October 9, 2010 archive

Oct 09 2010

Baba Vanga

Baba Vanga is the name of a Hungarian prophet in the same class as the more widely known Nostradamus, if you believe in that kind of stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B…

Baba says WWIII starts this November but apparently we don’t all die because her prediction list goes out to the year 5079, when the world ends.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B…

Another consensus in the metaphysical prophet world says that all of us constitute a collective consciousness and we can manifest our own destiny if only we would choose our path wisely.  That is a big statement and considering such things as extinction level events let’s all manifest shall we.

But how.

Did the aliens save us from nuclear armageddon in the sixties?

Yes, it even made mainstream news.

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&e…

Is that why we never bombed Iran?  Has anybody seen Elvis bin Laden lately?

Has anybody noticed a change under George W Obama?  

Oct 09 2010

Remembering John Lennon

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

                      -John Lennon

If you live in or near New York City tomorrow would be a great day to come here. It will be around 72° and sunny in Central Park and if you go to Strawberry Fields, you would witness an amazing event, people powered music.  

I like to think of it as the greatest cover band of all time because it is a gathering of people just singing and remembering the life and times of John Lennon. I like to think of it as a day of inspiration because some of those people singing lyrics for peace and love were not even born on John Lennon’s final birthday.

I have trouble trying to capture the emotion and inspiration of these events in words but I’ve been to many and I’ve captured the event in photos several times. Below the fold are pictures from the last of these gatherings. In some ways it feels like going back in time.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

                      -John Lennon

 

Oct 09 2010

Popular Culture 20101008: Telephone Billing Scams (Updated)

This covers a topic about which I wrote earlier this week, but is expanded and completely revised, and includes actions that you can take if you find yourself in this situation.  I know that this will not be as well received as the installment last week, but this is an important topic, (although not a popular one), and is part of our culture at present.  I am talking about telephone billing scams, often called cramming, and they are common.

This incident is from personal experience, and recent at that.  Cramming is the addition of charges on one’s residential or wireless telephone bills that were not authorized by the owner of the account, or the addition of charges that were unwittingly authorized by the owner of the account.  In my case, it was the former, twice.

Oct 09 2010

Friday Philosophy: Judge not…

I’ve been having a slow conversation through Facebook with a friend from high school.  Hopefully she will show up here eventually.  But she’s a little busy training to be a Peace Corps volunteer, so we’ll se.

In one of her messages she wrote:

You have an original voice. I know that transgender issues are understandably important to you, but I also find your posts on other subjects to be fascinating. You write with passion and are able to reduce the macrocosm down to the infinitely human microcosm.

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Also, everyone changes as they live their lives. Most of us don’t want to be judged, but if we are, we want to be judged by who we are now. As an old high school friend, I would like to see you address this type of issue in relationship to transgender politics.

I’ll try to do that tonight…with a little bit of other stuff mixed in.

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