and Then I Posted on Facebook:
I really want other people to Submit
Their Own Lessons...
Either Comment Here, on the Bottom of the
Blog or Email me gregvan (at) yahoo (dot) com
DSW Said:
I was trying to do that a few years ago...
spent several months really enjoying
just letting the memories flow and actually
finding some
answers to things once I started writing....
and then my computer DIED with no warning
and I give up.
Sad.
I Replied: The Health of My Computer doesn't matter since I Write Everything on
Facebook, Wordpress and Google Blogger...
If This individual Laptop Fails...
all my words are
online...
DSW Said:
Anyway Greg, I do Understand. Ended up in
the hospital last year for 2 months and had
to go to a nursing home for a month before
they would let me go home.
they didn't want to. I had to beg. So during
that process I ended up QUitting a 48 year
smoking habit. Not much
choice when you are hooked up to oxygen in
the ICU.... It's been awful....My husband who
I have been with since September of 1972 still smokes a bit and goes outside to do it and I
can't go out there with him like we always did because I am afraid I will smoke again.
I hate this.
I Replied: I felt the Craving fade away after a
year of not smoking... and YES... a Year is a
Long Time... Maybe two years... but I Don't
have it NOW.
KD Said: I quit smoking 33 years ago and still
have cravings. Giving up tobacco is tough.
My Experience With Smoking Marijuana was
that I Stayed High for ONE MONTH after
Smoking a Pound of Oregon Legal over an Eight month period. Then I Quit entirely because
I Wanted to Go on a Driving Vacation in
California and Nevada where Weed is Illegal...
and I Remembered to NOT Possess Illegal Drugs
in My Van While Touring... I Meet a Lot of COPS while Sleeping in the Van... and then I went
to the Hospital for an Infected Blister on my
Foot and they Tested My Blood for THC... and
I Still Tested Positive a MONTH Later!
AmaZING!
During that Month I Experienced Events That
Did Not Happen... It's Called Cannabis
Psychosis... and It's Interesting!
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...
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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 they are.
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!
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...
Occasionally They Have Mark Sims Who Leads a
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...
... 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
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!