Showing posts with label future. Show all posts
Showing posts with label future. Show all posts

GOP: Crazy Stupid Evil - And That's Why They Die Young... Wonderful! We Certainly Don't Need People Like THAT In The Future!

 STUDY: Americans in Republican Led States Die Younger... 

GOP FAIL - Economic Disasters by President - Deficit Chart

On a Happier Note!

CHRISTMAS BEGINS!

"thanksgiving is over now it's on to good tidings and all that rigmarole swapping bird fixings for tree trimming.
having worst thanksgiving ever and not having leftovers to contend with it's full speed ahead prepping for saint nick.
admittedly we have an unlit little tree and little uninvited guests but that shouldn't affect eve night.
as motel six says we'll leave the light on christmas eve.
and after santa delivers his presents we'll share some with the son of the one.
and wish him merry christmas christ kid."

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Prepare yourself to spend time alone if you choose to live a life of honesty and integrity.
If you choose to live a life of freedom, wellness and truth, the pop culture narrative will not appreciate it to say the least.
That’s ok though, let the sheep roam, you cannot stop them from fulfilling their destiny of creating a world full of idiots.
You have your own destiny.
You have your own life to live.
You need to focus on your life and attracting your tribe.
You cannot save people that don’t want to be saved, by attempting that you will slow down you process and possibly drown yourself.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
This is as much of a warning as a call to action.
“Everything popular is wrong”
- Oscar Wilde
Instead of doing what everyone else is doing, use this time to clean up your temple(body), to sit with your fears, to write out your thoughts, to spend time in nature, to read some old books.
Look around you, do you want to live like they do? Do you want to be constantly engulfed in the drama? To be triggered? To be sick and deteriorating?
Or do you want to experience something better?
Your choice.
Happy holidays fockers.
With strength and courage ⚔️🐺


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Someone Asked:
In your opinion, what are the pros and cons of self publishing? through amazon, for example?




We self published 12 Copies of the Vanderlaan Family History... including all the photographs from that shoebox Dad Had... and Every Written word by my ancestors... PLUS... My Brother "Interviewed" Everyone and Simply Wrote down what they said... EXCELLENT EXPERIENCE FOR ALL OF US... Totally Unimportant to the Rest of the World... Many of those documents I Had Never Read... For Example: A Letter from My Mother to the US Military Draft Board on Why My Brother Should be Granted a Conscience Objector Status and NOT Sent to Vietnam... SO... Do IT! Self Publishing is Fantastic...

I read Three Excellent Self Published Books by Richard Warren Field... He's a High School Classmate of Mine and TOTALLY WORTHY! 



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Is Trump The Anti Christ? or Just a Slave of Satan? EXORCISM NEEDED NOW!

In my honest opinion this is happening now and began in 2015 when the evil scum began spewing and spreading hate towards all races and groups that are not “white”….
There is only one way to stop this evil manipulator is to destroy him with Our faith in God. I got the following from this site
It seems like it pertains to what is going on now…
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The false prophet of the end times is described in Revelation 13:11-15. He is also referred to as the “second beast” (Revelation 13:11; 16:13, 19:20, 20:10). Together with the Antichrist and Satan, who empowers both of them, the false prophet is the third party in the unholy trinity
The apostle John describes this person and gives us clues to identifying him when he shows up. First, he comes out of the earth. This could mean he comes up from the pit of hell with all the demonic powers of hell at his command. It could also mean he comes from lowly circumstances, secret and unknown until he bursts on the world stage at the right hand of the Antichrist. He is depicted as having horns like a lamb, while speaking like a dragon. The horns on lambs are merely small bumps on their heads until the lamb grows into a ram. Rather than having the Antichrist’s multiplicity of heads and horns, showing his power and might and fierceness, the false prophet comes like a lamb, winsomely, with persuasive words that elicit sympathy and good will from others. He may be an extraordinary preacher or orator whose demonically empowered words will deceive the multitudes. But he speaks like a dragon, which means his message is the message of a dragon. Revelation 12:9 identifies the dragon as the devil and Satan.
Verse 12 gives us the false prophet’s mission on earth, which is to force humanity to worship the Antichrist. He has all the authority of the Antichrist because, like him, the false prophet is empowered by Satan. It is not clear whether people are forced to worship the Antichrist or whether they are so enamored of these powerful beings that they fall for the deception and worship him willingly. The fact that the second beast uses miraculous signs and wonders, including fire from heaven, to establish the credibility of both of them would seem to indicate that people will fall before them in adoration of their power and message. Verse 14 goes on to say the deception will be so great that the people will set up an idol to the Antichrist, "the image of the beast," and worship it. This is reminiscent of the huge golden image of Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 3) before which all were to bow down and pay homage. Revelation 14:9-11, however, describes the ghastly fate that awaits those who worship the image of the Antichrist.
Those who survive the terrors of the tribulation to this point will be faced with two hard choices. Those who refuse to worship the image of the beast will be subject to death (Revelation 13:15), but those who do worship him will incur the wrath of God. The image will be extraordinary in that it will be able to “speak.” Whatever the image is (a statue? a hologram? an android? a human-animal hybrid? a clone?), it will have some kind of ability to breathe forth the message of the Antichrist and the false prophet. Along with being the spokesman for them, the image will condemn to death those who refuse to worship the unholy pair. In our technological world, it is not hard to imagine such a scenario.
Whoever the false prophet turns out to be, the final world deception and the final apostasy will be great, and the whole world will be caught up in it. The deceivers and false teachers we see today are the forerunners of the Antichrist and the false prophet, and we must not be deceived by them. These false teachers abound, and they are moving us toward a final satanic kingdom. We must faithfully proclaim the saving gospel of Jesus Christ and rescue the souls of men and women from the coming disaster.

Loquat

Help me remember: 
When I was a kid growing up in Los Gatos, there was this fruit that I ate and I can't remember its name. What I remember is that it was like an apricot, but it had maybe 3 pits that were sort of slimy. Maybe it grew in the area, I don't remember. Anybody know?
Well, in the middle of the night the answer finally came to me, and confirmed here in this thread: loquat. I had been mixing it up in my mind with kumquat, which I knew wasn't the right answer, kumquat being a tiny citrus fruit. I don't remember how I had access to loquats, but I remember eating them. I remember that the seeds took up quite a bit of the bulk of the fruit. Can you buy them at a grocery store?

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and then on FaceBorg LJ Wrote:
I'd like to share one of the many things I love about the teachings that Ram Dass shared with us -I love that it is through my direct experience with Spirit that I am led. In quoting the third great patriarch of something I can't remember Ram Dass often reminds us that "the Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences"
After my kids left their bodies everything took on new meaning and my entire reason for being is being redefined. I am freshly sober since the first Monday of june 2022 and I am developing a non bias take on life and my part in it... The following came to me about an hour ago...
I've created a really tough imaginary dilemma for myself that I have to use real world "stuff" to overcome...
I guess I just "Bass Ackwards manifested some ship (and it's about to sink)
Regardless-I'm now slightly more in tune with the feelings that were involved and the choices I made that invoked them.
I am beginning to love how my sober mind works-it's pretty amazing to observe myself from a viewpoint that's sort of like watching a movie, except it's more like the raw script, pre first draft while there are still so many different choices...What's really enlightening is watching my sub conscious self zip on past all the choices, as if they're not even there along a fixed and repetitive route the perpetually leads to the same unsatisfactory results every single time.
It's quite comical, really; and it's not like one piece of daily life here and there, It's the whole friggin puzzle! So, what is comical is when I catch my observing self wandering off into the vast abyss, hand in hand with my sub conscious self. I used be provoked when this happened, but I can't help but chuckle now-and bless them with Godspeed-they served their purpose well...

and I Replied:
Thanks for Sharing... I found that Quitting Drinking and Smoking made my thoughts more clear... I was able to understand more and - Write better... and Sing Better... and Get Stuff Done! I published about 10 Music Videos while Smoking Marijuana and Tobacco... and then I Published about a Hundred after I quit.

Chart of Where the Notes are on the Guitar and Piano - gvan42


Thanks for the add, and apologies if this has been done to death but...I have been playing for years (about 40?) and I'm in a pub rock band but I have never got my head around theory. I bang away using blues scale for everything. I've bought books over the years and I kind of understand things but it is not like it feels part of my language. Like, I've played with people who understand theory and they will throw things at me like "are you playing the 3rd there?" or "how about adding the 9th to that chord?" and it's not like I have no idea what they are saying but I need a reference book, pencil and paper to work it out. For them, it just seems like they are fluent in the language of music, while I'm struggling along with a phrase book!
Recently I've been watching some podcasts where people break songs down and point out that some well known songs have solos in the wrong key and things like that - really interesting and it sounds much better in the right key...although I would never have noticed there was anything 'wrong'.
I guess I'm wondering - how do I get fluent in music theory? I suppose it's practice...but I have no real reason to practice. By which I mean, I play covers in the band...so I learn the song then play it. So, theory isn't a huge part of my day to day.
Anyway - sorry for the long post. Any advice gratefully received!

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Greta Thunberg
@GretaThunberg
We are 636 young people in @auroramalet
who are suing the Swedish state for insufficient climate action.
”When the state carries out climate policy that threatens our human rights, it breaks the law.”
3:12 PM · Nov 24, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

Venn Book Diagram
“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
Walt Whitman - Preface to ‘Leaves of Grass, 1850.
Guns - meme - swastika - gvan42
Mel Tol Said:
We’d better start to elect more fair minded intelligent lawmakers to begin with who actually value human lives over a powerful lobbying group who doesn’t seem to care about anyone other than themselves in my opinion. I’m for the right to bear arms, but in a reasonable responsible way. In my opinion there’s no civilian justifiable reason for owning and using military grade automatic/semiautomatic weapons. Responsible law abiding gun owners will tell you that the majority of them support common sense gun laws in this country. Some of the very people who carry on about their freedoms are actually taking away far too many other people’s freedoms in my opinion. If this public killing spree is allowed to continue in this country, mark my words it will eventually cripple our very way of lives and severely inhibit our businesses as well as our economy in my opinion. You might ask how. People are already starting to be cautious in public. Even a car back firing at a mall can cause a stir. People want to have their loved ones and themselves safe in public as well as private settings. Something that Americans never gave a second thought too even ten years ago, as in going to the grocery store, a movie, a concert, the mall, going to a place of business, have all been scared by mass shootings. The confidence in American’s feeling secure in public settings is eroding at the hands of one powerful lobby group. I say why do they get to determine Americans safety and security for their own benefits? More and more businesses are going to feel the pinch of gunmen with an agenda dictating where people actually shop and socialize in my opinion. Will America get its act together and stop letting a lobby group dictate to us? I hope and pray we do. Not only do lives literally depend upon it. America itself does too





"The hour has come for a new generation to lead the Democratic caucus." - Nancy Pelosi

YES! Let's Get those Really Old People OUT... 
Retire Now! Dianne Feinstein, Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell and Chuck Grassley! 

GO FIND A ROCKING CHAIR on the Porch and Enjoy Watching the River Roll BY! GTFO!

Watching The River Go By · John Hartford

Cartoon: Founding Fathers Toasting Nancy Pelosi


GOP Strategist Found Guilty of Moving Illegal Russian Funds to Trump Campaign... 

Jesse Benton, 44, a onetime aide to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), former congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), and Paul’s son, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), worked with another consultant to shift money from the Russian national, who was seeking to meet and take a photo with Trump, according to The Washington Post.


Gavin Newsom Potus 2024 - Jennifer Siebel - Camelot 2.0

With his re-election on Nov. 8 all but assured by an overwhelmingly Democratic electorate and a massive fundraising advantage, Newsom has practically ignored his Republican opponent for months, turning his attention instead to passing abortion protections, defeating a tax on the wealthiest Californians and picking fights with the GOP governors of Texas and Florida.

His increasingly national profile, which includes an appearance last month at a political festival in Texas and helping to raise money for embattled Democratic candidates across the country, has fanned speculation that Newsom is laying the groundwork to run for president — at some point, anyway — despite his repeated protestations that he has “sub-zero interest” in the job. 

AI CONTENT:

Trump is a loser. The GOP is looking backwards.

With the GOP candidate's failure to win the US presidential election, Trump has been rejected by voters in a very public way.

Donald Trump was the Republican candidate for president of the United States. He lost his bid for presidency and is now a loser. He looks backwards instead of moving forward.

Trump's campaign has raised $66 million in donations from GOP supporters and other donors, but he has not been able to get any funding from outside sources. Except "Secret" Donations from Russians!



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and then on FaceBorg I Found this Insightful Post:

Theron (person's Name) started the paperwork to bring my 92 yr old father-in-law home on hospice for end of life care ,  the doctor called him about 1 & 1/2 hrs ago, he’s is getting the rest of the paperwork filled out. We chose the hospice where he worked, & we are looking for him, of course, to have an easy transition to be reunited with his love of his life, wife Marijetta , again, we could definitely use all the prayers, positive vibes good intentions, everything that you have that you can spare we will take. There are 5 children. everybody has a different opinion of what he's been experiencing, when Theron tested negative, he went right there, not at all what others were saying.. he needs this or hell die there Theron said Everyone is on the same page except for 1 person, but he will soon come around. He’s in denial right now, that is Steven we are asking for his heart condition to see what is really needed, not what is wanted Or wished for ,  it’s interesting, how the siblings who were visiting with him saw one thing and then, when my husband when he saw a total different thing when I FaceTime with my father-in-law, he told me bye-bye Terre I love you I don’t know if I’ll ever see you again! I thanked him for being a good father to me also, for loving me, excepting me into their family, always supporting my ideas and ideals ,  the thing is he has 100% clarity , he is extremely lucid & knows everything that is going on 1 thing he has is a wonderful mind his body is just failing body him , he’s very weak, cannot even get out of bed to even get in a wheelchair or walk to the bathroom. We want him to transition with dignity, and being home will give him that ,  our children can visit with him at home. Everyone in the family can spend quality time with him. This is the best thing we could think of to do for him , it’s the least we could do for him !! Ty tribe , for hanging with us throughout this , my family and myself. Appreciate everyone of you and all of your prayers. Good vibes intentions are felt trust me they are extremely felt and welcome. Thank you all.
Namaste 🙏❤️‍🩹


In the Year 2121... What Do You Think the World Will Be Like 100 Years from Now? State Your Opinion in the Comments Section Below!

I Don't have much hope for the Future... I Believe there will be a Global Economic Collapse and the Only People Left Alive will be Subsistence Farmers... As Soon as Money Becomes Valueless, Grocery Stores Will FAIL... One Billion People Will Survive... 

Many Disasters Could Trigger this... 

The USA Defaulting on Its Loans by Failing to Raise the Debt Ceiling... 

A Computer Virus or Ransomware Makes the Internet FAIL Completely...

 Gasoline Price Rises to $30.00 a Gallon Making Driving a Truck filled with Food to the Grocery Store Impractical...

Climate Change increasing to the Point where the Entire Western USA Burns and 100 Tornadoes blast the Midwest and Hurricanes Wipe Out the Gulf Coast and the Atlantic Seaboard... 

Christmas and New Years Eve Superspreader Parties this year... Millions of Americans At Family Gatherings will spread the COVID-19 Virus... No Masks, No Vaccines... Massive Kill Off of Idiots... 

Pretty Damn Likely One of these Will Happen...  

and as the Entire World Self Destructs... Will Someone Set Off All the Atomic Bombs? Will the Only Life forms that will survive be Insects and Plankton? 

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Maybe I'm Wrong... Maybe We'll have Global Economic Collapse within 20 Years... What if Czar Donald the INSANE declares the USA Bankrupt?  That's What He Does Best!

If the GOP wins the House in 2022 and Appoints Trump Speaker... and Then Impeaches or [REDACTED] Both Biden and Harris... Instant CZAR Donald. They will Outlaw Elections... Replace Democracy with Monarchy...  

Some Hydro, Solar and Wind Electric Power Plants will Continue to Function and a Civilization will be rebuilt... by people that live in remote areas and grow goats, sheep, cattle and vegetables... Like the Islands off Scotland... or Iceland... Indians on the Yucatan... Bedouins... The'll be Drinking Camel Milk and Eating Dates... Just Like They Have Done for Ten  Thousand Years...

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The Only Thing that gives me hope is... I've been Predicting Global Economic Collapse since the 1980s... and It Hasn't Happened Yet! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sP7wGwfGdw

and Maybe I'll be Dead before the Disaster Strikes... I'm 67 Years old and You Kids will be left with the Mess we Made... 

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El Nino weather Forecast 2022


SE on FaceBorg Said: I took this picture of my TV yesterday during a news broadcast. In case anyone is unaware of the difference in El Nino 2016 vs El Nino 1998, this proves it. El Nino 2016 has been a joke.

I Replied: I remember El Nino 1998. I was working at the Saratoga Ave Radio Shack on Quito Road. It Rained so much I felt Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and took a Vacation to Las Vegas to Improve My Mood... The High point of that trip was the Star Trek Ride at the Hilton. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Experience

SE SAID: I remember it too. I was so happy. I remember how it rained and rained for days on end. I spent a weekend staying with a friend in San Francisco, and it rained the entire time. I loved every second of it. Now, every time I go to San Francisco, it’s SUNNY. Whatever happened to that beautiful fog which SF was famous for? Nothing but sun, sun, sun now. I HATE IT.

I Replied: Climate Change is Real... Expect Phoenix Like Weather From Now On... Plant a Cactus Garden...

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On a different subject! 

Conservatives point to the Fall of the USSR as Justification for all the Trillions of Dollars and Thousands of Lives wasted on the Cold War, The Vietnam War and The Korean War. They say "SEE? It was all worth it because WE WON!" --->A Temporary Victory at best<--- Putin has Come Back as Strong as Kruschev if Not Stronger... 

Did we REALLY "Win" The Cold War? Now There are Three Superpowers... China, Russia and the USA... And Russia has become so powerful that they put their Agent as President of the United States! We Built Thousands of Atom Bombs... Financed the Mujahideen  in Afghanistan and 58,000 Americans Died in Vietnam... and The War Against Godless Communism FAILED... They Still have not Converted to Christianity! and BOTH of the Other Superpowers have reworked their economic system to be Capitalist... 

Communism was Doomed to Fail Simply Because it was Absurd! No Need for the USA to Pay Pay Pay to Fight Proxy Wars Like Korea, Vietnam or Afghanistan... 

In 2021 The Pentagon Budget is Even Larger than Ever Before... We Ended the War in Afghanistan and so a "Peace Dividend" is due to the American Taxpayers but... NO... Lockheed, Raytheon, General Atomics and DOW Want More Money to BUILD POINTLESS WEAPONS! I'm especially angered by having to pay for DRONES... Killer Robots in the Sky like the Terminator Movie!

Check out the Movie Charlie Wilson's War with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts... all about Winning the Cold War... 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Wilson%27s_War_(film)

Part of the Financing of "Freedom Fighters" in Afghanistan was the CIA Training Base that was used by Osama bin Laden... Was THAT "Winning?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_assistance_to_Osama_bin_Laden

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and on another different subject!

While Listening to the "Saturday Night Alive for the Global Peace Tribe" Show... We Were asked to Name our Most Influential Teachers... People that Made a Difference in our lives... Many People mentioned RAM DASS... and I Too Have learned from Him... and then I started thinking about WHO Really Changed the World... many Mentioned Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, John Lennon, John F Kennedy, Paramahansa Yogananda, Buckminster Fuller... 

and Then I Made May Own List... 

Dr, Albert Hofmann... He Invented LSD... 

Abbie Hoffman: Founder of the YIPPIES!

Ken Kesey and the Grateful Dead... 

Sonya Sophia and the World Tapping Circle Webinar... 

don Miguel Ruiz: author of The Four Agreements Book... 

Carlos Castaneda: author of the Teachings of don Juan and a dozen other books... 

Mark Sims: Leader of the Harmonic Convergence a Group Online Contacting Aliens Event... 

William Wilson: Creator of Alcoholics Anonymous... aka Bill W. 

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak: Founders of Apple Computer.

George Carlin and Thomas Chong... Comedy...

Dr Timothy Leary 

Firesign Theater... Comedy!

The Whole Earth Catalog... Stewart Brand... He also was a test subject of Project MKULTRA at Stanford University with Ken Kesey and Robert Hunter (Lyrics Grateful Dead)

The Diggers - a Street Theater Group from the San Francisco Haight Ashbury District late 1960s... 

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What Names Have I Forgotten? 

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Speaking of Paramahansa Yogananda... there is a Commune in Northern California of His Followers... Right Now it's Closed to Outsiders due to COVID-19 but... I'd like to Visit it Someday... In the Foothills near Grass Valley or Nevada City... 

 https://www.anandavillage.org/


While I was Listening to the Saturday Night Alive for the Global Peace Tribe show... I Noticed that Every Guest had a Website... Where they Show Their Special Talent... 

 So... I Did a Total Makeover of MY Blog to Create a Positive Space... and Make it Easy for Random Web Surfers to Find What They are Interested In... I decided that MY One Biggest Talent is the Black and White Line Drawings that I Ask People to Print... and Color using Felt Pens or Pencils... Hopefully there will be Thousands of My Drawings Worldwide... 

gvan42 art - impossible object


https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/08/my-digital-paintings-of-ezekiels-wheel.html

I have Published My Words, Pictures and Songs... and I Realized that by using FREE Platforms... my stuff will be Online After I'm Dead... Google Blogger, Youtube, Wordpress and a Dozen Social Media Sites... If you pay a FEE, Your Content Vanishes when You Stop Paying...

A Collection of My Artwork is at Google Image Search=gvan42

LINK! https://tinyurl.com/gvan42-art

in the year 2121

Story Plot: That Came to me in a dream last night... 

One day a man who worked as a scientist was working in his lab and... a stranger kidnapped him and made him think of new ideas or die... Held the Scientist Hostage! anf the Scientist had the most productive week of his life... and then the stranger just took the Ideas that he had written down and said... "Thanks! You are free to Go About Your Life... " and Let the Scientist Go... 

and It Turned out that The Scientist was only one of a Dozen People Held Hostage that week... by a Dozen Strangers... and ALL the Ideas were published for free on the internet that week... 

Then The Police tracked down the Kidnappers and arrested them, put them in Prison for years... 

Time Passed... 

and Another Scientist, A Lady, was thinking back to her Own Time as Hostage and said: "I'm Bored. I Haven't Done Anything Revolutionary Since That Time I Was Forced to Think or Die."

So She went to Visit The Original Hostage and... They Spent a Week Making Love and Designing the Future... and They Published all their Ideas online... "That was FUN! Why Didn't we Think of that Before?" - "Well... I Guess we didn't have a Gun To Our Heads! and THAT'S Why we didn't Have The Mind Sprout... "  


food meme


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*JUST JOKING* A Step by Step Guide to the Violet Overgrow of the Ruling Class - A Novel by Gregory Vanderlaan *JUST JOKING*

Step #1: 
Boycott Everything Until Prices Come Down. 
Corporations owned by the 1% keep on raising prices and collecting windfall profits. They will keep on doing that until people quit buying. If they could, they would charge $100.00 for a Quart of Milk... 

Step #2: Sneak Marijuana Cookies onto the Buffet Tables of the Hotels near Capitol Hill in Washington DC. If the "Suits" that Run the Government had a Cannabis Trip... maybe they would think twice about doing evil for a living. Place some Cannabis Edibles in the Senate Dining Room also... At the very least they would change the CrazyLaws® about Marijuana... 

Step #3: Cut the Pentagon Budget in Half. This will really anger the Ruling Class as They Profit Greatly from Corporate Welfare. Remember: Since 1945 the US Military has Never Defended the USA... Not Even Once... So all that money being spent at the Pentagon is Just a Way to Transfer Wealth from the Taxpayers to the Owners of Defense Corporations...  The same Owners Finance the Campaigns of the Senators and Congressmen that Write the Bills that Fund the Pentagon... So the Money Travels in a Tight Circle... and YOU GET NOTHING... 

Step #4: Stop Funding Fossil Fuel Corporations. "U.S. taxpayers spend tens of billions of dollars a year subsidizing new fossil fuel exploration, production, and consumption, which directly affects how much oil, natural gas, and coal gets produced—and how much clean energy doesn’t." https://generation180.org/the-absurd-truth-about-fossil-fuel-subsidies/

Step #5: YOUR IDEA HERE! Email Me: gregvan (at) yahoo (dot) com 

and then on FaceBorg: 

SE SAID: 
When you go out to hear live music, please DON’T ask the band if you can go up on stage and sing with them. You are not a member of said band, and you have no business expecting them to allow you to perform with them as if you were. You can make a request, but it’s up to the band whether or not they want to play your request - and if they do, THEY will be the ones to perform it, not you. The band is working and playing music to entertain you, and all you have to do is listen and enjoy the music. If you don’t like the music, you are free to go. But if you choose to stay, please show some respect and appreciation for what they do.

MM Responded:
So last night a young well groomed inebriated man started requesting a song for us to play. Before we could respond he said that he would like to join us onstage and sing it.
We said NO.
We’ve tried to be polite and said we do not play that song. He walked away and then a few minutes later came back to demand again. Again we said NO and we explained that if he wanted to do anything like that with us, he needed to audition and rehearse with us beforehand. We didn’t know him nor his singing abilities at all.
But he felt entitled to keep on harassing us to demand the song of us. We politely said we do not play the song (and it’s not a song that we would play—Hootenanny has stringent criteria about what tunes are acceptable for our list) and it’s not on our list of rehearsed songs. He then started to tell us that it’s only four chords—C Am… but we said that we are NOT a karaoke band nor a jukebox, and that he should get his own band.
“Worst band ever!” was his response as he staggered off. He probably won’t even remember any of this exchange tomorrow.
Meanwhile we also had a scruffy homeless guy visit us. He was a bit loud and all, but he was very appreciative of our music. His deep appreciation showed as he gave me two crumpled one dollar bills from his pocket afterwards, looked me in the eyes, and said “thank you” to me. He really meant it. Who knows what sort of battles he was fighting in his own head to get to the point where he became homeless but he was grateful enough to give back for entertaining him. Those two dollars were a gift of extreme value coming from him. I graciously said thank you back to him.
The young drunk man left us no tip. He danced with his partner for many songs too. We didn’t matter to him—we were beneath him. It was all about him and his needs.
In a weird Sci-fi twist ending, it would be weird if these two completely different people were one in the same—separated by 30 years of life lessons. My mind works like that sometimes.

and MM Continued:
Thanks SE. It doesn’t happen all the time—but on occasion we get someone who thinks that we can simply download from the cloud how to play a song into our brains, especially if it is a simple tune. Personally, I know how to play Stand by Me on guitar, bass and drums—but that doesn’t mean an audience member can ask us to do it so that they can sing it onstage with us. The good people that join us for a number or two—we know them and we know that they are good enough to sit in, or have rehearsed with us beforehand.
There are karaoke bands out there that can play pretty much any tune they can look up. We don’t do that. And the stuff we do is often deceptively simple but in reality quite challenging for a trio. Some people simply think musicians know all the songs by every artist. Yes, we’ve heard the song. We may even like it. But that’s not the same as rehearsing the song several times and getting the parts right before playing it. I think it’s the Disney sitcom mentality that people get used to—that someone asks for a song and the band miraculously plays it flawlessly without ever rehearsing it. Maybe for a piano player at a bar who can fake their way through a song on their own, but for a real life band it’s not as easy.

and I Replied: 
Quite an unusual story... I don't think I've ever heard of a member of the audience joining a band onstage... It would be totally rude! It would be really easy to just go find a Karaoke Bar and Sing there! 

I've played guitar and sang in public in the Central park in Chico and on the street... I was delighted to be in the center of a group of singing people... "Yellow Submarine" is a good group sing along song... so is "People are Strange" by the doors... and "Witchy Woman" by the Eagles... mainly because people can really freak out when they get to the lyric "Oooo, oo, oo, oo, ahh, oo, oo, ahh, ahh, ahh, oo, oo, oo, ahhhhhhhh, Who!" and then I liked to play the song "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning" a Traditional Spiritual... That Way I Took the People to the Gates of HELL and then Brought them Back into the Light... saving their Souls at the Last Moment!

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