Being defeated is often a temporary condition.

Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Men often become what they believe themselves to be.

If I believe I cannot do something,
it makes me incapable of doing it.

But when I believe I can,
then I acquire the ability to do it
even if I didn't have it in the beginning

Nobody can hurt you without your permission

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative
and the universe is endlessly bountiful.

Just put forth a clear enough request,
and everything your heart desires must come to you

become the change you want to see in the world

Strength does not come from physical capacity.

It comes from an indomitable will.

We don't receive wisdom

We must discover it for ourselves

after a journey
that no one can take for us

or spare us.

Every moment is a golden one  for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

In time all suffering will pass

The bitter doesn't last forever,
and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.

All that is gained at the expense of your nerves
decade after decade
can be confiscated in one fell night.

Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

What's worse?

Hell or nothing?

Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.

On a long enough time line,
the survival rate for everyone

drops to zero.

Everyone you ever love will reject you or die.

Everything you ever create will be thrown away.

Everything you’re proud of will end up as trash.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die...

If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing which would you choose?

Which is worse Hell or nothing?

Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.

Burn down The Louvre and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa.

At least this way God would know our names.

The wise man in the storm prays to God,
not for safety from danger,
but for the deliverance from fear.

It is the storm within that endangers him,
not the storm without.

You can feed a caterpillar, you can whisper through the chrysalis.

What hatches out will follow it's own nature and will be beyond you.

God in irony is matchless,
and in wanton malice beyond measure

Those who reject the battle are more deeply wounded than those who take part in it

There is a luxury in self reproach.

When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything

Only after disaster can we be resurrected

Life comes at us from out of the darkness...

and at times we can struggle to find the courage to face it.

When life comes rushing at you from our of the darkness,
who will you choose to face it with?
Will it be someone you trust?
Will they be wise?
And will their love for you help them to guide you to the light?
Or will they lose their way in the darkness?
Will they make noble choices?
Or will that person be someone untested,
someone new?

Life comes rushing at you from out of the darkness,
when it does is there someone in your life you can count on?
Someone who will watch over you when you stumble and fall?

And in that moment, give you the strength to face your fears alone?

Unburden yourself from the mistakes of the past.
And when you do, your heart grows stronger.

But it doesn't mean that what you have done is forgotten.

What you have done is out there.

And what you have done remembers.

Regret comes in all shapes and sizes. Some are small like when we do a bad thing for a good reason. Some are bigger like when you let down a friend.

Some of us escape the pain of regret by making the right choice. Some of us have little time for regret because we're looking forward to the future. Sometimes we have to fight to come to terms with the past, and sometimes we bury our regret by promising to change our own ways.

But our biggest regrets are not for the things we did, but for the things we didn't do.

Things we didn't say that could've save someone that we care about.

You can choose to blame your circumstances on fate or bad luck or bad choices.
Or you can fight back.

Things aren't always going to be fair in the real world.
That's just the way it is.
But for the most part, you get what you give.

The rest of your life is being shaped right now.
With the dreams you chase,
The choices you make,
and the person you decide to be.

The rest of your life is a long time.

And the rest of your life starts right now.

Do you ever wonder if we make the moments in our lives or if the moments in our lives make us?

If you could go back and change one thing about your life, would you?
And if you did, would that change make your life better?
Or would that change ultimately break your heart?
Or break the heart of another?

Or would you choose an entirely different path?
Or would you change just one thing, just one moment?

One moment, that you've always wanted back.

Have you ever wondered what marks our timing?

If one life can really make an impact on the world?
Or if the choices we make matter?

Sometimes in order to move forward, you have to go back.
In some cases, just a few minutes.

Have you ever wondered what marks our timing?
If one life can really make an impact on the world?
Or if the choices we make matter?

I believe they do.

And I believe that one person can change many lives.

For better, or worse.

 

A ship in the harbour is safe.

But that's not what ships were made for.

Well that didn't happen

20/12/2012 The End Of The World

2012 The End Of The World

20/12/2012

20 December 2012

This is the last day of the Mayan calendar.

The calendar lasts for 5125 years.

The last dates marks the end of human civilisation.

The current cycle, or baktun, of this calendar began on August 13th, 3114 B.C. This marked the end of the last period and the beginning of the current one.
The baktun that we are currently living in is the thirteenth, and the end of this cycle is one that has been considered to have a large level of importance to the Mayan people, which is why so many people have come to the conclusion that this cycle’s end is one that will mean the end of the world as we know it.

This might be the same way the dinosaurs were killed, by a big meteor, as in Armageddon, or it might be the next Ice Age.

The long calendar was created in order to correspond with a long term astronomical prediction by the Mayan people

20 + 1 + 3 = 23 - The Number 23

This might be caused by a solar flare.

This might be caused by the return to the solar system of Nibiru, otherwise known as Planet X, a mobile planateray body far larger than Haley's comet.

According to this 2012 end of the world philosophy, when this planetary body re-enters our system it will cause massive disruptions in the orbits of Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, and Earth. When Nibiru crosses our orbit they believe that it will cause the gases in Jupiter to ignite because it will get too close to the sun and the precarious balance that keeps its gas structure in check will be lost, therefore causing Jupiter to turn into a secondary sun. In combination with this, the solar flares that are released from the sun on a naturally reoccurring cycle are set to peak during the year 2012. It is believed that this occurrence in combination with the cycle of Nibiru will cause a massive amount of damage to the planet on a level that has never been seen before.

Rather than an Ice Age we will see a Fire Age.


There are others who contend that the end of the world 2012 prophesy actually refers to a very rare planetary alignment that will occur during the winter solstice on december 21 2012.
At this time the entire Milky Way (including the earth and the sun) will align at a point that is known as the galactic equator. This alignment is so rare that it only happens every twenty five thousand years.
It is thought that this rare planetary alignment could signal a shift in the magnetic poles. This polar shift has happened before in the distant past, and if it were to happen now it would cause massive destruction across the globe.
Some claim that the reason the Mayan long calendar ends on this exact date is that something is going to happen in combination with this alignment, the introduction of Nibiru, and the solar flares.

It can’t be a coincidence that all of these things are scheduled to happen at the same time that the Mayan calendar is set to come to its conclusion.

 

The wise man in the storm prays to God,
not for safety from danger,
but for the deliverance from fear.

It is the storm within that endangers him,
not the storm without.

Think outside the Tesseract

Tesseract

Tesseract

omnitruncated tesseract

bitruncated tesseract

Tesseract

Take six cubes.

Arrange them into the shape of a crucifix.

Take two more cubes

stick them either side of the crucifix

at the point where the cross is made.

Now you have a tesseract.

A tesseract is a 3 dimensional object.

A tesseract is also a 4 dimensional object

a hypercube

unravelled.

A square unravels to a line.

2 dimensions unravel to one.

A cube unravels to a cross.

3 dimensions unravel to two.

A hypercube unravels to a tesseract.

4 dimensions unravel to three.

You exist in three spatial dimensions.

In the same way that a one dimensional person

could not visualise a 2 dimensional square,

or a 2 dimensional person could not visualise a 3 dimensional cube,

you cannot visualise a hypercube.

A hypercube is a thing you are not equipped to understand.

You can only understand the Tesseract.

You can see the thing unravelled

you cannot see the thing itself.

Come to the edge" he said.


"We can't, we're afraid!"

"Come to the edge" he said.

"We can't, we'll fall!"

"Come to the edge" he said.

So they came.

And he pushed them.

And they flew.

Your father is your model for God

If you never knew your father or if you father bails, or dies,
or is never at home, what does that tell you about God?

Getting God's attention for being bad
is better than no attention at all.
God's hate is better than his indifference.

If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing which would you choose?

We are God's middle children with no special place in history
and no attention.
Unless we get God's attention
we have no hope of damnation or redemption.

Which is worse Hell or nothing?

Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.

Burn The Louvre and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa.

At least this way God would know our names.

The Tell Tale Heart

Genesis of The Fallen

In the beginning, before the Heaven and The Earth and The Angels, God created Satan.

He wasn't "The Devil" then, he didn't even have a name. But he could see and touch and think and speak. Which was why he was created in the first place, so God would have someone to talk to.

God had a lot to talk about.

He planned to build a golden kingdom peopled by beautiful and kindly angels and far below it would be a universe of stars and moons and planets, all interlinked, all relying on each other like a perfect piece of clockwork.

Life on planets would be like that too. Animal and vegetable, carnivore and herbivore, ecosystems so complex and yet so perfectly simple that they could never fail.

Stars at dawn and moonlit snowfields, whalesong in the marianas, tiger tracks in endless green, wings so wide that a world could shelter under them.

And Satan shouted "YES!" until his tears ran through his smile.

That was what he thought was intended. God would use the power He had for marvelous CREATION, never tiring of the variety and depth of beauty He could bring to the Universe, an endless palette, an endless canvass.

Then God planned to enhance His creation with a new race He'd been thinking about. It's chief characteristic was the replacement of instinct with the grandiose concept of Free Will.

This was a disastrous notion according to Satan. Offer a choice and nine out of ten people will instantly make the wrong one. Asking for trouble.

Satan told Him so.

God looked at Satan, one eye narrow and one eye wide:
"WHAT did you say!?"

Satan had that plummeting free-fall sensation that only the most exquisite faux pas can bring to a conversation - the dreadful awareness that words can never heal the wound, and nothing can ever be the same again.

Satan no longer had God's ear. He no longer had any idea of what God planned than His angels did. He was terrified.

Satan skulked around the Kingdom of Heaven like a wayward infant, expecting his father's voice of Justice with every step he took.

Well, if you put all your energy into dodging someone for long enough, sooner or later you'll run right into them. Satan found the Great Redeemer squatting in a corner of Eternity.

That's why He gave Humanity the choice, and why He imagined they'd pick Him.

Why a Loving God would curse His creation with centuries of pain, why a Supreme Being is so enamoured of Free Will.

And you just think He "moves in mysterious ways".
A child of four can see through that one.

God knew it and threw Satan out of Heaven.
And he's been falling ever since.

After that He went ahead with it anyway. The Heavenly Host weren't much more than a dry run for Humanity.
(Look at them now - StormTroopers with haloes.)

Down below, Satan's purpose was clear.

He had to storm the walls of Heaven, to bring sanity to the heart of Creation, and the only way to do that was to raise an army. So he took advantage of the choice that God was so keen on, and offered one of his own.

Satan cajoled and bribed and threatened and his realm and his soul-legions grew and grew.

The other Fallen appeared but they were nothing but distractions.

On and on Satan went, his eyes forever on his goal, his dream of Earthly Paradise before him.

Then Satan woke up.

The methods he employed had their effect. The tools he used were Lust and Envy, Hate and Avarice. What good would they be in building a better world? What good would HE be? His reactions, decisions, were all based on Hatred.

Satan is exactly what The Devil should be - the tempter, the deciever, the serpent crawling in the garden. The Adversary.

So what did God originally intend him for?
What was the point of someone He could talk to if He wouldn't listen?

The answer is obvious.
Satan was God's conscience.
His Jiminy Cricket.
The little voice everyone gets in their head.
"Come on, don't do that, do this. Don't be nasty. Don't hurt her. Don't have that last drink, get on home. Do the right thing."
That was Satan.

So God takes the nagging little whine out of His head and gives it a body. And the minute he steps out of line, that's it. He kicks it's arse for it.
He bars him.

So God doesn't have to listen anymore and does whatever He fancies.

Mortals call Satan "The Devil". It is not a title he minds. Mortals have to call him something after all, but it is inaccurate.

Satan fell before there were even any angels to become devils, or demons, or whatever. When he got to the bottom there wasn't even a Hell for him to rule. That came later, with Lucifer.

Satan picked himself up from the longest fall of all, and remembered what he'd seen in the eyes of the Almighty.

And he wept with pity for the world He had created.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die...

If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing,
which would you choose?

The Day I Met God

I met God across his long walnut desk
with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him,
and God asks me, "Why?"
Why did I cause so much pain?
Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred,
snowflake of special unique specialness?
Can't I see that we're all manifestations of love?

I look at God behind his desk,
taking notes on a pad,
but God's got this all wrong.

We are not special.
We are not crap or trash either.
We just are.
We just are,
and what happens just happens.

And God says,
"No, that's not right."
Yeah. Well.
Whatever.

You can't teach God anything.

We are God’s middle children

with no special place in history
and no special attention.

Unless we get God’s attention,
we have no hope for damnation or redemption.

The Magician

The Magician

The Magician

The Magician, The Magus, or The Juggler (I)
is the first trump or Major Arcana card in traditional Tarot decks.

Action — Consciousness — Concentration — Personal power
Practicality — Energy — Creativity — Movement
Precision — Conviction — Manipulation — Self confidence
Being objective — Focusing — Determination — Initiative

A youthful figure in the robe of a magician has the face of the divine Apollo, the sun god, with a confident smile and shining eyes.
Above his head is the mysterious sign of the Holy Spirit, the sign of life, like an endless cord, forming the lemniscate of infinity.
About his waist is a serpent-cincture or girdle, the ouroboros, the serpent devouring its own tail. The ouroboros is an ancient symbol of eternity, eternal becoming, or transmutation and transformation, but in this case it indicates more especially the eternity of attainment in the spirit.
In the Magician's right hand is a wand raised towards heaven, the sky or the element æther, while his left hand is pointing to the earth. This iconographic gesture has multiple meanings, but is endemic to the Mysteries, symbolizing divine immanence, the ability of the magician to bridge the gap between heaven and earth.
On the table in front of the Magician the symbols of the four Tarot suits signify the Classical elements of earth, air, fire and water.
Beneath are roses and lilies, the flos campi and lilium convallium, changed into garden flowers, to show the culture of aspiration.


When the Magician appears in a spread, it points to the talents, capabilities and resources at the querent's disposal.
Depending on the card's placement in relation to other cards, the message is to tap into one's full potential rather than holding back, especially when there is a need to transform something.
There are choices and directions to take.
Guidance can arrive through one's own intuition or in the form of someone who brings about change or transformation.

The card can mean that a manipulator is floating around, usually if it's reversed. He may be a beneficent guide, but he does not necessarily have our best interests in mind.
He may also represent the querent’s ego or self awareness.
He can also represent the intoxication of power, both good and bad.

This card signifies the divine motive in man.
It is also the unity of the individual being on all planes, and in a very high sense it is thought.
With further reference to the "sign of life", i.e. the infinity symbol and its connection with the number 8, it may be remembered that Christian Gnosticism speaks of rebirth in Christ as a change "unto the Ogdoad."
The mystic number is termed Jerusalem above, the Land flowing with Milk and Honey, the Holy Spirit and the Land of the Lord.
According to Martinism, 8 is the number of Christ.

In other traditions this card can refer to scholarly knowledge.
The Fool (card 0) has learned something about the workings of the world and now sees himself as powerful.
Perhaps the reputation of the Magician is derived from the Fool misunderstanding what is happening while the High Priestess (the next card) is looking back, thinking that the Magician is missing the point of spiritual knowledge.

Some schools associate him with Hermes, especially Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic Egyptian/Greek figure who is a combination of Hermes and of Thoth, a god of the moon, knowledge, and writing.
In this aspect, The Magician guides The Fool through the first step out of the cave of childhood into the sunlight of consciousness, just as Hermes guides Persephone out of the Underworld every year.

He represents the potential of a new adventure, chosen or thrust upon one.
A journey undertaken in daylight, in the Enlightenment tradition.
He brings things out of the darkness into the light.
He explores the world in order to master it.
He is solar consciousness.

He is associated through the cross sums (the sum of the digits) with Key 10, The Wheel of Fortune, picking up on Hermes as a Trickster figure and a god of chance, and Key 19, The Sun, bringing us back to Apollo and to enlightenment.

He embodies the lesson of “as above, so below," the lesson that mastery in one realm may bring mastery in another.
He also warns of the danger of applying lessons from one realm to another.

The Magician transcends duality.
He has learned the fundamental elements of the universe, represented by emblems of the four suits of the tarot already broken apart and lying on the table before him. Similarly, in the Book of Thoth deck, he is crowned by snakes, another symbol of both infinity and dualism, as snakes have learned from Gilgamesh how to shed their skins and be reborn, thus achieving a type of immortality; the blind prophet Tiresias split apart coupling snakes and as a result became a woman, transcending the dualism of gender.

I don't know if you've ever felt like that

That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years.

Or just not exist.
Or just not be aware that you do exist.

Or something like that.

I think wanting that is very morbid,
but I want it when I get like this.

Everyone you ever love will reject you or die.

Everything you ever create will be thrown away.
Everything you’re proud of will end up as trash.

on a long enough time line,
the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

The best deeds go silently unrewarded

If u want to make a omelette,
you have to break a few eggs.

Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.

In the wild you don’t see old animals
because as soon as they age,
animals die.

If they get sick or slow down,
something stronger kills them.

Animals aren’t meant to get old.


Our culture has made death something wrong.

Old animals should be an unnatural exception.

Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark,
closed inside someone else,
when you see how everything you can ever accomplish
will end up as trash.

Fallen heros ones we love
and even those we don't like
returned to ashes and soap.

What's worse?

Hell or nothing?

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

The wealthy and the poor have this in common,
they worship money.

One as what they feel they can't live without,
one who covets endlessly
and can't stop thinking of what they don't have.

Napoleon bragged that he could train men to sacrifice their lives
for a scrap of ribbon.

We don’t have a great war in our generation,
or a great depression,
but we do,
we have a great war of the spirit.

We have a great revolution against the culture.

The great depression is our lives.
We have a spiritual depression.

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them,
and show them courage by frightening them.

you're not how much money you've got in the bank.

You're not your job.

You're not your family,
and you're not who you tell yourself....

You're not your name....

You're not your problems....

You're not your age....


You are not your hopes

Holly Valance dancing naked in Kiss Kiss video

Holly Valance dancing naked in Kiss Kiss video



Holly Valance will appear on Strictly Come Dancing - but here she is dancing naked, apparently nude in the Kiss Kiss video

Holly Valance

Holly Valance, the Australian pop star-turned-actress, has signed up to be a contestant on the next series of BBC's 'Strictly Come Dancing'

Holly Rachel Vukadinović

better known by her stage name Holly Valance,
an Australian model, actress and singer.

Holly Valance began her career as Felicity "Flick" Scully on the Australian soap opera Neighbours.

In 2002, she released her debut album, Footprints, which yielded the international number-one hit single "Kiss Kiss".

Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it.

Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held.

Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books.

Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin.

Believe nothing just because someone else believes it.

Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps

Do not pursue what is illusory

- property and position.

All that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade
and can be confiscated in one fell night.

Live with a steady superiority over life.

Don't be afraid of misfortune,
and do not yearn after happiness;
it is after all, all the same.

The bitter doesn't last forever,
and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.

Aliens

THEORY

We are the aliens.

You know how Britain used to send it's criminals to Australia, a distant island, and how that country is founded by convicts.

Well the civilised societies of the Galaxy found a little island right on the outer rim and sent them all here.

We are the descendents of the insane troublemakers of the civilised galaxy.

Temet nosce

Only the shallow know themselves.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths.

You never reach it,
because there is always something more to say.

We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors.

We borrow it from our children.

The best index to a person's character is

(a) how he treats people who can't do him any good

(b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Education is when you read the fine print.

Experience is what you get if you don't.

Human beings,
by changing the inner attitudes of their minds,
can change the outer aspects of their lives

This planet has a problem...

most of the people living on it are unhappy
for pretty much of the time.

Many solutions have been suggested for this problem,
but most of these are largely concerned with the movements
of small green pieces of paper.

Which is odd because on the whole it isn't the small green
pieces of paper that are unhappy.

One door away from Heaven...

...we live each day and hour.

One door away from Heaven,
But it lies beyond out power

To open the door to Heaven
And enter when we choose.

One door away from Heaven,
And the key is ours to lose.

One door away from Heaven,
But, oh, the entry dues

Counted Sorrows

Is the end of the world a coming?
Is that the Devil they hear humming?
Are those doomsday bells a ringing?
Is that the Devil they hear a singing?

Or are their dark fears exagerrated?
Are these doom-criers addlepated?

Those who fear the coming of all Hells
are those who should be feared themselves.

place posters of sex positions near schools

teach them what they won't

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful

for beauty is God's handwriting
a wayside sacrament.

Welcome it in every fair face,
in every fair sky,
in every fair flower,
and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

All a gun does is focus an explosion in one direction...

You have a class of young strong men and women,
and they want to give their lives to something.

Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate,
just so they can buy what they don't really need.

Break into church and steal bibles

put encyclopedias in the pews

Pretend to commit suicide

remind people to live

spike drinks at prom

give them memories to look back on

Royal Wedding

Well it's nice to see where all the extra money we paid for fuel this year got spent.

Everytime we go to the station and it's gone up by a penny yet again (145 in London) we are reminded it's a Royal wedding this year.

Let's see how many of the hookers who were at those expensive hotels last night go on to sell their stories to the tabloids.

Nice to see Elton John in the front row. No doubt thinking up the words for Kate's version of Candle In The Wind.
(at least the Tudors had the front to be open about these things)

Actually, in referencing The Tudors, Kate is at least as fit as Natalie Dormer when she played Ann Bolyen - with gives all the more credence to the theory that none of this is real. We mean really real.

The United Kingdom is not a kingdom, it is a Republic. The Prime Minister is the President. It as been since WWII.

The last monarch to be a real sovreign and have an Empire was Queen Victoria.
It all crumbled under King George, the last monarch to actually have any actual power.
Then we had WWII and Churchill became President.

Perhaps now Charles will do the decent thing and step aside, retire to private life with his "Duchess" and allow Wills to become Prince of Wales and Kate to become Princess Catherine, which is what the people want. He inherits the title more from his mother than Charles anyway.

Then we'll have a new proper royal couple lined up for the throne when Bettie finally pops off.

Maybe then the people will get behind the "monarchy" - even if it isn't real.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them

move mail one box down

force neighbours to meet each other

When you have only two pennies left in the world,
buy a loaf of bread with one,
and a lily with the other

Falsely diagnose patients with incurable illnesses

Make them live their dreams.

Start a fight with the loneliest guy in the bar

Intentionally lose so that he gets laid.

Hit on married women in front of their husbands

Your bruises rekindled a dead romance.

Never be complete.
Never be content.
Never be perfect.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Trust in yourself.

Your perceptions are often more accurate than you are willing to believe

All great spirits have always encountered opposition
from mediocre minds.

Trust men and they will be true to you

treat them greatly,
and they will show themselves great.