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EARTH IS LIKE A CASINO

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Earth is like a casino where the rules of The Game are fixed.  You don’t have to play by “the rules”.  But, if you do decide to play, here are some tips and tricks to use until you lose. Everyone loses the Game of Life. Everything changes. Nothing remains. Remember who you really are. You create your Eternal Life.

Limit Your Losses

This is a golden rule of casino gambling.  Only risk money that you can afford to lose, and never borrow money to play with.

Know the Rules

Regardless of whether the rules are simple or not, it’s very important that you fully understand them before playing any game. It’s hard enough to win casino games to begin with, and it becomes even more difficult when you don’t understand how to properly play them.

Learn Some Strategy

Most casino games are primarily based on luck, but there are a few games that involve some strategy, too. It’s a good idea to learn the best strategies to use where relevant, as this can help you minimize “The House Advantage”.

Assume You’re Going to Lose

Assume you’re going to lose every time you play in the casino. You’ll be less likely to get upset when you do lose if you take this approach, and when you win, it will be a welcome surprise!

Quit While You’re Ahead

This is the only way you’ll ever win in a casino.

Don’t Chase Your Losses

This is another golden rule: there are going to be times when you are losing money in the casino, and you should never try increasing your stakes in order to recover the money you’ve lost. Just accept that luck isn’t on your side.

Don’t Drink Too Much

A drunken gambler is rarely a successful gambler, so make sure you stay sober enough that you can focus on what you’re doing.

Don’t Rely on “Betting Systems” (like religions, politics, stock markets, etc..)

No matter what anyone tries to tell you, there’s no betting system that will help you beat the casino. The house advantage will always be there, regardless of anything you do.

Don’t Be Rude to “The Dealers”

There’s absolutely no excuse for being rude to a dealer just because you’re losing money, and it could even lead to you being thrown out of “the casino” or being persecuted or killed!

Don’t Miss Out on the “Free Stuff”. 

“Free Stuff”  includes thinking your own thoughts and following your own dreams. HAVE FUN PLAYING YOUR OWN GAMES!

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SHADOW HAIKU

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SHADOW HAIKU

A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression.  Haiku began in thirteenth-century Japan.  In contrast to English verse typically characterized by meter, Japanese verse counts sound units known as “on” or morae. Traditional haiku consist of 17 on, in three phrases of five, seven and five on respectively.  Among contemporary poems teikei (定型 fixed form) haiku continue to use the 5-7-5 pattern while jiyuritsu (自由律 free form) haiku do not.

A Classic EXAMPLE:

An old pond!

A frog jumps in–

the sound of water.

 For more detailed information about Haiku, visit the website, 

HOW TO WRITE A HAIKU POEM:  http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Haiku-Poem

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120 YEARS AGO

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FRED OTT SNEEZE 1894

“Fred Ott’s Sneeze” by the Edison Manufacturing Company.

This was the first motion picture to be copyrighted in the United States.  In the five-second film, one of Thomas Edison’s assistants, Fred Ott, takes a pinch of snuff and sneezes. The film was recorded between January 2, 1894 and January 7, 1894.    Source: Wikipedia

ALIEN INTERVIEW

It is truly amazing to me to think that motion pictures did not exist on this planet until as recently as 120 years ago.  This is only about two life times!!!  When my Grandmother was a young woman, motion pictures were a “new thing”!  She lived on a farm in Michigan.  She raised 8 children.

They, along with a lot of other Americans, were farmers.  They grew their own food, and raised chickens, and had a milk cow.  They churned their own butter and plowed hard dirt fields to grown corn and vegetables to feed themselves.

Their wooden house did not have indoor plumbing.  They pumped water from a hand operated water pump in the front yard.  They carried buckets of water into the house and boiled it on a wood-burning stove for drinking, cooking, bathing and washing clothes!

There was no electricity.  The only source of light and energy were candles, a wood burning stove and a fireplace and kerosene lamps.

Their was no indoor bathroom.  They had a small, wooden “out-house” about 30 yards from the main house.  When you needed to take a pee during the night, you used a brass or porcelain bowl that was kept under the bed.  Or, if you were brave enough, you could walk through the snow to the out-house to take a shit in privacy and freeze your ass off!

No air conditioning.  All the doors and windows were left open during the summer.  In the winter time they sat directly in front of the wood-burning stove, or snuggled together underneath piles of blankets in bed as soon as the sun went down! 

Times have certainly changed, technologically, at least in the USA. Do you ever wonder why and how so many technological innovations have been created during the past 120 years?  During the previous 10,000 years of human history there were nearly NO technical advancements!  Why have there been so many during the past 120 years?

Read the book ALIEN INTERVIEW.  You will find some answers in the pages of this book.

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