miscellaneous postings by Lawrence R. Spencer
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Like the dude says, “Everything Changes. So if you’re tired of being yourself, be somebody else”. Who says we can’t change our “self” when we want to? What are we, manikins? The entire universe depends of change. If it didn’t change it would get to boring and we’d all leave and go off and create some other universe.
Eytan and the Embassy – “Everything Changes” from Modern Mythology on Vimeo.
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The relative sizes of the sun and planets in the Earth solar system
NOW, Imagine the YOU helped to create them, in a long-forgotten, past…..
Or, that we ALL continue to create them together, as Immortal Spiritual Beings!
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi or Bapu (Father of Nation), was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world.
The son of a senior government official, Gandhi was born and raised in a Bania community in coastal Gujarat, and trained in law in London. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women’s rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from British domination.
In London he committed himself to truthfulness, temperance, chastity, and vegetarianism. His return to India to work as a lawyer was a failure, so he went to South Africa for a quarter century, where he absorbed ideas from many sources, most of them non-Indian. He was exposed to Jain ideas through his mother who, was in contact with Jain monks. Themes from Jainism that Gandhi absorbed included asceticism; compassion for all forms of life; the importance of vows for self-discipline; vegetarianism; fasting for self-purification; mutual tolerance among people of different creeds; and “syadvad”, the idea that all views of truth are partial.
Gandhi strongly favored the emancipation of women, and he went so far as to say that “the women have come to look upon me as one of themselves.” He opposed purdah, child marriage, untouchability, and the extreme oppression of Hindu widows, up to and including sati. He especially recruited women to participate in the salt tax campaigns and the boycott of foreign products. Gandhi’s success in enlisting women in his campaigns, including the salt tax campaign, anti-untouchability campaign and the peasant movement, gave many women a new self-confidence and dignity in the mainstream of Indian public life.
In his last year, unhappy at the partition of India, Gandhi worked to stop the carnage between Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs that raged in the border area between India and Pakistan. He was assassinated on 30 January 1948.
Gandhi’s philosophy was not theoretical but one of pragmatism, that is, practicing his principles in the moment. Asked to give a message to the people, he would respond, “My life is my message.”
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1984 has come and gone. The prophecy of George Orwell have been fulfilled. Now we know, without any doubt, that wars are started by bankers and politicians to make a financial profit and to gain personal power for themselves. In the United States there are no more wars of “defending oneself”. (False Flags propaganda notwithstanding). Since WW II the ONLY reason any war was ever fought — and factually, during the last 5,000 years human history — was for the profit of private banks and corporations. Don’t take my word for it. Study the history of warfare. Actually, there has always been a “Big Brother” in every period of history from the Egyptians to the Rockefellers. “Big Brother” is the bankers and politicians — with the blessing of the priests.
However, they are NOT the people who load the shells, fly the planes, drop the bombs and pull the triggers that kill people. They are spineless cowards who hide behind curtains and desks and rhetoric and secret police. It is each individual soldier who “is just doing his duty” that does the killing for the despicable slime we call our “leaders”. Until soldiers refuse to become soldiers there will be perpetual wars. I refused to be inducted into the military in 1969, during the Vietnam War. So can you now. All it takes is the balls to say the words: “HELL NO! I WON’T GO!”
So what can “Big Brother” do to you? Put you in prison? Shoot you in the head? So what?! Sacrificing your life is a small price to pay compared to relinquishing your personal responsibility to the whims of a pack of psychopathic power-brokers. It’s just a matter of time before the next person they’ll order you to kill is your own mother, brother and sister — in this lifetime or the next. What goes around, comes around.
Every time you “volunteer” to go out and kill people, or support the parasites who tell you it is your “duty” to murder the “enemy” they created for you, you — not anyone else — are the killer. I have heard a million reasons why it is OK to be a soldier. As a way to earn a living, almost any job is less destructive, and more honest, than helping a Gang of War Profiteers to invade entire countries so Wall Street bankers and Corporate Arms manufacturers can make another billion dollars on selling guns to your “enemies”. How many reasons can you think of to help “Big Brother” continue to slaughter millions and millions of people for their personal financial profit for the next 5,000 years? — Lawrence R. Spencer. 2012.
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Watch the following video with footage from the Vietnam war: notice who’s doing the killing and who’s safe back home in their offices: you guessed it, “Big Brother”.
Here is a quick less on how BIG BROTHER (“The Party”) keeps getting away with murder, theft and mayhem for their personal power and profit, at our expense:
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” ― George Orwell, 1984 — published in 1949.
HERE IS A FREE ON-LINE COPY OF THE COMIC BOOK VERSION OF THE BOOK 1984
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1. A force that tends to oppose or retard motion.
Synonyms:
allure, charm, entice, influence, invite, lure
Often used in the same context:
allure, contempt, dreamt, entice, exempt, infatuation, lure, seduce, temp, temptation, tempted, tempting
More general:
appeal, arouse, attract, bid, excite, invite, persuade, provoke, sex, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir, turn on, wind up
More specific:
bait, bewitch, call, decoy, lead on, magnetize, mesmerize, spellbind, stool, tweedle