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Flopsy Parker: A Little Bunny that Gives Big

2012-01-10T17:14:00.001-05:00

Rabbit Slippers: Flopsy Parker: A Little Bunny that Gives Big:

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Appeal on Knox case would be on narrow technical grounds only and would probably take one day // Current TV

2011-12-15T20:02:00.001-05:00

Appeal on Knox case would be on narrow technical grounds only and would probably take one day // Current TV

Anthony Peake: Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | Health :: All in the mind?

2011-12-13T09:06:00.000-05:00

Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | Health :: All in the mind?

2011-12-09T09:11:00.001-05:00

Anthony Peake: Out of Body, and the history and science of Astral Travel // Current TV

2011-12-06T16:19:00.000-05:00

Anthony Peake: Out of Body, and the history and science of Astral Travel // Current TV

HAPPENING NOW: Occupy Broadway | The New Civil Rights Movement

2011-12-02T19:19:00.000-05:00

HAPPENING NOW: Occupy Broadway | The New Civil Rights Movement

This device Alters and Expands Consciousness: Anthony Peake speaks on the Alternate Consciousness- Producing Lucia Light Simulator // Current TV

2011-11-27T16:00:00.000-05:00

This device Alters and Expands Consciousness: Anthony Peake speaks on the Alternate Consciousness- Producing Lucia Light Simulator // Current TV

Warming Brings Severe Winters // Current TV

2011-11-26T20:16:00.000-05:00

Warming Brings Severe Winters // Current TV

The Occupy Drift: From Wall Street to Police State

2011-11-24T21:13:00.000-05:00

The Occupy Drift: From Wall Street to Police State

Newsvine - British Binary Mind Theorist Anthony Peake on Out of Body Experience // Current TV

2011-11-23T21:34:00.000-05:00

Newsvine - Amazing: British Binary Mind Theorist Anthony Peake on Out of Body Experience // Current TV

A historical precedent that might prove a bonus for Occupy Wall Street | Nicolaus Mills | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

2011-11-19T19:08:00.000-05:00

A historical precedent that might prove a bonus for Occupy Wall Street | Nicolaus Mills | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk:

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Gross abuse of police power: UC Davis Police Pepper-Spray Seated Students In Occupy Dispute (VIDEO) (UPDATE)

2011-11-19T12:27:00.000-05:00

UC Davis Police Pepper-Spray Seated Students In Occupy Dispute (VIDEO) (UPDATE)

The Out of Body Experience by Anthony Peake - YouTube

2011-11-17T18:15:00.000-05:00

The Out of Body Experience by Anthony Peake - YouTube

Occupy Wall Street November 17: Journalists Arrested, Beaten By Police

2011-11-17T14:57:00.000-05:00

Occupy Wall Street November 17: Journalists Arrested, Beaten By Police:

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"This is Wisdom": John and the Gospel of Hate, an essay‏

2011-11-02T07:31:00.000-04:00

"This is Wisdom" John and the gospel of Hate

By Daniel Christopher June

In my youth I was made to attend a First Assembly of God megachurch, which assured its congregants that the End Times were happening in the 1990's. "The End times" are an event reportedly predicted by Jesus and the writers of the New Testament which would involve the violent destruction of the Earth and her people. Though it was presumptuous to say whenthe Rapture was to take place, that special time at the end of history when all Christians are plucked up to the clouds to join Jesus, that it would soon take place was clear to any good Christian who bothered to follow Jesus' command to study "the signs of the times."

Since then I have grown up and rejected Christianity, yet I find the claim no less disturbing. Because in my fellow Bible grazers, I sensed their thrill that it was all going to end, the world horribly destroyed, and that this would be a glorious "apocalypse" or "revealing" of God. The eminent destruction of the Earth they preached as desirable, and if we fasted continually and prayed earnestly, we could convince God to do it. God, evidently, was so impressed by a literary genre he didn't invent, that he wrote his own "apocalyptic hit." I guess if he didn't quit writing 2000 years ago, he would be now writing his own Harry Potter knock-off.

For those who haven't read the book of Revelation, they might at least know that the book is written by an otherwise unspecified "John" in which he relates his visions of the end of the world, dispensed in a somewhat poetical language, regarding angels, and vials, and scrolls, and dragons, and how they dispense God's wrath over the Earth, resulting in plagues, poisoning, starvation, warfare, earthquakes, and other acts of divine mercy. Here is a sample:

11And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

12His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.

13And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

14And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

15And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

16And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

17And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;

18That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

Everybody on the face of the earth, whom Paul had already consigned as “sinners who never once do good," and whom Jesus regarded as "worthy of eternal torture in hell,” by the just and loving 'God,' who supposedly created them, is to be butchered, starved, poisoned, ravaged by demons, or cut down with the very sword of Jesus himself, riding in the sky upon a horse, followed by his henchmen, the four horseman, one of which is hell itself, waiting in heaven of all places, to destroy God's "very good" creation – and this is supposed to be the revealing of God’s true character! Pregnant mothers, wondering in plump joy whether they will be blessed with a boy or a girl; elderly men and women, who have worked to put their children through college, and are enjoying their golden years spoiling their grandchildren; young children, learning what makes the sky blue, and why it’s wrong to cheat on a test; teens, fresh in love, feeling the thrill when a member of the opposite sex wants to go with them to the school dance, and the impossible joy of being for the first time kissed; young scholars, with their noses in dozens of books, learning of the great joys of literature, and the spell-binding power of eloquent verse; aspiring environmentalists, wishing to devote themselves to making the environment safe and beautiful for generations to come; not to mention, of course, kind Buddhists and pious Hindus and other such people John had never heard of, and especially not mention the Native Americans and the aboriginal Australians, who do not figure in any of the numerous predictions anywhere in the entire Bible, though, strangely, Babylon and Egypt figure in quite a bit; yes, every man women and child, exploring the beauty of this world and making the most of life are to share the same fate, to be destroyed by fire, plague, famine, by monsters and demons coming out of hell, by angels dropping "stars" and comets onto them, by earthquakes, wars, by every manner of cruel death the writer can imagine (and notably, not anything like nuclear bombs or global warming or the collapse of the economy, since John had no relevant understanding of where the future might actually lead); all these men and women, both of his time, and in the minds of many Christians today, in our own time, are to be cruelly murdered, and then, not to be wept over or pitied, but to be mocked, scorned, and actually sung over by angels, Jesus, and John, for the joy of their destruction! Why, you might ask, would any man write such a thing? What inspired him to regard all of humanity, except a few thousand Christians, as deserving such brutal torture, not to mention the extinction of all animal and plant life, yes, and needless destruction of the very earth and seas.

This is meant to be God's last word to man, the clincher, what it's all about, the grand finale, the "Revelation" of God's true nature-- this is what we are expected to accept as "divine"? The Apocalypse of John was traditionally believed to be written by "the disciple Jesus loved," who was also believed to have written the gospel of John, and also the epistles of John, whose most memorable sayings have been, "For God so Loved the World," and "God is Love," and also, strangely enough, "Do not love the world.... If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him," which leads naturally to the Revelation, where the known world of the time (mostly Rome), is destroyed by God in the most gruesome of manners, as I've already mentioned, including all manners of storms, poisoning of water supplies, plagues, demonic monsters, horses with scorpion tails, grasshoppers that breathe fire, frog monsters that come out the mouth of a dragon -- whether they are metaphorical or literal is not explained, but the church of my youth favored the latter interpretation -- dragons, beasts, ancient modes of warfare (using horses and arrows), the knocking of the stars from the sky to the earth, the blotting of the sun, the bloodying of the moon, and such ubiquitous torment, that the survivors on earth will attempt suicide to escape but somehow be unable to carry it out. This is what is means by "For God so Loved the World," this is a pragmatic explication of the words, "God is Love," this is the "Good News" of the gospel, this, allegedly, a manifestation of "justice," and not just any justice, but the most loving and reasonable justice of all: God's own!

Harold Bloom, the American literary critic and professor at Harvard, who has probably read more books than any man living, and published more literary appraisals than any scholar I have heard of, had this to say of the final book of the Christian Bible:

The influence of Revelation always has been out of all proportion to its literary strength or spiritual value. Though it has affected the strongest poets, from Dante and Spenser through Milton on to Blake and Shelly, it also has enthralled the quacks and cranks of all ages down to the present moment in America. A lurid and inhumane work, very poorly composed in the original, the Apocalypse of St. John was rightly called one of the “nightmares of anxiety and triumph” by the late Northrop Frye. It is a nightmare of a book: without wisdom, goodness, kindness, or affection of any kind. D.H. Lawrence judged it pungently: “The Apocalypse does not worship power. It wants to murder the powerful, to seize power itself, the weakling.”

The Gnostics may have well said, "the devil, to better subjugate men, invented God." It doesn't take a prophet to teach you it is wicked to trip a blind man, and yet these so called 'scriptures' trip up the spiritually weak, not once or twice, but in every generation for all time. Every generation has a series of quacks, demented and sincere, who, if they do not identify with one of the prophesied "two witness" of the revelation, or with Elijah, or the Savoir himself, at least offer ample proof, looking at "the signs of the time," which Jesus sneeringly said were as blatant as when a fig tree will be in season, that the world is soon going to end ("within this generation"--Jesus promised many times, as did Paul). Among scholars, theologians, professors, and divines, the same conjecture in the same tone of authority is also practiced outside the mental wards, along with an endless supply of preachers, self-appointed or otherwise, who are certain enough in themselves to convince thousand and millions that their generation is to be the last. They are apparently uneasy with their place in history, but we find it more sane and reasonable to be uneasy about being uneasy. Better to accept your place in history, to make the most of it, and try if you can to improve it.

It seems the world is always about to end. In the mid 1800's, the millerites, after carefully studying the scriptures, asking God humbly for wisdom, which James had promised God would not withhold to those who ask, convinced thousands of Americans to sell their property dirt cheap and to travel up the mountains to witness the end of the world. When the event failed to manifest, the leader, William Miller, seeing that his prediction had failed and that the world was, at least for a time, spared the greatest outpour of divine violence in all its history, called it "the Great Disappointment." For, after all, Christianity is the religion of love.

I once heard a pastor explain how the Revelation is the most perfect ending to the Bible, since it so perfectly parallels the book of Genesis, which spoke of beginnings, by speaking a mirror image of endings. John calls the Satan of the Apocalypse, "that old serpent," a reference to the serpant in garden of Eden of Genesis (implying that mankind's original perfect and pristine paradise was populated with the most sinister, malicious and deceitful being that ever has or ever will exist in the universe); John predicts that the tree of life in Genesis will be planted in the paradise of Revelation; though it was there in the very beginning, before God had created anything at all, Revelation kills off the ocean, and also the sun); and just as there was a great flood to punish evil in Genesis, so God would destroy the world would in the end. Christian though I was at the time, it struck me as peculiar that the pastor failed to mention that God promised never to again destroy mankind after the alleged great flood at the beginning of history. Perhaps a literalist would argue that the end times don't destroy the world with a flood, but by other means -- earthquakes, plagues, frog-monsters, scorpion demons -- as if God were merely promising not to do us in by water! Isn't this like a father baiting his son to come down from a tree, promising "I won't lay a hand on you if you come down," and once the kid is down, hitting him instead with a stick? Who wouldn't prefer a flood to the sadistic fantasy of Revelation? If God planned from the beginning to pull the skies to the ground, plague the world, and evidently burn the whole place to a pile of ash, he has no right to put any rainbow of promise in the sky. As if this wasn't breaking his promise! As if God promised very specifically only against floods, but still had plans on destroying us all again, right there from the beginning in even more gruesome manner, promiscuously killing a world much more widely populated than the antediluvial world was supposed to have been. The books are incompatible. The rainbow of Genesis nullifies the bloody moon of the Apocalypse.

The entire book is hateful from start to finish. Jesus appears in the first chapters glowing and shouting and coughing up swords, to tell John that he is either pleased, or more often displeased, with certain churches (of whom we have no idea who or what they were historically, nor what their relevance to us). The macabre image from the gospels, which offers the chief symbol of the Christian religion, the autocrucifixion of man in gore and agony, euphemized into the sacrifice of a lamb (which, by the way, was not the Lawful animal of sacrifice for a sin offering, the goat being the divinely sanctioned victim), was replaced with the slain lamb of Revelation, a sort of undead beast, with its slit neck still exposed, gore-spattered yet alive and raging, covered over with eyes and seven horns, who is utterly bloodthirsty and bent on violent revenge, from beginning to end.

What had the epistle of John to say on this? That John, again, was not John the disciple, and if modern textual studies hold more weight than ancient hearsay, has nothing to do with the John of the Revelation either -- though the book was canonized, after much debate, on the mistaken identification of the disciple as its author, since he was, after all, named "John" (this, apparently, is how God wanted his Holy Canon to be decided). But tradition thinks they are all the same John. "Perfect Love drives out fear" said the John of the epistle. Well if love drives out fear, why is the book of Revelation a book of fear and terror, so that John, when he sees Jesus, falls on his face trembling? Isn't Jesus gentle and meek? Wouldn't the sight of him fill one of his devoted followers with joy and happiness? Apparently not, and this Jesus of the apocalypse bears out his terror.

The gospel of John calls the Jews "sons of Satan," and this John calls the Jews "the synagogue of Satan," though Yahweh had put a curse on anybody who cursed the Jews; Jesus says straight out that he "hates the Nichomachians" a group of Christians, giving the prototype of sectarian warfare, though allegedly in the gospels he says "love your neighbor"; and of a certain Christian preacher named Jezebel, he is so angry with her that he wants to throw her on her bed, strip her, and murder her children before her very eyes, before also doing her in, though he was supposed to have said to "turn the other cheek" rather than striking one's enemies.

Heaven above isn't much better. The martyred Christians hide under God's throne and “cry out constantly” for violent vengeance upon those who killed them. This is Christian forgiveness? Is it forgiveness to say "I forgive you," being too weak and impotent to exact revenge now, but believing that in the afterlife your enemies will be forever tortured? Could you imagine Buddhists doing this? But the Buddhists have a story of one of the Buddha's previous lifetimes where he is viciously killed by a woman, and in a subsequent lifetime they reincarnate as husband and wife. When they both realize her previous treachery, he laughs kindly, gently mocks her embarrassment, and loves her as if nothing had happened. That is Buddhist forgiveness. Is this Christian forgiveness? Should we take Paul at his word when he says, "Do kind things to your enemies, so that you may pour burning coals on their heads?" Is this Christian "requiting of good with evil," which the Tao Jing had already recommended centuries earlier (also recommending the good man to appreciate the bad man as an opportunity to teach and better another), but for Christians, really meant as a passive aggressive waiting game for the utter destruction of their enemies? Again, the Tao te Jing said we ought to learn from our enemies, to be willing to learn from and instruct a bad man, yet even the gentler Jesus of the gospels never learns from the Pharisees, but orchestrates himself to always have the zinger, to shame them, and often enough calls them "vipers" "fools" and "hypocrites." But at least there he doesn't cough up swords and ride a white horse and actually kill people. As the psychoanalyst Jung wrote, who himself was largely sympathetic to Christianity,

From this there grew up a terrifying picture that blatantly contradicts all idea of Christian humility, tolerance, love of your neighbor, and your enemies, and makes nonsense of a loving father in heaven, and rescuer of mankind: a veritable orgy of hatred, wrath, vindictiveness, and blind destructive fury that reveals, in fantastic images of terror that breaks out with blood and fire, that overwhelms a world which Christ had just endeavored to restore to the original state of innocence and loving communion with God.

Yes, the wrathful lamb paradox of Revelation makes God not the God of love at all, compared with other religions. Jesus is less perfect and lovable than even Baldr, the God of the Vikings, who, after their version of the end of the world, Ragnorrak, where the gods at least fight against an evil that is trying to destroy the world, Baldr himself doesn't fight, but is resurrected from Hel afterwards to rule the new creation with love, gentleness, and kindness, having never damned an enemy, nor harmed, let alone killed, anyone. Instead, Jesus’ robe is "dipped in blood," and he rides a white horse, carrying a sword, mowing down his foes. For it is imagined that somehow the alleged creator of a billion galaxies would deign ride a horse and engage mere humans in (archaic) hand to hand combat--as if an honorable man would engage in such unequal combat, or glory in such an unfair fight!

The Revelation was the Gospels unwritten, the antithesis of the very word "good news."

Not that John takes it as bad news. When the world is destroyed in John's vision, does John weep? Does he mourn over the human life lost, the destroyed creation, or like Noah pray for mercy on the land? No. He cries out "Rejoice over her, O heaven! Rejoice, saints and apostles and prophets! God has judged her for the way she treated you." There isn't even Jesus' gentle (if smug) last words of "forgive them for they know not what they do."

Jung summons his psychoanalytic experience in and out of the institutions to say

A sheer will for destruction such as was evident in John is not to be expected in our own times. In all my experience I have never observed anything like it, except in cases of severe psychoses and criminal insanity.

Nietzsche is as usual more psychologically insightful:

How did the Jews feel about Rome? We can guess that from a thousand signs, but it is sufficient to treat oneself again to the Apocalypse of John, that wildest of all written outbursts which vengeance has on its conscience. (Incidentally, we must not underestimate the deep consistency of the Christian instinct, when it ascribed this very book of hate to the name of the disciple of love, the same man to whom it attributed that wildly enthusiastic amorous gospel - there is some truth to this, no matter how much literary counterfeiting may have been necessary for that book to make its point).

Resentment against the Romans inspired this hateful book, and not only that, but also the cognitive tension in John's mind that Jesus had not come on cue (he was scheduled back before the generation had closed), the fact that Rome seemed anything but diminishing, and that he doubted his own faith.

Yet Jung was correct to allude to psychosis, for though Apocalyptic literature was an established genre, never was it this heartless and sadistic, and I myself have long wondered if the author of the Apocalypse was not a paranoid schizophrenic. Anybody who has worked in a mental ward, or is related to a person who has gone psychotic, knows that of all the Bible, which is already the favorite book of the mentally ill, it is invariably the Book of Revelation which the delusional turn to. I knew a confused young man who wouldn't touch anything electronic because "Computers are the Beast." I've known a schizophrenic who thought the scar he got from a bicycle accident was the mark of the beast. I have known a devout woman who sang on a worship team with me in college who later developed symptoms of bipolar psychosis and believed she was one of the two virginal witnesses John predicted would "speak fire" to incinerate their enemies. I have heard of dozens of crackpots who had figured out the identity of the antichrist and the true meaning of 666, the mark of the beast.

Even Robert Graves, that sometimes poet, seems especially eccentric when he tests his 'poetical powers of divination' by interpreting what the mark of the beast really meant (apparently it was Latin, not Greek, and referred to Nero and Domitian -- a banal answer despite his peculiar method):

I addressed myself schizophrenically: 'I'll tell you what Robert. I'll propound a simple, well-known, hitherto unsolved riddle and if you can make sense of that, very well, I'll pay attention to your other discoveries [regarding other poetical "riddles"]

His "analeptic self" was then summoned to do the dirty work of satisfying himself and others "that I had not slipped into certifiable paranoia," and so, in his own eyes, he had alone of all people fully solved the "riddle" of the nature of the mark of the beast. Not all "riddles" have answers, though we can amuse ourselves by continual guessing ("how is a raven like a writing desk?" the mad hatter asks Alice, apparently not knowing nor even caring to know the answer to the riddle. My guess: they both have inky feathers).

Robert Graves is a popular and (more or less) respectable scholar. Most people who are likewise certain of the hidden meaning of this book are less convincing. How fitting that the verse reads, "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the Beast: for it is the number of man and his number is 666." As if this whole charade were not the very antithesis of “wisdom,” and as if anybody who has commented on this number had anything resembling "understanding." Every great man in history has been decisively proved by some pious man of "wisdom" to be the certain antichrist, not just such likely candidates as Hitler and Stalin and Mao, but even such kind-hearted atheists as Bill Gates, such misguided Christians as president Bush, and just about every pope since Martin Luther suggested the idea (and was recipricolly charged in the same terms).

Thomas Jefferson was thus right to say

The book of Revelation is merely the ravings of a maniac no more worthy of explanation than the incoherences of our nightly dreams...I do not consider them as revelations of the supreme being, whom I would not so far blaspheme as to impute to him a pretension of revelation, couched at the same time in terms which he would know were never to be understood by those to whom they were addressed.

And Paine was less witty than literal when he quipped that Revelation was "a book of riddles that requires a revelation to explain it."

Rather than trying to figure out the riddles of madmen, Alice in Wonderland style, why not discuss what the book is really about? Clearly it’s a fantasy about destroying the kings, and mighty men of the world – the book is explicit on this. But in fact, the apocalypse is about Jesus destroying John’s integrity. To escape thier lack of intellectual integrity, Christians wantit to be about the "bloody winepress" of the whole world; that is, of God smashing our bodies as if we were grapes, so that our blood is stomped out of our mangled corpses, and presumably drank like wine by God and his saints, vampire style. Will they make it happen? Can they? Religion has once already brought a near end of the world, or so it seemed to millions of Europeans:

Jesus said to his disciple who wished to be bathed: "he who has been baptized need not be washed again."

Did he not also say "He who has cleaned the inside of the cup need not clean the outside"? (A dishwasher at any respectable restaurant would be fired if he insisted on following such advice.)

"The soul is everything, the body nothing – one thing is needful! – therefore, outlaw the public bathe. No, fellow Romans, public bathes are wrong. No fellow Muslims, bathing is now against the law. Bring in … the black plague!" And most the divines at the time took the black plague to certainly mean that the end of the world was at hand. Hadn't this been what the inspired disciple of love predicted? There will never be an “end of the world” short of the death of the sun, a billion years hence, but poor morality and bad hygiene has often caused major set backs.

One may live quite impractically if he thinks the world is soon to end. Many sincere Christians have in good conscience felt the scriptures were about to be "fulfilled," and ruined their livelihood and public standing on account of it (sometimes borrowing large sums of money they never intended to pay back). It seems God should have sent Christ with a more practical morality than to “worry not about tomorrow…work not for food and clothing. Let tomorrow worry about itself, each day has enough troubles of his own” Not only is this poor advice for practical life, since it negates saving for a rainy day, establishing a last will and testament, planning for retirement-- in fact even holding a job at all, let alone keeping it-- but it is directly contradicted by the vision Jesus gives John in which we are told to worry very much about tomorrow, for it will have more trouble than you could have guessed.

When I catch a line from the Left Behind series, these popular novels about the immediate ending of the world, nothing could reassure me more warmly that the world is going to last a very long time. For insofar as an all-wise, all-creative, all-beautiful divine intelligence wanted to destroy his beautiful creation – perhaps for his greater glory, if you could believe it! – such a vain God would never let the world’s ending be predicted by such hack, half-wit, no-talent writers as these! Insofar as there is a God, and insofar as he glories in destroying planets, he would at least hire a better press release.

The same judgment goes for the book of Revelation itself, a sort of orgy of mish-mash revenge, self-disintegrative stream of conscious writing, inconsistent symbology, mixed metaphors, and ugly imagery-- such as Jesus symbolized as a slain and bleeding lamb, full of wrath and eyeballs, wearing five horns too many. Would God let such poor writing reveal his will to man? So we must ask: if God is so glorious, we did he write such unimpressive books? It may well be "the insanest of all books" as Robert Ingersoll opined, but it is also poorly written, with structural flaws and evidence of multiple authors who didn't respect each others' work especially well. Why would God, who is supposed to have authored the ethereal milky way, penned the subtle logic of the finely twined DNA, and set in place the very mind of man, mysterious and limitless, reduce himself to writing such poorly organized, over-blown, and downright ugly rhetoric?

And the same question must be demanded of the Charismatic Pentecostal movement, which collectively claims they are "baptized of the Spirit," and "inspired by the Holy Spirit," and yet consistently write such trite and boring books, with poor predictive powers and a knack for misreading "the signs of the times." Milton perhaps was inspired by the Spirit. But these people? They blaspheme the Spirit! One Pentecostal book of genius, yes, and I would bow my head in respect to their prophetic ability and to the spirit who fed it. Instead, they eagerly predict that their own yammering “in tongues” is the sign that the world is soon to end, that they are the Pentecost of the gift of tongues, that they even speak the language of angels (believing their gab to be more divine and more historically significant than the music of Mozart and Beethoven).

So what is the apocalypse really about? Perhaps D.H. Lawrence was right when he said "It is very nice if you are poor and not humble ... to bring your enemies down to utter destruction, while you yourself rise up to grandeur. And nowhere does this happen so splendiferously than in Revelation." And yet I suspect that the author hated something other than mankind. The Revelation is really an allegory for the destruction of the author’s own integrity. His belief, his humanity, his place in the world, is dissolving. What is being revealed to him is the uselessness of his own beliefs. This is the palpable meaning behind his convolutions. Perhaps this is also what it means to Christians today.

http://perfectidius.com/bookstore.html

Occupy Wall Street: Hidden Victories and Hidden Allies

2011-10-29T10:47:00.000-04:00

Don McNay: Occupy Wall Street: Hidden Victories and Hidden Allies:

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The study that shows why Occupy Wall Street struck a nerve - The Washington Post

2011-10-27T20:43:00.000-04:00

The study that shows why Occupy Wall Street struck a nerve - The Washington Post:

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ANDREW SULLIVAN: YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION « THOUGHTBITES

2011-10-27T17:38:00.000-04:00

ANDREW SULLIVAN: YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION « THOUGHTBITES:

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Sollecito family puts nix on Knox

2011-10-26T21:09:00.001-04:00

The family of AMANDA KNOX's Italian boyfriend has pulled the plug on their romance, shattering her plan to marry him and start a family, insiders say.

Sources in Italy tell The ENQUIRER that Dr. Francesco Sollecito – the father of Amanda’s lover Raffaele, 27 – wants him to forget the 24-year-old American beauty and start a new life with a woman from his own country.

But according to a source close to the Sollecito family, Raffaele’s father said: “I’d prefer that he finds a good Italian girl from among his circle of friends here.”

“Amanda is crushed,” an insider told The ENQUIRER. “She’d invited him by e-mail to come visit her at her home in Seattle and was expecting him for Christmas.”

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/amanda-knox-dumped

Ghost Conjured by DJ Green Lantern // Current TV

2011-10-25T19:24:00.001-04:00

Ghost Conjured by DJ Green Lantern // Current TV:

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Anthony Peake, co-editor of 'Making Sense of Near-Death Experiences: A Handbook for Clinicians' - YouTube

2011-10-25T13:08:00.000-04:00

Anthony Peake, co-editor of 'Making Sense of Near-Death Experiences: A Handbook for Clinicians' - YouTube

Qaddafi Is Dead, Libyan Officials Say - NYTimes.com

2011-10-20T16:32:00.000-04:00

Qaddafi Is Dead, Libyan Officials Say - NYTimes.com:

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Occupy protesters eye diversity as movement grows - BusinessWeek

2011-10-18T15:54:00.000-04:00

Occupy protesters eye diversity as movement grows - BusinessWeek

Will 'Occupy Wall Street' movement fizzle out? – USATODAY.com

2011-10-15T10:39:00.000-04:00

Column: Will 'Occupy Wall Street' movement fizzle out? – USATODAY.com:

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Occupy Wall Street: NYPD Motorcycles Run Over Protestors (Videos) | The New Civil Rights Movement

2011-10-14T22:13:00.000-04:00

Occupy Wall Street: NYPD Motorcycles Run Over Protestors (Videos) | The New Civil Rights Movement:

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The Peake Experience - YouTube

2011-10-14T11:22:00.000-04:00

Rob on The Peake Experience - YouTube:

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North Tonawanda HS Gay Straight Alliance sought » Local News » Tonawanda News

2011-10-12T13:00:00.000-04:00

North Tonawanda HS Gay Straight Alliance sought » Local News » Tonawanda News:

'via Blog this'

The Knox Verdict has Revealed More about Western European Prejudices Than any Sort of Justice

2011-10-11T18:19:00.000-04:00

James Howell: The Knox Verdict has Revealed More about Western European Prejudices Than any Sort of Justice

19 year old Nick Carter Green gets 5 M hits in 48 hours as he pays homage to Drake // Current TV

2011-10-07T19:10:00.000-04:00

19 year old Nick Carter Green gets 5 M hits in 48 hours as he pays homage to Drake // Current TV:

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Press Release - Hip Hop Artist Pays Homage to Drake and Yields Over 5 Million Views

2011-10-07T16:47:00.000-04:00

Press Release - Hip Hop Artist Pays Homage to Drake and Yields Over 5 Million Views:

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Exclusive Picture of Amanda Knox Prosecutor as He Hears Verdict | GroundReport

2011-10-06T09:47:00.000-04:00

Exclusive Picture of Amanda Knox Prosecutor as He Hears Verdict | GroundReport:

'via Blog this'

2011-10-03T16:56:00.001-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ55kBgmgaI

CONGRATULATIONS, AMANDA AND RAFFAELE!!!

2011-10-03T16:33:00.002-04:00

2009 CONVICTIONS OVERTURNED IN PERUGIA FOR AMANDA KNOX AND RAFFAELE SOLLECITO, BY JUDGE HELLMAN AND JURY!

2011-10-02T19:26:00.000-04:00

Verdict Watch: Amanda Knox's Trial by Tabloid Comes to an End

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2095962,00.html#ixzz1ZfZMpWhg

2011-10-02T11:52:00.001-04:00

2011-10-02T11:47:00.000-04:00

2011-09-30T11:53:00.000-04:00

2011-09-27T14:52:00.001-04:00

2011-09-25T21:12:00.002-04:00

Pain of bias-based bullying lingers - City & Region - The Buffalo News

2011-09-25T14:25:00.000-04:00

Pain of bias-based bullying lingers - City & Region - The Buffalo News:

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Press Release - Fresh Philosopher Releases First Book, Detailing New Philosophy and Way of Life Called "Allism"

2011-09-19T17:26:00.000-04:00

Press Release - Fresh Philosopher Releases First Book, Detailing New Philosophy and Way of Life Called "Allism":

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Young Philosopher releases book: Daniel June and the Life of Allism | PRLog

2011-09-17T16:33:00.000-04:00

Young Philosopher releases book: Daniel June and the Life of Allism | PRLog

Injustice in Perugia: the Wrongful Conviction of Amanda Knox & Raffaele Sollecito: At Long Last, Ms. Coulter, Have You No Sense Of De...

2011-09-10T20:17:00.000-04:00

Injustice in Perugia: the Wrongful Conviction of Amanda Knox & Raffaele Sollecito: At Long Last, Ms. Coulter, Have You No Sense Of De...: Steve Moore has written an excellent blog post in response to a recent article written by Anne Coulter. At Long Last...

2011-09-10T12:17:00.001-04:00

2011-09-10T12:14:00.001-04:00

When the Blogger Misrepresents

2011-09-01T18:32:00.000-04:00

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) British poet and playwright.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer.

Back in the early days of the Meredith Kercher murder trial in Perugia, Italy, I was a frequent visitor on a blog of a certain notoriety. From this blog came my initial impressions and opinions on the case.

In fact, so impressed was I with the blog master's psychoanalytic theorizing about the defendants, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, that many of my own blog postings about the case were based on those theories, and I became an avid admirer and follower , flattered to receive attention from this source on my own blog.

Now I come to find out that this person, who oddly enough called herself "Ms. Represented", was less than honest about her own identity and credentials. From the JRandi forums, Sep 1, 2011:

Signs that Ellie Davies-Hoare/Ewing aka Miss Represented is a Psychopath.

Miss Represented --
I do not feel that anything I have to say on this matter will further tarnish the reputation of Amanda Knox who (with a little help from her media friends) has already succeeded admirably in this respect.

Followers of this case are well aware of Miss Represented. A blogger who represented herself as a psychologist giving insights into the Meredith Kercher case in 2009. It seems she misrepresentedherself as an experienced Psychologist. In reality she is a recent University of Bath graduate working as a Social Media Analyst and has never been a working Psychologist. Her only previous work in psychology was a summer internship and before that her only previous work, according to her linkedin profile, was working at a spa.

Linkedin info for Ellie Davies-Hoare/Ewing:
http://imgur.com/365rT
http://i.imgur.com/lRBxa.png
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/ellieewing

She calls herself a Psychologist in this post:

Miss Represented was in 2009 a favorite of the guilt sites TJMK/PMF in their search to see the conviction of Amanda Knox. It is the standard we have come to expect from these sites that do not seek or honor the truth.

In this post TJMK's Peter Quennell represents her as having a doctorate in Criminal Psychology:
http://i.imgur.com/47guL.png

Peter Quennell calls her a Psychologist and Miss Represented lets it stand:
http://i.imgur.com/d64SI.png

Harry Rag promotes her credentials:
http://i.imgur.com/7PVSg.png

The Machine promotes her also:
http://i.imgur.com/CEQoY.png

http://i.imgur.com/JkQ5o.png - A professional in the field
http://i.imgur.com/55e7h.png - Peter Quennell
http://i.imgur.com/t6Xnc.png - Mis Representing
http://i.imgur.com/eAqfn.png - Alexa traffic

Lies Our Mothers Told Us
Miss Represented
http://missrepresented.net/blog/

WHOIS search results for:
MISSREPRESENTED.NET
http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?do...rog_id=GoDaddy

http://twitter.com/#!/EllieHobbit
https://plus.google.com/111584037258957825521/posts

It would appear the Knox/Sollectio case has made many of us unscrupulous in our methods of conveying our opinions within the blogosphere.

Criminal Indictment Regarding Crestwood Water Contamination: Deratany Law Firm | PRLog

2011-08-19T22:12:00.000-04:00

Criminal Indictment Regarding Crestwood Water Contamination: Deratany Law Firm | PRLog

Review of Doug Bremmer's "The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg" - Book Blogs

2011-08-17T21:18:00.000-04:00

Review of Doug Bremmer's "The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg" - Book Blogs

2011-08-13T11:24:00.001-04:00

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2011-07-27T19:55:00.001-04:00

2011-07-27T19:50:00.002-04:00

Knox trial: DNA experts report to Italian court - Forbes.com

2011-07-25T09:04:00.001-04:00

Knox trial: DNA experts report to Italian court - Forbes.com

Juror #2 of the Casey Anthony murder trial, anonymously tells his story

2011-07-08T17:48:00.001-04:00

Juror #2 of the Casey Anthony murder trial, anonymously tells his story

Why Casey Anthony's Verdict Makes Sense - FoxNews.com

2011-07-05T15:53:00.001-04:00

Why Casey Anthony's Verdict Makes Sense - FoxNews.com

Casey Anthony Attorney Jose Baez Begins Closing Argument - Fox News Latino

2011-07-03T11:57:00.002-04:00

Casey Anthony Attorney Jose Baez Begins Closing Argument - Fox News Latino

Despite promises from attorneys, jurors see scant evidence in Casey Anthony murder trial - 7/2/2011 10:35:45 AM | Newser

2011-07-02T19:59:00.003-04:00

Image by CHARMERS ❤'S LILY ROSE via Flickr

Amanda Knox SHOCKER - The Daily Beast

2011-06-29T11:09:00.001-04:00

Amanda Knox DNA Shocker

A day after Knox lashed out at her dubious accuser, she got a break on Wednesday with a new report that could lead to her exoneration. Barbie Latza Nadeau reports from Italy.

June 27, 2011 11:41 AM EDT

Amanda Knox's chances for freedom were bolstered on Wednesday when independent forensic experts submitted their report on crucialDNA evidence used to convict Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. In the report, obtained by The Daily Beast, the experts say that due to "mishandling of the crime scene, contamination cannot be ruled out" on a knife with Knox's DNA on the handle and what prosecution claimed was Kercher's on the blade and on the victim's bra with Sollecito's DNA on the metal clasp. The findings will be presented to the Perugia appellate court on July 25.Amanda Knox Appeal Hearing: Raffaele Sollecito Waffles - The Daily Beast

UMBRIA: Rudy accusa Amanda e Raffaele

2011-06-27T13:59:00.001-04:00

http://www.umbria24.it/meredith-rudy-accusa-amanda-e-raffaele-ecco-le-dichiarazioni-dei-tre/47938.html

Amanda Knox benefit July 8 to feature three bands at Showbox at the Market | West Seattle Herald / White Center News

2011-06-23T11:24:00.001-04:00

Amanda Knox benefit July 8 to feature three bands at Showbox at the Market | West Seattle Herald / White Center News

2011-06-21T18:31:00.001-04:00

Cuomo Expects Approval of Same-Sex Marriage Bill - NYTimes.com

2011-06-20T17:41:00.001-04:00

Cuomo Expects Approval of Same-Sex Marriage Bill - NYTimes.com

2011-06-18T09:18:00.003-04:00

The Associated Press: Some gay-rights foes claim they now are bullied

2011-06-15T10:23:00.000-04:00

The Associated Press: Some gay-rights foes claim they now are bullied

Prosecution rests in Casey Anthony trial

2011-06-15T09:29:00.002-04:00

The Honorable Judge Belvin Perry has just told the jury that the Prosecution has rested its case. The defense is now arguing for an acquital based on supreme court standards of evidence.

2011-06-13T21:29:00.001-04:00

Daniel June: Life as Game

2011-06-05T11:13:00.001-04:00

Life as game, part 1, section 2.
This section introduces the idea of the trifold braid in life. It explains that the taking life as a game is to abbreviate it from distractions. This is an extension and clarification of the first section. After the first five sections, the essay goes deep into the strategies I’ve found effective.
Take care, Caretakers!
Daniel Christopher June

2. The trifold Braid

Life is what you make of it. And you can only make of life what you are able to make from it, from the ideas we have either internalized or invented. We train our eyes to look at shadows or sunflowers, we cock our ear for the music of the spheres or the groaning of the burn wards, always in accordance with our personal needs, as interpreted by our education, and in reference to our choices on how to interpret that education. I am what I was born to be, what I learned to be, what I chose to be. This trilogy cannot be abbreviated. We invent the concepts we need: all religions are true, all creeds correct, all answer to the basic needs, some better for you in your world, some better for me in mine. No society has lacked the sexual relationships, but each institutionalizes the family differently. Living in America I cannot comfortably attempt a polygamous life. My setup in life must take its forms from my environment. Each society offers a reasonable set of norms, and how we fit ourselves into them is through our individual style. There are a limited number of games out there, but as to howwe play them there is no limit. To find our personal potential, we need only define life in such a way as to make style foremost.

Life is a game. To structure our ideas with this assumption, we can set up our problems to be interesting and nonlethal. No longer is the axis of death so prominent, for life is to be played out, nothing too serious. With life as a game, we can prolong attention. At work, the attention we put on our tasks is held in place by a deeper layer of consciousness that focuses on starvation, homelessness, and divorce. The idea of suffering keeps us focused on our tasks, so though we may enjoy the work, its ultimate purpose is never too deeply buried in the layers of consciousness, but still guides and allows the enjoyment of work. Our needs, our most central and important aspect, are called “necessary,” from the word necros, death; we exist to live, and life can die. The ideas which guide our working life are painful, but we need seldom consider them: daily routine smoothes over life’s terrors, so that a man may be happy anywhere and at anytime, once he has internalized his environment, made it predictable, and thus mastered it and strategized how to fit himself best into it. Within the clay, a razor. Beneath placid water, the beast.

The aim of the game is to play it well. The punishment for losing a game is merely knowing the fact that you lost it; the reward for winning is knowing the fact that you won. That is enough – we never tire of these punishments and rewards. The spirit of play is essential to the game; one enjoys doing well merely for the doing of it.

We can only do something well if we can’t do other things at all. You can't be wise if you lie to yourself. You must choose your limitations. To make a choice, there needs to be no more than three options: one extreme, and two likely. The two likely options are the true dilemma, but to avoid a deadlock, the radical third is relevant. “Do I turn left, or right, or go back the way I came?” Constraints open and allow freedom. Limits open possibilities for mastery and tricks. A bird can fly only in relation to gravity; a man can walk only because the ground gives friction. Therefore, to make of life a game is to reduce life’s possibilities into something comprehensible: we know all the rules, and are no longer paralyzed by choice. I can do X, Y, or Z, and am free to choose them, but at least I can fully know the pluses and minuses of X, Y, and Z. If I had a full alphabet of choices, how could I exhaust the merits of each?

I make only a few choices, do only a few things. My life is a braid of work, family, and writing. Nothing more. I may play the guitar, but that’s to write better; I may hang out with friends, but that’s to make me a better family member; I may take a vacation, but that’s to make work more enjoyable as I anticipate it before it happens and reminisce on it after its done. It's as if I were at the center of a circle, with my wife and children at one end, my work and duties at a second, and my writing at the third; and behind my wife and children, a group of friends, pushing my family in, and behind my work station, my possessions pushing my work into me; and behind my notebooks and laptop, the very universe and the Mother holding open her palms as if they were the books I were writing upon. Or with a different image, work and family are the supports of my writing, like the bottom corners of a triangle: I work so that I can keep my family, and I keep my family so I can write. The writing in turn is an apparatus built over my heart that through theory and recommendation helps me be a better worker and family member, by guiding all my emotions into their appropriate emotional outlets. I am as proud of them all as if they were a choice, and as certain of them as if they were not.

We all need such a braid, to make a living, to have a family, to have a passion. While one may speak of being “passionate” about his family or his job, the word doesn’t quite fit: a job must be stable, a family must be secure. A passionate romance is not the appropriate material for building a family, and passionate enthusiasm disrupts work, as work requires continual stable input, not creative outbursts nor the hysterics of genius.

With life as game, these three interbraid and complicate each other. With life (emotions), the world (people), and the universe (all things) as wholes beyond our daily doings, a worldview can yet select the metaphors that fit them into place, which figure out what our world is like, what our life is about, as one of the purposes of our life, one of the things we need to do. Some people fall into depression over the challenges the world brings against their worldview: William James grew depressed over what science had to say about free will. Or maybe he let such things justify his depressions, which he would have had anyway. Whatever the case, distancing oneself from the imagined danger of having the wrong ideas in our head, such as the evil idea that we deserve hell if we believe the wrong things, is possible when we take our worldview as also a sort of game, characterized by playful experimentation and carefree invention. If this is true, then seriousness, even deadly seriousness, is a move in the game, something we can try, and if we want, drop again. We can choose between a few experiences and say “that’s what life is about!” A little synecdoche, and you’ve got an essence to work with. Choose something that will keep you focused and happy for a long time. Life is a series of needs that can be met in many ways, and the metaneed is to strategize more effective ways to fulfill our other needs. “As I walk, I think of a new way to walk” – indeed, everything in life can be done masterfully, if we learn how. And what is best for me can be taught to me by nobody but myself. That is why my religion is writing.

Religions are big games, best-sellers. All religions are an image of the truth, for they evolved as projections of needs. Whatever absurdity they preach, those believers were somehow fulfilled by them, and knowing how and why they were is itself a universal truth, and one that boots well in scripting a better religion.

Is not our own religion both vindictive and accepting of all other religions? Isn’t our true religion in our passionate creativity? Life is short? Art is long? Very well, choose your lifelong art project, and let jobs and friendships add what they can to that, before they fall away like autumn leaves. Make life-goals, decade long projects: script out what each decade of your life is for, and how it fits within your larger goal. Our game in life is to play all other games to our own style. The best game is self-publishing, is the diffusion of our spirit into a myriad of life’s forms. It is as if we carved out our flesh into the playing tools we use, or breathed an endless breath of life into every clay bird of life’s details. The development of style is the hidden aim of each game. Hiders are the best finders: the more we efface our intentions through a smirking humility, the more we see through the humility of others. We experience their hidden meanings, and take them in and understand what they stand for. So too do we know who is playing life, and who is merely surviving it. We experience the joy of life. Our world enlarges by what we experience, what we allow ourselves to experience, what we attempt. Attempt the most and you will achieve the most.

Nothing is beyond life that can be thought--even the widest realities can it be represented – life itself understands the limits of life, for metaphors are representative, as if a thread emerged from each metaphorical knot and spread out into all things, which themselves are free and independent. Life is what we make of it, it grows from the constitution of our theories. Style grows from speculation. And style is the expression of self. Self-expression is the game of life, to integrate the layers of my being with the layers of the world, a full concordance, a braid of integrity. Our potential is in a higher integration and more thorough maturity.

Perfection

Easy

www.msu.edu/~junedan

2011-05-30T18:32:00.002-04:00

Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister, Is Amanda Knox's New BFF - Seattle News - The Daily Weekly

2011-05-27T09:11:00.002-04:00

Image via WikipediaSilvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister, Is Amanda Knox's New BFF - Seattle News - The Daily Weekly: "The public opinion tide in Italy appears to be changing in Amanda Knox's favor. After positive developments in the Seattle woman's appeals trial including DNA evidence that has been labeled too minute to test and a key witness being caught flubbing details while being outed as a dope dealer, Knox this week got some of her best news yet. And it came from the cronies of Italy's most powerful and possibly most corrupt politician."

UPDATE: Amanda Knox murder trial appeal hearing held Saturday morning, family upbeat, but verdict may be delayed | West Seattle Herald / White Center News

2011-05-22T11:15:00.002-04:00

UPDATE: Amanda Knox murder trial appeal hearing held Saturday morning, family upbeat, but verdict may be delayed | West Seattle Herald / White Center News

Analysis: Gay marriage in NY hits stumbling blocks - seattlepi.com

2011-05-22T11:14:00.001-04:00

Image via Wikipedia "ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Just a couple of weeks ago, the momentum to legalize gay marriage in New York appeared to be an irresistible force, teed up to reinvigorate the flagging national effort. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would devote his popular clout and considerable power to guide the first unified effort by gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender advocates in the state to legalize same-sex marriage, and raise $1 million to support lawmakers who cast the dicey vote.

Since then, the conservative and religious opposition has struck back in a big, unexpected way."
Analysis: Gay marriage in NY hits stumbling blocks - seattlepi.com

Amanda Knox Court Appearance May 21

2011-05-21T09:31:00.002-04:00

Shocking: The Trials of Amanda Knox Continue - Seattlest

2011-05-20T12:18:00.001-04:00

Shocking: The Trials of Amanda Knox Continue - Seattlest

HAARP: Anthony Peake draws on David Icke, Discusses on BBC Live Radio with Billy Butler | GroundReport

2011-05-19T10:07:00.001-04:00

Image via CrunchBaseHAARP: Anthony Peake draws on David Icke, Discusses on BBC Live Radio with Billy Butler | GroundReport

Journalist who had Google pull his pro-Knox blog: Frank Sfarzo speaks to Sky News

2011-05-19T09:46:00.000-04:00

The Court Order that made Google shut down the Knox blog

2011-05-19T09:40:00.001-04:00

The court order that shut down the Knox blog:
http://blog.seattlepi.com/dempsey/2011/05/16/how-did-amanda-knox-prosecutor-get-google-to-shoot-the-messenger/

Watch the video: David Icke inspires Anthony Peake on BBC Live Radio talking HAARP

2011-05-18T19:41:00.001-04:00

Anthony Peake on BBC Live Radio: David Icke and HAARP

2011-05-18T14:27:00.000-04:00

http://www.prlog.org/11498072-anthony-peake-takes-inspiration-from-david-icke-on-bbc-live-radio-haarp-discussion.html

Cables show State Dept. monitored Knox case from the beginning - seattlepi.com

2011-05-18T12:54:00.001-04:00

Image via WikipediaCables show State Dept. monitored Knox case from the beginning - seattlepi.com

Can We Please Just Start Admitting That We Do Actually Want To Indoctrinate Kids? / Queerty

2011-05-17T20:35:00.001-04:00

Can We Please Just Start Admitting That We Do Actually Want To Indoctrinate Kids? / Queerty

American Philosopher-Poet Daniel June: The Dragon and the Unicorn

2011-05-16T09:33:00.003-04:00

Image via Wikipedia

The Dragon and the Unicorn

I the wise dragon

Last of my kind

And you,

pure horned unicorn

questing the world,

lonely confused,

you dare glare

down my lair

Desperate in quest

Willing to face

The only enemy

A unicorn knows:

Immortal before immortal

Each the only bane the other.

How you hated my flamed breath

How your glowing innocence

Pierced the philosophy of my nest

As if us ancient serpents

had stripped you of your race,

as if I myself had death ensnared

your loves and mothers.

We are both alone here,

I am the last of mine

You are the last of yours

I hadn’t guess there could even be a you.

Hadn’t known you were possible.

The others passed on to the other place

I do not know when or how

Their fire no longer resonates to mine

I will neither bite wit into you

nor breath fury over you

I leave you to your peace

Let our ancient war be ended in this place.

That innocent one came to love me then

Immortal yet naïve

And though I knew better

I loved her too

And we were inseparable lovers

Conspirers over this world and its ways

And what I had came to burn in her

And what she had came to burn in me

And we never forsook each other

Nor grew tired of our company.

Yet eon past eon,

the earth had grown so old

she was young again

and even in our love

we had grown weary of life.

I bore my heart to her,

in all its intimacy,

She shuddered and obeyed,

She pierced my heart

with perfect horn,

Alone the foe to me,

And my blood the same to her

Shorn upon her fleece

We died in union, child to age

Innocence is wise.

Perfection

Easy

www.msu.edu/~junedan

Mignini Shock

2011-05-14T22:52:00.002-04:00

Navy drops same-sex marriage guidelines - The Boston Globe

2011-05-12T10:46:00.000-04:00

Image via WikipediaNavy drops same-sex marriage guidelines - The Boston Globe

Queerty: The Internet's most informative and illustrious Gay News and Culture website is back and running

2011-05-11T11:21:00.001-04:00

http://www.queerty.com/

Google Pulls Plug on Perugia Shock!

2011-05-11T07:54:00.002-04:00

Google shuts down site run by Italian blogger critical of Amanda Knox prosecutor Mignini

Google shuts down site run by Italian blogger critical of Amanda Knox prosecutor Mignini | West Seattle Herald / White Center News

CNN DOCUMENTARY CASTS DOUBTS ON KNOX'S CONVICTION

2011-05-10T10:41:00.001-04:00

Image via WikipediaAGI News On - CNN DOCUMENTARY CASTS DOUBTS ON KNOX'S CONVICTION

Mignini on CNN

2011-05-09T19:26:00.000-04:00

Amanda Knox as a child - CNN

2011-05-08T16:03:00.003-04:00

Amanda Knox prosecutor “rambling, confused,” says CNN | Let's Talk About True Crime - seattlepi.com

2011-05-08T15:51:00.001-04:00

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Amanda Knox prosecutor “rambling, confused,” says CNN | Let's Talk About True Crime - seattlepi.com

William Henry & Anthony Peake - Your Higher Self

2011-05-07T17:35:00.002-04:00

Anthony Peake, UK's illustrious binary mind theorist, and William Henry on our second, secret self.

YouTube - William Henry & Anthony Peake - Your Higher Self

Amanda Knox appeal: Perugia court gives forensics experts another 40 days to complete tests - Telegraph

2011-05-07T12:12:00.001-04:00

Image by Getty Images via @daylife
Amanda Knox appeal: Perugia court gives forensics experts another 40 days to complete tests - Telegraph

Amanda Knox: A Case Dominated By Sexual Obsession | GroundReport

2011-05-07T10:41:00.001-04:00

Image via CrunchBase
Once again, Bruce Fisher nails it: Bravo to this robust writer and critic!!!

Amanda Knox: A Case Dominated By Sexual Obsession | GroundReport

NOM Warns NY GOP: We'll Spend $1M Against Any Pro-Marriage Senator

2011-05-06T11:33:00.001-04:00

Joe. My. God.: NOM Warns NY GOP: We'll Spend $1M Against Any Pro-Marriage Senator

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Cuomo-backed gay marriage advocates get resistance from religious groups

2011-05-06T11:22:00.002-04:00

New York State Faith Groups Respond to Unified Gay Push for Marriage Rights -- Daily Intel

New York Faith Groups Work to Block Gay Marriage - NYTimes.com

2011-05-06T11:17:00.001-04:00

Image via WikipediaNew York Faith Groups Work to Block Gay Marriage - NYTimes.com

AVON Representative MIKE MANGUS serving the Cheektowaga, NY area

2011-05-05T14:39:00.001-04:00

AVON Representative MIKE MANGUS serving the Cheektowaga, NY area

Naturalism and the Afterlife: Eric Steinhart and Anthony Peake

2011-05-04T17:20:00.001-04:00

Anyone who is earnestly seeking answers about the afterlife of the individual outside of theistic parameters ought to read Eric Steinhart and Anthony Peake: The former, an American philosopher, the latter, a British binary mind theorist.

Both believe in a form of Nietzsche's "eternal recurrence", but within the now-known multiverse.

A blend of these two thinkers gives much fodder for continued reflection, and both are robust and informative.

Websites:

Anthony Peake
Eric Steinhart

http://www.ericsteinhart.com/FLESH/science.pdf

How Osama bin Laden's death sparked a fake Martin Luther King quote - CSMonitor.com

2011-05-04T14:48:00.000-04:00

How Osama bin Laden's death sparked a fake Martin Luther King quote - CSMonitor.com

Osama bin Laden's Useful Death

2011-05-04T14:33:00.002-04:00

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"My initial interpretation of the faked bin Laden death was that Obama needed closure of the Afghan war and occupation in order to deal with the US budget deficit. Subsequent statements from Obama regime officials suggest that the agenda might be to give Americans a piece of war victory in order to boost their lagging enthusiasm. The military/security complex will become richer and more powerful, and Americans will be rewarded with vicarious pleasure in victory over enemies."

OpEdNews - Article: Osama bin Laden's Useful Death

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Press Release - Launch of Innovative Social Media Firm: Metro Media Consulting Group

2011-05-03T09:27:00.001-04:00

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