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The Ultimate Thread: SJG's Soap Box

san_jose_guy
money was invented for handing to women, but buying dances is a chump's game
Tuesday, January 30, 2018 3:14 PM
Reading Occult Books, plan next Occult Paris : the lost magic of the Belle Époque / Tobias Churton (2016) Then you know that I like to start at the beginning, so I plan to read the available translated works from the mid 19th Century of Eliphas Levi. Some of the translations will be done by Golden Dawn members like Westcott, Mathers, Waite, and Crowley. SJG OT: Programmable Logic Devices [view link] Bonobo Handshake [view link] Destroying Political Consciousness, The ~~Mental Health~~ System [view link] Foreigner - Complete Greatest Hits (Full Album) [view link] Bone Sweet Bone [view link] Most people have relative pitch, but not absolute pitch. Nevertheless, from playing this and signing it so many times, I can usually pick the key note out of popular songs. But this type of picking is only for the vocals. For the instrumental portion I have to play chords along with it and try to determine the harmony. Can't find online anyone singing Bone Sweet Bone. This guy does not actually sing it, but he does count the timing along with it. [view link] Can't find the lyrics printed out online either, so: Bone sweet bone Bone sweet bone That's my favorite song Bone sweet bone Bone sweet bone Sing it loud and strong [view link]

360 comments

  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    Three events in the next 24 hours that could determine whether the sell-off continues [view link] Dougster, don't jump! SJG
  • vincemichaels
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    6 years ago
    Jump, SJG, jump !!!
  • max_starr
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    6 years ago
    Are we talking about bitcoin, I've already moved my working capital into fiat....haven't touched the HODL coins
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    Bitcoin going to $1,000,000,000 per coin! [view link] SJG
  • RandomMember
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    6 years ago
    Bitcoin: Robert Shiller is correct again and again and again...
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    ^^^^^ link? SJG
  • max_starr
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    6 years ago
    I don't know you all well enough to know if you're serious....I never thought it would hit that high myself, but I was shocked when it went up from 1,000$ to $20,000 in a relatively short time span. I missed out on a lot of capital gain because I mostly make money on buying from sellers and selling to buyers...My rationale was I'd always make money regardless of a bull or bear market...I've had customers buy $30K and end up with millions from buying both BTC and ETH....
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    People can also watch valuations rise in the short term and make money in the casinos of Las Vegas. Put $1 down, if it wins, then the valuation of that number is now $35. You get to decide if you cash our or let it ride. SJG
  • max_starr
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    6 years ago
    Obviously the last year or so was fueled by massive speculation....I warned all my buyers...and the HYIP ponzi's going on like Bitconnect are the worst. Yet, a few still chose to invest in such nonsense....It would have been better if we never had this run....bitcoin was just fine at $200, or even $2.
  • max_starr
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    6 years ago
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    Well, this entire country has been becoming more and more a Ponzi scheme. I think people should put their money into their own affairs. Believing that these financial speculations are somehow better is a huge con. SJG
  • BurlingtonHoFactory
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    6 years ago
    @san_jose_guy, I'm just curious, without financial market speculation how else would we finance large risky projects?
  • Call.Me.Ishmael
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    6 years ago
    @BHF... You do realize that asking a question like that is essentially the same as making eye contact with that crazy homeless guy who sometimes chases people with a used syringe, right?
  • BurlingtonHoFactory
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    6 years ago
    @[view link].Ishmael, LOL yes, I know. But he's actually an interesting guy. I mean he's batshit crazy but he's still interesting. I'm a libertarian and he hates libertarianism, so it's not like I would vote for him for mayor or something.
  • JimGassagain
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    6 years ago
    I’m reading the “Art of the Deal”, so stfu SJG!
  • Cashman1234
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    6 years ago
    This is another thread by a guy who comments on strip clubs - but hasn’t been in a club in 20 years. What are the chances SJG has actually investments in the market that he pretends to know about? He’s a complete sham. He views the markets with snippets of information that are used only because they fit his narrative. His comments hold no credence - and his soap box simply provides us with a better view of the village idiot!
  • shailynn
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    6 years ago
    I have $1,000 I can paypal to anyone who can permanently take away SJGs internet access. Maybe we can get a pool going to up the ante.
  • twentyfive
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    6 years ago
    You guys know that you are feeding SJGs fantasies by responding to his inane drivel right.
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    BHO, large projects or most business expansions get very little from financial speculation markets. Rather, such markets give a class a hold on our productive future. I cite here the writings of Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer and How Wall Street Works and for Who. And Cashman, I'm not stupid enough to waste money that could be funding my own affairs, by putting it into things which are not my own affairs. You go along with herd think and believe that things you know very little about are good, because other people tell you so. And I am sure that you regularly get your money clipped off of you in strip clubs, when someone who did not think like you would quickly be waking up in the mornings with the stripper of his choice. SJG [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    REPLY TO A CONTINUING ENQUIREY ABOUT DFKING AND OUR LOCAL CLUBS Well yes, our clubs are no touching. The last people who seriously challenged this sat in jail for several months before they were allowed to put their houses up for bail. Will this ever change, hard to say. Our DA's office knows that there is nothing except their bullying which stands between us and San Francisco. They don't want that to happen. So most of the time people are hit with massive charges, to intimidate them into pleading guilty, while the DA knows that with competent defense and in front of a jury, their case is bogus. Jim and Artie Mitchell went through 2 jury trials. But of course, they courted the news papers. In San Francisco the news papers mocked the police. That helps. Here the papers have sat on the fence and endorsed the moralists POV. Sorry to hear that Seattle is Deja Vu. That sucks. I am 24-7 embedded in guerilla style political conflicts. So I cannot go to anything like our underground circuit. I am inview and on call 24-7. If it is running, I say go to some of the bars and start asking. The dancers at the above ground clubs are not that likely to know about it. Just go to the bars and ask politely. The Mexicans call it 'Bikini Show'. At this point I would also suggest checking Watsonville, Monterey, and Salinas. Otherwise just go to a major metro with a good rep for loose non-Deja Vu clubs. I do not like Cheetah's. They only price dances so high because the girls insist that they are as hot as the SF girls. So the management gives in. Brass Rail is far cheaper, and you can be civilian dating one of their girls very quickly. Some even do do P4P. Go in near closing time on the night shift. Dress nice. Buying dances is a chump's game. Front room makeout session. Not for free, but treating her like a civilian. Then only when it is time for your own pants to come down, you invite her to the back room. Then take her home with you and keep on seeing her. But, at our local clubs, and Deja Vu run SF, very hard to do. If you were to try SF, I would suggest MBOT, non-Deja Vu, and then the 4x unbranded DV no alcohol clubs. And especially New Century ( very large, and usually lots of blacks ) or Little Darlings ( looks to be all black ). Otherwise just need to find another metro. People say great things about that San Gabriel Valley, and about a few other places such as Club Rio, and I would check out Starz in Gardena. Good Luck SJG
  • Cashman1234
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    6 years ago
    SJG - your posts have again gone off the rails. I am doing quite well with my investments. I avoid the crazes - and stick with stable - risk averse investments. My investments fund all of my affairs. I don’t spout off details about my business and investment dealings because I’m comfortable where I am in life. I don’t seek approval from others, and I don’t offer (unsolicited) advice, because each investors basis and risk tolerance, differs. Your above post makes it seem that you are a high level political operative. We all know that is a huge overstatement. I doubt that your “organization” is even at the level of grass roots. Everyone on this board knows you are an angry man, who holds a major grudge against strip clubs (because of some odd negative experience over 20 years ago). You continue to spout negativity towards others, and offer little constructive advice. So your presence on this board is puzzling. Do you think you’ve discouraged one member from going to a club with your sad diatribes? I would doubt you have any effect on others club habits.
  • BurlingtonHoFactory
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    6 years ago
    @san_jose_guy said "large projects or most business expansions get very little from financial speculation markets." Ok, I'll bite: where do you believe they get the money from if not the financial markets?
  • JimGassagain
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    6 years ago
    SJG and Groundhog Day have something in common. He’s like a broke record.
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    Well Cashman, that may be how you want to live, glorfied gambling, or following the pension and insurance fund managers. Really I could not care less how much money you have. I and a circle of associates are putting our money into our own affairs and we will continue to. I have nothing against strip clubs. I love them. But that doesn't mean I take them at face value, or regularly hand out wads of money when the same women can be enjoyed off site and things can get very personal. I am not an angry man, as that would be you Cashman. Here, something you can stuff into your mouth: [view link] SJG
  • Cashman1234
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    6 years ago
    If you aren’t an angry man - how many times have you posted rants here calling strip club patrons chumps? Telling others that they are pursuing enjoyment incorrectly? An angry man is unable to accept the enjoyment of others. You are a sad and angry man. You continually tell us that we are having fun incorrectly. Why not simply accept our enjoyment for what it is? You can spout off about your hang ups everyday - but this is the wrong site for it.
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    Those who go into strip clubs and buy dances, they are chumps. Pursuing enjoyment incorrectly? Well sex and sex acts with real women ( as opposed to FemBots ) are enjoyable. But the bigger part of it is when the girl opens up to you emotionally. These idiots are not pursuing enjoyment. Something has gone seriously ary. Cashman, you sound to me like someone who's entire psyche has been shaped by continual doses of alcohol. Am I right. And here, if that sock wasn't enough to shut you up, try this: [view link] SJG OT: Programmable Logic Devices [view link] Destroying Political Consciousness, The ~~Mental Health~~ System [view link] Up in a high rise, not Trump tower, but not too far away either: [view link] Story of O, Sex Slave Initiation [view link] OT: Who Performs A**a**inations? [view link] The Best Women's Lingerie Does Not Need To Be Taken Off [view link] Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad [view link] Web Programming, HTML, CSS, and more [view link] Founder, and idea for a TUSCL graphic [view link] To Be Considered a Sexual Minority? [view link] Remaining Friends With The Ex? [view link] Bitcoin going to $1,000,000,000 per coin! [view link] Any Regrets, for those who have deliberately avoided marriage, or initiated divorce? [view link] Basement Clubs [view link] Oakland Ghost Ship Fire [view link] OT: Computer Programming [view link] OT: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution [view link] Why Are So Many White Men So Stupid? [view link] OT: Economists, like Gary Becker [view link] Slavery And The Family [view link] Fighting Muggles! [view link] Tomi-Ann Roberts [view link] Is Stealthing Rape? [view link] What Destroys Relationships? [view link]
  • Cashman1234
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    6 years ago
    You have again gone off and launched an irrational personal attack. It’s sad that you launch such attacks when questioned. I question your ability to reason maturely and respond intelligently. I treat strip clubs as intended. They are a place for non-emotional adult sexual interaction. There is very little else I seek in strip clubs. I don’t seek out DFK and emotional connections from dancers. If you want to debate salient points, I will do so. But your childish attacks are useless - as I’m not threatened by a keyboard cowboy - armed with media links and lengthy directs to his previous tuscl discussions.
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    Cashman and Taxi, I have made my points consistently and very clear. You still want to argue, about what I know not. But that is you two guys' problem. "I treat strip clubs as intended. They are a place for non-emotional adult sexual interaction" Yes, the strip club owners set them up so it looks like that. But the central part of sex is emotional. The women who work in strip clubs, at least so far, they are real. But for some reason lots of guys want to treat them as fembots. Not me, I am real with them and I open the door for them to be real with me. Been like that for decades, since my first visits to local clubs. SJG
  • SirLapdancealot
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    6 years ago
    LMAO SJG has to pay women for emotional connections. And he thinks the best places for this are strip clubs and AMPs...both of which are there for sexual services. What an emotional CHUMP!!!
  • SirLapdancealot
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    6 years ago
    ^ And strip club POSER.
  • twentyfive
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    6 years ago
    @taxi driver just piss on him and give him a dollar ;)))
  • Call.Me.Ishmael
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    6 years ago
    BHF said: "LOL yes, I know. But he's actually an interesting guy." You and I have vastly different definitions of the word 'interesting'.
  • Cashman1234
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    6 years ago
    SirLDAlot - there is a major omission in SJG’s statements - as he speaks as though his knowledge is current. He hasn’t stepped in a strip club in years. That is why I still don’t understand he posts on a strip club website. He can’t explain that either. His discussions are entirely non pertinent. A few off topic posts are fine for any user. But every post of his is off topic! He’s useless, lonely, bored, and he couldn’t afford to go to a strip club!
  • ime
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    6 years ago
    He's a huge ass faggot
  • Mate27
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    6 years ago
    SJG is gay!
  • Uprightcitizen
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    6 years ago
    You guys do realize he is jerking off while writing this stuff?!?! You are just getting him more turned on by engaging in debate.
  • SirLapdancealot
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    6 years ago
    @Uprightcitizen I disagree. I'm pretty sure SJG truly believes he's not trolling and is simply posting to "contribute" to TUSCL with "scintillating" conversation. (Yes he is that much of a clueless idiot.) @Cashman1234 The reason you struggle to understand SJG is because you don't understand how the mind of a distraught narcissist works. As a narcissist, he is simply using TUSCL to look "better' than PLs that actually go to strip clubs and get dances with strippers. Unbeknownst to him, his claim that "buying dances is a chump's game" is a straw man argument that he uses to make himself look better as someone that would rather DFK and skip dances and go straight to FS. It's his narcissistic defense mechanism. And coupled with his narcissism is the mental anguish and stress of losing his wife (LOL due to his own infidelity as a monger back in the 90s). He is extremely in post divorce stress but his narcissism won't let him see the truth in his own wrongdoings, so bashing TUSCL PLs is his "therapy" And yes, there is no credibility to any of his claims. He may have DFKed once with a stripper in the 90s but he hasn't since. And also his only real stories that he has ever posted about actual DFK were his AMP whore threads he started about two years ago. And LOL even in those threads it is clear the AMP whores didn't really want to DFK him. He basically lost his wife, a woman's sincere affections, and his money by being a PL monger. He now seeks that lost affection and emotional connection more so than actual sex. He fulfilled the need somewhat through paying AMP whores, and since that was at least something since he lost his wife, it's become his TUSCL mantra. As long as he keeps repeating his narcissistic and pathetic self over and over, he doesn't ever have to face the real truth about himself.
  • JohnSmith69
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    6 years ago
    I don’t read his posts much and I have no idea what this one is about. But I think dance a lot gives an excellent psychological critique.
  • Uprightcitizen
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    6 years ago
    SLD nice shrinkage. Certainly plausible based on his history. I was just making a smart ass comment that was meant to point out the futility of having a reasoned debate with SJG. He likes to judge others but recoils at the slightest hint of being judged himself (your reasoning could very well be valid). He may also be cleaning up right now and once his refractory period is over he will start posting again.
  • SirLapdancealot
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    6 years ago
    ^ No worries Upright, regardless of jest I was using your post to point out that he really is so clueless as to not even recognize his own asshole behavior. LOL it's extreme narcissism.
  • Cashman1234
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    6 years ago
    I agree - SLD offers good insights - and a good summary of the narcissism filling SJG’s mind. To uprightcitizen’s point - it’s entirely possible that SJG is jerking off as he imparts his wisdom on us. He views his genius as so superior - that simply by tossing out a few snippets - is providing us with mind-blowing brilliance. At least he doesn’t post fictitious reviews - to just get vip access. Although I’m sure his reviews wouldn’t be very interesting - as he couldn’t describe the interior of a strip club (at least not a modern club).
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    ^^^^^^^ bunch of jackanapes You buffoons still don't listen. I can disclose lots of stuff on this forum which I could not f2f, because I can and do deploy a privacy wall where I see it as needed. So what I tell you is what I want you to know. If I wanted you to know more, I would have disclosed it. As such I am not subject to interrogation, and I don't have to prove anything whatsoever. My current life is very closely guarded because I have worldly responsibilities. I'm not every going to rule anything in our out. Trying to get information out of me will never be any different than it would be with the CIA. Subraman's Post From Stripper Web, Time wasters [view link] The System (tm) [view link] Dugan, often getting girls to leave mid-shift! Sure the hell beats buying dances. SJG Year of the Dog, Feb 16, 2018 [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    Dugan, often getting girls to leave mid-shift! Sure the hell beats buying dances. [view link] SJG
  • Uprightcitizen
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    6 years ago
    Fap...fap...fap...oooh give it to me baby
  • SirLapdancealot
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    6 years ago
    ^ @Uprightcitizen LMAO. See how SJG's recent posts are self-aggrandizing and denigrate anyone that disagrees with him? Reason: extreme narcissism. He proves my point by trying to deny it.
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    ^^^^^ Upright, go fuck yourself: [view link] Some threads to watch: Mental Health System [view link] Shift In Stripper Attitudes On Sex [view link] San Diego [view link] Musing On Adulting And Savings [view link] States With The Most Clubs [view link] Economic Issues For Club Owners [view link] Complimenting Dancers [view link] Clubs Open in NOLA [view link] Thrill Of The Hunt [view link] SJG
  • SirLapdancealot
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    6 years ago
    ^ more proof of a clueless narcissist
  • SirLapdancealot
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    6 years ago
    BTW I doubt SJG jerks off. He also suffers from ED. Likely because of guilt that he is unwilling to admit.
  • SirLapdancealot
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    6 years ago
    I noticed SJG is now signing off all his posts with links to his older, most "scintillating" threads, but...he fails to share his threads on AMP whore DFK mongering. I thought I'd share them to put his views and claims into perspective... [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] To me these are SJG's true "contributions" to the boards. They highlight his "mastery" of how to DFK and get "civilian" with an AMP whore. They are all both creepy and entertaining as fuck. Enjoy!
  • TheeOSU
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    6 years ago
    "@Uprightcitizen I disagree. I'm pretty sure SJG truly believes he's not trolling and is simply posting to "contribute" to TUSCL with "scintillating" conversation. (Yes he is that much of a clueless idiot.)" That's funny, and very accurate! And the title is wrong, it should be "the creep's ultimate egotistical spam thread" And i hate bumping this useless thread but the creep will be along in a few hours to bump it anyway like he always does.
  • SirLapdancealot
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    6 years ago
    ^ LOL nice title. LOL SJG has a limited window of free internet access every day. He attends to all his "worldly affairs" from his bike and then the high point of his day is spamming TUSCL with self-aggrandizing posts at the public library.
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    TheeOSU, You seem to be under the misunderstanding that I care what you think of my posts. SJG Debunking Personal Finance Gurus Like Suze Orman [view link] My Ignore List: DrPhil, DrPhil., IME, Meat72, san_jose_gay, tixtittyfag, JimGassagain, [view link].Ishmael, SirLapdancealot, L1oydSchoene
  • TheeOSU
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    6 years ago
    ^ And you, creep, are definitely misunderstanding that other than you, nobody cares about your posts.
  • SirLapdancealot
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    6 years ago
    SJG is a cautionary tale for all PLs. He is an example of how bad things can go if you monger so much that SS becomes your reality that you lose your money, home, car, wife, and a woman's affections all because of it. He's at rock bottom in life now. And I'm pretty sure he's even lost his mind. And again it is all because of not being able to control his mongering. Personally, I became fascinated with his early posts and read a lot of them, the ones I posted links to earlier, but besides those his OT threads are mindless drivel and spam. But those threads about his AMP mongering are amazing journeys into the mind of a clueless idiot that thinks he has game with AMP whores. But in reality they are completely repulsed by him and are stringing him along. They are his real world experiences rather than his fantasy land obsession with front room DFK posts, and so I think that is why I found them entertaining and funny (in a pathetic way).
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    So, will be getting an occult book: [view link] But also want to get the two James Wasserman books on the Knights Templar, especially interested in their involvement in a**a**ination and piracy. Today such might be considered te**o*ists. [view link] seems to be the second book, and maybe lesser [view link] actually a third, 2017 Templar heresy : a story of gnostic illumination So, all three, in order. SJG Sheryl Crow and Eric Clapton - "Run Baby Run" - Pavarotti and Friends - 1996 - live [view link]
  • SirLapdancealot
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    6 years ago
    ^ Because posting about getting an occult book is something all PLs and strippers are interested in and discussing. Hey SJG, instead of posting about reading an occult book, instead how about going to an actual strip club and trying your front room DFK mad skills and report back about how it went when it was time for your pants to come down? I'm sure it would be an ultimate read!
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    Then will be proceeding to the Eliphas Levi books, mid 19th Century and often translated by members of Golden Dawn, like Westcott, Mathers, Waite, and Crowley. Prefer to read the ones I can get in the order written. Eliphas Levi [view link] Selected writings: La Bible de la liberté (The Bible of Liberty), 1841 Doctrines religieuses et sociales (Religious and Social Doctrines), 1841 L'assomption de la femme (The Assumption of Woman), 1841 La mère de Dieu (The Mother of God), 1844 Le livre des larmes (The Book of Tears), 1845 Le testament de la liberté (The Testament of Liberty), 1848 Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, (Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual), 1854–1856 Histoire de la magie, (The History of Magic), 1860 La clef des grands mystères (The Key to the Great Mysteries), 1861 Fables et symboles (Stories and Images), 1862 La science des esprits (The Science of Spirits), 1865 Le grand arcane, ou l'occultisme dévoilé (The Great Secret, or Occultism Unveiled), 1868 Magical Rituals of the Sanctum Regnum, 1892, 1970 The Book of Splendours: The Inner Mysteries of Qabalism Ones I can likely get, try to be in order written: The Book of Splendors (1892) probably cannot get The Key of the Mysteries (1861) probably cannot get So we have: Transcendental Magic (1856) The History Of Magic (1860) The Great Secret; or Occultism Unveiled (1868) The mysteries of the Qabalah, or, The occult agreement of the two testaments. Talks about Ezekiel and Revelations SJG [view link] Sheryl Crow and Eric Clapton - "Run Baby Run" - Pavarotti and Friends - 1996 - live [view link] LIFEBOAT ONLY! Register now, or at least save this address some place safe, like in emails to yourself and on paper: [view link] Amtrak Collision South Carolina [view link] OT: musings on Adulting and savings (long) [view link] NOLA [view link] Lost Einsteins: The Innovations We’re Missing [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    The Greek magical papyri in translation, including the Demotic spells / edited by Hans Dieter Betz [view link] [view link] SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    So this new book: [view link] Then about this Greek Magical Papyri [view link] We also have this: [view link] The above author is in libraries, but not his above work. SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    The true and invisible Rosicrucian Order : an interpretation of the Rosicrucian allegory and an explanation of the ten Rosicrucian grades / Paul Foster Case. available in a library. [view link] Always wanted to read this. Case, a Golden Dawn veteran, started his own group, a correspondance group based in Los Angeles. SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    So about Rosicrucianism, the above Paul Foster Case book, very highly regarded. Also: The Rosicrucians : the history, mythology, and rituals of an esoteric order / Christopher McIntosh (1997) The Rosicrucian enlightenment revisited / John Matthews [and others] ; introduction by Ralph White (1999) The invisible history of the Rosicrucians : the world's most mysterious secret society / Tobias Churton (2009) Reading them in order would most please me. SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    Local guy I've known J. Nominally a carpenter, but also usually homeless, living in his pick up truck. Had been absent. Just got out of 9 months in the county. DUI, his first. I knew the penalties were tough, but 9months for a first time? Seems he hit someone and she got injured. But J. down plays it, scratch on food, head injury. J. has long had a drinking problem, and I see he also has an attitude problem. He blames this woman, driving at 11pm without her headlights on, and not wearing her seat belt. Talks like he has been wronged. So now he is on probation for 3 years. He is in a temporary housing thing, 3 months at no cost. And he no longer has his vehicle. After the 3 months they will try to get him into a sober living place. But J. says that won't work, as he drinks. I feel that he is adamant about his drinking, maybe because he feels he was wronged, and because he no longer had a vehicle. Working with community groups, I feel that many homeless men are so over divorce, or over loss of driving privelidge, or just bad driving records making them unemployable due to drinking. Many of the livable wage jobs a man might have do revolve around driving. But insurance co's of course don't want people with bad records working for their client firms. I also have seen that many of the homeless men are also people who seem to have very grown up with very casual attitudes about drinking, seeing it as normal and a kind of an expectation. This kind of stuff is not easy to change. Now in the group I am building there will be no such problems. But this group is not at all for the general population. For our society, I say there is a problem, with alcohol, drugs, tobacco, psychiatric medication, recovery, and born again Christianity. SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    Book by someone I cannot stand, and about an industry I cannot stand. [view link] But I want to read it to better appreciate the counter point book: [view link] I've read some stuff from this Shevinsky. I don't share her POV. And some of what she objects to is male driven sexism. But I still want to read an understand it. SJG Led Zeppelin: Live on Danish TV [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    6 years ago
    Highly regarded, and Christopher Alexander has written lots of books: [view link] SJG Led Zeppelin, Danish TV 1969 [view link] Led Zeppelin, first album [view link] Led Zeppelin, second album [view link] Led Zeppelin, Whole Lotta Love, from Song Remains The Same movie, w/Theremin, and with opening views of World Trade Center Twin Towers [view link] Led Zeppelin, Dazed and Confused, from Song Remains The Same, movie, w/destruction of horse hair violin bow [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    Mustn't forget about this, Patrick Dunn. Don't know if I will go along with it or not. [view link] SJG The Uplifters [view link] "demonstrates how crime, moral puritanism, and conflicts between ruthless capitalists and striking workers help ruin the lives of marginal Americans." [view link] But not all feminism is like this: [view link] Feminist artists, pro-sex, pro-prostitution. On the whole quite similar to the Russian girls, Pussy Riot. "According to the authors, before agriculture, sex was relatively promiscuous, and paternity was not a concern, in a similar way to the mating system of Bonobos. " [view link] [view link] Crisis and Openings: Introduction to Marxism - Richard D Wolff [view link] Led Zeppelin 1969 Danish TV [view link] Led Zeppelin II [view link]
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    2/16 The Chinese horoscope for the Dog shows us that the Dog is the person who's constantly tasked with listening to the pain and sorrows of others. Not to worry though, the faithful dog doesn't mind. They are a true believer in Justice and they will fight for fairness for themselves, their family, their friends, and anyone else in need. They are not cowards, and they believe that a life without honor is no life at all. [view link] Wow, "They are a true believer in Justice and they will fight for fairness for themselves, their family, their friends, and anyone else in need. They are not cowards, and they believe that a life without honor is no life at all." That describes me to a T. ********************* Trump Budget Would Hit The Poor Very Hard [view link] SJG
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    Proxy Servers: [view link] Being able to use Proxy Servers on TUSCL was convenient. Safer in some kinds of situations. But with this new software it has never worked. Just tried to access TUSCL using these four: [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] All the same problems. First it trips up on the sorting of discussions and articles. You select your option, but then it switches back. Seems not to like some kinds of client side interactivity. Also, does not let you login, just hangs. Old TUSCL did work with most proxies. Founder, might it be possible to reopen our old threads? Thanks, SJG
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    extreme income inequality and housing problems in Bay Area [view link] SJG
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    Men Are Done Dealing With Women's Crap (Advice For Men) [view link] Men Are Done Dating And Marrying Women (Wake Up Call For Women) [view link] SJG
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    Very high salaries, but homes still hard to afford. In my opinion this must hamstring those businesses too. High salaries make it hard. Unavailability also makes it hard. [view link] Whole thing real stupid! SJG Inducting Women Into My Group: [view link]
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    And so what becomes of a booking boy who seems to drift off into his own world and who has no interest in athletics and is tormented by bullies? Doctors thought he was hard of hearing, and so they removed his adenoids. [view link] Unlikely he ever has had money in ventures not run by he or his crew. His experience with 'jobs' seems to be very little. SJG
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    [view link] [view link] [view link] 1st Ex-Wife [view link] [view link] Solar Roof, a roof which has invisible integrated solar panels, 98% as efficient as conventional solar cells ( no holes in roof, no tendency to leak ) Power wall battery, $5,500 for 14kWh SJG
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    Bellanca Cruisair [view link] Maternal grandfather of Elon Musk had a 1948 model, they used to fly all around in it. Including once to Scotland and once to Australia. Mostly landing off airport. They say that South Africa was a hard place for Elon Musk. He planned his escape to the US way back. But started off with college in Ontario. SJG Yep, need to read this to be prepared, Ho Tactics [view link]
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    so, from "Elon Musk, Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future", talking about Elon having just completed college in Ontario and U Pennsylvania. page 55 " Musk's insistence on explaining the early origins of his passion for electric cars, solar energy, and rockets can come off as insecure. It feels as if Musk is trying to shape his life story in a forced way. But for Musk, the distinction between stumbling into something and having intent is important. Musk has long wanted the world to know that he's different from the run-of-the-mill entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. He wasn't just sniffing out trends, and he wasn't consumed by the idea of getting rich. He's been in pursuit of a master plan all along. "I really was thinking about this stuff in college," he said. "It is not some invented story after the fact. I don't want to seem like a Johnny-come-lately or that I'm chasing a fad or just being opportunistic. I'm not an investor. I like to make technologies real that I think are important for the future and useful in some sort of way." SJG [view link] The Young Karl Marx, interview with director Raoul Peck [view link] IRON BUTTERFLY IN- A-GADDA-DA-VIDA [view link]
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    Building An Inclusive Economy [view link] SJG
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    So Musk started ZIP2, similar to CitySearch and like Yahoo Maps, Directions, and Yellow Pages. Then sold to Compaq in 1999 for over $300 Meg. Musk had started with really nothing, his brother Kimbal, money from odd jobs in college, and a dilapidated sedan which they painted polka dots onto. And their father in South Afrika gave them $28k. So about 4 years later, after sleeping and living in a 20' x 30' they had rented, and later bringing in outside people and money, when it was finally sold, Elon Musk got $22 Meg. I think it highly unlikely that Elon Musk has ever been an 'investor', putting money into things he or his crew did not control, or that he ever went along with any doctrine of 'creating wealth', 'financial literacy', 'financial self improvement', or 'saving for retirement'. Now Zip2 and PayPal were computer only things. I would not be satisfied with that myself. But SolarCity, Tesla, SpaceX, those are an entirely different matter! Will read more of the Ashlee Vance book about him later. Now starting to read: [view link] And with the group I am building, we will have our own vast libraries. SJG
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    So I read the earlier book on this subject: Eliphas Levi and the French Occult Revival [view link] This has prepared me. And Christopher McIntosh has written a back cover endorsement for Tobias Churton: [view link] Its basically Pairs from 1871 thru 1914, mostly Rosicrucianism and Martinism. Churton is turning out to be extremely prolific, and he is out there. But I can't afford to put the time into reading this straight, I have to speed read it, get out of it what I need, what will stick for me. Very close relations between the occult and poetry, music, painting, literature, and science. Talks about Frances Yates as one who talked about this at length: [view link] and then also: Manuel Orazi, born in Rome 1860 [view link] His 1895 piece entitled "Black Mass" [view link] Most of us have the idea of the naked woman on the altar from Anton LaVey, but it actually comes from: J. K. Huysmans [view link] and this is what the painting must be a reference to. Chat Noir [view link] SJG Glenn Gould-Alban Berg-Piano Sonata [view link]
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    VM whips out a foot or so and pees on this thread.
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    So reading Tobias Churton, Occult Paris. Want to record some of his references, like these historical writers. Frances Yates, writing in 1964 about Giordano Bruno James Webb, The Occult Underground [view link] And Colin Wilson wrote a book about James Webb Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World: His Life, Work, and the Search for Universal Knowledge, by Joscelyn Godwin [view link] And I need to find some books to read about Martinism, as I know far less about it than I do about Rosicrucianism. SJG Introduction to Martinism [view link]
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    So Churton finishes talking about the future, the legacy of that era before WWI. There was some rumors about Synarchism, a secret elite government, no good. Now of course this would be Vichi, and such things are almost always Fascist. But they are saying that it is the contemporary government of the EU. SJG Synarchism [view link] good books written by Joel R. Hass (Author),‎ Maurice D. Weir (Author),‎ George B. Thomas Jr. (Author) like: University Calculus: Early Transcendentals, Multivariable [view link]
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    So books mentioned about this Synarchism: This Gérard Galtier, but his stuff seems not to have been translated to English, but one into Spanish Start with this, as referenced by Churton: [view link] and then: [view link] Okay, but then: The Sion revelation : the truth about the guardians of Christs's sacred bloodline / Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince And this Lynn Picknett has written lots of interseting looking stuff. [view link] And then about Martinism, reading in Churton, starting to get some understanding. Martinez de Pasqually (1727?–1774) [view link] And those who succeeded him were: Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin and Jean-Baptiste Willermoz Now de Pasqually was likely half Jewish. And I have not read this anywhere, but to me he seems influenced by Baruch Spinoza, a likely practitioner of Kabbalah. Here, a modern order which mentions among others Spinoza [view link] Spinoza, in German I think: [view link] Spinoza and Kabbalah [view link] Rosicrucian Order AMORC, loosely associating Martinism with philosophy like Spinoza's [view link] List of occultists, including Spinoza [view link] Spinoza [view link] Jacob Boehme [view link] Rhizome of Boehme and Deleuze: Esoteric Precursors of the God of Complexity, by Mark Bonta [view link] Deleuze and geophilosophy : a guide and glossary / Mark Bonta and John Protevi (2004) Does tie Boehme to Martinism, sort of to Spinoza, and even to Paul Tillich. and here, Sophia (wisdom) [view link] about Martinism [view link] Rosicrucian Library [view link] Priscilla Hunt [view link] Sophia Foundation [view link] famous book: Three famous mystics: Saint-Martin / by Arthur Edward Waite ... Jacob Boehme, by W.P. Swainson; Swedenborg, by W.P. Swainson. (1940) The unknown philosopher; the life of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin and the substance of his transcendental doctrine / by Arthur Edward Waite ( republished 1970) and we have this, a reprint [view link] So other than what these Martinist groups have on their web sites, there is not that much. Though I do have to admit that the Tobias Churton book is proving both good and challenging. SJG Erik Satie: Gnossienne No. 1, 2, 3, not that difficult to play. You can tell that he has written it as three parts. [view link] made into two instruments: [view link] clearly 3 piano parts [view link] [view link] also good music to program into a sequencer. But I would still say this has to be by hand playing, not by typing in text. Otherwise it would sound mechanical. more Satie [view link] I believe that the French Rosicrucian Order AMORC makes much use of Satie and Debussy.
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    So it was Antoine Court de Gebelin ( 1725 - 1824 ) who first put the 22 letter of the Hebrew alphabet onto the 22 Tarot cards. Eliphas Levi followed this. And Levi was not trying to recreate Renaissance magic, he wanted something compatible and necessary to science. Eliphas Levi books I can readily get, but there are many more: Transcendental Magic (1856) The History Of Magic (1860) The Great Secret; or Occultism Unveiled (1868) The mysteries of the Qabalah, or, The occult agreement of the two testaments. Talks about Ezekiel and Revelations And then this Inner Traditions Press, Rochester Vermont, always good, I've paid attention to it for decades. In this book they mention Churtons numerous other books, and al The Morning of the Magicians, Pauwels and Bergier, very famous book, about 1960 The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism by Patrick Lepetit Lords of the Left-Hand Path Stephen E. Flowers Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World, Joscelyn Godwin, very famous person and famous book. SJG This is a lifeboat only. Join now. At least save the address on paper and in emails to yourself. [view link] When RB went down there was no warning. And remember, the people who ran it were proud of what they were doing, and had no warning, and would not go along with LE's interpretation. But they force people to plead guilty just due to the weight of the charges. [view link]
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    Here, Italian women taking off their clothes. I approve fully! Even though many are rather thick, I still like them. [view link] SJG
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    ^^^ Has video
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    Churton is the first I have seen who was able to summarize Eliphas Levi. Levi did not want to recreate Renaissance Magic, he wanted something compatible with science. pp 91, "Levi adapted the inherited system, adding an eleventh sephira, called Da'ath, understood as that Knowledge that is true Science, being a reflection and synthesis of the other sephiroth. Levi's advocacy of the tarot as a codified High Science opened the way for the tarot to be used not only as the familiar means of divination, but also as a path to inner exploration, constituting an essential wing of the high magic that could only be worked in a state of exalted or mystical consciouness. SJG
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    from Occult Paris by Tobias Churton So we talk about some following H. P. Blavatsky and her Theopsophical Society, like Maria Pomar, Lady Caithness (1830-1895) and Anna Kingsford (1846-1888) They both published an 1882 book, The Perfect Way [view link] and also [view link] Sort of a feminized Christianity. And then also consistent with Jules Doinel, and his Gnostic Church, and the "Sophia Concept", to me sounds very similar to groups running today, and also to Rudolph Steiner SJG
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    and then on now to Stanislas de Guaita [view link] SJG
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    Stanislas de Guaita ( 1861 - 1897 ) A curious guy, had been a poet, and with a great knowledge of chemistry. Seemed to be undergoing a great deal of emotional suffering. But then, rather like Aleister Crowley after him, under went a kind of conversion from poety to "Magick" as "the way of life." Would go on to be involved in the Rosicrusianism of the day. And he wrote books like Black Magic, and the Keys To Black Magic. Not seeing his books as easy to get. [view link] SJG SJG Erik Satie: Relâche (Complete ballet) (1924) [view link]
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    So now starting to read about one of the most outrageous figures of the day, the one who re-started French Rosicrucianism Josephin Peladan [view link] Many books, starting with Le Vice suprême, novel, 1884 But very little seems to be easily available. One book about Peladan: Occult symbolism in France : Joséphin Péladan and the Salons de la Rose-Croix / Robert Pincus-Witten ( 1976 ) And then Peladan thought very highly of this one they call the "French Pythagoras". Okay, here is a video about him and his book. French Abbé Paul Lacuria - Les harmonies de l' être I Someone made this: [view link] and we have this: [view link] Peladan used the title: Sar Merodack. Talked about Synarchism. Book also talks about Decadent Movement yes, mentions all people in the book: [view link] And then the Symbolist Movement [view link] some here: [view link] [view link] SJG Sexiest Ladies of Jazz - The Trilogy! - Full Album [view link]
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    So in Occult Paris, Tobias Churton is now talking about some Knights Templar originated Rosicrucianism running in the Agen Lot-et-Garonne area of France. [view link] This Agen has been noted as an area with a very low birth rate. Some have said that if you have a second child there you will be receiving condolences cards. I noted that it stands out on the 1791 Jurist Priest map. Others say it is a place which went for the socialist Mitterrand. I speculated that being a leader in de-Christianization, it may go back to the Cathars. It is a kind of Catholic thinking which is totally against church teaching. Now it is starting to look like it goes back further, to gnosticism originating with the Knights Templar. It is all completely Catholic, its just like I call it, being "in the church but not of it". Tobias Churton writes extremely interesting and extremely challenging books. SJG Jerry Brown is certainly one of the most inspiring people to ever have held public office. [view link] UBI ( Universal Basic Income ) [view link] The Vietnam War PBS Episode 3: The River Styx (January 1964-December 1965) [view link]
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    I had read a book about the Cathars. This guy went to the final martyrdom site Montsegur. [view link] He asked how many of the people were Cathars. He was told that they all were, and then surprised to hear that they still are. Now I understand, its a way of being in the church but not of it. Some called the Pater Norsters, as they would sit in a circle and recite the Lord's Prayer slowly over and over. Is this worth burning people at the stake? It is a kind of protest, because they might not be sitting in the pews and listening to sermons. But the real threat about the Cathars was that they had switched their minds from standby to online, specifically, they had methods of contraception and abortion. So this kind of private dissent, thinking beyond the church, still continues to this day. You don't see this amongst American Catholics, rather it is in Catholic countrys. So this is what Peladan and others were building upon in starting their Rosicrucian movement in Paris. But Agen had been a stronghold, noted for its low birth rate. SJG Chicago [view link] [view link] Aerosmith Walk This Way [view link] Booker T and the MG's [view link] Hank and Cupcakes, paint only [view link] The Vietnam War PBS Episode 3: The River Styx (January 1964-December 1965) [view link] The Battle For Puerto Rico [view link]
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    So this guy, Vicomte Louis Edouard de Lapasse ( 1792 - 1867 ) picture here: [view link] [view link] He is the link between Peledan and the Agen - Tolouse Rosicrucianism and Templarism, but they are also Catholic Legitimists, meaning that they want to restore the monarchy. They oppose the Bonapartists and the Orleanists, I guess the actually want to restore the Bourbons. Charles 10th [view link] Orleanists [view link] [view link] Bonapartiste [view link] [view link]
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    So we have this Eugene Vintras, heretic Catholic priest, wore upside down cross on his vestments. Bayeux le 7 avril 1807 et mort à Lyon le 7 décembre 1875 [view link] discussed in this Eliphas Lévi and the French occult revival / Christopher McIntosh 1972 / 2011 we do have this A. E. Waite book, more a photostat of the original book [view link] huge cash of A. E. Waite books in libraries, but not the above. from Occult Paris by Tobias Churton, Eugene Vintras believed himself to be Elijah. And he was the spiritual source for the Carmelite Order. During the revolution said order was banished from France. But then this also connects to this guy Abbe Boullan (1824-1893) SJG
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    Repeat discussion about Agen France: There is some new information at hand about Agen France and things which might make it unusual. Reading Occult Paris, by Tobias Churton. [view link] The book comes to one Josephin Peledan, a rather notorious sort of the 1880's and 1890's who started a Rosicrucian Order in Paris. The question turns to what made him think he had the initiatory standing by which to do that? Well he was affiliated with one Vicomte Louis Edouard de Lapasse ( 1792 - 1867 ) [view link] they show the same picture in the Churton book. So this started with a lecture given by Yale's John Merriman, about France and the development of a middle-class, as evidenced by the low birth rate. And then how contraception was considered by the Catholic clergy as an unspeakable evil. So Merriman talks specifically about Agen and how if you have a second child you can today expect to be receiving condolences cards. Never heard of such a place. Merriman talks about the place standing out on the 1791 Jurist Priest map, and then recently in how they voted for the socialist Mitterand. So speculation was raised that these uncommon views which they have could come from that having been a Cathar place. There is in fact a cathar castle there. But most of these so called cathar castles are fake, built by the French Monarchy in order to keep the Cathars from coming back. Catharism is today something of a tourism industry. Well, in Churton's book he talks about Peledan coming from 'old Catholic families" and Lapasse also coming from such, but in Agen. They are actually talking about Templars, about there being some sort of Templar legacy there built into Agen, and also maybe into Toulouse. So they talk about Templars, Troubodors, Cathars, and Rosicrucians, as all basically being the same, and operating, among other places, Agen. And it has been discussed that Cathars would assemble and sit in a circle and slowly recite the Pater Noster over and over. But does this get people burned at the stake? No, it was because they had methods of contraception and abortion, and just because they were thinking about such things, instead of acting out of compulsion. Remember, Cathars did not build their own churches, they would freely attend Catholic services. They just seemed to have understood it differently, been able to keep a certain critical distance. I have long called this, "Being in the Church but not of it". So the Churton book is telling us that something like that still existed amongst these 'old Catholic families' in Agen in the 1800's. And so just by virtue of having grown up in that environment, Peledan and Lapasse were already initiated into some sort of Rosicrucian - Cathar - Troubodor - Templar thinking. So after Merriman, this is the first written confirmation that someone finds something unusual about this Agen Lot-et-Garonne region [view link] I mean none of this occult stuff would the Catholic clergy approve of, and much of it did have a buried sort of sexuality. But who cares what the Catholic clergy says or thinks. You will find this in a Catholic country like France, where as in the US, Catholics are more like Protestants, seeing it as a belief and approval seeking system. If someone grows up in a family which is 'in the Church but not of it', then they will assimilate that different way of thinking. So again, first confirmation that there is something different about Agen, and indeed affirming that it does connect to these gnostic types of thinking. Condolences cards upon having a second child? Only time I ever heard of people who might think like that would have to connect to gnositicsm. And one of the major occurrences of such was Catharism in the South of France. But they are actually now connecting all of it to the Knights Templar. Lapasse was a doctor, and he lived by the Rosicrucian injunction from the Fama Fraternititus to treat the poor at no charge.
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    this guy Abbe Boullan (1824-1893), he was the real Satanist of the group, and he was the one Huysman's was writting about. SJG
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    Abbe Joseph-Antoine Boullan, Catholic priest, jailed in Rome, seen as Satanist, and some unspeakable rumors. [view link] So Josephin Peladan and Stanislas de Guaita, running their Rosicrucian Order, decided that it was their role to take Boullan down. So some of this came down to Eliphas Levi's two volume: Author Lévi, Éliphas, 1810-1875 Title Dogme et rituel de la haute magie. English Transcendental magic : its doctrine and ritual / by Eliphas Lévi ; translation [and] biographical preface by Arthur Edward Waite But there is also supposed to be some addendum to it. If one looks at the table of contents for this, this addendum is there! [view link] So the addendum is called 'Nuctermeron' and it talks about twelve hours or intelligences, which may be pressed into service. This is all attributed to a first century mage Appolonius of Tyana, and found in a hermetic tract written in Greek in a Jewish 1721 work on the life and death of Moses. So this is what they used, and the first of these 'intellilgences' is where the name Papus was taken from for Gerard Encausse. This whole book is a bit of a challenge, as tend to be all the numerous books of Tobias Churton. SJG Ginger Baker's Airforce [view link] Flexible Transistor?? [view link]
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    Gérard Encausse - Papas French father, Spanish Gypsy mother, traveling through Basque country selling medical devices of his own invention, finally educating himself heavily in the occult. Over all, quite a character. [view link] He actually wrote some very interesting things, going beyond the science of his day. Some of his writings full text online. [view link] [view link] Not really anything I can get in libraries. Drat! This is about him, a well known picture, but not in English, and Papus died in 1916. [view link] About him and his writings [view link] Now this is AMORC, but it has some of his writings full text, though probably in French [view link] Okay, Dec 1895, issue 29 [view link] So google digitized all of this, and AMORC is showing it via its Martinist Order, TMO. and yes I see, this is what appears in translation in Occult Paris by Tobias Churton, very interesting. And Churton says it is also in Christopher McIntosh's book about Eliphas Levi and the French Occult Revival. Papus's writings are quite revelatory. [view link] Well it says page 5 on the viewer, but it is page 195 on the scanned paper. [view link] SJG Gnostic Catholic Church for North America, New York City, has stuff from some of the same names in Tobias Churton's 'Occult Paris'. [view link] Their book: [view link] It all goes back to the people Tobias Churton and Christopher McIntosh are writing about. [view link]
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    Occult Paris by Tobias Churton, awesome book! First issue of L'Initiation, first issue Nov 1888. Look at the awesome cover photo, reproduced in Churton's book: [view link] This Papus really is an interesting guy. Ended up as battle field medic, contracted tuberculosis in 1916 and died, SJG NOLO, Chartres - Iberville, doesn't the black girl in purple look good? I think this picture originally came from Google Street View [view link] Chelsea Manning, running for the US Senate from Maryland, quite interesting [view link] Steely Dan - Katy Lied (1975, Studio Album) 09 Any World (That I'm Welcome To) [view link] Let it rain- Eric Clapton [view link] Live, with some friends, and with his women [view link] Live, Royal Albert Hall, 2015 [view link] Derek and the Dominos live at the Fillmore, over 19min! [view link] Bring It On! An Inflated Stock Market Is Evidence of Spiritual Sickness, And It Is The Death Of Creativity And Innovation [view link]
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    So trying to finish up with Tobias Churton's "Occult Paris" [view link] Churton is always way out there. And he is always challenging. San Jose's AMORC was not built on the idea that Rosicrucianism is either gnostic, connected to Cathars, or to the Knights Templar. But today many do see it this way. So Churton talks about this Gnostic Church, and especially this Jules Doinel and Deodat Roche. Continuing in North America, based in NYC?: [view link] And you can see that inverting the Cathar aestheticism, plus Josephin Peladan, were the main influences on the decadence of Aleister Crowley. And yes in the South, the Canal du Midi area, there is some sort of tradition of gnosticism, like what I call, being in the church but not of it. And this is especially strong in Agen. Seemingly it does go back to Cathars, Knights Templar, and Troubadours. And then others say that this is Hermeticism coming in with Islam, and also being expressed in John of the Cross. And then one of the most interesting people is this Papus. So of Debussy and Satie, Churton says, "that you may feel that you are only hearing a fragment of the music, for the tonal experimentation of these composers' minds were most deeply involved in esoteric sensibilities, aimed at invoking the unseen and unheard." And we have this Breton myth of this city Y's, of their North coast, which sunk [view link] And we have: Debussy - La cathédrale engloutie Orchestral [view link] and then Isai Tomita on Moog [view link] Churton talks about pentatonic music ( do re mi so la ) and you can watch Satie's Gnossieenes being played: [view link] [view link] SJG Good book about gurus, including one Ignatius of Loyola: [view link] Whitesnake - Stormbringer (Official Video) [view link] Soldier of Fortune [view link] Burn [view link] Rainbow - Stone Cold, do you like Ritchie Blackmore's double string plucks? [view link] Deep Purple, Perfect Strangers, look at the automobiles pulling up [view link] Smoke On The Water [view link] Steppenwolf, Magic Carpet Ride, live [view link] Derek and the Dominos, Let It Rain, live, to make this sound nice, does this require a keyboard player, or could it be two guitarists? [view link] [view link] 2004 [view link] Layla 2008, fairly fast which sounds good: [view link]
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    So trying to finish up with Tobias Churton's "Occult Paris", a book which is saturated with accounts of various personages of the era, and based almost entirely on sources which have never been translated. So much talk of this Gnostic Church and Cathars, I want to look at this Rosicrucian Lectorium, something which draws much from the Cathars, and see if there is any connection. [view link] [view link] [view link] Large facility in Bakersfield CA USA, Bakersfield CA, made by adapting a bank building. 2430 19th St Bakersfield, CA 93301. United States [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] In 1956, the work of Jan van Rijckenborgh and Catharose de Petri received an important impulse by the contact with Antonin Gadal (1877-1962), the custodian of the Cathar heritage in southern France. They allied themselves with the spiritual treasure of this spiritual community shattered by the Inquisition about 700 years ago. Jan van Rijckenborgh wrote his first manuscripts under the pseudonym John Twine. With the choice of this pseudonym, he expressed that he was a John man, a forerunner of the Christ man. The last name Twine symbolizes the two aspects that are present in every human being: the divine element that urges the liberation, and the earthly element, the natural soul. In January 1940, Jan Leene adopted the spiritual name Jan van Rijckenborgh. In the British Library in London Jan van Rijckenborgh discovered a work by Johann Valentin Andreae, “Rei publicae christianopolitanae descriptio”, in English translation. Interpreting parts of this document, he wrote a commentary which he published together with his Dutch translation of this manuscript in 1939 under the title “Christianopolis“. Furthermore he translated the Manifestos of the Rosicrucians: “Fama Fraternitatis”, “Confessio Fraternitatis” and “Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosyross” into Dutch. In these writings he found what moved it himself: the call for a general reformation, which especially aimed at the fundamental change in man himself. With about 40 publications written by Jan van Rijckenborgh, partially together with Catharose de Petri, he left a great wealth of advice and support to people who seek for truth and liberation on their spriritual path. [view link] The writers of their leaders, and talking it back to Ancient Egypt and to Hermeticism and the Emerald Tablet. [view link] [view link] I am so far not seeing any connection to the leaders of this 19th Century Gnostic Church, except for the interest in the South of France and the Cathars. So let me look at this man from the Gnostic Church: Deodat Roche, living 99 years Cathars [view link] "Today, Catharism is largely seen as a dualist religion, like most Gnostic and oriental teachings. The man largely responsible for identifying Catharism as such was Déodat Roche (1877-1978), often referred to both as 'the Cathar Bishop', if not 'the Cathar Pope'. However, outside of France, his name is relatively unknown, as is that of his friend and Professor of Sociology René Nelli of the University of Toulouse (and often referred to as 'the vicar of Catharism'), who lectured on the subject all over France. Their fame has largely been eclipsed by the likes of Otto Rahn and Antonin Gadal, who saw the caves of the valley south of Foix as secret initiation centers for the Cathars - a theory that is now often widely accepted, but which has very little academic support. Gadal continued the work started by the local historian Adolphe Garrigou. From the 1930s onwards, circles were formed around Gadal and the already mentioned Roche and Nelli. Together, they formed "La Société du souvenir de Montségur et du Graal," to promote the forgotten history of Catharism - but specifically tying it to the Holy Grail - and the promotion of Montségur, and the region as a whole. It is here that what is now known as 'neo-Catharism' was born, and it has little to do with the original belief. A second circle of Cathar enthusiasts had the countess Pujol-Murat as a key figure; she was one of Otto Rahn's patrons. Rahn was a young German academic, whose books greatly advanced interest in Montségur and Catharism, both in the 1930s and now (see article 'The Strange Life of Otto Rahn: Author, Poet, Grail Seeker, SS Officer', in New Dawn No. 109, July-August 2008). " "Authors such as Walter Birks and R.A. Gilbert, as well as Elizabeth van Buren, have suggested the Cathars guarded a manuscript, knowledge - a spiritual treasure. This manuscript is often said to be the 'Book of Love' and is linked with the Gospel of John, and is claimed to contain "sublime teachings, marvelous revelations, the most secret words confided by our Lord Jesus Christ to the beloved disciple [John the Evangelist]. " [view link] again, finding stuff in French only [view link] TO BE CONTINUED SJG
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    Anyway, so we have this Deodat Roche, felt to be responsible for much of the 20th Century resurgence of interest in the Cathars. And he was part of this French Gnostic Church, with Jules Doniel. Then we have this Dutch Rosicrucian Lectorium. Started by people who had been with the Oceanside Rosicrucian Fellowship of Max Heindel, Oceanside, CA. They ran it in the Netherlands, but in 1935 they separated, and then it really has come into its own in the years since WWII. They are completely focused on Cathars. But I am not finding any connection between the two groups, or their researchs into the Cathars. We have this Emmanuel des Essarts, who would become a bishop in the Gnostic Church, but he had been a gov't employee and taken with the thinking of Charles Fourier. [view link] [view link] 7 April 1772 – 10 October 1837 He only lived to 1837, but he is considered an early socialist. Fourier's social views and proposals inspired a whole movement of intentional communities. Among them in the United States were the community of Utopia, Ohio; La Reunion near present-day Dallas, Texas; the North American Phalanx in Red Bank, New Jersey; Brook Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts; the Community Place and Sodus Bay Phalanx in New York State, and several others. Later Fourier inspired a diverse array of revolutionary thinkers and writers. On education, Fourier felt that "civilized" parents and teachers saw children as little idlers.[22] Fourier felt that this way of thinking was wrong. He felt that children as early as age two and three were very industrious. Because of its editor, I am sure this is good: Poster, Mark, ed. Harmonian Man: Selected Writings of Charles Fourier. Garden City: Doubleday. 1971. [view link] Influences on Comrade Marx [view link] The Jules Doniel and Deodat Roche group still has people claiming a legacy, for North America, in NYC. [view link] Succession [view link] And they connect this to Martinism, especially through Papus. And they are connecting this to Rosicrucianism, Templars, the Grail, and more [view link] And they have this book: [view link] $14.95 Here we go, getting into contentious territory, Cathars and the Kabbalah [view link] We have this Roy Howat, a specialist in French piano music. [view link] Debussy in proportion : a musical analysis / Roy Howat (1983) And he claims that Debussy was using the Golden Section and Fibonacci Sequences, and saying that this is very compatible with Hermeticsm. And they have old paper piano rolls which Debussy played himself where he was double timing some measures, and this made it even closer to the Golden Section and Fibonacci Sequences. This includes Stephan A, Hoeller of Los Angeles [view link] Anyway, to conclude, Tobias Churton writes phenomonal and very challenging books, as 'Occult Paris' has certainly proved to be. SJG Debussy - La Mer [view link] Erik Satie [view link] Paul Foster Case, True and Invisible [view link] The Rosicrucian enlightenment / Frances A. Yates (1978) Rosicrucian trilogy : Fama Fraternitatis, 1614 ; Confessio Fraternitatis, 1615 ; the Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz, 1616 / the three original Rosicrucian publications in new translations by Joscelyn Godwin, Christopher McIntosh, & Donate Pahnke McIntosh. (2016) Rhapsody In Blue: Gershwin [view link] Benny Goodman, Sing, Sing, Sing [view link] 1937, Goodman and Krupa [view link] 1971 w/ Gene Krupa, remember he had founded a drumming school [view link] COUNT BASIE Swingin' the Blues, 1941 HOT big band swing jazz [view link] seems to be 4 beat, Kansas City type.
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    So I had talked about my friend J., about 50yo, and with a very serious heart and fluid retention condition, and seemingly still using methamphetamine. They were trying to send him to a psychiatrist, and I spoke out loud and clear discouraging that. [view link] So he side stepped the psychiatrist. But about 6 weeks ago I saw the emergency vehicles at his apartment. I really feared for him. Then about two weeks ago someone told me he was in the hospital. Very rare to keep anyone in the hospital for very long nowadays. So I figured he was probably in jail. Met him today, no jail. He was in the hospital for over a month. His kidneys had almost failed and he was retaining lots of water. He came in there with a resting pulse rate of 139 per minute, and very high blood pressure. To have that kind of pulse, all day and night, would drive anyone nuts, and they said it could be fatal. They had to give him blood transfusions as he was becoming anemic. Real cause unknown. Finally his pulse rate did come down. "Grape Jelly like #2" was tearing up the insides of his intestines, and he shows yellowing of the eyes, a sign of jaundice and liver damage. And of course street meth could have other stuff in it. He told them that he had been using meth, when they asked about the heart rate. He said he stopped 4 days earlier because he wanted his test results to be clean. He seems to understand that he must not use that, well sort of. I remain concerned about him. SJG Derek and the Dominos, Let It Rain [view link]
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    Neoliberal governmentality is a practice of ruling people that interweaves aspirations of individuals with the demands of the market. ... it is my inte ntion to move beyond the limited discussion of voluntary versus forced prostitution, in order to stress that sex work ha s become entangled in ambiguous and simultaneous processes: on the one hand , it can generate personal empowerment and agency, and on the other hand , it demands the individual‟s subjection to a neoliberal market regime. ... Sex work is used as a strategic means to realise a project of self - actualisa tion, which is linked to the desire for economic well - being and upward social mobility. article demonstrates that sex work can simultaneously be a site of oppression and exploitation , and a stepping - stone to personal advancement. ( already perceiving this myself is why I know that I and TJ girls will get along very well. ) Liberal techniques of governance began to focus on the generation of a population of subjects that were bound to economic paradigms in their thought and behaviour. A crucial component of neoliberal governmentality is its use of the capacities of free subjects to achieve its p urposes and goals Freedoms – the f reedoms of the market – are integral to neoliberal governmentality, which operates on interests, desires, and aspirations , rather than through ri ghts and obligations Subjects are not subjugated simply by means of obedience but have become governable in their personal desires. [view link] Sourcing: Foucault, M ichel . 1982. „ From the Repressive Hypothesis to Bio - Power‟ , in Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow (eds.). Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics , 126 – 42. Hertfordshire: Harvester Wheatsheaf. SJG [view link] [view link] Jimi Hendrix live 1969, very good [view link]
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    So the paper: [view link] Looking at some references: Michel Foucault : beyond structuralism and hermeneutics / Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow ; with an afterword by and an interview with Michel Foucault (1983 ) This author: The micro-politics of capital : Marx and the prehistory of the present / Jason Read (2003) Governmentality : power and rule in modern society / Mitchell Dean (2010) Lots of others too. SJG Jon Hassel - The Surgeon [view link]
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    [view link] Neoliberal governmentality is a practice of ruling people that interweaves aspirations of individuals with the demands of the market. „Neoliberal governmentality‟ is a mode of rule, or a governmental technology, that operates through self - enhancement techniques. It differs from disciplining modes of governance that draw on physical repression or containment. Foucault (1982) des cribes how, with the emergence of liberalism, governments‟ demands on the individ ual behaviour of their citizens to prudent self - conduct were converted to accommodate an economic project. Liberal techniques of governance began to focus on the generation of a population of subjects that were bound to economic paradigms in their thought and behaviour. A crucial component of neoliberal governmentality is its use of the capacities of free subjects to achieve its p urposes and goals SJG Mike Oldfield 'Tubular Bells' Live at the BBC 1973 (high quality / remastered) [view link]
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    Elon Musk [view link] So he is on now to his second company: PayPal and he is starting on his first wife: Justina Wilson But she has informed him, "I am your wife not your employee." I have heard this idea before multiple times, and even had the same communication directed at me. So both situations are tumultuous. With his first company Zip2, it sold for $300 Meg. He cleared $22 Meg. He bought his first airplane, and a small nice condo, which he renovated. He also spent $1 Meg for a MacLaren F1, only 62 in the world. One of them belonging to Larry Ellison. Most MacLaren owners save them for special purposes. But for Musk it is a daily drive. It is seen parked on the street and at Safeway, and birds shit on it. From PayPal, it will sell to Ebay for $1.5 Gig, and Musk will clear $180 Meg after taxes. But both of these first companies will have been tumultuous, with Musk generally loosing control. But remember, now he has $180 Meg, and he has just turned 30yo. He did some jobs and internships in college, but post graduating, NO JOBS! And he basically started with nothing. SJG Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Knife Edge - Live in Switzerland, 1970 [view link] The Middle East's cold war, explained [view link]
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    James Wasserman's books about the Knights Templar: The Templars and the Assassins : the militia of Heaven / by James Wasserman ; including In praise of the new knighthood by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, translated by Lisa Coffin. (2001) An illustrated history of the Knights Templar / James Wasserman ; with contemporary photos of Rome and Jerusalem by Steven Brooke and France by Vere Chappell.(2006) Templar heresy : a story of gnostic illumination / James Wasserman with Keith Stump and Harvey Rochman. (2017) SJG ELP Tarkus [view link]
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    Elon Musk [view link] So this is really interesting. On to his third company, Space X, and his first wife, Justina Wilson. So it is striking how much new material Musk had to master for each of these companies, in order to be able to chart out new territory. Always getting involved in things he had no real prior experience in. First child died at the age of 10 weeks from SIDS. So in the years which followed Justina gave birth to twins, followed by triplets. Might have been some medical technology involved in this. Sounds strange, strange response to death of first. Need to read more about this to better understand. So there are also some other books mentioned. Rocketeers : how a visionary band of business leaders, engineers, and pilots is boldly privatizing space / Michael Belfiore. (2007) [view link] Rocket propulsion elements / George P. Sutton, Oscar Biblarz. (2010) [view link] Aerothermodynamics of gas turbine and rocket propulsion / Gordon C. Oates. (1997) [view link] And then I also take note of: Modern engineering for design of liquid-propellant rocket engines / Dieter K. Huzel and David H. Huang (1992) [view link] Orbital mechanics for engineering students / Howard D. Curtis, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida. (2014) ( will entail some very cool mathematics ) [view link] Introduction to space dynamics / by William Tyrrell Thomson ( 1986, originally 1961, obviously some very cool stuff to today implement on personal computer ) [view link] Fundamentals of astrodynamics / [by] Roger R. Bate, Donald D. Mueller [and] Jerry E. White ( Dover, originally 1971 ) [view link] SJG
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    So reading about Elon Musk, having cleared $22 Meg from Zip2 and $180 Meg from PayPal, he was largely his own VC. He was getting into extremely ambitious things, like Space X. Months and months testing rocket engines on 300 acres in Texas, these usually exploding. Then out in the Marshall Islands, trying for a first launch. So many times having to back off as something was wrong, months and months. Very competent people, but still approaching it with a shoot from the hip method, as is often the case with Silicon Valley startups. Finally a launch, but it exploded after 25 seconds, debris fell back on the launch pad and into the water. Then over a year later, one which really did get into orbit, but as the last of the fuel for the second stage was being used, it too exploded. 4 years in, and still no successful launches and no revenue, but lots of very capable people on the payroll. Few other than Musk would have tried this. And then company 4, Tesla, the name having come from others, but Musk becoming the largest investor. Trying to build their Lotus based 2 seater, lots and lots of problems, but few would even be willing to risk the money, and the effort, besides Musk. Musk was able to do this and sell cars, not because they were practical, but because he made having one into a status symbol. And then with Model-S, so big, so expensive, even more so. Here they are all over the roadways. And then the potential for batteries to explode, and exploring that. They demoed the 2 seater, driving Arnold Schwarzenegger around in one. But they had to swap cars every 5 minutes because of over heating problems, and only one guy, the electric car expert, was authorized to drive them because they were actually very fragile. SJG
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    ^^^^ They recognized right off that a sports car is the way to go, not necessarily because of high top speed, but because of high acceleration at street legal speeds. And then the good aerodynamics are how you get the range. So an SUV would be the worst. But this was before model X SJG
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    So getting the Tesla Roaster going was extremely hard, 4 years, and still sinking. Trying to manufacture motors and electronics in Taiwan and China. Lots of trouble. Trying to assemble battery packs in Thailand. There they use factory buildings which are just a concrete slab and 4 poles holding up a roof. They do this because of humid weather. But it is not clean enough. Eventually had to bring much of this back to LA. France to make the plastic body panels, and Lotus in UK to make the frames. All in all very complex and very costly. Wanted to sell for $85k. VC's sent very capable trouble shooter, found that cars would cost $200k to make. Wanted to sell firm, the plan B, mostly for its intellectual property. But Elon held fast and really took over. They were going to slug it out. He also started shifting the talk to model S. Lots of trouble with Roadster transmission. Mechanical transmission was to have 2 forward speeds. UK firm was to design it. They did not expect any problems [view link] First one failed immediately, some failed at 150 miles. Best mean time between failures they ever got was 2000 miles. Usually if done right, a from the ground up EV does not need multiple speeds. But also, look at when Cadillac was making FWD transverse, they had it so the differential and the automatic transmission were entire concentric. Really interesting. Cadillac is back to rear wheel drive not, but I suspect that those transaxles are still used for Buick and Chevrolet. EV still needs differential. With out without mulitple gears, it could all be made concentric with a dry electric motor. Anyway, Tesla had to redesign much of the vehicle to get it meet the high acceleration specs with just one forward gear. Tesla did not work much with Detroit, believing that they knew better. But auto industry firm hired found 14 separate problems with the 2 speed mechanical transmission, each being able to cause premature failure. Zip2 and Paypay short fused, giving Musk $22 meg and $180 meg respectively. But Space X and Tesla being long term yield. Musk actually has to work every day to make these go. He is not just gambling, he is solving the problems. I laugh at some of the imbeciles on this board who talk about gambling on the stock market, making trades with really no info to speak of, as proof that they 'have the balls'. SJG
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    So Musk likes to do concrete factor floors in high gloss epoxy, very light grey. How much $, how hard to do, what about concrete cracks? Then white paint on the walls. Makes it look up beat, no real line between factory and office. I would still say you need some carpet to reduce noise. Musk uses cubicles, these have some sound dampening. Musk has this J. B. Straubel, one of the most hands on experienced EV people on the planet. Knows batteries, motors, electronics, and everything else need to build a car. [view link] Built 944 EV [view link] I had seen some of these 914 EV's [view link] SJG Simians, Cyborgs, and Women [view link] [view link]
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    Ideally and EV can use series and parallel motor windings and battery connections, to get high performance with just one mechanical gear. Diesel - Electric Rail Locomotives have always worked like this, not needing mechanical gear changes. SJG
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    Compiler Construction by Niklaus Wirth [view link] This should be the last Writh book for me. The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity by Laszlo Boszormenyi (Editor), Jurg Gutknecht (Editor), Gustav Pomberger (Editor) [view link] Looks good, but not really in libraries SJG The Lifestyle, erotic rights of swingers [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link]
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    Liber Chaos, by Peter J. Carroll, I believe his second book [view link] SJG
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    Gary Lachman, writes great books, this about the late Colin Wilson, whom he knew quite well. Lachman is about the only one I would trust to write about Wilson. [view link] So Wilson completed his first novel, "Ritual In The Dark", but it was not published until later, and after a total re-write. It is about the nature of sex. Wilson's first published work was "The Outsider" 1956. [view link] Some time after that he started calling his non-fiction works, "The New Existentialism" There were about 6 of them. This was before he took to writing about murder and the occult. [view link] So just to call attention to some of this non-fiction Religion and the Rebel (1957) Origins of the Sexual Impulse (1963) Beyond the Outsider (1965) and then there is this, as people challenged Wilson on the idea of there being female outsiders: Outline of the Female Outsider (1994) Except for the above, its all available in libraries. In The outsider Wilson starts out talking about: [view link] [view link] Barbusse was a member of the French Communist Party Originally Wilson proclaimed himself a supporter of Socialism, because his hero, George Bernard Shaw was a Socialist. But then upon researching Shaw to write about him, Wilson took exception to Shaw's arguments, so Wilson never again supported Socialism. And Wilson took exception to those of the London Left, like John Obrien "Look Back In Anger". Also discussion of H. G. Wells, and in particular his last work: [view link] "Wells's extensive writings on equality and human rights, most notably his most influential work, The Rights of Man (1940), laid the groundwork for the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the United Nations shortly after his death." [view link] SJG I've listened to Lynn Harrell twice live Yuja Wang & Lynn Harrell: Rachmaninov Sonata for Cello & Piano in G minor [view link]
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    H. G. Wells [view link] The rights of man, or, what are we fighting for? / H. G. Wells ; with an introduction by Ali Smith. (1915) [view link] available in libraries SJG
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    Not endorsing these sources: H.G. Wells Elite Manifesto - What you Didn't Learn in School w/ Wayne Jett [view link] Healing Teeth & Regrowing Enamel, Most Dentists in the Dark [view link] SJG
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    Teeth [view link] SJG
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    Oil Pulling, for teeth [view link] [view link] SJG
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    So ready to read the chapter, 'After The Outsider' in Gary Lachman's book about Colin Wilson. Lachman does an outstanding job of explaining what The Outsider was about. But now reading, Liber Chaos, by Peter J. Carroll. SJG
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    So reading Liber Chaos, by Peter J. Carroll. Besides referencing his first book, Liber Null, another importance reference is Pratchett, Terry, The Colour of Magic, 1991 [view link] in libraries, along with his zillions of other books, Pratchett, 1948 - 2015 Stephen Hawking, Brief History of Time, 1990, important influence on physics. James Gleick, Chaos, Making a New Science, 1988 ( claims it is flawed ) Aleister Crowley's books, though Samuel Weiser Austin Ausman Spar, through Rising Sun Publications, Glasgow Scottland SJG
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    Anyone have any knowledge of these books, any experience with this series of books Pratchett, Terry, The Colour of Magic, 1991
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    Anyone have any knowledge of these books, any experience with this series of books: Pratchett, Terry, The Colour of Magic, 1991 [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] SJG Yuja Wang & Lynn Harrell: Rachmaninov Sonata for Cello & Piano in G minor [view link]
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    Loretta Lynn, very different from Tammy Wynette [view link] [view link] Bro-Topia [view link] Devil's Bargain [view link] SJG
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    Artesia, New Mexico, population 11k, South West NM [view link] Rotate view to your right, to see the building. [view link] [view link] I thought there were a few clubs in Las Cruces, The Truck Stop With A Stripper Pole in Moriarty, and I though a few more in Albuquerque, like about 6 total. Artesia also has a high voltage DC transmission system [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] SJG Support Single Moms [view link]
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    Physics Texts Someone just gave me a copy of: [view link] But the cover is torn off. Its from 1990. When people want to educate themselves, you don't need to have the newest edition. Though it does help to have a few different texts, written by different people. The community is saturated with books like this that are getting dumped in all different ways. Huge, and beautifully written too. These should be getting into our public libraries. In the organization I am building, we will have tons and tons of such books. I am going to glue the cover back on. Hard to write such a book and do a good job up through the 19th century physics. If you do, not room for relativity, quantum mechanics, nuclear and high energy physics, or astrophysics. Modern physics just does not fit without making it way way too big. SJG Arnold Schönberg: Pélleas und Melisande op.5 (1903) [view link] Support Single Moms [view link]
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    So continuing with Peter J. Carroll's "Liber Chaos" He talks about Chod Rituals, seemingly adapted from Tibetan Buddhism [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] SJG
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    C extension [view link] Five Sting Bass, starting at B [view link] Five String Bass, tuned in fifths. Makes sense to me as rest of violin family is this way, and perfect temper tuned 5th is very close to natural interval 5th. Not so of 4th or 3rds. [view link] Upton Bass, Connecticut [view link] Lemur Music, San Juan Capistrano CA. 5 string bass. Might be larger body than most common E A D G bass. Would be very heavy. [view link] Mistuning, Pines of Rome needs B. I had thought it was Bb. [view link] [view link] [view link] Should make no-body stand up electric bass, 5 string version, no frets. [view link] Need to prepare that C tuning for a very important and much anticipated return! SJG
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    Robert Fritz, Path of Least Resistance [view link] A kind of anti-motivational book, even seeming to be an occult inspired book. Fritz is a musician and a composer [view link] [view link] SJG
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    Elementary Linear Algebra, by Howard Anton, 4th Edition, 1973 - 1984, and also another special student solutions manual Anton also has other books, about calculus [view link] in academic libraries SJG Led Zeppelin II, Whole Lotta Love [view link]
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    Sun Microsystems News [view link] Tiny Homes Festival [view link] $3.45 Gig San Jose budget, as always, mostly designed to help real estate profiteers. [view link] SJG
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    San Mateo County suing over opioid crises! [view link] Big changes near Five Wounds Church [view link] Electricity Sharing, blockchain? Bit Coin? [view link] Historic Hank Coca's Furniture Building Sold [view link] SJG Neil Young Southern Man [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Girl knows how to dress to please: [view link] [view link]
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    California Homelessness: [view link] SJG
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    America's Uncivil War has broken out: [view link] SJG
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    San Jose: Two people dead after light-rail train, car collide [view link] Not far from the downtown, and one of the more heavily used and convoluted parts of the light rail route. SJG
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    small, but potentially useful, 3 sizes: [view link] [view link] biggest size is fifth wheel, so it still only needs one axle. But in Minnesota.
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    [view link] Each of the three sizes can have its uses, but the 16' appeals to me, largest bumper tow size. Many floor plans, expand your pdf viewer to read nomenclature. Quite a flexible design, more flexible than most travel trailers. Probably you won't be using a super small tow vehicle anyway, so no problem. Still a very easy tow. SJG 10 Warning Body Signs You Shouldn't Ignore [view link]
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    Kavanaugh Confirmation [view link] Feinstein, Kamala Harris join Democratic attacks at Brett Kavanaugh hearing [view link] Harris: 'We cannot possibly move forward' with Kavanaugh hearing [view link] The Hill's Reid Wilson: Kamala Harris sees Kavanaugh hearing as a political opportunity [view link] SJG A specter is haunting Europe [view link]
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    Amazon(dot)Com, not a nice place to work: [view link] SJG Universe 1971 (FULL ALBUM) [Hard | Blues Rock] [view link]
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    Imagining Life After Capitalism What can Star Trek tell us about life after capitalism? Peter Frase discusses four possible futures in a world where workers are increasingly being replaced by machines — ranging from communist and socialist societies to ones in which workers are literally disposable. (Encore presentation.) Resources: Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism Verso, 2014 [view link]
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    I hate this Neo-Liberal MF Asshole: Entrepreneurial nation : why manufacturing is key to America's future / Ro Khanna (2012) And I want to run him out of elected office! He also wrote a forward to this: Raise capital on your own terms : how to fund your business without selling your soul / Jenny Kassan ; foreword by Congressman Ro Khanna (2017) SJG I'll have this book about the opera Carmen in hand soon. Georges Bizet : his life and work / Winton Dean. (1965) Carmen, full opera [view link] Okay, this Indiana University version is playing now. It is from their 2015-2016 season. [view link] Better way to get to it: Part 1 [view link] Part 2 [view link] And here, program with some commentary: [view link] So lets see how some of this sounds when played fixed pitch, i.e. organ: [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Hal Ashby [view link] [view link] Obama Delivers Stinging Rebuke, Standing Up To Bullies, not following them. [view link] Roe v. Wade in Danger: Released Docs Reveal Kavanaugh Thinks Abortion Decision Is Not “Settled Law” [view link] As 400+ Children Remain Separated From Parents, Trump Admin Wants to Detain Kids Indefinitely [view link] Mason, 1971 [view link] Hypercapitalism : the modern economy, its values, and how to change them / Larry Gonick, Timothy Kasser. (2018, graphic novel) [view link] HEADSTONE CIRCUS - Headstone Circus - 1968 (FULL ALBUM) [Psychedelic Rock] [view link]
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    In hand right now, Postmodern MAGIC, by Patrick Dunn (Llewellyn 2005) Donald Michael Kraig likes this book, more than the Peter J. Carroll Chaos Magic books. SJG Elliot Rodger Manifesto, 2014, 11 hours, human voice reading [view link] [view link] Baker Gurwitz Army Clark Kerr: Knowledge Industry [view link] Mario Savio on the operation of the machine [view link] Mario Savio Memorial Lecture: Robert Reich on Class Warfare in America [view link]
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    Just learned that there was a precursor to the Incel / PUA / Manosphere Movement, and it promotes some of the same ideas: True Forced Loneliness Sandman Video [view link] The Danger Of The "True Forced Loneliness" Movement [view link] True Forced Loneliness [view link] So this is it, Bill Greathouse TFL at war ?? [view link] Disclaimer, I do not agree with PUA, MG-TOW, or with Sandman. So this is he, Bill Greathouse, TFL ? [view link] SJG Founder, please open our threads back up! These threads are what give TUSCL its character.
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    Plan to be requesting this soon: The assassins : the story of medieval Islam's secret sect / W.B. Bartlett. (2002) Original Thread: [view link]
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    Simians Cyborgs and Women [view link] Cyborg Manifesto, full text [view link] And we must not forget Valerie Solanas 1967 SCUM Manifesto ( Society for Cutting Up Men ) [view link] SJG BAKER GURVITZ ARMY - Hearts On Fire [view link]
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    Not finding much in libraries about Martinism. People talking about Nag Hammadi and Valentinian versus Sethian Gnostics. Might fit,but certainly not part of historical Martinism The Martinist uses two “books” in this work: one is the Book of Nature and the other the Book of Humanity [view link] An AMORC booklet, 22 pages, links to others. The two books of Martinism are similar. One, “The Book of Man,” contains the truths of the little world, or microcosm. The other, “The Book of Nature,” explains the universe, the great world, or macrocosm. Martinism states that in man’s original and superior existence both [view link] Lots of online articles, like an initiatic teaching. [view link] AMORC doesn't seem to be in libraries, but the books exist. [view link] notice A. E. Waite and Robert Ambelain A. E. Waite has written lots of books. Some like him, some do not. But there is: The unknown philosopher; the life of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin and the substance of his transcendental doctrine The secret societies of all ages and countries / a comprehensive account of upwards of one hundred and sixty secret organizations--religious, political, and social--from the most remote ages down to the present time, by Charles William Heckethorn. Simon Magus: Theosophical Classics by Jules Doinel Modern Martinism, by A. E. Waite not in libraries SJG
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    Marinist Doctrine, 4 pages [view link] SJG
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    Books as recommended by the British Martinist Order [view link] Most though not true 'Martinist' sourced books. From AMORC Imperetor, a good guy, Christian Bernard, 7 pages [view link] more book refs, but most of this stuff is not in libraries, though clearly good: [view link] SJG TJ Street [view link] [Talk Gnosis] An Introduction to Martinism [view link] Simians Cyborgs and Women [view link] Cyborg Manifesto, full text [view link] And we must not forget Valerie Solanas 1967 SCUM Manifesto ( Society for Cutting Up Men ) [view link] BAKER GURVITZ ARMY - Hearts On Fire [view link]
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    Martinism ( AMORC ) [view link] SJG
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    So it looks like to learn about Martinism, A. E. Waite will be the way to go. Any other texts would be found online. Not sure if I am going to read them now, or if I am going to start with Eliphas Levi. I think Eliphas Levi, but Waite is one of his translators. SJG LifeBoat Forum [view link] [view link] [view link] Martinism [view link] Talk Gnosis: The Rosicrucians part 1, Dr. Jeffrey S. Kupperman [view link] [Talk Gnosis] Martinism & Gnosticism [view link] Gnostic Sex [view link] Thelema and Gnosticism [view link] Early Christian Magic [view link] Killing Me Softly [view link] [view link] Elysian Encounter-Baker Gurvitz Army - playlist full album [view link]
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    OT: Book Publishing Industry [view link] So what seems to be available of Eliphas Levi, and some translated from French by A. E. Waite Transcendental Magic (1856) The History Of Magic (1860) The Great Secret; or Occultism Unveiled (1868) The mysteries of the Qabalah, or, The occult agreement of the two testaments. Talks about Ezekiel and Revelations SJG
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    So as there are not that many books available about Martinism, and because Matinism predates the 19th Century Eliphas Levi, let me look to it first: Three famous mystics: Saint-Martin / by Arthur Edward Waite ... Jacob Boehme, by W.P. Swainson; Swedenborg, by W.P. Swainson. (1940) The unknown philosopher; the life of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin and the substance of his transcendental doctrine (1970 R. Steiner Publications ) SJG Bruce Chilton [view link] [view link] Everything for everyone : the radical tradition that is shaping the next economy / Nathan Schneider. (2018) Clamato, great tomato juice for drinking straight. [view link] Motts LLP Plano TX [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link]
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    The best of the Equinox. Volume III, Sex magick / Aleister Crowley ; introduction by Lon Milo DuQuette. The Rosicrucians : the history, mythology, and rituals of an esoteric order / Christopher McIntosh. (1997) Rosicrucian trilogy : Fama Fraternitatis, 1614 ; Confessio Fraternitatis, 1615 ; the Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz, 1616 / the three original Rosicrucian publications in new translations by Joscelyn Godwin, Christopher McIntosh, & Donate Pahnke McIntosh. Gardens of the gods : myth, magic and meaning / Christopher McIntosh (2005) SJG Interesting Old Thread Favorite Strip Clubs of San_Jose_Guy? [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Nirvana - Aneurysm (Live at Reading 1992) [view link] Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live at Reading 1992) w/ surprise into [view link]
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    QSR Automations, restaurant automation [view link] cool stuff [view link] industrial box computers [view link] SJG Why I’m Proud To Be A Middle-Aged Stripper [view link] Baker Gurwitz Army Live [view link] San Jose underground, thanks to Jackslash for finding this: [view link] Howlin' Wolf [view link] FIAT Nuevo 500 Abarth [view link]
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    So dosen't this guy look like Neil Young? [view link] Has he mastered old guy cool or what? I think young strippers would really go for him. But he has got to really be what he looks like he is. Seems to be so. So high tech titans talking with ????? Saudi Arabia's Royal Money And Blood Men! And also local politicos. [view link] Some of the names mentioned: This past April, the 33-year-old royal stayed at East Palo Alto’s Four Seasons Hotel to hobnob with Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and the search giant’s CEO Sundar Pichai, among a who’s-who of Silicon Valley titans, including Palantir’s Peter Thiel, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and Y-Combinator’s Sam Altman. So what does it mean for power brokers to have national sovereignty? Mostly it just means that they can execute people. 48 beheadings in Feb. Virtual Reality Pioneer Jaron Lanier Makes the Case for Opting Out of Social Media Jaron Lanier speaks [view link] Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now [view link] and also: The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity [view link] SJG QSR Automations, restaurant automation [view link] Louisville, KY 40223 [view link] Canada Burnaby, BC V5A 4V7 Why I’m Proud To Be A Middle-Aged Stripper [view link] Baker Gurwitz Army Live [view link] San Jose underground, thanks to Jackslash for finding this: [view link] Howlin' Wolf [view link] FIAT Nuevo 500 Abarth [view link]
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    The Dawn of a New Everything, Jaron Lanier (2017) This guy is interesting. [view link] SJG Mainstreet [view link] Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty [view link] Golden Earing ~ Radar Love (extended) 1973 [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Attributed to Denis Diderot, "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
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    Two books written about the same time which seem to span the chasm between religious and occult kabbalah Kabbalah : three thousand years of mystic tradition / Kenneth Hanson (1998) Heavenly powers : unraveling the secret history of the Kabbalah / Neil Asher Silberman (1998) SJG Why I’m Proud To Be A Middle-Aged Stripper [view link]
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    What do you think occultant sorcerers would say about the magic I create in my bedroom every day?
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    The magic you create in your bedroom, and every day, well that is the objective. That is how sex is liberated from consumerism and from herd think. We have to turn sex into magical ritual. And that is the purpose of the organization I am building. But people have to be led into it gradually. [view link] [view link] [view link] And then with practitioners like Kenneth Grant and Nema. And here in this, The Islamic Occultists, and one of their Priestesses, initiate an Templar Knight, someone bound by a vow of celibacy, into magical sex. [view link] Sex Magic is one of the underlying themes in all Western and Eastern Occultism. But sometimes it is just being implied, but not actualized. SJG So this small Richard Rorty book is very good and very easy to understand, a kind of anti-philosphy, following on what he wrote in his much larger and more challenging "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature": [view link] Two books written about the same time which seem to span the chasm between religious and occult kabbalah Kabbalah : three thousand years of mystic tradition / Kenneth Hanson (1998) Heavenly powers : unraveling the secret history of the Kabbalah / Neil Asher Silberman (1998) Why I’m Proud To Be A Middle-Aged Stripper [view link]
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    So I want to look at something new, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 - 1716) [view link] and his idea of the Monad. What does it entail, what does he mean by it, and where from did it come? Main interests Mathematics, physics, geology, medicine, biology, embryology, epidemiology, veterinary medicine, paleontology, psychology, engineering, linguistics, philology, sociology, metaphysics, ethics, economics, diplomacy, history, politics, music theory, poetry, logic, theodicy, universal language, universal science Notable Ideas: Calculus Monads Best of all possible worlds Pre-established harmony Identity of indiscernibles Matrix (mathematics) Leibniz integral rule Principle of sufficient reason Notation for differentiation Product rule Vis viva Boolean algebra Salva veritate Stepped reckoner Symbolic logic Semiotics Analysis situs Law of Continuity Transcendental law of homogeneity Ars combinatoria Calculus ratiocinator Leibniz's notation Characteristica universalis Problem of why there is anything at all Pluralistic idealism Metaphysical dynamism Relationism Apperception A priori/a posteriori distinction Influences: Scholasticism, Suárez, Descartes, Hobbes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Bossuet, Pascal, Confucius influenced: Berkeley, Platner, Voltaire, Hume, Kant, Russell, Wiener, Gödel, Riemann, Gauss, Lagrange, Euler, Heidegger, Peirce, Benoit Mandelbrot, Wundt, Frege, Rescher Monads: [view link] exposited in Monadologie [view link] The Monadology, online [view link] like about 8 pages [view link] Here, 13 page pdf [view link] So what was Leibniz into? " The general view of scholars is that the Kabbalah had no appreciable influence on the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. But on the basis of new evidence, Professor Coudert argues that this conclusion is mistaken. Leibniz was neither the foolish optimist Voltaire made him out to be in Candide nor the supreme rationalist described by so many subsequent scholars. He was a radical gnostic, whose philosophy was profoundly influenced by the Lurianic Kabbalah. Once this somewhat startling fact is understood, key areas of his philosophy, such as his concept of monads, defense of free will, and theodicy, can be seen in entirely new ways, which solve many of the problems that have perplexed scholars. This book is for all levels of readers, from those with a general interest in intellectual history to specialists in philosophy, the history of science, theology, and Jewish studies. " Just as I had suspected, like Baruch Spinoza before him. 226 pages, Coudert is at UC Davis and has written a lot of interesting books. [view link] [view link] Yep, chapter 4, 21 pages, "Kabbalah and Monads" ^^^^^ Well not really available But available: Alchemy, the philosopher's stone / Allison Coudert. (1980) And published just after her Liebniz book, which also tied Liebniz to van Helmont The impact of the Kabbalah in the seventeenth century : the life and thought of Francis Mercury van Helmont (1614-1698) / by Allison P. Coudert (1998) Religion, magic, and science in early modern Europe and America / Allison P. Coudert (2011) SJG A much loved company and website back into action, enjoy: [view link] Lou Reed - Egg Cream [view link] [view link], Golden Gate Bridge [view link]
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    So I want to continue looking into the above: Here is some about the Coudert book [view link] Here is full text of some kind of an essay she wrote: [view link] and then look at this: [view link] 10 page pdf from AMORC's Rosicrucian Digest [view link] Daniel C. Matt, many books, but also God and the Big Bang (2016) [view link] God & the big bang : discovering harmony between science & spirituality / Daniel C. Matt. (2016 edition) 16 page PDF [view link] I think same article, in Tikkun [view link] So I am planning on letting some threads die off and close, unless someone else has something to add. For myself, I have run out of things to say. The Levels of PLdom [view link] Elliot Rodger, Isla Vista Shooter 2014 [view link] Car Keys and Wallet Dating [view link] ... tried to distance himself from Nazi policies and was never held accountable [view link] Yippie, Dow drops 831 points! [view link] Sex In The Home Of Your Parents? [view link] So What Do Women Like To Read? [view link] ***************************************** So then the current open threads: Vocels (Voluntary Celibates) [view link] Bible and related materials [view link] OT: Anglo-American Philosophy from Hobbes forward [view link] OT: Assembler, C/C++, Embedded Systems, Machine Architectures, Development Systems, JTAG, Rust [view link] American's Will Not Be Free Until The Last Preacher Has Been Strangled To Death By The Entrails Of the Last Libertarian. [view link] The Ultimate Thread: SJG's Soap Box [view link] JavaScript & jQuery [view link] OT: Mathematics [view link] R Programming Language [view link] OT: PC-AT Numeric Key Pad, who used it, and for what? Like it? [view link] OT: Book Publishing Industry [view link] SJG Nirvana - Come As You Are [view link] This song in my head last night. It must be in the Key of D. Most everyone can hear relative pitch. But very few can hear absolute pitch. The reason every key sounds different is because the percussion tuning is not changed. Musicians deny that percussion is tuned to any specific pitch, saying that rather it is just tuned until it sounds right. But that is silly, because that is exactly how a violin is played, by making it sound right. Tympani tunes with a crank handle, and it has a gauge right on it. So the kick drum is tuned to A of the 16ft octave, the same as the second to lowest string of a four string bass, 55 hz. All the drums are tuned. These kind of songs are always in D. I think it has something to do with that A note, the dominant. So to really know you almost have to play along with it. The D scale has F and C sharped. But it can be done with accidentals too. And some music revolves around other notes than the tonic. Some is Mixolyidian and so it revolves around the dominant and has the 7th ( C# ) flatted. Lots of ways. In the end it is just listening to it and trying to play along which will resolve this. This ends on the D major triad and the chorus versus end on the D major triad. Usually that is the final determinant of what key it is in. Alternate guitar tuning is being used, one suggestive of D. [view link] [view link] [view link] Wicked Temptations, how life should be: [view link] Lust, red only [view link] [view link] Black Sabbath - Paranoid (Full Album) [view link]
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    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [view link] " Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was one of the great thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and is known as the last “universal genius”. He made deep and important contributions to the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of religion, as well as mathematics, physics, geology, jurisprudence, and history. Even the eighteenth-century French atheist and materialist Denis Diderot, whose views were very often at odds with those of Leibniz, could not help being awed by his achievement, writing in his entry on Leibniz in the Encyclopedia, “Perhaps never has a man read as much, studied as much, meditated more, and written more than Leibniz… What he has composed on the world, God, nature, and the soul is of the most sublime eloquence. If his ideas had been expressed with the flair of Plato, the philosopher of Leipzig would cede nothing to the philosopher of Athens.” (Oeuvres complètes, vol. 7, p. 709) Indeed, Diderot was almost moved to despair in this piece: “When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz, one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.” (Oeuvres complètes, vol. 7, p. 678) More than a century later, Gottlob Frege, who fortunately did not cast his books away in despair, expressed similar admiration, declaring that “in his writings, Leibniz threw out such a profusion of seeds of ideas that in this respect he is virtually in a class of his own.” (“Boole's logical Calculus and the Concept-script” in Posthumous Writings, p. 9) The aim of this entry is primarily to introduce Leibniz's life and summarize and explicate his views in the realms of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical theology. " To me it seems like Leibniz must be highly influenced by Kabbalah and Neo-Platonism, basically the Western Occult Tradition. Francis Mercury van Helmont [view link] SJG JS69 Front Room Makeout Session [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Joe Bonamassa - "Midnight Blues" - Beacon Theatre - Live From New York [view link] Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa- I'd Rather Go Blind [view link] Joe Bonamassa - "Sloe Gin" - Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] God in the 21st Century: Bishop John Shelby Spong [view link] Bishop John Shelby Spong(9am) - "From a Tribal God to a Universal Presence: The Story Of The Bible" [view link] Jesus for the non religious - Retired bishop John Spong on religion. [view link] Is the Bible a source of Truth - Bishop John Spong [view link]
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    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz : the work of the great universal scholar as philosopher, mathematician, physicist and engineer / Karl Popp, Erwin Stein (editors). (2000) SJG TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link]
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    So how about Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677 ) [view link] [view link] and above talks about: The essential Kabbalah : the heart of Jewish mysticism / [compiled and translated with notes by] Daniel C. Matt. [view link] The influence of Abraham Cohen de Herrara's kabbalah on Spinoza's metaphysics / by Miquel Beltran 2016 Abraham Cohen de Herrara (1570 - 1635 ) [view link] [view link] The kabbalah and Spinoza's philosophy as a basis for an idea of universal history, Harry Waton, 2 volumes, 1932 available don't know that this institute still exists [view link] SJG [view link] Joe Bonamassa - "Sloe Gin" - Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks [view link] And now his own forum, harmonic notes: [view link] Midnight Blues [view link] Guitar Harmonics [view link] Beth and Joe - Black Coffee ( a Steve Marriott song, quite a vocal legend to try and imitate ) [view link] Beth and Joe - I'd Rather Go Blind ( Live Amsterdam ) [view link] Robin Trower, live ( more harmonic notes ) [view link]
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    Spinoza's metaphysics : essays in critical appreciation / edited by James B. Wilbur (1976) SJG
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    Henry More [view link]
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    Matinism [view link] Martinist Order and Synarchy [view link] Manifestations of the Marinist Order [view link] Robert Ambelain [view link] Old Templar Church [view link] Martinist Doctrine [view link] The Way Of The Heart, Papus [view link] Ecclesia Gnostica, Stephan A. Hoeller [view link] The Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm [view link] Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis Misraïm e of Memphis-Misraïm: An International Order Diwali [view link] The true and invisible Rosicrucian Order : an interpretation of the Rosicrucian allegory and an explanation of the ten Rosicrucian grades / Paul Foster Case. (1981 Weiser reprint ) Table of contents PART ONE: THE ROSICRUCIAN ALLEGORY 1 (152) The Beginnings of Rosicrucianism 3 (4) Fama Fraternitatis of the Meritorious Order of the Rosy Cross 7 (12) The Confession of the Rosicrucian Fraternity 19 (10) The Inner Meaning of the Manifestoes 29 (8) Our Father and Brother, C.R.C. 37 (28) The Journey, the Initiation, and the Founding of the Order 65 (34) The Rosicrucian Agreement 99 (6) The Vault of Brother C.R.C. 105 (28) Symbolism of the Rose-Cross 133 (10) Rosicrucian Religion and Politics 143 (10) PART TWO: THE TEN ROSICRUCIAN GRADES 153 (156) The Grades of the Order 155 (6) The Grade of Zelator (1 = 10) 161 (14) Doctrines of the Grade 165 (5) The Thirty-second Path 170 (5) The Grade of Theoricus (2 = 9) 175 (12) Doctrines of the Grade 176 (7) The Thirty-first Path 183 (2) The Thirtieth Path 185 (2) The Grade of Practicus (3 = 8) 187 (10) Doctrines of the Grade 188 (9) The Grade of Philosophus (4 = 7) 197 (16) The Twenty-ninth Path 197 (2) The Twenty-eighth Path 199 (2) The Twenty-seventh Path 201 (2) Doctrines of the Grade 203 (10) The Grade of Lesser Adept (5 = 6) 213 (22) The Twenty-sixth Path 215 (3) The Twenty-fifth Path 218 (5) The Twenty-fourth Path 223 (5) Doctrines of the Grade 228 (7) The Grade of Greater Adept (6 = 5) 235 (18) The Twenty-third Path 237 (4) The Twenty-second Path 241 (3) Doctrines of the Grade 244 (9) The Grade of Exempt Adept (7 = 4) 253 (18) The Twenty-first Path 254 (5) The Twentieth Path 259 (3) The Nineteenth Path 262 (3) Doctrines of the Grade 265 (6) The Grade of Magister Templi (8 = 3) 271 (12) The Eighteenth Path 271 (4) The Seventeenth Path 275 (4) Doctrines of the Grade 279 (4) The Grade of Magus (9 = 2) 283 (14) The Sixteenth Path 285 (1) The Fifteenth Path 286 (2) The Fourteenth Path 288 (3) Doctrines of the Grade 291 (6) The Grade of Ipsissimus (10 = 1) 297 (12) The Thirteenth Path 298 (7) Doctrines of the Grade 305 (4) AFTERWORD 309 (10) The Inner School 311 (8) Looks like it starts at the Malkuth sphere on the Tree of Life, so all 22 paths plus all 10 sephiroth. The Rosicrucians : the history, mythology, and rituals of an esoteric order / Christopher McIntosh. (1997) Rosicrucian trilogy : Fama Fraternitatis, 1614 ; Confessio Fraternitatis, 1615 ; the Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz, 1616 / the three original Rosicrucian publications in new translations by Joscelyn Godwin, Christopher McIntosh, & Donate Pahnke McIntosh. (2016) The Rosicrucian enlightenment revisited / John Matthews [and others] ; introduction by Ralph White (1999) The invisible history of the Rosicrucians : the world's most mysterious secret society / Tobias Churton. (2009) Rosicrucian history and mysteries / by Christian Rebisse ; [translated by Richard Majka]. (2005) The Rosicrucian enlightenment / Frances A. Yates. (2002) The Rose Cross Meditation : an archetype of human development / Rudolf Steiner ; selected and compiled by Christiane Haid (2016) The secret history of the world / Mark Booth. (2008) The inner West : an introduction to the hidden wisdom of the West / edited and introduced by Jay Kinney. (2004) SJG Baker Gurwitz [view link]
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    So what do we find for Paul Foster Case? Besides True and Invisible, we find one of two books on the Tarot. The tarot : a key to the wisdom of the ages : the classic guide / by Paul Foster Case. How about Rudolph Steiner? Mystics of the renaissance and their relation to modern thought : including Meister Eckhart, Tauler, Paracelsus, Jacob Boehme, Giordano Bruno, and others / by Rudolf Steiner ... authorized translation from the German by Bertram Keightley (1911) Knowledge of the higher worlds and its attainment / Rudolf Steiner. (1937 3rd edition. I think this is what most people read of his ) Christianity as mystical fact and mysteries of antiquity (1947) Cosmic memory ( from him this kind of a book would be real interesting ) The essential Steiner : basic writings of Rudolf Steiner / edited and introduced by Robert A. McDermott Theosophy : an introduction to the supersensible knowledge of the world and the destination of man / by Rudolf Steiner The foundation stone ; The life, nature and cultivation of anthroposophy / Rudolf Steiner. An outline of esoteric science / Rudolf Steiner ; translated by Catherine E. Creeger. Esoteric Christianity and the mission of Christian Rosenkreutz : twenty-three lectures given between 17 September 1911 and 19 December 1912 / Rudolf Steiner. Foreword ix Marie Steiner The Christ Impulse and Historical Development Lugano, 17 September 1911 1 (14) Locarno, 19 September 1911 15 (16) Buddha and Christ. The Sphere of the Bodhisattvas Milan, 21 September 1911 31 (14) Rosicrucian Christianity Neuchatel, 27 September 1911 45 (13) Neuchatel, 28 September 1911 58 (12) The Etherisation of the Blood Basle, 1 October 1911 70 (23) Jeshu ben Pandira and the Christ Impulse Leipzig, 4 November 1911 93 (19) Leipzig, 5 November 1911 112 (18) The Christ Impulse as Living Reality Munich, 18 November 1911 130 (15) Munich, 20 November 1911 145 (6) Faith, Love, Hope. The Third Revelation to Mankind Nuremberg, 2 December 1911 151 (19) Nuremberg, 3 December 1911 170 (18) Cosmic Ego and Human Ego. Supersensible Microcosmic Beings. The Nature of Christ Munich, 9 January 1912 188 (24) The Dawn of Occultism in the Modern Age Kassel, 27 January 1912 212 (9) Kassel, 29 January 1912 221 (9) The True Attitude to Karma Vienna, 8 Feburary 1912 230 (16) Intimate Workings of Karma Vienna, 9 February 1912 246 (15) The Death of a God and Its Fruits in Humanity Dusseldorf, 5 May 1912 261 (14) Address Given at the Opening of the Christian Rosenkreutz Group Hamburg, 17 June 1912 275 (8) The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz. The Mission of Gautama Buddha on Mars Neuchatel, 18 December 1912 The fourth dimension : sacred geometry, alchemy, and mathematics : listeners' notes of lectures on higher-dimensional space and of questions and answers on mathematical topics / Rudolf Steiner ; introduction by David Booth. Steiner has dozens and dozens of books. SJG
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    Jean Gebser [view link] The ever-present origin / Jean Gebser ; authorized translation by Noel Barstad and Algis Mickunas. Georg Feuerstein, lots of books on yoga and tantra. But also interprets Gebser Structures of consciousness : the genius of Jean Gebser : an introduction and critique / Georg Feuerstein Gebser has also influenced the works of Ken Wilber SJG Ekaterina Mechetina plays Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 [view link] Baker Gurvitz [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link]
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    SJG, following the link you have on your profile to your google site, I have a couple of questions. [view link] 1) is the guy hugging the bidet your mug? 2) You need to tell Mary to update the page since she seems to be the only one updating it and some of the links do not work. 3) Is Mary your mom or are you actually Mary? If she is your mom, what does she think about all the pics of strippers on the page? 4) Wonder what all those kids spelling out SJG would think if they knew they were on a website detailing strippers and sex? Edit log: Oct 15, 2018, 8:01 PM Mary Carroll edited Home Apr 5, 2018, 7:22 PM Mary Carroll edited Home Oct 10, 2016, 8:59 PM Mary Carroll edited Rosicrucian Park Oct 10, 2016, 8:38 PM Mary Carroll edited Home Oct 10, 2016, 8:37 PM Mary Carroll edited Rosicrucian Park Oct 10, 2016, 8:35 PM Mary Carroll edited Rosicrucian Park Oct 10, 2016, 7:59 PM Mary Carroll edited Untitled Oct 10, 2016, 7:59 PM Mary Carroll edited Untitled Oct 10, 2016, 7:57 PM Mary Carroll edited Rosicrucian_Park Oct 10, 2016, 7:46 PM Mary Carroll created Rosicrucian_Park Oct 10, 2016, 7:12 PM Mary Carroll edited Home Oct 6, 2015, 5:14 PM Mary Carroll edited Home Oct 6, 2015, 5:11 PM Mary Carroll edited Home Oct 6, 2015, 5:05 PM Mary Carroll edited Mexico Oct 6, 2015, 4:57 PM Mary Carroll edited Mexico Oct 6, 2015, 4:54 PM Mary Carroll edited Mexico Oct 6, 2015, 4:50 PM Mary Carroll edited Home Oct 6, 2015, 4:47 PM Mary Carroll edited Home Sep 6, 2015, 4:53 PM Mary Carroll edited Las Chavelas Sep 6, 2015, 4:51 PM Mary Carroll edited Las Chavelas Sep 6, 2015, 4:49 PM Mary Carroll edited Home Sep 6, 2015, 4:45 PM Mary Carroll edited Las Chavelas Sep 6, 2015, 4:43 PM Mary Carroll edited Las Chavelas Sep 6, 2015, 4:39 PM Mary Carroll edited Las Chavelas Sep 6, 2015, 4:26 PM Mary Carroll created Las Chavelas
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    So going back to Allucquere Rosanne Stone, References Donna Haraway, Jurgen Habermans Communication an the Evolution of Society 1979 Fredric Jameson, Jacques Lacan, and Merleau-Ponty SJG Waring of Rising Nationalism [view link] [view link] [view link]! Adam Hochschild [view link] Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, underneath the Arch of Triumph, should be visible from this East side angled view [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Theatre Chochotte - Paris [view link] Hookers in Paris [view link] Baker Gurwitz [view link]
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    God & the big bang : discovering harmony between science & spirituality / Daniel C. Matt. (2016) [view link] [view link] video, Daniel C. Matt, God and the Big Bang [view link] Stan Tenen The Alphabet In Our Hands, Part 1: The God of Abraham, A Mathematician's View [view link] SJG Bernhard Riemann [view link] Riemann, topology, and physics / Michael Monastyrsky ; with a foreword by Freeman J. Dyson. (1999) Saturday I reported on a man who had vanished from a 49er's stadium game the previous Monday. Saturday they found a body in the water near the old unused Alviso Marina and some old concrete boat ramps. The stuff is unused because silt comes in from the bay and fills it up. I have years ago explored all around there. It is interesting, but even in the day time potentially dangerous. I once got stuck hip deep in mud and a shoe came off. Getting my foot back into the shoe I was able to recover it. But I was taking more risks in doing so. This man was in the military, maybe Special Forces. So likely he handles himself quite well in the outdoors, even at night. Not sure if any conclusions have been reached, but to me it sounds more and more like a suicide. Left his cell phone, battery run down to zero, in his car at the stadium. Also left his girl friend and her two kids there. But talking on the phone and using video up until the point he vanished. [view link] [view link] Here SJPD say that the body was found floating face down about 1 mile out from the Marina and the Ramps. [view link] [view link] I believe that police probably have more tidbits of information which they are not going to disclose until they are ready to close the case. In a homicide it is usually those closest to the deceased who did it, and they are exposed by the contradictions in their stories. To me, this is sounding more and more like a suicide. Here it sound like he was found at the boat launch, though those concrete ramps are unusable do to silt. [view link] [view link] Still waiting to hear that they have confirmed the identity, and then of course for any conclusions. [view link] Jeff Healey Band, full concert [view link] Theatre Chochotte, Paris [view link] [view link] Here, outside view, use zoom outs and changing back to maps to see exactly where this is: [view link] Inside scene [view link] 34 Rue Saint-André des Arts, 75006 Paris, France Here: [view link] Very close to the Seine and to the Luxembourg Gardens park. [view link] [view link] [view link] Here, their own page: [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Emmanuel Marcon ‘Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism’ [view link] The US and Russian leaders listened in silence as Mr Macron took a swipe at the rising tide of populism in the US and Europe, warning: “The old demons are rising again, ready to complete their task of chaos and of death.” “In saying, ‘Our interests first, whatever happens to the others’, you erase the most precious thing a nation can have, that which makes it live, that which causes it to be great and that which is most important: its moral values.” [view link] [view link] [view link] EXPLORING PARIS: The Red Light Sex Shop Area (Pigalle) [view link] [view link]
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    Philosopher Tobias Rees Raises a Question Everyone Thinks is Already Settled Tobias Rees asks: 'What is human, anyway?' [view link] " The distinction between what is human and non-human is one of the most fundamental ideas of our shared consciousness. You figured out that distinction pretty early on in childhood, and you've never questioned it since. That is, unless your name is Tobias Rees. An anthropologist and philosopher, Rees is the director of something called the "Transformations of the Human" program at the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles. He's also the keynote speaker on Nov. 26 in the Deep Humanities series at San Jose State University. " " Rees points to studies of the "micro-biome," the enormous and complex ecosystem of bacteria that thrives in every healthy human body. "We don't really know where the human being ends and the micro-biome begins," he says. "Most of the neurotransmitters in your brain were made by bacteria." " " Rees says the general scientific concept of the human is only a few hundred years old, and emerged from the European Enlightenment. It was a concept that led directly to ideas of natural rights and to revolutions in America and France. " " The notion that AI will bring on an existential crisis in humanity has already been broached in popular culture, particularly in films such as 2014's Ex Machina, in which Oscar Isaac's Silicon Valley AI wizard ruminates about the future: "One day, the AIs are going to look back at us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa: an upright ape, living in the dust, with crude language and tools, all set for extinction." " [view link] Designs for an anthropology of the contemporary / Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, with James D. Faubion and Tobias Rees (2008) SJG [view link] An Introduction to Heidegger: Being and Time [view link] Bill Moyers, Forrest Church Interview [view link] Stravinsky: The Firebird / Gergiev · Vienna Philarmonic · Salzburg Festival 2000 [view link] So you folks like these no proscenium concert halls? Disney Music Center [view link] San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, not designed that way. [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link]
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    Sex Tra******g? I say this woman is wrong, particularly about the United States and about California. She teaches at CSU Chico. She talks about the Central Valley, and she talks about International Blvd Oakland. Maybe there are once and a while occurrences like she describes, but as I can see it is very rare. Other types of crime and other types of child abuse are far more common than what she describes. I say that this woman has a highly distorted perception because she has a problem about sex. What do you think? Hidden in plain sight - slavery in your Community: Dr. Kate Transchel at TEDxChico [view link] SJG
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    Silicon Valley, highest gender wage gap: [view link] SJG
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    So I also recently saw: [view link] And right next to it was the full unabridged version, from Institute of Carmelite Studies, about double the above book. Surprisingly related to occultism, you would be surprised! The guy has got intellectual influences like the Neo-Platonist, Pseudo-Dionysius. And it connects with occult thinking. SJG TJ Street [view link]
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    It took the Catholic Church a long time to cannonize John of the Cross, and longer to make him Doctor of the Church. In Carmelite circles you may not see this, but he has always been controversial. [view link] "The influence of the Song of Songs on the Spiritual Canticle has often been noted, both in terms of the structure of the poem, with its dialogue between two lovers, the account of their difficulties in meeting each other and the "offstage chorus" that comments on this action, and also in terms of the imagery of pomegranates, wine cellar, turtle dove and lilies, for example, which echoes that of the Song of Songs." "It has rarely been disputed that the overall structure of John’s mystical theology, and his language of the union of the soul with God, is influenced by the pseudo-Dionysian tradition.[52] However, it has not been clear whether John might have had direct access to the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius, or whether this influence may have been mediated through various later authors. " [view link] Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite [view link] Mystery Schools, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and the "Platonic Underground" [view link] SJG Yanis Varoufakis: Is Capitalism Devouring Democracy? [view link] TJ Street [view link]
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    So the genealogy to get from Pre-Socratics and Plato, to Pseudo Dionysus and to John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila? Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (fl. c. 650—c. 725 C.E.) [view link] Right here, Pseudo-Dionysius, complete works: [view link] But who did he learn from? [view link] " Dionysius is the author of three long treatises (The Divine Names, The Celestial Hierarchy, and The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy) one short treatise (The Mystical Theology) and ten letters expounding various aspects of Christian Philosophy from a mystical and Neoplatonic perspective. Presenting himself as Dionysius the Areopagite, the disciple of Paul mentioned in Acts 17:34, his writings had the status of apostolic authority until the 19th century when studies had shown the writings denoted a marked influence from the Athenian Neoplatonic school of Proclus and thus were probably written ca. 500. " 35 (36? ) doctors of the church [view link] Seems to list them [view link] Lists them, says there are 36 such doctors [view link] Neo-Platonism and Christiantiy [view link] Dionysius the Areopagite [view link] [view link] Still not clear what the genealogy of ideas was. SJG Nicki Minaj [view link] Merkaba - Chariot of the Gods [view link] Ever notice that Stephen Spielberg's films always include appearances of the Chariot, and that always before these there is silence and a void? Often such appearances mean that someone is going to die violently. Chariot of God: Merkabah Mysticism - Vision of Ezekiel [view link] Christ of the Apocalypse, from one of the doorways to Chartres [view link] The Merkaba Explained IN DETAIL From Lightworkers org [view link] Manly P Hall - Merkabah, Mystical Disciplines [ MUST LISTEN ] [ Connects Ezekiel's Chariot to the Islamic Legend of the Flying Carpet / Prayer Rug ] [view link] ^^^^ Talks much about Moses Maimonides [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link]
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    So if Church says that Moby Dick is the greatest work of American literature, and that there is no final interpretation, then how could their ever be a final interpretation on the Bible? [view link] So curiously F. Forrester Church is also writing about Dionysus Seems to be talking about the real Dionysius the Areopagite. Says that since we cannot say what God is, the best way of describing him is by saying what his is not. He is not "illiberal". SJG Baby's Looki' Hot [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link]
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    WARNING - The following accounts are considered to be forum trolls and may not be trustworthy: san_jose_guy - commonly referred to as SJG this forum member is usually mocked or ignored, his comments should NOT be taken in any way as legitimate
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    This tiny house movement and linking this to the enforcement of move on laws is no good. This is going to lead to interment camps. [view link] It will be like the John Sobrato internment camp they tried to build, using shipping containers as tiny houses, all stacked up. It was designed to funnel people into the mental health system. And of course they would also be exposed to the Born Again Christian ministries. Fortunately he was defeated, but Pierreluigi Oliverio ran for County Supervisor, wanting the 'mentally ill' to be subjected to forcible medication. They are trying to turn poverty and homelessness into a mental health issue. Local government works in tandem with the Recovery Movement and with the Born Again groups. People need to wise up and start fighting back. Oliverio sighted his brother, who he wants forcibly medicated. So he is the good child, where as the brother is the scapegoat child. And then the Recovery groups and the Born Again groups both destroy political consciousness. SJG
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    Talking about a housing shortage and building more housing does nothing to stop the above abuses. The people who support that have themselves scapegoat siblings who often live on the street or worse. SJG
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    So what do I have for today? The Liberal Catholic Church [view link] [view link] Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, Complin. Vespers has become the most popular of these, being well adapted to use as a public evening service. The psalms, heralded by the key-thoughts of their respective antiphons, serve to attune the mind to the glory of the deity. The Little Chapter and hymn introduce other notes. Then the whole culminates in the great outpouring of praise at the Te Deum or the Magnificat and comes to a fitting conclusion in the peace and calm of the collects and final versicles. [view link] [view link] [view link] Krishnamurti [view link] Krishnamurti School, Ojai CA. [view link] Ancient Martinist Order AMO [view link] Ecclesia Gnostica [view link] [view link] [view link] Way of the Heart [view link] Gnostic Sanctuary [view link] Old Templar Church [view link] Nancy Wake: Gestapo's Most Wanted (French Resistance Documentary) [view link] [view link] Rosicrucian and Marinist Books, AMORC France INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE OF ESOTERIC STUDIES (AMO) [view link] SJG
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    Old Krotona, Hollywood, built 1912, then moved to Ojai 1926 should be pics of it: [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] So been thru Ojai CA on bicycle trips. Beautiful. But never looked into the Theosophical Society of the associated Liberal Catholic Church. [view link] This bookshop could have been the place I saw in my dream. Hard to tell yet. [view link] [view link] As I know this is the enduring legacy of H. P. Blavatsky and J. Krisnamurti. 2 Krotona Street Ojai CA 93023 805-646–2653 [view link] [view link] Use zoom outs so see where this is: [view link] Theosophy [view link] Library [view link] Accommodations Application, has rules! [view link] Teachings [view link] Most esoteric groups believe something like this, and many cite H. P. Blavatsky as the genius behind all of it: [view link] [view link] 1502 East Ojai Avenue in Ojai, California [view link] Theosophical Ideas [view link] World View [view link] Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine [view link] Krotona Morning, Ojai CA [view link] Krotona Fountain [view link] more videos [view link] [view link] [view link] SJG Rarely are people called upon to show moral the kind of moral courage needed by those who served in French Resistance Nancy Wake: Gestapo's Most Wanted [view link] [view link] Gary Clark Jr. - Bright Lights and notice Doyle Bramhall II, playing left handed and with a left hander's body, but with it strung for a right hander. Look close and you can see this, and if you listen to him play and watch closely you can hear it. He learned always using borrowed guitars from right handers [view link] [view link] [view link]
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    So continuing to look into this Theosophical Society / Krotona, to find out its history, about the people, see what it is all about. One problem with Esoteric / Occult groups is that they are often aligned with the Right, or they claim to be apolitical, which makes them also aligned with the Right. Maybe this one is not that way? Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Russian, 1831 to 1891. Co-Founded Theosophical Society 1875. It would be hard to over estimate her influence [view link] Hated Christianity. As such, also disliked Judaism. Co-Founded Theosophical Society with Henry Steel Olcott ( lived until 1907) HQ for Theosophical Society was in India. Olcott was President of it up until his death. [view link] Documentary About Blavatsky [view link] "In November 1889 she was visited by the Indian lawyer Mohandas Gandhi, who was studying the Bhagavad Gita with the Keightels. He became an associate member of Blavatsky's Lodge in March 1891, and would emphasize the close connection between Theosophy and Hinduism throughout his life." Hollywood Krotona Hangout [view link] What is Theosophy? [view link] Krotona [view link] built in 1912, on 10 acres, a community, included sometimes Mary Astor and Charlie Chaplin. The Hollywood Krotona building located at Primrose and Vista Del Mar was erected in 1919. Seems to be an apartment building now, either this 2130 address, on the viewer's right. Or by the sign, the parking lot. [view link] Vista Del Mar and Primrose is here: [view link] Alice Baily, 1880 - 1949 was one of the early members [view link] about Hollywood Krotona [view link] " Ever wonder about the mecca of Moorish homes up in Beachwood Canyon? From 1912 to 1924, a plot of land nested up in the Hollywood Hills served as the national headquarters for the Theosophical Society. Named Krotona, the commune was a haven for followers of the mystical movement founded by Helena P. Blavatsky, whose principles included the promotion of unity across all sexes, colors, castes and creeds; compassion for all living beings and dedication to the “Divine Wisdom.” The man behind the 10-acre community was Albert Powell Warrington, who transformed canyons into a secluded sanctuary for Theosophists, writes Hadley Hall Meares for Curbed LA. In her latest piece, she uncovers the history of Beachwood Canyon’s early bohemian colony: " Here also, up behind the Hollywood Krotona, Cloistered Dominican Nuns [view link] [view link] Still a very widely read book, 1877 [view link] full text? [view link] [view link] SJG Headstone Circus [view link]
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    Okay, so this is the guy behind the Hollywood Krotona. A banker Albert Powell Warrington [view link] Close to Annie Besant President of the American Theosophical Society, 1912 - 1920. Also involved in the move to Ojai. Annie Besant [view link] born 1847, London passed away just before her 85th bday, 1933 1927 purchased land for Happy Valley Foundation, Ojai CA. Elected President of Theosophical Foundation 1907 ( succeeding Olcott ) Progressive Activist! " Around the time of her marriage Annie visited some friends in Manchester, where she got into contact with both English radicals and the Irish Fenian Martyrs of Manchester. Through elderly lawyer William Roberts, much loved by the workers of Manchester for his unpaid work on their behalf, she became acquainted with the conditions of the urban poor. All this awakened her political and social consciousness. After her marriage Annie began to support farm workers who were fighting to unionise and to win better conditions; her husband sided with the landlords and farmers. During her marriage and soon after her separation, Annie began to lose her faith in Christianity and gradually fell into atheism and the Freethought movement, which sought to alleviate human suffering through education and social reform. In the summer of 1874 she became a member of the National Secular Society. In 1875, she would be elected as its vice-president. During this stage of her life she would become a remarkable supporter of freedom of thought, women's rights, secularism, birth control, Fabian socialism and workers' rights. At the head of the movement was Charles Bradlaugh, who soon developed a close relationship with Besant. He was the editor of the radical newspaper the National Reformer and gave her a job working for it as a columnist and reviewer. During the next few years she wrote many articles on issues such as marriage and women's right to vote, trade unions, national education, birth control, and the abolition of capital punishment. At this time Besant also developed a reputation as an outstanding public speaker. Her first talk was on "The Political Status of Women" and it was a success, printed later as a pamphlet. Besant began to lecture around the country, sometimes along with Bradlaugh, sometimes by herself, and soon became one of the most prominent champions of atheism and freethought in Britain. Besant and Bradlaugh became household names in 1877 when they republished a pamphlet promoting birth-control by the American Charles Knowlton entitled The Fruits of Philosophy. The work claimed that in order to be happy, working-class families had to be able to decide how many children they wanted. The pamphlet was highly controversial and caused a real scandal, especially among the religious establishment. It was vigorously opposed by the Church and eventually banned as an "obscene work." They were arrested and put on trial; charged with publishing material that was "likely to deprave or corrupt those whose minds are open to immoral influences." In court they argued that "we think it more moral to prevent conception of children than, after they are born, to murder them by want of food, air and clothing." During the trial Besant was instrumental in founding the Malthusian League, which would advocate for the abolition of penalties for the promotion of contraception. She wrote and published her own birth-control pamphlet with a "less coarse" style entitled The Laws of Population. The idea of a woman advocating birth-control received wide-publicity. Newspapers like The Times accused Besant of writing "an indecent, lewd, filthy, bawdy and obscene book." They were both found guilty of publishing an "obscene libel" and sentenced to six months in prison. However, the conviction was quashed on appeal due to a technicality. In spite of the legal victory, Annie had to pay a terrible price for the scandal. Rev. Besant used the publicity of the affair to file a case for the custody of their daughter Mabel. He was able to persuade the court that she was unfit to look after her on the grounds of Annie being an atheist, associated to infidel Charles Bradlaugh, and promoter of an indecent obscene pamphlet. The loss of her two children caused her great grief. When they grew up, however, they both became devoted admirers of their mother. " In the United States, Mrs. Besant purchased land in 1927 to establish the Happy Valley Foundation in Ojai, California. A school was not formed immediately, but with the efforts of J. Krishnamurti and others, the Besant Hill School of Happy Valley now operates on that site. In the United States, Mrs. Besant purchased land in 1927 to establish the Happy Valley Foundation in Ojai, California. A school was not formed immediately, but with the efforts of J. Krishnamurti and others, the Besant Hill School of Happy Valley now operates on that site. Theosophical Emblem [view link] Besant Hill School ( Ojai ) lists Besant, Krishnamurti, and Aldous Huxley as founders [view link] Besant was a Fabian Socialist [view link] [view link] [view link] Kabbalah Music [view link] Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1895 - 1986 [view link] [view link] Annie Besant was a leftist. Maybe not the most radical, but a leftist, socialist, pro-contraception and family planning, and abortion, progressive educationalist. SJG
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    To really understand, need to find books about each of the above mentioned persons. Founder, re-open our old threads. Only way we can maintain topical diversity. SJG
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    So what more can I find out. Vice President Henry A. Wallace was part of the Theosophical Society, until resigned when he became part of the FDR Admin, probably for political reasons. [view link] Helena Roerich [view link] Roerich Pact [view link] Roerich [view link] Theosophy In Times of War [view link] Theosophy and the Second World War [view link] Joined all US services, raised war bond money, criticized Gandhi for his pacifism. Criticize US for its neutrality. Liberal Catholic Church [view link] Theosophical Connection to the US Civil Rights Movement, through India, founding the Indian National Congress, 1885, and through Gandhi and the Gita, connecting then to MLK [view link] Some criticism of Blavatsky. What they fault her for was common among occultists of that era, Steiner, Heindel. [view link] “The Fire and Light of Theosophical Literature”, by Carlos Cardoso Aveline [view link] INSTANT THEOSOPHY :- What is a Monad? [view link] [view link] [view link] What is a Monad? - Computerphile Uses Haskil [view link] Monad, drawing from Pythagoreans and from Leibniz [view link] Monad [view link] Haskell Language [view link] Egregore [view link] "The term Theosophy comes from the Greek theosophia, which is composed of two words: theos (god, gods, or divine) and sophia (wisdom). Theosophia, therefore, may be translated as the wisdom of the gods, wisdom in things divine, or divine wisdom." "Theosophy, also known as Christian theosophy and Boehmian theosophy, refers to a range of positions within Christianity which focus on the attainment of direct, unmediated knowledge of the nature of divinity and the origin and purpose of the universe. They have been characterized as mystical and occultist philosophies.[1] Theosophy is considered part of Western esotericism, which believes that hidden knowledge or wisdom from the ancient past offers a path to enlightenment and salvation. The foundation of Christian theosophy is usually attributed to the German philosopher Jakob Böhme. In 1875, the term "theosophy" was adopted and revived by the Theosophical Society, an esoteric organisation which spawned a spiritual movement also called Theosophy.[2] In the twentieth century, theosophy became the object of study for various scholars of Western esotericism. " [view link] [view link] [view link] Blavatsky [view link] The Irony of Apoliticism in Theosophy | Socialism, Communism, and Globalism (2018) [view link] Theosophical Socialism, Rohit Mehta [view link] Theosophical Socialism - Rohit Mehta , 1937, full text online 505 pages Occultist Identity Formations Between Theosophy and Socialism in fin-de-siècle France in Numen Author: Julian Strube 1 [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Isis [view link] Neo-Platonism [view link] [view link] Theosophy any of a number of philosophies maintaining that a knowledge of God may be achieved through spiritual ecstasy, direct intuition, or special individual relations, especially the movement founded in 1875 as the Theosophical Society by Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907). [view link] Joy Mills [view link] Joy Mills, lived till 2015, President till 1974 [view link] This I believe is Fascist and Evil: [view link] Joy Mills [view link] Secret Doctrine 100 years later with Joy Mills ( videos ) [view link] Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna), 1831-1891. The key to theosophy. : An abridgement / edited by Joy Mills. (1972) Dark star rising : magick and power in the age of Trump / Gary Lachman. (2018) "Did positive thinking and mental science help put Donald Trump in the White House? And are there any other hidden powers of the mind and thought at work in today's world politics? In Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump, historian and cultural critic Gary Lachman takes a close look at the various magical and esoteric ideas that are impacting political events across the globe. From New Thought and Chaos Magick to the far-right esotericism of Julius Evola and the Traditionalists, Lachman follows a trail of mystic clues that involve, among others, Norman Vincent Peale, domineering gurus and demagogues, Ayn Rand, Pepe the Frog, Rene Schwaller de Lubicz, synarchy, the Alt-Right, meme magic, and Vladimir Putin and his postmodern Rasputin. Come take a drop down the rabbit hole of occult politics in the twenty-first century and find out the post-truths and alternative facts surrounding the 45th President of the United States with one of the leading writers on esotericism and its influence on modern culture." Madame Blavatsky : the mother of modern spirituality / Gary Lachman. (2012) Lachman writes extremely good books! A dark muse : a history of the occult / Gary Lachman. (2005) [view link]. "The occult was a crucial influence on the Renaissance, and it obsessed the popular thinkers of the day. But with the Age of Reason, occultism was sidelined; only charlatans found any use for it. Occult ideas did not disappear, however, but rather went underground. It developed into a fruitful source of inspiration for many important artists. Works of brilliance, sometimes even of genius, were produced under its influence. In A Dark Muse, Lachman discusses the Enlightenment obsession with occult politics, the Romantic explosion, the futuristic occultism of the fin de siècle, and the deep occult roots of the modernist movement. Some of the writers and thinkers featured in this hidden history of western thought and sensibility are Emanuel Swedenborg, Charles Baudelaire, J. K. Huysmans, August Strindberg, William Blake, Goethe, Madame Blavatsky, H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, and Malcolm Lowry." Annie Besant : a biography / Anne Taylor (1992) The key to theosophy. : An abridgement / edited by Joy Mills. (1972 by Blavatsky ) Krishnamurti, 7 minutes video [view link] From the outer court to the inner sanctum / Annie Besant. ( she has lots of books, most published by Theosophical Society ) The ancient wisdom : an outline of theosophical teachings. (1966, Annie Besant, 7th edition ) Joy Mills [view link] The Search For Truth ( good stuff about Theosophical thinking ) [view link] SJG
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    Gary Lachman on Madame Blavatsky [view link] I'm sure this is good! Lachman writes extremely good books. Credited as Gary Valentine, he was the original bass player for Blondie. SJG
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    So trying to learn as much as I can now about this Theosophical Society. Will need to read books, but I am already reading all the books I can. Founded in 1877, lots of bad press about it since. But remember, the main problem with Esoteric Groups is that they are either of the Right Wing, overtly or covertly, or they are New Age Lint Head groups. Well, it was Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society which first encouraged Gandhi to ignore the Christian Missionaries and read the Gita. And it was his deciding that it should not be read as a literal prescription, which resulted in his doctrine of non-violence. And then during two world wars the Theosophical Society had its members joining every branch and sub branch of the US Armed Services, criticizing Gandhi for his pacifism, and criticizing the US for its neutrality. California has lots and lots of Esoteric - Occult groups. But the Theosophical Society had Charlie Chaplin and Aldous Huxley. That is a very long way from being represented by imbeciles like John Travolta and Tom Cruise. So this Richard Smoley was the editor of the awesome but short lived San Francisco based Gnosis Magazine. [view link] Smoley is a completely straight arrow and completely level headed, and he has written many most interesting books. The Shamanic Vision [view link] Richard Smoley: Magic and the Occult [view link] [view link] So the world wide HQ is in India, where the group was started. The US HQ is in Wheaton IL, about 40 miles West of Chicago. [view link] And then they have a place in San Francisco. I believe it is this 809 Mason St. [view link] I believe Smoley is speaking to us, 2018, from the San Francisco address. But this is done from Wheaton [view link] [view link] [view link] The Theosophical Society : the history of a spiritualist movement / Jeffrey D. Lavoie (2012) The California experience : a literary odyssey / [edited by] Warren A. Beck (1976, deals with lots of stuff, but Krotona between the wars ) The key to theosophy : being a clear exposition in the form of question and answer of the ethics, science and philosophy for the study of which the Theosophical (1968, written by Blavatsky, but I think edited by others since ) SJG The Arsenal Of Democracy (December 29th 1940) [view link] Joe Jackson - Breaking Us In Two [view link] To my ear this is an extremely sad song. A lot of emphasis on minor triads Breaks some of the conventions for guitar music, using lots of slash cords, and this F# Major. Black key music, okay for keyboard, but not common for guitar because it uses no open string notes. Are his people using an alternative tuning? [view link] [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link]
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    Founder, please unlock our old threads. Too time consumptive to keep a bunch of topical threads going. Try to learn more about Theosophical Society [view link] World View [view link] " The universe and all that exists within it are one interrelated and interdependent whole. Every existent being-from atom to galaxy-is rooted in the same universal, life-creating Reality. This Reality is all pervasive but it can never be summed up in its parts, since it transcends all its expressions. It reveals itself in the purposeful, ordered, and meaningful processes of nature as well as in the deepest recesses of the mind and spirit. Recognition of the unique value of every living being expresses itself in reverence for life, compassion for all, sympathy with the need of all individuals to find truth for themselves, and respect for all religious traditions. The ways in which these ideals become realities in individual life are both the privileged choice and the responsible act of every human being. Central to the concerns of theosophy is the desire to promote understanding and unity among people of all races, nationalities, philosophies, and religions. Therefore, all people, whatever their race, creed, sex, caste, or color, are invited to participate equally in the life and work of the Society. The Theosophical Society imposes no dogmas, but points toward the source of unity behind all differences. Devotion to truth, love for all living beings, and commitment to a life of active altruism are the marks of the true Theosophist. " Christian Ritual in Theosophical Perspective [view link] Okay, the basic membership fee is $60 per year. ( Quite reasonable, far less than AMORC ) [view link] This has got a lot more lodges and study centers than I ever would have imagined. So it must have people and money. If not a religious org, then it has to pay property tax. Has an extensive collection of articles to communicate its teachings. But it does not seem to be like AMORC or BOTA, with weekly lessons, or with initiations. [view link] Kern Foundation [view link] SJG Gary Clark Jr. - Bright Lights [view link] Joe Bonamassa - "Midnight Blues" - Beacon Theatre - Live From New York [view link] TJ Street Girls [view link] [view link] [view link] Real TJ Street [view link] [view link]
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    So many books to read, too many! Founder, please open our threads back up and keep them open. The posts will be better! SJG The Jeff Healey Band - Live In Belgium (Full Concert 1993) [view link] Richard Smoley: Who Were the Essenes? [view link] Gregg Braden - The 7 Essene Mirrors [view link]
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    Quest Books (Theosophical Society) [view link] Quest Bookshop [view link] SJG
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    The Theosophical Society in America: An Illustrated History [view link] Theosophy UK Manly P Hall The Murdered Mystic [view link] The Theosophical Society: An Invitation to Serve [view link] SJG
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    Feel that I am now getting to understand how the Theosophical Society works, but still need to know more about its teachings and its members. SJG Official Parking Lot Bouncer As Most Diverse Congress in History Takes Office, Dems Push to End Shutdown Without Funding for Wall [view link] 'Leaked' Video Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Proves She... Has Friends, Can Dance [view link] [view link] [view link] Edwin Starr [view link] [view link] War - The World Is a Ghetto 1972 Full Album [view link] How To Tell If Someone Is Truly Smart Or Just Average [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Warren Haynes ­with Joe Bonamassa -- Guitar Center's King of the Blues 2011 [view link] Beth & Joe - I'd Rather Go Blind - Live in Amsterdam [view link] Beth & Joe - I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know - Live in Amsterdam [view link] Amazing Performance by Gary Clark Jr. - When My Train Pulls In [view link]
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    Theosophical Society [view link] [view link] Key to Theosophy [view link] Mitch Horowitz: H. P. Blavatsky, Manly P. Hall, and the Secret Teachings of all Ages [view link] SJG SJG's New Headquarters, coming soon to a strip club parking lot near you. 12' x 20', and with over 9' of center stand up height. [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Nancy Wake, Gestapo's Most Wanted [view link] Nirvana-Come as you are lyrics [view link] Casino Royale 1967 Sound Track Album [view link] Mobile Kitchens, by Carlin, Fresno CA [view link] just saw one built in a huge 24,000 GVWR Walk-In Van, still okay for Class C License, huge diesel auxiliary power unit. Mister Bond - A Jazzy Cocktail Of Ice Cold Themes [view link] Sexiest Ladies of Jazz - The Trilogy! - Full Album - New 2017 [view link] Hard to believe, but they are really using this same song: U2 New Year's Day (Full Version) [view link] [view link] Soundgarden Half, playlist [view link] Mitch Horowitz: H. P. Blavatsky, Manly P. Hall, and the Secret Teachings of all Ages ( really good ) [view link] Rashida Tlaib [view link] on impeaching Trump [view link] [view link] [view link]
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    Best thread ever on tussle
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    Thanks! SJG
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    Masonry and the Theosophical Society [view link] SJG Steve Blank, Lean Startup Model [view link] [view link] Baker Gurvitz Army - Love Is / Memory Lane / Drum Solo / People - Live 1975 (Remastered) HD [view link] Deep Purple - Lazy [view link] THE MOODY BLUES - RIDE MY SEE-SAW [view link] THE GUESS WHO - NO TIME [view link] Ep. 002 - Masonic Heroes of the Holocaust [view link] Video podcasts [view link]
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    Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, by Michelle Goldberg (2006) [view link] So long I have wanted to read this critical book. " Again and again while reporting for Salon, I'd had the sense that liberals and conservatives no longer merely had divergent values--they occupied different realities, with contradictory facts, histories, and epistemologies. " And she explains that the Evangelical Christian Movement is "hydra-headed". She credits some folks as helping, starting with the long respected Chip Berlet [view link] Alfred Ross [view link] [view link] [view link] Dan Quinn [view link] Adrienne Verrilli [view link] Rob Boston [view link] SJG Daath The Doorway to Knowledge [view link] Steve Blank [view link] [view link] Freemasonry is inherently opposed to slavery but what slavery remains for us to fight against today? [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Gary Clark Jr. - Bright Lights [view link] Black Sabbath - Paranoid (Full Album) [view link]
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    So Tim LaHaye started in 1958, with the founding of the John Birch Society. Same for a lot of these other creeps. [view link] I could not over emphasize the importance of this Michelle Goldberg book. Sounds too like she is the one who coined the term, "Christian Nationalism". It fits perfectly. [view link] wrote a book about Indra Devi [view link] SJG Carly SImon [view link]
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    Michelle Goldberg, looks to be an extensive talk about "Christian Nationalism" [view link] SJG
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    So of this Evangelical Christian movement, mostly it comes from Paul Weyrich working with the then unknown Jerry Falwell, and then those like Tim Lahey coming form the 1958 founded John Birch Society, and then Pat Robertson prints in his books all the Bircher type stuff. So people are led to believe that their Salvation Status comes from supporting the Anti-Liberal Crusade. Goldberg talks much of about Roy Moore of Alabama, and his 2.5 ton 10 Commandment monument, taken on tour around the country after it finally was removed from the Alabama Supreme Court. SJG T-Pain - Im In Love With A Stripper [view link] Tag, You're It/Milk and Cookies Double Feature [view link] w/ lyrics [view link] Daniel Castro - I'll Play The Blues For You [view link] Its not that I'm against acoustic guitar, its just that I like the electric music so much. And note the 5 string bass. Eric Clapton - Old Love (Live in Hyde Park 1997) [view link] Badge [view link] Layla [view link] Joe Bonamassa - "Midnight Blues" - Beacon Theatre - Live From New York [view link] Computer Written Music, 1 hr [view link] Joe Bonamassa - "I'll Play The Blues For You" - Live At The Greek Theatre [view link] Joe Bonamassa - "Breaking Up Somebody's Home" - Live At The Greek Theatre [view link] JEFF BECK -Brush With the Blues [view link] Jeff Beck - LIVE Full Concert 2017 ft/ Rosie Oddie [view link] [view link] Move flavors of Aiva generated music [view link]
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    Richard Smoley: The Shamanic Vision [view link] SJG Joe Bonamassa - "I'll Play The Blues For You" - Live At The Greek Theatre [view link] Nice looking, agree? [view link] [view link]
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    So Michelle Goldberg talks about: World Harvest Church Columbus Ohio and this Rod Parsley [view link] All it really amounts to is the formation of a reactionary identity, plus calling out the name of an idol. SJG Ro Khanna: Regime Change Is Not the Answer [view link] The Ancient War Between Gnostics and Neoplatonists [view link] Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism [view link] Apocalypse of the alien god : Platonism and the exile of Sethian gnosticism / Dylan M. Burns (2014) jeff healey live at nottoden 2006 [view link]
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    Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, by Michelle Goldberg (2006) pg 57 " Megachurch Machines Nowhere was the influence of the cultural right starker than in the election-deciding state of Ohio. The first Bush term wasn't very good to Ohio. Between 2000 and 2004, the state lost a quarter of a million jobs--the second worst record in the country. Under Bush, Cleveland became America's poorest big city, according to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau. Young people were leaving the state in droves. In August 2004, Brent Larkin, editorial-page director of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, wrote about Ohio's "raging brain drain." But even as the state's economy decayed, its evangelical churches thrived. Drive down Interstate 75 toward Cincinnati and the parade of neon-lit crosses flickering by from roadside churches is hypnotic. Christian talk shows, Christian pop, and portentous sermons crowd the radio dial. Near the town of Monroe, a recently erected sixty-two-foot-tall bust of Jesus made of plastic foam and fiberglass beseeches onlookers from the front of Solid Rock Church, its thick white hands raised up to heaven. " Not personally seeing why Ohio would be any different from any place else, its economy or its susceptibility to commercial fatalism. SJG Yanis Varoufakis: Socialism, Populism, Nationalism and Independence ( Aug 2018 ) [view link] Yanis Varoufakis: Has capitalism failed us? ( May 2018 ) [view link] Crazy Mini Engines [view link] Richard Smoley - The Kabbalah: Key to Hidden Knowledge [view link] Shocking Blue - Venus ( live 1969 ) [view link] Have You Seen The Saucers - live, 1970 [view link] 1957, Italy, police officer issuing a woman a ticket for wearing a bikini [view link]
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    This is fucking scary, Bush and his Faith Based Charities, basically just using tax payer money to build up the Republican Right, bringing the nations disposed to calling out the name of Jesus. [view link] And then this: [view link] SJG Sexy Girls World Map ( consider Ecuador and Argentina ) [view link] Argentina [view link] Year of the Pig [view link] TJ Street [view link]
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    In 1967, Polish mercenary Rafal Ganowicz was asked what it felt like to take a human life. He replied: "I don't know, I've only ever killed communists"
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    Reading more of Michelle Goldberg's "Kingdom Coming" These abstinence advocates are sickening. And some of the doctrin is coming right out of The John Birch Society. They even say that sex outside of marriage will make people "vulnerable to Communism". This would be impossible to parody. And as we have been talking much about abortion now. The US does have a higher teen pregnancy rate, because we have shitty sex education, corrupted by the abstinence doctrine. So what that means is, when they have sex, which they do, they will be less likely to be using any contraception. Especially for girls, they are not to be totally beyond sex, they just can't plan on it happening. That is a recipe for teen pregnancy. Talk about sex : the battles over sex education in the United States / Janice M. Irvine (2004) SJG Conscious Love with Richard Smoley [view link] Mexico City [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Ninos Heros seems to be the main street hooker place in Mexico City [view link] Calzada de Tlalpan ( its West side ) and then from Viaducto Piedad going South to Napolean. So let me see what I can find in street view: In red dress: [view link] another in red dress: [view link] Notice their rubber tired public transit train, running down the center of: Calzada de Tlalpan [view link] Black Mini Dress [view link] Hotel [view link] Red Dress in front of small hotel [view link] Giant Size PEMEX station [view link] Starting over at the Northern Boundary, as I am seeing it. [view link] Diverting Right Down Calle Segovia, not disapointed [view link] Certainly not [view link] back to going South on the East side of Calzada de Tlalpan Little bit further South than Napoleon Lots of Hotels on this East side of Calzada de Tlalpan at Napoleon [view link] [view link] Remember this awesome find? I think the effect is mainly in how she is dressed. [view link] Yes, seems to be this corner: [view link] Intersection of San Simon and Limon, next to a park, close to Catholic Church. Close to their international airport Yes, so she is about 600ft West of H. Congresso de La Union, its west side, San Simon and Limon, adjacent to a park, close to a Catholic Church, Paroquia de la Santa Cruz y Nuestra.... Parroquia de la Santa Cruz y Nuestra Señora de la Soledad [view link]
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    New Hayward Public Library, 3 stories, 58,000 sqft [view link] to open March 2019 [view link] [view link] So $40 Meg US. For 58,000 sqft, 3 stories. So this is a bit less than the $1000 / sqft estimate which cities are using. Some officials have gone to $1200 sqft. But watch out, that 58,000 sqft might not all be use able. They might be counting that central three story atrium, all three floors of it, to get the 58,000. This was Kenneth Dowlin's mistake in San Francisco in the 90's. SJG Mexico City, has so many people and cars on the streets, that if one is interested in hookers, likely best to find a bar, or you would really have to know that area. [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Richard Smoley, Inner Christianity [view link] Business Law Today, 10th and 11th Edition, Roger LeRoy Miller [view link] New, Used, purchase as ebook (pdf) and in libraries
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    New Main for Hayward Public Library [view link] Size 58,000 sqft. Cost $40 Meg. Almost ready to open. Size though is probably not really 58k sqft. It has a huge 3 story atrium in the center. Usually the count the cut away floor space as part of the total, though it is not use able. So probably it is closer to $1000 per sqft than it might look. [view link] [view link] [view link] SJG
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    So finishing up with Michelle Goldberg's Kingdom Coming. She is saying what I have been trying to say about the Christian Right for decades, only she has done the hard research to back it up. So let me try and record her a few of her remaining references: Francis Schaeffer, "A Christian Manifesto" 1981 Roger Griffin, "The Nature of Fascism" 2003 Fritz Stern, The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study In The Rise Of The Germanic Ideology" 1989 David Frum, "The Right Man" 2003 Gary Wills, "Under God: Religion and American Politics" 1990 Marvin Olasky, crazy nut case. Rick Santorum, nut case, Catholic, US Senator from PA Karen Armstrong, "The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism" 2001 Robert O. Paxton, "Anatomy of Fascism" 2005 page 210 "It makes no sense to fight religious authoritarianims abroad wile letting it take over at home?" page 209, Muslim Fundamentalist woman says at conference, "... American culture and communism are *the same*, because both are colonialist forces that assult traditional norms." page 204, Fenton Communications, handles public relations for MoveOn, put together Campaign to Defend the Constitution, grassroots group devoted to raising awareness about the Religious Right. MoveOn is the closest thing liberals have to the Christian Coalition. page 201 "It's unfair to condemn anyone for seeking redress from the Supreme Court -- African-Americans, gay people, and others are entirely justified in not wanting to put their civil rights up for popular vote." "Ever since Brown v. Board, the left has turned to the Supreme Court to defend civil liberties in the face of hostile majorities." page 199, she counts the most effective groups, ACLU, People for the American Way, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and Southern Poverty Law Center. ( all have at times received money from me. ) Redeemer Presbyterian Church, breakaway denomination, having Dr. James Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries, part of the far right. Presbyterian Church of America, another far right breakaway. Another is Evangelical Preybeterian Church. And then in recent years, Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians. All breaking away from the sensible Presbyterian Church U.S.A. Christian Reconstructionism, a crazy and frightening doctrine. Lenin's famous essay, "Socialism and Religion" World Harvest Church, far right mega church, Columbus Ohio, Rod Parsley Pastor.
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    Actually pretty funny: [view link] SJG Radio astronomy parabola project [view link] How to Build a Radio Telescope [view link] How Composers use Fibonacci Numbers & Golden Ratio | Composing with Fibonacci [view link] How to Make Plasma, and Vacuum Devices (Fusion Reactors, Magnetrons and More!) [view link] Losing Arguments with Your Wife After Her Brain Surgery - Jim Gaffigan [view link] A most impressive article: [view link] The origins of freemasonry : facts & fictions / Margaret C. Jacob. (2006) Ending the Punishment of Poverty: Supreme Court Rules Against High Fines & Civil Asset Forfeiture [view link] Frances Fox Piven, Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY [view link] [view link] NOLO, Bourbon Street [view link] AZTECA [view link] Peter Green - In The Skies ( Full Album ) 1979 [view link] [view link] I love the smell of napalm in the morning [view link]
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    What happened to the Christian Eating Lions?
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    ^^^^^^^^^ They are more numerous now. Trying to break out of having to only put on performances during the NFL season. Also trying to recreate the Long Haired Atlas, or Barbary Breed, for colder parts of the country, and trying breed some all white lions as well. But that is hard, as it is a recessive gene. No shortage of Christians to feed to them though. Check out what other countries have for Lot Lizards: SJG Oakland CA [view link] In Poland, this is what their Lot Lizards look like [view link] Italy, Lot Lizards [view link]
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    Zucked [view link] Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe [view link] "worldwide apparatus of persuasive technology designed to keep users engaged by appealing to lizard brain emotions and modifying their behavior, all while harvesting personal data and metadata to sell to advertisers" Broken Book [view link] SJG Hidden Camera inside a Freemason Lodge ???? Looks good to me! ( stripper ) [view link] Miles Davis, Love for Sale [view link]
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    California Voters Really Fucked Themselves With Proposition 13. [view link] SJG
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    ^^ you got shit for brains!
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    Let’s try to keep this thread active. It’s too legit to quit.
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    This post got more than halfway down the page. Unacceptable!
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    Days of Awe and Wonder How to be a Christian in the 21st Century Marcus J. Borg (2017) So Marcus Borg passed away in 2015. This new book is from his other writings, and from sermons and lectures. It has been put together by his wife, and by [view link] So my reading balance plan worked for over 18 months. But I need to read this stuff. But I don't like it. These guys are not going to denounce Christian identification or Sunday Sermons, because that is how they earn their livings. John Shelby Spong of course is dealing with these German Existential Theologians. These guys are challenging. Spong challenges me in every way. But still, he holds to Christian identification, and as a retired Episcopalian Bishop, he has given lots of sermons. So I want to know this material, but still not sure how many more of these books I want to read, at least at this time. So Huston Smith they say wrote a book as a corrective to Borg's Heart of Christianity. That later was interesting, but I have always taken strong exception to it. Yes, so as an interreligious type, he might be a bit further out there. [view link] This is what is supposedly a corrective to Borg: Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition, 2005 The soul of Christianity : restoring the great tradition / Huston Smith. (2005) maybe^^^^ So the authors I want to assimilate are F. Forrest Church, Marcus Borg, Bruce Chilton, John Shelby Spong, Michelle Goldberg, some of John Dominic Crossan, and some now of Huston Smith. Beyond the above its really people who are into Esoteric or Occult Christianity. So also consider: The message of Jesus : John Dominic Crossan and Ben Witherington III in dialogue / Robert B. Stewart, editor (2013) SJG Theosophical Society, on war and violence, 55min audio workshop [view link] [view link] has 7 articles Ocasio-Cortez hopes to 'break this fourth wall' by responding to 'bad-faith attacks' [view link] Alvin Lee – The Bluest Blues [view link]
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    American's United for Separation of Church and State [view link] " Government should treat all of its citizens equally. No American should be made to feel like a second-class citizen because of what he or she believes (or does not believe) about God or religion. When government sponsors prayer, displays religious symbols or includes worship in official activities, it sends a message that some faiths are preferred over other faiths or non-faith. Government should be neutral on theological questions and should never send a message like this. " SJG
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    The Essential Tillich, by F. Forrester Church [view link] [view link] Christian Existentialism, traced back to Kierkegaard [view link] Christian Existentialism often refers to what it calls the indirect style of Christ's teachings, which it considers to be a distinctive and important aspect of his ministry. Christ's point, it says, is often left unsaid in any particular parable or saying, to permit each individual to confront the truth on his own. Christian Existentialism often refers to what it calls the indirect style of Christ's teachings, which it considers to be a distinctive and important aspect of his ministry. Christ's point, it says, is often left unsaid in any particular parable or saying, to permit each individual to confront the truth on his own.[5] This is particularly evident in (but is certainly not limited to) his parables; for example in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 18:21-35). A good example of indirect communication in the Old Testament is the story of David and Nathan in 2 Samuel 12:1-14. It has been claimed that Radical Existential Christians’ faith is based in their sensible and immediate and direct experience of God indwelling in human terms.[17] It is suggested that individuals do not make or create their Christian existence; it does not come as a result of a decision one personally makes. The radical Protestants of the 17th century, for example Quakers may have been in some ways theo-philosophically aligned with radical existential Christianity. Postmodern Theology [view link] SJG - The World Is A Ghetto by War - [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] [view link] Pleaser 9 and 10 inch [view link]
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    Hoping against hope : confessions of a postmodern pilgrim / John D. Caputo. (2015) Postmodern theology : a biopic / Carl A. Raschke. (2017) Lyotard and theology : beyond the Christian master narrative of love / Lieven Boeve 2014 Rethinking New Testament Textual Criticism SJG
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    So reading Huston Smith's "Soul of Christianity" page 28, point 14. "Walnuts have shells that house kernels, and religions likewise have outsides and insides: they have outer, esoteric forms that house inner, esoteric cores. People differ on which of these stands out more clearly for them. For esoterics God is in focal view view, whereas for exoterics his created world is focal and God must be inferred from it. It follows that for exoterics this concrete and the celestial world is abstract, whereas for esoterics it is the other way around. . . . For esoterics, only God at the tip of the pyramid of virtues is completely real, and because he occupies no space he is formless. Esoterics are comfortable with this, but exoteric minds require forms -- diagrams, words, propositions -- to work with. . . . (talking about C. S. Lewis, someone who goes right up my spine, parents admonished him not to ascribe a form to God.) "Lewis tells us that he tried and tried to imagine a formless God, but the closest he could come was an endless sea of gray tapioca. Precisely! It follows that exoterics need to think of God in personal terms, where as esoterics (while sometimes clothing God in human attributes ) recognize the danger of anthropomorphism -- making God too human -- and therefore complement their "personal" God with what Lewis's parents were getting at. We requier that God be both like and unlike us -- like us so we can connect with him, and different from us because we cannot worship our own kind. Absolute imminence and absolute transcendence in absolute tension is what gives maximal tonus to our spiritual lives. (then Smith goes on to talk about Dionysius the Areopagite and how he pushed transcendence in his "The Divine Names") Smith wrote this because the publisher asked him to endorse Marcus Borg's "The Heart of Christianity". After reading some, Smith refused and told the publisher that he would write a book to refute it. To summarize, when he talks about the created world for exoterics, that means how many people show up at church. Exoteric Christianity is about keeping the pews and collection plate full, influencing how people vote, and about teaching people to say, "I Am A Christian" on queue. Smith's book, though it might not really refute Borg, it is a radically better book and the vision it puts forth is vastly broader. SJG Daniel Castro - I'll Play The Blues For You [view link]
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    V. I. Lenin Socialism and Religion 1905 [view link] " The economic oppression of the workers inevitably calls forth and engenders every kind of political oppression and social humiliation, the coarsening and darkening of the spiritual and moral life of the masses. The workers may secure a greater or lesser degree of political liberty to fight for their economic emancipation, but no amount of liberty will rid them of poverty, unemployment, and oppression until the power of capital is overthrown. Religion is one of the forms of spiritual oppression which everywhere weighs down heavily upon the masses of the people, over burdened by their perpetual work for others, by want and isolation. Impotence of the exploited classes in their struggle against the exploiters just as inevitably gives rise to the belief in a better life after death as impotence of the savage in his battle with nature gives rise to belief in gods, devils, miracles, and the like. Those who toil and live in want all their lives are taught by religion to be submissive and patient while here on earth, and to take comfort in the hope of a heavenly reward. But those who live by the labour of others are taught by religion to practise charity while on earth, thus offering them a very cheap way of justifying their entire existence as exploiters and selling them at a moderate price tickets to well-being in heaven. Religion is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man. " . . . " The revolutionary proletariat will succeed in making religion a really private affair, so far as the state is concerned. And in this political system, cleansed of medieval mildew, the proletariat will wage a broad and open struggle for the elimination of economic slavery, the true source of the religious humbugging of mankind. " [view link] SJG
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    So trying to finish up with Huston Smith's "Soul of Christianity" page 6, point number 4 "Causation is from the top down, from the Infinite down through the descending degrees of reality." This is what puts it in opposition to science. And the same holds for occultism. This kind of thinking is where kabbalah fits in too. SJG
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    So trying to finish up with Huston Smith's "Soul of Christianity" Smith quotes from a Pius IX document, saying that being part of the "church visible" is not a necessary condition for salvation. [view link] [view link] [view link] Smith, page 88 Pius IX "the natural law, the commands of which are written by God in every human heart, and being ready to obey him, live honorably and uprightly, can, with the power of Divine light and grace helping them, attain eternal life. For God, who clearly sees, searches out, and knows the minds, hearts, thoughts, and dispositions of all, in his great goodness and mercy does not by any means suffer a man to be punished with eternal torments, who is not guilty of voluntary faults." SJG
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    page 56, Smith quotes the Beatitudes, and then says, "We learn from these sayings that blessedness -- beatitude -- is not unalloyed happiness. It is paradoxical happiness, wherein the sorrow is not eliminated but is enfolded and transmuted by God's all-permeating love. In blessedness the spear of suffering is enveloped in a shaft of light. The light shines in darkness, which does not consume it." SJG
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    page 60 "I have come to set a man against his father and a daughter against her mother-in-law, and one's foes will be members of his own household." "Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters cannot be my disciple." "Let the dead bury the dead." ( there are other statements comparable to these too. SJG )
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    page 90, Speaking of Saul's conversion, speaks of Saul as heir to "throne mysticism". He will later say this about Revelations. But for now he lists Enoch, Ezekiel, and Isaiah. Explains that Paul effected the 4 Gospels and most everything else in the NT. Don't know that Smith really refuted Borg, but Smith's is a much better book, much broader vision. Borg's by contrast is more like a marketing plan for some denominational Protestant churches need to re-invent themselves if they expect to be able to keep the lights on. Smith is very interesting, but it is still not the anti-born again, anti-I AM A CHRISTIAN, message I was looking for. SJG
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    So looking at this idea of a Perennial Philosophy, in part cause that is what Annie Besant is getting at: Origins of the Perennial Philosophy School of Thought [view link] Aldous Huxley, Three Degrees of Revelation, Perennial Philosophy [view link] Ananda Coomaraswamy [view link] Pablo Sender - The Secret Doctrine: Part 1 - How to Study The Secret Doctrine [view link] SJG Social Entrepreneurship [view link] Robert A. Caro on the means and ends of power [view link] The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous [view link] Origins of the Perennial Philosophy School of Thought [view link] Ananda Coomaraswamy [view link] Pretend You Have A Cold, Pelosi to Biden [view link]
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    Richard Rohr [view link] The universal Christ : how a forgotten reality can change everything we see, hope for, and believe / Richard Rohr. (2019) SJG
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    The Blanket, I guess this is the blanket which Bobby Sands wore, as refused to wear the prison uniforms. [view link] Fanon is the apostle of violent decolonisation. Violence is the "absolute praxis" (DT, 63). “The colonised man finds his freedom in and through violence. This rule of conduct enlightens the agent because it indicates to him the means and the end.” (DT, 64) But Fanon’s specific contribution, his originality, lay in emphasising the essentially pathological nature of the colonial situation, on how neurosis and mental pathologies developed as a result of the colonial situation. Therefore, he stressed that violence had not simply a political or strategic function, it has an individual and existential therapeutic value, as it liberates colonised and oppressed people from colonial neurosis and inferiority complexes. “At the level of individuals, violence is a disintoxifying force. It frees the colonised from his inferiority complex and from his desperate and contemplative attitude. It makes him fearless and restores his self respect.” (DT, 70) SJG
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    ^^^^^ [view link] SJG
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    talks about Wretched of the Earth being one of the favorite books of Bobby Sands [view link] SJG
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    Backlash, the undeclared war against American women [view link] And here, Susan Faludi, a most interesting interview [view link] She explains how starting in the 1980's, the hard won gains of feminism were given up and the society was being pushed to the right. She explains how political and legal issues got converted into Mental Health and Psychological Disorders, and survivors were sent to 12-step Recovery Groups and to Evangelical Christianity. And this book deals with some of the same territory. Glad it has been reprinted [view link] SJG
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    Irish Republican Army, B*mb*ngs and the Louie Mountbatten affair [view link] [view link] Achille Mbembe [view link] Wretched of the Earth, part 2, starting with Fanon's actual text [view link] Apartheid Activism In the 1960s & '70s - Ronnie Kasrils [view link] part 2 [view link] SJG Free - Wishing Well (Official Video, w/ the Leyland dump truck) [view link]
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    The Provisional Irish Republican Army and the morality of terrorism / Timothy Shanahan. (2009) American Born, at Loyola Marymont, Philosophy [view link] [view link] Jeremy Corbyn [view link] on Irish Politics [view link] SJG
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    U.K., Irish Politicians Join Funeral for Murdered Journalist Lyra McKee [view link] And in Belfast, funeral services were held Wednesday for Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee, who was shot in the head by an Irish nationalist militant last week during riots in the city of Derry. Leaders from both sides of Northern Ireland’s political divide appeared side by side at the funeral; they were joined by British officials and leaders from the Republic of Ireland in St. Anne’s Protestant cathedral. At Wednesday’s funeral, a friend revealed that just hours before she was murdered, Lyra McKee said she was about to propose marriage to her partner, Sara Canning. A group calling itself the New IRA, which opposes the 1998 Belfast Agreement peace accord, has claimed responsibility for the murder, though it didn’t identify the shooter. Ahead of Wednesday’s funeral, Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald condemned the assassination. Mary Lou McDonald: “So it’s past time now for these groups that masquerade as Republicans to pack up and pack it in, to end their activities and to let the people get on with the work of building a new united Ireland, that Ireland that we all want, an Ireland that will be a tribute to our patriot dead and to all who died, the Ireland in which Lyra McKee should have lived.” New IRA [view link] Rejects 1998 Good Friday Accord Sinn Fein operates in both Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. [view link] Considered Left Wing, has current form since 1970 when it split with Workers Party of Ireland. SJG April Wine - I Like to Rock [view link] 'This is personal for me': Hillary Clinton urges caution on Trump impeachment [view link] Frantz Fanon [view link]
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    Here, New IRA apologizes for the killing of the journalist. [view link] If I am understanding this then, even Sinn Fein is completely against this New IRA. [view link] Trying to understand some of this. How much did this Rev. Ian Paisley have to do with troubles from the 60's, 70's, and 80's? Guy sounds like a nightmare: [view link] SJG Metallica - The Unforgiven I & II & III [view link]
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    This seems to be something useful pertaining to Foucault and Biopolitics Juridical, Disciplinary, and Biopolitical Power: Basic Background on Foucault , especially starting at 32 min [view link] SJG Police live 2018 [view link]
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    I still have so much to learn, working at it for many decades now. I feel that we are all inadequately educated, ineffectively educated. SJG Soror Syrix [view link] Foucault and Biopolitics [view link] PHILOSOPHY - Michel Foucault [view link] Biopower: Why We Don’t Revolt [view link] Alvin Lee – The Bluest Blues [view link]
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    Biopower: Why We Don’t Revolt [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Connecting Anti-Biopolitics with Alain Badiou. Never read him, but I know that many see him is the successor to Deleuze and Guattari. Talks about Alain Badiou, Theory of the Subject [view link] Théorie du sujet (1982) Theory of the subject / Alain Badiou ; translated, and with an introduction, by Bruno Bosteels (2009) [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link].. Foucault, about Mental Illness [view link]
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    Biopower: Why We Don’t Revolt [view link] Beyond Good and Evil Michel Foucault 1993 Documentary The Things Documentary 2017 [view link] SJG Deep Purple Knocking At Your Back Door (Live) [view link]
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    Silicon Alleys: SJSU Takes Big Step a Metropolitan University [view link] SJG
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    Key Thinkers: Justin Clemens on Alain Badiou [view link] [view link] 82 yo. [view link] SJG
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    Alain Badiou speaking to us in English, at UCLA [view link] SJG
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    Mindrome? [view link] SJG
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    John Caputo talking about Tillich below. [view link], born 1940 [view link] SJG Michelle Alexander on The New Jim Crow, at Union Theological Seminary ( she wrote a very important book ) [view link] Paul Tillich Symposium: John Caputo Lecture [view link]
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    John D. Caputo: Post Modern, Post Secular, Post Religious [view link] SJG
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    In hand right now, The Universal Christ how a forgotten reality can change everything we see, hope for, and believe by Richard Rohr March 5th, 2019 [view link] SJG
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    Crow After Roe: How "Separate But Equal" Has Become the New Standard In Women’s Health And How We Can Change That [view link] The End of Roe v. Wade: Inside the Right's Plan to Destroy Legal Abortion [view link] Protect our Reproductive Rights! [view link] SJG
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    Bernie Sanders campaign co-chair Ro Khanna: no mud-slinging against Democrats [view link] [view link] Meet The Alabama Doctor Who Could Face 99 Years In Prison For Providing Abortions Under New Law [view link] What Does a Post-Roe America Look Like? As Anti-Choice Laws Multiply, Many Already Are Living In It [view link] Some reservations about Richard Rohr, but still reading. Book about him from a while back: Richard Rohr : illuminations of his life and work / edited by Andreas Ebert and Patricia C. Brockman (1993) SJG Frances Fox-Piven, really good! [view link]
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    Le Droit Humaine [view link]
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    The Universal Christ how a forgotten reality can change everything we see, hope for, and believe by Richard Rohr March 5th, 2019 and this book about Rohr Richard Rohr : illuminations of his life and work / edited by Andreas Ebert and Patricia C. Brockman (1993) Undoubtedly I'm going to have some reservations about him. But as I read I also find much good. From his appendixes: The Pattern of Spiritual Tranformation: 1. Order 2. Disorder 3. Reorder Four Worldviews 1. material 2. spiritual 3. priestly 4. incarnational Such interesting references too: Published by the Theosophical Society, Wheaton Illinois. Bruteau, Beatrice, Evolution Toward Divinity: Teilhard de Chardin and the Hindu Tradition, 1974 Evolution toward divinity: Teilhard de Chardin and the Hindu traditions (1974) Bruteau has written other books too. Rohr also cites works of de Chardin, and of Bonaventure, John Dominic Crossan. Paul Davies, God and the New Physics, 1984 Matthew Fox Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco, 1965 Book about Thomas Berry Thomas Merton Karl Rahner Richard Smoley, Inner Christianity Richard Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche Derek Walcott, poem "Love after Love", from collected poems. Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit. Simone Weil, Waiting for God Ken Wilber, Integral Spirituality Walter Wink, Naming the powers, 1984 , Engaging the powers, 1992 SJG JEFFERSON STARSHIP - St Charles '76 [view link] [view link]
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    [view link] The Phoenixmasonry Masonic Museum and Library “An Independent and Universal Masonic Resource.” "Spreading enlightenment -- one web surfer at a time!" SJG Stephan Hoeller [view link] Le Droit Humain [view link]
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    What it means to be a Mason, and this group is inspired by Annie Besant, Le Droit Humain, and the Theosophical Society. [view link] SJG
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    Liberty Leading the People Eugene Delacroix [view link] Le Droit Humain likes to lead with this image. Man in top had understood to represent middle-classes. Okay, but that there in his hands does not look like a set of golf clubs. Two revolutionary nations, joined at their inception, celebrating the first 100 years. [view link] SJG
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    What it means to be a Mason, [view link] [view link] Unpacking: [view link] SJG
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    Liberty Leading the People [view link] [view link] The Phrygian cap or liberty cap is a soft conical cap with the apex bent over, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe and Anatolia, including Phrygia, Dacia, and the Balkans. In early modern Europe it came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty through a confusion with the pileus, the felt cap of manumitted (emancipated) slaves of ancient Rome. In artistic representations it signifies freedom and the pursuit of liberty. Marianne [view link] Gavroche, fictional character in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. He is a boy who lives on the streets of Paris. His name has become a synonym for an urchin or street child. Believed to have been inspired by the boy with the two pistols. [view link] [view link] SJG
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    Topical
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    Easier to keep threads more narrowly topical if forum can be changed to let them stay open. Then only need to post when one has something topical. Can have more topical threads open, but making less posts. SJG Eve Ensler - Eve's Revolution | Bioneers [view link]
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    Tricolor cockades, [view link] Coming from France and its 1789 revolution, but getting worn at American Independence Day Celebrations, and being associated with Jefferson, his preamble, and his Democratic Republican Party. Infuriating to Federalist Party Members during the John Adams administration. SJG Tornado Damage in Missouri [view link]
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    “16 Shots”: Chicago Police Killing of Laquan McDonald Exposed a System Built on Lies [view link] SJG Dogs’ Eyes Have Changed Since Humans Befriended Them Two specialized muscles give them a range of expression that wolves’ eyes lack. [view link]
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    That Mitch McConnell is an idiot. Talking about reparations payments he talks about slavery and says that we fought the Civil War to end slavery. Nothing could be further from the truth. At the 1860 Democratic National Convention, Southerners demanded "A Slave Code For The West", they had been insisting that slavery be able to expand into the West. When they did not get this, they followed the lead of the Senator from Mississippi, Jefferson Davis, and walked out of the convention. This convention had been the last clear chance to avoid war, but walking out split the party and guaranteed that the new Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln would win. Lincoln said he was not going to let slavery spread into the Western States, but that he would not interfere with it where it was now practiced. No matter though, in December South Carolina and Mississippi announced their intents to secede. This would then be followed by a total of 7 states announcing secession, and proceeding to take over all post offices and court houses, until there was nothing left but Fort Sumter. And this was all before Lincoln's March Inauguration. So Lincoln did respond, even though that meant 4 more states announcing secession and turmoil in Kentucky and Missouri, simply to try and restore the Union. Original intents were simply to restore the Union as it had been. Lincoln moved at once to occupy Baltimore and DC. He drew upon Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts as occupation general. Originally Butler was to be returning escaped slaves to their owners, following the 1850 fugitive slave act. And originally Butler saw his job as that of preventing a slave revolt, like the one which founded the nation of Haiti. Quickly though Butler saw that returning slaves made no sense, and so he reclassified escaped slaves as "war contraband". Though some in the newly founded Republican Party were Radical Abolitionists, not so with Abraham Lincoln. He was never like this. What forced his hand were England and France. England had stationed a 2 million man army in Canada, "for possible intervention in the American Civil War". France was being run by that idiot Emperor Louis Napoleon the 3rd. He was claiming colonies across the globe and he had stationed his puppet Maximilian in Mexico. England and France were saying that they were going to give diplomatic recognition to the Confederacy. Then they would be able to use their sea power to break the Union blockade, as well as advancing across US borders. This would have expanded the scope of the Civil War to the point where it was unwinable. So seeing no other options, Lincoln broke his campaign pledge and issued the Emancipation Proclamation. This did neutralize England and France. But this did not free slaves in Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and some other federally occupied areas like the mid-atlantic coast and around New Orleans. What finally made it such that slavery had to be completely abolished by Constitutional Amendment was simply the fact that 180,000 black men trained with rifled muskets and bayonets and served in federal uniform. After this it was thus untenable to back track. extremely good: [view link] Mitch McConnell is full of shit! SJG Gimme Shelter, my favorite, Amsterdam 1995, Lisa Fischer [view link] Rolling Stones - Band Introductions w/ Lisa Fischer & Honky Tonk Women - 1995 [view link] Lisa Fischer, Oakland 1994, but they hadn't learned to keep the camera on her. [view link] This seems to be Lisa, the video is good, more widely viewed. [view link]
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    New York's Child Victims Act [view link] New York court system sets aside 45 judges to deal solely with new child sex abuse lawsuits [view link] Child Victims Act takes effect with many lawsuits targeting Catholic Church [view link] Adult Victims Of Childhood Sex Abuse In New York Can Sue Alleged Abusers [view link] Governor Cuomo Signs The Child Victims Act [view link] New York Child Victims Act Lawyers [view link] [view link] [view link] SOL-Reform [view link] As good as this new change in NY is, most of the time the impact is against institutions. The majority of child sexual abuse is still perpetrated by biological parents, and this is still the least likely sort of abuse to carry penalties for the perpetrators. I think my Pentecostal Daughter Molester Case, parents still married and financially solvent, and backing each other up in court, and finally going to conviction and a lengthy sentence, was rare. SJG
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    Plaza de Toros, Seville [view link] Barcelona Strip Clubs [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] SJG What Are Kegel Balls? [view link] How To Maximize The Potential Of Your Sexual Health | Amy Killen [view link] Al Stewart - The Year Of The Cat [view link]
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    Still difficult to make sense of club listings for some places, like Europe, and are there any in Bermuda or the Azores, or mainland Portugal? North Africa ( Morocco, Algeria )? Overall I think the listings for outside the US are minimal. SJG Amelia [view link]
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    Using google maps distance: Indio CA to Phoenix Hwy 17 and 10 236 miles Tucson to Las Cruces to El Paso 289 miles Aqua Prieta to El Paso, close along border 195 miles El Paso TX to Del Rio using hwy 90 387 miles Using Alpine, cuts longest leg to 193 miles Memphis to St. Louis 241 miles El Paso to Artesia NM, 179 miles Artesia to Odessa 179 miles, but actually a bit more. Odessa to San Angelo 126 miles San Angelo to Austin 187 miles. No other long gaps to get to the anywhere in Eastern US. Odessa - Abilene, Fort Worth, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Wichita, Kansas City. all reasonable distances. Then 237 miles to St. Louis, Columbia and Jefferson City in middle. SJG
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    Hey, the Brits have got to cut off that Royal Family! I didn't used to think this way. I used to see them foremost as our WWII allies. But today I see that mostly they promote the Tory Party. Those who like how the Royals conduct themselves, the will vote for the Tories. And then the Queen authorized this 1 month suspension of parliament. So lets make it so that she is the last monarch. No more! [view link] SJG
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    WARNING - The following accounts are considered to be forum trolls and may not be trustworthy: san_jose_guy - commonly referred to as SJG this forum member is usually mocked or ignored, his comments should NOT be taken in any way as legitimate
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    CA Governor Gavin Newsom announces Free Community Colleges, for first time attendees! And this is to be only just the start. [view link] SJG The B-52's - BBQ Live (1998) [view link]
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    Red Tails 2012 [view link] This seems to be the movie I want to see. Maybe the compromised this posting some. But I don't care. [view link] SJG
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    Will watch this later, but the second link is just a trailer. One guy shot at a German steam locomotive from the front. Trying to stop it from making it into a tunnel. It was being protected from the rear by an anti-aircraft gun on a flat car. Just seeing this out of context, unlikely that train had anything other than ordinance, and it was likely going west. The P-51 got a cracked windshield. This pilot was quite bold. Maybe the engine sucked some wreckage in, as it had black smoke all the way back. Engine ruined. Lucky it did not seize up. Talking like this pilot is in trouble, second ruined plane? Most likely he saved the lives of many Americans who would soon be facing whatever that train was carrying. Making 100k combat aircraft per year by now. Boiler blew up, usually rapid temperature change cracking the metal. It got derailed and turned sideway on the tracks. Really moves me deeply. SJG
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    This movie is AWESOME! [view link] Usually I can watch videos, while I do other things. But this is too much, can't take my eyes off of it. Had to pause it just to make this post. When they blew up the steam locomotive they were still flying P-40's. I hadn't looked at them that closely. Then they provided air cover for a landing in Italy. They shot down 9 ME-109's. Their German flight leader's plane was badly damaged, so they followed him back to his base. He belly landed but got out okay. They ransacked that base, shooting up planes on the ground and while taking off. They shot up their flak defenses. But that German flight leader was unharmed and on his feet. He saw that they were black, "Afrikaners" and he didn't like it. Then their commander was called to Washington, met with a 3 star, Lieutenant General, probably the head of the entire Army Air Corps. He shifted them to bomber escort and got them the new P-51's [view link] SJG Coffee Cougar [view link] The Filthy Souls - Destroy You [view link] Jack White - Love Interruption [view link] The White Stripes-Jolene [view link]
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    Hymer Camper Vans, also Motorhomes and Travel Trailers. [view link] Taarcom Inc., manufacturer's rep [view link] Good Stuff: [view link] Silicon Alleys: Global Good Awards Honors Innovators [view link] AI4ALL [view link] Though AI can be used in positive ways, it’s important to note that it can also exclude or harm certain groups of people, especially when a diverse set of AI creators is not involved in developing the technology. Because AI can reflect the biases of the people creating it (sometimes without them even knowing), it is important to include a wide range of people and perspectives in the AI field. When AI is created by groups that reflect the world we live in, we believe AI solutions will be more innovative, more ethical, and will solve new problems. SJG
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    Local Artist Scape Martinez [view link] [view link] SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    Distances from San Jose, via google measure distance, miles San Jose to Fresno via Los Banos, 144 miles Fresno to Pamona 230 miles Pamona to San Diego 101 miles San Jose to Oakland 38 miles Oakland to Stockton 55 miles Stockton to Sacramento 45 miles Sacramento to Reno 111 miles SJG Traditional Gender Roles [view link] Impeachment Investigation To Continue And There Could Be More Pubic Testimony [view link] Using a sex toy by yourself is masturbation [view link] The Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Morality of Te**o*ism [view link]
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    5 years ago
    160 miles from Sacramento to Fresno, Stockton, Turlock, and Merced along the way. Bakersfield cuts the Fresno to Pomona let about in half. SJG
  • Mate27
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    5 years ago
    ^^ STFU!
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    Fresno: Still City Lights and Gold Diggers. City Lights still Topless. But Gold Diggers now reclassified as Nude? SJG Joe Bonamassa "Midnight Blues" [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    So Fresno Gold Diggers now NUDE, and no alcohol? SJG Yes, Oct someone posted "Best club in Fresno. Now fully nude, which means no alcohol. For me that's fine but others not so much. I liked the atmosphere and not getting harassed every two seconds like some clubs. ......" FANTASTIC! [view link] SJG
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    Want to look into this story, though not sure I will agree with it. " Researchers are trying to better understand the biology of stress and its impact on child health. Now, data suggests those connections may form as early as the womb, with studies indicating frequent and prolonged adversity for pregnant women can affect the development of their babies. Stephanie Sy reports on a program aimed at easing the stress and struggles of mothers and their unborn children. " [view link] Originally came from Yahoo News. "Stephanie Sy has a report produced by Yahoo News about how frequent or prolonged adversity for a mother could affect the development of the baby in the womb." "Researchers now believe poverty can begin in the womb, if a mother is exposed to toxic stress." "Dr. Jack Shonkoff: We have studied resilience in the face of poverty. One of the most important predictors of good outcomes in the face of adversity is the presence of at least one reliable, responsive, protective relationship with an important person. It can be a — and very often is a parent, can be another family member, a grandparent. " "Stephanie Sy: The science may be new, but the national organization Nurse-Family Partnership has been putting it to practice for nearly four decades. " " Stephanie Sy: Nurses like Lori Rogers in Montgomery, Alabama, pay home visits to first-time mothers, providing medical checkups and helping them set goals. Lori Rogers: One of the things about Nurse-Family Partnership is to make sure that, hey, we're asking, what do you want to do with your life? What's important to you? " " Stephanie Sy: Beth Babcock is head of a program based in Boston called EMPath, which uses the latest neuroscience to coach families toward better outcomes. Elisabeth Babcock: We're seeing families that, when we work with them for three years or more, are almost doubling their incomes. The real process of helping people move out of poverty is the process of standing beside and helping them see themselves and their future in a different way. " "And to watch the complete documentary, go to [view link]." SJG The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (Live) - OFFICIAL [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    5 years ago
    Sacramento to Reno 111 miles How about Victorville to Barstow to Las Vegas 164 miles How about Las Vegas to Kingman, to Flagstaff, to Sedona, 250 miles. Vegas still hard, and with loss of Club in Kingman. SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    We used to have so many good book stores, and they did greatly influence the character of neighborhoods. How about today? Barnes and Nobel, San Tomas and Stevens Creek, been there a long time, far from the downtown, but technically San Jose. [view link] Alright, East West Bookshop, Castro St. Mountain View, Tap Plastics next to it. Books Inc on corner, used book shop next to that ( used to be ) [view link] How about directly in San Jose? We have Recycle Books going strong still, and now with a shop they call West, in Campbell. Do used book stores stand up better in the face of Amazon? [view link] AbeBooks, highly regarded online dealer. [view link] All Digital Bookstore ?? 4848 San Felipe Rd, San Jose, CA 95135 Follett campus bookstore?? [view link] Sucks, basically the Barnes and Nobel, and that especially Recycle Books, on Alameda: One of the coolest neighborhoods around: [view link] Club Caribe [view link] 1001 S 1st St, San Jose, CA 95110 Club Miami Beach San Jose [view link] 417 S 1st St Club Caribe, this is a long long way outside beyond the downtown, South. Usually seen as a tough neighborhood. [view link] Club Miami Beach, just south of W. San Salvador, a historic location for it. [view link] Miami Beach Facebook [view link] Aura Lounge 389 S 1st St San Jose, CA 95113 The Rose Ballroom 1224 S Bascom Ave San Jose, CA 95128 El Taurino 95 South Market street San Jose, California 95113 Enso Nightclub 97 E Santa Clara St San Jose, California 95113 Club Caliente 1776 Broadway St Redwood City, CA 94063 Wednesdays 8pm – 1am. Aura Kitchen and Bar 389 South 1st Street, San Jose, California. Bachata and Salsa Class at 8:00 p.m, class by Ruby & Hector. Master Dj Tony O at 10pm playing your favorite Salsa , Bachata and a splash of Regaetton. ^^^^^ Some local things have changed indeed. [view link] [view link] [view link] SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    4 years ago
    Alum Rock, BART Station + light rail, plus some Viet Coffee and Mex Bars. Cube Libre, new name on this bar. [view link] BART, not actually running yet in South Bay [view link] map [view link] Well this area is just by 101, downtown side, between E. Santa Clara St and McKee. Now what i was expecting. Calling this Palm Cafe now: [view link] Lots of changes, little remains the same. 1962 Tully [view link] SJG Whiskey Blues | Best of Slow Blues/Rock #1 [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    4 years ago
    Cheo Leo, seemingly old facebook [view link] SJ Code Enforcement [view link] A lot of the places I knew are just gone now. [view link] All changed. SJG
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    4 years ago
    [view link] [view link] So many of my favorite Viet Coffee Shops are gone! SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    4 years ago
    Very different today: [view link] SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    4 years ago
    OMG, bomb threats had two of our court houses shut down today! [view link] SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    4 years ago
    [view link] Court House Bomb Threat ^^^^ I know that things change. But there have been lots of things I have had to turn my back to, for now. But San Jose really is being ravaged by moneyed interests who want to impose cultural changes in order to gentrify. Our Mayor Sam Liccardo is part of this. SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    4 years ago
    Some conflict situations I had plan to act on, just have gotten diffused. Not pleased about that. SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    4 years ago
    " This gripping narrative explores today's scientific pursuit of immortality, with exclusive visits inside Silicon Valley labs and interviews with the visionaries who believe we will soon crack into the aging process and cure death. We live in an age when billionaires are betting their fortunes on laboratory advances to prove aging unnecessary and death a disease that can be cured. Researchers are delving into stem cells and sequencing genomes, determining what it means to grow old and how to keep those processes from happening. This isn't science fiction--it's real, it's serious, and it's on track to revolutionize our definitions of life and mortality. In Immortality, Inc., veteran science journalist Chip Walter gains exclusive access to the champions of this radical cause, resulting in a book that brings together for the first time the visions of Google CEO Arthur Levinson, genomics entrepreneur Craig Venter, futurist Ray Kurzweil, rejuvenation engineer Aubrey de Grey, and stem cell scientist Robert Hariri. Along the way, Walter weaves in fascinating conversations about life, death, aging, and the future of the human race. " [view link] SJG
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    4 years ago
    Article a friend sent me last summer about Uber and the Scooter services [view link] Coronavirus Poses Higher Risk For Homeless Population [view link] SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    4 years ago
    Want to mention something else. I have recently learned that a high ranking city official has retired. And it sounds a bit early and I know she would not want this. She was horrid and a terror. I have been trying to force her out for some years now. Part of it is that I and others have helped get other people onto the City Council, in particular one woman who I know would act responsibly and solve such a problem. So I am counting this as VICTORY! Sorry, I regret this, but I cannot say more at this time. SJG Eric Clapton Layla 2008 [view link] crosby stills nash young almost cut my hair CSNY 1974 [view link] TJ Street [view link] [view link] Pleaser 10" [view link] [view link]
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    3 years ago
    Yes confirmed, high ranking and horrid city official forced to take early retirement. Yes, a victory. Sometimes it is necessary to get involved in community affairs. I am pretty much continually involved now, though in various aspects. SJG A good picture, well composed, better than so much of the dancer directory: yiyi2013 [view link]
  • twentyfive
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    3 years ago
    This is a warning stop spamming my threads
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    3 years ago
    I have not spammed any threads of yours Mr. 25. SJG The way life should be: [view link]
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    3 years ago
    Ruby Rose alleges unsafe working conditions on set of Bat Woman. [view link] I had thought it was Yvonne Craig from the 60's 1967 I love this one piece on her, my favorite episode [view link] SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    3 years ago
    Heath Anthology of American Literature [view link] These books are good. At a minimum, libraries should have them. Volume B has the original letter, written when the world was ruled by crowned heads, which became the Monroe Doctrine. SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    Solution to a local homicide: old story of Anthony Juarez homicide August 15, 2020 [view link] 12/20 Arrest Made, Jose Luis Salazar, 26 [view link] [view link] [view link] SJG Nina Hartley [view link]
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    Anthony Juarez homicide August 15, 2020 12/20 Arrest Made, Jose Luis Salazar, 26, identified as killer of Juarez by DNA evidence In Hollister Salazar had attempted to murder his father in August, so he had been in San Benito County Jail, I guess awaiting trial. AIK, DA might compromise some on Attempted Murder, but with Murder 1, if they have the evidence they will not compromise. So this will probably go to trial and more will likely come out. Is not yet on court calendar [view link] [view link] SJG Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gruppen - Ensemble intercontemporain, for acoustic orchestra, 3 of them [view link]
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    3 years ago
    Let me see if I can find this guy in san benito county superior court Jose Luis Salazar, 26 SJG PBS Newshour, today, still feeding the hysteria and calling for more needle jabs, and lowering the age limit for "boosters" [view link] Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild (Live at Farm Aid 1986) [view link] Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild (Live 2006) [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    3 years ago
    [view link] [view link] I can't find any way to search San Benito except for today, and in Santa Clara County I cannot find him. Just the earlier stories: [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] Can't find any way to find him. I do expect that this will go to a local jury trial. SJG
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    2 years ago
    Where to Find Older Women (Cougars) The Inside Track! KarenLee Helps With Cougar Hunting [view link] Inside The Trend Of Older Women Dating Younger Men [view link] beautiful older women part 2 [view link] How To Meet A Cougar At The Store - Tips On Starting A Conversation [view link] SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    2 years ago
    Yeah, tried to kill his father with a knife: [view link] SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    2 years ago
    So I don't know how to see the full court calendar in San Benito County. I can't find him here either. My interest in this is a such. Rumors have been circulating about this case, about the amount of blood in the crime scene, about the killing having been hiding in Modesto, and about a blue Toyota which was torched on a road leading to the garbage dump to hide evidence. If this is not just speculation than this was originating with people who knew who the killer was. Or at least they thought they knew. Did they disclose what they knew to police? Supposedly a civilian witness, but might they have been an accomplice. And talk of a female accomplice. SJG OMS Martinists [view link] The Gnostic Origins of Christianity, featuring Tim Freke and Peter Gandy [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    2 years ago
    I can't find Jose Luis Salazar on this county's court calendar, or on San Benito county's. Probably I don't know how to work them. Probably his San Benito case of attempting to murder his father has to be adjudicated first. Then he can stand trial here for the murder of Anthony Juarez. There are other local homicide cases in progress, suspects in custody, additional homicides from years back being tied to them. [view link] I have no stake in these cases. But they are of interest. SJG
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    2 years ago
    I don't like being around methamphetamine users. They are the sorts who will look at you and ask, "Are you okay? You look like you are tripping." When in fact they are the one who is tripping and you just want them to get the fuck out of our space. Had to deal with such last night. These people are freaky. SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    Pitbull Puppies, LOL! My neighbor has these. The mother was sent to visit and stay there. When I first saw her and the pups, they were about 4 weeks old. There were 5 of them, and they were always in a pile. One of them though liked to growl at me. Only one, the lightest color was male. And they were real small, like just a few pounds. Now the mother has been sent back to the original owner, and with the male and one of the females. My neighbor has three of the females. And now they have got to be about 2.5x longer and about 8x heavier. They are really rambunctious. Twice not they have broken in on me. And the one that liked to growl at me is now the smallest, but she like to get into my laundry and try to run off with my dirty socks. They have gotten better though about "bite restraint". They have very sharp teeth, and they were excessive. They have sharp claws too. Not as sharp as a cat's, but still sharper than I have found on dogs before. I think it is because they are still small. Maybe not as sharp today. I have installed some puppy protection to keep them out today. These are a Pitbull-Shepard Mix. SJG
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    2 years ago
    Fuck San Jose Ape, this is a long fucking thread! Anyway, there is a poster claiming to be a goat you fuck. I don’t believe him. Now, don’t get me wrong, you’re inferior to the ricks. But the goat just seems off and I have - as a rick - concluded that you are insane but harmless to goats. I think you should engage in a calm dialog with the likely suspects for trolling you. Think about it - in your heart you know the source of trolling. And once you ID the troll, troll that fucker right back! It’s what you’ll do if you have self respect. Scuttle! Scuttle! Scuttle!
  • san_jose_guy
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    2 years ago
    The pitbulls tried to get through my puppy proofing three times. As I was leaving they tried to get in and with two of them I had to pick them up to remove them. When I first saw them they were little more than handfuls. Now they have got to be 10x as heavy. They are fun, but they get into stuff you don't want them into and they knock stuff over. The one what had liked to growl at me is the most rambunctious. I was concerned about her growling because at that time the mother was around. Now this one, turning out smaller than the others, does not growl, but she is the most playful and the most mischievious. SJG Clapton, Layla [view link]
  • datinman
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    2 years ago
    This is confusing. Your neighbors dogs get into your laundry? You have to create some kind of puppy proofing rather than just shutting a door?
  • san_jose_guy
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    2 years ago
    Holes in the fence. These had not mattered before. Once the dogs get in, they run around everywhere, any thing not locked shut. SJG
  • Mate27
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    2 years ago
    ^^ dude, you should’ve titled this thread “SJGs ultimate echo chamber!”
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    2 years ago
    You got that right! SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    Visited by the pitbulls again. They knocked down my puppy proofing. Part the problem is a gate which doesn't really fit anymore. So I had put up boards to keep them out. But they got in, jumping all over everything. The owner told me to keep them away from my face, as they have drawn blood with their teeth and claws. I already knew this and I do protect my face. Them going after my dirty laundry. Two pitbulls having a tug of war with my socks, as I am trying to get them back. LOL. I have upgraded my puppy protection. SJG Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time) [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    2 years ago
    Puppy Proofing 2.0 was effective. No Pitbull incursions. But I still got up early and did some outside clearing, and I got to visit them. The three of them were gnawing on a big geranium plant, going right to where the largest limbs broke away. LOL The owner says that all they do every day is eat, sleep, shit, and fight. I see this. When I first saw them they were each little more than a handful. And this tan one liked to growl at me. I was concerned about this because the mother was saying there then. But this tan one has turned out to be the most rambunctious, the quickest to go after my socks, and the first one to escape from pens. She seems now to be bit smaller and to look different from the others. No two are identical, they have different fur color and patterns. But this small tan one some people think is by a different father. That can be with multiple zygote births. SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    This happened 2 months ago. Commotion around 10pm in the area. Finally went outside to see what had happened. Turns out a much loved neighbor had had a bicycle accident, and he really bashed up his face. I tried to check to see how he was doing. The amount of blood on his face was ghoulish. And same for his swelling check bone. But he was up and walking around. It was disturbing though. He said, "I want my cat back." Seems that his lady friend had commandeered his cat and was pacing around with it. One neighbor was getting hysterical and speaking in hyperbole. We got the paramedics out to him and he was off. Got back by taxi cab the next morning . He still looked bad. Purple bruising even on his eyelid. But they had done lots of stitches under his chin. Some suggested that it could have been a motorcycle accident but maybe there was a problem with licensing and registration, and they didn't want LE to look into it. So they said it was a bicycle. That is possible. Doctors told him to come back later for reconstructive surgery on his cheek bone. But he did go in again for a spider bite and they told him that he would not need reconstructive surgery, nothing broken. THey gave him big injections in both legs, steroids, to make his facial swelling go down. Never heard of that before. He is fine now. SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    Last night I got home late and had to bring some stuff in. And yes, that gave the Pitbulls a chance to get in. I got them out eventually and I made sure they didn't make off with anything. But his morning after them barking and whimpering, I had to come out and load some stuff up again, and yeah, the got in and they did try to make off with some stuff. They really are a handful. My neighbor says that his wife was a dog trainer and so he knows how to do it. He says dog training has begun. I'll believe it when I see it. SJG Eric Clapton - Knock on Wood [view link] John Fogerty [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link] [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    Pitbull adventures Having to load up some stuff in the morning, and again the pitbulls got in, three of them. Can't try to shove them out, that just makes them roll on to their backs. Only way is to pick them up, which is not that easy. By the time I had gotten them all out, they had run off with these plastic dishes I was going to set up for them, outside, as water dishes. And you know what, they had punctured both dishes. They punctured an unopened aluminum beer can of my neighbors. Then also some one was calling out to my neighbor, "The dogs are eating magots." They had gotten into some pizza in the garbage. Neighbor says he has to worm them. I think that means a big nasty pill. Not sure if they have worms though. Nonstop with those three! SJG GRAHAM BOND LIVE JULY 1 1972 part 1 [view link]
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    2 years ago
    I had not known about this fire: Arrest And Charges Announced In Massive Fire At San Jose Home Depot, starting with our DA Jeff Rosen [view link] Blossom Hill Road San Jose SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    2 years ago
    Not seeing any more info on the Jose Luis Salazar twin cases, Aug 2021 attempted murder of his father, and Aug 2020 murder in Sunnyvale Bay Lands Park. The attempted murder case in Hollister I guess is set to go first. Often an attempted murder case is not that air tight, compared to a completed murder. [view link] I did my first official stint of puppy sitting, 3 of them, jumping all over me and each other and everything. That was enough. They really need someone to play with them continually, or until they get exhausted and pass out. My Neighbor says that all the do is Eat, Sleep, Shit, and Fight all day long. And I see this. One stint of puppy sitting was enough. They have asked if I want one multiple times, but I have told them no. SJG 10 Iconic AC/DC Riffs [view link]
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    2 years ago
    Sad story. My neighbor is leaving the area, and he says he can't take the 3 pitbull puppies. Of course they have offered any of them to me. I can't take any. So they are talking dog pound. THis makes me feel very uncomfortable. I put time into them and feel attached. I know my neighbor did even more. So I am trying to find people who want one. Must be some way. THis makes me feel very uneasy. SJG Stones Heartbreaker [view link]
  • rickmacrodong
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    SJG, great thread! Thanks for giving us that insight into some of your personal life and those dogs. Some people will likely use the thread as evidence of you being into fucking dogs, but remember to ignore them and keep moving forward. These people are trembling in their trousers, and we know they would never dare approach you in F2F given your commando training and ability to sew their asshole shut with ease. Some people only talk trash online, like keyboard kowards. Pathetic!
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    Trying to give away 3 Pitbull puppies, talked to so many people. My neighbor was reckless in letting the 5 of them get dumped on him. Two have been placed, with the family which owns the mother. But he still has 3 and he needs to unload them. I don't want them to go to the pound. Most people that live in houses seem to have dogs. Some say they are on their last dog. Others say they are in between dogs. Others say they don't have room or can't afford them. But I know others raise Pitbulls and sell them. SJG Gimme Shelter [Rolling Stones Cover] - Britny Lobas at The Roost Austin, Tx [view link]
  • rickmacrodong
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    2 years ago
    SJG that is unfortunate!
  • san_jose_guy
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    2 years ago
    The three puppies, the try to climb on me, they climb on each other to do this. THey also try to walk between my legs, but that is where they get squeezed. Still looking to give at least one away now as they are hard for my neighbor, moving out and planning to live in his motorhome. It makes me really thing. He is a good guy. Many people have dogs, and they get them somewhere. These dogs are super nice. They just want someone to play with them all day long, so they will get exhausted and then fall asleep. SJG The All Girls Power Band from School of Roc LA plays Dangerous [view link] [view link] [view link]
  • rickmacrodong
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    2 years ago
    SJG, with all this talk of dogs and puppies I am worried the keyboard kowards and trembling trousers may start accusing you of fucking dogs! I have seen on other threads, some people were claiming you fucked goats. Crazy! Those keyboard kowards wouldn’t dare say those nasty things to you F2F. They can’t even bypass your firewall, they wouldn’t dare
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    The prospects of having to let go of the 3 Pitbull puppies seems to be getting my friend depressed. He has moved out of his place and is now in his motorhome. I think the care for them, and the prospects really weighs on him. I had been helping by asking people if they want a puppy. Someone made flyers for us to put up. Some have advised that the Humane Society is better. They give the dogs their shots and worming and spaying or neutering for free. And they really do try to place them with their web site. This is from someone who has volunteered for Humane Society. I have an emotional attachment to them, but it has limits. My friend has cared for them intensely for the last three months. I feel a tendency to scold him for having accepted them in the first place. But I restrain myself as I know that would accomplish nothing. Of the three, two were supposed to be going to other people. My friend was just supposed to be getting one of them. But these people have pulled back. I wish we just knew people who could take them, but I don't. I can see why spaying and neutering required today. No one has done anything wrong, and the Humane Society really does try to place them. I can't take them. To me it seems like how I had to remove my wife, cut her loose. Just the way it is when she would never let their be partnership and instead insisted on a life based on seeking approval from her friends and family. I know she now deeply regrets this stubbornness of hers, but it is all water under the bridge at this point and the future remains unknown. SJG Sex Slave Uni [view link] Claudette Colbert [view link] The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter - 2013 School of Rock AllStars Team 4 [view link] Pleaser 10 inch [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    2 years ago
    So the fate of these 3 pitbull puppies had been grating on me. But my friend now has two people lined up to take one each. He has known them for a long time and they are local. So the dogs will be able to visit. That is idea. So he has asked me to hold up on putting up signs, and even on asking people f2f, "How would you like a puppy?" So two are taken care of and he will be keeping one which is fine for him. The other original two are also placed. So I feel a lot better. And I got lot of info from another friend, a dog expert who has pedigree Akitas. With this latest one she was on a waiting list for 18 months. Still a puppy at 10 months, she is 90lbs. The whole family drove to WA to pick her up at 7 months. [view link] So I feel much better about the 3 Pitbulls. SJG [view link] [view link]
  • san_jose_guy
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    2 years ago
    Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA Angwin is a census-designated place (CDP)[3] in Napa County, California, best known as the site of Pacific Union College. It is part of the northern San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 3,051 at the 2010 census. Its area code is 707. Its two zip codes are 94508 and 94576. It is in the Pacific time zone. maybe it is not incorporated [view link] [view link] affiliates with 7th Day Adventist Church. [view link] accredidation [view link] 1500 students, lots of premed. [view link] 16 miles East by North East from Santa Rosa SJG
  • san_jose_guy
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    2 years ago
    Is there some dog illness, fromos, or fromo, or something? Gotten by eating dead animals? What To Do If Your Dog Eats a Dead Animal One Pitbull is sick now. [view link] Here, it is probably this: Canine parvovirus ("parvo") Parvo is caused by the canine parvovirus type 2. The virus is very contagious and attacks the gastrointestinal system, causing fever, vomiting and severe, often bloody, diarrhea. It is spread by direct contact between dogs as well as by contaminated stool, surfaces, bowls, collars, leashes, equipment, and the hands and clothing of people. It can also survive in the soil for years, making the virus hard to kill. Treating parvo can be very expensive and many dogs die from parvo despite intensive treatment. Fortunately, there is a vaccine for parvo. It is considered a "core" vaccine and is recommended for every dog. SJG 6 MISTAKES DIYers Make When Wiring Outlets [view link]
  • JimGassagain
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    2 years ago
    Who the fuck is reading this thread besides the OP? Answer: nobody!
  • TheeOSU
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    2 years ago
    ^ Well I did read your comment Jim, other than that noting to see here. Lol
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    My friend with the pitbull puppies. He had 3. Gave one to someone, seems to have found a really good home for her. But then of his two. One got sick. Nature not known. Finally she vanished. Then the remaining one got sick, and sicker and sicker. Vet had to put her down. Now also we think it unlikely that the other one could still be alive. Vet said it was parvo, which is what my friend suggested. I feel horrible about it, and so does he. SJG Kelly-Ann Madox [view link]
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    Parvo, " It can also survive in the soil for years, making the virus hard to kill. Treating parvo can be very expensive and many dogs die from parvo despite intensive treatment." It can also survive in the soil for years, making the virus hard to kill. Treating parvo can be very expensive and many dogs die from parvo despite intensive treatment. ONly emerged in the late 1978. Pitbulls and other black and tan dogs are especially susceptible. It is similar to a cat virus. Can get into foxes and skunks too, and the dog version can get into cats, and vice versa. Very hard to treat, hard for the dog to survive. Infection of the fetus This type of infection can occur when a pregnant female dog is infected with CPV2. The adult may develop immunity with little or no clinical signs of disease. The virus may have already crossed the placenta to infect the fetus. This can lead to several abnormalities. In mild to moderate cases the pups can be born with neurological abnormalities such as cerebellar hypoplasia.[22] SJG
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    Dog Matters, Dr. Marty [view link] SJG Jane - School of Rock [view link]
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    Infection of the fetus This type of infection can occur when a pregnant female dog is infected with CPV2. The adult may develop immunity with little or no clinical signs of disease. The virus may have already crossed the placenta to infect the fetus. This can lead to several abnormalities. In mild to moderate cases the pups can be born with neurological abnormalities such as cerebellar hypoplasia.[22] [view link] " Prevention is the only way to ensure that a puppy or dog remains healthy because the disease is extremely virulent and contagious. Appropriate vaccination should be performed starting at 7–8 weeks of age, with a booster given every 3–4 weeks until at least 16 weeks of age. Pregnant mothers should not be vaccinated as it will abort the puppies and could make the mother extremely sick. The virus is extremely hardy and has been found to survive in feces and other organic material such as soil for up to 1 year. It survives in extremely low and high temperatures. The only household disinfectant that kills the virus is bleach.[3] The dilute bleach solution needs to be in a 1:10 ratio to disinfect and kill parvovirus. Puppies are generally vaccinated in a series of doses, extending from the earliest time that the immunity derived from the mother wears off until after that passive immunity is definitely gone.[29] Older puppies (16 weeks or older) are given 3 vaccinations 3 to 4 weeks apart.[18] The duration of immunity of vaccines for CPV2 has been tested for all major vaccine manufacturers in the United States and has been found to be at least three years after the initial puppy series and a booster 1 year later.[30] A dog that successfully recovers from CPV2 generally remains contagious for up to three weeks, but it is possible they may remain contagious for up to six. Ongoing infection risk is primarily from fecal contamination of the environment due to the virus's ability to survive many months in the environment. Neighbours and family members with dogs should be notified of infected animals so that they can ensure that their dogs are vaccinated or tested for immunity. A modified live vaccine may confer protection in 3 to 5 days; the contagious individual should remain in quarantine until other animals are protected.[31] ' This canine parvo is serious stuff! SJG Shasha Allen, Gimme Shelter [view link]
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    Forza Horizon 5 [view link] SJG Eric Clapton - Beware of Darkness at the Concert For George [view link]
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    Some random notes: Siren Doll [view link] Mondale act, a right wing page [view link] Priase of mondale [view link] Sanjay Mishra, Ph.D., (PHYS), $6,000, “Novel Oxide Nanocomposite Magnets: Route to non-Rare-Earth Permanent Magnets” Control System Design, An Introdution to State-Space Methods, 1986, Bernard Friedland Outstanding Book. Seems to offer what in 1982 I. R. was saying did not yet exist! Lagrange's Equations, way to treat motion via energy and momentum. Suggests Goldstein H., Classical Mechanics 1953. and Synge J. L. and Griffith B. A. Principles of Mechanics 1949. and then goes on to rigid body issues and the 6 degrees of freedom and standard ways of laying out the 12 equations for space and aircraft. Suggests Erkin B. Dynamics of Flight, 1959 and Seckel E., Stability and Control of Airplanes and Helicopters, 1964 Gets into differential equations and how to solve them, and all the issues with initial conditions and whether or not the A matix is time independent. Then goes into all the Laplace Transform material and then into pole placement and observers. Then into LQC, and then into Kalman Outstanding Book! Does not deal with H2, H infinity, much with non-linear or any fuzzy or neural stuff. SJG
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    Classical Mechanics (3rd Edition) [Hardcover] Herbert Goldstein (Author), Charles P. Poole Jr. (Author), John L. Safko (Author) Taylor, John R. (John Robert), 1939- [view link] ELECTRODYNAMICS Author GRIFFITHS QUANTUM FIELD THEORY Author SREDNICKI QUARKS+LEPTONS:INTRO.COURSE... Author HALZEN CLASSICAL MECHANICS Author TAYLOR [view link] QUANTUM MECHANICS Author GRIFFITHS FIELD+WAVE ELECTROMAGNETICS Author CHENG [view link] QUANTUM PHYSICS Author FRENCH SJG
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    Gunfight by Ryan Busse his battle against the gun industry The Library A fragile History Andrew Pettegree SJG Pretenders-My City Was Gone (1984) HD [view link]
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    [view link] SJG Tons of Fun! [view link] Jan 6th Hearings, LIVE [view link]
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    Countries of the largest Area: Now this disagreement started with a guy from Canada who insisted that Canada was larger than the United States. I told him that he was wrong, and that it just looks larger because of the Mercator Map projection. He did not agree. As I learned in school the largest countries by area were: 1. Soviet Union 2. China 3. United States 4. Canada Now the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, and even then it was losing the 3 Baltic States. Okay so I look this up on Wikipedia and I find: Soviet Union (ended 1991) 8,649,500 sqmi Russian Federation 6,601,670 sqmi China 3,705,407 sqmi United States, including Alaska 3,796,742 sqmi Alaska 663,268 sqmi Canada 3,855,100 sqmi But the above numbers are total area. If you include only land, then the United States is smaller than China. The United States includes much of the 5 Great Lakes, and that makes the difference. And if you include only land, the the United States is larger than Canada. Canada has some of the Great Lakes, but it also has that huge Hudson Bay. [view link] SJG Jane School of Rock [view link]
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    So just to clarify, the Russian Federation is not as big as the Old Soviet Union, but it still by far the largest country in the world. Turns out that China, United States, and Canada are not that much different in size. Now this is the United States including Alaska, which is huge. If you go by total area the ranking is: 1. Russian Federation 2. Canada 3. United States 4. China But this is because of the Great Lakes and Hudson Bay. If you go by just land, the the ranking is 1. Russian Federation 2. China 3. United States 4. Canada SJG Jane - School of Rock [view link]
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    [view link] Alaska purchased from Russia 1872, for $7.2 million. William H. Seward Edwin M. Stanton [view link] Great Lakes, 5 of them. SJG
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    [view link] Detroit is named after the Detroit River, connecting Lake Huron with Lake Erie. The city's name comes from the French word 'détroit' meaning "strait" as the city was situated on a narrow passage of water linking two lakes. The river was known as “le détroit du Lac Érié," among the French, which meant "the strait of Lake Erie". SJG
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    [view link] Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, 1970 book by Dee Brown. Usa: Siege Of Wounded Knee Continues As Senator George Mcgovern Arrives For Talks With Militant Indians. 1973 [view link] SJG
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    More human remains found at Lake Mead Only 27% full. [view link] SJG
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    hyvesolutions, Fremont [view link] System Integration Division within SYNNEX SJG Just found this, never heard of her before. I like! Emily Williams-I Say a Little Prayer For You [view link] Archie Bell and The Drells from Houston Texas [view link]
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    Suzuki RM80 1977 - 2002. The engine was a air cooled Water-cooled, Single-cylinder, 2-stroke. A 48.3mm bore x 48.3mm stroke result in a displacement of just 79.0 cubic centimeters. The bike has a 6 Speed transmission. Power was moderated via the wet plate. It came with a 2.75-17 front tire and a 4.10-14 rear tire. Stopping was achieved via Disc in the front and a Disc in the rear. The front suspension was a long travel offroad ´zonker´ air forks while the rear was equipped with a Full Floater. The bike weighed just 136.03 pounds (61.7 Kg). The wheelbase was 48.58 inches (1234 mm) long. [view link] Later succeeded by the RM-85 RM85 online manual [view link] Suzuki RM85/L online manual [view link] SJG
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    I don't normally buy this stuff. If I use any deodorant at all I go for the stick type. But this situation there was no other options. AXE black fronzen pear and cedarwood scent. 48H High Definition Scent. Ingredients: Alcohol Denat, Hyroflourocarbon 152A, Butane, Isobutane, fragrance(Parfum), Zinc Neodecandate, Propane. Says it has no aluminum, but it has zinc. I thought we were getting away from hydroflourocarbons. I guess that is Freon and they want something which will phase change to get a lot of propellant power in a small volume. What surprises me is Butane, Isobutane, and Propane. I guess those will phase change too. Is that why we need them. Putting CO2 into the air is bad. BUt putting unburned hydrocarbons into the air is worse. SJG School of Rock [view link]
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    I heard someone yell "Oh Fuck!" Then I heard him reciting the street address, probably into a cell phone for the paramedics. I figured someone got hurt. Then I saw the paramedics arrive. Later on I was told what had happened. It was a fentanyl over dose. The guy was "almost dead", and I guess that was what the "Oh Fuck!" was for, not an accidental injury. It was R., someone I respect very much. People said that the paramedics did what they needed to and that getting loaded .... SJG [view link] Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside [view link]
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    continuing... into the ambulance he was waiving and talking to people. So that was positive news. So I don't know if it was really an overdose, or if fentanyl can just do that, or if he had somehow gotten an irregular batch. He was back by that evening and I talked to him in the morning. He looked just fine. He told me though that he was "almost dead" and he said that he had just "made a bunch of bad choices." I got him to affirm that he is keeping himself safe now, and then again the same this morning. That group that is with him they are ruffians. Everyone says that they use methamphetamines. And this could be, though I do not directly know this. R. has said that he is a lifelong meth user. He ties it to being put on Ritalin as a child. I told him that I am sure that that effected him, but it shouldn't mean that he is condemned to drugs forever. I might know that channel though which he is getting his drugs. Would not bother me a bit if that guy were shut down. Anyway, closest I have been to fentanyl to date. SJG [view link] Kansas City School of Rock What is Hip [view link]
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