table, David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was twice as sloshed as Schlegel. There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach yer 'bout the raising of the wrist, Socrates himself was permanently pissed. John Stewart Mill, of his own free will, on half a pint of shandy was particularly ill, Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whisky every day, Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle, Hobbes was fond of his dram, And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: "I drink, therefore I am." Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed - A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.

I'm paid to read for a whole chunk of each working week, think for another chunk and then deliver three lectures a week based on what I've read and thunk that week (in theory) so the heavy stuff gets read here at work. Home reading is usually far fetched fiction for fun.

..... 37 appearances and never a ball passed him.

I can see where you are coming from there. Some of this conspiracy stuff is a bit gloomy-gussy and no mistake but it's what they like to do so whilst maybe for one person it's a downer but for another who likes it it's a buzz. Ickey is cheery enough and so he should be the amount of gig tickets, books and DVDs he looks to be shifting.

It's a sound enough idea is that forces of light versus forces of darkness. Most religions draw on that or similar for their stories. Has to be something behind it all.

I think he wrote it for the CIA back when he worked for them. Propaganda stuff. Had a copy once, no idea where it got to. He was a big critic of the uniions back in the day when he was on the govt payroll too but he's a sound enough chap now.

..... Robert Rankin reckons that there are secret bases on the dark side of most moons of inhabited planets. Then again Rankin also deifies sprouts. Wasn't it Ingo Swann who wrote that prophetic 1980s book... What will happen when the Soviets take over

I've head madder ideas than Ickey's on here and elsewhere. There are some stone bonkers over on his Forum though. Make us lot on TTB look like a vicar's garden party so they do.

Then there was the dyslexic devil worshipper. She sold her soul to Santa. Doubt if the burning bush was marijuana though, wrong soil plus insufficient water in that part of the wrold for good growing. Creosote bush possibly, they like deserts.

"Icke's most staggering revelation is that the Earth and the collective human mind is manipulated from the Moon, which, he says, is not a ‘heavenly body’, but an artificial construct – a gigantic ‘spacecraft’ (probably a hollowed-out 'planetoid') – which is home to the extraterrestrial group that has been manipulating humanity for aeons. He describes what he calls the ‘Moon Matrix’, a fake reality broadcast from the Moon which is decoded by the human body/mind in much the same way as portrayed in the Matrix movie trilogy. The Moon Matrix has ‘hacked’ into the human ‘body-computer’ system, he says, and it is feeding us a manipulated sense of self and the world 24/7. We live in extraordinary times".

"David connects the dots between apparently unconnected people, subjects and world events like never before. Suddenly, a world of apparent complexity, mystery and bewilderment makes sense. The key is in the title. We are enslaved because we identity ‘self’ with our body and our name, when these are only vehicles and symbols for what we really are – Infinite Awareness, Infinite Consciousness. We are imprisoned in the realms of the five senses and ‘little me’ when we are All That Is, All That Has Been and All That Ever Can Be. To breach the perceptual walls of the Saturn–Moon Matrix and bring an end to mass human enslavement, we need to awaken to our true identity. Everything, but everything, comes from this. Remember Who You Are. Remember ‘where’ you are and where you ‘come’ from. Remember".

Maybe another thread for Ickey?

The lizards walk amongst us. Beware the lizards! I quite like lizards, the ones we had in our bedroom walls in India kept the mosquitoes down. Ickey does no harm if he's doing no good and it's nice to see the lad getting a bit of a following. He was treated like a living joke by the media for years. I'll never forget Terry Wogan (who I like really) saying to Ickey on TV... 'They are not laughing with you David. They are laughing at you'. That was harsh.

Well if they are rare you pay. Most of the stuff I buy is pulp fiction the heavy stuff I can get free via inter library loan here at work.

Cheng Hsin's the veritable cojones del pero Peter Ralston's indoor chappie Kevin McGee's at ours Sat 2nd March £35-00 for the full day or £15.00 for just the morning gig.. Tai Chi & Body Being 10.30 - 12.30 Art of Effortless Power part 1: 2.00- 3.30 & part 2: 4.00 - 5.30 If interested Book via [email protected]

Books I buy a lot but always try Amazon partners first for 2nd hand copies. The last half dozen or so were a penny each plus postage n packing.

Love plus a good binding ritual.

http://www.strokeassociation.org/STROKEORG/ Loads of useful info, links and literature, mostly free.... here. We tend to forget just how lucky we are here in the UK with our 'free at the point of demand' National Health Service. HTH

Ickey was a tidy soccer player in his day too. Had he not been injured out we'd have seen him right at the top of the game I reckon. If you factor out the whackier stuff like lizards and such then, for my money; it's hard to argue against the actual core of what the guy is saying. Rich self-interest cartels are royally screwing the rest of us whilst we sit back and let 'em do it.