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Similar to the Eight Sided STOP Sign but... 

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Somehow, I feel that using an AI Content Generator to Write my Blog is Wrong. My Readers Deserve to Read My Own Words... I tried using a Blog writing program and YES... IT DID WORK... but I'm going to continue to Generate Text the Old Fashioned Way...

"Take Drugs and Type Like Crazy!" - That Technique worked for Philip K Dick, Edgar Allen Poe, Jack Kerouac and Lewis Carroll and... uh... Wait a Minute... I'll think of something to say in a minute... duh... OH YEAH! That's Good Enough for me!


The real trick for Blog Writing is to Post TEXT that is not published elsewhere on the web... ORIGINAL WORDS... and The Google Search Engine Defines Original Words as Text that it can't find ON THE WEBSITES IT HAS SEARCHED... Well... There is NO Evidence that it Searches FaceBorg... SO... Copying and Pasting Paragraphs that I Have FOUND HERE... is All Original Text... and WORTHY...

and always remember to include at least one Picture... Readers Love Pictures! and They have a Tendency to CLICK on Pictures... and TEXT that is Embedded in a Picture is NOT Read by the GoogleBot... so Plagiarism is Not Noticed! For Example: This Timothy Leary Quote...

and CSH Said:
Be brave. Write on!

ALSO... It's interesting to read my words years later... and Modify the Blog Posts as I Learn and Conditions change... I wrote an Entire Novel that Quickly Became totally out of Date! It was all about Eco-Warriors that traveled Across the Country to Assassinate President Donald Trump... Well, Once he became "The Former Guy" That book Became Dated... So I Added a Disclaimer at the Beginning! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-violet-overgrow-by-gregory.html

It was interesting to do research for that novel... I wanted to know IF a sniper could hit the President if he was in the Rose Garden and the Sniper was Standing on the Roof of a 15th Street Building... YES HE CAN! The Internet has Information about the RANGE of Sniper Rifles and Google Maps allow people to Measure Distances! [SPOILER ALERT] - In My Novel, The Assassin Was Unsuccessful because the Secret Service Guards standing on the Roof of the White House SHOT FIRST and Killed the Sniper before he made the shot... What an Excellent PLOT TWIST!

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Reading the News Today:
I was Motivated to Say...DEFUND the Space Force... The Chances that Earth will be Invaded by Aliens in Flying Saucers is Remote... and They would be so far advanced that ATTACKING Extra Terrestrials would be a VERY BAD IDEA!

https://warontherocks.com/2023/09/its-not-about-where-u-s-space-command-goes-but-whether-it-should-exist-at-all/

Great Books that Everyone Should Read - Just to Help You Understand What's Happening in the World Today. Insight & Wisdom - Free at the Library!

1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Monkey Wrench Gang - Ed Abbey
The Four Agreements - don Miguel Ruiz
Remember, Be Here Now - Ram Dass

Start with these Five Books... They Explain a Lot... Continue With These Classics!

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Silent Spring - Rachael Carson
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate
Alice in Wonderland
Thru the Looking Glass
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Whole Earth Catalog
Treasure Island
The Old Man and the Sea
Moby Dick
Robinson Crusoe
The Count of Monte Cristo
Don Quixote
Steal this Book
Revolution for the Hell of It
I, Robot
Foundation
Caves of Steel
Grapes of Wrath
Tortilla Flat
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
The Man in the High Castle
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
Still Here
The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Around the World in 80 Days
Stranger in a Strange Land
Slaughterhouse Five
Cat's Cradle
Don Juan, a Yaqui Way of Knowledge
America's Bogus Wars
The Violet Overgrow (an Eco-Warriors's Journey)

The Great Gadsby
The Armies of the Night
Trout Fishing in America
Island
The Psychedelic Experience
Fahrenheit 451
The Doors of Perception
Ender's Game
The Cult of Cthulhu
Dune
Chariots of the Gods?
Autobiography of a Yogi
Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
All Quiet on the Western Front
Catch 22

Everything By Edgar Allen Poe... Steven King...
and...

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds...

Just for FUN... Write Your Own List and Post it on Your Own Blog... or FaceBorg... It's a worthy Exercise in Self Introspection!

If there are any Classics I Forgot, Email Me at gregvan(at)yahoo(dot)Com



Bookshelf of Great Books - Classics Library

and then on FaceBorg SC Posted:

Can you remember the time when you were lying on the floor, cushy earphones against your ears, listening to The Who's keyboard solo fly through your brain from your right ear to the left and back again? Your consciousness standing stock still, with its mouth ajar, just being present with the music?

Can you remember summer nights, running with bare feet, clutching a glass jar and trying to catch fireflies as the adults pack up the floats and picnic debris into the station wagon? And, if you were lucky, riding home in that station wagon sitting in the rear, back-facing seat with a sweet exhaustion taking away everything but being right here, right now?

Do you remember going under that scraggly crabapple, grabbing that stringent fruit and chomping on it as you ran through the wood?. Galloping on the path that you, along with the boys next door, created with your pounding feet? The sure sensation that your stride keeps getting longer, and longer, until you are literally flying ten, fifteen, twenty feet between footfalls?

Can you remember the feeling you had in these moments? Can you re-live it? The awe of discovery? The state of satisfaction? The inner peace?

My childhood was wonderful! I wish I would have known it wasn't going to last. I wouldn't have been in such a hurry growing up.

and then I read on Rhoney Stanley's Faceborg Page: 

"RIP Robert Hunter Robert C. Christie Hunter born Robert Burns June 23, 1941 – September 23, 2019 Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead Collaborator and Lyricist, Dead at 78 One of rock’s most ambitious and dazzling lyricists was literary counterpoint to the band’s musical experimentation Robert Hunter, the poet and writer who provided the Grateful Dead with many of their vivid and enduring lyrics, died Monday night. He was 78. No cause of death was provided. “It is with great sadness we confirm our beloved Robert passed away yesterday night,” Hunter’s family announced in a statement. “He died peacefully at home in his bed, surrounded by love. His wife Maureen was by his side holding his hand. For his fans that have loved and supported him all these years, take comfort in knowing that his words are all around us, and in that way his is never truly gone. In this time of grief please celebrate him the way you all know how, by being together and listening to the music. Let there be songs to fill the air.” Considered one of rock’s most ambitious and dazzling lyricists, Hunter was the literary counterpoint to the band’s musical experimentation. His lyrics — heard in everything from early Dead classics like “Dark Star” and “China Cat Sunflower” and proceeding through “Uncle John’s Band,” “Box of Rain,” “Scarlet Begonias,” and “Touch of Gray”— were as much a part of the band as Jerry Garcia’s singing and guitar. 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/827697624708372/user/1454394581

https://doubleblindmag.com/meet-rhoney-stanley-underground-lsd-chemist-behind-the-60s-psychedelic-revolution/

Rhoney Stanley, underground chemist of the 1960s, cultural icon, and psychedelic pioneer, shares stories from the early days with her partner, mentor, and LSD chemist Owsley "Bear" Stanley, The Grateful Dead, and their heartfelt mission behind promoting psychedelics for transcendence and universal consciousness.

Free Psychedelic Art... Go Ahead and Pirate these Images... Use 'em to Make Decorated Gifts at Zazzle... or to Spice up a Webpage or Blog. Have Fun!

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There has Been a LOT of Mockery of Christianity and the Rapture recently on FaceBorg... 

Joe Blow Posted:

I’ve got some questions…

So, did the rapture happen 24 separate times? Does the rapture happen at midnight GMT or midnight in Jerusalem? What if you were heading East and just missed the rapture in the eastern time zone and by the time you get to that time zone the one to the west is rapturing and you miss it, do you get a rapture Rain check? When you’re raptured do you leave your clothes or do they get raptured with you? What if your clothes were sinful but you weren’t, would your clothing hold you back? What if you got your clothes from a thrift shop and the person who originally bought the clothes was sinful? Is there a brand of soap that’s better at getting sin out of clothing over others? Do banks accept being raptured for missing a payment? What if you were on the toilet as the rapture was happening? Is there a check in Procedure in Heaven Once you’re raptured? Why don’t priests and nuns ever get raptured? Why don’t raptures ever happen on a Sunday? Does the rapture happen instantaneously or do you ascend slowly? How slowly? Can you control the assent? Can you fly around for a bit as you ascend or do you just go straight up into Heaven? What if a plane gets in the way? What if a plane is being flown by a pilot being ascended? Does the pilot drag the plane with him? Do animals get raptured? At what point do these predictions become obviously fake? Has anyone, aside from Jesus, ever actually been raptured? Would Blondie’s song “Rapture” be eligible to be raptured? When you’re being raptured, does it make any sound? As you are ascending, does it get colder as you rise in the air? What happens if you are struck by lightning while being raptured? Is there an orientation class to get familiar with Heaven once I’m raptured? Does Heaven come with a map? Let’s say that there is someone who you really don’t want to see in heaven, how would that work? Could you paint lamb’s blood over your doorway that prevents you from being raptured? Can you put lamb’s blood over the doorway of someone else’s doorway and prevent them from being raptured? Do you age in Heaven? Do you still have to brush your teeth in Heaven? Does ice cream melt in Heaven? What if you like melted ice cream, would it only melt for you in Heaven? Wait… why is Jesus coming? I thought we were going to see him?!? Wouldn’t it be better to say, we’re coming?

I’m beginning to think that this is as poorly thought out way too reward people!

and then... 

“When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the big bang, so there is no time for god to make the universe in. It’s like asking directions to the edge of the earth; The Earth is a sphere; it doesn’t have an edge; so looking for it is a futile exercise. We are each free to believe what we want, and it’s my view that the simplest explanation is; there is no god. No one created our universe,and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization; There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I am extremely grateful.”

― Stephen Hawking

DIY: Drawing with a Pen or Pencil. How to Make a Hexagon Drafting Template out of a Paper Plate. Handy for Drawing All Varieties of Six Sided Artworks... For Example: a Peace Sign, Star of David Or a Snowflake... and... How to Draw the Flower of Life...

Fold the Paper Plate in HALF, then IN THIRDS... 

Clip Edges and Center with Dikes... 
unfold and trace at will.

The Template Automatically Provides 
Locations at 60 and 120 Degree Angles. 
Use a Ruler to Connect the Dots 
and A Star of David Appears.

   

How to Draw Lesson. The Flower of Life... 

Use a Lid from a Fast Food Restaurant with a Hole in the Center for a Straw... 

Trace The Fast Food Soda Cup Lid to Draw a Circle. Place the Center Hole of the Lid On The Circle you just drew and Draw Another Circle. Where the Circles Intersect, Place the Center Hole of The Lid. Draw another Circle. Keep on doing that!

OR... You Can Use a Compass. Draw a Circle... Put The Point of the Compass On The Circle... Draw another Circle. Where those Two Circles Cross, Put the Point of the Compass and Draw another Circle... Keep on Doing that... 

You Can Draw an Infinite Array of Interlocking Circles and Slivers Made By Arcs... Some Look Like a FISH... 

   

peace sign felt pen pencil drawings 

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Detail

Merkaba

roy g biv
Mr bean wearing a hat with flying saucer and waving aliens

Pyramid Power Screenshot

Buttons at My Zazzle Webstore... When I Wanted a Gift, I Chose These Four Buttons - Small Size - 1 and 1/4 Inch... Total Bill was Less than $10.00 - Plus $6.29 Shipping and $1.23 Tax...

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How to fix the Waiting for Edge Chat error in the Farmville Game. DELETE COOKIES, RESTART GAME. and tips for playing Farmville.

In Google Chrome: Delete History/Clear Browsing Data prevents the error message from appearing... I keep the Passwords only...

Be aware that you will have to sign in again to all the websites you like... but the passwords will be stored, so that's easy to do... be aware that this is a temporary fix... I have to do it every time I want to play Farmville... and I have read that this infection happens on all games.

I Check EVERYTHING except passwords... 

A simple way to avoid annoying error messages on the computer is to put a piece of paper over the location of the message... often while I play Farmville, it says "waiting for edge chat facebook com" ... because the game is failing to connect with something I don't care about... the message is always in the lower left hand corner of the screen... so, a piece of paper folded in half removes that message from my sight...

Optional: Run Disk Cleanup... Good to do Occasionally... 

When I run Disk Cleanup... I select My Files Only, 

Drive C: OK... OK... Are You Sure? Delete Files.

deleting unnecessary files from my computer. 

Sometimes the error message will re-appear days later... so once again I delete history in Google Chrome... everything except passwords and the message stops appearing...


 https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050?hl=en

Clear cache and cookies

Cookies, which are files created by websites you’ve visited, and your browser’s cache, which helps pages load faster, make it easier for you to browse the web.

Clearing your browser’s cache and cookies means that website settings (like usernames and passwords) will be deleted and some sites might appear to be a little slower because all of the images have to be loaded again.

How to clear cache and cookies in Google Chrome.
Open Chrome.
On your browser toolbar, click the Chrome menu Chrome menu.
Click More tools > Clear browsing data.
In the box that appears, click the checkboxes for "Cookies and other site and plug-in data" and "Cached images and files."
Use the menu at the top to select the amount of data that you want to delete. Choose beginning of time to delete everything.
Click Clear browsing data.

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Waiting for:
0-edge-chat.facebook.com
1-edge-chat.facebook.com
2-edge-chat.facebook.com
3-edge-chat.facebook.com
4-edge-chat.facebook.com
5-edge-chat.facebook.com
6-edge-chat.facebook.com