Monday, February 28, 2011

The Agenda - Columbus & Indigenous People

there was an all out agenda, that when you come across indigenous people, you annihilate them.

Columbus was sent on his expedition along with agents of the crown, to disrupt the lives of the natives and seize mineral resources to disrupt the lives of the natives and seize mineral resources. He visited every island in the Caribbean, depleting the gold and taking as many slaves of the native Tano tribe as possible.

5 Million natives were murdered within 3 years according to Leah Trabich.Within 15 years, the Arawak tribe of 250,000 was completely wiped out. The population of the United States prior to European contact was greater than 12 million. Four centuries later, the count was reduced by 95% to 237 thousand.over three million people had perished from war, slavery, and the mines.

Who in future generations will believe this?
59:29 - 1:00:26 Kymatica

Compassion, Benevolence, Kindness, Altruism

Compassion 
1.a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.
Compassion in it's very definition implies misfortune, even pity in some definitions.I honor the beauty and power of this word, the action stirred by it's very definition..
This post comes, as in this world, feelings of goodness, of generosity, joy, belief in a good future are needed more than ever.
There are so many other words, benevolence, kindness, kind-heartedness, tender-heartedness, generosity, magnanimity, goodness,  beneficence, philanthropy, altruism  for example that that bring in a persons body, mind and energy field the positive feelings that radiate around them a frequency which in itself heals...
Compassion, sympathy, even charity have inherently with them the pain and suffering of another, which alters the frequency of the thoughts.
from:thesaurus.com
Main Entry: compassion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: tender feeling
Synonyms: benevolence, charity, clemency, commiseration, compunction, condolence, consideration, empathy, fellow feeling, grace, heart, humaneness, humanity, kindness, lenity, mercy, softheartedness, softness, sorrow, sympathy, tenderheartedness, tenderness, yearning 
see also "Related Words" at thesaurus.com. I chose not to publish here as some were so negative.

Negative Word Associations and dictionary.reference.com - Conscious

From:dictionary.reference.com
con·scious
–adjective
1.aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
2.fully aware of or sensitive to something (often followed by of ): conscious of one's own faults; He wasn't conscious of the gossip about his past.
3.having the mental faculties fully active: He was conscious during the operation.
4.known to oneself; felt: conscious guilt.
5.aware of what one is doing: a conscious liar.
6.aware of oneself; self-conscious.
7.deliberate; intentional: a conscious insult; a conscious effort.
8.acutely aware of or concerned about: money-conscious; a diet-conscious society.
9.Obsolete . inwardly sensible of wrongdoing.  (Obsolete!?! )


compared to thefreedictionary.com
con·scious  
adj.
1.a. Having an awareness of one's environment and one's own existence, sensations, and thoughts. See Synonyms at aware.
b. Mentally perceptive or alert; awake: The patient remained fully conscious after the local anesthetic was administered.
2. Capable of thought, will, or perception: the development of conscious life on the planet.
3. Subjectively known or felt: conscious remorse.
4. Intentionally conceived or done; deliberate: a conscious insult; made a conscious effort to speak more clearly.
5. Inwardly attentive or sensible; mindful: was increasingly conscious of being watched.
6. Especially aware of or preoccupied with. Often used in combination: a cost-conscious approach to further development; a health-conscious diet.
n.
In psychoanalysis, the component of waking awareness perceptible by a person at any given instant; consciousness.
 
conscious 
adj
1.a.  alert and awake; not sleeping or comatose
b.  aware of one's surroundings, one's own thoughts and motivations, etc.
2.a.  aware of and giving value or emphasis to a particular fact or phenomenon I am conscious of your great kindness to me
b.  (in combination) clothes-conscious
3. done with full awareness; deliberate a conscious effort conscious rudeness
4. (Psychology)
a.  denoting or relating to a part of the human mind that is aware of a person's self, environment, and mental activity and that to a certain extent determines his choices of action
b.  (as noun) the conscious is only a small part of the mind Compare unconscious
[from Latin conscius sharing knowledge, from com- with + scīre to know]
consciously  adv
consciousness  n
 
Compare the mount of positive uses of the later (associations) with that of dictionary.reference.com

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Whole Foods - Whole Planet Foundation and Microloans


"Join the 2011 Annual Prosperity Campaign and empower 70,000 people with a microcredit loan and the opportunity to change their own lives. "

"Debt is the weapon use to conquer and enslave societies, and interest is it's prime ammunition."
Zeitgeist: Addendum

Your donation goes not directly to the "Microentrepreneur", but to a bank which then gives loans to these 70,000 people putting them into debt and profiting the "Microfinanance Institution"!

Driectly from the Whole Plantet Foudation Website:
:Ways to Give
"... any donated resources would be directed to our microlending programs run by one of our implementing partners. "

From the glossary of terms page: Glossary
Borrower
See Microentrepreneur
Implementing Partner
Implementing Partners are usually Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) that receive grants from Whole Planet Foundation to establish and run micro lending programs. In some cases, Whole Planet Foundation funds or contributes to the loan pool of an existing MFI.
Microentrepreneur
Person who owns a small-scale business known as a microenterprise.
Microfinance
Refers to loans, savings, insurance, transfer services and other financial products targeted at low-income clients.
Microfinance Institution (MFI)
A financial institution - can be a nonprofit organization, regulated financial institution or commercial bank - that provides microfinance products and services to low-income clients.
From the keymetrics page: Keymetrics
$15,592,862 in grants given not to the microentrepreneurs, but to the businesses which lend money to the microentrepreneurs

WFM (Whole Foods Market) 2010 Prosperity Campaign Revenue by WFM Operating Region - $2,263,381 as of May 1st, 2010

Forbes magazine said that "microfinance has become a buzzword of the decade, raising the provocative notion that even philanthropy aimed at alleviating poverty can be profitable to institutional and individual investors."

Awareness

Word Associations & the Subconscious Mind - Dictionary.com - Create


Note the association of confusion and revolution with "ask for a raise"
From: dictionary.reference.com
Create
5.to be the cause or occasion of; give rise to: The announcement created confusion.
6.to cause to happen; bring about; arrange, as by intention or design: to create a revolution; to create an opportunity to ask for a raise.


"computer Overloards"

"I for one welcome our new computer overlords"

This statement, from Ken Jennings, Final Jeapordy contestant beat by the computer "Watson"...

 
Machines first out-calculated us in simple math. Then they replaced us on the assembly lines, explored places we couldn't get to, even beat our champions at chess. Now a computer called Watson has bested our best at "Jeopardy!"
A gigantic computer created by IBM specifically to excel at answers-and-questions left two champs of the TV game show in its silicon dust after a three-day tournament, a feat that experts call a technological breakthrough.
Watson earned $77,147, versus $24,000 for Ken Jennings and $21,600 for Brad Rutter. Jennings took it in stride writing "I for one welcome our new computer overlords" alongside his correct Final Jeopardy answer.
The next step for the IBM machine and its programmers: taking its mastery of the arcane and applying it to help doctors plow through blizzards of medical information. Watson could also help make Internet searches far more like a conversation than the hit-or-miss things they are now.
Watson's victory leads to the question: What can we measly humans do that amazing machines cannot do or will never do?
The answer, like all of "Jeopardy!," comes in the form of a question: Who — not what — dreamed up Watson? While computers can calculate and construct, they cannot decide to create. So far, only humans can.
"The way to think about this is: Can Watson decide to create Watson?" said Pradeep Khosla, dean of engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. "We are far from there. Our ability to create is what allows us to discover and create new knowledge and technology."...
(end of quote)

"Can Watson decide to create Watson?"

If Watson is programed to, Watson can, given the tools and functionality to do so.. If Watson is stationary..yet tied to a global communications network, he can find all of his components and have them sent to factories into which he is also connected.  In this way he can direct his own assembly. He can make improvements as he see's fit, thus "creating" a new being. Self improvement and replication, any goal(or program) can easily be integrated into a computer. Is this not a definition of creativity...

To create: from dictionary.com
1.to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
2. to evolve from one's own thought or imagination, as a work of art or an invention.
6. to cause to happen; bring about; arrange, as by intention or design:



How much differently do our own minds work than those programs that run machines?

Friday, February 25, 2011

The Gate of Saturn - as Symbolized in Harry Potter


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The Gate of Saturn

The Gate of Saturn

The Gate of Saturn is symbolised in Harry Potter by the archway with the veil in the Department of Mysteries. Anyone who passes through this gate enters the world of the dead. It is called the Gate of Saturn because the Roman god of that name was the god of the harvest - the harvest at the end of life. This is why he is often depicted holding a scythe and an hourglass. He is often referred to as The Grim Reaper.
Every mortal human being passes through the Gate of Saturn at the end of every incarnation. The harvest of his life is gathered into the storehouse of the microcosm as the personality dies. The microcosm then prepares for a new incarnation, ready to pour the harvest into a new personality about to be born.
However the whole purpose of life on earth is to learn to go through the Gate of Saturn for the last time. This is what Harry Potter is really about. By going the Path of Alchemical Liberation a seeker can make the Philosopher's Stone. In Part 7 Harry will achieve the ultimate triumph: he will symbolically obtain the Philosopher's Stone, with which he can make the Gold of the Spirit and the Elixir of Life. With this, Harry will be able to pass through the Gate of Saturn for the last time, and then return, showing that he has been able to triumph over death.