Saturday, March 31, 2007

Families


Come in all shapes and sizes

Just one aspect today

If you change then very often the last people to accept this will be your family

Why?

Because it means to acknowledge that they have not

That the world might have moved on

Times have changed

The family unit is often very conservative

And to accept your changes means to disturb the status quo in the family

Many will not accept this

Remember that your family are only genetic relatives

Your soul is yours

Your spirit is independent of all

Make your own way

Sometimes this might upset the family

However your personal growth is why you are here
So long as you are honest, correct and loving in your behaviour
Let the family be
No regrets it is just the way it is.
Families

Friday, March 30, 2007

Greenhouse fantasies anyone?


Over 99.9% of the earth’s atmosphere consists of nitrogen, oxygen, and argon.

Whereas CO2 makes up about 95% of the atmospheres of Venus and Mars, it currently accounts for only about 0.038% of the earth’s atmosphere (i.e. 380 parts per million), compared with a pre-industrial revolution figure of about 0.028%.

Water in its various forms ranges from 0 to 4% of the atmosphere and its properties vary according to what form it is in and the altitude at which it is found.

Humans are responsible for about 3.4% of the CO2 emitted to the atmosphere annually, mostly from the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas, and the production of cement; the rest comes from natural sources such as volcanoes, the outgassing of the oceans, and the biosphere.

Humans are probably responsible for about 2.5% of the total greenhouse effect

(Milloy, 2006a).

Yes it is correct that we should pay more attention to our behaviour and stewardship of planet earth

No it is not right or honest that we be bombarded with unscientific and hysterical pseudoscience posing as fact

Inform yourself by visiting David Pratt's website and reading his article "The Global warming scare"
Just put his name into Google search and then when on site click latest additions no 2.

Thursday, March 29, 2007

New shift


Today global warming has moved into the mainstream

No longer considered the ideas of nutty scientists.
It is official policy, it is real
Endorsed by the United Nations no less
It also happens to be false
The science supporting the idea of global warming is an unproven hypothesis while counter arguments are much more reasonable and compelling
Interesting how long the truth will take to filter through
Years probably
No matter we will all pay more taxes to fight something that has yet to be proven true.
For politicians it allows them to look sincere and concerned
And for you?
Do you care?
Time to inform yourself and have an opinion of your own.
Where to look?
Ask around or keep reading here.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Sensitive


So sensitive

Notices every slight

Every nuance

Every slight inflection

And where has this got you?

In a worse mess than before.

How can you feel good if all your energy is searching out real or imagined criticism?

Start looking at yourself and let others be.

Learn to like yourself.

You are what your thoughts have made you

Literally you are the creation of your own thoughts.

And tomorrow you will be the product of your thoughts today.

So can you see why your thoughts are so important?

Let others get on with their own lives

Do not worry about what they think or say.

Worry about your own thoughts.

Make them nice.

Learn to love

Learn to be loving

Learn to think thoughts free of judgement

Learn to have only nice thoughts.

Learn to wonder at the beauty of our world

Change yourself and you change your world.

Literally.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Modern noise


Most modern humans operate on about 35 - 40% of their energy potential.

Is this true?

Yes although not widely known.

Why?

Obviously a combination of factors, unique to each individual.

Some though are common to all.

Just taking one.

Sensory overload.

Constant bombarding of the senses

Visually, audibly and emotionally.

Much is unavoidable for those living in towns or cities.

That is most of us.

We can though train ourselves to cut out a lot of it.

In particular by not allowing radio, tv, music and dj's to be in our ears all the time.

Ever thought why you do this?

For many or even most it is so that they do not have to listen to their minds.

To the fears and stressful ideas that come in if they do not have some noise distracting them all the time.

There is a choice though.

The first step is to acknowledge that this is so.

Test this out

It's easy.

Turn off the devices and see what comes into your head.

What ideas, sounds thoughts

If they tend to be worrying thoughts.

Then yes you have a problem.

A problem to know how to stop or change this.

Because it is possible to live without.

And much more enjoyable.

So start with the first step.
Check out what comes into your mind when you stop sensory overload.
Then be clear whether or not the major stressful thought can be dealt with.
If yes then do so.
If no then banish, yes push it out until you can take action.
Take control of yourself
Then you are taking back some of that 35 - 40% energy loss.

Monday, March 26, 2007

The peaceful majority are irrelevant


The Peaceful Majority

an email sent to us recently.

Read it and reflect

What are you doing?

"I used to know a man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War Two.
They owned a number of large industries and estates. I asked him how many German people were true Nazis, and the answer he gave has stuck with me and guided my attitude toward fanaticism ever since."Very few people were true Nazis "he said," but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, "they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories."

We are told again and again by "experts" and "talking heads" that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace.

Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant.

It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.

The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam "
It is the fanatics who march.

It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide.

It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave.

It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor kill.

It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque.

It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. The hard quantifiable fact is that the "peaceful majority" is the "silent majority" and it is cowed and extraneous. "

Communist Russia comprised Russians who just wanted to live in peace yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people.
The peaceful majority were irrelevant.

China 's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War 2 was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.

And, who can forget "Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were "peace loving"?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:

Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.

Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany , they will awake one day and find ",that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.

As for us who watch it all unfold; we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

Lastly, I wish to add: At the risk of offending someone, I sincerely think that anyone who rejects this as just another political rant, or doubts the seriousness of this issue or just deletes it without sending it on, is part of the problem.

Sunday, March 25, 2007

About time


She said
And yet there are so many other steps we can take.

What are we talking about?

Prejudice

In all its forms

In all its nasty deceit

Hypocrisy and lies.

Endless provocation

Endless discussion designed to preserve the prejudice

So please learn.

Once we realise how much our culture
Our societies

How much our lives

Accepts prejudice of one kind or another

Silently shrugging our shoulders

Resigning to the status quo.

So we perpetuate these things.

See prejudice clearly for what it is

Say so

Get involved intelligently

Make a difference

Yes it is about time.
Expose prejudice to the light of day
Let us all help to get rid of prejudice
Start with yours

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Is there?


Any approach so rational, so just, so impartial, so elevating, so motivating as that presented by the perennial or ageless wisdom?

Artificial distinctions and conceptions are wholly expunged.

Fanciful ambitions have absolutely no place.

Mechanical devices are completely absent.

The root of all separations and enmities - selfishness - is exposed and denounced.

The inflexibility of moral law is declaimed.

The realization of individual aim is made entirely individual.

Insuring that not an item is lost in the long account each man runs up in his many lives.

Handing over to each the determination and the acquirement of his chosen aim.

The perennial wisdom does what no other system has done or can do -

Affirms the moral consciousness, vindicates the moral sense, spurs the moral motive.

So it is both practical and practicable.
Don't know what we are talking about?
It's the truth about our history
Our heritage
Yes really there is a record of everything it's known as the perennial wisdom
Have a look

Friday, March 23, 2007

Nature beckons


For many years we are too young

For other years probably too old

For many too distracted

We might have eighty years plus or minus in all to experience this life

That leaves only thirty five or so

Thirty five years to do what?

To be conscious of nature
The greatest show on earth
Just thirty five times thats all

To make the effort to learn about her

To be conscious of how things are

How many will go out and notice something as simple as leaves growing

Simple?

We cannot create leaves as nature can

All over the Northern or Southern hemisphere at the same time
The explosion that is springtime.
You will only have thirty five or so times where you can pay full attention so don't waste this year's.

Ever thought how much energy spring takes?

The miracle of nature is something that deserves your attention

Just this year notice how things grow
How they perpetuate themselves.

The intelligence at work

This we are told started with a random interaction of chemicals at some point in our distant past
Or so some scientists would have us believe

And the tooth fairy is real too
Too much intelligence
Too much complexity
For this to be random anything
Nature is intelligence
Hierarchy too
Consciousness as well
Respect nature and wonder how does it all interact in the way it does

Then notice what we are doing to it

Any wonder things are more and more unstable?

Enjoy nature while we can.
Go further make your contribution
Help us preserve what is left
Make your move.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Little things


Little little things are what make the difference

When we forget little things

When we do not remember little things

Others notice

For a while with sympathy

For a while with irritation

Then one day they explode

One little thing too many

Pay attention to your little things

One day they can literally change your life

For good

Or bad

Little things