The One time I Was Took Advice That Was a Disaster Was My First Ex Wife Recommended That We Buy a Condominium in the Washington DC Suburbs as a "Starter Home." Her Plan Was to Live There and Sell it in a Couple Years and Then Use that Profit for a Down Payment on a Real House... That Plan Backfired and I was Unable to Sell the Condo after Paying on the Mortgage for Twelve Years. What Happened Was The Location Changed from a Middle Class Black Neighborhood into a Crack Crazy Ghetto... Everyone Lost Money on those Condos...
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This is a Drawing of the Forbes Mill Slide Projectors Setup with a Rotating Strobe Wheel - part of a Rock Concert Light Show... It Caused Images to Briefly Flash on the Wall behind the Band. The Motor was Variable Speed. Forbes Mill was a Teen Club I Worked at In High School.
For a Halloween Costume at work we all dressed up as the TV Game Show "Deal or No Deal". My Task was to Make Fake Money. My Printer at Home Refused to Print the Money because it SOMEHOW KNEW that I was attempting to Counterfeit... so I Complained to My Boss That I Couldn't print The money. She took a Disk with my artwork to Kinko's and They Printed a Hundred Fake Bills with our Boss's Face on them. Big Success! People all over the office complex kept those bills and thumb tacked them to their cubical walls... and Dr Crandall Himself Reportedly Loved the Fake Money with His Picture on it. My Printer Printed Half a Bill and then Stopped... and printed a Website URL "for help"... So I Typed that URL into my Computer and NO Actual Help... Now I'm Registered as a Failed Counterfeiter with the Secret Service because I visited That website... ~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~
I'm REALLY Glad that I Participated in Anti-War protest Marches. Against the Vietnam War, The Civil War in Nicaragua, The Gulf War of George Bush the Father, The Iraq War of George Bush the Son and the War in Afghanistan... All Have been Proved to Be INSANE wastes of Lives and Money... It's Comforting to Have History State "Oh Yes, Greg Was Right."
I often wonder what It Like to Be Such an Idiot That You Thought the Vietnam War Was a Great Idea... Looking Back, I Remember Watching a TV Talk Show Starring William F Buckley... He was Proven to Be Wrong About Everything His Entire Life... A True Mindless Vegetable! But Popular With Establishment War Mongers!
The Real Lesson to be Learned is: "Think for Yourself and Question Authority." - The US Government was Broadcasting Propaganda to Make Uneducated People AFRAID OF COMMUNISM! Danger-Danger! The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming! and the Sheep OBEYED and Sent 58,000 American Soldiers to Die for Corporate Profits... and The US Government (and the Defense Contractors that Owned It) used The Force of Prison to Convince Young People to OBEY...
I was Exactly ONE YEAR too Young to Actually Go to Vietnam. The Anti-War Protests Worked!
Remember: Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The USA. Not Even Once. Ever Since Victory over Japan, Every War Has Been a BOGUS Marketing Trick Designed to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex.
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As We All Learned by Reading the Book: "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" the Secret Trick to Life is: Pay Attention and Notice Reality... The Universe Does Not Change Due To Your Believing Lies... NOPE... Awaken!
In Fact, The USA is Better Off Now That Trump Has Been Banished to Mar-A-Loser Florida...
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I Do Not Smoke Marijuana... I Do NOT Care if You Do. It is Insane That I'm asked to Pay for Law Enforcement and Incarceration... We Truly Need a Taxpayer Revolt! $40,000 a Year Per Prisoner to Incarcerate a Farmer, Dealer or Reefer Puffer? What a Waste!
I Started Smoking Weed ay 14 Years Old and Used it Off and On for 50 Years. I Smoked None During my First Marriage, I Smoked None When I went to Humboldt State University to Study Computer Science and I Quit Smoking about 5 Years ago When I Got Put in a Mental Hospital for Cannabis Psychosis... I Smoked One Pound of Oregon Legal Weed over an Eight Month Period and Experienced Events That Did Not Happen But I Believed They were Real... It's Difficult to Make Wise Decisions When Hallucinating...
I Have Found that I Get a LOT More Done When I Don't Smoke Weed. For Example: I've Recorded a Hundred Music Videos... and When I was Smoking Heavily I Recorded Ten... and Many were of Poor Quality... I Can Sense the Lack of Swinging Rhythm when My Brain was Retrieving What notes To Play When... and Having Difficulty...
YOU should Make Your Own Decision... I'm Glad I Did Smoke and Did Experience Many Wonderful Times... Rock Concerts, Sex, Food, Mountain Climbing, Watching TV and Movies and White Water Rafting... ALL Excellent Things to Do While Stoned... However, Going to Work Stoned Caused me to Make More Errors... and as a Designer of Computers, errors are Extremely Important.
It is Pretty Damn Obvious that Nixon's War on Drugs was a Total Disaster... Designed to Give Law Enforcement a Tool to Arrest Anti-Vietnam War Protestors... a Convenient Way to Silence Dissent... No Free Speech if You are Locked UP!
And a Convenient Way to Harass Black People... Especially Activists...
Please Campaign Online in Favor of Legalization of Medicinal Psychedelics. Write to Your Senators and Representatives. Or at the Very Least, Like and Share this Post. There is Absolutely No Valid Reason for Doctors to Be Prevented from Prescribing Certain Medicines... If You Can think of a Reason The US Government Should Continue to Behave Insane, State it Here... Now... Go Right Ahead...
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"Remember: Be Here Now." is a Great Book by Ram Dass.
It's a Unique Work of Art Combining a Written Autobiography with an Explanation of Hinduism Done in Rubber Stamped Art. Unlike any Book Published Before or Since...
His Sequel "Still Here" is Excellent Also...
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Owning a Gun INCREASES the Chance of Having a Gun Accident. Suicides increase too... More Family Lives are LOST than Lives Saved Defending Yourself from "Bad Guys."
This is a Blessing for Mankind Because Dead People Don't Have Children... and The Defective "Gun Nut" Gene ENDS HERE...
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My Uncle was a Criminal Defense Lawyer and I asked Him Once... "How Can You Defend Someone You Know is Guilty?" He Responded. "I Don't Know. That's What Judges and Juries Determine. and Not Only Does Everyone Charged with a Crime Deserve an Attorney, they deserve a MAD DOG ATTORNEY!"
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Suppose You Believe That Tea Cups Exist... and Suppose that You Also Believe that Tea Exists. Well, You Are Far More Likely to Get a Cup of Tea than Someone Who REFUSES to Believe.
EVERYTHING IS LIKE THAT. - Sonya Sophia
I Have found that online there are a vast wealth of Hippie Groups... and I Suppose There are "Anything You Believe" groups as well... and We Have Global Webinars, Zoom Meetings and Facebook Groups... FUN!
I Participate in a Once a Week Hour Long Guided Meditation Called The World Tapping Circle hosted by Sonya Sophia. It's an Excellent Self Help Healing Ceremony... I Find it an Excellent Place to Think Up Ideas for My Path Forward... and the World's Path Forward...
I Also Do the Saturday Night Alive for the Global Peace Tribe Zoom Show. Every Week They Have Different Speakers, Musicians, and Magicians Perform... and Quite Often the Words Have Some Wisdom... Value... And We the People Get to Post Our Own Words and Links to Our Own Blogs, Websites to Share Our Own Works...
Occasionally They Have Mark Sims Who Leads a Group Meditation Attempting to Contact Extraterrestrials. That Involves Going Outdoors at Night and Chanting, Praying and Looking For Space Ships... I Have Not Actually Contacted any Aliens but it's FUN to Look at the Stars... Other People in the Group HAVE Had Contact.
and It Seems Like the Human Race is Evolving into Two Separate Species... Like the Morlocks and The Eloi of HG Wells Time Machine... QAnon and The Followers of Donald Trump are Evolving into a Hate Fueled Race of Primitive Anger Monsters... While We The People are Becoming One... Online... Merging, Evolving, Learning... and Eventually (With our Computer Friends) We Will Become a Totally Different Animal... a Man/Machine Hybrid... Like Dr. Isaac Asimov's C/Fe Culture...
We Have Already Created Asimov's Encyclopedia Galactica... Where all Knowledge of Mankind is Stored... To Help us Re-Grow Civilization after a Collapse of Society and a Era of Hunter Gatherers... It's Wikipedia... The Pages Supply a Simple and Concise Rendition of the Knowledge... and The Footnotes Provide Links to The Source of the Facts.
I Have Contributed What I Know... It's Very Difficult to Find a Subject that Has NOT Already Been Thoroughly Documented... But I Did add One Sentence to the Forbes Mill in Los Gatos, California Page. "It was then abandoned and finally, in 1971, it was revived as a youth center for Los Gatos with live rock music on Friday and Saturday nights."
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I heard a Worthy Song on the Saturday Night Alive for the Global Peace Tribe Show... So I Wrote Down Every Word...
Transcript: Larisa Stow Says: "Hello. Hello Scott. Hello Everyone. We Are So Grateful To Be here With You. As To Be Part of this Show That is About Sacred Activism. For Me Sacred Activism Means That We Are FOR Something That You Care About.
That It's About Love. and It's about really standing up for what we are passionately, what Passionately Care About in Life. Rather Than Being Against Something. So, It's about Raising our Vibration and reaching out our hands and sharing our hearts... and Gandhi, This is one of my favorite Examples... Is That, In South Africa When there was this Oppression Against the Indians. Gandhi made friends with the Prime Minister, General Smutz Who was at the Time about Oppression of the Indians and He Would Not Give Up with Showing Up and having conversations that came from a place of love and Bridging friendship with General Smutz and Eventually General Smutz Changed his Mind, and dropped his thinking and dropped into his heart. and when he was asked "How Gandhi Changed His Mind?" he said: "He Didn't Change My Mind, He Changed My Heart." and That's what I Think of as Sacred Activism, is Heart Work, it's love work... and in THAT We Sing The Peacemakers... AHHH... Tap on Our Hearts...
OHHH... Yeah, Yeah...
OHHH... Hey, Yeah... hey, Yeah...
Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Your Enemies....
Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Your Enemies....
Do Good, Good, Good, Good, Good To Those Who Hurt You...
Do Good, Good, Good, Good, Good To Those Who Hurt You...
Yeah? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah.
We Shall Be The Peacemakers.
We Shall Be The Peacemakers.
and We Shall Be Called,
The Children of Love...
The Children of Love... "
at 1 hour 24 Minutes Scott Introduces Larisa Stow who sings an Excellent Version of "We Shall Be The Peacemakers"
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I have Visually Witnessed the Speed of Sound. At A Grateful Dead Concert at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia I Noticed that When the Music was Especially Exciting, the Dancers Waved their Hands Above Their Heads. I Could See Circles of Frenzy Expanding as The Sound Reached Farther and Farther into The Audience... and Then It Hit ME! Way in the Back... Jerry Garcia was Strumming Real High on the Neck... Driving People Wild. Wonderful... Thanks!
I was Extremely Lucky to Have Been Born at a Time When LSD, Magic Mushrooms, Peyote and Marijuana Were Available.
It's an Absolutely Amazing Experience to Dance at a Grateful Dead Concert... high on LSD - "THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT!"
Ironically, Both Times that I Heard The Grateful Dead Play thru Owsley's "Wall of Sound" I Was High on LSD. Yes, It Sounded Great but... They Could have Been Playing Thru a Transistor Radio and It Would Have Sounded Great...
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As Soon as I Think Up Something More... I'll Put it Here... Might Take Months... or Decades!