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Monsanto {Documentary}

Intro:
There is much that could be said about this, but I will let you watch the video for yourself.
Its quite long, so pull back a chair, get something to drink and munch on and relax.

If you find it a bit dry at first it will pick up toward the end when they start talking about India & Mexicos corn, etc. The first part gives you more of a background into the company itself.

When you watch the bit about the Mexican corn and how N.A.F.T.A. affects this, (well with Monsanto, of course), you will be surprised.

Mexico & India:
In fact put that info with the fact that in India they (farmers) have to buy cotton seed basically from only Monsanto - as Monsanto has bought up most, if not all, of the major seed suppliers to farmers - not only do they have to buy this seed that grows with pesticide genetically engineered into it…(Im not against science or genetic engineering, but chemicals, pesticides in the plant? Science is a tool only…neither good nor bad. It is only that which the hand that wield it cause it to be. And in my view point, Monsanto is on the ‘bad’ path. My thought would be to understand nature & its benefits fully before trying to play god with plants turning colors…potatoes…and plants having pesticides in them…cotton…etc.)

Control: Ownership of the worlds food supply
So as you see, the problem isnt only with what they are selling, but they are owning nature.
You buy their seeds, you cannot collect it for planting for the next year. (This is tradition.) And they are ruthless if they think that you kept the seed for next years harvest. - Again, not that I would ever want to have their seed in my field…fact is many dont, and organic farmers have either come close to, or have been shut down by Monsanto because of these ‘false flags’ saying the organic farmer had Monsantos patented seed on their farm lots. What? Monsanto is the reason they went organic.

Revelations:
Ah, where was I?
Anyway, as you watch this video think of Revelations where it says no one “will buy or sell without the mark…” - well, make that “no one will buy or sell except Monsantos seeds”.

This whole fear/greed based mentality needs to come to a halt. It is self-destructive and companies like Monsanto is driving society into a mess. Well, they would like to think into their hands so that they control all that happens and thus retain power. But I see differently, people are waking up to a lot of the non-sense in the world and that type of fear/greed based mentalities time is up.

So without further ado, here is the link:

Peace

dAlen

Quotable Quotes

“…still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.” - Simon & Garfunkel

Abortion & the Religious ‘right’ (another piece of the classic Christian series)

Defining me by not defining me: (Intro)
It will be interesting, as people cannot live without their illusion of good and bad, light and dark.
In short they cannot live except in one extreme of duality, they ignore all the grades that take them from one step to another.

{Funny quantum mechanics have electrons popping in and out of existence, not traveling any linear form that we would recognize. This too is how the religious ‘right’, of any religion, traverse duality and keep the illusion of superiority of those that they subdue through their judgments.}

So in short, there will be those who read this that will try to box me in one category or the other. Some will feel they have enough based on what little I have already said, to ‘properly label me’ and thus color what I say through a certain set of preconceived filters that they have.

What do I have to say? So be it. As John Lennon {Or was it Paul?} said: “Let it be Let it be”…in this case its: “Let them be, Let them be”. What I have to write about is just my own musings…spread out over a period of time, connecting here and there - and to the observer I might seem like those electrons that pop from place to place…totally baffling the observer.

Politics & Abortion
So republicans are anti-abortion and democrats are ‘pro’ it would seem in this dualistic world.
Classical Christians align themselves with Jesus’ government the republicans (The better of two evils…but then again, as I said before, Im not sure Jesus would try to bring a kingdom on earth. I mean, didn’t Judas and the zealots get pi**ed for Jesus refusing to over throw Rome and establish a kingdom on earth. Oh, what does it matter, Jesus was wrong and Republicans are “right”.)

Politics & War & Abortion
In dualism we do not see the hypocrisy that comes with.

Democrats are labeled pro abortion and anti war.
So if you survive being killed in your mothers womb, you dont have to worry about them killing you later.

Republicans on the other hand, seem to want you to be born so they can kill you off later.
It would seem that the anti-abortion stance is so they can raise you and your kids up, just to later have them kill each other off in wars. Or better yet, torture you with stun guns, electric rays, and whatever other nice torture devices they may have.

But lets not kid ourselves. Im sure that both parties really have a common sadistic goal, its just that they spit off so much lies left and right that one has a hard time looking at what really is going on. {Which is? Oh, yeah, that Jesus didn’t support having a government on earth or rather pushing his way on the world.}

Anarchy?
“Ah, your an anarchist!”
“Ah, your wrong!”…heheh. This isn’t about me and what ’sides’ I take. Im an observer of the mess going on in the world and choose not to get caught up in it. {You to have that option, but I think you prefer the drama more, or you would drop it.}

See, anarchy is yet another mess…in fact anything that is sought as a solution from without and in the future is going to lead to pain. Why? Because you cannot live and rejoice in the moment that you have - Now. (The Power of Now/New Earth, Eckhart Tolle - Ramdas has something about ‘Now’).

Moses & ‘I Am’
“ooohhh, ‘eastern gurus’ - your one of them!”
Again, “I am that I am!” hehe. There is a lot one could learn about this one simple statement God made a few thousand years ago. See the people of his time wanted details…they wanted stories…wanted to know the juicy in-and-outs of things.

“Who is this ‘God’. How can we worship it? What image can we make of it?”

Well, God is ‘infinite’ and ‘unknowable’. {Not cause he doesn’t want to be known…but ‘thought’ cannot know that which is higher and bigger than it is. Unlike what thought would have you believe, it is not the be all end all. It is a minor tool that is actually the ‘possessor’ of many people.}

God told Moses, “Look dude, there is no need to make a story here…no need to have a name. Im Flexible. I just am. Im not a label, Im not something you can attach a picture to and ‘know’ me and ‘judge me’ and ‘confine me’ within your limited thought process. No Moses, Im on top of all that, and you can be too…”

So Moses walks away and later in time he notices them making idols, etc. and he thought, “what a bunch of dimwits’, ‘what the h*** am I wasting time for?’ So he throws the tablets down and makes up rules. Rules are made so that it protects humanity against itself. The people were not yet ready to let “God dwell amongst them” and needed “a king like the neighbors”.

You catch where Im coming from? See past the words Im using to where they are pointing to? Can you pick out pieces and feel inside that which is truth that you recognize because truth is ‘within us all’? {His arm is not to short that it cannot save…He is the creator of all…He is not ‘far’ from us.}

Wrapping Up:
As usual, dont get rankled at what I wrote and take it to serious. {Or rather dont take it as a personal attack that you must defend. You can, but thats your choice if that is your game…its not mine.} The point of the writing is more to have fun, stir up the truth that we all have, so that it floats to the top and we start looking past the front of our noses to that which is out there. Its called time to live.

So instead of voting party line, remember they are both messed up. They both have as much good as bad. And the truth, is they are both the same. And even more, they both represent who YOU are. This is really important to know. Government exist as long as we live in ‘unconsciousness’. It is really a reflection of human nature and human thought. We create it, as we create the game of duality around us.

What would Jesus do:
Its just my feeling about this, but I think from what I read about Jesus’ actions, that he would not focus on changing people…but by changing oneself by drawing closer to God. How is this done? Through stillness. Its that simple. “Dont seek the truth, just cease to cherish opinions” - Zen. (Who you are beyond the mind emerges by itself - Eckhart Tolle)

Again, this is all quickly written down…no specific ’structure to it’, so I hope you enjoyed.

Peace

dAlen

You are in a Matrix (you are not you)

This was originally going to be a reply to someone about the use of DMT in religion.
Its a post I made at an alternative topic website back in October of 2006.
If you want you can follow the thread here

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I stated there, as I will here, that I have not experimented with any illegal drugs…
(the discussion in the other thread was concerning DMT and how it is also found naturally in the brain as well as in plants, but I will leave that topic for the other forum, except to say that my experience seemed to be a “natural” DMT experience produced by my own body)

not your normal experience…I can promise you this. I will repeat the story briefly.

I had been doing a lot of meditation while listening to Eckhart Tolle.
The lights were off, it was night time, and I was FULLY AWARE and AWAKE (this is not lucid dreaming) I laid on the floor, closed my eyes for literally a few seconds, and then I found myself looking at the plant on the desk beside me. (I was on the floor and instantly up, in other words I “projected” as it were, myself from the laying down postion to upright.)
I observed the plant and desk as it was interesting how I could see it in detail while laying down…my ability to imagine things, let alone in detail, are not grand at all.
So then I turned to walk toward the door, and before getting to the door I stopped. (This is not lucid, again, it was not a tired, shut my eyes and doze off scene…all my senses were there, but I was on the floor and off of it… anyway) At the door, I decided to stop (something happened, which I will not say as its for me to ponder to help me figure out what happened.)
But after the something happened I decided to “lay back down” I did NOT lay down, I decided, and I felt myself from feet away all of a sudden “sucked back” I was on the floor without going back by walking. Now at this point something wierd happened, which is harder to explain.
All my feelings before this happened and while it happened, were the same consistent, no breaks, as if it all happened in this realm of reality without sleeping, etc.
But now, there was a break…the whole reality of me left…period…I was “drawn” (bad description, but hey it works) or pulled up to something that was beyond me, but yet a thread of something (fear, I admit), a needle worth, pulled me back and then I was aware of DAlen again.
It was so brief, but I realized an apparent truth as it reltates to the experience…that the reality I was in was just one version of any multiple realities that I so chose…but not I…for this reality was as fake as the rest. The only thing that separated it was that “I” or the person “higher than me” chose to play this role more. I dont know who this I is, but I know that who you would see typing this and also the thoughts of my mind, is not the real “me” as I became aware of in this experience. (Can be quite humbling to realize that our mind is tricking us to make this huge ego.
Brings up another concept about death. Everyone is so attached to who they are that they make up religions to make sure they continue to exist as who they are.)

Then I opened my eyes.
This took me by surprise. Had I known it would happen, I would have thought, “o.k. tell my wife to observe me to see what she sees…can she see this, is she affected by this “reality”, or for her would it appear it took place soley in my mind, etc.

Since then I have been ever so curious to repeat it…Alas, time has passed, and no experience.

peace

dAlen

Dutch Plan to Build Tulip Shaped Island

clipped from blog.wired.com Executing on a Parliamentary commission, a Dutch agency has put together a plan to build a 247,000 acre island off the coast of their country in the shape of a tulip. The project would follow in the dubious tradition of Dubai’s The Palm and The World island building schemes.

By the way, the poster of the article seems to be concerned that this will damage the environment. As many of the comments below the authors article pointed out: No it wont damage the environment - or lets just say nature destroys itself or is constantly changing and reforming. How is this any worse? Perhaps we should go green first with our cars and all start walking before we complain about an island being built.

Peace

dAlen