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| The REAL Source Of All Unresolved Conflict - And - How To Resolve It | There is a Lot of conflict in the world - between politicians, minority/affiliate/religious groups and even on a personal level. My research shows that...
Two people/groups can come to Agreement on anything unless...
# 1: One person/group is trying to Extract Values from another person/group Without Exchanging Values of their own (they vehemently want control).
E.g. A guy wants a girl who will cook, clean and provide sex for him, while he stays out late with the boys and offers her nothing in return. Or the girl who Uses the guy as a source of gifts, expensive restaurant meals and the like, without anything in return. Basically, either person/group trying to Get It Over the other person/group. Even in a Controlling way. Can include Psychic Vampires.
# 2: There is a Third Party involved stirring things up. (The most common reason.)
E.g. A workmate, friend or relative making a Comment to you about your companion (husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, etc.). And it can be subtle too. For instance...
Two office girl workmates are Chatting over lunch and one says, "My Johnny is always bringing me flowers. It shows he really cares."
The idea has now been planted. And the other girl will think her guy might be lacking in the Care Department because he doesn't bring flowers. Even if, during the lunch chat, she denies (or makes excuses why) a lack of flowers doesn't bother her. But when she is home, she might Accuse her guy of not caring. And if this is Resolved, it raises its head again after more Chats Over Coffee with the workmates.
Or the girl is chatting with her mom who remarks, "if he cared he'd buy you flowers every week" - or - "he needs to earn more money to make a better home for you / you'll never get anywhere with him working that deadend job". And now the girl feels/accuses him of not caring because of that. Or that he's not working hard enough or not striving enough or needs a better job.
To resolve this conflict is relatively easy.
Step 1 is to let the other person know about the Third Party Rule - all conflict can be resolved unless there is a Third Party involved who Promotes/Triggers the conflict. And no matter how Innocent this third party appears to be, They are the True Cause of the unresolved conflict.
Step 2 is to ASK them (the person you're in conflict with) if anyone - friend, workmate, relative, radio/tv show host, etc. - has said anything bad, has hinted at anything bad, or if they have heard anything bad... about you. And bad here can be anything Negative in any way, no matter how minor.
Armed with the knowledge of the Third Party Rule and then when asked this question, they will quickly identify the source of the Negativity. And will (should) now understand how the conflict was brought about by that other person. And can now fore-arm themselves against other Insidious Assaults into their life in the future. Most people upon discovering the Third Party simply Shun them as a way to keep their Negativity out of their life.
Something to keep in mind when locating this Third Party. There might be a tendency to be in denial about Them being the Culprit. If for no other reason than it seem so hard to believe that this Person is ultimately the Cause of the Trouble. But if you Think about it, you will see they Are the Cause of the Trouble.
A quick word about Lawyers here. If you go to a Lawyer to Resolve your Problem, no matter which side you are on you will be told... "You'll win." Why? Because if you don't hear those words you'll go to another lawyer who will tell you - and you'll keep going to lawyers until you find one who'll tell you those magic words you long to hear. Why do they say that? Because having clients is how they make their money - and the longer you are a client and the longer you are paying them, the more money they make. So it is in Their Interest to string the Conflict out as long as possible.
A relative of mine is a Troublemaker at work. A union troublemaker. And just when it would seem he and management had come to agreement on something, there'd be more trouble coming from him. What management didn't know was... he would get home at night and talk to his wife who would Gee Him Up and the next day he'd be at them again. We used to say, his wife made the bullets and he fired them. His wife was the Hidden Third Party.
Once, a few people at work made commented to me about something - a negative something. So I simply asked them, "Where did you hear that?" And then asked that person where They had heard it. I Very Quickly discovered the culprit (and slyly asked them if they had Heard of this thing about me, as a test to see their reaction - they denied hearing it but said they knew who Would have started it - caught out!). Later, when I Outed Them, I did it in front of many of the co-workers who had heard his venom. And told him to Stop spreading lies about me and telling people things about me that just aren't true. I did it this way so my coworkers could all see He was the Source of what they had heard. I could have just as easily handled it all silently with each person - confronting him and revealing the truth to the others as I came across them during the day - but knew he'd either not stop, or would change tact. This way, Everyone knew his tricks. (Yes, I probably made myself a Visceral Opponent, but so be it - why should I care about him when he was trying to bring me done.)
Just remember, the third party is always there. They are not obvious as the culprit. It could be a coworker, friend, relative, tv/radio show host, trashy magazine columnist, leader of your Affinity/Religious/Minority Group, etc. And you might find it too incredible to accept it is them but if you Think about it you will discover it is the case. | | Posted: 4/16/2008 at 03:51 | Read 253 times | 6 comments | Leave Comment |
 | Enjoy These Classic Arcade Games | | There are Computer Games and then there are Classic Arcade Games which can be played on computer. Often, the Arcade games we know as Classic have a simplicity that cannot be beat. A simplicity and difficulty in one. Graphics are nothing flash. But dang, they are fun to play. And so I present for your enjoyment some classic arcade games. Try them all - and come back often to play. They are addictive. (I'll add more games as I locate them and test them for accuracy to the original.) Space Invaders - chucky graphics, seems easy (slow moving targets, slow dropping bombs), but is testing. The game that even had a song developed after it. Left and right arrow to move, space bar to shoot.
| | Posted: 4/12/2008 at 03:28 | Read 180 times | 5 comments | Leave Comment |
| The TRUE Nature of POWER - How Others Get Power Over You On The Sly |  There are Two basic forms of Power: Physical and Non-Physical.
Physical Power only gets you so far and no further. At some point you Will meet resistance - often Very Violent resistance. Think of it like a cat... when you push a cat they push back, when you pull a cat they pull away. Physical power. Usually enforced at the barrel of a gun or other weapon - such as a Taser.
The other type of power - non-physical power - is far more insidious. And it's this kind of power I'll talk about in this entry and show how to Overcome it.
Non-Physical Power is actually Given by the lorded over and Not Taken by the lord as you may think. Making the wielded power a Result of the Sanctity of the Victim - the victim goes along with it.
Think of the typical employer/employee situation where the Boss Orders the Employee around. The boss has the Power. But only inasmuch as the employee Gives it to him first. For what would happen if the employee just ignored the boss? Apart from Maybe not having a job anymore - and jobs can be found again so no big deal there - the boss would have Zero Power.
When a person ignores, or stops listening to and acting on the words of, other people, they Take Back the power they gave those people. We are all controlled Only by the degree we give other people (boss, spouse, police, etc.) power to control us. When we stop listening the power they wielded vanishes.
What would happen if a spouse stopped listening to their other half. Such as a guy and girl at a pub or bar and the guy starts getting into a heated altercation with another patron. The girl would be like, "Come on let's go" but her words would not be paid attention to and acted upon. Her Perceived Power, which she never really had in the first place but was given, disappears as he stops listening to her. She is then in Shock as her Illusion Of Power is taken from her.
Look at how powerless Police really are. When confronted by someone who Ignores them and doesn't give them power, the police Quickly resort to Physical Power - then charge the person with Disobeying A Police Action/Directive (effectively charging them with not giving the police power).
The Rebellious Teenager is enacting the above removal of Power - not listening to the Parent. The Parent didn't Lose Control - they never had it to begin with, they only Thought they did. The Teenager simply chose not to listen and obey and give power anymore.
 A Classic and Enhanced Version of this is the Tiananmen Square Incident when a lone unarmed student stood in front of Four Tanks. That student Took Back The Sanctity he had given the leaders and they were found to be exposed to the truth - the only power they ever had was the power the people gave to them on a daily basis. And when that was withdrawn, they resorted to Physical Power - killing their own people - and showed us what All governments are really about - control at the point of a gun, even if the gun isn't visible all the time.
This is the True nature of power. Those with the Power only have it as a Result of the Sanctity of the Victim. When the Victim removes their sanctity the power disappears. And usually, at this point, depending on how strenuously the controller wants power, they will resort to Physical Power - what the Police do when someone ignores them.
Imagine if all Employers decided to Stop being Tax Collectors for the Govt and paid the employees the Full Wage they Earned instead of deducting tax. And all Employers Refused to become Tax Collectors again from that moment on no matter how many letters were sent to them. What Could the Govt do about it? It cannot take them all to court because by the time that came around the country would have Zero Revenue to run and the Govt would collapse.
Obviously, this will not happen. Because while there may be Some employers who would agree to leave the paying of tax up to the employed person - such as those who hire Subcontractors, pay them the full amount and leave the income tax paying to the subcontractor - not all will do it. And such action requires Everyone to do it.
And this is how it is with all Govt Power. It works across the nation because the Overwhelming Majority of people Give the power to the Govt. And those majorities will Not take it back. Nor can they be Convinced to take it back. The Mass Mind wins the day. You only need to read Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness of Crowds to begin to Comprehend the Insanity the Masses embrace and continue to Embrace.
Look at how Ineffectual Nation-Wide Protests are. That should give you a Clue that the People cannot change the mind of the Govt (all those protests against going into Iraq, for example, didn't stop it). So the Only way out of the idiocy the Govt would impose on us, is to do it on an Individual Level. Instead of trying to get the Govt to change, the Individual needs to take action For Themselves.
Let me repeat this...
Instead of trying to get the Govt to change, the Individual needs to take action For Themselves.
If you disagree with the Homosexualising of the schools, then take your child out of school and Home-School. If you don't like the High Taxes that are stolen from you, then move to a state which has lower tax, or a country with lower tax (at this stage there are no countries with zero income tax when income is earned In the country, but there are countries with zero income tax on income earned Outside of the country and then brought in. Though this entry doesn't have the time to go into those countries. Maybe a later entry.)
If you don't like water restrictions where you live, move to a place without such restrictions (vote with your feet, in other words). If you don't want fluoride in the water, filter it out - it's quicker and cheaper for you to do that than to petition govt to change its policy. Same goes with Firearm Laws, TV Tax laws, and any other Restrictive Laws you may face in your jurisdiction. Your solution is to Act, as an Individual. To take Individual Action to solve the problem Yourself, For You and you alone.
To spend time and money trying to effect change through the political process is folly - you cannot change the mind of a mad crowd and the equally mad rulers. You will achieve Far More for yourself when you Take Action For Yourself alone. When you Remove Your Sanction. And when you Vote With Your Feet. (Of course, if you feel you want to Write Letters, then do so if for no other reason than to Get It Off Your Chest. But know that your letters will have Zero Effect.)
You want to know what insanity is? Insanity is complaining about something you need not subject yourself to. That is, choosing to subject yourself to something and then complaining about that same something. And this is how the Vast Majority of people are. You cannot talk reason into an unreasonable person. But you can Act of your own accord and do what's right for You - as long as it does not infringe upon someone else's Property Rights.
When you do this you will find, you are able to find a great deal of freedom - freedom For yourself and From power you gave to others when you didn't understand the nature of power - in this unfree world we all live in.
End Note: There are Some intrusions upon our freedoms that are hard to avoid. Such as the govt messing with bank accounts and our ability to open them - with the aid of the banks who do so at the end of a gun barrel. And while you can certainly avoid those intrusions by moving country, you might not have the means, or the desire. In which case, you'll just need to Suck It Up a tad while you look for your own ways to prevent the intrusions. This is something you need to weigh up on a case-by-case basis. But either way, know that you will NOT change the mind of the Govt.
Second End Note: The Govt's usual process is to send letters to Encourage you to Give the power back to them. And the letters will usually become more harsh and threatening until they issue you with a Court Order to appear in court. If ignored again they May then issue an Arrest Warrant - all Paper Stuff. With the Final Stage being Physical Forced backed up with Guns. BUT, and this is from my observation and knowledge of the system, if what you have done is minor and you own and owe nothing, they will leave you alone. If you Own property - such as a home - they have something they can Seize and use as Leverage to try to get you to obey them - of course, always wanting you to obey them of your own volition even though they are using Leverage and Coercing you. It's as if They Need Your Sanction to make it right. Never give them your sanction and they have no power left but the physical, which they loath to use for fear of what it shows others.
Third End Note: In the movie V for Vendetta the people Cease giving their power to the rulers and enforcement agents. The result is, near the end, the soldiers know Not what to do and give in to the oncoming mass of unarmed people. BUT, as the Govt and its building is effectively destroyed, what would actually ensue is a period of turmoil and possible breakdown of the system into smaller and more localized Gangs (the ruling Govt is just another Gang, with more and better weapons). You cannot go from Govt to No Govt and then expect a Govt to emerge out of the debris. The USA founding fathers knew this which is why they created a constitution and Govt to replace the disposed British - those who led the revolution created the system to replace the disposed Govt. Without such a system you will either end up like Pakistan - a country with a central Govt which has no effective power in outer regions which are really controlled by War Lords, as seems to be the Muslim way - OR - a system more like the Celtic System which saw localized Groups trading in harmony without a centralized government controlling them all. V was happy to Let Things Be What They May after ending the government of the time.
Fourth End Note: In the movie Instinct, starring Anthony Hopkins, there is a scene where Hugo Gooding Junior's Character is trying to Get Through to Hopkins' character who seems to be preoccupied with removing some duct tape from a chair, in a not-interested going-through-the-motions manner. Suddenly, Hopkins leaps across the table, slaps the tape across Gooding's mouth, gets him in a neck-snapping headlock and tells him to Write Down what I took from you. Gooding writes "Control" to which Hopkins says he never had it in the first place. Then writes "Freedom" to which again Hopkins replies in the negative. And with one last guess before his neck is snapped he writes "Illusions" and is correct. Hopkins took away his Illusions that he had control, power and freedom. | | Posted: 3/8/2008 at 15:23 | Read 305 times | 15 comments | Leave Comment |
| How To Disguise Your Yuwie Referral Links And Other Affiliate Links | One of the biggest hurdles to overcome is getting Credit for referring people to Yuwie - or any referral or affiliate program. That's because people hover their mouse over your link, see where it's going to and that it is a referral or affiliate link, and go directly to the main page. To sign up by themselves.
You could think... those that do that wouldn't make good people in your tree anyway. And that may be the case. But whether that is the case or not, it can be wise to Hide your referral link. So the Hoverers don't know where it really goes. And this can be done in a few ways...
Way # 1: Use the services of a Link Disguiser (URL shortening, forwarding, masking or redirecting services). Such as TinyUrl www.tinyurl.com (which has an Addon for Firefox). By going to TinyURL my profile link becomes this http://tinyurl.com/3y48pa - I can use it to create shorter blog links or to hide an affiliate or referral link, such as my Yuwie referral link or an Amazon affiliate link. My Yuwie referral link becomes this http://tinyurl.com/32yls6 for example. (Click my altered links to see how quick it works.)
Other similar websites to TinyUrl are ...
www.snipurl.com
www.metamark.net
www.notlong.com
www.zurl.ws
www.shorturl.com
There are others. You can find them on Google if you search for URL Shortening, URL Forwarding, URL Masking and URL Redirecting. But I use TinyURL simply because I've been using them for years and have had no need to use others. Even though some of the others do offer Tracking (so you can see how many times your shortened URL has been clicked).
Way # 2: This requires you to have your own website - free websites provided by the likes of Angelfire will not work. It must be your own website with its own domain. And what you do is, put a line of code into the HEAD section of a webpage - a blank webpage is fine as people will not see it anyway. This is the code . You change the Content Number from 10 to whatever you like - this number is the number of Seconds that will pass before the redirect. Make the Content Number zero and it redirects Instantly. And change the URL to your Yuwie referral link - or even your Yuwie sign up page.
Here's what a page's full code would look like (this is a blank page that redirects instantly)...
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta ="refresh" content="0; URL=http://the-URL-of-the-second-page.com">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Open a blank text file with Notepad, paste this code in and save it as index.html or whatever-name-you-choose.html (make sure to change the URL it will go to).
Now what you can do with this code is a couple of things...
Create a page you direct people to - www.YourDomain.com/Page.html - and that page will Automatically Divert people to your Yuwie referral page. Or create a page called index.html and load it onto a new Directory of your website - www.YourDomain.com/Target - and send people to that URL. Again, it will Automatically Divert people to your Yuwie referral page.
If you have obtained the Domain specifically to promote your Yuwie Referral and have nothing on there but a link to click to sign up or whatever, then you could load the index.html as the main and only page. When people go to your domain - www.yourdomain.com - they will Automatically be Divert to your referral page or sign up page - whichever one you had as the link in the code. | | Posted: 1/24/2008 at 14:40 | Read 316 times | 11 comments | Leave Comment |
| The Downfall Of Yuwie | Yuwie has a problem and it's not the Reality of the numbers in the referral tree. You know, where if you get 10 people and they get 10 and so on. Where by Level 10 it looks like this...
L1 = 10
L2 = 100
L3 = 1000
L4 = 10,000
L5 = 100,000
L6 = 1,000,000
L7 = 10,000,000
L8 = 100,000,000
L9 = 1,000,000,000
L10 = 10,000,000,000 (That's ten billion, more than the people on the planet.)
No, that is not Yuwie's problem. Besides, the numbers never really stack up like this. You might have 100 on Level 1 and only 200 on Level 2 and 1,500 on Level 3 - depending on who is in your referral tree etc.
No, THAT is not Yuwie's downfall problem. The problem is intrinsic to Yuwie. It is at Yuwie's core. The fundamental Business Model which is being used. That is, paying you to use the site.
Humans do more of what we get rewarded for doing. When you go to work and are paid By The Hour you are getting paid for Hours, not work. So you will look for ways to be present while doing as little work as possible. After all, working your butt off won't make you any more money.
Along the same line, Yuwie is paying for page views. We are paid to view pages. And so, we can come up with Many ways to view as many pages as possible without actually viewing them.
There is a scam going online which offers websites Traffic. So for $X the website owner can Buy Traffic. What happens is, the Traffic Provider has Teams of people ready to surf the sites (Surfing Team). When they get a client they email the details out to their Surfing Team with a link. The Surfers get paid for Clicking the link and visiting that page. So that is what they do... click a link, let the page load and close the page down a few seconds later.
Yuwie is basically running the same thing - rewarding you for visiting pages within the site. The more pages you visit the more reward you get. So it is in your interest to visit as many pages as possible. And the only way to do that is by spending next to no time on those pages. So if you have a huge friend's list, then you can simply open their page up in a new window. Many pages can be opened this way. Once a heap have been opened, you close them all down (there are fast ways to do this but I won't get into them as this is not a "how to rip off Yuwie" piece but an Alert to inform you of an underlying problem).
Other methods include the sending of Messages back and forth without actually adding anything to the message - just hit reply each time; message sending tree things that encourage you to send it to all your friends and add your name to the list each time; commenting back and forth using the Comment link feature on your comment section (people paste HTML into the comment box which is Quicker than writing a note); and so on and so forth.
What this creates is a plethora of page hits, messages, comments and Uselessness. Because that is what is being rewarded.
Now. As the advertiser is getting bupkis for their investment they will either stop spending money on ads - which means no money for Yuwie users. Or they will be given additional Ad Impressions to compensate. And that will mean less money for Yuwie users per page view. With the result being more and more innovative ways to increase page views - and the cycle continues. But it's all stupid thinking. Small time thinking.
Look at it. We earn something in the vicinity of 10 cents per 1,000 page views. So to earn a buck you need 10,000 page views. A part time job would make you $10 an hour at the absolute bottom end. So to make the same from Yuwie as you'd make in a part time job you'd need to be generating 100,000 page views an hour. That's 1,600 a minute. Or 27 page views a second. And frankly, that's not anything someone is going to be doing any time soon.
So what it all boils down to is this... trying to increase page views with all the schemes of message trees, message replyings, sending comments with a couple of clicks, opening new windows and so on and so forth, is all small time nickel and dime stuff. Seriously it is.
I bet you wouldn't spend an hour working for someone for $1, would you? But if you get into these things that's what you're doing. You're making yourself a buck and the owner of Yuwie a buck. And in all reality, probably working for way less than $1 an hour. More like 10 cents an hour, if that even.
And after all is said and done, the more schemes that come out, the less workable it is to pay people. Because they are working the system - doing what they are being rewarded for. And Yuwie could easily just close the payment system down. Deem it unworkable, after it has a million members or so, and simply announce the end of paying people due to Abuse (any reason would be justified). And then where are all the people and their page hit schemes?
So wake up folks. Drop this Obsession with schemes to increase page views and use Yuwie as it was designed for - a Social Network. A place to Interact with others of like interest or like thinking. A place where your writing can be published for those who want to see it. A way to make contacts in places you didn't know existed. And a place to just hang out. Do that first... getting rewarded is the side benefit. | | Posted: 1/4/2008 at 02:11 | Read 445 times | 16 comments | Leave Comment |
| Scum - Mutha Facken Scum Of The Earth | Property Rights mean: what I earn, create, make, buy, trade for, inherit, already own and are given, is all my property an no person has a claim on it.
Any Infringement on this right is Wrong.
Well, last night I had two property rights infringements perpetrated upon my property...
# 1: My car was broken into. Not just a lock picked but the window Smashed so the Criminal could reach in and unlock the door.
# 2: They Stole something from within the car. They didn't rummage for anything other than the item they stole - my wallet containing close to $600 in cash. (I didn't know my wallet was in the car until the police asked to see my driving license and when I went back inside to get my wallet from its usual place, it was not there, so it Must have been in the car.)
The thing is, I am Suspect of the crime. You see, the overwhelming vast majority of crimes are not done completely randomly. They are, what I call, inside jobs. Which is to say, Inside/Previous Knowledge was had Before the crime was committed. In my case, the previous knowledge was that my wallet was in the car.
You see, the windows on my car are quite darkly tinted. And at night it is nigh on impossible to see in and make anything out. And certainly not a black wallet hidden amongst the park break and gear stick which are black and resting on a black mat. Also, this was the first time Ever I have left my wallet in the car. And so my conclusion is this...
Someone in the building I live in (A condo block) put trash in the bin (My car park is next to the bin). Whilst doing this during the daylight they saw my wallet and decided to come back later in the night when everyone was asleep, to take it.
And their actions tell me a LOT about them. For you see, they didn't know the wallet contained any money at all. It might have been empty of money and only contained my driving license and ATM card and firearms license. But, they willingly and on purpose and with forethought, destroyed my property (car's laminated window) with a tool (hammer, maybe) to gain access just to See if the wallet had any money. And that's what irks me.
No, I am not pleased I accidentally left my wallet in the car. The first time and I'm out $600 bucks. No, I am not pleased about having to spend half a day making phone calls to cancel licenses and get new cards issued and go visit locations to have new things issued. Those are inconvenient to say the least. What irks me is the Willing Destruction of Someone Else's Property on the Chance something could be gained by doing it.
My only pleasure is that the Perp might now think twice about doing something to my property as they know I own firearms. And they would be most unwilling to put my shooting skill to the test by entering my property.
If I should ever find out who did it - and I don't think it was random but someone in my Complex - then I can see their knees getting a baseball bat workover. For it is only such retaliation against the only property they semi value - their body - that scum like this understand.
Oh, no, it wasn't kids. The distance between the hole in the window and the door knob is too great for a child to reach. In fact, even the police officer who came to take finger prints could barely reach the door knob from the hole. So it was definitely an adult who knew better. But did it anyway. Scum. | | Posted: 12/28/2007 at 00:38 | Read 304 times | 11 comments | Leave Comment |
| Grow Your Own Psychic - Psychic Trickery Revealed | The other day I listened in as someone who Claims to be a psychic and who Claims to "see dead people" did a so-called live impromptu reading. I started to Count the number of Questions this "psychic" asked and stopped counting at around 30 questions. Questions I deem rather General and somewhat like Fishing for a Hit. Let me give you an example and then show you some more of how You can do the same.
First we start with a typical approach from so-called psychics...
Have you or anyone you know experienced or been subject to or been involved in in some way, a violent act against person or property that was either deliberate or accidental?
Let's break this down...
YOU is specific but "OR anyone you know" has just widened the Possibility (Of Getting a Hit) Net.
Experienced OR been subject to OR been involved in. The Net is getting wider.
A violent act. Nice net widening as that could be anything from a bar room fight, street mugging, any kind of assault, property destruction, car crash and so on.
Against person OR Property. So the net is getting Real wide now.
Either deliberate OR accidental. And now the net has been cast. It is so wide at this point I will say here and now that YOU, the person reading this, whomever you are, will answer YES to the above Fishing Question from the so-called psychic. And in so doing you won't answer just "Yes" - not that it would matter as the so-called psychic will ask more questions anyway to narrow it down - but will volunteer additional information. You might say... "Yes, my father was involved in a car crash and spent two weeks in hospital."
This is a Great Opening for the so-called psychic to now jump in with all kinds of Touchy Feely stuff - you were concerned, tears were shed, a lot of worrying, blah blah blah.
Another approach...
I'm getting May or the number 5. I can't quite zero in on it but it's 5 or May.
Break it down...
There are Only 12 months in the year and there is a good chance if you Think about it you will find something to match - could be the month someone was born, or any Event in the person's life. But if that doesn't ring any bells the fall back is the number - 5. As it has to do with months (they always pick months) then they only go as high as 12. 12 months and 12 numbers. That's 24 chances of a Hit on something. Again they cast their net wide to try to get a match. If they do... "Yes, my mother had five siblings" they can go on. Maybe they'll talk about sibling fights or disagreements (nothing new there, right) or similar. If the person being read is Older, then the siblings are more than likely in different states so that could be mentioned.
Another approach goes something like...
I'm picking up something in the chest area. Could be the lungs or the heart. It's definitely something around there maybe even a little higher or slightly lower.
Breaking this down...
Chest Area. Heart OR Lung. Could be heart palpitations, arrhythmia, actual heart problem, asthma, bronchitis, TB, chest injury. Slightly higher OR lower. Each time the word OR is used it widens the Possibility Net wider and wider.
Ok. Let me stop here for a moment and ask YOU to Think about things in your own life. I can Guarantee you will find someone in your life who has something about May or the number 5 in any way shape or form, who has or had some kinds of issues of the torso (which is what a chest area, slightly higher and lower is) and who has experienced accidental or deliberate damage to property or person. Might be a passed relative or some such. You can connect with this can't you?
Sure, some who Believe this so-called psychic will give them excuses such as "they are asking questions just for clarification". But they miss the point... the questions aren't clarifying anything because they are so wide and general and could apply to lots of people. And if they are truly in communication with a dead person and receiving information, then their reading should go like this...
"I am getting the person's name as Joe. He was your uncle and married to Betty. They had four children and you used to play a lot with their third child, Rebbecca."
In other words, providing hard information. Not wishy washy vague question asking.
The thing with the so-called psychics is, only people who are Emotionally Vulnerable visit them. Only those who Want to believe will visit them. So the so-called psychic has the edge from the beginning - they have a person Willing to ignore the misses and plain wrong guesses and provide excuses for the same while believing the vagueness as accurate psychic abilities.
Michael Shermer Proved that anyone could play the role of psychic by doing tarot, palm, astrology and even medium without any prolonged training. And you can read his complete article about it, and how one woman said it was the best reading she'd had in ten years, here: How to become a psychic in one day. (I can already hear the excuses for it now... he was just releasing the gift he already possessed.)
There is also a very interesting three part article called So, you wanna be a psychic ? Reading this three part series was like reliving the reading I listened to. The same Ploys were used. Ploys such as Month/Number I mentioned previously as well as things to do with the chest area. As if the so-called psychic had read the articles and then thought she could do the same thing.
As with before, I can already hear the excuses about it "being Intuition, which is a form of Psychic Power". So let me address that...
An older woman - say in the 70s - goes to a so-called psychic. Is it intuition to deduce that her husband has probably passed, she loves her grandchildren, and her husband had been in the war OR the family effected greatly by the war - or - is it deduced logic to come to those conclusions.
Try it a little yourself. Play with figuring out answers. Go to a real estate website and look at homes for sale. Look at the inside photos and see what you can deduce from what you see. Is there a loofer sponge in the bathroom? If so, pretty high probability there is a woman living there. What evidence, besides an outright photo of a child's bedroom, can be seen in other areas of the house that reveal a child lives there? It's a fun game to play and hurts no-one nor preys on their emotions, unlike self-proclaimed psychics. | | Posted: 12/15/2007 at 21:50 | Read 258 times | 2 comments | Leave Comment |
| MainStream Media - Propaganda, or, Just The Facts? | This is my entry for Blog Idol - check it out at http://clubs.yuwie.com/blogidol/ (club now closed)
The media is biased and has an agenda. Not an agenda which they all have a copy of and run everything by before they release it, but a General Agenda which seems to...
=> Gloss over anything Bad against Socialist Figures
=> Give Right Leaning people are Harder Time than Left Leaning people
=> Champion the cause of those who segregate themselves into groups and call themselves Minorities
=> Be Down on Big Business, Medium Business and even Small Business and anything to do with Capitalism
=> Be Anti-Progress (not "progressive" as has been adopted by the radical leftists who so name their asinine ideas of socialism and collective theft, but Progress as in terms of building, infrastructure and so on)
=> Be Anti-Christian and Pro-Muslim
=> And so on and so forth.
Of course, you'll need some Backing up. So let's start with this point...
There are around 6 billion people on this planet living in 200 or so countries and unknown towns and cities. And roughly 150,000 of those die each and every day. That being the case, how come the News seems to show so little of anything? And Who selects what it does show?
A kid gets his hand caught in a drain at school. Considering all that is going on in the world of 6 billion people, who selected That story over Everything else?
Some Muslim Iman has a Complaint about something. Who selects to show That instead of people on the street telling him to Get Over It - or - If You Don't Like It Leave - or - Why should we bow down to how You want it, why don't YOU get along - or - who cares what those idiots think who make their woman dress in black tents and hide away from the world - and so on and so forth as people on the street think? And who decided to show that, instead of something else entirely?
Something happens at a Christian Church. Who decides to show people on the street Bagging the Christians as Backwards? Who decides to show that instead of something else?
Why is it the Media Commentators during an Election will call Right Wing Announcements mere "Election Campaigning to Gain Votes" but Left Wing Announcements "Promises". Why will those same Talking Heads want proof of Right Wing Policies and harshly question the same, while Left Wing Policies are not questioned harshly? Why will they call Right Wing Spending "Buying Votes" and "Wild Spending" and other Adjectives, while Left Wing Spending is not deemed to be "Buying Votes" or "Wild Spending"?
Who decides that Mugabe's efforts in Zimbabwe to Strip private ownership of farms, kick farmers off their land, and give it to unproductive people, is not newsworthy? Who decides that Mugabe's socialism is not worth ripping to bits as plain old wrong?
Go to Google News and search for Right Wing Extremist and then Left Wing Extremist and notice the difference. Apparently, there are not Left Wing Extremists in the news. Despite the Lefties - as I call them - being behind Street Marches and Protests and other disruptions to production.
Obviously, someone is Selecting the News you will get to see. And not only that, but choosing which parts of the News you will get to see.
For instance, a woman buys a car from a car yard. It was a trade-in and not Ready to be sold. But she persisted and didn't want it to be made Ready with a warranty as that would have bumped up the price. She Wanted to buy it "As Is". Later, things went wrong and she was told she'd bought it "As is" and had even signed as such on the purchase agreement. She called the media about it and also complained some more to the seller. The seller, having had enough, got her to bring back the car, Upgraded her for free to a Better Car with Warranty and wished her farewell. She didn't tell the Media who subsequently Interviewed the Car Manager pleasantly. But when it aired... with Creative Editing, it made the manager out to be crook.
I have seen this first hand... the Original Reply and the Broadcast Edited Version. Where a simple answer to "You sold her a car without a warranty knowing it was faulty" of "Yes, and she knew of all its faults as we gave her a list and even have her signed acknowledgment of such but in the end we gave her a car at near Double the price with warranty for free" is broadcast as "Yes" so it looks like a brazen admission of fraud.
It is due to the media's duplicity that Henry Kissinger makes it a rule to Never do a TV interview unless it goes Live to air. This prevents Creative Editing later on to make what was said, seem like something else.
Recently, researchers in Canada made a Cancer Breakthrough where a simple, Non-Patentable digestion enhancing drug could kill cancer without nasty side effects. The media paid this no mind and gave no mention. Of course, the Big Pharmaceutical companies buy a Lot of advertising from them. So it makes Good Financial Sense for the media to not do things which harm their Golden Geese.
And speaking of media advertising... there is not one single place where out-and-out lies, half truths and Deliberate Implies can be seen, more than what's seen on the All Knowing Eye.
Recently, we've been seeing ads where different women talk about Pap Smear Tests and how they've decided to get the Anti-HPV Injections to Help Prevent cervical cancer. To the careful viewer, in Tiny Writing can be seen that this is an ad run by Big Pharma who makes the drug. The same from the Anti Impotence ads which stared famous soccer player Pelé. The same from a Toothpaste ad designed to harden your teeth's enamel.
And while the TV is just a Vehicle... it is up to the individual station owners to set their own standards. And those standards seem to follow a line... whatever can convince you you're not well and cannot make decisions for yourself and you don't own your own hard earned fruits of labor, is pushed by the Mainstream Media. Whatever hints at freedom is ignored or reported on in a downward manner. And while *I* and others like me can spot it clearly, the majority of people do not and are influenced by what they see and hear and read. | | Posted: 11/23/2007 at 02:47 | Read 195 times | 2 comments | Leave Comment |
| Humanity? Hardly Worth The Effort | There's a saying... "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink".
I have another one... "You can tell a person anything but you cannot make them think."
People are Sheep - Sheeple. A mindless mass that, while thinking itself mentally evolved, is dumber than dirt and Chooses to accept the Fantasies it grew up with in favor of a truth - any truth. And when I say "Dumb" I am not referring to Academic Intelligence or an ability to pass a Math Test or other Govt Approved Education. No. I am talking about the ability to Think, to Reason. To Deduce and Induce. To Conclude based on rational thought and logic. To have an independent thought that wasn't first put into their head by the media, politicians, lobby groups, religious leaders or by someone at work repeating gossip.
Without thinking rationally, we aren't too much better than any animal walking around on all fours. Sure we can communicate and share ideas and concepts with that communication. Sure we can operate heavy machinery and the like. But what truly sets us apart is our ability to Think. To create in our mind and then make real. And to figure out truth from fiction. To look at our own actions and determine if they are best, and to decide that Rationally.
When faced with such a small way to define ourselves you'd think it easy to see it present in all Humanity. But you do not. Most Want to keep hold of their Ignorance. Most do not question, themselves let alone anything else. And if a point is raised that would cause a thought in their head, they remark how Odd you are, that you don't get out much, need a different hobby, or some other remark to avoid having to think themselves.
And when the masses blindly accept things without their own thinking, and the accepting has a detrimental effect on all and they do it any way, then I give up on humanity. And I think, humorously, I must have been abducted by Aliens and accidentally replaced on Stupid Earth in the Stupid Dimension instead of Thinking Earth where they took me from.
Is there a cure for Them?
Yep. To remove themselves from the Mob. To Stop socializing at the coffee shop and weekend parties all the time. To Isolate themselves from society. Avoid the newspaper and the TV News. Toss the Gossip Mags. Etc. This will Begin to free their mind to think on its own accord. Of course, one side effect will see them also give up on humanity HA!
But Alas, humanity will Not change. They will not Come To Their Senses. The all knowing eye grows larger and larger by the year. Watching time increases. Thinking time decreases. And things will be as they have been for quite a long time. A read of the 1841 classic, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness Of Crowds (it's free) should dispel any idea that humanity, as a group, can change. "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one!"
Galileo and Copernicus know too well what the Mob Mind can do. And how resistant it was to new ideas that could set it free of a flat Earth at the center of the Solar System.
Those killed by the Spanish Inquisition also know how Insane groups can be with a Group Mindless Mind.
Look at the Muslim suicide Bombers. More delusion group mind brainwashing UnThink from them.
And on and on it goes. From extreme at the one end to mild at the other. But it is there. Insidious. Infecting everyone who allows themselves to be infected and effected.
But don't expect a change. People won't change... because... what would their friend's think? | | Posted: 11/3/2007 at 03:01 | Read 272 times | 6 comments | Leave Comment |
| The Importance of Future Value | Future Value is the idea that, I have a future - and - as a result of
that idea, that I can enhance my future for when it comes around. That
I can take action Now for a Future Benefit.
This Simple Concept
is what a Farmer operates under. An Investment in Crop Sewing now for a
Future Crop Reaping Reward later on. The farmer thinks he has a Future
and is willing to spend Now Time, Now Money and Now Effort for the
reward to come later. A reward which will enhance his future with an
abundance of food and some money which can be invested into other
Future Reward Programs - more crop sewing as well as monetary
investments.
If you are paying off a home, or Saving for a
Deposit, or Saving for anything, or working towards anything, you too
believe you have a Future and are devoting some of your Now Time, Now
Effort and Now Money towards that end.
A little-known part of
Future Value is its Intrinsic Link to Capitalism. As much as a
Socialist or Collectivist likes to think or wish otherwise, those
Socialist/Collectivist systems Deprive people of a Sense of Future. Why
work and save and whatnot, when I can Own nothing and therefore not
enhance My Future in any way, shape or form?
Capitalism, on the
other hand, is All about Future Value. The Free Exchange of Values we
Possess, creates a system where we strive for Future Rewards. We
exchange our Now Time, Now Money and Now Effort for something we deem
of Value to us - Money. We then exchange the Value of money for Goods
and Services where we deem the Good or Service has Equal or More Value
- to us - than the money we exchange for it. A "Value For Value
Exchange".
If we did not believe we had a future, we would not
spend years getting a Degree or Trade Qualification or learning an
instrument in the Hopes of a Reward in the future. We'd spend no time
increasing our skill set or learning new things. We'd spend all our
money doing what we wanted, when we wanted, and would most likely not
even bother getting a job and would live on welfare. There would be no
roads built for Future population growth, no buildings built to house
the people or businesses which will come in the future. There would be
no products made for people to use. Because no money would be spent
with the idea of Waiting for the payoff. Progress would halt.
We'd
become little more than subsistence societies. Which would eventually
either Wake Up to the idea of Future Value - or - would simply diminish
until we vanished altogether. Leaving nothing more than tribal types
who hunt and gather what is available as is needed. Relying, like all
other animals, on the fortune, or lack of, of mother nature to provide.
The
sense, idea, concept of Future Value is what keeps us in inside running
warm water, comfortable clothes, advanced medical treatment - and -
dwellings with more Mod-Cons than the Royals of Medieval Europe had
just a short 200 years ago. | | Posted: 9/11/2007 at 17:21 | Read 206 times | 1 comment | Leave Comment |
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