Showing posts with label John. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John. Show all posts

A Nice Guy Gets His Just Desserts. A Mystery Story - and My Dream about Ram Dass

I was Opening the Mail at Our New House When... I Read this Letter.

"Dear Susan: Thank You for the Most Wonderful Night of My Life... I can Certainly See Why You are a Professional... Here's that $28 Dollars I Owe You. Let's Meet Again for a Romantic Interlude. "
  ~~~~~~ Thanks, John ~~~~~~

I Assumed that the Former Resident was a "Working Girl" and Since I Knew Where She Lived Now... I decided to go visit and deliver her mail in Person. Hopefully, Since I was Such a Nice Guy, She Would Service Me for Free... After All, I Could have Just Kept the Letter and The Money... 

Ding Dong! 

and What Happens Next? Who Know!

It's a MYSTERY!

Free Love Hat for sale at Zazzle Gregvan

This entire story happened to me in a dream and I Woke Up Right after I Rang the Bell... SO... Even I Don't Know What Happens!

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another Dream!
We were walking towards the Entrance of the Los Gatos Library and there was a Thin Old Man dressed in a Small Bathing Suit ahead of Us. He pulled on the entrance to the Children's room and It was Locked... Disappointed, he turned around and I asked: "Are You Looking for the Man Who Works There?" He Said: "NO" and I Motioned towards the Main Entrance. We all Entered. He seemed lost so I asked: "Do you Need Help?" as I would ask any Lost Old Man... He Said: "NO" and then I asked again: "Can I Help You?" He said: "No. I'm Fine." and then we went on Our Own Ways. By That time it was Obvious to Me That he was Ram Dass and That it was a Rather "Heavy" encounter to Ask Ram Dass If I Could Help Him... a Meaningful Event... and I was Shaking... So we went downstairs and I went searching for a Book that I Has Started reading before (about Philosophy) - and on the same shelf was a large picture book of the Grateful Dead's Fare Ye Well Tour with four CDs (that were missing) and My friend asked me why I would want to check out that book and I said: "Too Look for Pictures of Myself." and then I woke up and Typed this Document... It's Best to Type it Up before I forget it... For Certain, I would have tried to help any Lost Old Man but It seems Important that I Offered Ram Dass Help in my dream. That's One Of His Main Teachings... 

He Wrote The Book: Remember, Be Here Now... and THAT Got My Attention because of the ART! Here's a Picture of about a Hundred Drawings in that book...

Illustration from the book Remember: Be Here Now by Ram Dass


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and now for something Completely Different.
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Where is Walla Walla? 

It's Between Ting Tang and Bing Bang!


BREAKING: A HUGE win for free speech! 🎉 For 7 years, Resolute Forest Products has sought to silence Greenpeace USA, simply because we exercised our First Amendment right to expose their destructive business practices.
We are beyond grateful the Court defended the right to call out corporations that prioritize profit > people. Because the truth is, this fight was never just about Greenpeace: it was an attempt to silence all those who speak truth to power. And we need the right to raise our voices now more than ever–against toxic chemical spills, against oil wells in our communities, and against attacks on our democracy. #WeWillNotBeSilenced 🗣️ #StopSLAPPS🛑

What climate PSA posters would look like if they took a hit of acid

Hannah Rothstein’s new art series, ‘Goodstock,’ draws on idolized rock music posters from the ’60s to rally people around climate solutions for today.

Hannah Rothstein’s new art series, ‘Goodstock,’ draws on idolized rock music posters from the ’60s to rally people around climate solutions for today.


Hannah Rothstein’s new art series, ‘Goodstock,’ draws on idolized rock music posters from the ’60s to rally people around climate solutions for today.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow. He passed Away on 2/9/2018. Co-Founder of EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation. Lyrics for The Grateful Dead.

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.

Bob Weir and John Perry Barlow
Bob Weir and John Perry Barlow


Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions.

You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.
Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.
We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. Our identities may be distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose.

In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams must now be born anew in us.

You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in bit-bearing media.
Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.

These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts.
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
Davos, Switzerland
February 8, 1996

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Birthday Remembrance to John Perry Barlow (October 3, 1947 - February 7, 2018)
One of the best ways to honor Barlow (and other humans as well as yourself) is to remember his 25 Principles of Adult Behavior.
1. Be patient. No matter what.
2. Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn’t say to him.
3. Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.
4. Expand your sense of the possible.
5. Don’t trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.
6. Expect no more of anyone than you can deliver yourself.
7. Tolerate ambiguity.
8. Laugh at yourself frequently.
9. Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right.
10. Never forget that, no matter how certain, you might be wrong.
11. Give up blood sports.
12. Remember that your life belongs to others as well. Don’t risk it frivolously.
13. Never lie to anyone for any reason. (Lies of omission are sometimes exempt.)
14. Learn the needs of those around you and respect them.
15. Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that.
16. Reduce your use of the first personal pronoun.
17. Praise at least as often as you disparage.
18. Admit your errors freely and soon.
19. Become less suspicious of joy.
20. Understand humility.
21. Remember that love forgives everything.
22. Foster dignity.
23. Live memorably.
24. Love yourself.
25. Endure.


"Throwing Stones"
Words by John Perry Barlow; music by Bob Weir
Barlow has posted the lyrics to his songs.
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used by permission

Picture a bright blue ball, just spinning, spinnin free,
Dizzy with eternity.
Paint it with a skin of sky,
Brush in some clouds and sea,
Call it home for you and me.
A peaceful place or so it looks from space,
A closer look reveals the human race.
Full of hope, full of grace
Is the human face,
But afraid we may lay our home to waste.
There's a fear down here we can't forget.
Hasn't got a name just yet.
Always awake, always around,
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.

Now watch as the ball revolves
And the nighttime falls.
Again the hunt begins,
Again the bloodwind calls.
By and by, the morning sun will rise,
But the darkness never goes
From some men's eyes.
It strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets,
Staking turf, dividing up meat.
Nightmare spook, piece of heat,
It's you and me.
You and me.

Click flash blade in ghetto night,
Rudies looking for a fight.
Rat cat alley, roll them bones.
Need that cash to feed that jones.
And the politicians throwin' stones,
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.

[Bridge:]
Commissars and pin-stripe bosses
Roll the dice.
Any way they fall,
Guess who gets to pay the price.
Money green or proletarian gray,
Selling guns 'stead of food today.

So the kids they dance
And shake their bones,
And the politicians throwin' stones,
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.

Heartless powers try to tell us
What to think.
If the spirit's sleeping,
Then the flesh is ink

History's page will thus be carved in stone.
And we are here, and we are on our own
On our own.
On our own.
On our own.

[Instrumental]
If the game is lost,
Then we're all the same.
No one left to place or take the blame.
We can leave this place and empty stone
Or that shinin' ball we used to call our home.

So the kids they dance
And shake their bones,
And the politicians throwin' stones,
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.

[Bridge two:] Shipping powders back and forth
Singing black goes south and white comes north.
In a whole world full of petty wars
Singing I got mine and you got yours.
And the current fashion sets the pace,
Lose your step, fall out of grace.
And the radical, he rant and rage,
Singing someone's got to turn the page.
And the rich man in his summer home,
Singing just leave well enough alone.
But his pants are down, his cover's blown...

And the politicians throwin' stones,
So the kids they dance
And shake their bones,
And it's all too clear we're on our own.
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.

Picture a bright blue ball,
Just spinnin', spinnin, free.
Dizzy with the possibilities.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.
Ashes, ashes, all fall down.

Coronavirus is An ACT OF GOD. It's His Mighty Vengeance for Trump's Adultery... Break a Commandment, Get a Plague... It's Just Like The Bible says... REPENT! The End Times Are Here!



MEME - Trump Adulterer - Moses is Angry - Break a Commandment, Get a Plague. - gvan42
Trump the Adulterer - Moses is Angry
Break a Commandment, Get a Plague.
MEME - This is a Sign! Absurdist Street Theater or Biblical End Times Warning? - gvan42
This is a Sign!
Absurdist Street Theater
or Biblical End Times Warning?

EXORCISM at the WHITE HOUSE. A Million Patriots Need To Surround it and Demand That Trump RESIGN NOW! JOIN US For A Spiritual Healing Ceremony... Spread The Word! Beat the Drums, Blow A Whistle, Burn Some Sage, Chant, Sing and Dance All Day and All Night Until The EVIL ONE IS DRIVEN OUT... MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE! If You Cannot Come To Washington DC, Stage an Exorcism in Your Own Home Town.


Campaign for John Hickenlooper: #FlipTheSenate He's A Democrat Running for US Senate. Seeking to Unseat a Republican... Please Share This Post with your Friends and More Importantly With Those Who are Yet To Be Friends!

https://www.hickenlooper.com/ I’m running to give Colorado’s priorities and values a voice in Washington. Right now we’re represented by a senator who works to undo our progress by voting 99% of the time with Donald Trump and going along with Mitch McConnell’s obstruction and partisan political games.


Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump Are Corrupt. Put Them Both on the Witness Stand in The Impeachment Trial. Also Call Ivanka, Hunter and Jared... They are All Getting Rich by Nepotism.

https://www.justsecurity.org/66271/timeline-trump-giuliani-bidens-and-ukrainegate/

The aim of this chronology is to provide a useful reference for the context and timeline on Ukraine, the roles of Joe Biden and his son Hunter there, and Trump and Giuliani’s efforts to persuade Ukraine to pursue investigations against them. We attempt to present an accurate picture of events, favorable and unfavorable to the players involved. Our assessments and views of the available public information are reflected in two pieces: Viola Gienger’s “Trump and Giuliani’s Quest for Fake Ukraine ‘Dirt’ on Biden: An Explainer” and our piece “The Swiftboating of Joe Biden.” 

MEME gvan42 Witness Jared, Les and Ivanka at Trump's Impeachment Trial


Subpoena Ivanka to Testify at Trump's Impeachment Trial. Just Like Hunter Biden, She Knows Nothing About The Facts of the Case and Is Cashing in on Daddy's Name.

Alan Moron Dershowitz (/ˈdɜːrʃəwɪts/; September 1, 1938 - January 29, 2020) is an Russian lawyer and Crazy Old Man. He is a schmoozer of United States Intitutional law and criminal Slaw.[1][2] He has also been described as a noted whack job.[1][3] He began his teaching career at Trump University where, in 1967, at the age of 28, he became the youngest full professor of coleslaw in its history. He held the Doctor Frankenfurter professorship there from 1993[4] until his Death on January 29th, 2020,[5] and has been a regular talking head, Babble-On Sister, and illegal analyst. He is also a prominent voice on the Joy of Monarchy and has written a several books on the subject. Source: Wackipedia 

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/28/house-oversight-trump-cohen-testimony-1196594 

Charles Koch, George Soros Help Fund Think Tank Opposed To 'Endless War' - Wonderful - I want to work there.

America “goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.” — Said John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States and namesake for new think tank. 

The Boston Globe reports the "astonishing turn" that organizations created by libertarian billionaire Charles Koch and progressive billionaire George Soros are helping to fund a new think tank, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. The new group is committed to promoting "ideas that move U.S. foreign policy away from endless war and toward vigorous diplomacy in the pursuit of international peace."

https://reason.com/2019/07/01/charles-koch-george-soros-help-fund-think-tank-opposed-to-endless-war/


M.J. Hegar is running for US SENATOR from Texas against Evil John Cornyn... Young and Smart, she is an alternative to Old and Corrupt.

She served as a Major in the US Air Force and the Air National Guard and was honorably discharged after completing three tours of duty in Afghanistan. https://www.mjfortexas.com/

Air Force veteran MJ Hegar, who raised millions in an unsuccessful House race in 2018, announced Tuesday that she is taking on Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi6v4CYNSIQ The Democrat garnered national attention last cycle with a viral web video “Doors” highlighting her background as a combat veteran. She was injured in Afghanistan and later sued the Defense Department over the barring of women from certain positions. In a nearly four-minute video released Tuesday, Hegar once again introduced herself to Texans, recapping her 2018 spot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIYHz6fPAgo “Here’s the thing: I didn’t win that election,” she says in the video after highlighting her 2018 race. “But we won something much bigger: We didn’t just close the gap in my district by almost 20 points, we helped change the status quo.”

https://www.rollcall.com/news/campaigns/texas-senate-2020john-cornyn-gets-senate-challenge-mj-hegar-texas

How to build a PRE-HACKED Facebook Account... and WHY... Plausible Deniability: Hey, I didn't post that CRAZY CONTENT my account was hacked!

First: Make up a Fake username, password, real name, address, phone number, and email address...

Sign up for a free email account like Yahoo or GMail... so you can respond to emails from Facebook... 

Then make a Facebook Account using all that FAKE data... and then PUBLISH THE USERNAME AND PASSWORD EVERYWHERE... so anyone could use your account to publish anything... 

That gives you the freedom to post anything you want without any concern of FBI, CIA NSA or any other Law Enforcement Surveillance... REMEMBER: Hate Speech is a CRIME... 

"Who are the Brain Police?" - Frank Zappa Song


Button Eye Man - Psychedelic ART - Peyote God - Mescalito - question Reality - visions of Paradise - Cosmic
Button Eye Man - Psychedelic ART - Peyote God - Mescalito
- Question Reality - visions of Paradise - Cosmic

Metal GOD Sculpture - Like an Indian Deity - Lost Coast Brewery in Eureka California -  Fisherman Floats used as Base

Metal GOD Sculpture - Like an Indian Deity
 Lost Coast Brewery in Eureka California
Fisherman Floats used as Base 


Great Movie: "Dr Strangelove"... a Satire about Military Madness and Nuclear War... Should Be Required Viewing for ANYONE Joining the Military...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove 
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb... Written by Stanley Kubrick, stars Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Slim Pickens and James Earl Jones... 

All about The Insane Nuclear Arms Race between the USA and the USSR... We now have enough Atom Bombs to Kill every person on Earth AND all Animals Larger than a Cockroach... WHEE! That's a Wonderful Subject for a Comedy... Also pokes Fun at the John Birch Society (a Right wing conspiracy group) because the Crazy General that Starts World War Three if Obsessively Worried about Fluoridation of Drinking Water...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society




Would increasing Logging actually help California with wildfires? No, it's just a convenient excuse for Lumber Companies to avoid Environmental Regulations and Earth First!

https://www.outsideonline.com/2244376/could-logging-reduce-wildfires

What WOULD help is controlled burning of forests near roads.

 The Forest Service’s consensus view that a century of fire suppression has created dense low-elevation forests primed to burn. He says foresters can log sustainably there—as long as they light prescribed burns after the cutting’s done. “Preventative medicine,” Finney says, “is more effective than emergency response.”

Chad Hanson, an ecologist and director of the California-based John Muir Project, says the Forest Service’s scientists “are under a lot of pressure to not say things that contradict the Forest Service’s management program.” He holds that we should simply create defensible space around communities—essentially, massive fire breaks clear of fuel—but otherwise keep logging to a minimum and let large wildfires burn.


Map of redwood forest and active fires in California on 8-15-2018

Preventing California's Wildfires: Stop Climate Change OR Increase Logging to remove fuel? Or Do Both? We Are Burning Up Now and Next Year Will BE WORSE.

Interior Secretary Zinke says that increasing logging would make people safer because there would be fewer trees to burn... and firefighters could put out the fires easier... Of course, if we simply used ONE THOUSAND helicopters to dump water on the fires we could put them out. Why not bring all the Helicopters home from the wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Africa? We could employ the soldiers as firefighters... bring them home and keep them safe...

Do not increase logging in the Redwood Forest. We are logging at a good rate already. The people that run the Pacific Lumber (Now known as Humboldt Redwood Company and Mendocino Redwood Company) are doing a fine job already. No Logging of OLD GROWTH... Cut only as much as grows every year and we can log forever. Redwoods grow in a cool and rainy climate and we have not had a lot of wildfires here...

Should we remove trees in Pine, Oak and Douglas Fir forests in order to reduce hazards? Does that makes sense at all. The people at "The Earth Island Institute" say that increased logging does not make us safer...

But Pine, Oak and Fir trees grow quickly and if we cut down the forest... or "Thin" the forest (as Zinke says) we can plant new trees and they will grow quickly... We do use boards to build houses... but there is no real need to Log OLD GROWTH REDWOODS for lumber... It is possible to build a fine home without Redwood Boards... Why NOT log pine, oak and Fir forests?

http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/bill_relies_on_fear_of_wildfires_to_expedite_logging_on_public_lands/

Bill Relies on Fear of Wildfires to Expedite Logging on Public Lands.

HR 2936 was pushed through the House by lawmakers whose campaigns are bankrolled by the logging industry


http://johnmuirproject.org/



DID YOU KNOW...


that dead trees do not increase the occurrence or intensity of wild fires?