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Damn Interesting:
Daring Sentiment
Meandering Stint
Terminating…. .. . . Ends
Here is this article in Russian: http://chitach.ru/posts/3/
This link below proves again how good this article is from Alan.
Talking about profiling this guy matches it all.
Scary how deceiving this animal was on that show and showed his real face with the other two contestants,
and yes you wonder why there was no screening in those days.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/09/dating.game.killer.death/index.html?hpt=T2
Frank G
Q: How do you keep a rotten banana in suspense?
Tune in soon for the answer!
Your comment has been placed in a temporary holding cell due to its resemblance to spam. If it’s legitimate, it’ll show up right here real soon.
Since it never will be placed i just put the link down here about Michael Moore.
At first i just wanted to copy/paste it.
Have Fun and yes I’m back
Frank G,,, smile
Ah I love freedom of speech, Go Michael Go,
Just to make sure about my posting here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
You either love or hate all the comments, Damn Interesting Idea Michael.
Frank G
The Milgram experiment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
Einstein was a product of incest. I wonder did this have any influence on the development of his remarkable brain?
I have one of these in my passport – at least, I assume I do, as I got a new U. S. passport after October of 2006 – and so far my identity has not been stolen in any way. Also, now that it’s mentioned, international travel does seem to be a bit less of a hassle than it was with my old passport; I’m not sure whether there’s a correlation. Although I would probably have been mildly opposed to the idea had I heard about it some five years ago or so, being as I am uncomfortable with most electronic devices and methods of identification, I have no objections to it now and have noticed no infringements upon either my freedom or my privacy.
I came searching for this article. Searching for answers. As i was swept off my feet by a man 26 yrs of age. Sending me flowers and cake, shopping sprees. The constant need to stay in lavish hotels, going from city to city, without planning. Impulsiveity. He changed his name adn occupation everywhere we went. I noticed it was to gain their trust, so that he could con them out of money. He was good. By this time we were engaged. I was frightened, and inlove. But i realized he was empty inside. The tears were fake, he had no real feelings for anyone, not even his own parents. He said he would never let me leave him, but when i did he never came searching for me. he had no guilt, no empathy, charismatic and calm. Not violent, and nothing seemed to phase him. i was attracted to how calm and collected he was. But as time passed, i noticed speech impediments, like his brain was working faster than his mouth, and no regrets. It was obvious to me he felt nothing real and lived an empty life, but i was also convinced that somehow beyond all that I was the only one that mattered. I fooled myslef and let him fool me. I had just lost my mother and needed this whirlwind he put me in, and the lavish lifestyle he provided. I am left now in such pain. Embarrased that i miss him. Embarrassed that i let him in. And just lost. I still have nightmares. But i no longer hate him. Because i saw the misery he lived with, its as if he knew he was living in hell because he felt nothing real. and when he did, it was very shortlived, and he would go back to the same restless jumpiness the next day, looking for another victim, incapable of telling one truth the twelve hours he was awake. I swear the 7 months i spent with him have traumatized me more than anything i have experienced. because he gave me so much and took so much more away. i wish i coud have a hidden camera with me on that journey. i saw things i hadnt seen in movies. i gave him up. hoping he would return. but reading this article and all the links before getting here i realize, he will walk this earth with no regrets and continue to ruin every relationship he encounters without even wanting to.
I have been following this site for many years now. I stuck around through the occasional pause in new articles, and through the reposting of older ones. Sadly the time has come to say goodbye. Unfortunately this site has gone the way of many others that got a book published. The final nail was some of the comments in this thread, come on guys. I wish the creators and editors the best and good luck on your future endeavors.
1. China would not come to aid the US. China wants to limit US influence. The US also has massive debt with China, not massive trade. China could care less about US trade. The US on the other hand cares very deeply about keeking US trade.
2. Russia has recently demonstrated that it can take Georgia if it wants to, it doesn’t need US permission. The Russian federation also is moving back into opposition of the US, so the US would not get Russia.
3. Germany is already rearmed, has been since the ’50s. In fact the Leapord II is currently Canada’s (and half of Europes) main battle tank.
4 The US will not call on North Korea, thats just silly.
5. Decades old fueds will not bring countries onto the side of the US. Especially when most of the world actually hates the United States (including a portion of its allies). The idea that the US has been preventing these fueds from being enacted is rediculous. Countries with small military budgets have defeated the United States in the past and continue to do so to this day (afghanistan and Iraq are currently putting a massive strain on the US economy and the US national moral).
This whole scenerio is a greater fantasy then the Canada being invaded by the US. Besides I think that the Second world war proved that a handful of powerful countries can not defeat a massive coalition of minor nations and a couple of powerful nations.
You are right about the nuclear weapons (wrong about the alternatives though, there use would trigger nuclear response. They are just to similar in nature and application). Neither side would utilize them until one side was threatened with total defeat. The likely conclusion is that the United States would end up being pushed out by whatever nations who chose to respond to pleas for help (I beleive the number that is required to do so is about 53 with a half dozen European powers) Then advance about 100km into the United States before offering what diplomates refer to as a “White Peace”. In case you don’t know what this means, it would be a return to the status quo before the invasion. All boarders would be restored with no military occupation or reperations (or disarmament) for either side.
I think your adherence to stereo types is actually undermining your possition. US military is possible, and initally it would be almost assured. The conquest of the highly populated areas is almost guaranteed, but the US military still must control the country side. To that I would say good luck, especially since the proximity tot he boarder would mean Canadian resistance attacks (the united states would refer to them as terrorist attacks) on US soil. Thats just bad Juju. The US populace is far to used to not seeing the dirrect consiquences for military conquest in there front yard.
This is starting to open up a whole new can of worms that is going to get terribly off topic so I am going to end it here.
I like Meow. Mephedrone
Still watching and waiting. The Frank G bickering is Damn Interesting though…
Fuck this shitty site, removing it from bookmarks.
Something I thought was DI: Chile quake might have shortened days on Earth
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/03/02/chile.quake/index.html?hpt=T1
….Sorry, I was thinking of another forum where one can edit one’s posts. Instead, send a note to Alan Bellows asking him to edit it for you.
dsjohn, it is against Mr. Bellows’s policy for one’s posts to include links to other products or services. (It’s considered spamming.) Please do us, and yourself, a favor by removing or deactivating your link.
The aum folks, who orchestrated the sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway, were a Buddhist faction. ANY religion can – and will, I’d argue – be subverted, misinterpreted, and generally scrunched up to fit people’s own ideas and plans.
I love this post. Thank you Frank for sharing this interesting post.
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That is so wrong, it’s coming out the other side of wrongness and entering the fertile territory of the truly disturbing. Reminds of something I read in a Lyall Watson book (although I will freely admit I may have dreamt it) about one stage in the life cycle of a particular type of liver fluke. In order to get into a sheep to enter the next phase, it gets into an ant. It attatches itself to the base of whatever-passes-for-the-brain, and gets the ant to climb to the top of a blabe of grass, bite onto the end, and… wait for a sheep.
The natural world never ceases to amaze/scare the crap out of me.
Radiatidon said: “Interesting read. For centuries womankind has searched for the ultimate birth control with possible disastrous results. For instance a Roman grave yielded a 20 something woman whose mortal remains showed signs of a botched abortion using a stone tool not unlike a spear head, inserted into her pelvic region.Birth control falls into three different classes; practical, yah right, and downright dangerous.
Women could avoid conception by holding their breath during the man’s orgasm, or immediately jumping backwards (eyes closed facing forward – no peeking or it won’t work) seven times after coitus. They could also try a quick swab of the vagina after intercourse with unused, virgin lamb’s wool.
Packing the vagina with animal dung or using honey, pepper, alum, or lactic acid as a pessaries and/or barrier to the little swimmers.
Centuries ago the women in China would ingest a concoction of lead and mercury, which had the unfortunate consequence of insanity, sterility, or death.
Middle Eastern women would take a sharpened stick, insert it into the vagina, and tying one end to the leg for a night. Though this method did work, it had a tendency to have unfortunate side effects if the user tossed-n-turned during the night.
During the Middle Ages European women would wear the testicles of weasels on their thighs, or wear its amputated foot around their necks during the horizontal rhombi. They also would wear wreaths of herbs, black cat’s livers or bone shards, hare anuses, and even flax lint bound in menstrual blood soaked cloth. It was also believed that walking three times around the spot where a pregnant she-wolf had urinated would scare the unborn child away.
During the last century Canadian women drank dried beaver testicles stewed in a strong alcohol solution. This one sounds more like a guy invention to help loosen up the distressed girl friend for a second round.
Though some of this sounds ridiculous, as recently as the 1990s girls in Australia were using candy bar wrappers as condoms, believing the foil would prevent conception.
For centuries many women were not passing their first menarche (period) until their late teens or early twenties. So sexual antics were not producing unwanted teenage pregnancies. The age dropped to an average of 12-1/2 years-of-age during the 1840s. This change is believed to have occurred due to better nutrition, environmental factors, and genetics. (source – Sanfilippo & Hertweck)”
Radiatidon,
Where are you dear Don? Any where else on the WWW net? Miss you and your wonderful stories. xxxooo
Frank, I know your only trying to keep some DI stuff going in the comments, but you do realise that these articles you keep posting will be protected by copyright laws.
I’m not to sure what the copyright laws in the Netherlands are, but as the sites you are pasting from are USA based as is DI, perhaps just to keep it safe just post a link and say what it’s about.
There isn’t much happening here at the minute for whatever reason, and I’m not going to get drawn into whatever the reasons behind it are except to say thanks for all the DI stuff so far and fingers crossed some more will be coming eventually.
But lets try and make sure that when and if Alan decides to make a return the site won’t have been closed down due to copyright infringement.
Cheers
John
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Alright you made me say it…
It’s peanut butter jelly time, peanut butter jelly time, peanut butter jelly time
It’s peanut butter jelly time, peanut butter jelly time, peanut butter jelly time
Peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat
Peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat
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oh and one more thing too the guy who commented before my comment above, china has to much trade invested with us and would easily come to our aid if we offered them something big like the entirity of canada. no one would screw with china cuz they bat-shit crazy and will totally pwn the bajeezuz out of anyone who wanted to attack us. as for europe, i believe re arming germany would get them on our side,letting russia take georgia would get russia on our side, hmm three super powers and a country with the potential to be one, watcha gunna do bout it? oh and mexico would help if we supplied aid to theyre country, argentina if we let them take the falklands. and maybe volunteers from japan who want to fight but we are theyre military so they would have to join us.thats 6 countries so far. wait make that a grand total of 7 countries, because we could totally get north korea on our side if we hand over south korea. 7 countries BITCHES!!!! what now?! someone will say “that would never happen” but every country has a certain objective and we can fulfill theirs like that because we are the ones keeping them from it. britain, france, and canada will be united with whatever other stupid countries would join them. as for the nuking thing, noone will just automatically fire all their nukes because that would destroy the world. america AND russia have alternatives to nukes, the MOAB and the FOAB, the most powerful non nuclear weapons in the world at the moment. this could however cause france to overreact and fire all 5 of its nukes which will probably blow up in the upper atmosphere because they decided to surrender (again). britain would probably try to hold its own ground as much as it can like in WW2 but this time they will fail miserably. by that time america will have eaten canada and shit it out 10 times over.
this has been a rambling from your local fuhrer on a computer
Well, the question has been posed to the US military “who would win” and they emphatically said “Canada, invasion of that country is a practical impossibility”. The issue of who has the best army, navy and airforce is still the deciding factor, but other factors would come into play. First, Canadian infantry are the best and nastiest troops in the world (or at least in NATO) and in war time (a real war, not the occupation of Afganistan) when Canadians are thuroughly united to the cause (such as said invasion) they become swollen with troops and equiptment. In peace time however it is a Canadian tradition to bankrupt the military and leave it poorly prepared, and I will elaborate later why this would not factor into the Canadian defence. The next factor is the terrain. A great portion of the nation is covered by rocky, uneven terrain choked with vegitation that even people have a problem getting around on foot. This terrain is a nightmare for armoured/airborn units and would cause a situation similar to Vietnam (yes there was more to that war as well). The biggest factor though would be the sheer expanse of territory that would have to be taken and held. The population is widely spread out and the bulk of the terrain is either mountainous, hilly or densly forrested so ambushes would be rampant. Not to mention that the first nations would be up in arms (litteraly) to resist US occupation (there are First Nations that use armed demonstrations to protest against the government of Canada for various reasons). Consider the problems encountered by the United States in Iraq alone, which does not represent the majority of the US military resources and then apply it to a much larger country where the population has 3 guns for every person in the country and can disappear into the countryside. It would take pretty much the entirety of the US military (and probably would need conscription to shore up the numbers) and to build up that much military force on the boarder would allow for a Canadian build up as well (though it would consist initially of sending large numbers of volunteers into the north with caches of supplys for training). The invasion would consist of large spear heads moving north to capture cities and resources as fast as possible. Vancouver would be captured, but it would most likely be costly (mountains, Urban terrain and heavy forrest terrain). Edmonton, Saskatoon (look it up), and Winnipeg would be easily taken, but North of these cities would be difficult. The bulk of the Eastern campaign would be cetered around Ontario with amphib (which would be costly as well… just by the nature of the assault) opps occuring near York, Niagra, Toronto and Windsor with an immediate push to consolodate the area but again would bog down in the forrested terrain of Central and Northern Ontario. The Saint Lawrence river area would be captured quickly as well with an initial dash up the Gaspe panincula and into Montreal and Ottawa and then up the norther side of the river to capture Quebec city. The maritimes would be slightly more complicated, but would also fall with the exception of New Foundland. The island resembles British Columbia with extremely rock terrain and with few suitable sites for Amphib operations. Airborn operations could be successful, but this represents to best chance for Canada to hold a major Urban center. From the north the army could strike with impunity and the army would spend time chasing down hit and run attacks in terrain unsuitable to armoured warfare. The Royal Canadian Navy would be hard pressed to defend the coast lines and most likely would be expended in attempts to do as much harm to the US navy as possible. The RCAF would also find itself short handed, but would none-the-less hurt the US airforce and possibly manage to strike key strategic ground assests (training would represent the balance of the cause of damage).
Mean while, world wide opinion would be outrage. It is even possible that there would be Universal Condemnation of the invasion. Canada would almost certainly call on the commonwealth for aid and would almost certainly be successful (popular opinion in Britain would make it political suicide to deny assistance). India and Pakistan would most certainly answer due to a common hatred and fear of the US (though there military units would most likely be kept seperate). In Europe the Netherlands and Belgium would be the first to declare war which would put pressure on the EU. Germany and France would be the next to declare war (though this can be debated). As for Russia and China, who are both enemies of the US (yes, still) it can be debated that they will both declare war simply because of the “enemy of my enemy” rule. To put it plainly, an invasion of Canada would result in a world war and the Canadian army can hold the US long enough for international intervention.
The UN would be powerless to stop the US. The US has a veto and that gives them the ability to do whatever they wish to do (Iraq, Afgahnistan).
The truth is, there will never be a war between the two countries just as there is not likely to be another European war. The economies of the two countries are too intertwined to even consider such action. Not to mention current defence treaties have essentially made this discussion a moot point. In reality the two countries and the European Union are close to moving towards the first world government. The current road block is the United States lack of social responsibility (health care, old age pension, GUN control, government corruption by large businesses).
In light of one of the best Olympic games ever, i feel bad for my fellow Dutch man Sven Kramer and Coach
Gerard Kemkers.
This is the biggest blunder ever in Dutch Olympic history for sure.
So for years to come from now we will be reminded about this big mistake.
I hope they will get some satisfaction in the pursuit race.
So looking back at some more big blunders either made by contestants or judges, i give you.
THE TEN BIGGEST BLUNDERS IN OLYMPIC HISTORY, BEFORE THE DUTCH BLUNDER.
By Monte Burke, Forbes.com
David Wallechinsky, noted historian, essayist and general raconteur, also happens to be perhaps the world’s leading Olympic historian. In his two compendiums, The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics and The Complete Book of the Olympics, Wallechinsky chronicles the Games since their inceptions, capturing the highlights and statistics, and the winners and the losers. But the books are also chock full of bloopers and blunders, which he believes have only added to our enjoyment of the games.
“I like odd stories,” Wallechinsky says. (He also keeps tabs on the governments of the world at allgov.com, which may be odder than the Olympics.) His passion for those strange occurrences makes him the perfect man to help us come up with a list of the 10 biggest blunders in Olympic history.
Missed opportunities
Wallechinsky’s favorite blunder happened in the 1960 Summer Games in Rome. A runner named Wym Essajas was the pride of Suriname, the first-ever athlete to participate in the Olympics from the country. Essajas was scheduled to compete in the 800-meter race, but he was given the wrong starting time. He decided to take a nap and ended up sleeping through his event, breaking the heart of his country. Suriname would have to wait another eight years to field another Olympian.
Next on his list is the sad saga of the man who ate too much.
“Thomas Hamilton-Brown of South Africa lost his opening-round match in Lightweight Boxing in 1936 [the Berlin Summer Games],” says Wallechinsky. “He softened the disappointment of his loss by going on an eating binge. Then it was discovered that there had been a scoring error and he had actually won the fight.
Unfortunately, he had already put on five pounds and was unable to get rid of it by the next day’s weigh-in.” The gluttonous boxer was disqualified.
Then there’s the blooper that proves tennis is indeed a contact sport. In the 1912 Summer Games in Stockholm, in the mixed-doubles tennis final, Sigrid Fick of Sweden accidentally smashed her partner Gunnar Setterwall in the face with her racquet during the first set. The Official Report of the 1912 Games, in the understated manner typical of that era, read: “This little accident put Setterwall off his game, for his play fell off tremendously.” You don’t say? The duo lost the gold 6-4, 6-0.
One of the most memorable blunders in Olympic history happened just four years ago in the Winter Olympics in Turin. American snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis had a comfortable lead heading into the final jump of the gold-medal race in the snowboard cross event. She decided to add a little spice to her finish, attempting a totally unnecessary “method grab” in the air. Her showboating ultimately cost her the gold: When she landed, she caught an edge and fell as Tanja Frieden of Switzerland whizzed by her to snatch the gold.
“She definitely styled that a little too hard,” her coach said afterward. That was the understatement of the Olympics.
But the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul featured one of the greatest blunders in history – and it was on the part of the judges. In the gold medal boxing bout American Roy Jones Jr. absolutely pummeled Park Si-Hun, a South Korean, landing 86 punches to Park’s 32. Wallechinsky was in the front row for the match, calling it for NBC radio.
“Everyone in the arena assumed Jones won, even Park,” says Wallechinsky. But just before the announcement of the winner, Wallechinsky says he noticed the Korean volunteers celebrating. “I caught the eye of Jones’ coach and just shook my head,” he says. Jones was robbed of the fight and the gold. The judges were later suspended.
Sometimes blunders lead to good – albeit lucky – things. In the medal heat of the 1,000-meter short-track speedskating event in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Australian Steven Bradbury was bringing up the rear on the final turn. Suddenly Chinese skater Li Jiajun fell and took out everyone in the race except for Bradbury, who coasted across the finish line to the gold medal.
“God smiles on you some days and this is my day,” said a humbled but happy Bradbury after the race.
For most other blunders, there’s no smiling whatsoever.
Have fun, Frank G
Hello to all….=))
Taking in consideration how the FBI was operating in those days, it doesn’t surprise me that
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was more thinking about his own gain.
Here you have a guy who gives up his future (Dasch) and trying to do the right thing,but instead he get’s slashed down because of some guys with big ego’s.
I see this as a black period in civil warfare, and i can’t imagine that this is just a one time thing.
There are probably way more cases that we are not aware about.
But still I love this country and understand also that in that time period lots of people were all stressed about the war, and not thinking rational at some times.
I only hope they learn from the past, great story Christopher .
Thanks, DI
Frank G
Its Dasch and Burger who should have been executed – buy their own men…..if there’s one thing I can’t stand its traitors and snitches. And here you all are sticking up for these worms who got their own men killed. The Germans should have picked their men better!
Have a good one, Ted
Frank G
Frank G said: “So I HAVe A NOTHER personn here ( zeemayla ) who now,,, has a problemmm with my grammar!!!
Keepsss on getting more funniier evvvrrrry time.Get a life,
Frank G”
you are a fucking douche
OK, cicadas do not use their lungs to make their sounds and many fish do make sounds.
Here is the link to go to the website,
The End of the World?
It sounds odd to begin a new year by talking about the end of the world, but it does grab your attention! At the end of every year there are always predictions about the end of the world. As a little girl growing up in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, I remember that when we went into the big city I would often see a man standing on the street corner holding up a sign that said the end of the world was near. Not to give away my age, but that was quite a few years ago. So, if the end of the world was near, his idea of near was not my idea of near!
It is amazing how we have such a preoccupation with the end of the world. Nostradamus, the famous 16th century French seer, the Bible with its Armageddon, and now 2012, the end of the Mayan calendar, all prophesize the end of the world. There has been a lot of talk about a cataclysmic event happening to change the world, but why does that have to be a bad thing? Why is the end of something a threat? Why can’t it simply be the end of one experience and the birth of a new experience? Much like the way a caterpillar goes into its cocoon only to come out as a butterfly. The caterpillar’s death is the butterfly’s birth. No one is too upset about that because we know that its life continues on.
This is the same perspective we need to hold onto for ourselves. I am pretty sure the caterpillar does not have a scientific understanding of what we call metamorphosis, but it does not cower in the face of its impending doom in the cocoon. It actually has a pretty good-sized dinner before its long sleep, and then it becomes a thing of rare and delicate beauty.
Perhaps this is how we need to look at any impending thought of doom: look at it, move through it without fear so we might experience the miracle that we are entitled to on the other side.
Look at it
This concept is not new to any Course student. There are a number of places in the Course where we are told not to focus on the frenzy of our fear thoughts, but to look clearly at what we think is the problem or challenge before us. Getting caught in the fear that often surrounds a situation does nothing for us — it neither solves the problem nor helps us to feel the peace that will allow us to be open to another way. In some places in the Course those fear thoughts are seen as clouds that can be easily moved through. They have no substance and only have the power to stop us that we have given them. As it says, “Go on; clouds cannot stop you.”
What frightens us is not that we look clearly at something but that we don’t look and live our lives based on what we think might happen. The Course tells us we see nothing as it is now. Our “seeing” is based on what we think “has happened” and then projected into the realm of what we think “might happen” (the future) and we miss the opportunity to see the truth that stands before us now.
Looking requires that we empty our cup
I went to see the cataclysmic movie 2012 recently. It’s about the end of the Mayan calendar and how that is supposed to predict the end of our world as we know it.
Well, if you have done any research on this subject, you might already know that there is a lot of skepticism of this idea and even of the actual date the Mayan calendar refers to, and that’s from those in the “know” about Mayan culture. The details are too long to address here; needless to say, I think we are safe.
In the movie (which was pretty intense, but also a little unsatisfying in the relationship department, which is what I feel makes or breaks a cataclysmic movie), a scene takes place in a Tibetan temple where an elder monk is counseling a young monk with (surprise!) very few words. To address the young monk’s concerns, the elder pours a cup of tea until the tea overflows and overflows and overflows. This startles the young monk, but the elder monk counsels that you cannot find any solution when you are so full of confusion. You must first empty your cup. Of course, the movie did not come up with this thought. It was actually borrowed from an old Zen story about the importance of emptying one’s mind.
But that’s what struck me about the movie — and I bet that scene didn’t cost nearly the $260 million that was the film’s budget. It was a priceless reminder to me and it has stayed in my mind ever since. It is important to empty our minds of the fear and frenzy that is whirling around. Think about how many things are facing you just today? What are the thoughts racing through your mind? Are you a cup that is overflowing because of your fears or worries from the past? Perhaps it is time to empty your mind to allow truth to find a home. Your answer is with you now; you merely need to clear away everything that is not the answer.
Moving through it
We spend so much time in the company of fear but no one likes it. We feel victimized by fear. So, maybe it’s time to stop inviting it over. I don’t know about you, but I have a busy life. I just don’t have time for thoughts that don’t benefit me. What has fear ever done for you? Worrying about what has happened or what might happen prevents you from seeing what is happening.
There is a fable about two monks who were walking by the side of a stream and they came across a woman. She was in great distress, for she needed to get across the stream but she could not swim. The elder monk picked her up and carried her across and then came back and resumed his journey with his fellow monk. The elder monk could tell that something was bothering his companion, but nothing was said. Finally after a few hours the other monk could not keep his mouth shut any longer. “You know our vows prohibit you from touching a woman. How could you do that?” he scolded. The elder monk replied, “I put that woman down on the other side of the stream. Why do you still carry her?”
There may very well be challenges you have to face, but carrying your fear and judgments from the past do you no good and certainly do not allow you to be open to experience the miracle that is awaiting you.
Holding on to fear and reliving it over and over again is like finding a piece of food between your teeth and re-chewing it. Have you ever done that? Be honest, we have all found that piece of tasteless, gray food between our teeth and instead of spitting it out, we pick it out, look at it, re-chew it and swallow it. Yuck! What a disgusting thing to do. But, we think nothing of re-chewing the fearful, debilitating thoughts that we allow our minds to feast on. Let us become aware of the thoughts that serve us and those that cost us our peace and insight and gladly make the sacrifice of fear today.
You are entitled to miracles
I say this all the time, but why not? When studying A Course in Miracles we are told that we are entitled to them, so maybe we should believe it! As a matter of fact, we are told in the beginning of the Text in the first 50 miracle principles that miracles are natural and that when they do not occur something has gone wrong. The fact is miracles are happening all the time; what has gone wrong is our unwillingness to notice them.
As Einstein said, “You either live as if everything is a miracle or nothing is a miracle.” That is your choice. The Course is not about you creating miracles; it is about you removing the blocks to the awareness of the miracles that are all around you. You are the heir to the kingdom of God, so it is time to stop living with such an impoverished attitude.
To be born again
“To be born again is to release the past and look without condemnation upon the present.” (T251)
When we dwell in fear, we lose. There is an old proverb: Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it. Stop wrestling with your fearful thoughts; you will never win and the fear will become more real to you because of your resistance. This may be easier said than done, but that is no excuse not to start. That is why the above quote is a good one. It is simple, direct and it works. Look clearly: what has the past got you? What value have you gotten from dwelling on issues from your past? You might say you learned some good lessons from it. Okay, fair enough, so take the lessons and release the rest. The problem is most of us are not spending time in the past thinking about the wisdom we have gained; we are spending time in the past in regret, guilt, fear or anger. When we dwell there, we are stuck to relieve it in our future.
There is a miracle waiting for you today, right now. It cannot be lost or found by someone else for you. It will be found only by you. It requires only that you no longer carry your past into your future and that you be willing to empty your mind of fear now.
The end of something is not to be feared; just as the end of fear is not to be delayed. Fear doesn’t make life exciting; it makes it exhausting. In the Course it says that we think that without our ego, all would be chaos. It then goes on to say, though, that without the ego, all would be love.
It is time for the end of the world of fear and the birth of the world of love. This kind of end is not one of destruction, but translation. Allowing all mistaken, fearful thoughts to be translated into knowledge and restoring to our minds the truth that we think we have thrown away, that is Heaven. And that is really not an end but the beginning.
by Beverly Hutchinson McNeff
Thank you Beverly
From the January/February issue of The Holy Encounter. Click here to receive the current issue.
Bromm said: “The thing about organic sound is, more amplitude, more volume, requires size. Bull frogs are louder than toads. Elephants are louder than horses. Whatever it is, its big.”
Kiwis are louder than ostriches. Cicadas are louder than sloths.
Furthermore, for an organism to make loud sound by means known to science requires lungs. Fish are silent. Squid are silent. Whales are not. Therefore if, as you say, the creature must be big to make so loud a noise, it must be an extremely large beast that comes to the surface to breathe.
Moreover, to make such a loud sound, it must have very large lungs, bigger even than those of a whale. Thus it must either refill those lungs very slowly, requiring it to stay at the surface for a very long time, or it must refill them quickly and violently, like to the spouting of a whale. Either of these actions would make it near impossible for science, folklore, casual sailors, and all human entities to have not stumbled across it at some point.
Therefore I stick to my supposition – and believe it more firmly now than I did before – that the sound was made by a hitherto unknown creature of modest size with a hitherto unknown way of producing extremely loud sounds without the use of extremely large lungs.
there be confusion on me hawken gun. in the day musket an rifle asame were by gage not the “caliber” you flatlanders error un. 30 gage wast 30 shot fer pound about .535 kings inch a 233 grain ball .I be a mountainman but i still haf me wits an me hair if not ye proper spellin. ask me another an i”ll put ye aright.
Dude, have you read the Twilight saga? It’s awful, of course, but this article reminded me of those extremeley “romantic” vampires. The vampire background on Twilight saga is quite cool, but the romance story the characters develop is so awful in the way it becomes something I may describe as emotional pornography for fat ugly girls with glassess and stupid thoughts…oh! that’s stephenie meyer.
Generally speaking, when one purchases a book, that person does not require a website full of perpetually delivered free content to accompany it. When you purchased this book, did it not have any meaningful content within it to compensate you for the money you had spent on it? In saying that, do you not believe that the purchase of this book is fair compensation for the hard work that was put into its contents? This is the general concept that drives our economy. Do you get angry when a commercial ceases to exist after you have purchased the product?
As the saying goes, there is no such thing as a free lunch, but when there is, don’t bitch about what it is and how large the serving is, be happy that you got it in the first place.
Chitach said: “Here is a translation of this article into Russian: http://chitach.ru/posts/2/“
What a great idea, Chitach.
I could translate the articles in Dutch, do you think it would be appreciated ?
Frank G
Here is a translation of this article into Russian: http://chitach.ru/posts/2/
I found this article very interesting and decide to make a translation of it. Here is this article in Russian: http://chitach.ru/posts/1/
So I HAVe A NOTHER personn here ( zeemayla ) who now,,, has a problemmm with my grammar!!!
Keepsss on getting more funniier evvvrrrry time.
Get a life,
Frank G
Frank G said: “Eduardo said: “You are, Frank. You are my problem. You blew in a month ago, a stupidity storm sweeping through an otherwise pleasant website. Since then there have been, count ‘em, 20 of your nonsensical posts. Semi-literate bullshit. You remind me of that annoying kid we all went to school with, the guy who ruled his little chess club or similar with an iron fist. A legend in his own lunchbox. Isn’t there a village somewhere missing you, Frank?”
WoW, you really have a problem with yourself , hahaha i suggest that you read this article again.
The Unburdened Mind, your scary
Frank G”
“Wow, you really have a problem with yourself. I suggest that you read ‘The Unburdened Mind’ again.
You’re scary.”
Fixed. WoW is a video game, and thus not relevant to this discussion. The pronoun “I” is always capitalized. Titles of books, movies, and articles should be either underlined or put in quotation marks. “Your” is the possessive form of you, so y0u must have been talking about a thing of his that was scary. What you used was just a sentence fragment, and made no sense.
I would like to direct you to a book I’ve found to be very interesting: http://www.textbooks-4sale.com/english-93-textbook-to-the-point-ingleside-sfsu-ccsf-40/
Anyway, I’ve been reading this website for years. I’ve never ventured into the comments, but the articles were always very thought provoking, and certainly Damn Interesting! They helped prepare me for a few of my college level history classes. It was great knowing a subject before actually getting into it.
My sympathies to Alan – I know what it is like to lose your creative spark, and I hope you regain yours eventually!
From the article: “There are many tasks for which the human brain is ably suited, but clearly it can be surprisingly bad at planning for the future”
I disagree. The human brain plans perfectly for the future. The brain knows what kind of world it lives in: A world where you could be crushed or eaten in an instant. A world where your life could end at any moment. Hyperbolic discounting is the best bet for living in such an uncertain world. It’s better to do the eat drink and be merry bit, as long as the person’s brain is also wise enough to realise that the chances of living till 50 is greater than the chances of being hit by a bus tomorrow :)
The most amazing thing about what Capt. Pearson accomplished is that no one has been able to duplicate his feat in the flight simulators. They had many experienced pilots attempt it and everyone of them crashed.
It shows what an amazing accomplishment it truly was. Sometimes it seems that the right person is put in the right place at the right time. Thanks for posting this, its been a long time since I read about this story. It’s one of the numerous stories of flight crews accomplishing the near impossible. The Hawaii Air flight, the Hudson River landing, the list goes on and on. Miracles do happen.
This was the case with Heracles and Iphicles, and Castor and Pollux. In each case one twin was the son of a mortal man and the other was the son of Zeus by the same (mortal) woman. I had always assumed that this was only possible in myth, that it just happened because Zeus was omnipotent like that. I’m fascinated to learn that it can happen in real life.
As for my opinion on the irresponsibility of the hospital: Keep, rear, and love both children, leave money out of the issue, find out who made the mistake and make sure that person never works in a hospital again.