well burn me at the stake if I haven't been neglecting my blog for awhile, busy writing on other people's blogs and working on my books
with Samhain just over the horizon, I'm considering the whelming response SpiderLines has elicited from readers [if there are any] in the year it's been online, and wondering if there's any point to picking up the pace again; if I'm just writing for myself, I'll save it in my journal
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Blessed Be
20090918
20090804
20090802
ink blots unwired
don't worry about psych tests, especially the ink blots; now there's no reason to fear, or fail, the Rorschach
link = www.livescience.com
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Blessed Be
link = www.livescience.com
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Blessed Be
20090723
20090721
the new separatism
no, this isn't about Québecois souverainistesI'm talking about the Second American Revolution
astrologers have been watching the evolution of Pluto-in-Capricorn energy for some time, the same patterns that led to the tea parties and regime changes of the 18th Century, the last time Pluto passed through Capricorn; it’s somewhat mind boggling that so few people see this coming, but I guess King George was surprised, too
of course, there’ve always been right wingnuts south of the 49th, but more, it seems, over the past few decades; and now they’re trying to go legit - in the early days, at least - working for change within the system, and using the Tenth Amendment:
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
one of the things you didn’t hear on the 6 o’clock news is that just before Sarah Palin resigned, she signed a resolution, adopted by a vote of 37-0 in Alaska’s House of Representatives and 40-0 in the state Senate, claiming “sovereignty for the state under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States”
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Blessed Be
20090720
KKK Today
a recently de-classified Department of Homeland Security report warns Americans to expect growing right-wing extremism from white nationalists, militias and groups like the Ku Klux Klan
so what’s the Klan like in the 21st Century? photographer Anthony Karen has spent a couple of years researching today’s Klan and Life Magazine just published a photo essay with some of the images from his new book, The Invisible Empire: Ku Klux Klan
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Blessed Be
so what’s the Klan like in the 21st Century? photographer Anthony Karen has spent a couple of years researching today’s Klan and Life Magazine just published a photo essay with some of the images from his new book, The Invisible Empire: Ku Klux Klan
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Blessed Be
20090715
great globs of gunk
there’s some kind of gunk growing off Alaska that no one’s seen before, and no one knows yet what it is or where it came from
it looks like what Newfoundlanders call slub, but it’s strange that the Alaska version has appeared so suddenly; it’s been common around some Newfoundland harbours, especially St. John’s, for decades
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Blessed Be
it looks like what Newfoundlanders call slub, but it’s strange that the Alaska version has appeared so suddenly; it’s been common around some Newfoundland harbours, especially St. John’s, for decades
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Blessed Be
20090701
Holy Hair!
time warp ?
I had to read the beginning of Patti’s blog posting about hair over again, just to make sure I was reading it right
then my first thought was about how much some of our current Cosmic energy pattern reflects the energies of the 60s, one of the many periods when the length of hair has been a volatile subject; seems it still is [forget climate change! cut your hair!]
check it out @ Patti’s Paganism / Wicca Blog
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Blessed Be
I had to read the beginning of Patti’s blog posting about hair over again, just to make sure I was reading it right
then my first thought was about how much some of our current Cosmic energy pattern reflects the energies of the 60s, one of the many periods when the length of hair has been a volatile subject; seems it still is [forget climate change! cut your hair!]
check it out @ Patti’s Paganism / Wicca Blog
more next time
Blessed Be
20090628
E.T. sees red
thinking of Earth as ‘the blue planet’ has been a popular myth, particularly since we saw the first snap shots the astronauts took from orbit and the moon
but from farther away, ‘pale blue dot’-distance and beyond, planets like Earth actually look red because biological molecules such as oxygen, water, carbon dioxide and methane show up in the red wavelengths
so if E.T. is looking for us, she’s not likely to be paying attention to blue dots
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Blessed Be
but from farther away, ‘pale blue dot’-distance and beyond, planets like Earth actually look red because biological molecules such as oxygen, water, carbon dioxide and methane show up in the red wavelengthsso if E.T. is looking for us, she’s not likely to be paying attention to blue dots
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Blessed Be
20090622
Solstice at the 'henge
is it just me, or is there some kind of dichotomatic puzzle about how people who celebrate Solstice could be so disrespectful of the environment?
why don't they just stay home and watch Oprah?
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Blessed Be
why don't they just stay home and watch Oprah?
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Blessed Be
20090619
Barack’s betrayals
has Barack Obama completely compromised the ability for plebians to ever again trust or believe anything a politician says?
consider:
✪ did Obama misrepresent himself to the so-called ‘left-wing’, who were primarily responsible for electing him?
✪ and didn’t he promise to wind up the war?
✪ instead of starting new ones?
✪ what was the Guantánamo reversal about?
✪ what did he really mean when he spoke of transparency?
✪ even when he does some good thing, he strays from his campaign position and acts more like a right-wing Republican; remember the financial reforms needed to deal with the ‘crisis’? hope you didn’t expect any action on obscene salaries or accountability for the criminals
✪ and don’t even get me started on his ‘gay’ [i.e. LGB ... etc] equality platform
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Blessed Be
consider:
✪ did Obama misrepresent himself to the so-called ‘left-wing’, who were primarily responsible for electing him?
✪ and didn’t he promise to wind up the war?
✪ instead of starting new ones?
✪ what was the Guantánamo reversal about?
✪ what did he really mean when he spoke of transparency?
✪ even when he does some good thing, he strays from his campaign position and acts more like a right-wing Republican; remember the financial reforms needed to deal with the ‘crisis’? hope you didn’t expect any action on obscene salaries or accountability for the criminals
✪ and don’t even get me started on his ‘gay’ [i.e. LGB ... etc] equality platform
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Blessed Be
20090616
how many links are missing?
it wasn’t that long ago that ‘we’ thought Ida was ‘the missing link’
but a 2004 discovery suggests homo sapiens and the great apes parted at an evolutionary crossroads much more recently than that, and that the split happened in Europe, long after the apes had expanded beyond Africa
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Blessed Be
but a 2004 discovery suggests homo sapiens and the great apes parted at an evolutionary crossroads much more recently than that, and that the split happened in Europe, long after the apes had expanded beyond Africa
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Blessed Be
20090605
war inspires peace
one of the many human mysteries has been the question of how we evolved from the pack mentality of our caves and tribes to living together as social animals in [relatively] peaceful communities
apparently it was our warlike nature that drove us toward peaceful coexistence; constant bloody and lethal conflict with our neighbours drove us to build alliances with them instead [to organize bigger neighbourhoods, which let us have bigger wars]
wonder how far away we are yet from the global neighbourhood?
then we can declare war on the UFOs!
you can pay for the full article at Science mag or read a summary on the New Scientist website
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Blessed Be
apparently it was our warlike nature that drove us toward peaceful coexistence; constant bloody and lethal conflict with our neighbours drove us to build alliances with them instead [to organize bigger neighbourhoods, which let us have bigger wars]
wonder how far away we are yet from the global neighbourhood?
then we can declare war on the UFOs!
you can pay for the full article at Science mag or read a summary on the New Scientist website
more next time
Blessed Be
20090530
who knew?
many are amazed when they hear about things like the way some ancient construction, like Stonehenge or the pyramids, or sometimes even natural landscapes, casts some kind of unusual shadow or creates some kind of ray of light, but only on ‘special’ days like solstices, equinoxes and my mom’s birthday
if you’re looking to temper your amazement, consider that future archeologists may say the same thing about Manhattan
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Blessed Be
if you’re looking to temper your amazement, consider that future archeologists may say the same thing about Manhattan
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Blessed Be
20090518
homo sapiens, the cannibal species
so, where did the Neanderthals go? their disappearance has never made evolutionary sense
turns out, we ate ‘em !
wonder if they tasted like chicken ?
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Blessed Be
turns out, we ate ‘em !
wonder if they tasted like chicken ?
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Blessed Be
20090517
dumber than prairie dogs ?
1st, this is by no means an atonement for the May 15 post about humourless Americans; the Goddess manages synchronicity
2nd, this is about humans, not just Canadians
3rd, are humans dumber than animals that communicate telepathically, or by some other unwritten and unspoken method ? like prairie dogs ?
4th, are we less-evolved than earthly species that communicate by deliberately manipulating their bio-chemical production ? like trees ?
5th, remember, “Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.” R. Buckminster Fuller
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Blessed Be
2nd, this is about humans, not just Canadians
3rd, are humans dumber than animals that communicate telepathically, or by some other unwritten and unspoken method ? like prairie dogs ?
4th, are we less-evolved than earthly species that communicate by deliberately manipulating their bio-chemical production ? like trees ?
5th, remember, “Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.” R. Buckminster Fuller
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Blessed Be
20090516
Today in History
On May 16, 1920 Pope Benedict XV canonized Jeanne d'Arc, who then became a patron saint of France.
The Burgundians arrested Jeanne by authority of the Inquisition, but lacked the nerve to kill her.
So they sold her to the English, who found Jeanne guilty of Witch craft and burned her at the stake on May 30, 1431, at the age of 19.
The Catholic Church pardoned her retroactively in 1452.
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Blessed Be
20090515
humourless Yanks
if your life is a trudge-trudge-glub-glub treadmill, you may not be aware of the anti-LGB...etc controversy about Miss California’s views on the Natural Family
if you are, you might find this video amusing, depending on whether you agree with her
if you don’t realize it’s a Queer-friendly parody within the 1st minute, please go to another page, quickly ~ I don’t want any hate mail
if do you realize it’s a parody, check out the YouTube comments under the video
isn’t that scary? no wonder they elected the Bushes, twice
[btw, for readers south of the 49th, humourless is the Canadian spelling]
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if you are, you might find this video amusing, depending on whether you agree with her
if you don’t realize it’s a Queer-friendly parody within the 1st minute, please go to another page, quickly ~ I don’t want any hate mail
if do you realize it’s a parody, check out the YouTube comments under the video
isn’t that scary? no wonder they elected the Bushes, twice
[btw, for readers south of the 49th, humourless is the Canadian spelling]
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Blessed Be
20090510
Cosmic riddles
one of the existential questions that’s always intrigued me is, if ‘God’ created the universe, where’d he come from?
in many religions the faithful simply reject the question: ‘God just is’, they say, and if you haven’t found him yet you just need to find ‘the Word’
I’ve never understood how this differs from the pagan concept that Square One is The Mystery; as long as we are here, in this space and time, on a physical plane of human existence, we simply do not know
but we are starting to realize the beginning of the universe may not have been the beginning of everything
my Nov 7/09 posting looked at the evidence there might be something ‘beyond this universe’; now there’s a question about whether the Cosmos existed before the Big Bang or whether this universe might be a perennial, self-recycling entity ~ like a peony in a bigger Cosmic garden
if you’re in to Cosmic riddles, you might also want to check out New Scientist’s list of 13 things that do not make sense
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Blessed Be
in many religions the faithful simply reject the question: ‘God just is’, they say, and if you haven’t found him yet you just need to find ‘the Word’
I’ve never understood how this differs from the pagan concept that Square One is The Mystery; as long as we are here, in this space and time, on a physical plane of human existence, we simply do not know
but we are starting to realize the beginning of the universe may not have been the beginning of everything
my Nov 7/09 posting looked at the evidence there might be something ‘beyond this universe’; now there’s a question about whether the Cosmos existed before the Big Bang or whether this universe might be a perennial, self-recycling entity ~ like a peony in a bigger Cosmic garden
if you’re in to Cosmic riddles, you might also want to check out New Scientist’s list of 13 things that do not make sense
more next time
Blessed Be
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