The Ultimate Thread: SJG's Soap Box

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san_jose_guy
money was invented for handing to women, but buying dances is a chump's game
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
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5461…

Bonobo Handshake
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5181…

Destroying Political Consciousness, The ~~Mental Health~~ System
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5454…


Foreigner - Complete Greatest Hits (Full Album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJIdqExR…

Bone Sweet Bone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgEEIPHl…

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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w7ieEjv…

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUJBxycU…

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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Three events in the next 24 hours that could determine whether the sell-off continues

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/t…

Dougster, don't jump!

SJG
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vincemichaels
7 years ago
Jump, SJG, jump !!!
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max_starr
7 years ago
Are we talking about bitcoin, I've already moved my working capital into fiat....haven't touched the HODL coins
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Bitcoin going to $1,000,000,000 per coin!
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5366…

SJG
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RandomMember
7 years ago
Bitcoin: Robert Shiller is correct again and again and again...
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
^^^^^ link?

SJG
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max_starr
7 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....
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san_jose_guy
7 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
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max_starr
7 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.
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san_jose_guy
7 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
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BurlingtonHoFactory
7 years ago
@san_jose_guy,

I'm just curious, without financial market speculation how else would we finance large risky projects?
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Call.Me.Ishmael
7 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?
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BurlingtonHoFactory
7 years ago
@Call.Me.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.
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JimGassagain
7 years ago
I’m reading the “Art of the Deal”, so stfu SJG!
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Cashman1234
7 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!
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shailynn
7 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.
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twentyfive
7 years ago
You guys know that you are feeding SJGs fantasies by responding to his inane drivel right.
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san_jose_guy
7 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

http://tijuanababes.blogspot.mx/
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san_jose_guy
7 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
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Cashman1234
7 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.
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BurlingtonHoFactory
7 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?
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JimGassagain
7 years ago
SJG and Groundhog Day have something in common. He’s like a broke record.

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san_jose_guy
7 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:
http://www.organicauthority.com/images/s…

SJG
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Cashman1234
7 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.
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san_jose_guy
7 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:
http://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcra92…

SJG

OT: Programmable Logic Devices
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5461…

Destroying Political Consciousness, The ~~Mental Health~~ System
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5454…

Up in a high rise, not Trump tower, but not too far away either:
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5434…

Story of O, Sex Slave Initiation
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5432…

OT: Who Performs A**a**inations?
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5411…

The Best Women's Lingerie Does Not Need To Be Taken Off
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5405…

Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5400…

Web Programming, HTML, CSS, and more
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5391…

Founder, and idea for a TUSCL graphic
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5387…

To Be Considered a Sexual Minority?
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5382…

Remaining Friends With The Ex?
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5382…

Bitcoin going to $1,000,000,000 per coin!
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5366…

Any Regrets, for those who have deliberately avoided marriage, or initiated divorce?
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5347…

Basement Clubs
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5319…

Oakland Ghost Ship Fire
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5313…

OT: Computer Programming
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5312…

OT: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5310…

Why Are So Many White Men So Stupid?
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5308…

OT: Economists, like Gary Becker
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5304…

Slavery And The Family
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5294…

Fighting Muggles!
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5258…

Tomi-Ann Roberts
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5257…

Is Stealthing Rape?
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5257…

What Destroys Relationships?
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5211…
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Cashman1234
7 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.
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san_jose_guy
7 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
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SirLapdancealot
7 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!!!
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SirLapdancealot
7 years ago
^ And strip club POSER.
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twentyfive
7 years ago
@taxi driver just piss on him and give him a dollar ;)))
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Call.Me.Ishmael
7 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'.
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Cashman1234
7 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!
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ime
7 years ago
He's a huge ass faggot
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Mate27
7 years ago
SJG is gay!
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Uprightcitizen
7 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.
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SirLapdancealot
7 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.
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JohnSmith69
7 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.
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Uprightcitizen
7 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.
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SirLapdancealot
7 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.
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Cashman1234
7 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).
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san_jose_guy
7 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
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5495…

The System (tm)
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=912

Dugan, often getting girls to leave mid-shift! Sure the hell beats buying dances.

SJG

Year of the Dog, Feb 16, 2018
https://www.asia-home.com/china/newyear/…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Dugan, often getting girls to leave mid-shift! Sure the hell beats buying dances.
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5289…

SJG
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Uprightcitizen
7 years ago
Fap...fap...fap...oooh give it to me baby
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SirLapdancealot
7 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.
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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SirLapdancealot
7 years ago
^ more proof of a clueless narcissist
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SirLapdancealot
7 years ago
BTW I doubt SJG jerks off. He also suffers from ED. Likely because of guilt that he is unwilling to admit.
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SirLapdancealot
7 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...

https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=3299…

https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=3305…

https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=3335…

https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=3337…

https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=3369…

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!
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TheeOSU
7 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.
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SirLapdancealot
7 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.
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san_jose_guy
7 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
https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-gra…

My Ignore List:
DrPhil, DrPhil., IME, Meat72, san_jose_gay, tixtittyfag, JimGassagain, Call.Me.Ishmael, SirLapdancealot, L1oydSchoene
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TheeOSU
7 years ago
^
And you, creep, are definitely misunderstanding that other than you, nobody cares about your posts.
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SirLapdancealot
7 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).
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
So, will be getting an occult book:

https://www.amazon.com/Occult-Paris-Magi…

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.

https://www.amazon.com/Templars-Assassin…

seems to be the second book, and maybe lesser
https://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Histo…

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzTMN-S1…
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SirLapdancealot
7 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!
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san_jose_guy
7 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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliphas_Le…

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

http://www.metrolyrics.com/run-baby-run-…

Sheryl Crow and Eric Clapton - "Run Baby Run" - Pavarotti and Friends - 1996 - live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzTMN-S1…

LIFEBOAT ONLY!
Register now, or at least save this address some place safe, like in emails to yourself and on paper:
http://testosteronelifeboat.freeforums.n…

Amtrak Collision South Carolina
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/amtrak-…

OT: musings on Adulting and savings (long)
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5480…

NOLA
http://image.nola.com/home/nola-media/wi…

Lost Einsteins: The Innovations We’re Missing
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/opini…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
The Greek magical papyri in translation, including the Demotic spells / edited by Hans Dieter Betz

https://www.amazon.com/Magical-Papyri-Tr…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Magi…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
So this new book:
https://www.amazon.com/Brotopia-Breaking…

Then about this Greek Magical Papyri
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Magi…

We also have this:
https://www.amazon.com/Techniques-Graeco…

The above author is in libraries, but not his above work.

SJG
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san_jose_guy
7 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.

https://www.amazon.com/True-Invisible-Ro…

Always wanted to read this. Case, a Golden Dawn veteran, started his own group, a correspondance group based in Los Angeles.

SJG
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san_jose_guy
7 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
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san_jose_guy
7 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
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Book by someone I cannot stand, and about an industry I cannot stand.
https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Women-Work-W…

But I want to read it to better appreciate the counter point book:
https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Out-Struggle…

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-WSbMW7…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Highly regarded, and Christopher Alexander has written lots of books:

https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Language-…

SJG

Led Zeppelin, Danish TV 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-WSbMW7…

Led Zeppelin, first album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsZG7n7r…

Led Zeppelin, second album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bcIjILq…

Led Zeppelin, Whole Lotta Love, from Song Remains The Same movie, w/Theremin, and with opening views of World Trade Center Twin Towers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrUHvPgx…

Led Zeppelin, Dazed and Confused, from Song Remains The Same, movie, w/destruction of horse hair violin bow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCKqlVU9…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Mustn't forget about this, Patrick Dunn. Don't know if I will go along with it or not.

https://www.amazon.com/Postmodern-Magic-…

SJG

The Uplifters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zzXYPJA…

"demonstrates how crime, moral puritanism, and conflicts between ruthless capitalists and striking workers help ruin the lives of marginal Americans."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intoleranc…

But not all feminism is like this:

https://www.guerrillagirls.com/
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. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_at_Daw…

https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Dawn-Stray-Mo…

Crisis and Openings: Introduction to Marxism - Richard D Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Whccun…

Led Zeppelin 1969 Danish TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-WSbMW7…

Led Zeppelin II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bcIjILq…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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.

http://horoscope-for.com/dog.html

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
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-budget…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Proxy Servers:
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php?id=…

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:

http://www.best-free-proxy.com/

http://dacd.win/

http://europroxy.pw/

takesper.gq

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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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
extreme income inequality and housing problems in Bay Area
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/15/i…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Men Are Done Dealing With Women's Crap (Advice For Men)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4PJrRz7…

Men Are Done Dating And Marrying Women (Wake Up Call For Women)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUn7Gt25…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/14/b…

Whole thing real stupid!

SJG

Inducting Women Into My Group:
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php?id=…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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.

https://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-…

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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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolarCity

http://www.solarcity.com/residential/sol…

1st Ex-Wife
http://justinemusk.com/

http://www.solarcity.com/

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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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Bellanca Cruisair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellanca_C…

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
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692258841/ref…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gat…

The Young Karl Marx, interview with director Raoul Peck
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/2/23/t…

IRON BUTTERFLY IN- A-GADDA-DA-VIDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCkHanF4…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Building An Inclusive Economy
http://www.wpusa.org/Files/WPUSAstrategi…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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:
https://www.amazon.com/Occult-Paris-Magi…

And with the group I am building, we will have our own vast libraries.

SJG
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
So I read the earlier book on this subject:
Eliphas Levi and the French Occult Revival
https://www.amazon.com/Eliphas-Revival-W…

This has prepared me. And Christopher McIntosh has written a back cover endorsement for Tobias Churton:
https://www.amazon.com/Occult-Paris-Magi…

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:
https://www.amazon.com/Giordano-Bruno-He…

and then also:

Manuel Orazi, born in Rome 1860
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Ora…

His 1895 piece entitled "Black Mass"
http://68.media.tumblr.com/d75296ff8f039…

Most of us have the idea of the naked woman on the altar from Anton LaVey, but it actually comes from:

J. K. Huysmans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joris-Karl…
and this is what the painting must be a reference to.

Chat Noir
https://bonjourparis.com/wp-content/uplo…

SJG

Glenn Gould-Alban Berg-Piano Sonata
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNk_A4Zo…
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vincemichaels
7 years ago
VM whips out a foot or so and pees on this thread.
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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
https://www.amazon.com/Occult-Undergroun…

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
https://www.amazon.com/Athanasius-Kirche…

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9md6qiL…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synarchism

good books written by
Joel R. Hass (Author),‎ Maurice D. Weir (Author),‎ George B. Thomas Jr. (Author)
like: University Calculus: Early Transcendentals, Multivariable
https://www.amazon.com/University-Calcul…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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:

https://www.amazon.com/Ma%C3%A7onnerie-%…

and then:
https://www.amazon.com/tradicion-oculta-…

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.

https://www.amazon.com/Sion-Revelation-G…

And then about Martinism, reading in Churton, starting to get some understanding.

Martinez de Pasqually (1727?–1774)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinez_d…

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
https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Ordre_Reau…

Spinoza, in German I think:
https://www.hermetik-international.com/d…

Spinoza and Kabbalah
http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles…

Rosicrucian Order AMORC, loosely associating Martinism with philosophy like Spinoza's
https://www.martinists.org/videos

List of occultists, including Spinoza
http://wiki.deldebbio.com.br/index.php?t…

Spinoza
http://wiki.deldebbio.com.br/index.php?t…

Jacob Boehme
http://wiki.deldebbio.com.br/index.php?t…


Rhizome of Boehme and Deleuze: Esoteric Precursors of the God of Complexity, by Mark Bonta
http://muse.jhu.edu/article/374221

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)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_(wi…

about Martinism
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index…

Rosicrucian Library
https://web.archive.org/web/200803281802…

Priscilla Hunt
http://phslavic.com/Priscilla_Academic/H…

Sophia Foundation
https://sophiafoundation.org/

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
https://www.amazon.com/Gerard-Encausse-P…

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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUAF3abG…

made into two instruments:
http://www.music-scores.com/graphics/sa_…

clearly 3 piano parts
http://cdn.imslp.org/images/thumb/pdfs/6…

http://cdn.imslp.org/images/thumb/pdfs/d…

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pyhBJzu…

I believe that the French Rosicrucian Order AMORC makes much use of Satie and Debussy.
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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.
http://testosteronelifeboat.freeforums.n…

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.

https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-off…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Here, Italian women taking off their clothes. I approve fully! Even though many are rather thick, I still like them.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/25-itali…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
^^^ Has video

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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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

https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Finding-C…

and also

https://www.amazon.com/Clothed-Sun-Being…

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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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
and then on now to Stanislas de Guaita

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislas_…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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.

http://www.rosicrucian-order.com/revista…

SJG


SJG

Erik Satie: Relâche (Complete ballet) (1924)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvc6vIWQ…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
So now starting to read about one of the most outrageous figures of the day, the one who re-started French Rosicrucianism

Josephin Peladan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9p…

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:
http://lacuria69.blogspot.com/

and we have this:
https://www.amazon.com/grand-m%C3%A9conn…

Peladan used the title: Sar Merodack.

Talked about Synarchism.

Book also talks about Decadent Movement

yes, mentions all people in the book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decadent_m…

And then the Symbolist Movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolism_…

some here:

https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php?id=…
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php?id=…

SJG

Sexiest Ladies of Jazz - The Trilogy! - Full Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygccgH8W…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot-et-Gar…

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.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-me-po…

UBI ( Universal Basic Income )
https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Floor-Uni…

The Vietnam War PBS Episode 3: The River Styx (January 1964-December 1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-cxYWy1…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
I had read a book about the Cathars. This guy went to the final martyrdom site Montsegur.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monts%C3%A…

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBGyFrHF…

http://cowbellsongs.com/the-list-cowbell…

Aerosmith Walk This Way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UFFa1Hb…

Booker T and the MG's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVAFjvRB…

Hank and Cupcakes, paint only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8bIZ5P8…

The Vietnam War PBS Episode 3: The River Styx (January 1964-December 1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-cxYWy1…

The Battle For Puerto Rico
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/3/21/t…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
So this guy, Vicomte Louis Edouard de Lapasse ( 1792 - 1867 )

picture here:
http://iniziazioneantica.altervista.org/…

http://www.reinedumidi.com/rdm/lapasse.h…

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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_X_…

Orleanists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Phil…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orl%C3%A9a…

Bonapartiste
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonapartis…

http://orderofthegrail.blogspot.com/2009…

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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8n…

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
https://www.amazon.com/Eliphas-Levi-Sect…

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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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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.

https://www.amazon.com/Occult-Paris-Magi…

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 )

http://iniziazioneantica.altervista.org/…

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot-et-Gar…

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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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Abbe Joseph-Antoine Boullan, Catholic priest, jailed in Rome, seen as Satanist, and some unspeakable rumors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Ant…

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!

https://www.amazon.com/Transcendental-Ma…

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe9DA8pO…

Flexible Transistor??
https://www.techopedia.com/definition/14…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rar…

He actually wrote some very interesting things, going beyond the science of his day.

Some of his writings full text online.
https://books.google.com/books?id=ci1-AA…

https://hermetic.com/sabazius/papus

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.

https://www.facebook.com/doctor.papus

About him and his writings
https://darkbooks.org/articles/Papus.htm…

Now this is AMORC, but it has some of his writings full text, though probably in French
https://www.martinists.org/l-initiation

Okay, Dec 1895, issue 29

https://121f80fd42b333dd7c55-c3f33f99875…

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.

https://www.martinists.org/l-initiation

Well it says page 5 on the viewer, but it is page 195 on the scanned paper.
https://121f80fd42b333dd7c55-c3f33f99875…

SJG

Gnostic Catholic Church for North America, New York City, has stuff from some of the same names in Tobias Churton's 'Occult Paris'.
http://www.apostolicgnosis.org/

Their book:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/197643274X/ref…

It all goes back to the people Tobias Churton and Christopher McIntosh are writing about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolibarr
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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:
https://121f80fd42b333dd7c55-c3f33f99875…

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
https://s.hdnux.com/photos/42/00/35/8914…

Chelsea Manning, running for the US Senate from Maryland, quite interesting
https://www.democracynow.org/

Steely Dan - Katy Lied (1975, Studio Album) 09 Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7XQGB-k…

Let it rain- Eric Clapton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi3Wxjnj…

Live, with some friends, and with his women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvN6zRNl…

Live, Royal Albert Hall, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqXrTDtD…

Derek and the Dominos live at the Fillmore, over 19min!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnDSN_XK…

Bring It On!
An Inflated Stock Market Is Evidence of Spiritual Sickness, And It Is The Death Of Creativity And Innovation
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/d…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
So trying to finish up with Tobias Churton's "Occult Paris"

https://www.amazon.com/Occult-Paris-Magi…

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?:
http://www.apostolicgnosis.org/

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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ys

And we have:
Debussy - La cathédrale engloutie

Orchestral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTgGSWZz…

and then Isai Tomita on Moog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjSHXopR…

Churton talks about pentatonic music ( do re mi so la )

and you can watch Satie's Gnossieenes being played:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVKZAIG7…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VrnYszj…

SJG

Good book about gurus, including one Ignatius of Loyola:

https://www.amazon.com/Feet-Clay-Anthony…

Whitesnake - Stormbringer (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk9wWj8W…

Soldier of Fortune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z69sxDq3…

Burn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tDz3VcV…

Rainbow - Stone Cold, do you like Ritchie Blackmore's double string plucks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hByGwgm_…

Deep Purple, Perfect Strangers, look at the automobiles pulling up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ_kez7W…

Smoke On The Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7ZF2xaN…

Steppenwolf, Magic Carpet Ride, live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtkP5gTX…

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?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnDSN_XK…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifff5NbK…

2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t8Q9dcF…

Layla 2008, fairly fast which sounds good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbceFpLY…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectorium_…

https://www.rosycross.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucia…

Large facility in Bakersfield CA
USA, Bakersfield CA, made by adapting a bank building.

2430 19th St
Bakersfield, CA 93301.
United States

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3762573,…

https://goldenrosycross.org/reflections

https://goldenrosycross.org/get-know-us/…

https://goldenrosycross.org/dictionary/j…

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.

https://www.logon.media/

The writers of their leaders, and talking it back to Ancient Egypt and to Hermeticism and the Emerald Tablet.
https://goldenrosycross.org/topics/liter…

https://www.amazon.com/Egyptian-Arch-Gno…

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
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/mistic…

"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].
"

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_ca…

again, finding stuff in French only
https://www.amazon.com/LEglise-Romaine-C…

TO BE CONTINUED

SJG
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_d…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fo…
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.

http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/d…

Influences on Comrade Marx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influences…

The Jules Doniel and Deodat Roche group still has people claiming a legacy, for North America, in NYC.

http://www.apostolicgnosis.org/calendar.…

Succession
http://www.apostolicgnosis.org/successio…

And they connect this to Martinism, especially through Papus.

And they are connecting this to Rosicrucianism, Templars, the Grail, and more
http://www.apostolicgnosis.org/aesthetic…

And they have this book:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/197643274X/ref…
$14.95

Here we go, getting into contentious territory, Cathars and the Kabbalah
http://www.apostolicgnosis.org/the-catha…

We have this Roy Howat, a specialist in French piano music.
http://www.royhowat.com/

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
http://www.apostolicgnosis.org/college-o…

Anyway, to conclude, Tobias Churton writes phenomonal and very challenging books, as 'Occult Paris' has certainly proved to be.

SJG

Debussy - La Mer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOCucJw7…

Erik Satie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fuIMye3…

Paul Foster Case, True and Invisible
https://www.amazon.com/True-Invisible-Ro…

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynEOo28l…

Benny Goodman, Sing, Sing, Sing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2S1I_ie…

1937, Goodman and Krupa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9J5Zt2O…

1971 w/ Gene Krupa, remember he had founded a drumming school
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=140Hb2q_…

COUNT BASIE Swingin' the Blues, 1941 HOT big band swing jazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYLbrZAk…
seems to be 4 beat, Kansas City type.
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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.

https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php?id=…

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnDSN_XK…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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.




https://www.anthropologymatters.com/inde…

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

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5488/9620…

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7290/96201…

Jimi Hendrix live 1969, very good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17mh2oI2…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
So the paper:
https://www.anthropologymatters.com/inde…

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQcOR91C…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
https://www.anthropologymatters.com/inde…

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)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7MY_cdU…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Elon Musk
https://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-…

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7_XkndC…

The Middle East's cold war, explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMFCFyO…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKNOlDtZ…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Elon Musk
https://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-…

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)
https://www.amazon.com/Rocketeers-Vision…

Rocket propulsion elements / George P. Sutton, Oscar Biblarz. (2010)
https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Propulsion…

Aerothermodynamics of gas turbine and rocket propulsion / Gordon C. Oates. (1997)
https://www.amazon.com/Aerothermodynamic…

And then I also take note of:

Modern engineering for design of liquid-propellant rocket engines / Dieter K. Huzel and David H. Huang (1992)
https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Liqui…

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 )
https://www.amazon.com/Orbital-Mechanics…

Introduction to space dynamics / by William Tyrrell Thomson ( 1986, originally 1961, obviously some very cool stuff to today implement on personal computer )
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Spac…

Fundamentals of astrodynamics / [by] Roger R. Bate, Donald D. Mueller [and] Jerry E. White ( Dover, originally 1971 )
https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Astr…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
^^^^ 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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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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
http://www.xtrac.com/

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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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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.

http://www.straubel.com/

Built 944 EV
http://evalbum.com/223

I had seen some of these 914 EV's
http://www.evwest.com/catalog/product_in…

SJG

Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
https://www.amazon.com/Simians-Cyborgs-W…

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Compiler Construction
by Niklaus Wirth
https://www.amazon.com/Compiler-Construc…

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)
https://www.amazon.com/School-Niklaus-Wi…

Looks good, but not really in libraries

SJG

The Lifestyle, erotic rights of swingers
https://www.amazon.com/Lifestyle-Look-Er…

http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/pus5…

http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/pus5…

http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/pus5…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Liber Chaos, by Peter J. Carroll, I believe his second book

https://www.amazon.com/Liber-Kaos-Peter-…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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.

https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Robot-Life…

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.

https://www.amazon.com/Outsider-Colin-Wi…

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Wils…

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:

https://www.amazon.com/Inferno-Hell-Henr…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Barb…

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:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Well…

"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."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_at_th…

SJG

I've listened to Lynn Harrell twice live
Yuja Wang & Lynn Harrell: Rachmaninov Sonata for Cello & Piano in G minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y7eMee_…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
H. G. Wells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXwQ5KqJ…

The rights of man, or, what are we fighting for? / H. G. Wells ; with an introduction by Ali Smith. (1915)
https://www.amazon.com/rights-man-What-a…

available in libraries

SJG
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Not endorsing these sources:

H.G. Wells Elite Manifesto - What you Didn't Learn in School w/ Wayne Jett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3vFIwSB…

Healing Teeth & Regrowing Enamel, Most Dentists in the Dark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TweySdrW…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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
https://www.amazon.com/Color-Magic-Novel…

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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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
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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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Anyone have any knowledge of these books, any experience with this series of books:

Pratchett, Terry, The Colour of Magic, 1991

https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Prat…

https://www.amazon.com/Color-Magic-Discw…

https://www.shmoop.com/the-color-of-magi…

SJG

Yuja Wang & Lynn Harrell: Rachmaninov Sonata for Cello & Piano in G minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y7eMee_…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Artesia, New Mexico, population 11k, South West NM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artesia,_N…

Rotate view to your right, to see the building.

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7289548,…

https://www.tuscl.net/listing.php?id=451…

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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-volta…

http://b4.cigre.org/Publications/Other-D…

http://new.abb.com/systems/hvdc

http://www.gegridsolutions.com/index.htm

https://www.energy.siemens.com/hq/en/pow…

SJG

Support Single Moms
http://images10.newegg.com/ProductImage/…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Physics Texts
Someone just gave me a copy of:

https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Scientist…

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)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2SvMeye…

Support Single Moms
http://images10.newegg.com/ProductImage/…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
So continuing with Peter J. Carroll's "Liber Chaos"

He talks about Chod Rituals, seemingly adapted from Tibetan Buddhism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%B6d

https://www.scribd.com/document/97485786…

http://firehorse.uk.com/healing/tibetan-…

https://chodpaorg.wordpress.com/what-is-…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
C extension
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW7wxLnZ…

Five Sting Bass, starting at B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBK2iEn-…

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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMsBFaA-…

Upton Bass, Connecticut
https://uptonbass.com/accessories-double…

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.
http://www.lemurmusic.com/BStoll-HEIDELB…

Mistuning, Pines of Rome needs B. I had thought it was Bb.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scordatura

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pines_of_R…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvgyfqzL…

Should make no-body stand up electric bass, 5 string version, no frets.
http://www.globalbass.com/archives/jan20…

Need to prepare that C tuning for a very important and much anticipated return!

SJG
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Robert Fritz, Path of Least Resistance

https://www.amazon.com/Path-Least-Resist…

A kind of anti-motivational book, even seeming to be an occult inspired book. Fritz is a musician and a composer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fri…

https://www.robertfritz.com/wp/

SJG
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Elementary Linear Algebra, by Howard Anton, 4th Edition, 1973 - 1984, and also another special student solutions manual

Anton also has other books, about calculus

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_…

in academic libraries

SJG

Led Zeppelin II, Whole Lotta Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bcIjILq…
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
Sun Microsystems News
http://java.sys-con.com/node/251862

Tiny Homes Festival
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/16/a…

$3.45 Gig San Jose budget, as always, mostly designed to help real estate profiteers.
http://el-observador.com/2018/06/15/mayo…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
7 years ago
California Homelessness:
https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-isn…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
America's Uncivil War has broken out:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/civility-aler…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
San Jose: Two people dead after light-rail train, car collide

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/08/t…

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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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
small, but potentially useful, 3 sizes:

https://www.scamptrailers.com/

https://www.scamptrailers.com/images/pdf…

biggest size is fifth wheel, so it still only needs one axle.

But in Minnesota.
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
https://www.scamptrailers.com/images/pdf…

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMG5O61K…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Kavanaugh Confirmation

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/4/wh…

Feinstein, Kamala Harris join Democratic attacks at Brett Kavanaugh hearing
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art…

Harris: 'We cannot possibly move forward' with Kavanaugh hearing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/pol…

The Hill's Reid Wilson: Kamala Harris sees Kavanaugh hearing as a political opportunity
http://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-…

SJG

A specter is haunting Europe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdYLRTGm…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Amazon(dot)Com, not a nice place to work:

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/5/as…

SJG

Universe 1971 (FULL ALBUM) [Hard | Blues Rock]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kSma2pg…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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

https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-gra…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl10z41-…

Okay, this Indiana University version is playing now. It is from their 2015-2016 season.
https://music.indiana.edu/iumusiclive/

Better way to get to it:

Part 1
https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_obj…

Part 2
https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_obj…

And here, program with some commentary:
https://music.indiana.edu/events/program…

So lets see how some of this sounds when played fixed pitch, i.e. organ:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKNoVOBg…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gk6J5I_…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR5YCijs…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEY5Lg_6…


Hal Ashby
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/9/…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Ashby

Obama Delivers Stinging Rebuke, Standing Up To Bullies, not following them.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/supposed-stan…

Roe v. Wade in Danger: Released Docs Reveal Kavanaugh Thinks Abortion Decision Is Not “Settled Law”
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/7/ro…

As 400+ Children Remain Separated From Parents, Trump Admin Wants to Detain Kids Indefinitely
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/7/as…

Mason, 1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fyeJk5W…

Hypercapitalism : the modern economy, its values, and how to change them / Larry Gonick, Timothy Kasser. (2018, graphic novel)

https://www.amazon.com/Hypercapitalism-M…

HEADSTONE CIRCUS - Headstone Circus - 1968 (FULL ALBUM) [Psychedelic Rock]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZYPAasu…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60WCF3WB…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cte9Bk_f…
Baker Gurwitz Army

Clark Kerr: Knowledge Industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4J94a_N…

Mario Savio on the operation of the machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yew51uYH…

Mario Savio Memorial Lecture: Robert Reich on Class Warfare in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LkYXec3…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2gqPUEt…

The Danger Of The "True Forced Loneliness" Movement
http://thedeclineofmyamerica.blogspot.co…

True Forced Loneliness
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p…

So this is it, Bill Greathouse TFL at war ??
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQgiVTd…

Disclaimer, I do not agree with PUA, MG-TOW, or with Sandman.


So this is he, Bill Greathouse, TFL ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bVwqlFP…

SJG

Founder, please open our threads back up! These threads are what give TUSCL its character.
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Plan to be requesting this soon:

The assassins : the story of medieval Islam's secret sect / W.B. Bartlett. (2002)

Original Thread:
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Simians Cyborgs and Women
https://www.amazon.com/Simians-Cyborgs-W…

Cyborg Manifesto, full text
http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/th…

And we must not forget Valerie Solanas 1967 SCUM Manifesto ( Society for Cutting Up Men )
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/rant…

SJG

BAKER GURVITZ ARMY - Hearts On Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rip84gh6…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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
https://www.scribd.com/document/74801610…

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
https://themartinistpentacle.wordpress.c…

Lots of online articles, like an initiatic teaching.

https://www.martinists.org/martinism
AMORC

doesn't seem to be in libraries, but the books exist.
https://www.amazon.com/martinism-Books/s…

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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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Marinist Doctrine, 4 pages

http://www.martinism.com/books/Robert%20…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Books as recommended by the British Martinist Order

https://www.bmosite.org/reading-martinis…

Most though not true 'Martinist' sourced books.

From AMORC Imperetor, a good guy, Christian Bernard, 7 pages
https://a6c7496c6b8edbef480d-0705b9b405d…

more book refs, but most of this stuff is not in libraries, though clearly good:
http://www.martinism.net/?page_id=91

SJG

TJ Street
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x9DUqhAne44/hqdef…

[Talk Gnosis] An Introduction to Martinism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEu3TIjf…

Simians Cyborgs and Women
https://www.amazon.com/Simians-Cyborgs-W…

Cyborg Manifesto, full text
http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/th…

And we must not forget Valerie Solanas 1967 SCUM Manifesto ( Society for Cutting Up Men )
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/rant…

BAKER GURVITZ ARMY - Hearts On Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rip84gh6…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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
http://testosteronelifeboat.freeforums.n…

http://testosteronelifeboat.freeforums.n…

http://testosteronelifeboat.freeforums.n…

Martinism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEu3TIjf…

Talk Gnosis: The Rosicrucians part 1, Dr. Jeffrey S. Kupperman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKH3A2DW…

[Talk Gnosis] Martinism & Gnosticism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZz7z784…

Gnostic Sex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENv6Fz_k…

Thelema and Gnosticism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R-_5fGQ…

Early Christian Magic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7P3yYME…

Killing Me Softly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4USer34…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhs8QGNj…

Elysian Encounter-Baker Gurvitz Army - playlist full album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0-DUyaY…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
OT: Book Publishing Industry
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

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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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Chil…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN3brxti…

Everything for everyone : the radical tradition that is shaping the next economy / Nathan Schneider. (2018)

Clamato, great tomato juice for drinking straight.

https://www.clamato.com/en
Motts LLP
Plano TX
https://www.motts.com/

TJ Street
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5488/9620…

https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5539/96203…

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5497/96200…

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9620…

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5449/96322…

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5520/96203…

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/nkeeS3HHJrU/hqdef…

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7361/96322…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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?
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

TJ Street
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5488/9620…

https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7290/96201…

http://www.adelitasbartijuanamexico.com/…

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3680/9633…

Nirvana - Aneurysm (Live at Reading 1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvwqSMRt…

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live at Reading 1992) w/ surprise into
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3XIGon2…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
QSR Automations, restaurant automation
https://www.qsrautomations.com/

cool stuff
https://www.qsrautomations.com/products/

industrial box computers
https://www.qsrautomations.com/products/…

SJG

Why I’m Proud To Be A Middle-Aged Stripper
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mid…

Baker Gurwitz Army Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7GXbGPN…

San Jose underground, thanks to Jackslash for finding this:
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/1…

Howlin' Wolf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpKB6OZ_…

FIAT Nuevo 500 Abarth
https://c.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploa…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
So dosen't this guy look like Neil Young?

http://www.metroactive.com/features/Jay-…

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.

https://www.sanjoseinside.com/2018/10/17…

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

https://www.sanjoseinside.com/2018/10/17…

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
https://www.amazon.com/Arguments-Deletin…

and also:
The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501158562?aax…

SJG

QSR Automations, restaurant automation
https://www.qsrautomations.com/
Louisville, KY 40223

https://www.squirrelsystems.com/
Canada
Burnaby, BC V5A 4V7
Why I’m Proud To Be A Middle-Aged Stripper
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mid…

Baker Gurwitz Army Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7GXbGPN…

San Jose underground, thanks to Jackslash for finding this:
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/1…

Howlin' Wolf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpKB6OZ_…

FIAT Nuevo 500 Abarth
https://c.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploa…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mid…
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strippercutie404
6 years ago
What do you think occultant sorcerers would say about the magic I create in my bedroom every day?
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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.

https://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Babalon-B…

https://www.amazon.com/Vault-Babalon-Thr…

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Sex-Magick…

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.

https://www.amazon.com/Templar-Heresy-St…

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":
https://www.amazon.com/Contingency-Irony…

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
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mid…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
So I want to look at something new,
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 - 1716)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_…

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:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_…

exposited in Monadologie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadology

The Monadology, online
http://home.datacomm.ch/kerguelen/monado…

like about 8 pages
http://home.datacomm.ch/kerguelen/monado…

Here, 13 page pdf
http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/p…

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.
https://www.amazon.com/Kabbalah-Archives…

https://www.amazon.com/Kabbalah-Archives…

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:
https://www.wickedtemptations.com/

Lou Reed - Egg Cream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIIG4gSX…

Ghilottibros.com, Golden Gate Bridge
https://ghilottibros.com/about/
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
So I want to continue looking into the above:
Here is some about the Coudert book
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

Here is full text of some kind of an essay she wrote:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

and then look at this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz_As…

10 page pdf from AMORC's Rosicrucian Digest
https://f151aef42a498ae456d4-1ef8579ca90…

Daniel C. Matt, many books, but also God and the Big Bang (2016)
https://www.amazon.com/Daniel-C-Matt/s?k…

God & the big bang : discovering harmony between science & spirituality / Daniel C. Matt. (2016 edition)

16 page PDF
http://physics.ucsc.edu/cosmo/primack_ab…

I think same article, in Tikkun
https://www.questia.com/magazine/1P3-866…


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
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

Elliot Rodger, Isla Vista Shooter 2014
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

Car Keys and Wallet Dating
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

... tried to distance himself from Nazi policies and was never held accountable
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

Yippie, Dow drops 831 points!
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

Sex In The Home Of Your Parents?
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

So What Do Women Like To Read?
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

*****************************************
So then the current open threads:

Vocels (Voluntary Celibates)
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

Bible and related materials
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

OT: Anglo-American Philosophy from Hobbes forward
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

OT: Assembler, C/C++, Embedded Systems, Machine Architectures, Development Systems, JTAG, Rust
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

American's Will Not Be Free Until The Last Preacher Has Been Strangled To Death By The Entrails Of the Last Libertarian.
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

The Ultimate Thread: SJG's Soap Box
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

JavaScript & jQuery
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

OT: Mathematics
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

R Programming Language
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

OT: PC-AT Numeric Key Pad, who used it, and for what? Like it?
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

OT: Book Publishing Industry
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

SJG

Nirvana - Come As You Are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vabnZ9-e…

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.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/halleonard-pagep…

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/nir…

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/nir…

Wicked Temptations, how life should be:
https://www.wickedtemptations.com/standa…

Lust, red only
https://www.wickedtemptations.com/standa…

https://www.wickedtemptations.com/standa…

Black Sabbath - Paranoid (Full Album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWvKvOVi…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibn…
"
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus…

SJG

JS69 Front Room Makeout Session
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

https://www.wickedtemptations.com/standa…

https://www.wickedtemptations.com/standa…

https://www.wickedtemptations.com/standa…

https://www.wickedtemptations.com/standa…

https://www.lingeriediva.com/collections…

Joe Bonamassa - "Midnight Blues" - Beacon Theatre - Live From New York
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z74lr3t…

Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa- I'd Rather Go Blind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnXgZZkP…

Joe Bonamassa - "Sloe Gin" - Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvvgZMGp…

TJ Street
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5488/9620…

https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7290/96201…

http://www.adelitasbartijuanamexico.com/…

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3680/9633…

God in the 21st Century: Bishop John Shelby Spong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwNmj5h1…

Bishop John Shelby Spong(9am) - "From a Tribal God to a Universal Presence: The Story Of The Bible"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87rokCqk…

Jesus for the non religious - Retired bishop John Spong on religion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUmKEH9j…

Is the Bible a source of Truth - Bishop John Spong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coKnuBBs…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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
https://mail.google.com/mail/#drafts/FMf…

https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7290/96201…

http://www.adelitasbartijuanamexico.com/…

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3680/9633…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
So how about Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677 )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spi…

http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles…

and above talks about:
The essential Kabbalah : the heart of Jewish mysticism / [compiled and translated with notes by] Daniel C. Matt.

https://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Matt-Essen…

The influence of Abraham Cohen de Herrara's kabbalah on Spinoza's metaphysics / by Miquel Beltran 2016

Abraham Cohen de Herrara (1570 - 1635 )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Co…

https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.…

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
https://philpapers.org/rec/WATTKA-3

SJG

https://jbonamassa.com/

Joe Bonamassa - "Sloe Gin" - Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvvgZMGp…

And now his own forum, harmonic notes:
https://forum.jbonamassa.com/viewtopic.p…

Midnight Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z74lr3t…

Guitar Harmonics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_har…

Beth and Joe - Black Coffee ( a Steve Marriott song, quite a vocal legend to try and imitate )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NooMzmbE…

Beth and Joe - I'd Rather Go Blind ( Live Amsterdam )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEHwO_UE…

Robin Trower, live ( more harmonic notes )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmoMb0gN…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Spinoza's metaphysics : essays in critical appreciation / edited by James B. Wilbur (1976)

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Matinism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinism



Martinist Order and Synarchy

https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Ordre_Mart…




Manifestations of the Marinist Order

http://omeganexusonline.net/rcmo/martini…



Robert Ambelain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Amb…



Old Templar Church

http://www.oldtemplarchurch.org/index.ht…




Martinist Doctrine

http://ancientmartinistorder.org/reading…



The Way Of The Heart, Papus

http://ancientmartinistorder.org/reading…



Ecclesia Gnostica, Stephan A. Hoeller

http://www.gnosis.org/eghome.htm




The Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm
http://www.iss-ic-memphis-misraim.com/en…





Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis Misraïm

e of Memphis-Misraïm: An International Order

Diwali

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali



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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cte9Bk_f…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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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6 years ago
Jean Gebser
http://www.gebser.org/

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWbwJ78g…

Baker Gurvitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cte9Bk_f…

TJ Street
https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7290/96201…

http://www.adelitasbartijuanamexico.com/…

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3680/9633…
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Iam4u2screw
6 years ago
SJG, following the link you have on your profile to your google site, I have a couple of questions.

sites.google.com

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?

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6 years ago
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
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world…

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-11/w…

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2018/0…!

Adam Hochschild
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/11/12/…

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, underneath the Arch of Triumph, should be visible from this East side angled view
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Arc+de…

http://www.paris-pictures.com/tomb-of-un…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_de_Tri…

https://architecturebehindmovies.files.w…

Theatre Chochotte - Paris
http://a403.idata.over-blog.com/3/52/36/…

Hookers in Paris
http://smallworldtravels.com/hookers-in-…

Baker Gurwitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cte9Bk_f…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
God & the big bang : discovering harmony between science & spirituality / Daniel C. Matt. (2016)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_C._…

https://web.archive.org/web/201208281257…

video, Daniel C. Matt, God and the Big Bang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6nSKKLN…

Stan Tenen
The Alphabet In Our Hands, Part 1: The God of Abraham, A Mathematician's View
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6nSKKLN…

SJG

Bernhard Riemann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_R…

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.

https://590kqnt.iheart.com/featured/morn…

http://www.khq.com/story/39481212/santa-…

Here SJPD say that the body was found floating face down about 1 mile out from the Marina and the Ramps.
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/body-discovery…

https://heavy.com/news/2018/11/ian-power…

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.
https://thespun.com/news/body-found-amid…

https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/body-f…

Still waiting to hear that they have confirmed the identity, and then of course for any conclusions.

http://www.ksro.com/2018/11/19/body-disc…

Jeff Healey Band, full concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_ufNFTA…


Theatre Chochotte, Paris
http://bird-production.com/photographers…

http://a403.idata.over-blog.com/3/52/36/…

Here, outside view, use zoom outs and changing back to maps to see exactly where this is:

https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=…

Inside scene
https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=…

34 Rue Saint-André des Arts, 75006 Paris, France

Here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8533376,…

Very close to the Seine

and to the Luxembourg Gardens park.

http://cdn.kabook.fr/bk21125/pic_85465_1…

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/78/d0/3d/78d03…

http://info.xineurope.com/uploadfile/201…

Here, their own page:
https://www.theatre-chochotte.com/englis…

https://www.theatre-chochotte.com/englis…

https://www.theatre-chochotte.com/englis…

https://www.theatre-chochotte.com/englis…

Emmanuel Marcon
‘Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world…

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.”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-11/w…

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-12/e…

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/opini…

EXPLORING PARIS: The Red Light Sex Shop Area (Pigalle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D_Zx8aY…

http://www.khq.com/story/39502486/body-d…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Philosopher Tobias Rees Raises a Question Everyone Thinks is Already Settled

Tobias Rees asks: 'What is human, anyway?'

http://www.metroactive.com/arts/Tobias-R…

"
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."
"

https://www.amazon.com/Plastic-Reason-An…

Designs for an anthropology of the contemporary / Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, with James D. Faubion and Tobias Rees (2008)

SJG

https://www.amazon.com/patrick-modiano-B…

An Introduction to Heidegger: Being and Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDAyhsZ-…

Bill Moyers, Forrest Church Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJbFGevv…

Stravinsky: The Firebird / Gergiev · Vienna Philarmonic · Salzburg Festival 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZkIAVGl…

So you folks like these no proscenium concert halls?

Disney Music Center
https://meyersound.com/wp-content/upload…

San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, not designed that way.
https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3127/27685…

TJ Street
https://farm8.static.flickr.com/7318/961…

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9620…

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5449/96322…

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2849/96290…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm3UfctR…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Silicon Valley, highest gender wage gap:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/03/w…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
So I also recently saw:

https://www.amazon.com/John-Cross-Select…

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
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9620…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_th…

"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. "

http://www.johnofthecross.com/

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Dio…

Mystery Schools, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and the "Platonic Underground"
https://www.iep.utm.edu/pseudodi/


SJG

Yanis Varoufakis: Is Capitalism Devouring Democracy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGeevtdp…

TJ Street
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9620…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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.)
https://www.iep.utm.edu/pseudodi/

Right here, Pseudo-Dionysius, complete works:
http://www.paulistpress.com/Products/283…

But who did he learn from?

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05013a.h…

"
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
https://www.catholiccompany.com/thirty-f…

Seems to list them
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05075a.h…

Lists them, says there are 36 such doctors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_…

Neo-Platonism and Christiantiy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatoni…

Dionysius the Areopagite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_…

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Di…

Still not clear what the genealogy of ideas was.

SJG

Nicki Minaj
https://nrg.radio/hiphop/wp-content/uplo…

Merkaba - Chariot of the Gods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7TGz1bY…

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LIxbYy-…

Christ of the Apocalypse, from one of the doorways to Chartres
http://marc-haegeman-photography.com/img…

The Merkaba Explained IN DETAIL From Lightworkers org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BWTvNIA…

Manly P Hall - Merkabah, Mystical Disciplines [ MUST LISTEN ] [ Connects Ezekiel's Chariot to the Islamic Legend of the Flying Carpet / Prayer Rug ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVjfEMXn…

^^^^ Talks much about Moses Maimonides
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimonides

TJ Street
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9620…

http://www.adelitasbartijuanamexico.com/…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_ufNFTA…

TJ Street
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9620…

http://www.adelitasbartijuanamexico.com/…
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6 years ago
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/1…

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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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
So what do I have for today?

The Liberal Catholic Church
http://www.thelccusa.org/


http://www.straphaelslcc.org/litergy.htm…


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.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Ca…


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._I._Wedg…


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_We…

Krishnamurti
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiddu_Kris…

Krishnamurti School, Ojai CA.

https://oakgroveschool.org/


Ancient Martinist Order AMO
http://ancientmartinistorder.org/


Ecclesia Gnostica
http://www.gnosis.org/eghome.htm


GNOSTIQUE.NET
http://www.gnostique.net/

Way of the Heart
http://www.gnostique.net/initiation/hear…




Gnostic Sanctuary
http://www.gnosticsanctuary.org/

Old Templar Church
http://www.oldtemplarchurch.org/



Nancy Wake: Gestapo's Most Wanted (French Resistance Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNXKovYM…



https://www.drc.fr/gb/169-rosicrucian-bo…
Rosicrucian and Marinist Books, AMORC France

INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE OF ESOTERIC STUDIES (AMO)
http://ancientmartinistorder.org/ices.ht…


SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Old Krotona, Hollywood, built 1912, then moved to Ojai 1926

should be pics of it:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fbK_o8K_mMI/Uh…

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a9/ef/6c/a9ef6…

https://lifeabsorbed.files.wordpress.com…

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2735/40519…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krotona

http://www.krotonainstitute.org/

So been thru Ojai CA on bicycle trips. Beautiful. But never looked into the Theosophical Society of the associated Liberal Catholic Church.

https://www.theosophical.org/local-group…


This bookshop could have been the place I saw in my dream. Hard to tell yet.
http://www.krotonainstitute.org/bookshop…

http://www.krotonainstitute.org/about/

As I know this is the enduring legacy of H. P. Blavatsky and J. Krisnamurti.

2 Krotona Street
Ojai CA 93023
805-646–2653
[email protected]
http://www.thelccusa.org/parishes/califo…

Use zoom outs so see where this is:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kroton…

Theosophy
http://www.krotonainstitute.org/what-is-…

Library
http://www.krotonainstitute.org/library/

Accommodations Application, has rules!
http://www.krotonainstitute.org/wp-conte…

Teachings
https://www.theosophical.org/teachings

Most esoteric groups believe something like this, and many cite H. P. Blavatsky as the genius behind all of it:
https://www.theosophical.org/teachings/m…

http://www.ourladyandallangels.org/

1502 East Ojai Avenue in Ojai, California

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Our+La…

Theosophical Ideas
https://www.theosophical.org/theosophy/t…

World View
https://www.theosophical.org/theosophy/t…

Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek-HZ7Uq…

Krotona Morning, Ojai CA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2u3dAXi…

Krotona Fountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Phs-At…

more videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bueOQUDN…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOXAMC-Z…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9KZWwaa…

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNXKovYM…

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/073227…

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ZeDn-h…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYXMDCNj…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHKTAyaW…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Bla…

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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Stee…

Documentary About Blavatsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLN7poqj…

"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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXxzI0gL…

What is Theosophy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1EsVhSi…

Krotona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krotona

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.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1089942,…

Vista Del Mar and Primrose is here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1093169,…

Alice Baily, 1880 - 1949 was one of the early members
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Bail…

about Hollywood Krotona
http://thenativelatourist.com/2014/05/kr…

"
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
https://monasteryoftheangels.org/

https://www.yelp.com/biz/monastery-of-th…

Still a very widely read book, 1877
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_Unvei…

full text?
https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/isi…

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/083560…



SJG

Headstone Circus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZYPAasu…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Okay, so this is the guy behind the Hollywood Krotona. A banker

Albert Powell Warrington
https://theosophy.wiki/en/Albert_Powell_…

Close to Annie Besant

President of the American Theosophical Society, 1912 - 1920. Also involved in the move to Ojai.

Annie Besant
https://theosophy.wiki/en/Annie_Besant

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
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c…

Besant Hill School ( Ojai ) lists Besant, Krishnamurti, and Aldous Huxley as founders
https://www.besanthill.org/

Besant was a Fabian Socialist
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Fabian-…

http://www.iamnotastalker.com/2018/11/14…

http://www.rupertjulian.com/blog-archive…

Kabbalah Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQiIi4GE…

Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1895 - 1986
https://theosophy.wiki/en/Jiddu_Krishnam…

https://theosophy.wiki/en/Jiddu_Krishnam…

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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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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.

https://theosophy.wiki/en/Henry_A._Walla…

Helena Roerich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Roe…

Roerich Pact
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roerich_Pa…

Roerich
http://en.icr.su/

Theosophy In Times of War
https://www.theosophical.org/publication…

Theosophy and the Second World War
https://www.filosofiaesoterica.com/theos…

Joined all US services, raised war bond money, criticized Gandhi for his pacifism. Criticize US for its neutrality.


Liberal Catholic Church
http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2013/07/t…


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
http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2013/01/t…

Some criticism of Blavatsky. What they fault her for was common among occultists of that era, Steiner, Heindel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophic…

“The Fire and Light of Theosophical Literature”, by Carlos Cardoso Aveline

https://www.infowars.com/zeitgeist-2-the…

INSTANT THEOSOPHY :- What is a Monad?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rln6fGTl…

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c…

https://theosophy.wiki/en/Egregore

What is a Monad? - Computerphile Uses Haskil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1e8gqXL…

Monad, drawing from Pythagoreans and from Leibniz
https://theosophy.wiki/en/Monad

Monad
https://blavatskytheosophy.com/what-exac…

Haskell Language
https://www.haskell.org/

Egregore
https://theosophy.wiki/en/Egregore

"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.
"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophy_…


https://theosophy.wiki/en/Monad


http://usreligion.blogspot.com/search/la…

Blavatsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLN7poqj…

The Irony of Apoliticism in Theosophy | Socialism, Communism, and Globalism (2018)
https://theamericanminvra.com/2018/04/12…

Theosophical Socialism, Rohit Mehta
https://www.theosophy.world/resource/ebo…

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

https://brill.com/abstract/journals/nu/6…

https://www.theosophical.org/publication…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophic…

http://theosophy.wiki/w-en/index.php?tit…

https://duronaqueda.blogs.sapo.pt/a-deus…

Isis
https://pedemacarrao.files.wordpress.com…

Neo-Platonism
http://theosophy.wiki/w-en/index.php?tit…

https://duronaqueda.blogs.sapo.pt/a-deus…

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).

http://www.krotonainstitute.org/about/

Joy Mills
http://www.krotonainstitute.org/wp-conte…

Joy Mills, lived till 2015, President till 1974
https://theosophy.wiki/en/Joy_Mills

This I believe is Fascist and Evil:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22I_AM%22…

Joy Mills
https://www.theosophical.org/publication…

Secret Doctrine 100 years later with Joy Mills ( videos )
https://theosophy.world/resource/secret-…


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)

https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Muse-History….

"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
https://theosophy.world/resource/what-sp…

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
http://www.krotonainstitute.org/wp-conte…

The Search For Truth ( good stuff about Theosophical thinking )
https://www.theosophical.org/teachings/t…


SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Gary Lachman on Madame Blavatsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPegrIcH…

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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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosis_(ma…

Smoley is a completely straight arrow and completely level headed, and he has written many most interesting books.

The Shamanic Vision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI_KmST_…

Richard Smoley: Magic and the Occult
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh8ahm7B…

https://www.theosophical.org/ts-network/…

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.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8861038,…

And then they have a place in San Francisco. I believe it is this 809 Mason St.
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7910805,…

I believe Smoley is speaking to us, 2018, from the San Francisco address.

But this is done from Wheaton
https://www.theosophical.org/programs/le…

https://www.theosophical.org/programs/ev…

https://www.theosophical.org/ts-network/…

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)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oI-xc7X…

Joe Jackson - Breaking Us In Two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g01HSthc…

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?

https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/j/joe_jac…

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/joe…

TJ Street
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9620…

http://www.adelitasbartijuanamexico.com/…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Founder, please unlock our old threads. Too time consumptive to keep a bunch of topical threads going.

Try to learn more about Theosophical Society

https://www.theosophical.org/

World View
https://www.theosophical.org/theosophy/t…

"
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
https://www.theosophical.org/publication…

Okay, the basic membership fee is $60 per year. ( Quite reasonable, far less than AMORC )

http://theosophicalsocietyofsanfrancisco…

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.

https://www.theosophical.org/teachings/e…

Kern Foundation
https://www.theosophical.org/kern-founda…





SJG

Gary Clark Jr. - Bright Lights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ZeDn-h…

Joe Bonamassa - "Midnight Blues" - Beacon Theatre - Live From New York
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z74lr3t…

TJ Street Girls
http://tjstreetgirls.blogspot.com/

http://www.tijuanafaq.com/index.php

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1449997066/?ta…

Real TJ Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj0yKwFl…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyJuyhdt…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_ufNFTA…

Richard Smoley: Who Were the Essenes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQokYsmf…

Gregg Braden - The 7 Essene Mirrors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiBsczaf…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Quest Books (Theosophical Society)
https://questbooks.com/

Quest Bookshop
http://questbookshop.com/home/index.php

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
The Theosophical Society in America: An Illustrated History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bueOQUDN…

Theosophy UK Manly P Hall The Murdered Mystic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO2tXOLe…

The Theosophical Society: An Invitation to Serve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQlKSlXH…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/4/mo…

'Leaked' Video Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Proves She... Has Friends, Can Dance
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/apos-leak…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1noBAbLa…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBeuzWWK…

Edwin Starr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztZI2aLQ…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-2pNCZ…

War - The World Is a Ghetto 1972 Full Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmheOZtL…

How To Tell If Someone Is Truly Smart Or Just Average
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-t…

TJ Street
https://farm8.static.flickr.com/7318/961…
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5488/96200…
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9620…
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5449/96322…

Warren Haynes ­with Joe Bonamassa -- Guitar Center's King of the Blues 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX14smq2…

Beth & Joe - I'd Rather Go Blind - Live in Amsterdam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEHwO_UE…

Beth & Joe - I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know - Live in Amsterdam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOQ07fVV…

Amazing Performance by Gary Clark Jr. - When My Train Pulls In
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYXMDCNj…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Theosophical Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQgVaGIu…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlqH_VVs…

Key to Theosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnVjwQqB…

Mitch Horowitz: H. P. Blavatsky, Manly P. Hall, and the Secret Teachings of all Ages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIqlw020…


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.
https://www.cabelas.com/product/Cabelas-…

TJ Street
https://farm8.static.flickr.com/7318/961…
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5488/96200…
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9620…
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5449/96322…

Nancy Wake, Gestapo's Most Wanted
https://youtu.be/qNXKovYM15A?t=57m28s

Nirvana-Come as you are lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqN0ZOEO…

Casino Royale 1967 Sound Track Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhmZULZX…

Mobile Kitchens, by Carlin, Fresno CA
https://kitchenstogo.com/products/mobile…
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVQ8lpPu…

Sexiest Ladies of Jazz - The Trilogy! - Full Album - New 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsJs_hEC…

Hard to believe, but they are really using this same song:

U2 New Year's Day (Full Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdLuk2Ag…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%2…

Soundgarden Half, playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHh-2T84…

Mitch Horowitz: H. P. Blavatsky, Manly P. Hall, and the Secret Teachings of all Ages ( really good )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIqlw020…

Rashida Tlaib
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/8/re…
on impeaching Trump
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/11/9/r…
https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2019/…
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/8/ra…
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txtittyfag
6 years ago
Best thread ever on tussle
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Thanks!

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Masonry and the Theosophical Society
https://www.universalfreemasonry.org/en/…

SJG

Steve Blank, Lean Startup Model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Blan…

https://steveblank.com/

Baker Gurvitz Army - Love Is / Memory Lane / Drum Solo / People - Live 1975 (Remastered) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8dX1iPe…

Deep Purple - Lazy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EvYI5OT…

THE MOODY BLUES - RIDE MY SEE-SAW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfy8NJtg…

THE GUESS WHO - NO TIME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meIuAUnZ…

Ep. 002 - Masonic Heroes of the Holocaust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5WrmUcE…

Video podcasts
https://www.universalfreemasonry.org/en/…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, by Michelle Goldberg (2006)
https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Coming-Ri…

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
https://www.politicalresearch.org/

Alfred Ross
https://www.thenation.com/authors/alfred…
https://www.democracynow.org/2005/7/26/t…
https://www.bizapedia.com/ok/institute-f…

Dan Quinn
https://tfn.org/

Adrienne Verrilli
http://www.womensmediacenter.com/profile…

Rob Boston
https://www.au.org/about/people/rob-bost…

SJG

Daath The Doorway to Knowledge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-IawzBx…

Steve Blank
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Blan…

https://steveblank.com/

Freemasonry is inherently opposed to slavery but what slavery remains for us to fight against today?
https://www.universalfreemasonry.org/en/…

TJ Street
https://farm8.static.flickr.com/7318/961…
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5488/96200…
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9620…
http://www.adelitasbartijuanamexico.com/…
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5449/96322…

Gary Clark Jr. - Bright Lights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ZeDn-h…

Black Sabbath - Paranoid (Full Album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWvKvOVi…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
So Tim LaHaye started in 1958, with the founding of the John Birch Society. Same for a lot of these other creeps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch…

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.

https://www.amazon.com/Michelle-Goldberg…

wrote a book about Indra Devi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra_Devi

SJG

Carly SImon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6BalhjG…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Michelle Goldberg, looks to be an extensive talk about "Christian Nationalism"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf2NNa_f…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKcr5vkO…

Tag, You're It/Milk and Cookies Double Feature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEYHJFIO…

w/ lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN2EoQjR…

Daniel Castro - I'll Play The Blues For You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioOzsi9a…

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)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxVTJr14…

Badge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frPQTiry…

Layla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX5USg8_…

Joe Bonamassa - "Midnight Blues" - Beacon Theatre - Live From New York
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z74lr3t…
Computer Written Music, 1 hr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAfLCTRu…

Joe Bonamassa - "I'll Play The Blues For You" - Live At The Greek Theatre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoX0Olfq…

Joe Bonamassa - "Breaking Up Somebody's Home" - Live At The Greek Theatre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DxaVOeu…

JEFF BECK -Brush With the Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlqyLqDt…

Jeff Beck - LIVE Full Concert 2017 ft/ Rosie Oddie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXJQb7aI…

https://www.aiva.ai/

Move flavors of Aiva generated music
https://soundcloud.com/user-95265362
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Richard Smoley: The Shamanic Vision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI_KmST_…

SJG

Joe Bonamassa - "I'll Play The Blues For You" - Live At The Greek Theatre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoX0Olfq…

Nice looking, agree?

https://i2.wp.com/davidswanson.org/wp-co…

https://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intel…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
So Michelle Goldberg talks about:

World Harvest Church
Columbus Ohio

and this
Rod Parsley



https://whc.life/

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3IbZlC8…

The Ancient War Between Gnostics and Neoplatonists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3IbZlC8…

Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081224…

Apocalypse of the alien god : Platonism and the exile of Sethian gnosticism / Dylan M. Burns (2014)

jeff healey live at nottoden 2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Qb-6Qk…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnFOfJsQ…

Yanis Varoufakis: Has capitalism failed us? ( May 2018 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gReGEDku…

Crazy Mini Engines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfDZKanK…

Richard Smoley - The Kabbalah: Key to Hidden Knowledge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-R4sOrW…

Shocking Blue - Venus ( live 1969 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWb8_DH8…

Have You Seen The Saucers - live, 1970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrVqhs4I…

1957, Italy, police officer issuing a woman a ticket for wearing a bikini
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/4642534/thumbs…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039332…

And then this:
https://www.amazon.com/Family-Secret-Fun…

SJG

Sexy Girls World Map ( consider Ecuador and Argentina )
https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-co…

Argentina
https://www.argentinaxp.com/wp-content/u…

Year of the Pig
http://media.gettyimages.com/vectors/hap…

TJ Street
https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3752/96322…
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ime
6 years ago
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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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3VktF4e…

Mexico City
http://doxyspotting.com/yellow-dress/

http://doxyspotting.com/?p=146666

http://doxyspotting.com/?p=112666

http://doxyspotting.com/?p=141203

Ninos Heros seems to be the main street hooker place in Mexico City
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ni%C3%…

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:
https://www.google.com/maps/@19.3981727,…

another in red dress:
https://www.google.com/maps/@19.3980731,…

Notice their rubber tired public transit train, running down the center of:
Calzada de Tlalpan

https://www.google.com/maps/@19.3897964,…

Black Mini Dress
https://www.google.com/maps/@19.3895654,…

Hotel
https://www.google.com/maps/@19.3882771,…

Red Dress in front of small hotel
https://www.google.com/maps/@19.3853347,…

Giant Size PEMEX station
https://www.google.com/maps/@19.3841061,…

Starting over at the Northern Boundary, as I am seeing it.
https://www.google.com/maps/@19.403126,-…

Diverting Right Down Calle Segovia, not disapointed
https://www.google.com/maps/@19.3999486,…

Certainly not
https://www.google.com/maps/@19.3999888,…

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
http://doxyspotting.com/?p=149332


http://doxyspotting.com/?p=146666

Remember this awesome find? I think the effect is mainly in how she is dressed.
http://doxyspotting.com/?p=129645

Yes, seems to be this corner:
https://www.google.com/maps/@19.4312328,…

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

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Parroq…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
New Hayward Public Library, 3 stories, 58,000 sqft

https://www.haywardfriends.org/

to open March 2019

https://www.hayward-ca.gov/public-librar…

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/10/26/…

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.

http://doxyspotting.com/?p=70423

http://doxyspotting.com/yellow-dress/

http://doxyspotting.com/?p=129645

http://doxyspotting.com/?p=97293

http://doxyspotting.com/?p=70423

http://doxyspotting.com/?p=88173

http://doxyspotting.com/?p=112750

Richard Smoley, Inner Christianity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52xShzP5…

Business Law Today, 10th and 11th Edition, Roger LeRoy Miller
https://www.textbooks.com/Fundamentals-o…

New, Used, purchase as ebook (pdf) and in libraries
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
New Main for Hayward Public Library

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/22/…

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.



https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/10/26/…

https://www.hayward-ca.gov/public-librar…

https://www.haywardfriends.org/

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Actually pretty funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UahqgK60…

SJG

Radio astronomy parabola project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSqC84JW…

How to Build a Radio Telescope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeah3fFY…

How Composers use Fibonacci Numbers & Golden Ratio | Composing with Fibonacci
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAyi8e5R…

How to Make Plasma, and Vacuum Devices (Fusion Reactors, Magnetrons and More!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO5IZz9N…

Losing Arguments with Your Wife After Her Brain Surgery - Jim Gaffigan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVDYXB-d…

A most impressive article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/po…

The origins of freemasonry : facts & fictions / Margaret C. Jacob. (2006)

Ending the Punishment of Poverty: Supreme Court Rules Against High Fines & Civil Asset Forfeiture
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/2/21/e…

Frances Fox Piven, Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQBgRPtL…

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IHG…

NOLO, Bourbon Street
http://doxyspotting.com/?p=131772

AZTECA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS9WVbQT…

Peter Green - In The Skies ( Full Album ) 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_Llz6n8…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zga8bhlm…

I love the smell of napalm in the morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALi78xSa…
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MackTruck
6 years ago
What happened to the Christian Eating Lions?
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
^^^^^^^^^ 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
http://doxyspotting.com/?p=118715

In Poland, this is what their Lot Lizards look like
http://doxyspotting.com/lot-lizards-pola…

Italy, Lot Lizards
http://doxyspotting.com/lot-lizards/
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Zucked
http://activate.metroactive.com/2019/02/…

Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
https://www.amazon.com/Zucked-Waking-Up-…

"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
http://www.metroactive.com/features/Zuck…

SJG

Hidden Camera inside a Freemason Lodge ???? Looks good to me! ( stripper )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks_D2drI…

Miles Davis, Love for Sale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i6wNgg5…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
California Voters Really Fucked Themselves With Proposition 13.

https://www.svvoice.com/prop-13-the-gift…

SJG
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Mate27
6 years ago
^^ you got shit for brains!
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BoringLoser
6 years ago
Let’s try to keep this thread active. It’s too legit to quit.
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BoringLoser
6 years ago
This post got more than halfway down the page.

Unacceptable!
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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
https://marcusjborg.org/

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huston_Smi…

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
https://www.theosophical.org/files/resou…

https://www.theosophical.org/theosophy/t…
has 7 articles

Ocasio-Cortez hopes to 'break this fourth wall' by responding to 'bad-faith attacks'
https://news.yahoo.com/ocasio-cortez-hop…

Alvin Lee – The Bluest Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB6OlJqV…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
American's United for Separation of Church and State

https://www.au.org/

"
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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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
The Essential Tillich, by F. Forrester Church
https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Tillich…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tilli…

Christian Existentialism, traced back to Kierkegaard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_…

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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern…

SJG

- The World Is A Ghetto by War -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptIcert_…

TJ Street

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5488/9620…
https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7290/96201…
http://www.adelitasbartijuanamexico.com/…

Pleaser 9 and 10 inch
https://www.pleaserusa.com/regular.asp?d…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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.

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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.
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(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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioOzsi9a…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
V. I. Lenin

Socialism and Religion

1905

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/w…

"
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.
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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.
"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zftZgjNr…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_vis…

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/24/605252936…

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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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_CNg4dp…

Aldous Huxley, Three Degrees of Revelation, Perennial Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylqCk41a…

Ananda Coomaraswamy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda_Coo…

Pablo Sender - The Secret Doctrine: Part 1 - How to Study The Secret Doctrine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O2hdnG6…

SJG

Social Entrepreneurship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_ent…

Robert A. Caro on the means and ends of power
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019…

The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-i…

Origins of the Perennial Philosophy School of Thought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_CNg4dp…

Ananda Coomaraswamy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda_Coo…

Pretend You Have A Cold, Pelosi to Biden
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/p…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Richard Rohr
https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Rohr/e/B0…

The universal Christ : how a forgotten reality can change everything we see, hope for, and believe / Richard Rohr. (2019)

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
The Blanket, I guess this is the blanket which Bobby Sands wore, as refused to wear the prison uniforms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAZ_TELK…

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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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
talks about Wretched of the Earth being one of the favorite books of Bobby Sands

http://indiamond6.ulib.iupui.edu:81/mh18…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Backlash, the undeclared war against American women

https://www.amazon.com/Backlash-Undeclar…

And here, Susan Faludi, a most interesting interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIC4uKSF…

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
https://www.amazon.com/Rocking-Cradle-Se…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Irish Republican Army, B*mb*ngs and the Louie Mountbatten affair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knltGsRc…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xtayc3V…

Achille Mbembe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg_BEodN…

Wretched of the Earth, part 2, starting with Fanon's actual text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fydi9CS…

Apartheid Activism In the 1960s & '70s - Ronnie Kasrils
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIVcp6Kc…

part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eDOhHa2…


SJG

Free - Wishing Well (Official Video, w/ the Leyland dump truck)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKy_puDD…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
The Provisional Irish Republican Army and the morality of terrorism / Timothy Shanahan. (2009)

American Born, at Loyola Marymont, Philosophy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Sh…

https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/philosophy/gr…

Jeremy Corbyn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Cor…

on Irish Politics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Cor…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
U.K., Irish Politicians Join Funeral for Murdered Journalist Lyra McKee
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/25/h…


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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Irish…

Rejects 1998 Good Friday Accord

Sinn Fein operates in both Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Irish…

Considered Left Wing, has current form since 1970 when it split with Workers Party of Ireland.

SJG

April Wine - I Like to Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlcY_enz…

'This is personal for me': Hillary Clinton urges caution on Trump impeachment
https://news.yahoo.com/apos-personal-apo…

Frantz Fanon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ThoGtS-…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Here, New IRA apologizes for the killing of the journalist.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/world…

If I am understanding this then, even Sinn Fein is completely against this New IRA.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/world…

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:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Paisle…

SJG

Metallica - The Unforgiven I & II & III
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=673DwzEm…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X31ayDsG…

SJG

Police live 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXZTcL8k…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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
https://www.amazon.com/X-Vasa-Soror-Syri…

Foucault and Biopolitics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe-VNHl0…

PHILOSOPHY - Michel Foucault
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBJTeNTZ…

Biopower: Why We Don’t Revolt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cpyp9OH…

Alvin Lee – The Bluest Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB6OlJqV…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Biopower: Why We Don’t Revolt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cpyp9OH…

Beyond Good and Evil Michel Foucault 1993 Documentary The Things Documentary 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy7ssTAm…

SJG

Deep Purple
Knocking At Your Back Door (Live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU8TZ00k…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Silicon Alleys: SJSU Takes Big Step a Metropolitan University
https://www.metroactive.com/features/col…


SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Alain Badiou speaking to us in English, at UCLA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv5VMf-R…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
John Caputo talking about Tillich below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Ca…, born 1940

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Ca…

SJG

Michelle Alexander on The New Jim Crow, at Union Theological Seminary ( she wrote a very important book )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T79I1PLT…

Paul Tillich Symposium: John Caputo Lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cog1v44W…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
John D. Caputo: Post Modern, Post Secular, Post Religious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ABEuQXQ…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/152476…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Crow After Roe: How "Separate But Equal" Has Become the New Standard In Women’s Health And How We Can Change That
https://www.amazon.com/Crow-After-Roe-Se…

The End of Roe v. Wade: Inside the Right's Plan to Destroy Legal Abortion
https://www.amazon.com/End-Roe-v-Wade-Ab…

Protect our Reproductive Rights!
https://www.prochoiceamerica.org/

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Bernie Sanders campaign co-chair Ro Khanna: no mud-slinging against Democrats
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art…

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/how-did…

Meet The Alabama Doctor Who Could Face 99 Years In Prison For Providing Abortions Under New Law
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/5/17/m…

What Does a Post-Roe America Look Like? As Anti-Choice Laws Multiply, Many Already Are Living In It
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/5/17/w…


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!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B371yayK…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlGTGfMj…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BcV-Lml…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
http://phoenixmasonry.org/

The Phoenixmasonry

Masonic Museum and Library

“An Independent and Universal Masonic Resource.”

"Spreading enlightenment -- one web surfer at a time!"


SJG

Stephan Hoeller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5QW8vc…

Le Droit Humain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUv_asX5…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
What it means to be a Mason, and this group is inspired by Annie Besant, Le Droit Humain, and the Theosophical Society.

http://phoenixmasonry.org/what_it_means_…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Liberty Leading the People
Eugene Delacroix

https://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com…

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.
https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Liberty Leading the People
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Le…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_c…

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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne

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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavroche

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXMu5j8a…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
Tricolor cockades,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolism_…

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
http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstor…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
“16 Shots”: Chicago Police Killing of Laquan McDonald Exposed a System Built on Lies
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6/17/1…


SJG

Dogs’ Eyes Have Changed Since Humans Befriended Them

Two specialized muscles give them a range of expression that wolves’ eyes lack.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arch…
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san_jose_guy
6 years ago
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:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXXp1bHd…

Mitch McConnell is full of shit!


SJG

Gimme Shelter, my favorite, Amsterdam 1995, Lisa Fischer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_a6YqWj…

Rolling Stones - Band Introductions w/ Lisa Fischer & Honky Tonk Women - 1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im0wxTmL…

Lisa Fischer, Oakland 1994, but they hadn't learned to keep the camera on her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5MfBAwm…

This seems to be Lisa, the video is good, more widely viewed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvSgUH0W…
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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
New York's Child Victims Act
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati…

New York court system sets aside 45 judges to deal solely with new child sex abuse lawsuits
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/14/us/new-yo…

Child Victims Act takes effect with many lawsuits targeting Catholic Church
https://nypost.com/2019/08/14/child-vict…

Adult Victims Of Childhood Sex Abuse In New York Can Sue Alleged Abusers
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/14/750881986…

Governor Cuomo Signs The Child Victims Act
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governo…

New York Child Victims Act Lawyers
https://www.unionlawfirm.com/practice-ar…

https://www.sexabusesurvivorlawfirm.com/

https://www.sexabusesurvivorlawfirm.com/…

SOL-Reform
http://sol-reform.com/

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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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxMwGTQ1…
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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
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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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
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!

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/8/29/a…

SJG
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5 years ago
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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
CA Governor Gavin Newsom announces Free Community Colleges, for first time attendees! And this is to be only just the start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnhGNmoq…

SJG

The B-52's - BBQ Live (1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emzk9bJJ…
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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
Red Tails 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhDmGR1c…

This seems to be the movie I want to see. Maybe the compromised this posting some. But I don't care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htKE8o-B…

SJG

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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
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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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
This movie is AWESOME!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhDmGR1c…

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

https://www.redtail.org/wp-content/uploa…

SJG

Coffee Cougar
https://me.me/i/dlove-for-acougar-or-sug…

The Filthy Souls - Destroy You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZDtZawK…

Jack White - Love Interruption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iErNRBTP…

The White Stripes-Jolene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXlULkwh…
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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
Hymer Camper Vans, also Motorhomes and Travel Trailers.

https://www.hymercar.com/en/models/hymer…


Taarcom Inc., manufacturer's rep
https://www.manta.com/c/mmpc3l2/taarcom-…

Good Stuff:
http://www.taarcom.com/

Silicon Alleys: Global Good Awards Honors Innovators
http://www.metroactive.com/features/colu…

AI4ALL

http://ai-4-all.org/

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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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
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
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php?id=…

Impeachment Investigation To Continue And There Could Be More Pubic Testimony
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php?id=…

Using a sex toy by yourself is masturbation
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php?id=…

The Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Morality of Te**o*ism
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php?id=…
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san_jose_guy
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
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Mate27
5 years ago
^^ STFU!
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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
Fresno:

Still City Lights and Gold Diggers. City Lights still Topless. But Gold Diggers now reclassified as Nude?

SJG

Joe Bonamassa "Midnight Blues"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YsEzJs6…
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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
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!

https://www.bing.com/maps?&ty=18&q=Gold%…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
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.
"

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-re…

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 Yahoo.com/babybrain."


SJG

The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (Live) - OFFICIAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDxpdFKu…
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san_jose_guy
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
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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
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.

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.323152,-…

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 )

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3920414,…

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?

http://recyclebookstore.com/

AbeBooks, highly regarded online dealer.
https://www.abebooks.com/?cm_sp=TopNav-_…

All Digital Bookstore ??
4848 San Felipe Rd, San Jose, CA 95135

Follett campus bookstore??
https://follett.com/

Sucks, basically the Barnes and Nobel, and that especially Recycle Books, on Alameda:

One of the coolest neighborhoods around:
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3314929,…

Club Caribe
https://www.clubcaribedesanjose.com/

1001 S 1st St, San Jose, CA 95110

Club Miami Beach San Jose
https://www.yelp.com/biz/miami-beach-clu…

417 S 1st St

Club Caribe, this is a long long way outside beyond the downtown, South. Usually seen as a tough neighborhood.

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.320895,-…

Club Miami Beach, just south of W. San Salvador, a historic location for it.

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3296806,…

Miami Beach Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/miamibeachclub/


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.

http://latinbayarea.com/event/salsa-bach…

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3301444,…

https://www.meetup.com/San-Jose-Latin-Mu…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
Alum Rock, BART Station + light rail, plus some Viet Coffee and Mex Bars.

Cube Libre, new name on this bar.
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3695997,…

BART, not actually running yet in South Bay
https://www.bart.gov/schedules/bystation

map
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c…

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:

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3259118,…

Lots of changes, little remains the same.

1962 Tully
https://www.zomato.com/san-jose/cafe-quy…



SJG

Whiskey Blues | Best of Slow Blues/Rock #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eNSWZ4x…
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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
Cheo Leo, seemingly old facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cheo-Leo-…

SJ Code Enforcement
https://csj.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappv…

A lot of the places I knew are just gone now.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Nguyen…

All changed.

SJG
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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
OMG, bomb threats had two of our court houses shut down today!

https://www.sfgate.com/hdn/hrlm/p/callba…
SJG
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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/01/22/s…

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
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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
Some conflict situations I had plan to act on, just have gotten diffused. Not pleased about that.

SJG
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san_jose_guy
5 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.
"

https://www.amazon.com/Immortality-Inc-R…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
5 years ago
Article a friend sent me last summer about Uber and the Scooter services
https://therideshareguy.com/how-micromob…

Coronavirus Poses Higher Risk For Homeless Population
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRwRDeiW…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
5 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbceFpLY…

crosby stills nash young almost cut my hair CSNY 1974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVsbqVJL…

TJ Street
https://tuscl.net/photo.php?id=1132
https://tuscl.net/photo.php?id=2305

Pleaser 10"

https://pleasershoes.com/collections/ple…

https://pleasershoes.com/products/beyond…
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san_jose_guy
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
https://tuscl.net/photo.php?id=2156
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twentyfive
3 years ago
This is a warning stop spamming my threads
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san_jose_guy
3 years ago
I have not spammed any threads of yours Mr. 25.

SJG

The way life should be:
https://tuscl.net/photo.php?id=9003
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san_jose_guy
3 years ago
Ruby Rose alleges unsafe working conditions on set of Bat Woman.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ruby…

I had thought it was Yvonne Craig from the 60's

1967
I love this one piece on her, my favorite episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVTrgPoj…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
3 years ago
Heath Anthology of American Literature

https://www.amazon.com/Heath-Anthology-A…

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
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san_jose_guy
3 years ago
Solution to a local homicide:

old story of Anthony Juarez homicide August 15, 2020
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/0…

12/20 Arrest Made, Jose Luis Salazar, 26
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/20/s…

https://www.kron4.com/south-bay-homicide…

https://nixle.us/DAY6P?_ga=2.38487978.88…

SJG

Nina Hartley
http://www.nina.com/ninahartley.php
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san_jose_guy
3 years ago
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

https://www.svvoice.com/2020-sunnyvale-h…

https://nixle.us/DAY6P?_ga=2.38487978.88…

SJG

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gruppen - Ensemble intercontemporain, for acoustic orchestra, 3 of them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34_SfP7Z…
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san_jose_guy
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"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO-SsP0M…

Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild (Live at Farm Aid 1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Z4cjUl…

Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild (Live 2006)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwLmmXGE…
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san_jose_guy
3 years ago
http://www.sanbenito.courts.ca.gov/

http://www.sanbenito.courts.ca.gov/gener…

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:

https://www.kron4.com/south-bay-homicide…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/man…

https://x99news.com/2021/12/21/man-charg…

https://inmate-lookup.org/california/cit…

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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san_jose_guy
3 years ago
Where to Find Older Women (Cougars) The Inside Track! KarenLee Helps With Cougar Hunting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGKZT578…

Inside The Trend Of Older Women Dating Younger Men
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJh-FuR8…

beautiful older women part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfrv246g…

How To Meet A Cougar At The Store - Tips On Starting A Conversation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v13Pp6Zo…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
3 years ago
Yeah, tried to kill his father with a knife:
https://nixle.us/CZRA4

SJG
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san_jose_guy
3 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0octoNH…

The Gnostic Origins of Christianity, featuring Tim Freke and Peter Gandy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94tvaGrB…
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san_jose_guy
3 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.

https://www.svvoice.com/2020-sunnyvale-h…

I have no stake in these cases. But they are of interest.

SJG
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san_jose_guy
3 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
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san_jose_guy
3 years ago
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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rickthecoconutcrab
3 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!
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san_jose_guy
3 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EMGkkXJ…
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datinman
3 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?
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san_jose_guy
3 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
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Mate27
3 years ago
^^ dude, you should’ve titled this thread “SJGs ultimate echo chamber!”
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san_jose_guy
3 years ago
You got that right!

SJG
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san_jose_guy
3 years ago
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)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdEe5Spd…
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san_jose_guy
3 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
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san_jose_guy
3 years ago
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
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san_jose_guy
3 years ago
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T12EVXd…


John Fogerty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyjsMy4G…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dONHJcbK…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSsj2d_p…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X62VL2kR…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED_6dYfj…
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san_jose_guy
3 years ago
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8VU9d8H…
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san_jose_guy
3 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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-B9kSD_…

Blossom Hill Road San Jose

SJG
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san_jose_guy
3 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.

https://www.svvoice.com/2020-sunnyvale-h…

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T2q2YAP…
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san_jose_guy
3 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k71WMAIF…
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rickmacrodong
3 years ago
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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san_jose_guy
3 years ago
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B71GZQYH…
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rickmacrodong
3 years ago
SJG that is unfortunate!
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san_jose_guy
3 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhGGK8le…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUQ-wIxQ…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwlRGS0x…
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rickmacrodong
3 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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san_jose_guy
3 years ago
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
https://tuscl.net/photo.php?id=10885

Claudette Colbert
https://tuscl.net/photo.php?id=10893

The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter - 2013 School of Rock AllStars Team 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we-3Y3vh…

Pleaser 10 inch
https://pleasershoes.com/collections/ple…
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san_jose_guy
3 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.
https://www.google.com/search?q=akita+do…

So I feel much better about the 3 Pitbulls.

SJG

https://tuscl.net/photo.php?id=10885

https://pleasershoes.com/collections/ple…
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san_jose_guy
3 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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angwin,_Ca…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Un…

affiliates with 7th Day Adventist Church.

https://www.puc.edu/

accredidation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_As…

1500 students, lots of premed.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pacifi…

16 miles East by North East from Santa Rosa

SJG
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san_jose_guy
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.

https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/pet…

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmiG4KzZ…

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JimGassagain
2 years ago
Who the fuck is reading this thread besides the OP?

Answer: nobody!
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TheeOSU
2 years ago
^


Well I did read your comment Jim, other than that noting to see here. Lol
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san_jose_guy
2 years ago
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpr8Ovof…
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san_jose_guy
2 years ago
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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san_jose_guy
2 years ago
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]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_par…

"
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clGX_J19…
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san_jose_guy
2 years ago
Forza Horizon 5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forza

SJG

Eric Clapton - Beware of Darkness at the Concert For George
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRoo0-hw…
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san_jose_guy
2 years ago
Some random notes:

Siren Doll
https://sirendoll.com.au/?main_page=inde…

Mondale act, a right wing page
https://kidjacked.com/media/mondale_act.…

Priase of mondale
https://www.minnpost.com/community-voice…

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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san_jose_guy
2 years ago
Classical Mechanics (3rd Edition) [Hardcover]
Herbert Goldstein (Author), Charles P. Poole Jr. (Author), John L. Safko (Author)


Taylor, John R. (John Robert), 1939-

INTRO.TO ELECTRODYNAMICS
Author GRIFFITHS

QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
Author SREDNICKI

QUARKS+LEPTONS:INTRO.COURSE...
Author HALZEN

CLASSICAL MECHANICS
Author TAYLOR

INTRO.TO QUANTUM MECHANICS
Author GRIFFITHS

FIELD+WAVE ELECTROMAGNETICS
Author CHENG

INTRO.TO QUANTUM PHYSICS
Author FRENCH

SJG
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san_jose_guy
2 years ago
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAw97jKB…
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san_jose_guy
2 years ago
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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co…

SJG

Jane School of Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdWq4w8D…
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san_jose_guy
2 years ago
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdWq4w8D…
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san_jose_guy
2 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska

Alaska purchased from Russia 1872, for $7.2 million.

William H. Seward

Edwin M. Stanton
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcont…

Great Lakes, 5 of them.

SJG
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san_jose_guy
2 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit

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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san_jose_guy
2 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bury_My_He…

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
https://www.britishpathe.com/video/VLVA1…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
2 years ago
More human remains found at Lake Mead

Only 27% full.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-human-re…

SJG

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san_jose_guy
2 years ago
hyvesolutions, Fremont

https://hyvesolutions.com/

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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX00cSNw…

Archie Bell and The Drells from Houston Texas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agclATD-…
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san_jose_guy
2 years ago
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.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/183758798765?ch…

Later succeeded by the RM-85


RM85 online manual
http://www.crservice.dk/Suzuki%20cross/R…

Suzuki RM85/L online manual
https://www.carlsalter.com/mcpdf/Suzuki%…

SJG
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san_jose_guy
2 years ago
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLwJaK0-…
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san_jose_guy
2 years ago
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

https://narratively.com/inside-the-secre…

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn_YodiJ…
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san_jose_guy
2 years ago
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

https://tuscl.net/photo.php?id=7137

Kansas City School of Rock
What is Hip
https://youtu.be/eQp1RJtCn2U?t=4321
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