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Ki-Aikido Ten rules to Daily Life:
1. Universal Mind
2. Love all Creation
3. Be Grateful
4. Do good in secret
5. Have merciful eyes
and a gental body
6. Be forgiving and
big hearted
7. Think deep and
judge well
8. Be calm and
determined
9. Be positive and
vigorous
10. Persevere
Interests:
Filmmaking, educating and creating
awareness through film, The Electric
car, Alternative fuels and energy,
biodiesel, "free" energy,
evironmentally friendly sustainable
living, Living, Life, Re-birth,
conspiracies, lost sacred texts,
Theology, Philosophy, Physics,
Meta-Physics, Quantum Physics,
Sacred Geometry, re-explaining
the explained, The GUINNESS!,
human rights, animal rights,
justice, Talk radio, space
exploration, old science fiction,
soulfull music, nature, Cats,
Ancient Feline Goddess Power,
hiking, care and love for the
earth, lanscaping, gardening,
cooking and food, magic,
goddess energy, the goddess,
respect and honor for the
goddess, Science, future
technologies, time travel,
Pirates
learning, teaching, understanding,
compassion, unconditional love,
self-awareness, enlightenment,
making this human life meaningful,
peace, nonviolent revolution,
revolution thru film, Celts, Celtic
myths, Ireland, Norse myths,
ancient myths, Paganism, Mayans,
2012, traveling, tribal belly dancing,
doumbek drumming, tribal everything,
the Truth, Ulimate FREEDOM, Life,
the Universe and EVERYTHING!
"I'm not Anti-War anymore,
I'm Pro-Peace. What's the use in
being Anti-anything? George Bush
was re-elected in 2004 because the
mass energy was Anti-bush but not
Pro-Change. Whatever you are Anti
against, will manifest double-fold."
--Sir Frank-A-Lot
I'd like to meet:
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church,
by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish
Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of.
My own mind is my own church."
--Thomas Paine
(Richard Emery Roberts, ed.
"Excerpts from The Age of Reason".
Selected Writings of Thomas Paine.
New York: Everbody's Vacation Publishing
Co., 1945, p. 362)
U.S. Constitution, Article VI,
paragraph 3:
The Senators and Representatives before
mentioned, and the Members of the several
State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial
Officers, both of the United States and of the
several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. (emphasis added)
Music:
I am a huge fan of Audio Talk, i.e. Audio books, podcasts, talk radio. Check out the "slideshow" blog to view music I enjoy.
Movies:
Check "Slideshow" Blog
Books:
Check out "Slide Shows moved here" Blog
Heroes:
My Feline Best Friend, the Graceful Warrior,
Coon, passed away on the summer Soltice,
June 23rd 2006.
He was a magical and special being, who
was a "human" in a feline body. He was 15
when he passed and I knew him for 7 years.
I love him very much and miss him deeply.
I am dedicating this section to Coon, as a
remembrance of his glorious life. Make sure
to check out his profile, it is 2 on my friends list.
Long Live Coon doggs!!!!
Other Heros:
Some Favorite Quotes:
"Fear is the Mind Killer" --Dune
"One is nearer God's Heart in a garden than
anywhere else on Earth."
--Dorothy Frances Gurney
"Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps, perennia
pleasures, plants and wholesome harvest reaps."
--Amos Bronson Alcott
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You
imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine
and atlast you create what you will."
--
George Bernard Shaw
"Don't let the best you have done so far be the
standard for the rest of your life."
--Gustavus F. Swift
"I am only one. But still I am one. I can not
do everything, but still I can do something. I will
not refuse to do the something I can do."
--Helen Keller
"When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long.
Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward.
Mistakes are lessons of wisdom.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
~Hugh White~
The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle. ~Author Unknown~ ~Author Unknown~
The finest gift
you can give anyone
is encouragement.
Yet, almost no one
gets the encouragement
they need to grow
to their full potential.
If everyone received
the encouragement they need to grow,
the genius in most everyone
would blossom and the world
would produce abundance
beyond our wildest dreams.
*Sidney Madwed*
"They that can give up essential liberty for a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
--Ben Franklin
"I hope....that mankind will at length, as they call
themselves responsible creatures, have the reason
and sense enough to settle their differences without
cutting throats..."--Benjamin Franklin
"All wars are follies, very expensive and very
mischievous ones."--Benjamin Franklin
"A government big enough to give you everything
is big enough to take everything you have."
--Benjamin Franklin
"How could man rejoice in victory and delight in
the slaughter of men?"--Lao Tzu
"Today, I speak with you about a radical idea. It
is one born from the very concept of the American
soldier (or service member). It became instrumental
in ending the Vietnam War - but it has been long
since forgotten. The idea is this: that to stop an
illegal and unjust war, the soldiers can choose to
stop fighting it."
--1st Lt. Ehren Watada facing the
possibility of being the first Army officer to face a
court-martial for refusing to fight in Iraq.
"There were no international terrorists in Iraq until
we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions
in which Al Qaeda could thrive."--Robin Cook
(About the quote: Cook is Britain's former foreign
secretary. He resigned from the British Cabinet
over the Iraq War.)
"The past can not be changed. The future is yet
in your power."--Mary Pickford
"The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more
wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged
into the dark abyss of annihilation."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Any excuse will serve a tyrant."--Aesop
"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism.
Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating
in it."--Noam Chomsky
"You never need an argument against the use of
violence, you need an argument for it."
--Noam Chomsky
"Knowledge and understnading are life's faithful
companions who will never be untrue to you. For
knowledge is your crown and understanding your
staff; and when they are with you, you can possess
no greater treasures."
--Kahlil Gibran
"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion
will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political
power to do so..."
--Robert A. Heinlein
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
--Issac Asimov
"The world is but canvas to our imagination"
--Henery David Thoreau
"We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children."
--Jimmy Carter
"When governments fear the people there
is liberty. When the people fear the government
there is tyranny."--Thomas Jefferson
"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power,
and teach us, that the less we use our power the
greater it will be."
--Thomas Jefferson
"If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the
mind of every American, it is that we should have
nothing to do with conquest."--Thomas Jefferson
"The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large
military force."
--Thomas Jefferson
"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."
--Thomas Jefferson
"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge
of mankind."
--Thomas Jefferson
"The most successful war seldom pays for its losses."
--Thomas Jefferson
"Governments constantly choose between telling
lies and fighting wars, with the end result always
being the same. One will always lead to the other."
--Thomas Jefferson
"Blind faith in your leaders, or anything, will get you
killed."--Bruce Springsteen
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the
populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led
to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of
hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
--H.L. Mencken
"Not only is war a form of legalized murder,
but it is mass serial killing."--Sarah Bellum
"In order to rally people, governments need
enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so
we will rally behind them."--Thich Nhat Hanh
"Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man
has a right to kill me because he lives on the other
side of the water, and because his ruler has quarrel
with mine, although I have none with him?"
--Blaise Pascal
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be
achieved by understanding."--Albert Einstein
"It is not reasonable that those who gamble with
men's lives should not pay with their own."
--H. G. Wells
"We must guard against the acquisition of
unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought,
by the military-industrial complex."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
"This world of ours...must avoid becoming a
community of dreadful fear and hate, and be,
instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust
and respect."--Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Together we must learn how to compose difference,
not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can,
only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility,
its stupidity."--Dwight D. Eisenhower
"When people speak to you about a preventive war,
you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience,
I have come to hate war."--Dwight D. Eisenhower
"...the role of the military is to fight and win war and,
therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place."
--George Bush
"War settles nothing."--Dwight D. Eisenhower
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will
be a revolutionary act."--George Orwell
"Political language ... is designed to make lies sound
truthful and murder respectable, and to give an
appearance of solidity to pure wind."
--George Orwell
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of
atrocities committed by his own side, he has a
remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
--George Orwell
"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies
and hatred, comes invariably from people who are
not fighting."--George Orwell
"If the past and the external world exist only in the mind,
and if the mind is controllable, what then?"
--George Orwell
"Those who can make you believe absurdities
can make you commit atrocities."--Voltaire
"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing
view of war."--Donald Rumsfeld
"It's good to be hated by the right people."
--Johnny Cash
"O peace! how many wars were waged in
thy name."--Alexander Pope
"If we dont stop extending our troops all around
the world in nation-building missions, were going
to have a serious problem coming down the road."
--George W. Bush
"To announce that there must be no criticism
of the president, or that we are to stand by the
president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic
and servile, but is morally treasonable to the
American public." ---Theodore Roosevelt
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does
not mean to stand by the president or any other public
official..."--Theodore Roosevelt
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned
an invisible government owing no allegiance and
acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
--Theodore Roosevelt
"...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt
business and corrupt politics is the first task of the
statesmanship of the day."--Theodore Roosevelt
"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large
numbers and to the sound of trumpets."--Voltaire
"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant
springs; when he first appears he is a protector."
--Plato
"What difference does it make to the dead, the
orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction
is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy
name of liberty and democracy?"--Mahatma Gandhi
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your
Christians are so unlike your Christ."--Mahatma Gandhi
"We must become the change we want to see."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it
would be a very good idea."--Mahatma Gandhi
"An eye for an eye makes us all blind."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for
the sake of it."--Mark Twain
"I can tell you this: If Im ever in a position to call the
shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's
kids into a war."--George H. W. Bush
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for
themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."
--Abraham Lincoln
"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."
--Abraham Lincoln
"This country, with its institutions, belong to the people
who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing
government, they can exercise their constitutional right of
amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to
overthrow it."--Abraham Lincoln
"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation,
whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an
invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he
may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a
purpose and you allow him to make war at pleasure."
--Abraham Lincoln
"America will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because
we destroyed ourselves."--Abraham Lincoln
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of
killing innocent people."--Howard Zinn
"Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths...
I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my
beautiful mind on something like that?"
--Barbara Bush (ABC's "Good Morning
A
merica" March 18, 2003)
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised "for the good of
its victims" may be the most oppressive."
--C. S. Lewis
"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will
put an end to mankind."--John F. Kennedy
"All wars are fought for money."--Socrates
"...no mother would ever willingly sacrifice her
sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage,
for ideology."--Ronald Reagan
"Why of course the people don't want war. . . .
That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders
of the country who determine the policy and it is
always a simple matter to drag the people along,
whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or
no voice, the people can always be brought to the
bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do
is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce
the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing
the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
--Hermann Goering, Nazi officer, during his Nuremberg
war crimes trial
"Today's public figures can no longer write their own
speeches or books, and there is some evidence that
they can't read them either."--Gore Vidal
"I think war is a dangerous place."
--George W. Bush
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier,
just so long as I'm the dictator."
--George W. Bush--Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000
"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war,
we're really talking about peace."--George W. Bush
"Our enemies...never stop thinking about new ways to
harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
--George W. Bush
"Any American who is prepared to run for President
should automatically, by definition, be disqualified
from ever doing so."--Gore Vidal
"We know that dictators are quick to choose
aggression, while free nations strive to resolve
differences in peace."
--George W. Bush
(from a UN Speech in Sept 2004)
"Our nation is somewhat sad, but were angry.
There's a certain level of blood lust, but we wont
let it drive our reaction. Were steady, clear-eyed and
patient, but pretty soon well have to start displaying
scalps."--George W. Bush
"Victory means exit strategy, and its important for the
President to explain to us what the exit strategy is."
--George W. Bush
(About the quote: The future president said this
in regard to Kosovo in April 1999.
"Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't
attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons
of mass destruction."--George W. Bush 10/3/03
"These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi
citizens, and they want us to leave...I think the world
would be better off if we did leave..."
--George W. Bush (on Iraqi Insurgency)
"Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps.
Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States
government talking about wiretap, it requires a wiretap
requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way.
When were talking about chasing down terrorists, were
talking about getting a court order before we do so. Its
important for our fellow citizens to understand, when
you think Patriot Act, constitutional guarantees are in
place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect
our homeland, because we value the Constitution."
--George W. Bush--Buffalo, NY 4/20/04
Evidence that Bush is a lair. A year after he said this,
he told us that there was nothing wrong with wiretapping
without a warrent or court order. He is a moronic lair!
"There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it,
and that's just a fact."--Donald Rumsfeld
"Between dogs and cats my degree of choice is so great
that it would never occur to me to compare the two.
I have no active dislike for dogs, any more than
I have for monkeys, human beings, tradesmen, cows,
sheep, or pterodactyls; but for the cat I have entertained
a particular respect and affection ever since the earliest
days of my infancy. In its flawless grace and superior
self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect
beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself,
objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery
there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of
the unknown. The dog appeals to cheap and facile
emotions; the cat to the deepest founts of imagination
and cosmic perception in thehuman mind. It is no accident
that the contemplative Egyptians, together with such later
poetic spirits as Poe, Gautier, Baudelaire and Swinburne,
were all sincere worshippers of the supple grimalkin."
--H.P. Lovecraft
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people
like me as members." --Groucho Marx
"People who think they're superior are exceedingly
annoying to those of us who really are."
--Ronald Firbank
"I don't believe in Satan. I take responsibility for
my own evil, I take responsibility for my own sin,
I don't blame it on an entity."
"..just as God needs us, it;s not just that we need God,
God needs us. We're co workers, we are the taste buds
of God and we are all connected."
--Joseph Jacobs, psychic, on Coast to Coast AM
"If God is just, I tremble for my country."--Thomas Jefferson
