tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89314553564668247212024-03-05T06:47:26.036-08:00IndiaSummerplaceIndia Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-47060819837095118762012-04-06T11:42:00.000-07:002012-04-06T11:43:20.360-07:00What Rabbits and Eggs Have To Do With Oestre/Easter<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Origins of the name "Easter":</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The name "Easter" originated with the names of an ancient Goddess and God. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Venerable Bede, (672-735 <a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/ce.htm"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">CE</span></a>.) a Christian scholar, first asserted in his book De Ratione Temporum that Easter was named after Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She was the Great Mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe. Similarly, the "Teutonic dawn goddess of fertility [was] known variously as Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos." 1 Her name was derived from the ancient word for spring: "eastre." </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Similar Goddesses were known by other names in ancient cultures around the Mediterranean, and were celebrated in the springtime. Some were:</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Aphrodite, named Cytherea (Lady of Cythera) and Cypris (Lady of Cyprus) after the two places which claimed her birth; </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ashtoreth from ancient Israel;</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Demeter from Mycenae;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hathor from ancient Egypt;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Kali, from India; and</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ostara a Norse Goddess of fertility.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">An alternative explanation has been suggested. The name given by the Frankish church to Jesus' resurrection festival included the Latin word "alba" which means "white." (This was a reference to the white robes that were worn during the festival.) </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Alba" also has a second meaning: "sunrise." When the name of the festival was translated into German, the "sunrise" meaning was selected in error. This became "ostern" in German. Ostern has been proposed as the origin of the word "Easter". </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">There are two popular beliefs about the origin of the English word "Sunday."</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It is derived from the name of the Scandinavian sun Goddess Sunna (a.k.a. Sunne, Frau Sonne). 5,6 </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It is derived from "Sol," the Roman God of the Sun." Their phrase "Dies Solis" means "day of the Sun." The Christian saint Jerome (d. 420) commented "If it is called the day of the sun by the pagans, we willingly accept this name, for on this day the Light of the world arose, on this day the Sun of Justice shone forth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Pagan origins of Easter:</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Many, perhaps most, Pagan religions in the Mediterranean area had a major seasonal day of religious celebration at or following the Spring Equinox. Cybele, the Phrygian fertility goddess, had a consort, Attis, who was believed to have been born via a virgin birth. Attis was believed to have died and been resurrected each year during the period MAR-22 to MAR-25.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Gerald L. Berry, author of "Religions of the World," wrote:</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"About 200 B.C. mystery cults began to appear in Rome just as they had earlier in Greece. Most notable was the Cybele cult centered on Vatican hill ...Associated with the Cybele cult was that of her lover, Attis (the older Tammuz, Osiris, Dionysus, or Orpheus under a new name). He was a god of ever-reviving vegetation. Born of a virgin, he died and was reborn annually. The festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday and culminated after three days in a day of rejoicing over the resurrection." 3</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"... used to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus on the same date; and pagans and Christians used to quarrel bitterly about which of their gods was the true prototype and which the imitation."</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Many religious historians and liberal theologians believe that the death and resurrection legends were first associated with Attis, many centuries before the birth of Jesus. They were simply <a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa.htm"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">grafted onto stories of Jesus' life</span></a> in order to make Christian theology more acceptable to Pagans. Others suggest that many of the events in Jesus' life that were recorded in the gospels were <a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jckr.htm"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">lifted from the life of Krishna</span></a>, the second person of the Hindu Trinity. Ancient Christians had an alternative explanation; they claimed that Satan had created counterfeit deities in advance of the coming of Christ in order to confuse humanity. 4 Modern-day Christians generally regard the Attis legend as being a Pagan myth of little value with no connection to Jesus. They regard Jesus' death and resurrection account as being true, and unrelated to the earlier tradition.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/witchcra.htm">Wiccans</a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> and other modern-day <a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/neo_paga.htm"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Neopagans</span></a> continue to celebrate the Spring Equinox as one of their 8 yearly Sabbats (holy days of celebration). Near the Mediterranean, this is a time of sprouting of the summer's crop; farther north, it is the time for seeding. Their rituals at the Spring Equinox are related primarily to the fertility of the crops and to the balance of the day and night times. In those places where Wiccans can safely celebrate the Sabbat out of doors without threat of religious persecution, they often incorporate a bonfire into their rituals, jumping over the dying embers is believed to assure fertility of people and crops.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Posted from a Religious Tolerance site.</span></div>India Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-79163584420420446282012-02-19T16:01:00.000-08:002012-02-19T16:11:30.727-08:00Studies on Porn and Rape<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;"></span><br />
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</ul><div id="googleleft" style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 10px; width: 138px;"></div></div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Results from the Czech Republic showed, as seen everywhere else studied (Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Sweden, USA), that rape and other sex crimes have not increased following the legalization and wide availability of pornography. In addition, the study found that the incidence of child sex abuse has fallen since 1989, when child pornography became readily accessible -- a phenomenon also seen in Denmark and Japan.</div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">The research results are published online in Springer's journal <em>Archives of Sexual Behavior</em>.</div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">The findings support the theory that potential sexual offenders use child pornography as a substitute for sex crimes against children. While the authors do not approve of the use of real children in the production or distribution of child pornography, they say that artificially produced materials might serve a purpose.</div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Diamond and team looked at what actually happened to sex-related crimes in the Czech Republic as it transitioned from having a strict ban on sexually explicit materials to a situation where the material was decriminalized. Pornography was strictly prohibited between 1948 and 1989. The ban was lifted with the country's transition to democracy and, by 1990, the availability and ownership of sexually explicit materials rose dramatically. Even the possession of child pornography was not a criminal offense.</div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">The researchers monitored the number of sex-related crimes from Ministry of Interior records -- rape, attempted rape, sexual assault, and child sex abuse in particular -- for 15 years during the ban and 18 years after it was lifted.</div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Most significantly, they found that the number of reported cases of child sex abuse dropped markedly immediately after the ban on sexually explicit materials was lifted in 1989. In both Denmark and Japan, the situation is similar: Child sex abuse was much lower than it was when availability of child pornography was restricted.</div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Other results showed that, overall, there was no increase in reported sex-related crimes generally since the legalization of pornography. Interestingly, whereas the number of sex-related crimes fell significantly after 1989, the number of other societal crimes -- murder, assault, and robbery -- rose significantly.</div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
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border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 280px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">Could online porn be responsible for a decrease in rape cases?</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">A Clemson University study suggests it might.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">Todd Kendall, an economics professor at Clemson University, published a study that found "the arrival of the internet was associated with a reduction in rape incidence."</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">He notes that "association" is not causality, but he does point out that "it is notable that growth in internet usage had no apparent effect on other crimes."</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">The rate of forcible rape in the past 15 years has declined 30 percent nationwide, according to Bob Dyer in a recent column on Ohio.com. Meanwhile, he reports that "never has pornography been more readily available." Dyer attributes the decrease in rapes at least in part to the increased prevalence of porn.</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><br />
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</span></ul><div id="googleleft" style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 10px; width: 138px;"></div></div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">"The objective of my work is to observe the impact of pornography on the sexuality of men, and how it shapes their perception of men and women," says Lajeunesse. To do so, he has so far recruited and interviewed 20 heterosexual male university students who consume pornography.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">"They shared their sexual history starting with their first contact with pornography, which was in early adolescence. Not one subject had a pathological sexuality. In fact, all of their sexual practices were quite conventional," says Lajeunesse.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">The research concluded that 90 percent of pornography is consumed on the Internet, while 10 percent comes from video stores. On average, single men watch pornography three times a week for 40 minutes. Those who are in committed relationships watch it on average 1.7 times a week for 20 minutes.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">Lajeunesse found most boys seek out pornographic material by the age of 10, when they are most sexually curious. However, they quickly discard what they don't like and find offensive. As adults, they will continue to look for content in tune with their image of sexuality. They also rarely consume pornography as a couple and always choose what they watch.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">All test subjects said they supported gender equality and felt victimized by rhetoric demonizing pornography. "Pornography hasn't changed their perception of women or their relationship which they all want as harmonious and fulfilling as possible. Those who could not live out their fantasy in real life with their partner simply set aside the fantasy. The fantasy is broken in the real world and men don't want their partner to look like a porn star," says Lajeunesse.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">Lajeunesse refutes the perverse effect often attributed to pornography. "Aggressors don't need pornography to be violent and addicts can be addicted to drugs, alcohol, gaming and asocial cases are pathological. If pornography had the impact that many claim it has, you would just have to show heterosexual films to a homosexual to change his sexual orientation."</span><br />
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The explanations offered include less lawlessness associated with crack cocaine, women being taught to avoid unsafe situations, that more potential rapists are already in prison for other crimes, and sex education classes telling boys that "no means no."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">But in an interview with <a href="http://rawstory.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: red;">RAW STORY</span></a>, D'Amato argues that these are minor factors and do not explain the decline in rape. "Suppose you distribute free condoms to a country, and you find, five years later, that the birth rate has gone down 85%. Would you say that it's just a cosmic coincidence or would you say that the distribution of condoms caused the drop in the rate of birth? The reasoning is the same for my position on rape: the causation factor is reasonably inferred, " said D'Amato.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">In "Porn Up Rape Down," D'Amato <a href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/anol/NationOnlineBroadband04.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">compiled data</a> from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. In 2001, the four states with the lowest per capita access to the Internet were Arkansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, and West Virginia. The four with the highest per capita Internet access were Alaska, Colorado, New Jersey, and Washington.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">When compared to Disaster Center's <a href="http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/" style="text-decoration: none;">figures</a> for forcible rape for the years 1980 and 2000, the four states with the lowest Internet access showed a 53% aggregate per capita increase in rape, while the four states with the highest Internet access showed a 27% decrease in incidence of rape.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">"Critics argue that exposure to depictions of violence causes violent behavior," said D'Amato. "They say that rape is just a subcategory of this principle. They couldn't be more mistaken. Exposure to violent movies, TV programs, or video games has NOT produced more social violence. It has produced the opposite. The amount of social violence per capita in the year 1900 when street gangs attacked pedestrians and murders were common far exceeds the incidence of violence today. Sure, there is violent behavior, but when it happens it makes headlines. Back then it happened so often that it wasn't newsworthy."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">"It's not a big mystery," says Bruce David, Editorial Director of <i>Hustler</i>magazine. "It's consistent with all the research data we've seen. In countries where adult material is legal, generally speaking there is a decline in instances of rape and spousal abuse and we have also seen in places where adult material is illegal that the abuse of women can be rampant, like Afghanistan where women are shot in soccer stadiums."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Will Ryder, Director of <i>Hustler's</i> Barely Legal and Britney Rears video line wholeheartedly agrees. "I have always felt this was an absurd claim and that quite the contrary would take place, due to the fact that most who view adult entertainment usually conclude their session with a self-satisfaction reward and are too damn tired to leave the house and rape somebody. The last damn thing he wants to do is go out and hunt somebody down," said Ryder.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">D'Amato's interest in the rape-pornography question began in 1970, when he served as a consultant to President Nixon's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. When the Commission found there was no connection between pornography and violent anti-social behavior, Nixon � according to D'Amato � was furious.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">In the 1980s, President Reagan created a similar commission under Attorney General Edwin Meese, who D'Amato said "packed it with people who were on record denouncing pornography." In "Porn Up Rape Down" D'Amato wonders how the social facts could change so drastically in the decade between the Nixon and Reagan reports.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Critics contend that none of D'Amato's conclusions make any sense. "My experience with women across the U.S. is that women now do not report rape," said Gail Dines, associate professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Wheelock College. "I teach and speak on campuses all over and I know that only 34% of rapes are ever reported and increasingly women are not believed when they tell their stories. I also hear stories that when women do go forward, the college or university will clamp down on women. Or the alleged rapist will get friends to harass her until she drops charges and terrorizes them out of reporting it. This happens everywhere."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Dines also disagreed with the National Victimization Survey conclusion that incidents of rape have decreased by 85%. "It doesn't matter where the statistics come from because women are not reporting. I very rarely meet a woman who has reported a rape. It's by far the exception rather that the rule."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">D'Amato believes the most important lesson people should take away from "Porn Up Rape Down" is to question the results of governmental reports. "If people can learn to distrust the findings of governmental commissions, such as the Warren Report, the 9-11 report, or the Meese report on social violence, we would become a more free and democratic nation," said D'Amato. "Our government engineers these reports to shield the perpetrators or to promote the business interests of its cronies and campaign contributors. As I tell my law students, the first thing you need to know about being a lawyer is not to trust the written word."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">But critics like Dines suggest that D'Amato � or those who reviewed his study � fail to understand the myriad factors that influence rape. "What causes rape and violence against women is a very complicated issue. No feminist I know would ever say that only pornography is the sole cause of rape. There are multiple causes," said Dines. "To look at the causes of rape you have to look at multiple factors and variables and all I can say is it was reviewed by people who are not aware of the research that's been going on or did not question the nature of debate he was using."</div><table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
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</ul></div><div class="content" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Hi Betty,</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">My coworker and I were discussing the crime reports in our local newspaper (yes, I still read the old-fashioned, newsprint-on-the-hands newspaper). She and I are both in our mid-forties and we noticed that the instances of stranger rape seemed to not be a prevalent as they were in the seventies and eighties. I don't mean to belittle anyone's experiences with rape but it just seems like stranger-jumped-out-at-me rape either has decreased in our area (Baltimore suburbs) or it is not being reported in the media.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">We began to speculate why. I told her that the other day when I was at the public library, I noticed several men viewing porn on the library computers. I concluded that maybe porn was a way for men who might not have the opportunity to see a naked body in real life to satisfy this need instead of raping someone. She said that this could be a possibility especially given the fact that computers and internet access have become more affordable over the years.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">This made my day. I enjoy porn and anything which may reflect it in a good light is always welcome. What do you and Carlin think? Could porn usage reduce the instances of rape? What are the rape statistics in NYC?</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Hi D,</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">I just looked around Google and still couldn't find any actual numbers, but then I'm not the best researcher. The consensus seems to be that rape is down. One interesting element is that more rape was being reported by women who knew the guy. The other element was that many rapes go unreported. However, I do believe one benefit of porn is that it does provide an outlet for men to drain off some of their testosterone through masturbation. The downside to porn is that many young people use it as their primary source of sex education. Not so good because porn is still basically entertainment for men that does not always include information about a woman's sexual desires and needs. The Internet is human-kinds salvation. It's one media that is not censored as heavily as your newspaper.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;">Dr. Betty</div></div></div><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The path of love. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To love others, to love the beauty of this world develops the capacity for love.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To develop your empathy and compassion, develops the capacity for love.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Many of us are afraid of love. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We have been disappointed before, not only by our romantic loves but also by friends and family we have loved. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We can become afraid to open up and love again. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There is an old Turkish saying, "The one who was burned by the soup blows on the yogurt." </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yet whatever our past hurts and fears of future pain, we must learn to love again.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is a challenge for all relationships. To provide a safe place to risk loving.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We also fear love because it may transform us. And it is so. For the true lover, the sense of self dissolves so that lover, love, and beloved become one. The ego is afraid of losing control, and even more afraid of dissolving, and comes up with reason after reason for refusing to let go, refusing to let ourselves love fully.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We can let ourselves be inspired by the words of those who have become lovers.</span></div>India Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-79744694846576394772012-02-14T10:58:00.000-08:002012-02-14T10:58:48.004-08:00Love (Happy Valentine's Day!)<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="font: 18.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font: 18.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You may try a hundred things</span></div><div style="font: 18.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 18.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">but love alone</span></div><div style="font: 18.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 18.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">will release you from yourself</span></div><div style="font: 18.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 18.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">so</span></div><div style="font: 18.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 18.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">never flee from love</span></div><div style="font: 18.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 18.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 18.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">not even from love in an earthly guise</span></div><div style="font: 18.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 18.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 18.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">for it is a preparation </span></div><div style="font: 18.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 18.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 18.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">of the supreme truth</span></div><div style="font: 18.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Herculanum; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Herculanum; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Herculanum; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 12.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Corsiva Hebrew'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Jami</span></div>India Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-61743748125980579772012-02-03T11:54:00.000-08:002012-02-03T11:54:54.947-08:00Anal Sex<div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">MADAME DE SAINT-ANGE —</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Whether this introduction be wrought before or behind, if she is not yet accustomed to it a woman always suffers. It has pleased Nature so to make us that we attain happiness only by way of pain. But once vanquished and had this way, nothing can equal the joy one tastes upon the entrance of this member into our ass; it is a pleasure incontestably superior to any sensation procured by this same introduction in front. And, besides, how many dangers does not a woman thus avoid! Fewer risks to her health, and none at all of pregnancy. For the present I'll say no more about this delight—your master and mine, Eugénie, will soon award it a full analsis, and by uniting practice with theory will, I trust, convince you, my precious one, that amongst all the bedroom's pleasures, that is the only one for which you should have a preference.</span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">...Philosophy of the Bedroom</span></span></div>India Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-52364361529049328102012-02-03T11:47:00.000-08:002012-02-03T11:47:05.592-08:00The Hippie IdealThe word "hip" translates roughly as "wise" or "tuned in." A hippy is somebody who "knows" what's really happening, and who adjusts or grooves with it. Hippies despise phoniness; they want to be open, honest, loving and free. They reject the plastic pretense of 20th century America, preferring to go back to the "natural life," like Adam and Eve. They reject any kinship with the Beat Generation on the ground that "those cats were negative, but out thing is positive." They also reject politics, which is "just another game." They don't like money, either, or any kind of aggressiveness.<br />
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~Hunter S Thompson on the West Coast, San Francisco breed of HippiesIndia Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-65602932673973004192012-02-02T22:16:00.000-08:002012-02-02T22:19:02.703-08:00Black Elk Speaks<div style="color: #181818; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“Behold this day. It is yours to make.” </span></div><div style="color: #0025a4; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666619; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;">“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.” </span></div><div style="color: #0025a4; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666619; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;">“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.” </span></div><div style="color: #0025a4; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666619; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i></i></span></div><div style="color: #181818; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions” </span></div><div style="color: #0025a4; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666619; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="color: #181818; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping. When people are already in despair, maybe the laughing face is better for them; and when they feel too good and are too sure of being safe, maybe the weeping face is better for them to see.” </span></div><div style="color: #0025a4; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666619; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i></i></span></div><div style="color: #181818; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“there can be no power in a square” </span></div><div style="color: #0025a4; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666619; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="color: #181818; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“Know the Power that is Peace.” </span></div><div style="color: #0025a4; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666619; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #666619; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;">“It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.” </span></div><div style="color: #0025a4; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666619; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;">“I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream...” </span></div><div style="color: #0025a4; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666619; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;">“Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of the little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.” </span></div><div style="color: #181818; font: 14.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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</div>India Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-55538243933059363542012-01-28T11:39:00.000-08:002012-01-28T11:39:44.721-08:00The Secrets of Manipulation Techniques Used By Product ManufacturersWe are very obedient when it comes to following instructions on the products we buy, and the manufacturers know it. Famously, back in the 1930s, Lever Brothers asked their employees for suggestions on how to improve shampoo sales. One bright spark suggested the addition of the word "repeat" to the directions written on bottles. Voila! Sales were doubled.<br />
In the 1960's Alka Seltzer began a marketing campaign to remove its associations with the elderly and the overindulgent slobs who ate and/or drank too much. They did so using humor, but more crucially, although the directions on the packet said it was only necessary to use one tablet, the advertisements featured two tablets clunking and fizzing into a glass of water with a "plop plop, fizz fizz," catchline. The effect on sales was immediately positive.<br />
Consider too the arrival of the tiny words "After opening, refrigerate" and sometimes "Eat within 8 weeks" on sauce bottles. They weren't there when the product was first sold. The benefit to the manufacturer of the latter is obvious: If you obey, you will get through or dispose of the bottle more quickly and replace it with another. The former, however, is brilliant. If you store your bottle in the refrigerator, probably in the door, you will be reminded of it every time you open it. Stuck in a cupboard you will forget it is there and will use it less often. They know us better than we know ourselves.<br />
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Book of Secrets Andrews McMeel PublishingIndia Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-71823379105515750042012-01-23T14:06:00.000-08:002012-01-23T14:09:41.249-08:00The Dream That Must Be Interpreted<h1 class="specific-story-title" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 1.834em; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 20px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 380px;"><br />
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Only a sleeper considers it real.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">at what you thought was your grief. But...</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">there's a difference with <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; 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outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">interpreted.</i></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All the mean laughing, all the quick, sexual wanting,</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">those torn coats of Joseph,</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">they change into powerful wolves that you must face.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The retaliation that sometimes comes now, the swift, payback hit,</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is just a boy's game to what the other will be.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You know about circumcision here. It's full castration there!</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And this groggy time we live, this is what it's like:</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i> A man goes to sleep in the town where he has always lived, and he dreams he's living in another town. </i><i>In the dream, he doesn't remember the town he's sleeping in his bed in. He believes </i><i>the reality of the dream town.</i></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The world is that kind of sleep.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The dust of many crumbled cities settled over us like a forgetful doze, </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">but we are older than those cities.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We began as a mineral. We emerged into plant life and into the animal state, and then into being human,</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and always we have forgotten our former states,</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That's how a young person turns toward a teacher. That's how a baby leans toward the breast,</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> without knowing the secret of its desire, yet turning instinctively.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Humankind is being led along an evolving course, through this migration of intelligences,</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream,</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and that will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rumi 1207-1273</span></i></div>India Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-78008367505313579762012-01-23T08:31:00.000-08:002012-01-23T08:31:24.924-08:00Samurai Sees Maya<div style="text-align: left;"><b>It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>When you have something like a nightmare, </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>you will wake up and tell yourself </b><b>that it was only a dream.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">HAGAKURE The Book of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo</div>India Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-85490769215127895252012-01-17T20:15:00.000-08:002012-01-17T20:15:46.502-08:00...true grit...Our trip was different...it was to be a classic affirmation of everything right and true in the national character. A gross physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country....<br />
but only for those with True Grit....And we are chalk full of that shit man!<br />
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From the movie adaptation of Fear and Loathing.... and code for "I'm on my way to pick you up Veronica!"India Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-73068067444934811612012-01-17T17:04:00.000-08:002012-01-17T17:06:20.151-08:00My AVN-AE EXPO Schedule and AVN Journal Entry 1Here is my appearance and signing schedule for the<b> January 18-20th, 2012 AE EXPO in Las Vegas</b>.<br />
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You can find me at the <b>GIRLFRIENDS FILMS BOOTH</b>.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> <b>Wednesday January 18th 1:00pm to 6:00pm</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> Thursday January 19th 1:00pm to 6:00pm</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> Friday January 20th 11:00am to 4:00pm</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Just now I am making final preparations and getting ready to pick up my attorney Veronica Avluv and meet my philly, Prinzzess. Prinzzess says we are racing to Vegas, but that's just a cover story. My attorney & I have decided to put her on point because she has a "fuzz buster". We'll be hauling behind her...just under the radar, just out of range. There's no tellin' what could happen once we reach "Bat country"... or maybe we should call it "Remote-controlled Drone country" nowadays.<br />
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No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.... and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well... maybe chalk it off to <i>forced consciousness expansion</i>: Tune in, freak out, get beaten. It's all in Kesey's Bible...The Far Side of Reality.*<br />
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I always drive properly. A bit fast perhaps, but always with consummate skill and a natural feel for the road that even cops recognize. No cop was ever born who isn't a sucker for a finely executed hi-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges.<br />
Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. Your normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side when he sees the big red light behind him... and then he will start apologizing and begging for mercy.<br />
This is wrong, It arouses contempt in the cop-heart. The thing to do---when you're running along at about a hundred or so and you suddenly find a red-flashing CHP-tracker on your trail---what you want to do then is <i>accelerate.</i> Never pull over with the first siren-howl. Mash it down and make the bastard chase you at speeds up to 120 all the way to the next exit.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> He Will Follow!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">But he wont know what to make of your blinker signal that says you're about to turn right.</div><div style="text-align: left;">This is to let him know you're looking for a proper place to pull off and talk....keep signaling and hope for an off-ramp, one of those uphill side-loops with a sign saying "Max Speed 25"....and the trick, at this point, is to suddenly leave the freeway and take him into the chute at no less than a hundred miles an hour.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">...He will not be reasonable at first.... but no matter. Let him calm down. He will want the first word. Let him have it. His brain will be in a turmoil; he may begin jabbering or even pull his gun. Let him unwind; keep smiling. The idea is to show him that you were always in total control of yourself and your vehicle--- while he lost control of everything. *</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">*excerpts from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div>India Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-18094229815959733022012-01-16T10:42:00.000-08:002012-01-16T10:50:40.996-08:00Avoid Confusing the Two; Love & Pleasure<div style="text-align: center;"><b>"First of all", says Sade, "the exact details. Who are you and what are you after in this world? </b><br />
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<b>Only too often I behold you asleep, inert, or just barely alive, </b><b>coming and going like some organic statue</b><b>---is it you?</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>No, you would have yourself a conscious being, as conscious as possible, and rational. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>You seek happiness, which increases consciousness tenfold. What happiness?</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Ordinarily it is located in pleasure and in love. All well and good. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>But one thing: avoid confusing the two.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>To love and to taste pleasure are essentially different; proof thereof is that one loves every day without tasting pleasure, and that one still more frequently tastes pleasure without loving. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> Now, while an indisputable pleasure goes with the gratification of the senses, love, you will admit, is accompanied by nuisances and troubles of every sort."</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The Marquis De Sade</div>India Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-18743855938655959182012-01-14T12:50:00.000-08:002012-01-14T12:58:12.536-08:00Your Ultimate Opponent<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Can you be both martial and spiritual?</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Can you overcome your ultimate opponent?</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">To be martial requires discipline, courage and perseverance. It has nothing to do with killing. People fail to look beyond this one narrow aspect of being a warrior and so overlook all the other excellent qualities that can be gained from training. A warrior is not a cruel murderer. A warrior is a protector of ideals, principles, and honor. A warrior is noble and heroic.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>A warrior will have many opponents in a lifetime, but the ultimate opponent is the warrior's self. Within a fighter's personality are a wide array of demons to be conquered: fear, laziness, ignorance, selfishness, egotism, and so many more. To talk of overpowering other people is inconsequential. To actually overcome one's own defects is the true nature of victory.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">That is why so many religions depict warriors in their iconography. These images are not symbols for dominating others. Rather they are symbols of the ferocity and determination that we need to overcome the demons within ourselves.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Deng Ming-Dao</div>India Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-63874684071758268712012-01-12T10:11:00.000-08:002012-01-12T12:30:29.635-08:00The Importance of Gourdcrafting<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>There was a maidservant who had cleverly trained a donkey<br />
to perform the services of a man.<br />
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From a gourd, she had carved a flanged device<br />
to fit on the donkey's penis,<br />
to keep him from going too far into her.<br />
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She had fashioned it just to the point of her pleasure,</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> and she greatly enjoyed the arrangement, as often as she could!<br />
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She thrived, but the donkey was getting a little thin and tired looking.<br />
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The mistress began to investigate. </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>One day she peeked through a crack in the door<br />
and saw the animal's marvelous member<br />
and the delight of the girl<br />
stretched under the donkey.<br />
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She said nothing. Later, she knocked on the door<br />
and called the maid out on an errand,<br />
a long and complicated errand. I won't go into details.<br />
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The servant knew what was happening, though.<br />
"Ah, my mistress," she thought to herself, "you should not send away the expert."<br />
<br />
"When you begin to work without full knowledge, </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><b>you risk your life. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><b>Your shame keeps you </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><b>from asking me about the gourd, </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><b>but you must </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><b>have that to join with this donkey. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><b>There's a trick you don't know!" </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br />
But the woman was too fascinated with her idea to consider any danger. </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>She led the donkey in and closed the door, thinking, </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"With no one around I can shout in my pleasure."<br />
She was dizzy with anticipation, her vagina glowing<br />
and singing like a nightingale.<br />
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She arranged the chair under the donkey, as she had seen the girl do. </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>She raised her legs and pulled him into her.<br />
Her fire kindled more, and the donkey politely pushed as she urged him to,<br />
pushed through and into her intestines,<br />
and, without a word, she died.<br />
<br />
The chair fell one way,<br />
and she the other.<br />
The room was smeared with blood.<br />
</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Reader,<br />
have you ever seen anyone martyred for a donkey? </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Remember what the Qur'an says about the torment of disgracing yourself.<br />
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Don't sacrifice your life to your animal-soul!<br />
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If you die of what that leads you to do, you are just like this woman on the floor.<br />
She is an image of immoderation.<br />
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Remember her, and keep your balance.<br />
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The maidservant returns and says, </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"Yes, you saw my pleasure, </b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>but you didn't see the gourd that put a limit on it. </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>You opened your shop before a master taught you the craft."<br />
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~Rumi</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><b><br />
</b></span></span></div>India Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-58142668972582023842012-01-11T11:46:00.000-08:002012-01-12T12:34:00.210-08:00GREATFULNESS, GRATEFULNESS AND THE CHILDLESS MILF<div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Ok! So how inappropriate would it be if I “TEBOWED” right now!? </span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 20.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">...pointing her finger to the sky...“I’d like to thank Baby Jesus, Bearded Jesus and the Virgin Mary for this MILF award!"... </span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 20.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">"I'd like to thank the Academy...but (as tears well in her eyes)... as honored as I am to win this award, I feel the need to reveal that I don't, nor have I ever had children. Alas...it is true.. I am a "Childless MILF! Does this disqualify me?" </span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">(Cue the Eric Clapton version of "Motherless Child" with my new lyrics "Childless MILF")</div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 20.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">All FUCKING LEVITY ASIDE....</div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 20.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 20.0px;">I'm just breathing in and savoring this moment. I can honestly say that when I entered the Adult Industry, I never expected to be gathering any top nominations, let alone awards. It isn't that I didn't believe in myself... I fully believe in my talent and my ability. I know what I am capable of, but hoping that others will see that same potential and give you a chance is something you can't count on. </div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 20.0px;"> I just didn't believe that starting when I did, at 29 years of age, that I would necessarily be able to make it into the top tiers of the industry. People told me, "you're too old", or "you'll be shot out in a year" or "You'll shoot your eye out"....no wait, that was about a BB gun.... I felt I could be successful, but I wasn't sure I would ever be given lead roles or opportunities to really shine. For this I have a long line of companies, producers, directors and other talent to thank. Last night at Xbiz, last year at AVN, my reality exceeded what I ever believed I had the right to hope for. </div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 20.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I would like to acknowledge how talented and deserving the other women nominated in this category are, and it is an honor to be named among you.</span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 20.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I want to thank everyone, my colleagues, directors, crew members, critics and fans ...who have ever shared a kind word or thought to me or about me to others.... or taken the time to share their thoughts and constructive criticisms with me. </span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I’ve learned and I am learning so much from so many of you!</span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 20.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I want to express my gratitude to my agency ATMLA, to Shy, to Sandra, to my agents past and present who helped me move forward and accomplish such great work.</span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Undying appreciation to GIRLFRIENDS FILMS, to "Dan the Man", (Xbiz "Man of the Year") and to Moose and the entire rest of my gang there for their constant and unwavering support. </div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> I have to profusely thank Team NAUGHTY AMERICA, for really getting me started and giving me very positive work and shooting experiences. To Laura, to Lauren, to (at that time) director Brett Brando for showing me how "fun, respectful and great" an adult shoot can be. Naughty America's crews and shoots are totally responsible for me choosing to stay in the industry and push on. Thanx be to Sandy, NA, Shane Diesel, Jonas & and HUSH for helping me to secure some of my earliest LA gigs, and to get a toehold into the industry. </div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">There is no way I can leave out or downplay how wonderful and supportive companies like PENTHOUSE, THE HOUSE OF WICKED, NEW SENSATIONS, ZERO TOLERANCE, ADAM & EVE, VIVID, BANG BROS, REALITY KINGS, PRIVATE, KINK.com, and SOCIETYSM have been to me! Thanx to the new (for me) companies like BRAZZERS and other who have hired and embraced me. And forgive me because I am leaving out a list a mile long of people and companies who deserve my gratitude. However, those individuals and companies can be expecting to hear from my over-flowing mouth of gratitude over the next few days. </div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 20.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Last, but NOT LEAST I want to THANK XBIZ for the cherished recognition of how busy and hard I've been working over the past 18 months. I always bring my "A" game and thank you for noticing. It feels great to feel appreciated. I hope you feel it from me.</span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Sincerely, Love, India Summer </span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 20.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div>India Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-16587660734021552642012-01-10T10:09:00.000-08:002012-01-10T10:09:49.272-08:00Soft FocusI think a lot more people would get laid if they would invent "soft focus" contacts and glasses. <div><br />
</div><div>~IS</div>India Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-75338674973219339672012-01-10T09:31:00.000-08:002012-01-10T09:43:03.502-08:00Posting a Correction FUKUDOMEYesterday on twitter, I made the statement that my favorite Dodger's name was "Fukudome" and that had I known his name prior to choosing my stage name, I may have chosen "Fukudome" as my stage name. Maybe a last name, maybe a single name. Hey, Ron Artest went with "Meta World Peace", so maybe I'll still just change my whole name to Fuk-U-Do-Me.<br />
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So here is the correction; After tweeting something to that effect, my friend "Coach" wrote to me and said, "He's not a Dodger, he's a Cub."<br />
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I'm like, "Well he used to be a pitcher on the Dodgers, wasn't he?"<br />
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Coach, "No, he was never on the Dodgers, and he's a white fielder!"<br />
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I said, A "white" fielder? You don't even know who I am talking about! This guy is Japanese! <br />
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Coach: "Right fielder....RIGHT fielder!" And I'm like, "Yeah, the guy that stands on the dirt hill in the middle of the field, the King, the Pitcher....the guy that throws the ball to the quarterback behind the dinner plate! Duh!"<br />
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Coach, obviously recognizing my superior sports knowledge, shook his head in defeat and said, "yeah... well now, he's on the Indians. He's a Japanese Indian." And soulfully we did laugh at my brain gas.<br />
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Anyway, I'd like to apologize for giving anyone the false idea the Fukudome played for the Dodgers. Every summer I always go to the Dodger-Cubs games and they both wear blue and white. You'll have to forgive me for seeing Fukudome at Dodger stadium in blue & white and then getting it twisted in my head that he was a Dodger.<br />
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India SummerIndia Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-67865980935243727022012-01-09T22:57:00.000-08:002012-01-09T23:03:33.082-08:00Ventura HighwayJust about every day I drive up and down the Ventura Highway to work. Many locals may take it for granted but to a girl who grew up in the midwest listening to and loving the song "Ventura Highway"by America, driving through those gorgeous green or moonlit hills that the 101 winds through, translates into a whole can of bitchin' beautiful groovy to me. How bizarre and delightful to be roaming that road of improbable lore, this mystical Ventura highway and yes, jammin' out to the song simultaneously.<br />
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Sometimes when I'm driving and I spy some sweet ride with deeply tinted windows cruising by me at Warp six, I like to imagine to myself that Jeff Bridges and Joe Walsh are cruising in that car, cranking Hendrix and passing a doobie back and forth between them. Joe is driving because his car goes 185. And then Tommy Chong in his deep stoner accent says, "Hey Man! Don't Bogart that joint! Pass it Back Man!" Bridges and Walsh bust out laughing and Bridges, says, "I totally forgot he was back there Maaaaan! More laughing and hotboxing. Passed out on liquid GHB, Nolte is sleeping it off in the trunk. Sometimes, that's what I like to think is happening in the cars passing by me...you know....'cause it could be.... <br />
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India SummerIndia Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-61336092885980276272012-01-06T13:53:00.000-08:002012-01-06T13:53:15.771-08:00My Own Truth<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">My Own Truths are sometimes best spoke by others</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">You may be getting the impression I am a devotee or worshipper of Osho. No more so than I am a devotee of Buddha or Jesus or Krishna or Bob Dylan or Rumi, Bob Marley or The Beatles. When I read or hear things that reflect my own experience and truth, I share it. And more often than not, they say it so much more eloquently and succinctly than I would. Don't let the messenger trip you, I'm not trying to get you into any one person's bag... I'm just sharing my experiences and the things that "resonate" and vibrate all in and around me. I think that all of these prophets or great artists/thinkers are filters. The light that comes through them is from the same place...and while I appreciate and celebrate them individually, it is really the light that I worship and am devoted to. If it resonates with you, I am happy, if it doesn't, maybe it will in the future, or maybe it wont, there is no malicious intent. I don't want you to join a cult or religion. (India)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">I am bringing you a new message. The message is no more to choose -- remain choicelessly alert in your life, and become intelligent rather than changing circumstances. Change your psychology, become more intelligent. More intelligence is needed to be blissful! And then you can have aloneness together with relationship.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Make your woman or your man also alert to the rhythm. People should be taught that nobody can love twenty-four hours a day; rest periods are needed. And nobody can love on order. Love is a spontaneous phenomenon: whenever it happens, it happens, and whenever it doesn't happen it doesn't happen . Nothing can be done about it. If you DO anything, you will create a pseudo phenomenon, an acting.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Real lovers, intelligent lovers, will make each other alert to the phenomenon: "When I want to be alone that does not mean that I am rejecting you. In fact, it is because of your love that you have made it possible for me to be alone." And if your woman wants to be left alone for one night, for a few days, you will not feel hurt. You will not say that you have been rejected, that your love has not been received and welcomed. You will respect her decision to be alone for a few days. In fact, you will be happy! Your love was so much that she is feeling empty; now she needs rest to become full again.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">This is intelligence.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Ordinarily, you think you are rejected. You go to your woman, and if she is not willing to be with you, or not very loving to you, you feel great rejection. Your ego is hurt. This ego is not a very intelligent thing. All egos are idiotic. Intelligence knows no ego; intelligence simply sees the phenomenon, tries to understand why the woman does not want to be with you. Not that she is rejecting you -- you know she has loved you so much, she loves you so much -- but this is a moment she wants to be alone. And if you love her, you will leave her alone; you will not torture her, you will not force her to make love to you.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">And if the man wants to be alone, the woman will not think, "He is no more interested in me -- maybe he has become interested in some other woman." An intelligent woman will leave the man alone, so he can again gather together his being, so that again he has energy to share. And this rhythm is like day and night, summer and winter; it goes on changing.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">And if two persons are really respectful -- and love is always respectful, it reveres the other; it is a very worshipful, prayerful state -- then slowly slowly you will understand each other more and more. And you will become aware of the other's rhythm and your rhythm. And soon you will find that out of love, out of respect, your rhythm is coming closer and closer: when you feel loving, she feels loving. This settles. This settles on its own. k is a synchronicity.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Have you watched ever? If you come across two real lovers, you will see many things similar in them. Real lovers become as if they are brothers and sisters. You will be surprised -- even brothers and sisters are not so alike. Their expression, their way of walking, their way of talking, their gestures -- two lovers become alike, and yet so different. This naturally starts happening. Just being together, slowly slowly, they become attuned to each other. Real lovers need not say anything to the other -- the other immediately understands, intuitively understands.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">If the woman is sad, she may not say it is so, but the man understands and leaves her alone. If the man is sad, the woman understands and leaves him alone -- finds some excuse to leave him alone. Stupid people do just the opposite: they never leave each other alone -- they are constantly with each other, tiring and boring each other; never leaving any space for the other to be.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Love gives freedom and love helps the other to be himself or herself. Love is a very paradoxical phenomenon. In one way it makes you one soul in two bodies; in another way it gives you individuality, uniqueness. It helps you to drop your small selves, but it also helps you to attain to the supreme self.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Then there is no problem: love and meditation are two wings, and they balance each other. And between the two you grow, between the two you reach to God.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Chapter #5</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Chapter title: Beep Beep!</span>India Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-29516479339568129922012-01-06T13:37:00.000-08:002012-01-06T15:17:31.744-08:00Brainwashed<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="color: #444433; font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Brainwashed in our childhood, brainwashed by the school</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Brainwashed by our teachers</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b> </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and brainwashed by all their rules</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Brainwashed by our leaders,</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b> </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">by our Kings and Queens</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Brainwashed in the open,</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b> </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and brainwashed behind the scenes</span></div><div style="color: #444433; font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">God </span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A voice cries in the wilderness</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>, i</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">t was on the longest night</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">An eternity of darkness,</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b> </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Someone turned out the spiritual light</span></div><div style="color: #444433; font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="color: #444433; font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Brainwashed by the Nikkei</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>, </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">brainwashed by Dow Jones</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Brainwashed by the FTSE</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>, </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Nasdaq and secure loans</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Brainwashed us from Brussels, Brainwashing us in Bonn</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Brainwashing us in Washington,Westminster in London</span></div><div style="color: #444433; font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">God </span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">You are the wisdom that we seek</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">God </span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The lover that we miss</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">God </span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Your nature is eternity</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">God </span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Your are Existence, Knowledge, Bliss</span></div><div style="color: #444433; font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="color: #444433; font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The soul does not love, it is love itself</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It does not exist, it is existence itself</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It does not know, it is knowledge itself</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">How to Know God, page 130</span></div><div style="color: #444433; font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="color: #444433; font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">They brainwashed my great uncle, brainwashed my cousin Bob</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">They even got my grandma, when she was working for the mob</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Brainwash you while you're sleeping, while in your traffic jam</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Brainwash you while you're weeping, while still a baby in your pram</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Brainwashed by the military, brainwashed under duress</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Brainwashed by the media, You're brainwashed by the press</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Brainwashed by computer, Brainwashed by mobile phones</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Brainwashed by the satellite, Brainwashed to the bone</span></div><div style="color: #444433; font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">God </span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Won't you lead us through this mess<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b>, f</b></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">rom the places of concrete</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Nothing's worse than ignorance,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I just won't accept defeat</span></div><div style="color: #444433; font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">God</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Must be something I forgot</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>, </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">down on Bullshit Avenue</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">God </span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">If we can only stop the rot,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><b> w</b></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">ish that you'd brainwash us too</span></div><div style="color: #444433; font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="color: #444433; font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="color: #444433; font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Namah Parvarti Pataye Hare Hare Mahadev</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Namah Parvarti Pataye Hare Hare</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Namah Parvarti Pataye Hare Hare</span></div><div style="color: #444433; font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Shiva Shiva Shankara Mahadeva</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Hare Hare Hare Hare Mahadeva</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Shiva Shiva Shankara Mahadeva</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Shiva Shiva Shankara Mahadeva</span></div><div style="color: #444433; font: 14.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Namah Parvarti Pataye Hare Hare</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Namah Parvarti Pataye Hare Hare</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Shiva Shiva Shankara Mahadeva</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br />
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Shiva Shiva Shankara Mahadeva</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Morality is only a social strategy. That's why one thing is right in one society and the same thing is wrong in another society; One thing is thought to be good in India and the same thing is thought to be bad in Japan. One thing is thought to be good today and may become wrong tomorrow. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Morality is a social by-product, it is a social strategy to control people.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The moralist always judges, an aware person never judges. He lives in a nonjudgmental consciousness.</div><div style="text-align: center;">He simply watches and understands.</div><div style="text-align: center;">~Osho</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ever-striving and fighting the inner battle to grow beyond my own judgmental consciousness. In those moments that I am able to transcend it, it is a sweet grace. May these moments grow wider and last longer until they blend into one streaming consciousness. If you think this is a discussion about "ethics" in society, or the common rational daily judgements the world requires, you have missed the point.</div><div style="text-align: center;">~India Summer</div><div style="clear: both;"></div></div><div class="post-footer" style="border-top-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-top-style: dashed; border-top-width: 1px; color: #997755; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;"></div>India Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-29537812833423451202012-01-06T10:53:00.000-08:002012-01-06T11:00:54.635-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>India Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-90096231208118151302012-01-05T02:47:00.000-08:002012-01-06T13:05:47.197-08:00Wake Up, America! On December 31st, 2011, POTUS effectively signed away Habeas Corpus for American citizens. Ask yourself, "How easy would it be for them to falsely accuse someone or yourself of being a "terrorist" and throwing them or you into Gitmo?" Indefinitely. Perhaps not likely, but how very easy it would be. Right? Because the police never plant evidence...right? Because we never falsely accuse anyone of things right? Like the man they persecuted for the Olympic bombings in Atlanta. How easy it is for the government, the police powers and their manipulation of the media (Operation Mockingbird-look it up) to persecute even the most innocent people should they decide to. Are we just slow dancing our way back to 1930's to '45 Germany?<br />
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Let me continue onto the "Citizens United" ruling and the Super Pacs and the elections that should be/could be called auctions. 94% of the time, the candidate that spends the most money, and takes in the most money, wins. American Capitalism has mutated into "Crony Capitalism", and "Predatory Capitalism" and "Casino Capitalism". While operating virtually free of regulations and oversight, Wall Street complains of too much regulation" while the American people bail them out from their corruption. Welcome the age of Feudal Corporatism! Long live the Oligarchy! Long Live the Plutocrat!<br />
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"The Patriot Act". The constant, gradual stripping away of privacy and rights. Need I say more? The unspoken policy of "Endless War" for natural resources that they call "The War on Terrorism", The 40 year on-going "Drug War". Newsflash to the Anti-drug warriors, the legal Big Pharma drugs are out-doping the country faster than your old standby illicit, outlaw drugs like that horrible beauty of nature, that gift of god, marijuana.<br />
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A Farewell to individual liberty, privacy and the hard earned rights of the American people. Enjoy the tyranny of the self perpetuating Oligarchy and the rigged game they've designed. <br />
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..."Keep you doped with religion, sex and TV, and you think you're so clever and classless and free... But you're (we're) still fucking peasants as far as I can see...." John Lennon from his song "Working Class Hero"<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">"Big boys bickering every day, that's what they're doing every day, big boys bickering, fucking it up for everyone. </div><div style="text-align: left;">Guess what they're betting on the track, they're trying to win your money back, all of the taxes that you paid went to fund a masquerade...." Paul McCartney from his song "Big Boys Bickering"</div></div>India Summerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06361221757299138685noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8931455356466824721.post-91754929401062259872012-01-03T09:28:00.000-08:002012-01-03T09:28:18.493-08:00It is Sweet to Live Arduously. And to Master YourselfLife is basically insecure. Only death is secure. "Life insurance" is a contradiction in terms; there can only be death insurance. Life is an adventure, unpredictable. Hence one has to live it arduously. Life is dangerous; only death is safe. So the people who want to live safely die before their death, and the people who want to live without any danger don't live at all.<br />
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Life means danger, life means risks. Life means going always from the known to the unknown, from one peak to another peak, always climbing peaks which have not been climbed before, always moving into the uncharted sea with no maps, with no guidelines. Only then you live ecstatically, and only then you know what life is. Through living dangerously one becomes integrated. Through living a life of insecurity one passes through fire and becomes pure gold. The only way to become master of oneself is to go into the unknown, unafraid or in spite of all the fears. Teachers like Buddha invite you for an arduous life.<br />
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