9.30.2005

WHATREALLYHAPPENED.COM

A perplexing site... a tad angry in spots but a good reference tool.

Dr. Eyad Serraj: What Disengagement Sounds Like

Unfortunately Gaza is not free. I am sorry if you thought for an instant or two that was really it. But it isn't over.

9.29.2005

Dropping Knowledge

A fascinating idea put to practical use. Like a worldwide round-table with no back-talking. I like it. Gets the old juices flowing!

"We believe that asking questions improves the world. Dropping knowledge means dropping the assumption that we know all the answers. It means questioning the conventional wisdom. It means figuring out which questions are the most important to ask, sharing answers and then challenging those answers. We call the practice of asking questions and sharing wisdom, dropping knowledge.However one defines knowledge, by dropping it freely
to others, we all gain wisdom to improve the world.

Dropping knowledge is an educational resource and online network that connects people around the globe seeking to exchange ideas and solutions to the most pressing issues of our day. We believe that as our challenges become global, so must our communications and actions.

Our activities create collective wisdom for social change. A unique combination of interactive and audio-visual technology allows the user to engage a web archive of content from a wide variety of individuals and organizations.

Through interactive media, events, and a living library, we generate debate, enable people to participate in defining and prioritizing issues, and facilitate the exchange of solutions. dropping knowledge celebrates multiple viewpoints and insights from some of the most thoughtful leaders of our day."

Paolo Soleri's Arcosanti - The 1st Eco-City

I wish this guy were better known outside of really smart elitest sustainable construction cliques. Arcosanti has been built by volunteer and workshop labor over 30 years. It's primary function is to serve as an Urban Laboratory. Under construction in the Arizona high desert Arcosanti intends to present an alternative to urban sprawl.

9.26.2005

Masaru Emoto's Messages From Water

*UPDATE* 9.29 - I was just informed that this dude was featured in the film What the Bleep Do We Know, which I have not seen, which is also supposedly funded by Ramtha's cult? So, apologies for my initial excitement, I should have smelled a fish just 'cause the info came from my mother.

This stuff is incredible. These photos of the effects of fundamental words and intentions on something as basic as water crystals on a molecular level proves many things: the power of words, the roots of magic spells, the importance of kindness, that the damage we do to the environment directly affects our emotional, physical and spiritual wellbeing and the lives of every other organism on this planet.

From Mr. Emoto's work we are provided with factual evidence, that human vibrational energy, thoughts, words, ideas and music, affect the molecular structure of water, the very same water that comprises over seventy percent of a mature human body and covers the same amount of our planet. Water is the very source of all life on this planet, the quality and integrity are vitally important to all forms of life. The body is very much like a sponge and is composed of trillions of chambers called cells that hold liquid. The quality of our life is directly connected to the quality of our water.

Water is a very malleable substance. Its physical shape easily adapts to whatever environment is present. But its physical appearance is not the only thing that changes, the molecular shape also changes. The energy or vibrations of the environment will change the molecular shape of water. In this sense water not only has the ability to visually reflect the environment but it also molecularly reflects the environment.

Mr. Emoto has been visually documenting these molecular changes in water by means of his photographic techniques. He freezes droplets of water and then examines them under a dark field microscope that has photographic capabilities. His work clearly demonstrates the diversity of the molecular structure of water and the effect of the environment upon the structure of the water.

Snow has been falling on the earth for more than a few million years. Each snowflake, as we have been told, has a very unique shape and structure. By freezing water and taking a photograph of the structure, as Mr. Emoto has done, you get incredible information about the water.

Mr. Emoto has discovered many fascinating differences in the crystalline structures of water from many different sources and different conditions around the planet. Water from pristine mountain streams and springs show the beautifully formed geometric designs in their crystalline patterns. Polluted and toxic water from industrial and populated areas and stagnated water from water pipes and storage dams show definitively distorted and randomly formed crystalline structures.

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After seeing water react to different environmental conditions, pollution and music, Mr. Emoto and colleagues decided to see how thoughts and words affected the formation of untreated, distilled, water crystals, using words typed onto paper by a word processor and taped on glass bottles overnight. The same procedure was performed using the names of deceased persons. The waters were then frozen and photographed.

You have to see the photos of this stuff to realize its vast importance. More photos are available at this site as well: Message From Water.And you could go to WellnessGoods.com where the article was originally published. Emoto's Book is called The Message From Water.

9.25.2005

Technoccult

As befits a noble blogger I must return proffered 'props' by directing all viewers to one of my friend Klint's blogs. Klint has a very perverse, eclectic taste in pure, unadulterated information, which makes him an excellent cataloguer and documenter of our society and the knowledge floating in the ether around us. Check out his site, please!

9.24.2005

Copwatch.com -- Policing the Police

Interesting new site... have to register though... anyone know if this is cool or does my name just go on another twelve government lists as soon as I click enter?

9.20.2005

The border comes down for a few scant days and no one on our side of the world even notices

This was quite possibly the most amazing thing to happen in recent history and no one in the mainstream media even touched upon it unless it was from an Israeli or Egyptian perspective. The western world makes me sick. If anyone has access to photos of Palestinians climbing over that stupid wall please send them my way. Why'd we make such a big deal over eastern and western germany and their wall? As usual the BBC has a smidgen of interesting news to offer up on this subject but we in the developed nations have better things to be worrying about like hurricanes and stock values and fast food and corrupt politicians, why should we worry about a few sand niggers on the other side of the world who never did anything for us? Good thing the fucking Zionists bulldozed all their perfectly good homes before giving Gaza back to the Palestinians. What the hell good does that do? Bulldozing brand new buildings. Fuck you Sharon. Fuck you Mr. President. Fuck you Mainstream Media. Fuck you corporate spin doctors. Fuck you greedy Jewish disillusioned Zionist assholes. One holocaust does not deserve another.

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