Most People FAIL To do anything to Stop Causing Climate Change... Expect More Disasters! The Hurricane in SoCal Over... Not Much Damage... Some Flooding but MY Family Wasn't Harmed... I was Worried...

a friend and I were Discussing the Climate Change Protest at Burning Man... 

I Said: I think a climate protest at Burning Man is a Bad Idea... It seems to me that we are doomed to experience worse and worse climate and there is NO HOPE... So Why Cause a disturbance when we are DOOMED?
The people that Drive Cars and the People That Fly in Jet Airplanes are Continuing to Drive and Fly more than ever before... and THOSE Actions are what's Causing Climate Change...

She Replied: Well, I’m such nature lover and nomadic homebody (I know, it makes no sense🤨). I dislike big crowds for any reason. Especially, those that bring disruption and destroy the natural environment, even the tiniest of eco-systems. And for sure, the Burning Man event destroys all kinds of natural things of various sizes.

I think wind turbines and solar panels are destructively unacceptable for the planet/ environment and electric cars are as well— for all the earth and eco-systems destroyed through mining for all that’s required and the power and space it takes to manufacture them. Solar panels too, destroy vast areas land full of eco systems and they are only good for a few years at a time before they have to be replaced. Its a lose, lose idea. So even if that’s all there was, was EVs to drive and we used way less fossil fuels, we are still destroying the planet by a billion-other cuts. Human life is the only life destroying this planet and all other life on it. We are unsuitable and should get the hell outta here!

and I Replied: 

WELL... This email is truly sad... with no hope for the future... I agree... everything looks like the quality of life is going to get worse until I'm Dead... then it will continue to get worse but I won't Know about it or Care...

Since the Vast Majority of people refuse to reduce the amount of gasoline they burn... and our entire civilization REQUIRES cars and trucks for survival... and the "Jet Set" is still flying like crazy... Even my own family continues to destroy the climate...

The only thing we can really do is to live in a place that is unlikely to be destroyed by climate Change...

I feel that Orangevale (near Sacramento, CA) is Unlikely to BURN or FLOOD... Even if we Had a Wildfire, the Local Fire department would be able to put it out... before it burned my house down... and I'd go swim in our creek until the fire had burned everything... and anyway... I have a Bag Packed and I'm a renter so... I'd just go live in San Francisco or Eureka...

My Family Lives near the Coast of California... a great Place to Live to survive Climate Change... San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Eureka... and Of these Places... only San Diego is Having Hurricanes... But my cousin had to evacuate from a Wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains... However, if his Cabin burned down, he can just go live with his girlfriend... permanently...

80% of the USA is in Danger from Climate Change... and SO MANY are "Climate Change Deniers" and they Refuse to Learn... or take action... to save their own lives...

We are taking some action but NOT ENOUGH... Solar Panel and Windmills are a Good Idea... Electric Cars are a Good Idea... but it's too little too damn late...  

On 8/17/2023 I said: "Possible Hurricane in California Next Week. A Foot of Rain Predicted... Climate Change has Made The Weather on Planet Earth Bizarre!"

Hurricane Hilary 2023: 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2023/08/17/hurricane-hilary-2023-path/70610221007/

The hurricane could potentially bring “significant impacts” to parts of the Baja California Peninsula and the Southwestern United States this weekend, including rainfall of up to 12 inches in the Southern California mountains, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Hurricane Hilary could be first tropical storm to hit California in 84 years...

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4156774-hurricane-hilary-could-be-first-tropical-storm-to-hit-california-in-84-years/

How climate change makes hurricanes more destructive...

https://www.edf.org/climate/how-climate-change-makes-hurricanes-more-destructive

As our climate warms, we’re experiencing stronger winds, higher storm surges and record rainfalls during hurricane season — which is also why these storms are becoming more destructive and costly. Evaporation intensifies as temperatures rise, and so does the transfer of heat from the oceans to the air. As the storms travel across warm oceans, they pull in more water vapor and heat.

That means stronger wind, heavier rainfall and more flooding when the storms hit land.

https://www.edf.org/get-involved

NASA: A Force of Nature: Hurricanes in a Changing Climate. 

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3184/a-force-of-nature-hurricanes-in-a-changing-climate/

and Now for Something Completely Different... Jokes!

Apple Puzzle - With Two Solutions - an Opportunity to Truly "Think Outside the Box" 

Answer: Line up the apples, make one knife stroke cutting each apple into two pieces with 2/3rds on one side of the cut and 1/3rd on the other side of the cut. Distribute... 

Alternative Answer:  Murder one of the people in the picture. The remaining two get a whole apple each. 

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Lake Shore Drive Traffic Sign

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What Can I Do to Beat Trump? Here Are Some Easy Actions!

If You Have Money, Donate Money to Democratic Campaigns... Like This One...

Donate to reelect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
OK... The Vast Majority of Us Do Not Have Money to Give Away But... It Costs NOTHING To Post Anti-Trump Memes on Social Media... CLICK HERE for a Huge Pile of Memes!

I Post to 16 Different Sites Every Day... Facebook, Wordpress, Gab, Mastodon, Minds, Post.News, DeviantArt, LinkedIn, MeWe, Tribel, Tumblr, Getter, Occupy, Instagram, Twitter and Flipboard...

What if Every Day On Every Platform Every Trumpanzee was Faced with THE TRUTH about their Criminal Loser???

Remember to Include some words About How Trump was the Worst President Ever... For Example: Over a Million Americans Died from COVID. It WAS NOT a "Democratic Hoax" Like Trump Said!

Everyone Says Trump Was The Worst President Ever... However...

George Bush The Son was an American Idiot TOO... 9/11 Happened on His Watch... and Then He Started TWO Insane Wars Killing Thousands of American Soldiers... and the USA PATRIOT ACT: Pure Evil... and Wrote a $700 Billion Check to Wall Street when They Failed in 2008... Free Money that the The US Government Created From Nowhere... Like a Magician Pulling a Rabbit out of a Hat...

Richard Nixon allowed the Vietnam War to Continue for FOUR MORE YEARS. He Campaigned on Ending the War in 1968 but Failed to Surrender until 1973... Killing Thousands of American Soldiers...

Ronald Reagan Sold Weapons to Terrorists... He Helped Saddam Hussein become President of Iraq... Blew up Nicaragua... and Started the Disastrous "War On Drugs" which has filled American Prisons with Millions of Black and Brown Men but did not actually reduce drug use...

Yes, It's True that Republicans are the Worst Presidents Ever... but don't forget Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld... They did Evil for Decades...

What If Gen XYZ Take Over the Government.
Throw OUT all the Old People and Elect a New
Generation to Lead... This HAS to Happen Eventually...
What About 2024?

I Don't Know the Names of any Young People Except: David Hogg 

& Emma Gonzalez (March For Our Lives)... and He would Make a 

Great President... But He's only 23 Years Old... and She's 24... 

They Can't be President YET...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hogg
or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Gonz%C3%A1lez



Greta Thunberg is also a Powerful Political Leader... 

But She's Not an American... She Can't be President...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg

Elon Mush Cannot Run For President Because He was Born in 

South Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

Mark Zuckerberg CAN Run for President. Over 35 Years Old 

and Born in the USA... Now THAT'S a Scary Thought!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg

The Only Other Name I Know is Taylor Swift (a Singer/Songwriter) 

I Wonder IF She would be Interested in Running for Office? She's 

33 Years Old so too Young for 2024 but NOT too young for 2028.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift

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Baby Boomers were born between 1946 and 1964. They're 

currently between 57-75 years old (71.6 million in the U.S.)

Gen X was born between 1965 and 1979/80 and is currently 

between 41-56 years old (65.2 million people in the U.S.)

Gen Y or Millennials, were born between 1981 and 1994/6. They 

are currently between 25 and 40 years old (72.1 million in the U.S.)

Gen Z is the newest generation, born between 1997 and 2012. They 

are currently between 9 and 24 years old (nearly 68 million in the U.S.)

Gen A: Generation Alpha starts with children born in 2012 and will 

continue at least through 2025, maybe later (approximately 48 

million people in the U.S.)

Majority Rule is Great! Most People Prefer It... Of Course, Republicans Prefer Minority Rule. Because they are the Minority... Unpopular Ideas... Idiot Beliefs... Let's Throw 'em OUT in 2024.

Hillary got more Votes than Trump but the Electoral College Elected Trump. He turned out to be the Worst President in History... The Electoral College also Elected George Bush the Son... The Second Worst President Ever... It's Obvious that the Electoral College is an Idiot Idea... Electing Unpopular Presidents against the Will of the People. 

But Republicans LOVE the Electoral College because it allows Minority Rule. 

During the Years of Trump, He Selected Three Lunatic Supreme Court Justices... and they have been Enforcing Minority Rule Ever Since... 

Majority Rules!

Not Just a TV Show but a Great Idea!

Susan Said: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, [Except Blacks and Women] that they are endowed by their Creator [Named Jesus, Allah, Yahweh, Odin, Thor, KRSNA, Buddha or a Thousand Other Names] with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”[Unless your Pursuit uses Marijuana or Psychedelics as a Sacrament] - DANG... So Many Disclaimers... Was This Written by a Freaking Lawyer? Pretty Damn Insightful... Ya Think?"

Billy Answered: " I Don't Worry About Stuff Like That. Being a White Male, All That Discrimination Talk is Not Interesting to Me. It's Like Rap Music... Endless Complaining About How Life SUCKS For Black People... Valid, True, Accurate BUT... I Just Couldn't Care Less..."

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/11/doing-evil-for-money-novel-no-one-would.html

and then I read on FaceBorg:

Watching the debt ceiling fiasco. Why republicans always try to hide their hate of social safety net programs is beyond me. Why they can't win elections is obvious, it's because they hate policies people love. NO ONE is buying their bullshit reasons to destroy these loved and necessary programs which should be expanded instead of cut. The reps are run by the oligarchs...

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Now that I've read Brian Eno's List of great books...

I'll have to write my own list!

In no particular order...

The Monkeywrench Gang by Edward Abbey,

1984 by George Orwell,

The Search for the Manchurian Candidate by John Marks,

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe,

The Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand,

One Flew Over The Coo Coo's Nest by Ken Kesey,

My Problem Child by Dr Albert Hofmann,

Remember, Be Here Now by Ram Dass,

The Psychedelic Experience by Dr Timothy Leary and Dr Richard Alpert,

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence by Robert Pirsig,

America's Bogus Wars by Gregory Vanderlaan,

Island by Aldous Huxley,

Foundation by Isaac Asimov,

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein,

You are not the Target by Laura Huxley,

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley,

The Time Machine by HG Wells,

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne,

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol,

Thru the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol,

The Wizard of OZ by Frank Baum,

Tom Sawyer - Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain,

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe (and Everything else he wrote),

The Call of Cthulu by HP Lovecraft,

The Teachings of don Juan by Carlos Castaneda,

The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz,

The Art of the Failed Deal by don Trump,

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay,

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,

2001 by Arthur C. Clarke,

Dune by Frank Herbert,

The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle,

The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien,

The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien,

#France1789 by Gregory Vanderlaan,

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card,

The Bible by Various Authors (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Ezekiel, Enoch, Peter, Paul and Mary),

Still Here by Ram Dass,

The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov,

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov,

Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley,

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda,

Alcoholics Anonymous by Bill W.

Keywords for Future Reading: CIA, NSA, FBI, NRO, DARPA, GE, MKULTRA, LSD, brainwashing, mind control, TV News, Advertising, Consumption, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, MSNBC, CSPAN, CNN, NPR, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, FaceBorg, love, Boeing, Blackwater, Mad Bomber, George Bush, Martin Marietta, Haliburton, NDAA, money, defense, Lockheed, peace, DOD, Pentagon, insane, Dick Cheney, KBR, corruption, profit, Donald Rumsfeld, propaganda, Union, Revolution, Assassination, Corporate Greed, Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome, Think Tank, SDS, SNCC, Weathermen, Weather Underground, Abbie Hoffman, Albert Hofmann, Jerry Rubin, YIPPIE!, Rainbow Gathering, Diggers, Question Authority, don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements, Carlos Castaneda, don Juan Mateus, Peyote, Psilocibin, Magic Mushrooms, DMT, AMT, Psychedelic Art, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Santana, Steve Miller, Journey, Sly and the Family Stone, Haight Ashbury, 1984, Brave New World, Be Here Now, The Monkey Wrench Gang, Earth First!, ecology, environmental action, Exploratorium, Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalog, Zorro, Joaquin Murietta, Junipero Serra, Judi Beri, Darryl Cherney, Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome, Bubble Up Economics, Voodoo Economics, Trickle Down Economics, QAnon, Tea Party, WOKE, Anti-Woke, Pro Life, Pro Choice, Anti Choice, Pro Death, 8 Billion People, Population Bomb, Genocide, Depleted Uranium, Giant Stinky Seaweed Blog, Governor Ron Death Santa, Futurama, World of Tomorrow, Tomorrowland, Hollywood, Beautiful Downtown Burbank, Rowan and Martin, Laugh In, Smothers Brothers, Pyramid Power, Think for Yourself and Question Authority, Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, Ram Dass...

and If You Have Never Heard of These Words or These People... Simply Google Them and Learn... 

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief
I pasted all those words into google and the Result was an NPR MKULTRA Story... CIA LSD 

and then Caroline Posted: 

I will not eat 10 out of 60.

My Response:

I will not eat 0 out of 60. It’s your turn. Use an X to mark what you will NOT eat. All fun people. Don’t take it too seriously.

01. Miracle Whip

02. Anchovies

03. Pig feet

04. Black Jelly Beans

05. Chitterlings

06. Sardines

07. Oysters

08. Sushi

09. Candy Corn

10. Vienna Sausage

11. Brussels Sprouts

12. Mushrooms

13. Liver

14. Circus Peanuts

15. Bologna

16. Black Olives

17. Green Olives

18. Blue Cheese

19. Fruitcake

20. Spam

21. Cabbage

22. Potato salad

23. Eggnog

24. Black Coffee

25. Lima Beans

26. Grits

27. Sauerkraut

28. Chicken gizzards

29. Okra

30. Coleslaw

31. Hot dogs

33. Yogurt

34. Broccoli

35. Hominy

36. Asparagus

37. Black Licorice

38. Eggplant

39. Cottage cheese

40. Tofu

41. Onions

42. Cilantro

43. Raw tomato

44. Beets

45. Capers

46. Canned Tuna

47. Bean sprouts

48. Cantaloupe

49. Baked Beans

50. Rice Pudding

51. Avocado

52. Coconut

53. Eggs

54. Nutella

55. Peas

56. Marshmallow

57. Green Bean Casserole

58. Kimchi

59. Frog Legs

60. Artichokes

Well that was fun. Your turn! You have to COPY…then change MY responses to YOURS.

I'll also eat SPAM... BUT...

What will You BUY?

I won't Buy Chicken Gizzards... or Sushi... or Miracle Whip... or Chitterlings...

and then Joe Blow Wrote of FaceBorg:

Notes on my insanity...

It seems that virtually all the stories of the gods and God started with a holy cow. The first letter of many of our alphabets start with a symbol of a cow. Some time deep in our past people had become powerful. They left huge monuments that defy logic. They were learning fractions and multiplication and more. They were trying to divide the circle into multiples of 2's, 3's, and 5's. They were studying the stars. They were setting up cities and trade networks. They learned many new things and they were making temples to share their ideas and teachings, their visions of what our world was and some worked for the enlightenment of all and others used the treasures of our labor for their own amusement and self-glorification, hoarding it to themselves as has always been.

Then a great catastrophe changed all the world, destroying almost all the work of the past and leaving their whole known world in shambles. Almost all those that had been on the coast that day would have been mercilessly destroyed by the wrath of her eruption. The whole world was chaos.

It was the largest volcanic eruption in recent history, the aftermath of which has changed us forever, even torn our souls apart leaving forever fearing the gods wrath and yet it is but the tiniest little footnote in our history, albeit, a history that is known to be corrupt, not much more than a well edited patriotic hymn to corrupt political systems helping to make palatable the unsavory nature of what really happened to all of us yet still one would think... Obviously people don't really want to know.

But if you do, it's like I insinuated at the start, all of our first stories come from one event but the stories all come from many different sources that were woven together from verbal transmission, many hundreds of years later with whatever editing and extras that have gotten into what they wrote since.

In order to make sense of them, imo, you have to reverse the idea given to us in the story of tower of Babel. Instead of God scattering people after they built this tower, people instead came together to find out what had happened then after learning new things and new words and languages, they took them back and added them along with their own spin to their own stories.

But for us, the significance of the Minoan eruption isn't even touched on. Can you see the story of Moses as a remnant of the story of people who escaped to the mountains after a massive flood had left frogs all across the land, after having had a huge poisonous gas cloud pass over. Can you see Lot's wife perishing going back from behind the mountain. Can you see the Bull god, Baal, or Zeus and Hera each, the god as seen by different survivors, married later when they were not understood for what they were originally. Can you see the end of the Titans and Atlantis? Can you see a ship washed into the endless sea for forty days or a one eyed monster that eats 40 sheep at a time or the awful Medusa with hair like fiery snakes and all those who had looked upon her turned to stone, like those of Pompey or some other god mountain that people came to worship. Even our word for story comes from that bull story. Why did they call the first five books of the OT, The Torah?

They called the volcano, Thera, like Hera.

What about the Sahara? Could it possibly be that the Sahara was actually mostly caused by the eruption of Thera? In my mind I can see it clearly that Sahara means "the wrath of Hera".

Let's ask ChatGPT...

How would they say the wrath of Hera?

In Ancient Greek, the wrath of Hera would be expressed as "ὀργὴ Ἥρας" (orgē Hēras), where "ὀργή" (orgē) means "wrath" or "anger", and "Ἥρα" (Hēra) is the Greek name for the goddess Hera.

What other words mean wrath?

θυμός (thymos) - wrath, rage, fury

μῆνις (mēnis) - wrath, anger, rage

χόλος (cholos) - wrath, anger, indignation

ἔκθυμος (ekthymos) - wrathful, furious, enraged

These words were commonly used in Greek literature and mythology to describe the anger and fury of the gods, heroes, and other characters.

Czar, Ceasar, keiser, geezer, Sar in Hebrew, all come from the word for king or prince and Sara means princess.

The name "Sahara" comes from the Arabic word "ṣaḥrāʾ" (صحراء), which means "desert". It is not clear exactly when this name was first used to refer to the vast desert region that covers much of North Africa, as the region has been inhabited for thousands of years by various indigenous peoples who had their own names for the desert.

Now meditate on the these syllabic connections...

Zeus, Theos, Deus, Jesus...

They are all the same theme from different folks and they all have a ton of baggage that goes with them.

There are those who see the power in these symbols as a way to heal and transform our society and help us understand ourselves better and their have always been those who use them to look down on others and lord over them while lying about what the truth of our past was and doing the best to cover it up. It is no less true today than it was then.

Burn your illusions. Free yourself from the nonsense.

But we can keep the true spirit of love that it was built on and not deny people their incredible heritage and the right to think for themselves. All of us deserve better.