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| more on christmas |
| 12.28.04 (10:57 am) [edit] |
could someone please explain, why do people feel compelled to give gifts during christmas? this is just me so, dont mind me at all.
[ have folks even questioned the purpose of exchanging gifts during christmas? sometimes gift giving and exchanging takes on a different meaning, he/she/they gave me a crummy gift last year so, am not going to bother to pick a nice gift for them. why such a big fuss and focus over gifts? is that what christmas means to you now? acts of kindness and compassion are the best gifts we can give one another, respect and love without expecting any gain in return. ]
like i mentioned in the previous post, i think all this holiday gift buying frenzy is crazy.
[ not that people shouldnt buy presents ]
and why are people nice to each other only during this season, not that its a bad thing to be nice, mind you.
just strange for people to act like puppets for this one season. do people really need an occasion to be nice to others?
edited entry: how many times were you made aware through tv, radio etc that you were celebrating a great soul and mystic's birthday?
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| how i celebrated x'mas* |
| 12.24.04 (5:00 pm) [edit] |
[note the asterisk on the subject, it also occurs in the header]
i never enjoyed celebrating x'mas from the very begining. i was always dragged to attend midnight mass with my devout catholic neighbours, and i promised myself that, once i was outta school, no mas. [pun absolutely intended]
i do celebrate christmas but in my own way.
so...i bought myself a gift, and now ofcourse am obliged to exchange gifts, so shipped myself another gift. :wink:
gifts for my folks at home are given at any time i please, am not comfortable buying a gift just cause its christmas, and as such i do not accept gifts from anyone. if you insist then dont say it's for christmas. lol.
anyways. coming to more important matters. am sure it didnt begin this way but now christmas is another fine way the govts, the shopping industry manipulate and control the masses. you are bombarded constantly with adverts on tv, radio, huge billboards to do just one thing. BUY STUFF!!
when was the last time you favorite show was constantly interrupted by adverts of peace and tolerance? all you get are, sale ads and ads which make you believe your unhappy because you dont have that featured advert-item or you are sick and need some form of medication, with more side-effects than curing potential.
yes. lets keep the people busy, lets give them another big holiday in the year, afterall the fastest way to teach an animal new tricks is to encourage it with rewards and give it the impression that it is it's own master.
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| metaphysics & occult |
| 12.22.04 (5:01 pm) [edit] |
yesterday was such a great day for me;
finished my finals
received a wonderful book in the mail
[ i was unsure if i would ever receive it as i had purchased it from a private seller on amazon.com ]
found out and later installed trillian 3.0
[ a simple easy to use, universal IM chat client, it lets you chat with friends on AIM, ICQ, MSN, IRC and Y! even if you dont have them installed on your PC as long as you have an account with that respective IM client ]
foreword from the book, 'cave of the ancients'
this is a book about the occult, and about the powers of man. it is a simple book in that there are no "foreign words," no sanskrit, nothing of dead languages. the average person wants to KNOW things, does not want to guess at words which the average author does not understand either! if an author knows his job he can write in english wihtout having to disguise lack of knowledge by use of a foreign language.
too many people get caught up in mumbo-jumbo. the laws of life are simple indeed; there is no need at all to dress them up with mystic cults or pseudo religions. nor is there any need for anyone to claim "divine revelations." ANYONE can have the same "revelations" if they work for it.
no one religion holds the keys of heaven, nor will one be forever damned because he enters a church with his hat on instead of his shoes off. in tibet lamasery entrances bear the inscription "a thousand monks, a thousand religions." believe what you will, if it embraces "do as you would be done by" you will GET by when the final call comes.
some say that inner knowledge can only be obtained by joining this cult, and paying a substantial subscription too. the laws of life say, "seek, and you shall find."
this book is the fruit of a long life, training culled from the greater lamaseries of tibet and from powers which were gained by a very close adherence to the laws. this is knowledge taught by the ancients of old, and is written in the pyramids of egypt, in the high temples of the andes, and in the greateset repository of occult knowledge in the world, the highlands of tibet.
t. lobsang rampa
just testing out the feel of posting with comments turned off, i guess folks could always drop a line in the cbox to the right.
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| simple facts |
| 12.16.04 (2:54 pm) [edit] |
is masturbation harmful to me?
am sure that question has come up in most of our minds, well the site below will answer that question for you. for those of you who have never indulged in this act, congrats!!
[click here]
for more information on the importance of conserving the sexual energy, be sure to download the PDF ebook, "The Perfect Matrimony" from the above site.
i have eastern ebooks that give supporting reasons on why this act hinders us terribly from evolving spiritually. let me know, and i will upload them, as i have lost the original website link.
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| aerial photography using kites |
| 12.11.04 (12:14 pm) [edit] |
got this in my rss newsfeeds today, usually i just delete them but this one caught my attention. this article features a photographer who took aerial photographs of the earthquake that struck san francisco in 1906. be sure to click on the pictures for a detialed view.
you can see the equipment used by him, consisting of an antique box camera and a really big kite am guessing!
well this was back in 1906 using whatever means were available and now to see modern technology in action, go to recon's post. Be sure to attempt to find the two girls in the image, to appreciate the uber high quality resolution of the world's largest digital picture.
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| the selfish nature of man in this age |
| 12.10.04 (12:56 pm) [edit] |
1984-12-04,INDIA-Bhopal,B urial of an unknown child. This unknown child has become the icon of the world's worst industrial disaster, caused by the US multinational chemical company, Union Carbide.
©Raghu Rai/Greenpeace
Article from the Greenpeace webpage:
Nightmare in Bhopal
This feature was reserached and written by Lisa McDonald, a freelance journalist.
When I was first asked to cover this story I was hesitant. I wondered why, twenty years later, anyone would be interested in rehashing an industrial disaster story. The more I researched the details of the event however, and the plight of its survivors, the more I realized just how important it still is today.
This 3rd of December, it will have been 20 years since the leak at the Union Carbide pesticide factory killed so many thousands. And the death toll continues to rise. In Bhopal, India, there will be no holiday sentiment this December. People will be marching and making speeches. They will be gathering in the streets, holding hands and weeping for the loss of loved ones. They will be angry and demanding justice. But most of all, people will be remembering. They will be remembering a night that is impossible to forget.
The night of the apocalypse
It was just after midnight, December 3rd, 1984. The night sky was clear and blessed by stars. Hundreds had gathered for the Sunday evening mushaira in the Spices Square. This was a traditional night dedicated to song and poetry long celebrated in Bhopal. The crowd listened intently as the Urdu poets sang of suffering and joy, of life and death, and of the soul eternal. Elsewhere, marriage ceremonies were taking place in all four corners of the city. The bars and restaurants were filled with music and the sounds of celebration. It was a night of festivities, a night to rejoice.
In contrast to this, trouble was brewing at the Union Carbide Corporation's pesticide plant just hundreds of yards away. The air inside the factory was charged with panic and fear. It had come to the attention of the under-trained staff that there was a potentially catastrophic leak in one of the tanks. This tank was holding up to 42 tons of lethal gases. Within minutes, a tremendous explosive reaction would cause a deadly hurricane of gases to spill out over the city of Bhopal. Its population of over half a million people would be subjected to one of the most horrific events in the history of industrial disasters. The apocalypse had begun.
The deadly gases slipped unnoticed through the open windows and doors of the city. For the many that were sound asleep in bed, the poison that they breathed in as they slept ensured that they would never wake again. The late-night revelers however, had the misfortune to be conscious when the terror hit. But even by the time they had caught sight of that enormous poisonous cloud moving towards them, it was already too late. The busy restaurants and cafes, the squares and parks - they had all just minutes before been filled with the sounds of poetry, music and laughter - now they were suddenly silent. Frighteningly silent. The enemy had infiltrated, and quickly stifled the cries of its victims. The gases had floated in like a ghost on the evening breeze, immediately constricting people's throats and choking their lungs to the point of bursting. Their bodies contorted and writhed in pain, their pupils were swollen and burning. What was this evil that had descended upon them? No one knew. Most died before they could even reach their homes or hospitals. Those who did manage to make it to a hospital died there. The dead and dying were everywhere! There were not enough doctors, and no one from Union Carbide would give any information on the nature of the toxins concerned, making treatment impossible anyway. The unspeakable was happening!
By the third day, an estimated 8000 people had died from direct toxic exposure; another 500,000 people had been injured. Twenty years later, conservative figures are that at least 20,000 people have died as a result of this disaster. There is now a third generation of victims - the children of parents born after the gas leak - who also suffers from life-threatening abnormalities. They suffer from acute breathlessness, brain damage, menstrual chaos, loss of immunity, cancer and tuberculosis. But far from receiving sympathy or assistance from those responsible, the survivors are still struggling for even the most basic medical aid, let alone economic and social support. The legacy of disaster continues.
Who's to blame?
Researching the Bhopal story was a real eye-opener. To be honest, I knew very little about the tragedy before I started writing about it. The stories and photographs I was provided with depicted a horror far beyond anything I had ever imagined. Most nights, after working on the story, I would sneak into my five-year old daughter's bedroom and be thankful for how lucky I am. Watching her sleeping there, safe in her bed, I could not stop the tears from falling, my heart from breaking. All of those parents who watched their children take a last tortured breath. All of those innocent people who continue to suffer. It's inconceivable. How could this have happened?
To begin with, even the storage of these huge volumes of lethal gases in such a densely populated area was in contravention of normal company policy. The plant was erected nonetheless, ignoring the massive protests of the local community. Although Union Carbide's signature trademark was a green triangle inscribed with the words 'safety first', safety precautions were ironically almost non-existent in the Bhopal plant. Considering the volatility of the substances involved, the choice of Union Carbide to cut costs in the safety department was criminal. Especially when you consider that this multimillion dollar company saved a measly US$50 a day by doing so.
Corporate lies and double standards
The safety standards for the Bhopal plant were dangerously lax in comparison to that of the other Union Carbide factories in Europe and America. Critical equipment in the factory was in disrepair. The staff was too small and nowhere near sufficiently trained in safety procedures. There was not even a disaster management plan for the surrounding city! This was an accident waiting to happen! It's appalling to consider how easily this nightmare could have been avoided.
These discrepancies in safety precautions would never have been tolerated in the West. Sadly enough, these are double standards that are not uncommon behavior for multinational corporations. In order to promote investment from big multinationals into poorer countries, many international health and labor standards are either reduced or missing altogether. This grants the major industrial players leeway to exploit people and environment for profit. Just like in the Bhopal case, the poorest and most vulnerable are always the victims.
This behaviour suggests that human life in the more underprivileged areas of the world is of less value than human life elsewhere! Warren Anderson, Union Carbide chairman at the time, knowingly put a city of half a million innocent people into a potentially deadly situation for personal profit. This action is a crime against humanity and environment.
The icing on the corporate crime cake is the manner in which Union Carbide reacted to the disaster in the moments, days and years afterwards. It took a company spokesperson almost three hours after the leak had occurred to make any official comment regarding the accident. Information was withheld regarding the details of the nature of the gases, as this was considered to go against company policy. The Union Carbide health and safety officials even went so far as to downplay the disaster when they described the gas as 'nothing more than a potent tear gas'. The company continued with this approach even after it became apparent that thousands had died from exposure immediately following the disaster, and that tens of thousands more would be injured for life.
Union Carbide eventually shed its bad name by merging with another multinational bully, Dow Chemical. Together, they managed to wash their hands of the tragedy, leaving behind them a wake of human suffering and a toxic environmental wasteland. Dow Chemical refuses to be held accountable for Union Carbide's negligence as the company no longer officially 'exists'. They are now the world's leading chemical company.
The long and winding road to compensation
The Indian government and Union Carbide agreed on a shameless compensation of US$470 million. The money remained in India's bank and was only released this July to the survivors following a Supreme Court decision. The amount decided upon for compensation however, was not nearly enough to cover even the basic medical costs of the survivors over a five-year period. And what of the new generation of victims? Those whose parents were babies at the time of the leak. And the continued contamination of the earth and water? The old Union Carbide plant has yet to be cleaned up. It's been left as it was on the day of the disaster, a veritable chemical cocktail. There are an estimated 5000 tons of toxic waste laying strewn about the site, blowing up into the air and penetrating into the earth and water supply. Despite all of this, those responsible remain evasive. In fact, once the meager compensation had been paid, Union Carbide up and left Bhopal with its tail between its legs, never to return again.
But the people never gave up. How could they? They had already lost everything - family, friends, health and happiness. Many grassroots movements were formed in Bhopal and around the world. They were demanding justice; they were demanding to be heard.
The will of the people may be strong, but they remain helpless in the face of the giant multinational who betrayed them. Until the old Union Carbide site is cleaned up the death toll will continue to rise - for many generations to come. Mr Jaber, who lost both his father and brother in the accident, had this to say: "the compensation to the victims of the World Trade Center and cleanup of the site was done within a year; we are still waiting for both even after almost two decades." The injustice is overwhelming.
Rashida Bee lost her family and her health in the leak, she comments: "this money should have come much, much earlier as people are wracked with illness from the leak". Until Union Carbide's new proprietor, Dow Chemical, is held responsible and liable for proper compensation, and economic and social rehabilitation in Bhopal, there is no justice meted. Unless Dow Chemical is forced to clean up the toxic site, which continues to poison the environment, the number of victims will continue to mount. This story is far from over. The people of Bhopal cannot, and should not be forgotten.
Hope for the future
The victims of this tragedy, and their international support groups, continue to strive for justice. They believe that this is not the final judgment on Bhopal and are determined not to give up. The International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB) has decided on having "hope" and "rebuilding" as their motto for this 20th anniversary of the gas disaster. They hope for a safer world - a world with no more Bhopals! And we should join them in this hope.
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this last age of man is ruled by greed, it is every where.
what is dow doing about this, they are suing the remaining survivors for $10,000 for loss of work compensation! in indian wages, that is 10 years of wages!
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| is fluoride good for you? |
| 12.09.04 (4:14 pm) [edit] |
google: is fluoride good for you
that is what i entered in the google search engine. the results are very interesting...
the majority of websites cite health risks due to fluoridation of tap water, you won't believe how this all started. this website gives you the details. did you know, fluoride is used in rat poison and is more toxic than lead?
have you wondered, why the toothpaste tube mentions if accidentally swallowed above required limit please contact the poison center immediately? and why does it say; children must be supervised until they develop good brushing habits? start with pea size amount for children?
quite simple, children can die due to fluoride poisoning, and this way you are gradually making them immune to it, but they will still suffer in the long run. if fluoridation of tap water is really good for us, then why have other countries who were following similar measures, immediately discontinued fluoridation once they discovered its hazards?
why does the US gov continue this practice? Is there truth to David Icke's website afterall?
He claims fluoride is an intellect subduing agent...
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| got protein? |
| 12.04.04 (2:45 pm) [edit] |
so, am obsessed with protein.
but who isn't? this stuff is great for all those into body sculpting and strength training. so this evening before venturing out with mum to get some veggies...
i had my first glass of whey protein with milk, and man this stuff is heavy, as it is milk is pretty filling and added with whey protein it's tough to down a glass quickly. anyways at the market, while watching mum carefully select a root vegetable , in hindi it's known as [mooli]. i have no idea what it's known as in english, i kept thinking to myself
..oo0 (hmm i wonder how much protein am gonna get while eating that, i mean this stuff is bitter, but for the sake of protein, i shall make this sacrifice).
now, to do some push-ups!
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| more movie talk |
| 12.02.04 (1:11 pm) [edit] |
some movies i saw last weekend.
the terminal: i never thought a movie as cool as this one could be made around a plot so simple. steven spielberg sure is a genius. about the movie; tom hanks plays victor navorski a man arriving for the first time to the US, moments after his departure, a military revoultion has taken place in his country leaving most of the top political figures either dead or in hiding.
barely speaking/understanding enough english, he is informed by the immigration authorities that his country technically doesnt exist until a new leader is elected. so his visa is cancelled, he cannot enter the US nor can a visa be issued to send him home. so victor does the only thing he can possibly do...live in the international terminal lounge, until things are set right.
van hellsing: one word, "bleh" [while sticking his tongue].
harry potter, the prisoner of azkaban: another great movie based on the book series of harry potter. i think i enjoyed parts 1 and 3 the best. i would like to add more on what i liked best about this movie, but i can't do so without giving away some details of the plot. so, if your a fan of magic and science ,give this one a definite look-see.
i wonder if there will be a another movie?
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