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http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/ar ... read=65252<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> THE 'SABBATAIAN' THREAD SURFACES AGAIN! *PIC* <br /> <br /> Posted By: TheMythSmith <br /> Date: Friday, 18 February 2005, 6:27 p.m. : The KHAZAR THEORY is "on target"... The problem <br /> : is..--everyone thinks THE ZIONIST are "jews".... <br /> : THEY ARE AS DIFFERENT AS BLACK & WHITE... These Zionist <br /> : keep pretending to be something they are not and this is <br /> : verified in REVELATIONS. CH. 3. vs 9, 10 and 11 in the our <br /> : CHRISTIAN BIBLE. <br /> <br /> : Only TWO TRIBES were identified with JEWS or "GOD'S MOST <br /> : FAVOURED".. These were JUDAH and BENJAMIN. Both were <br /> : slaughtered as they slept, their synagogues were desecrated <br /> : and their identities were "assumed" by THOSE WHO <br /> : CALL THEMSELVES JEWS BUT ARE NOT. <br /> <br /> : THE NAZI'S CALLED THESE "DOPPLEGANGERs." <br /> <br /> : ***************************************************** <br /> <br /> "I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan." <br /> <br /> -Rev. 2:9-10 <br /> <br /> However it's spelled, the Sabbateans may very well be the prototypic "DOPPELGANGERs". Thus far we've seen documentation that traces this "tradition" back only a few centuries. JMO, this line likely can be traced back to at least 2500 BC<br /> <br /> <br />

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Patching Holes<br /> <br /> (An excerpt from “The Rainbow Machine,” by Andrew T. Austin, ©2007 Real People Press.)<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Miracle: “Specifically: An event or effect contrary to the established constitution and course of things, or a deviation from the known laws of nature; a supernatural event, or one transcending the ordinary laws by which the universe is governed.” —Webster’s Dictionary.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> I cannot help but wonder how different world history would be if Jesus had gone around boasting of his miracles. I can picture it now, Jesus by the river with his friends, regaling them with the Lazarus story for the umpteenth time, or showing off how a mere crucifixion was no match for His superior talents. The follow-up to that whole set of events might have been very different indeed. There is a certain wisdom in all holy books about keeping quiet about miracles, that really should be paid attention to.<br /> <br /> For many in the healing professions, performing the apparently miraculous is a common affair. It is, after all, what one is paid to do. As a staff nurse in neurosurgery I had a patient with a rare condition known as a syrinx. Essentially a syrinx is a fluid-filled cavity within the spinal cord that enlarges over time and can result in devastation to that part of the spinal cord and nerve roots. Imagine a bicycle inner tube bulging through a split in an old worn tire.<br /> <br /> A 40-year-old man had undergone various neurological investigations including a spinal tap that had unfortunately resulted in a syrinx. Repeated attempts at treating this condition had failed, and his situation was looking grim.<br /> <br /> When I came across this gentleman he was ashen in colour, agitated and very angry. I wasn’t sure of his understanding of what he was facing or what he was experiencing, but it did not take great sensitivity to realise that it wasn’t positive.<br /> <br /> “How you doing?” I ask him.<br /> <br /> “Fuck off!” he growls angrily.<br /> <br /> “No,” I replied, evenly, “I’m not fucking off. What’s up?” I ask innocently.<br /> <br /> “What’s up? I’m going to be fucking paralysed, that is what’s up,” he sneered.<br /> <br /> “And how do you know that?” Now I am aware of how terribly annoying this last question can be. NLP practitioners who have recently learned the meta-model tend to ask this much too often, and not always with any thought to why they are asking it. However, on this occasion I knew exactly where I was going.<br /> <br /> This is the sort of situation in which a colleague of mine looks around on the walls, and says, “Let me see your fortune-telling license,” to draw attention to the fact that the person is making a prediction about the future without being suitably trained and qualified.<br /> <br /> “What?!” My patient growled, clearly annoyed at both my continuing presence and the nature of the question. As a health care professional involved in his care, I really should know more than I appeared to know.<br /> <br /> I asked again, “How do you know that you are going to be fucking paralysed”? His eyes go up and to the left, then up and to the right. Then back up to the left again.<br /> <br /> “There are only so many times that you can put a patch over a punctured inner tube. When a patch doesn’t work, you can only put so many patches over the top before you ruin the fucking thing. That is how I know!” It was obvious that he had a very clear representation of this.<br /> <br /> “I think you are wrong on that,” I say quietly. “An inner tube is not a living thing. It is black, dirty, and dead. Have you ever actually seen a living spinal cord?” I asked, as I gestured up to his right. His manner changed dramatically. Now he was attentive and curious, instead of angry. I really didn’t think it was going to be this easy.<br /> <br /> I sketch it with my hands. “A spinal membrane is a living matrix. It lives. It is a good healthy colour, even when damaged; under a microscope the cells look beautiful. That is why I think you have the wrong picture.” I move my hands out, as though enlarging the picture.<br /> <br /> “Shit!” he says, a better colour coming into his face. “I had never thought about it that way.”<br /> <br /> “That’s right,” I say, “you didn’t” and quietly walk away.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Before my long shift was over, this man was eating again and laughing and joking with the staff. Eight hours later his syrinx was found to have mysteriously vanished. Eight hours was all it took! It is a testament to the healing ability that is latent in every living organism. I cannot really claim any particular credit for this minor miracle; after all, I was simply applying something I had been taught. (Heart of the Mind, ch. 20) But at the time I was excited. This was amazing, and I just had to share it with the other staff.<br /> <br /> A word of advice—don’t ever do this with nurses; they simply do not understand, and always love an opportunity to ridicule the strange man. Teach what is possible, but don’t claim credit for making it possible; that is bad medicine. Since this lesson, I have also learned that the best NLP masters rarely ever mention NLP when they are working out in the world. They just <br />

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They just do it.<br /> <br /> ©2007 Real People Press. All Rights Reserved.<br /> <br /> <br /> from<br /> http://www.steveandreas.com/RainbowM.htm<br /> <br /> so's the next one<br /> <br /> <br /> Order The Rainbow Machine now! This fascinating new book can be ordered from RealPeoplePress.com. Expected ship date: Nov 7, 2007. $16.50 plus shipping.<br /> <br />

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The Rainbow Machine: tales from a neurolinguist's journal<br /> <br /> by Andrew T. Austin<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> A note from Steve Andreas<br /> <br /> <br /> At this point in my life, I don’t get excited about a lot of stuff, but about a year and a half ago a manuscript came across my desk that immediately got my attention. It’s the most interesting and intriguing material I’ve come across since reading Jay Haley’s Uncommon Therapy many years ago. Andy has both a unique sense of humor, and my admiration for the things he has “pulled off.” You’ll begin to see what I mean in the following two sections, which are brief excerpts from the book. –Steve Andreas<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Seeing Red<br /> <br /> (An excerpt from “The Rainbow Machine,” by Andrew T. Austin, ©2007 Real People Press.)<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”<br /> <br /> —Phyllis Diller<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Even after all these years I still get surprised by the referrals I get. I mean, who would think of sending a habitual violent young offender to a hypnotist? Well, it sure is a wide and varied world, and sometimes you do find an enlightened social worker.<br /> <br /> The referral notes were the size of a phone book, and they didn’t make pretty reading. I was advised that I might not want to see him in my own office if I had anything breakable in there. In short, I was to be very wary of him indeed, and to be afraid, very afraid.<br /> <br /> Now this just isn’t my style. I have learned from working in various places that the existing employees all try to induct the new guy into the right way of thinking. If he doesn’t conform to the prevailing mindset, he may well find himself excluded from the team. One hospital department I consulted on had the problem of trying to change the overtly negative culture amongst the employees. As people became disgruntled and left, the management would be excited about the prospect of “new blood.” However, any attempts at remaining upbeat and positive were rapidly stomped on, as the new employees found themselves being rapidly inducted into the correct way of thinking for that department. <br /> <br /> I always refuse to make an appointment until I can speak to the person who actually wants the appointment. A colleague has a similar rule. “It makes sure the client owns the appointment.” While I don’t know too much about this kind of ownership, I do know that when I don’t speak to the client first, they rarely turn up.<br /> <br /> When I spoke to this kid on the telephone he asked if he could bring his mum along. I think he was a bit nervous. And he did turn up—with his mum. This kid, barely 15, and with a criminal record that would make angels weep, arrived clutching his mother as though it was his first day of school. The social worker stepped forward, and said, “This is Darren.” That kind of reminded me of real-estate agents who on showing you the kitchen say, “This is the kitchen.” We really need to do better than this. Yes, really.<br /> <br /> So I’m dressed in my smartest and most formal suit. I sit in the office with mother, Darren and the social worker. I do the formalities and I am formal. Also, most important, I completely ignore Darren. We all talk about him as though he isn’t there. He seems comfortable with things this way.<br /> <br /> Subsequently Mother and social worker are dismissed with instructions to return later. I’ll call them. In the meantime, “I’ll have a talk with Darren.”<br /> <br /> I return to my office. Darren is sitting there somewhat disquieted. I remove my jacket and tie casually, and pull out a pack of cigarettes. Having lit one, I toss the packet and lighter at Darren. He catches them, watching me for a cue as to whether to light one, say something, or whatever. I give him no such cue. <br /> <br /> “You like veal?” I ask, exhaling.<br /> <br /> “Errr. . . huh?” He’s clearly confused.<br /> <br /> “Veal. You like it?” He shrugs. He is clearly unsure what is going on here.<br /> <br /> “Veal, as you may be aware, comes from baby cows—do you know any baby cows?” <br /> <br /> Now he is seriously confused, and very unsure of how to respond. There is no jocularity in my tone and no cue about how to behave. He looks at me, speechless. He’s reached that delightful, “Oh shit!” stage.<br /> <br /> “And these baby cows, did you know that they blindfold them before they kill them?’<br /> <br /> He shrugs.<br /> <br /> “Yes. The baby cows die screaming, but because they are blindfolded they cannot know what they are screaming at.”<br /> <br /> His eyes widen to the size of dinner plates.<br /> <br /> “Now, I am a hypnotist, CLOSE YOUR EYES. . . .” <br /> <br /> “What happens in your mind just before you lose your temper?” <br /> <br /> Frightened people tend to understand words literally, and questions tend to bypass conscious processing altogether.<br /> <br /> “I just see red.” He replied, eyes still very firmly closed.<br /> <br /> “Just red?” I enquire. “What else?”<br /> <br /> “I don’t know,” He protested. <br /> <br /> “Yes you do,” I insist, “What else?”<br /> <br /> “I just see their face and the picture is red.”<br /> <br /> I pull out a fresh chicken from underneath my chair and hold it in front of him. (More than a few students who have come to watch me work have expressed their surprise at such antics. “I didn’t think you actually did that kind of thing!” is a common remark.) <br /> <br /> “Open your eyes and tell me what I am holding in front of you,” I say nicely.<br /> <br /> He opens his eyes, blinks for moment in confusion.<br /> <br /> “Looks like a chicken,” he states, quite correctly.<br /> <br /> “Now, close your eyes and see the chicken in your imagination. Can you do that?”<br /> <br /> “Yes,” he tells me.<br /> <br /> “Now begin, slowly at first, begin to change that picture of the chicken into the same kind of red picture as when it happens, do it—quickly now!”<br /> <br /> My video camera was all set up and already recording. I wasn’t entirely sure that this was going to work, but I’ve learned that it’s always worth being prepared for these things just in case. It was worthwhile, because that kid opened his eyes in a blind rage, snatched that chicken out of my hands and started trying to beat it to death. <br /> <br /> His rage lasted less than 2 minutes, but it was very clear that to be the target of that level of violence would be a very bad thing indeed. The chicken, previously killed in a humane manner, was thoroughly tenderised. <br /> <br /> I ask him, “What happened there?’<br /> <br /> “I just saw red,” he told me.<br /> <br /> “You just saw red,” I echoed. “Anything else?” I ask this young man who has just spent two minutes beating a dead chicken.<br /> <br /> “I just saw red. . . .” And then that certain special look began to appear on his face as the train of realisation pulled up at the station. He made the connection that it wasn’t the chicken that created the reaction, but rather that he did it himself. He also realized that I’d set him up.<br /> <br /> “Shit! Fuck! Fuck! Bastard!” He said half angry, half laughing, and half something else.<br /> <br /> “You want the chicken back?” I offered, “Or maybe you’d prefer a baby cow this time?’<br /> <br /> “Nooooooooooooooooo!! Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!” he exclaimed laughing.<br /> <br /> “Blindfold?” I offered, equating him to a calf ready for slaughter.<br /> <br /> He slumped back in the chair and began to fire a rapid series of questions about how the way he made those pictures created his anger and rage. He was very quick to realise the implications, and very quick to start to see the possibilities.<br /> <br /> I quickly rewound the videotape and played him the recording of himself beating up the chicken. Naturally I anchored his embarrassed response by referring to him as “chicken beater.” Having him view the tape provided a nice submodality shift to the experience—now he’s watching himself beating a chicken. In viewing the ridiculous scene of himself assaulting a dead chicken, he is dissociated from the imagery and of course the imagery is smaller, making it less evocative. Additionally, since it is now on a screen, it is also two-dimensional and framed. If I’d wanted to, I could have adjusted the audio qualities, I could fast-forward or rewind it a few times, make it black and white, and so on.<br /> <br /> “So, ‘chicken beater,’ how’s it looking?” I asked, getting him to report back from his new perspective. He was almost speechless.<br /> <br /> This young man now has a reference experience for moving an image from associated to a dissociated perspective in a way that he can easily understand. I could have taken it further if I’d wanted to, and built in an “observer” perspective by videotaping him as he watched the first video recording. Later I could get him to watch himself reacting to watching himself beating up a chicken. I thought I’d save that for a later session if required.<br /> <br /> I showed him further submodality chaining where we transformed irritation to boredom, boredom to excitement, belief to disbelief and so on. He was excited by this, and quickly started asking further questions as to how people can be in better control of their thinking and emotions.<br /> <br /> We went through different techniques, questions and answers, and he started to realise that the solutions to the challenges in his life weren’t about “being in control” of his temper. He’d probably been told a lot in the past that he either lacks control, or needs to learn to control his emotions/temper etc., but they never showed him how to do it. It is really not about control, but rather about steering his thinking so that he can feel different emotions that are more useful. <br /> <br /> From tossing him the cigarettes, to scaring him with the veal story, through to the submodality changes resulting from the camera, this one brief set of simple therapeutic manoeuvres was all that was required for him to stay out of trouble. Follow-up one year later proved that he was settled into full-time education and was doing well. There had been no serious or untoward incidents since that single session.<br /> <br /> The chicken was subsequently cooked with lemon sauce and served with a light fluffy rice and salad. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />

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http://waterpoweredcar.com/stanmeyer.html<br /> <br /> <br /> Stan Meyer's Dune Buggy that ran on water. Hydrogen/Oxygen fuel in an ICE motor. On board electrolysis, no hydrogen tanks, no bombs on-board, just water. (1998) It ran 100 miles per gallon! The 2nd best inventor of the Century, besides Tesla, who was and will always be #1. Stan is the mustard seed of Water Powered Cars! The video left above is a one timed aired news cast, from his home town of Grove City , Ohio that you are not to view. The video screen to the right is a segment of the Equinox program about Stanley aired back in Dec. 1995 (approx.) See the entire program entitled "It Runs on Water" narrated by Arthur C. Clarke in video clips below.<br /> It is in 4 parts, made possible by Andy the WizardKing from Blackpool, England.<br /> Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4

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http://tracyrtwyman.com/blog/?page_id=81<br /> <br /> The Stepford Whores: Project Monarch and Mind-Controlled Sex Slaves<br /> By Tracy R. Twyman<br /> <br /> In the months preceding September 11th 2001, the airwaves of cable news channels were filled with the saga of Congressman Gary Condit, and the cover-up of his affair with intern Chadra Levy. Levy disappeared on April 30, 2001 - Walpurgisnacht - the most sacred witch holiday on the calendar. Condit’s not-very-forthcoming nature on the matter, coupled with the fact that Chandra appeared to be on her way to visit him on the night she disappeared led to speculation that he was somehow involved with her kidnapping and/or death. This speculation reached a fevered pitch when bizarre details of Condit’s love life began to mount. Twenty-seven other women came forth claiming to have had extramarital relations with the Congressmen, including two women (15-years-old at the time), who claimed that he had violently raped them while still a State Assemblyman. Condit was described by one attorney involved in the case as “A serial predator of women.” One of the women, Torrie Hendley, who met the leather-clad Condit at a Harley Davidson convention, conducted an interview with The Globe tabloid newspaper in which she revealed that Condit enjoyed kinky, sado-masochistic sex, referring to his many ladies as his “sex slaves.” She also said that he insisted on using code names with these women while talking on the phone, and refused to wear condoms, stating to Ms. Hendley that “there’s a cure for AIDS, anyway.” After living through the media blitz of the Clinton impeachment, and now this, many began to wonder: Why do so many men in positions of power require lots of sex with a variety of people? And where do such men get this sense of entitlement, this attitude that they should be continually provided with a harem of sexual servants, maintained, oftentimes, at taxpayers’ expense? Few, if any journalists, however, brought up the amazing similarity between the case of Gary Condit’s “sex slaves”, and the stories of dozens of men and women who claim to have been forced into sexual slavery for the wealthy and powerful by none other than our own Central Intelligence Agency, through an offshoot of the MK-ULTRA mind control program known as Project Monarch.<br /> <br />

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<br /> http://www.openexchange.org/archives/Classics/bandler.html<br /> Neuro-Linguistic Programming™ (NLP) Founder Richard Bandler Speaks Out: <br /> By Richard Bandler<br /> <br /> Neuro-Linguistic Programming™ creator Richard Bandler has defined the cutting edge of consciousness for the last 25 years. Philosopher, storyteller, and master of unconscious communication, Richard can grab your hopes and dreams, pull them out of your head and make them dance before your eyes. See below for a spirited discussion of hypnosis, trances, hallucination, and how to use them. From OPEN EXCHANGE MAGAZINE, July-August 1995:<br /> <br /> What we're going to do is to play a little bit with our conscious minds and a lot more with our unconscious minds. Years and years and years ago my next door neighbor was an Englishman named Gregory Bateson, and when Gregory Bateson read The Structure of Magic he decided that I should meet Milton H. Erickson from Phoenix, Arizona, who at the time was, probably, the world's greatest hypnotist. He told me that he had sent Jay Haley and John Wheatlan down to figure out what Erickson was doing some years before. <br /> <br /> They went down and made tapes of Erickson doing hypnosis and attempted to have them transcribed. This feat was never actually accomplished in those days because the people listening to the tape recorder went deeply into trance. The transcribers proceeded to do something that appeared to be like a Rorschach test. Instead of transcribing the tapes, they wrote about themselves.<br /> <br /> I went down to meet Erickson. Milton was quite old but still very, very good. One of the things that has become the foundation of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™ was the fact that I saw people do all kinds of things that struck me as amazing. People could control their heart rate, their blood pressure, things about their states of consciousness, recover memories, read books they hadn't seen for 25 years.<br /> <br /> I asked a question, "why did they need to go into trance?" So I took a group of people I had been training and put a big brown table in the middle of the room with a lamp in the middle of it. I turned the lamp on, and told them to disappear it. That didn't seem to work very well, but I knew that if I put them into a deep trance, their minds were capable of deleting it.<br /> <br /> One of the interesting things that I discovered occurs in deep trance is that when I had one of the people disappear the lamp they still walked around it, even though they didn't see it. There was some part of them that seemed to know it was there. When I asked them why they walked around instead of straight across, they came up with an excuse. This excuse I've come to call a fudge factor and a finnago phenomenon. You will find these to be rampant in all sciences.<br /> <br /> I say this as a scientist. I came from studying information sciences and physics. When I started doing the same things with people, the scientists I had worked with decided that I had ruined my career. They referred to this as "getting my hands dirty." That meant I was interacting with humans.<br /> <br /> Laser and holographic technologies are very interesting, though optics is a field that suffers from an ego the size of Saturn. It's the only field which ever announced that it knew everything there was to know. They announced that the field was actually closed. They thought they knew everything. It turns out, they were wrong. They discovered a tremendous amount due to the advent of laser technologies.<br /> <br /> When you look at an eye chart, they have you look at the only non-naturally occurring phenomenon: letters. You're not going to recognize an E in the forest, nor are you going to discover a Q. All of their equations were geared to two dimensional non-naturally occurring phenomena. By using this, a blind man in Philadelphia came up with a way of building lenses that allow people who are almost entirely blind to see well enough to shave and walk around. They just can't read.<br /> <br /> The field of optics changed their beliefs. They had, like many people do about hypnosis, very strange beliefs, yet they operated out of these beliefs for centuries. The advent of NLP™ was the study of how people use their minds to do things. People could do it in a deep trance and some people could do it in the waking state. There are, for example, people called civil engineers who hallucinate for a living. They see a road where there isn't one and measure it!<br /> <br /> In the group I had at the time there was a man who could hallucinate anything without going into a trance. He could see a freeway out the back window with cars on it and he would describe what kind of cars they were, and read the license plates. He said, "But I'm not in a trance." For him he wasn't. This is what he did for a living. You need to alter the concept you have of hypnosis, which is based on watching the movie Svengali.<br /> <br /> The most important thing, to me, is that you get people to change their beliefs in the beginning. That is the whole game. That's why they come to you. <br /> <br /> When I started out working with people they had something called the human potential movement. It was a list of belief systems and ideas that were trying to change the way in which people worked with one another. They had people hugging trees at Esalen. It's a human concentration camp for people in that movement. They have people take their clothes off, get into hot tubs and pretend like they aren't naked. However, if you bring a Polaroid camera you would be surprised at how quickly they don't state their names.<br /> <br /> I want people to be in touch with reality. The trick is to get people to focus on the future instead of the past, even if they're flaming schizophrenics. I just had a client who was agoraphobic. She had been an agoraphobic for 22 years during which time she spent over half a million dollars on therapy. The word that jumps right into my mind is "refund."<br /> <br /> This woman started out with one little phobia. When she had a panic attack they threw her in an ambulance and it scared the hell out of her. After that, any time she heard a siren, she became frightened. She was unaware that it was the siren that was scaring her so she thought it was the place.<br /> <br /> Then she began to become afraid of this part of town and that part of town. Finally she sent me a strange letter about how she was agoraphobic and the only place that she could go was two miles to the northeast. That used to be a haven, but recently it had gone down the tube. Over the years she had also begun hearing sirens go off that hadn't really gone off. This would determine where she could go. She lived in a little town in Michigan, and I was not about to go there to work with her. It's just not my style because I believe that people can do anything they're convinced of.<br /> <br /> There's a place in California called Stanford University. They have a laboratory which has been studying hypnosis for years, without doing any. The people in that laboratory came up with the concept of susceptibility which means that some of you are better hypnotic subjects than others and some of you can go deeper. They measure this. They measure it with double blind studies.<br /> <br /> They recorded one hypnotic induction in a monotonous voice. They place a tape recorder on a stool, then have a person come in, sit and look at the tape recorder while they play the induction. This actually measures people's ability to be flexible enough to go into trance in spite of the hypnotic induction. They also proved that tone and tempo have absolutely no effect on human communication processes.<br /> <br /> When I saw Milton Erickson work, his tonality and tempo had a profound effect on me. The only thing that really made Milton frustrating was that he hypnotized everyone the moment they walked through the door. I can live in a trance, and I have for years. All I wanted to do was find out what he did that allowed him to be successful where other people weren't.<br /> <br /> One of the things is that Milton believed that anyone could be hypnotized. He also had a wide range of skills and flexibility that most people didn't. He had great control over his tone and tempo. People walked in and he would say, "Hello, my name is Milton Erickson and I'm color blind and tone deaf," getting you to not pay attention to those things. He would then proceed to tell stories, and inside of these long and arduous stories, you would find that the focus of your attention had drifted away. The wall would disappear, the hum of the air conditioner would be gone, and suddenly you'd be in a deep trance.<br /> <br /> I spent a lot of time finding out what Milton did that worked. Milton had something that I don't have, which is a lot of spare time. Milton had had polio, not once, but twice, which I think is an accomplishment. He managed to regain the ability to move some parts of his body and to speak when he had been unable to do those things. Since he was in a wheelchair and had polio it was alright for him to spend three hours inducing a trance. Most of us don't have that much time.<br /> <br /> When people come into my office, the first thing I do is change their beliefs about what they're capable of. Even suicidals believe that they want to breathe for the next few minutes. Suicidals will say, "Well, I don't care about living." Answer, "Then hold your breath forever." There is a point where people gasp for air. Something inside them says, "Breathe!"<br /> <br /> The Federal Food and Drug Administration has done one nice thing. They have tested every single drug in the United States against placebos. That means that we know more about placebos than anything. I decided to put out a product called "Placebo" because, as a graduate student, I had to find all of the studies that had been conducted using aspirin for headaches versus placebos. I discovered that 7 out of 8 times, the placebo will work as well as aspirin. I wanted to include a booklet that showed all the research and would say, "7 out of 8 times it works as well as aspirin. Take 9, just to be sure."<br /> <br /> The Federal Food and Drug Administration decided that I should not put this product on the market, even though they were sugar tablets. They said it would only work if people were deceived. In other words, if you looked at it and said, "There's nothing in there," it wouldn't cure your headache. They actually worked quite well. People would say, "I took nine and it was gone." It isn't deceit that makes it work. It's belief.<br /> <br /> Neuro-Linguistic Programmers™ build beliefs that are not true, but functional. I want to start by building some of those. Most clients I see come from people who didn't believe they could be helped. The lady who had not left her house in 22 years had been in therapy the whole time. She went to see a person whom she considered to be a great Neuro-Linguistic Programmer™. This person told her over the phone that they would only need to see her twice. After those two times they told her it would take over two years.<br /> <br /> I don't understand how, if you can't get it in the first session, you are going to be able to get it in two years. What are you going to do? Randomly try things? Then how would you know if it will take two years, three years or six months? You either know how to do something or you don't. If you don't, you can try experimenting, but don't say it's going to take two years. She had already spent 10 years with one therapist. 10 years, 5 times a week, at $100 a session. That's a quarter of a million dollars. On top of all that, at the end of those ten years, she was worse than when she started.<br /> <br /> Ten years before she'd had a panic attack and the doctors told her she was going to have to have open heart surgery. That's a pretty serious way of working with a panic attack. This doctor must have needed a new house or something. This woman had all the tests done, then she went into her room, closed the door and that's when it got really bad. She decided that she was going to die. She called a friend whose husband was a doctor, and he said, "That's crazy. You're as healthy as a horse." He then tested her and found out there was nothing wrong. As it turned out her first doctor had mis-diagnosed her repeatedly. Her fear stayed, however. From that day forward, it just spread and spread. She had a lot of people work with her.<br /> <br /> I told her, "Look, I'm not going to Michigan because I have no reason, but I am in Toronto right now, and since you're in a panic anyway, why don't you just have someone drive you to the airport, put a blindfold on, and stick you on a plane. I'll have someone pick you up at the airport. It can't get any worse, can it?"<br /> <br /> She said, "Well, I don't think so, it's just that I'll be frightened on the plane."<br /> <br /> I said, "Take a Walkman because I'm going to send you a cassette I want you to listen to for the entire time you're on the plane."<br /> <br /> I sent her a cassette and she played it on the plane. When she got off she was in Toronto. When she got to Toronto she walked in, and I asked her, "How frightened are you not going to be for the 3 days while you're here?"<br /> <br /> She said, "Huh?" and I asked her just to close her eyes and to forget about her problems because any problem serious enough to have is serious enough to forget for the rest of your life. Surprisingly enough, she never had any more fear, because when she left Toronto I asked her to give it to me.<br /> <br /> She looked at me and said, "What?"<br /> <br /> I said, "Why don't you give me your fear? Leave it right here." Her hand came out involuntarily and instead of shaking it I grabbed it as if I were taking something from it and said, "Seems like I got it here," and stuck it in my pocket. I then told her to go home without it. She's been home for a month now and she's doing fine. It doesn't make any sense. The important thing is that if she could learn something as stupid as being afraid of the outside of her house she could learn anything, like how to forget about her fears.<br /> <br /> Think of all the things you've forgotten about in your life. If you're going to forget about something, why not forget about your limitations. Why forget your car keys, telephone numbers, or addresses, when you can forget all of your limitations and just take a shot at doing totally new things, or old things in a new way. I want you to be able to build beliefs. This may be the first time in your life that you're wrong. Have you been wrong about things in your life? Maybe you're wrong about what you're capable of. Over the years I've discovered that even people with higher education, i.e. psychiatrists, can learn.<br /> <br /> There's a law in the US that you can't use hypnosis in the military. My opinion is that boot camp constitutes a pretty long indoctrination. They build in post hypnotic suggestions for you to respond to. Think about the pledge of allegiance. You even get pupil dilation and arm levitation.<br /> <br /> I'm going to ask you if you believe that the sun will rise tomorrow. It doesn't actually rise; the earth spins. But you would, without asking verbally, have a belief that it's coming out. When I got up this morning there was light but no sun. At least I know that the sun is out there somewhere. If you didn't have that belief you wouldn't bother to read this, so I know that you have it.<br /> <br /> There's constantly some group of people going to a mountain top, because someone convinces them that the world is going to end on a certain day. They always give away or sell everything they have. What would you need money for if the world is going to end? Then they discover that the world hasn't ended yet. When it does, I don't think you'll need to plan for it. I don't think you'll need to sell anything. If the world is going to end, that will be it. It will be over. Unless the world ends, it costs money to go ahead.<br /> <br /> Did you know that Einstein did what he called "thought experiments?" He imagined what would happen if he could get on a photon and ride on it. He closed his eyes and imagined he was riding on a photon of light. He looked over to the person riding on the photon next to him. Then he shined an imaginary flashlight on the person next to him. He then called that physics. Those are called thought experiments. With just one idea, Einstein was able to change the future of the entire planet. Therefore it seems plausible to me, that with just one or two ideas, changing your future should be easy.<br /> <br /> It's always amazing to me that people teach children phonics. Whoever made it up, did not take it seriously enough. You can't even spell phonics phonetically. They just hated children and worked on increasing low self-esteem as much as they could. The whole time you went to school they only pointed out what was misspelled and not good enough. They actually pointed out all the things that you didn't know and they thought you should. They asked you for dates, and they only marked the ones that you had wrong. They've been doing this to you for all these years.<br /> <br /> Your brain has been looking for what's wrong for years. We want to change that. I think that if you notice what works, you can do it more often. If I were to ask you to close your eyes, go inside, and check your body, what would you check for, pleasure or pain? If you go inside, and search for what feels the best, try making it spread. Find out if you can match it on the other side of your body. As you do so, let it spread and double its intensity. Why not start by feeling absolutely wonderful and take off from there. See where you can go.<br /> <br /> Do you believe that the sun is going to come up tomorrow? I want you to find out where the answer is, in your mind. Does it come as a picture, does it come as a sound, does it come as both? We are looking for something that you believe in strongly. If it's a picture find out where it is. It won't be in the same place for everybody. You have to have beliefs.<br /> <br /> If you don't know where they are, you could be in trouble. When you start showing people ideas and ask, for example, "Do you believe that you can go into a deep trance," you may put your hands where their lack of belief is and then they won't believe it.<br /> <br /> If I were to ask you what you're going to have for lunch you may not be as certain about that. The question is, "Where would that picture be?"<br /> <br /> In order to be able to tell what you're not sure about and what you're quite certain about, it's a good idea to put them in different places. In fact, most people do. Now, we want to know how big those pictures are. Are they both color? Are they both motion pictures, or are they both a slide? Is there also a voice? If so, where is the voice located?<br /> <br /> I want you to go into the place that you have uncertainty and make a picture of yourself being able to go into a deep trance and do absolutely any phenomenon you've ever heard of. Once you have that picture I want you to move it away from yourself until it becomes a small dot in the distance. Then I want you to zip it up to where your strong belief is and to add to it the voice that goes along with the strong belief.<br /> <br /> Try it. It'll make a lot of things in life a lot easier.<br />

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A few things to share from a site I found Every belief is a limit to be examined<br /> John C Lily<br /> <br /> <br /> Presumptions: Unquestioned assumption thast we simply operationalise as true.<br /> <br /> http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cacheD4xS10gZ4wJ:www.cognitivebehavior.com/training/practice/Conversational%2520Reframing%25205B4.ppt+Neuro+linguistic+Programming+%2B+Military+use&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=39<br /> <br /> [PPT] NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMINGFile Format: Microsoft Powerpoint - View as HTML<br /> Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Neuro-linguistics holistically summarizes the .... The day after, military officials came to the village to draft young men ...<br /> www.cognitivebehavior.com/training/practice/Conversational%20Reframing%205B4.ppt - <br /> <br />

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page xiv, xv John Fowles] When he saw his father, he looked him in the eye. <br /> "Father, is it true that you are not a real king, but only a magician?" <br /> The king smiled and rolled back his sleeves. <br /> "Yes, my son, I'm only a magician." <br /> "Then the man on the other shore was God." <br /> "The man on the other shore was a magician." <br /> "I must know the truth, the truth beyond magic." <br /> "There is no truth beyond magic," said the king. <br /> The prince was full of sadness. He said, "I will kill myself." <br /> The king by magic caused death to appear. Death stood in the door and beckoned to the prince. The prince shuddered. He remembered the beautiful but unreal islands and the unreal but beautiful princesses. <br /> "Very well," he said, "I can bear it." <br /> "<b>You see, my son," </b>said the king, "<b>you, too, now begin to be a magician.</b>" <br /> <br /> to be continued<br />

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continued from the one above. No not HIM the message LOL<br /> <br /> http://www.doyletics.com/art/som1art.htm <br /> <br /> <br /> http://www.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/2005/050125.Kemmerer.research.html<br /> <br /> Put these two together <br />

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http://www.bigeye.com/bankers_make_war.htm <br /> <br /> $$$$ Bankers Make War $$$$ Included in BigEye's Federal Reserve Educational Archive.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> How and Why International Bankers Make War<br /> The First President of the World<br /> In June of 1919, the victorious powers were in Paris deliberating over the best way to carve up Europe. With each national delegation came a coterie of financial advisors: Paul Warburg negotiating for the Americans and Max Warburg defending the interests of the Germans. Woodrow Wilson found his hour amongst this milieu of dignitaries. <br /> Wilson forbade copies of the Treaty of Versailles being given to the Senate, Congress or any common American. He did not discuss the deals he made on behalf of the American people with their representatives. While British, French and German delegates regularly informed their governments and people of the terms of this “peace,” the Americans were conspicuously kept in the dark. <br /> <br /> But not every American. A few select personages in New York were kept informed about the terms of the treaty. Eventually Senator Borah of Idaho learned the source of these leaked government documents. Mr. Jacob Schiff, Mr. J. P. Morgan, Mr. Paul Warburg, Mr. Thomas Lamont, Mr. Henry P. Davison and Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip were subpoenaed to testify before the Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate. [1] <br /> <br /> The Witnesses: <br /> <br /> Five years before Paul Warburg had been appointed to the Federal Reserve Board and J.P. Morgan (the elder) was a driving force behind the Bank's creation. Warburg had designed the Fed system: its aims were the centralization of banking control and a bottomless source of credit for the US Congress. Jacob Schiff was also in the business of lending to governments; he was partner in Kuhn Loeb and Company and related to Warburg by marriage. All three had ties to the older banking houses in Frankfurt and London. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> The less famous men were no less interesting:<br /> <br /> Henry P. Davison was a member of the J.P. Morgan & Co., chairman of the American Red Cross and League of Red Cross Societies. The Red Cross had privileged access to both sides of the Great War under their neutral flag. <br /> Thomas Lamont was a member of JP Morgan & Co. too, and the US Treasury's advisor to the American Peace Delegation in Paris (the negotiators of the Versailles Treaty). Both sides of the Federal Reserve partnership were represented in this man. <br /> Frank A. Vanderlip was a journalist who became president of the National City Bank (now Citibank). In between these positions he was Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. It was under Vanderlip's guidance that National City became the first American bank to expand overseas. He also created the International American Corporation: a banking conglomerate which had 17 branches world wide by the end of the First World War. Vanderlip was also a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. [2]<br /> Comedy <br /> The hearing was a political battle between senators concerned with American national interests and compromised senators desperately trying to absolve the witnesses. From the financiers subpoenaed, only J.P. Morgan Jr., Davison and Vanderlip bothered to show up. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> The Senate committee was methodical in the order of witnesses. Firstly, Senator Borah recounted his information about the existence in New York of copies of the peace treaty with Germany. Specifically, powerful financiers had secured copies and were using them to their private advantage. It was illegal to have copies of the undisclosed text: the best information that the Senate had about the treaty was just one Associated Press dispatch.<br /> <br /> Senator Henry Cabot Lodge volunteered to testify that he had seen a copy of the treaty in New York, but it was shown to him by a friend with absolutely no ties to financial circles. Senator Lodge had never heard of anyone in finance ever seeing the treaty. He repeated this message several times.<br /> <br /> President Wilson wrote to the committee himself to reaffirm that unauthorized possession of the treaty in the US was against the law. This was interesting, seeing as his closest advisors were the source of the leak.<br /> <br /> The Secretary of State Frank Lyon Polk asserted that all copies of the treaty legally in the United States were in his possession — specifically, they were locked in a safe in his office with the diplomatic seals unbroken.<br /> <br /> Senator Elihu Root offered testimony next. The thrust of Senator Root's speech was to extol the munificence of Mr. Davison, and distance himself form this case of corporate espionage. In his effort to clear Davison, Elihu contradicted both the President's and Secretary Polk's testimony: he claimed copies of the treaty were very common in the US. According to Senator Root, every American staffer in Paris (there were over 200) was likely to have leaked the text. It was simply a strange coincidence that he was the only US Senator able to get a copy. (Elihu's treaty had been supplied by Davison.) <br /> <br /> Tragedy<br /> <br /> In his personal testimony Davison did not try to hide the fact that Thomas Lamont had given him the treaty. Instead, Davison said his power as “Secretary of the Red Cross” and an “international banker” justified his having a copy. Davison's self-importance was astounding. He claimed that only his organizations were able to rebuild Europe: firstly through the Red Cross Organization, then through a consortium of private bankers which would marshal America's resources for a massive loan. The “League of Nations” was the new world power and Davison part of that league — so the US government was inconsequential by comparison.<br /> <br /> Davison's “consortium of private bankers” were his Kuhn Loeb, J. P. Morgan and National City Bank connections, as well as their partners in London and Frankfurt. He wanted to use the newly-established banking monopoly — the Federal Reserve System — to make loans to the European governments. American money would be lent out, but the US government would be excluded from the process and private bankers would collect the interest. Mr. Davison thought that the Liberty Bond organization was the perfect organ to implement this plan. (Liberty bonds provided the bulk of the American financing for the First World War.) The fact that this organization could be used outside of Washington's control provides insight into its inner workings.<br /> <br /> “Europe must be regarded now as a whole” [3] <br /> <br /> The testimonies of J P Morgan and Vanderlip shed more light on how this new loan process would work. JP Morgan tells us that the US Government bought over seven billion dollars worth of European bonds from his firm and Kuhn Loeb & Co. in the years leading up to the war. After that, Vanderlip explains why Europe's debts to the US government must be forgiven. Europe couldn't afford new loans if they had to repay the old ones. <br /> <br /> The reader should remember that these bankers make money by selling bonds, not by holding them until they are repaid. When financiers lobby to forgive debt, they are setting up more profits for themselves while asking the general public to eat the losses. The same trick is used today through the IMF, World Bank and their various off-shoots.<br /> <br /> Foreshadowing <br /> The way that the new loan was designed would have created an economically unified Europe in one sweep. The bankers would become the central planners of this empire, not unlike the Bolsheviks in Russia two years before, or the planners in Brussels today.<br /> <br /> Vanderlip disclosed why it was important that the bankers hold the new loan. He explained how European governments could pay the interest: by giving the bankers first lien on the customs of each country. This means Europe would pay the bankers with their products. The financiers would determine how the loans were parceled out to each country, and what industries get what materials. The point is that the bankers would control the resulting monopolies. This is exactly what international financiers liked about Communism and early Fascism.<br /> <br /> Far from being a champion of “self-determination,” the US president assisted these financiers behind Congress's and the Senate's back. Wilson chose to ignore the fact that the House and Senate had to ratify his proposals before they became law or America's commitments. Why? It was obvious that the United States Congress was not politically disposed to the financiers' aims. In Senator Borah's words, Woodrow was acting like “President of the World.”<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> By digging into the treaty leak in New York, the Committee shed light on an attempt to end the sovereignty of at least fifteen nations: America through political disenfranchisement and those in Europe through economic dictatorship. The reader can judge for themselves how far this plan came to fruition. <br /> <br /> <br /> [1] Investigation Relevant to the Peace Treaty With Germany: Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Hearing, Sixty-sixth Congress, First Session. Pursuant to Senate Resolution 64: Directing the Committee on Foreign Relations to investigate whether copies of the peace treaty with Germany are in the city of New York, by whom and how they were obtained, and so forth. 1919.<br /> <br /> [2] Harvard University's “20th Century Great American Business Leaders.” Accessed June 2007. The Modern History Project, as quoted from: "The Vanderlip, Van Derlip, Vander Lippe Family in America", by Charles Edwin Booth, New York, 1914.<br /> <br /> [3] Quotation from Mr. Vanderlip's testimony before the Committee.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Go to Bigeye's Federal Reserve educational archive<br /> <br /> <br /> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />

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http://www.factcheck.org/specialreports ... hy_we.html<br /> <br /> <br /> Cognitive Science and FactCheck.org, or Why We (Still) Do What We Do<br /> October 17, 2007<br /> by Joe Miller<br /> Have you heard about how Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet? What about how Iraq was responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center? Or maybe the one about how George W. Bush has the lowest IQ of any U.S. president ever? Chances are pretty good that you might even believe one (or more) of these claims. And yet all three are false. At FactCheck.org our stock in trade is debunking these sorts of false or misleading political claims, so when the Washington Post told us that we might just be making things worse, it really made us stop and think. <br /> <br /> A Sept. 4 article in the Post discussed several recent studies that all seemed to point to the same conclusion: Debunking myths can backfire because people tend to remember the myth but forget what the debunker said about it. As Hebrew University psychologist Ruth Mayo explained to the Post, “If you think 9/11 and Iraq, this is your association, this is what comes in your mind. Even if you say it is not true, you will eventually have this connection with Saddam Hussein and 9/11.” That leaves myth busters like us with a quandary: Could we, by exposing political malarkey, just be cementing it in voters’ minds? Are we contributing to the problem we hope to solve?<br /> <br /> <br /> Possibly. Yet we think that what we do is still necessary. And we think the facts back us up.<br /> <br />

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I have a couple-a reasons for net surfin' ans posting some of what I find.<br /> It isn't some specific agenda beyond presenting stuff that has buried in it items of interest <br /> that have to be panned out like gold <br /> And we all have our own gold we seek <br /> <br /> http://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/message_to_the_left_and_right.htm <br /> <br /> I’ll start this essay by being up front: I grew up with a lot of conservative beliefs.<br /> <br /> I grew up around guns and know how to use them-a skill that at one time every American was taught along with learning how to read and do math. I counted myself blessed born in the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.<br /> <br /> I supported wholeheartedly the Cold War-because I saw Soviet communism as a threat to Freedom (and admit it, it was. Just ask anyone from Eastern Europe.) So I was for us having as many guns, tanks, ships, attack jets and nuclear weapons as American industry could turn out so we could defend ourselves.<br /> <br /> I was for an aggressive foreign policy-no, I was for a REALLY aggressive foreign policy… as in spreading Freedom and the tenants of the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence as the Communists were pumping Marxist-Leninism. No wonder then, that I supported the war in Afghanistan against the Soviets, that THIS is how we could turn the tide of world socialism-armed populist resistance. I thought that overwrought show of force in Grenada wasn’t enough; that we should’ve gone straight into Nicaragua and Cuba and cleaned the commies out of “our” hemisphere. I played a lot of computer war games; guiding stealth fighters and tanks and ships to blast all of America’s enemies, as if taking on their military would automatically free those people such a war would murder…<br /> <br /> I had faith: in Ronald Reagan, in Pat Robertson, the GOP, Jerry Falwell, TBN, Morton Downey Jr., Ralph Reed. I knew, as a kid, as intuitive that unconditional welfare handouts and gun control and abortion on demand were immoral and anti-American. Not respecting of Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness, that encouraged just giving up and living off the government dole; excuses for more taxes, more poverty…<br /> <br /> Those that hold "conservative views", yes we do love God, Guns and Country, but<br /> at the same time, there are attitudes you in the “left” have that I always agreed with:<br /> <br /> The Earth is our Home-we don’t have garbage and wastes strewn all over our houses (well, most people) yet we usually permit toxins and the products of the socially engineered consumer culture to be disposed of wherever it’s most profitable… to the benefit of just a few that own and control the corporations. That quality made products made to last years-like Americans made once upon a time-is a far wiser use of valuable materials, energy and labor than shoddy, imported, slave labor-made crap that all too soon winds up in the trash.<br /> <br /> I’m down with the concept of labor-us, working at wage slave jobs-uniting, organizing and being strong in the face of greedy, far-too-rich old men trying to squeeze us for every dollar they can. That the common man can and should unite to get a slice of that corporate pie, if the economic conditions make it impossible for everyone to have a self-employing skill or trade.<br /> <br /> Being an artist myself, I believe in the right to self-expression. I believe in the unfettered Right to media access to express myself. I believe in the unfettered free market of ideals-free of interference by either smug religiosity or some falsely pious political correctness.<br /> <br /> I don’t care much for the callous greed a lot of people programmed with “right wing” beliefs has-like the whole world revolves around them and their lifestyle, and to hell with anyone and everyone that gets in the way of their next debt-fueled shopping spree. That their broken moral compass is the one true measure for all things, peoples and beliefs-when they run around and cheat on their spouses, take drugs, steal, gamble. Those self-proclaimed “godly” are gluttons, wouldn’t dream of sharing their wealth to help the poorest, are unloving, uncaring, and root for the “prophecied” genocide of the Human Race and Earth’s destruction known as the Apocalypse-so they can have that go-to-heaven-free card known as the ‘Rapture”. Something I regret believing in most of all, because it’s at the root of a lot of dysfunction amongst those that call themselves christian-dogmatic irresponsibility and passiveness to the evil that rules this world.<br /> <br /> Furthermore, as I educated myself about the reality of modern America, I found a lot of what I supported and believed in as a onetime “right-winger” were misguided:<br /> <br /> *People can be born into a underclass whose location and socioeconomic status exclude all but the most brilliant and driven from succeeding-and that’s before being buried by taxation and regulations. While at the same time traitorous politicians, CEO’s and Directors on corporate boards conspiring to lift foreign tariffs the slave-labor goods and the never ending expansion of government authority and taxation “force” those three piece suited traitors to lobby for “free trade agreements”-keeping as much of “their” money in their pockets as possible. Thus the underclass expands, forcing more people to either join the military, work at wal-mart, go on welfare that robs relatively better off Americans through taxes, sell drugs or just say the hell with it and take ‘em themselves in a futile attempt to ease their pain.<br /> <br /> *No matter how grisly and evil dismembering a Person in their Mother’s womb is, I cannot abide by the callous disregard for how bringing a child into this world can wreck someone’s life in this country. Much of the social stigma’s gone, but a single mother, or someone in America’s underclass is still faced with being forced to live hand-to-mouth to take care of their kid, in a ever-worsening economy, their “fathers” socially programmed through a variety of means we trust to be irresponsible, to have some “baby mamas”.<br /> <br /> *Those “conservative” politicians on TV, wearing those guilty shiteating grins making nice yet useless noises with their mouths? They’re almost all for lining their pockets and expanding government. Gun control, abortion, taxes, welfare, crime-it’s all but props they and the same breed of shiteating grin wearing politicians that call themselves “liberal” use in their ongoing political pro wrestling show.<br /> <br /> At that, I must remind you that the “left” has nothing to brag about either. You in the left turn respect for the environment into excuses for government to tax and steal the People’s lands from them. You let politicians and other whores exploit your activism to oppress us, keep us from truly owning the land we work our entire lives for. Your misguided social conscience is exploited by those in government that hold the homes of the People hostage to foreclosure for delinquent land taxes. Taxes to fund the horrible state run schools that make each graduating class dumber and more pliable to government control than the last.<br /> <br /> Your natural and understandable horror at all the violence caused by government and corporate policies aimed at creating social and racial inequalities-that when coupled with dumbed down state schooling-leads to criminals… you don’t attack the sources of the crimes, you try to get the government to steal the People’s Rights to arms to protect themselves and their communities. Yes: you too have the right to protect yourself from a criminal, no matter how he’s been victimized. You think I lie, go ask any of your friends that lived through hurricane Katrina.<br /> <br /> In fact, you in the “left” take this anti-violence sensitivity to such a suicidal extreme some of you are willing to compromise our Nation’s defenses. Yes, the military-industrial complex is a monster; but that doesn’t validate your unilateral disarmament drives when the Soviets had(and still have)hordes of tanks, planes and nuclear weapons aimed at us. Any peaceniks care to say something about communist China building up a military to take on the rest of the planet? Any of you willing to expend some protest time against North Korea? Sure-take this country to task for it’s sins, but there are no innocents when it comes to the governments of this sorry world.<br /> <br /> Pacifism only works if everyone practices it. Being weak in this world just makes you prey; if there’s anything I can still agree with the “right” about, it’s that.<br /> <br /> Yes, I had faith in “my” ideology just as you have faith in “yours”. Time marches on however. You gain life experience and sooner or later if you haven’t completely given your thinking over to those you listen to, who manipulate you, you start seeing what’s wrong with what you previously held as inerrant truth. That some attitudes, some people are wrong. Some of those attitudes, those people are lies, liars-a con to get your money, your vote, your approval of whatever crime they tried to pull. Yet I and most people keep believing the main tenants of their prepackaged ideology to be worshipped and followed without question.<br /> <br /> more at the above addy

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http://www.cognitivebehavior.com/theory/precepts.html<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> "One of the deepest problems in cognitive science is that of understanding how people make sense of the vast amount of raw data constantly bombarding them from the environment" [Hofstader, 1995]. How do perceptions occur and formulate conceptions? The lowest perception occurs, of course with the reception of raw sensory information through the various sense organs, described as sensations. Out of the many sensations the mind seeks to find an orderly process by which to make sense of the world. Perceptions, however, may be influenced by belief, goals, and external context. This implies that there is a top-down process along with the bottom-up process of the senses. In order for raw data to be shaped into a coherent whole, it must go through a process of filtering and organization, yielding a structured representation that can be used by the mind for any number of purposes. Representations then are the conclusions drawn from sensations.<br /> <br /> High-level perception begins at that level of processing where concepts begin to play an important role. Processes of high-level perception may be divided again into a spectrum from the concrete to the abstract. At the most concrete end of the spectrum, we have object recognition, exemplified by the ability to recognize an apple or a table. Then there is the ability to grasp relations. This allows us to determine the relationship between an airplane and the ground ["above"], or a swimmer and a swimming pool ["in"]. Object recognition and relations concepts may be thought of as the knowledge base of the mental domain. As one moves further up the spectrum towards more abstract associations the issues become distant from particular sensory modalities and become the creative substance of thought. The distinguishing mark of high-level perception is that it is semantic: it involves drawing meaning out of situations. The more semantic the processing involved, the greater the role played by concepts in this processing, and thus the greater the scope for top-down influences, since it taps either the knowledge base or the theories, ideologies and/or belief systems of the individual.<br /> <br /> The formation of appropriate representation lies at the heart of human high-level cognitive abilities. But it seems that developing representations is even more complex than it might first appear. William James indicates that we have different representations of an object or situation at different times. David Mar [1977] goes even further in suggesting that the perception of an event or object must include the simultaneous computation of several different descriptions of it, that capture the diverse aspects of the use, purpose or circumstances. Each representation thus becomes a vector in a multidimensional space, whose position is not anchored but can adjust flexibly to change in differing environmental stimuli. <br /> <br /> The way we learn, according to Hofstader is contingent on pattern perception, extrapolation and generalization. These activities are descriptive of analogical thought. The quality of an analogy between two situations depends almost entirely on one's perception of the situation. Analogical thought provides one of the clearest illustrations of the flexible nature of our perceptual abilities. Making an analogy requires high-lighting various different aspects of a situation, and the aspects that are high-lighted are often not the most obvious features. The perception of a situation can change radically, depending on the analogy we are making. Furthermore, not only is analogy-making dependent on high-level perception, but the reverse holds true as well: perception is often dependent on analogy-making itself. To better understand this, Hofstader divides analogical thought into two basic components. First, there is the process of situation-perception, which involves taking the data involved with a given situation and filtering and organizing them in various ways to provide an appropriate representation for a given context. Second, there is the process of mapping. This involves taking the representation of two situations and finding appropriate correspondences between components of one representation with components of the other to produce the match-up we call an analogy.<br /> <br /> It is by no means apparent that these processes are cleanly separable: they seem to interact in a deep way. Given the fact that perception underlies analogy, one might be tempted to divide the process of analogy-making sequentially: first, situation-perception, then mapping. But it has been shown that analogy also plays a large role in perception; thus mapping may be deeply involved in the situation-perception stage. Both situation-perception and mapping processes are essential to analogy-making, but of the two the former is more fundamental, for the simple reason that the mapping process requires representations to work on, and representations are the product of high-level perceptions. The perceptual processes that produce these representations may in turn deeply involve analogical mapping; but each mapping process requires a perceptual process to precede it. Therefore the perceptual process is conceptually prior, although perception and mapping processes are often temporally interwoven. <br /> <br /> People are constantly interpreting new situations in terms of old ones. It is this process that allows for the enlargement of our understanding of the world. Analogy-making is going on constantly in the background of the mind, helping to shape our perceptions of everyday situations. One could suggest that it is the breakdown of analogy-making and the on-slaught of automatic thoughts which most constitutes the difficulties that people have in using cognition effectively in personal and interpersonal domains. The use of automatic thoughts keeps the person recycling old information instead of learning new information.<br /> <br /> Hofstader feels that it is implausible that when a person makes an analogy, their working memory is holding all the information from an all-encompassing representation of a situation. Instead, it seems that people hold in working memory only a ceratin amount of relevant information. The choice of what is relevant is often part of the difficulty. Helping a persons become aware of other possible representation that they may have for a situation might evoke the ability for them to change both perception and perspective. <br /> <br /> "One might thus envisage a system in which representations are gradually built up as the various pressures evoked by a given context manifest themselves. In such a system, not only would the mapping be determined by perceptual processes, but the perceptual processes would in turn be influenced by the mapping process. Representation would be built up gradually by means of this continual interaction between perception and mapping. If a particular representation seemed appropriate for a given mapping, then that representation would continue to be developed while the mapping continued to be fleshed out. If the representation seemed less promising, then alternative directions would be explored by the perceptual process. It would be of the essence that the processes of perception and mapping be interleaved at all stages. Gradually, an appropriate analogy would emerge, based on structured representations that dovetail with the final mapping" [Hofstader, 1995].<br /> <br /> Thus, creating change for person's with problems in living might mean constantly disputing the mapping and representations, while providing alternatives. This would provide stress towards new analogical assessment, hence new information. The pressure of the context could be maximized by in vivo involvement. Since mental representations are often generalized after extensive use, a renewed look at the lowest level perceptions [the basic fundamentals, opens new avenues for new analogies to be drawn and changes in ideology [generalized grouping of representations] to be developed. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [juris ignorantia est cum jus nostrum ignoramus] it is ignorance of the law when we do not know our own rights"

[Diogenes]

from the same site as above<br /> <br /> A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. <br /> <br /> James Allen <br /> <br /> One can free children from warts by "purchasing" them. In practice this is achieved by giving the child a coin for, and thus laying claim to, his wart. As a rule the child then asks - amused or bewildered - how he is supposed to let go of the wart, whereupon one answers nonchalantly that he should not worry about that - the wart will come off all by itself. <br /> <br /> Although the effectiveness of all kinds of magical and superstitious treatments of warts has been know since time immemorial, there does not exist a scientifically satisfactory explanation of these treatments; especially not for the procedure just mentioned. What happens is really quite extraordinary: A totally absurd, symbolic interaction leads to a concrete result; that is, the blood vessels leading into this virally produced tissue begin to constrict, and the wart eventually atrophies as a result of anoxia. This, however, means that the use of a specific interpersonal communication leads not merely to a change of the mood, the views, or the feelings of its recipient, as it can be observed on an everyday basis, but to a physical change that cannot "normally" be effected deliberately. <br /> <br /> it will serve us all well to pay attention to the power of words and belief in all areas of our lives <br />