Yep, it makes sense to address the root cause and cycle of the problem, if you're actually concerned about people's well-being. So *preaching to the choir* how in the world is putting someone in prison addressing that? Obviously, it isn't working very well. But hey, why not heap a bunch more harm to people on top of the pile of misery?
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Yep, it makes sense to address the root cause and cycle of the problem, if you're actually concerned about people's well-being. So *preaching to the choir* how in the world is putting someone in prison addressing that? Obviously, it isn't working very well. But hey, why not heap a bunch more harm to people on top of the pile of misery?
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Well, it’s working great for the private prison industry we seem to have developed here.
It’s scary actually…there should be no money making involved in such things…it’s a total conflict of interest.
Just like we hear about cops who have to write a bunch of tickets to make a monthly quota…are you kidding me?
If people aren’t breaking the law in my community then the cops are doing their job no?
That’s where I want to live…not the place where people are being harassed to meet a quota…we have all gone insane!
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Me too!
Holy shit, is that hard!
Doing much better on this end these days…which is making it easier to love myself, center, and ground myself.
I really think that dream about the demons was profound…I think they were that last parts of myself that refused to go!
One was the hold the drugs had on me…the other, more powerful one…the older one…was my self-critical nature and hatred for me that I have carried for so long.
I took their power, and then I killed the motherfuckers.
Hahaha!
I asked that of myself after reading your response “Why not just be happy?”
And I believe that I can be now…and that feels really good…and it’s such a relief…after carrying that weight around for so long…as far back as I can remember.
Much love to you!
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This is so incredible!
(but not surprising)
Ever been in a forest and thought you heard whispering?
Maybe it wasn't in your head.
[video=youtube;iSGPNm3bFmQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iSGPNm3bFmQ[/video]
This is so incredible!
(but not surprising)
Ever been in a forest and thought you heard whispering?
Maybe it wasn't in your head.
[video=youtube;iSGPNm3bFmQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iSGPNm3bFmQ[/video]
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THE TWO SIDES OF THE CONSCIOUS COMMUNITY:
WHERE DO YOU FALL?
WHERE DO YOU FALL?
One of the things that I’ve noticed over the years is that there seems to be some division within the conscious community.
Two sides have emerged that often seem to find themselves at odds with each other.
For every Yin, there is a Yang.
And even in a community built on love and peace, you still find a great deal of separation.
This isn’t to say that every member of this community is polarized on one end of this spectrum.
There are may shades of gray in between the two opposites, so you may find yourself on a middle ground between these two polarities.
It will be interesting to review this within ourselves and on a mass scale so we can try to come to an understanding that combines the best of both worlds and use the strengths of both to initiate some real change.
With that being said, here are the two sides of the conscious community:
Side 1 – Positivity Is The Only Way
On one side, you have your predominantly “positive vibes” group.
This group is usually very concerned with the quality of their vibration and they aim to live in a positive state as much as possible.
They don’t see any good reason why they should dwell on anything that makes them feel anything but blissful.
Life is too short to spend it feeling miserable.
Avoid the negative, and amplify the positive.
Oftentimes, this crowd follows the Law of Attraction and works to avoid conflict and drama.
They tend to believe that it is important to have positive thoughts, use positive language and focus on positive issues to create the most spiritually fulfilling life possible.
They typically do not like to focus on problems or negativity in any form, and tend to avoid anything that compromises their high vibration.
The judgment on people who are not always positive seems to be that they feel they are focusing too much on the negative, and are thus drawing more negative circumstances into their realities.
This side of the fence tends to believe that the way you initiate positive change is through focusing on the positive, and that negative thoughts only create more problems.
Therefore, they would say, by focusing on government corruption we only create more government corruption because we are feeding it our attention.
Side 2 – Facing The Darkness Is The Only Way
This side tends to spend more time talking about the problems with the world in hopes that they can arrive at a solution.
This side of the community is very vocal about the things that they want to change.
They are concerned about issues like animal rights, immunizations, GMOs, conspiracies, and corruption in the government.
They tend to believe in the importance of spreading awareness about the problems in the world in order to initiate positive change.
These people tend to be activists, and believe that facing the negative is what allows us to transmute it into something positive.
If we don’t take the time to learn and talk about what is wrong with the world, how can we expect to change it?
These people don’t exactly dwell on the negative, but they invest more of their attention there in hopes it will result in something transformative.
The judgement appears to be that they believe the positive vibe side has their head in the sand, and are deliberately ignoring important issues to make themselves feel better.
At times those on this side will express that they believe that people who focus only on the positive are squandering their potential to initiate change.
They will often say that ignoring problems doesn’t make them go away, it just takes help and support away from the cause.
They believe it is our duty to help those in need and stand up for what’s right, even if it makes us feel miserable or uncomfortable.
The Middle Ground
The middle ground between these two polarities is that both sides have something to offer.
We should speak out against injustice, but at the same time we should not allow it to drive us into insanity.
Friedrich Nietzsche once said “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster”, meaning that we should be careful that we don’t turn into the very thing we are fighting against.
By creating a balance in our attention on both the light and darkness, we are well equipped to be the change the world needs right now.
Ignoring the darkness won’t produce anything positive, but neither with dwelling there.
By learning what we are up against and balancing that out with spiritual grounding and a well-trained mind, we have a much greater force in the world.
We can’t live in ignorance, but we can’t allow the darkness to consume us.
Although there are many similarities between these two sides, this one particular issue has created a bit of division.
Do we solve today’s problems by generating awareness about them and fighting for change?
Or instead, do we solve today’s problems by choosing to make peace with them and focusing instead on what’s going right with the world?
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Very interesting!!
I can definitely relate to what he is talking about.
I have a very difficult time remaining positive all the time…or even a percentage of the time for that matter.
I cannot ignore the world, as wonderful of an escape that would be…I don’t think you can either.
I wish to make it a better place for my Son to grow up in, and I hope that it is.
For a long time I stayed with the job I had because it was good money and I was really good at it as well.
But it began to lose some of it’s charm the last few years…it can be a very cold environment, with very little if any acknowledgment or thanks.
In my position, I rarely got to see the outcomes of the people who I worked on, unless they came back for round two or three or four…hehe.
When I was in my early 20s I worked as a direct care aid to the very elderly who’s spouse was too old to take care of them, or they just needed the extra help.
It was so much more fulfilling on a personal level to me.
Being a paramedic was a close second, though we saw the patients for only a fraction of time.
That part of me needs to find fulfillment in direct service and contact with others…with those who really need help…those who cannot help themselves.
I just cannot go back to anything short of that at this point in my life.
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Nope!
I don't think at this stage when we are all so interconnected through 'globalisation' and the stakes have become so high that anyone should be ignoring it!
Because the bottom line is that change is going to require a certain impetus from enough people; that impetus needs to be built
He's right about a lot of new agers...they are in denial and they are repressing things
That's all tough work man...emotionally
Being a paramedic must be tough on the nerves as well because each time you go out you don't know what you're going to find
I remember being in a situation where a guy was effectively dying in front of us and there were nurses and a doctor present and people were flapping...no one seemed to know what to do. It was in the small hours of the morning, people were sluggish, someone went to get oxygen and brought the wrong tank...a whole catalogue of errors
An ambulance was called and i was very struck by the professionalism of the paramedic...they came in and just took over the situation, took the guy away and saved him. Amazing stuff
I read somewhere about your experience with a hospital you were working in where the management brought someone in who axed jobs, gutted the work force and then collected bonuses
I saw that happen too and can relate to a certain extent to how soul destroying that must be to watch. For me it was only a part time job and wasn;t going to impact much on my own life but for you it was your career so to see that happening is pretty frustrating
The same thing happened...they brought in a person with a reputation for ruthlessness, they cut peoples jobs, changed everything around and then they were given a large bonus.
The crazy thing is that that person was paid so much for their salary and their bonus that for that money they could have hired more front line staff therefore avoiding the staff cuts!!!!!!
All that happens when they cut frontline staff is that it puts more pressure on the remaining staff who then get overworked and end up sick or injured...it's a totally false economy
It's getting brutal out there. The tory government here in the UK is slowly but surely destroying our national health service because they want to privatise it all which experience shows will actually boost the costs for the user of the service because they then become seen as cash cows to be wrung dry by corporations who consolidate and price fix
What can i say man...i hope you find something that flows for you but they're not making it easy for many people in the kind of society they are building
On a positive note a funny story today......they have just found a cure for the super bug MRSA and they found it in an old anglo-saxon book of remedies! It is an old antibiotic made of wine, garlic and the bile from a cows stomach!!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sci...on-cow-bile-and-garlic-potion-kills-MRSA.html
By Sarah Knapton, Science Editor
1:12PM BST 30 Mar 2015
Anglo-Saxon cow bile and garlic potion kills MRSA
Microbiologists were astonished to find that not only did the salve clear up styes, but it also tackled the deadly superbug MRSA, which is resistant to many antibiotics.
A thousand-year-old medieval remedy for eye infections which was discovered in a manuscript in the British Library has been found to kill the superbug MRSA.
Anglo-Saxon expert Dr Christina Lee, from the School of English, at Nottingham University, recreated the 10th century potion to see if it really worked as an antibacterial remedy.
The 'eyesalve' recipe calls for two species of Allium (garlic and onion or leek), wine and oxgall (bile from a cow’s stomach).
It describes a very specific method of making the topical solution including the use of a brass vessel to brew it, a strainer to purify it and an instruction to leave the mixture for nine days before use.
None of the experts really expected the concoction to work. But when it was tested, microbiologists were amazed to find that not only did the salve clear up styes, but it also tackled the deadly superbug MRSA, which is resistant to many antibiotics.
“We were genuinely astonished at the results of our experiments in the lab,” said Dr Lee.
“We believe modern research into disease can benefit from past responses and knowledge, which is largely contained in non-scientific writings.
“But the potential of these texts to contribute to addressing the challenges cannot be understood without the combined expertise of both the arts and science.”
Dr Lee translated the recipe from Bald’s Leechbook, a leatherbound Old Enlgish manuscript which is kept in the British Library.
The Leechbook is widely thought of as one of the earliest known medical textbooks and contains Anglo-Saxon medical advice and recipes for medicines, salves and treatments.
“Medieval leech books and herbaria contain many remedies designed to treat what are clearly bacterial infections, weeping wounds/sores, eye and throat infections, skin conditions such as erysipelas, leprosy and chest infections,” Dr Lee added.
[video=youtube;mo4K51bQVs0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo4K51bQVs0[/video]
The scientists at Nottingham made four separate batches of the remedy using fresh ingredients each time, as well as a control treatment using the same quantity of distilled water and brass sheeting to mimic the brewing container but without the vegetable compounds.
None of the individual ingredients alone had any measurable effect, but when combined according to the recipe the MRSA populations were almost totally obliterated: about one bacterial cell in a thousand survived in mice wounds.
Researchers believe the antibacterial effect of the recipe is not due to a single ingredient but the combination used and brewing methods. Further research is planned to investigate how and why this works.
Microbiologists at Nottingham University said they were ‘genuinely amazed’ by the discovery.
“We thought that Bald’s eyesalve might show a small amount of antibiotic activity, because each of the ingredients has been shown by other researchers to have some effect on bacteria in the lab,” said Dr Freya Harrison who led the work in the laboratory.
“But we were absolutely blown away by just how effective the combination of ingredients was.
“This truly cross-disciplinary project explores a new approach to modern health care problems by testing whether medieval remedies contain ingredients which kill bacteria or interfere with their ability to cause infection”.
Scientist Dr Steve Diggle added: “When we built this recipe in the lab I didn't really expect it to actually do anything.
“When we found that it could actually disrupt and kill cells in (MRSA) biofilms, I was genuinely amazed.”
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Dr Kendra Rumbaugh, of Texas Tech University in the US, who was asked to replicate the findings, said that the salve performed ‘good if not better’ than traditional antibiotics at tackling the superbug.
The team at Nottingham is seeking more funding to extend the research so that it could be tested on humans.
The findings were presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for General Microbiology in Birmingham which runs from March 30.
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That is really great if that is a true cure for MRSA, if they could somehow make it into a systemic drug or extract as people are “carriers” of MRSA.
Unfortunately, MRSA is not the worst that is out there right now…
(debbie downer wha-wha)
I am never surprised when they find “new” cures in recipes that have been around as long as man has written.
It’s really a shame that the pharmaceutical industry is such a profit over people beast…imagine what could actually be done if they truly had the health and best interests of the people in mind? That would be a turning point in mankind’s future.
I more and more am being directed by the Universe to help drug addicts.
Having gone through painful detox from different prescribed drugs (twice!), having been a paramedic and seeing them overdose…there is no comparison to being sympathetic to the addicts, and being able to empathize about how powerful a hold it can have on oneself.
I know people look down on them…society would like to grind them up into fertilizer if they could get away with it…at least that is how it is in Murica!
2/3 to all of the addicts who self medicate have been emotionally, physically, and/or sexually abused as children.
But yet it’s perfectly fucking acceptable to go to the bar, drink literal poison until you piss your pants and black out…yes, yes, you pissed your pants BEFORE you blacked out!
;-)
Or, here, have another cigarette…we spend Billions of dollars every year paying for the medical care and producing commercials on TV denouncing it to teens all while stuffing our asses full of tobacco lobbying money.
Buy these energy drinks!
Who the fuck knows what all the chemicals and extracts you are listing around the top of the can like they’re the reason you’re buying it…drink up…it’s okay that they cause heart problems!
Take this drug, it will help make you happy! Too happy? Take this one!
How about we make up some new bullshit condition and then market one of our failed drugs to fix it!! Brilliant!!
Way to go motherfucker…way to help destroy society! Good job being an apathetic assclown!
And yet…those who’s last name isn’t “Hilton” or “Beiber” or fuck-face the clown…
Those who have no one…no money…this is how they deal with their shitty lives….this is their chemical hug…this is the acceptance they never got…or the betrayal of abuse by a parent.
Then we start a “war” on drugs…it wasn’t on drugs…it was a war on those on drugs.
It’s a big business to jail people here…the private prison complex wouldn’t know what to do if drugs were decriminalized…thanks to the lobbyists, they never will be.
So I’ve decided to help them…because someone has to….and fuck a bunch of people that will hate me for it.
Not sure how I will begin, but I will figure it out…even if I just start passing out clean needles in the park downtown.
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So awesome!!!!
Excited!!!!
Albert Einstein may have been the greatest mind of the 20th century, but the great physicist famously disliked some of the weirder implications of quantum physics.
Now, nearly a century after his protests, physicists may have proven one of the points that he doubted the most.
According to quantum mechanics, a particle can be described as a wave that spreads out over a great distance.
Yet the particle is still just one particle.
You can't detect it in two places at once.
When physicists observe the particle in a particular location, they say that the wave function—the mathematics that describes how a particle could be in multiple places at once—has collapsed.
Einstein could not accept this.
Or, at least, that he thought the quantum mechanics of his day could not adequately explain it, referring to the phenomenon with the now-iconic phrase "spooky action at a distance."
But in new research published in Nature Communications, Griffith University's Howard Wiseman and colleagues use a single particle to show that the wave function really does collapse in this strange way.
In so doing, their work backs up years of research into quantum entanglement, in which particles are connected in a mysterious way even when separated, so that observing or affecting one instantly affects the other.
Previous experiments had tested quantum entanglement with two particles, but the researchers wanted to get at Einstein's claim by entangling a single photon of light.
They did this by firing a beam of photons into a splitter that cut each photon in two, sending half of the light to one lab and half to another lab.
Using a finely tuned homodyne detector—a tool used to measure the waves of these particles—Lab A tried to look for its photon and measure its phase.
So did the scientists in Lab B.
They found that if the Lab A researchers had detected the photon, then the Lab B researchers did not, and vice versa.
Plus the photon state that Lab B detected depended upon what Lab A detected.
That's exactly what you'd expect if the single split photon were entangled.
"Einstein's view was that the detection of the particle only ever at one point could be much better explained by the hypothesis that the particle is only ever at one point, without invoking the instantaneous collapse of the wave function to nothing at all other points," Wiseman says in a news release. "
"Through these different measurements, you see the wave function collapse in different ways, thus proving its existence and showing that Einstein was wrong."
http://www.iflscience.com/physics/einsteins-spooky-action-distance-confirmed-new-quantum-experiment
Excited!!!!
"Spooky Action at a Distance"
Confirmed by New Quantum Experiment
Confirmed by New Quantum Experiment
Albert Einstein may have been the greatest mind of the 20th century, but the great physicist famously disliked some of the weirder implications of quantum physics.
Now, nearly a century after his protests, physicists may have proven one of the points that he doubted the most.
According to quantum mechanics, a particle can be described as a wave that spreads out over a great distance.
Yet the particle is still just one particle.
You can't detect it in two places at once.
When physicists observe the particle in a particular location, they say that the wave function—the mathematics that describes how a particle could be in multiple places at once—has collapsed.
Einstein could not accept this.
Or, at least, that he thought the quantum mechanics of his day could not adequately explain it, referring to the phenomenon with the now-iconic phrase "spooky action at a distance."
But in new research published in Nature Communications, Griffith University's Howard Wiseman and colleagues use a single particle to show that the wave function really does collapse in this strange way.
In so doing, their work backs up years of research into quantum entanglement, in which particles are connected in a mysterious way even when separated, so that observing or affecting one instantly affects the other.
Previous experiments had tested quantum entanglement with two particles, but the researchers wanted to get at Einstein's claim by entangling a single photon of light.
They did this by firing a beam of photons into a splitter that cut each photon in two, sending half of the light to one lab and half to another lab.
Using a finely tuned homodyne detector—a tool used to measure the waves of these particles—Lab A tried to look for its photon and measure its phase.
So did the scientists in Lab B.
They found that if the Lab A researchers had detected the photon, then the Lab B researchers did not, and vice versa.
Plus the photon state that Lab B detected depended upon what Lab A detected.
That's exactly what you'd expect if the single split photon were entangled.
"Einstein's view was that the detection of the particle only ever at one point could be much better explained by the hypothesis that the particle is only ever at one point, without invoking the instantaneous collapse of the wave function to nothing at all other points," Wiseman says in a news release. "
"Through these different measurements, you see the wave function collapse in different ways, thus proving its existence and showing that Einstein was wrong."
http://www.iflscience.com/physics/einsteins-spooky-action-distance-confirmed-new-quantum-experiment
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war on drugs!
You have to love how the US government wages war on abstract things so that it can justify endless, unwinable war
It's like their 'war on terror'.....terror is an emotion....how can you wage war on an emotion?
By drone bombing people in foreign countries the US is spreading terror not lessening it!
Its all just so transparently bullshit i can't believe it is still being tolerated
And the war on drugs....we have used drugs as a species forever! When we drink tea or coffee we are using a drug!
And besides the worlds drug trade is run by the CIA and other intelligence services
The CIA was flooding the US with crack cocaine to finance its black ops eg iran/contra affair. Opium production in afghanistan actually went UP after the US took over from the taliban!
War on drugs....mindless...fucking mindless
Anyway...that's a brave move man and i agree that drug addicts should be treated with compassion by society instead of being criminalised. Another tough field to go into though man and i salute you for it!
P.S gotta say i laughed out loud at 'fuck-face the clown'
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war on drugs!
You have to love how the US government wages war on abstract things so that it can justify endless, unwinable war
It's like their 'war on terror'.....terror is an emotion....how can you wage war on an emotion?
By drone bombing people in foreign countries the US is spreading terror not lessening it!
Its all just so transparently bullshit i can't believe it is still being tolerated
And the war on drugs....we have used drugs as a species forever! When we drink tea or coffee we are using a drug!
And besides the worlds drug trade is run by the CIA and other intelligence services
The CIA was flooding the US with crack cocaine to finance its black ops eg iran/contra affair. Opium production in afghanistan actually went UP after the US took over from the taliban!
War on drugs....mindless...fucking mindless
Anyway...that's a brave move man and i agree that drug addicts should be treated with compassion by society instead of being criminalised. Another tough field to go into though man and i salute you for it!
P.S gotta say i laughed out loud at 'fuck-face the clown'
Glad I got a chuckle out of you!
It is not going to be easy and I expect some kind of opposition either from the law or some other source…maybe even groups like Narcotics Anonymous who are very ridged in their thinking about what is the best way to treat someone.
I’m not trying to supersede them…just trying to get at it a different way.
Anyway…I’d like to see them stop me.
I can be the most single-minded person when there is something I am passionate about doing.
I didn’t get to first assist in heart surgery without being able to focus like a laser when I need to.
The system is broken…I want to try to help fix it…I am suited for this.
The “war” on drugs here has long since failed…it failed before it ever started.
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There seems to be some positive developments for example the prohibition on marijuana seems to be lifting across the states
But on the other hand with the worsening economic climate there are going to be social problems
Don't feel you have to say anything about it but i'm just curious....do you have some ideas about a programme already in your head? It sounds like you are maybe seeing a new way in which the problem can be addressed?
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I do…I have ideas…hehe.
Here in Washington state we have legalized weed and the only problems we have so far have been an early lack of supply and a shitload of tax dollars rolling in.
Oregon right below us is about to go legal as well which is awesome.
It’s still cheaper to buy from the black market, but not by much…it’s more convenient just to go to the store.
I have some thoughts about what I will do, and what I want to end up ultimately doing.
For some time I have been toying with the idea of using energy healing to help those with addiction and psychological conditions.
I would ultimately like to have a place for the addicts to go…where they can exchange needles…somewhere they don’t have to worry about being arrested or judged negatively…where people treat them like humans again…
More and more I feel this drive…and I can’t explain it….even now, I am overwhelmed with emotion…I feel that I am running faster and faster toward this and I am reaching incredible speeds…that’s the best way I can describe it.
I just need to physically heal myself a bit more…I never really got a fair chance to heal from the near death episode I almost had before I did this fucking detox off the other shit…I’ve lost about 20 lbs. now...which brings me to 185…which is fine being 6.1…but it’s left me feeling generally weak overall, though this has gradually been improving…some days better than others.
I will get there…my mind is set on that, so I will reach it.
I will reach my other goal as well…one day.
I will let you know haha!
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Great stuff!
You know i think some people have got the wrong idea about the whole happiness thing
Happiness isn't about comfort. I mean that's what set gautama on the road wasn't it? He was sitting on his nice cushions in his palace being fed grapes off a silver platter and one day he just sat up, the emptiness consuming him and he thought 'fuck my life is so empty!'
He put the grapes down, got up off his cushion and walked to his room. Maybe he said something to his people or maybe he just quietly slipped out a side door and that was it.....he walked off down the road until his shoes fell off his feet
The sun beat down on his brow, the grit rubbed his hardening feet and his stomach groaned with hunger but he had never felt so alive...because.....he had an idea