Duveyoung wrote: > Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snip) "This article does not make me > paranoid. It makes me angry. It makes me want to do something about > it. I am a responsible human being not a new age laissez faire "it's > all just illusion" type I will contact my Congressman and tell him to > get off his duff and support impeachment now." > > Edg: Oh you bet I'm angry about having my paranoia buttons pushed. I > don't like being swamped with negatives, but a phone call to my > Congressperson won't undo what's inside me that resonates with the > possibilities. As I said, we have leaders spouting my kind of > warnings, but they're just excelsior in the debates. Polls are taken > all the time. The political leaders know what the people are thinking > -- and these politicians just do what they can to get the people to > vote for them -- not necessarily to get the people what they want, not > necessarily trying to be a leader who speaks the truth. Will my phone > call do much to an elected rep who will just toss my opinion on the > pile with the rest of them? Yeah, maybe a flood of them might perk up > his interest to make ever more sure that his public statements are > stronger spin. I'd guess that the average congressperson has to get > thousands upon thousands of handwritten letters in a very short period > of time, before an impact was created in his mind that the polls had > not yet manifested. Good news: I live where the politicians are truth > lovers and have been telling it like it is for decades, but they have > no clout of much merit despite being Congresspersons and Senators and > Governors. Hard to take myself seriously as a force for change if > these guys can't get traction. > > I've moved to a bigger town now, and the donk and eleph runners will > have to give public speeches here on the campaign trail, but who, > these days, will yell from the back of the crowd and not expect to be > targeted for investigation? Yeah, I know how paranoid that sounds, > but with spying on Americans being done these days, what else, eh? > They're taking down license plate numbers in the parking lot sez moi > until it's proved otherwise. > > No, I don't own a gun anymore. Sold it immediately in January 2000 -- > never used even in practice. I used to hunt, so I have blood on my > hands in this regard -- not a vegan even today....though I was for 29 > years. Wouldn't want a gun around the house. On the other hand, if I > see hoards of starving people coming at me, I'll miss that gun! > > Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snip) I'm a computer programmer, > Duvey. You didn't have the problems with Y2K because a lot of > companies spent money and programmer time fixing things. Lots of bugs > were found. I had friends involved in those projects and told me of > the bugs they found. If that hadn't happened there would have been a > real mess." > > Edg: That doesn't explain why Y2K didn't impact all the other > countries that didn't hardly do anything -- for instance, Italy's Y2K > man-in-charge was given a desk but no phone, no staff, no authority. > China did nothing. Etc. To me, it means that Y2K never was a problem > of any magnitude, but yet, I was swept away with fears from the > disinformation I was being given. Yet, why it wasn't a problem, I > still can't figure -- a computer has to know the date for so many > functionalities to process correctly. Computer chips embedded in many > devices just couldn't have been replaced or reprogrammed in time, yet > nothing happened. I studied hard, and I know a lot about computers, > and yet clarity escapes me. The world should have fallen even if > America had done all of its work. Was Y2K just another way for the > backroom monsters to keep us all involved with fears? Seems so, but > you tell me. > > That's because a lot of these countries came to computer systems late in the game around the mid-1990s and those systems already had the fix. So they didn't have to do anything. Some old systems were programmed by people who actually recognized the problem years ago and so didn't need a fix but they still had to be checked out. The problem was that some systems only stored the year as two digits instead of four. If it was stored as four then they were home free.
> Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snip) You might want to look in to the > concept of "predictive programming" and how much of your mind has been > programmed. > > Edg: Me programmed? Fuck! Who isn't programmed? For those who > blithely smile and whistle and pooh pooh at today's issues because > they're blind and uninformed, well that's a result of their crippling > programming, right? And those who expand and worsen in their > imaginations today's mole hills, they're programmed too, right? We're > all stuck in POV's that do not serve all the time. And just to get > defensive here, in 1999 I spent over $11,000 in various therapies in > one year's time, and after that, I still was this "creepy thought > machine." As for your suggestions for my self improvement, thanks for > your concern, but really, who is the expert you'd send me to that > wouldn't cost me a thousand a month for years before I "get somewhere?" > Try free. The downloads are free. And this guy does this from a dial-up as he is out in the sticks (some folks get the files and repost on his mirror sites for him). Try some of the posted radio interviews for an overview. > I've fought ma flaw. The flaw won. > > I don't spend my day worrying, honest! but when my brain gets on a > negative subject, it's no slouch, and it'll fill in all the missing > parts effortlessly. And, if my brain gets a "storm" of positivity > going, well, I'll pretend I'm Mickey Rooney helping Judy Garland on a > project and everything will seem like roses about to be arranged. Got > the tee shirt for both sides of the mood making fence. > > But try to see mood making as one's problem when a child drinks from a > turd filled stream. Some facts cannot be denied. Ask Arjuna what he > was thinking while Krishna was telling him that everyone is already > doomed so why not fight and be in harmony with that divine doom? > Arjuna was thinking, "Yeah, maybe I have to fight cuz of my dharma, > but when my arrows go through the heart of the man that dragged my > wife by the hair, maybe just maybe I'll be feeling a rush of happiness." > > Like that, maybe the children in the ditches need to drink that water > and die -- karma, right? But no one who posts here could possibly say > to not give that kid some clean water. No one here is that evil, > right? Only God can be that evil, right? We believe in karma, divine > justice, but hey, if I'm with such a kid, and if I've got water, the > kid gets the water even if I have a vision of him being a mass > murderer in his last lifetime. I just don't roll that way. And, hey, > watch me spin on this: "well, I'm part of the kid's karma too, so if > he gets the water, it's just more just karma." > It's because the power elite see them as expendable. > That said, if I wash up on a desert island, and then George Bush > washes up next, well, I'm a trikker, ( > http://youtube.com/profile?user=TrikkeGuy ) gots me some muskells, > I'll make it a point to kick his ass from one end of the island to the > other -- daily -- saying, "No water for double you." > > Yeah, then I'll have the same karma as Georgie in my next lifetime. > Edg and Bush on an island? ridiculous. Turq and Judy on this Yahoo > island? not so much. But the issues are the same, eh? Now, if I > could only determine which of these two would be kicking ass. Judy > sounds tough enough to kick some sand in a face. > > "Everybody must get stoned." -- Dylan > > Pun intended. > > Edg Homemade vata tea recipe: :-D 1 part ground cumin, 1 part ground ginger, 1 part ground coriander.
