Get busy with life's purpose, 

toss aside empty hopes,

 get active in your own rescue

 Remember two things: 

i. that everything has always been the same,

 and keeps recurring,

 and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, 

or in an infinite period;

 ii. that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. 

The present is all that they can give up, 

since that is all you have, 

and what you do not have you cannot lose

Full Moon - The Harvest Moon

 Corn Moon or Harvest Moon (because it is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox)

 It features the "Harvest Moon effect," where moonrise happens much closer to sunset than usual, providing extra evening moonlight 

September's full moon is special because it is traditionally known as the Harvest Moon, meaning it is the full moon that occurs closest to the autumn equinox

 Because it hangs low on the horizon, it often appears large, bright, and glowing with an orange or reddish hue

The Harvest Moon appears from September  

The Moon will appear full for about three days around this time, 

One thing that sets the Harvest Moon apart from other full Moon names is that it’s not associated with a specific month, as the others are. 

Instead, the Harvest Moon relates to the timing of the autumnal equinox (September 23), with the full Moon that occurs nearest to the equinox being the one to take on the name “Harvest Moon.” 

This means that the Harvest Moon can occur in either September or October, depending on how the lunar cycle lines up with the Gregorian calendar.

The Harvest Moon does typically occur in September, taking the place of the full Corn Moon. 

However, it occasionally lands in October instead, replacing the full Hunter’s Moon.

For several evenings, the moonrise comes soon after sunset. This results in an abundance of bright moonlight early in the evening, which was a traditional aid to farmers and crews harvesting their summer-grown crops. Hence, it’s called the “Harvest” Moon!

• Usually, throughout the year, the Moon rises an average of about 50 minutes later each day. 
• But for the few nights around the Harvest Moon, the Moon seems to rise at nearly the same time: just 25 to 30 minutes later across the northern USA, and only 10 to 20 minutes later farther north in Canada and Europe.

Additionally, the Harvest Moon rises at sunset and then will rise very near sunset for several nights in a row because the difference is at a yearly minimum. It may almost seem as if there are full Moons multiple nights in a row!

While September’s full Moon is usually known as the Harvest Moon, if October’s full Moon happens to occur closer to the equinox than September’s, it takes on the name “Harvest Moon” instead. In this case, September’s full Moon is referred to as the Corn Moon.

This time of year—late summer into early fall—corresponds with the time of harvesting corn in much of the northern United States. For this reason, a number of Native American peoples traditionally used some variation of the name “Corn Moon” to refer to the Moon of either August or September. Examples include Corn Maker Moon (Western Abenaki) and Corn Harvest Moon (Dakota). 

September 26: Another total lunar eclipse.

 

• September 26: Another total lunar eclipse.

Harvest Moon

 

 

Is it better to go with the flow 

or let the flow go?

 

Hope burns eternal in the human heart

 It is the man of science, 

eager to have his every opinion regenerated,

 his every idea rationalized,

 by drinking at the fountain of fact,

and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth,

 not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it,

 that ought properly to be called a philosopher

 

Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. 

The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, 

but the train keeps moving. 

Life is the train, not the station

 

Going after a dream has a price. 

It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it may lead us to disappointment, et cetera.

 But however costly it may be, 

it is never as high as the price paid by people who didn’t live.

 Because one day they will look back and hear their own heart say: 

I wasted my life.

 

old people having their slow and careful version of sex -

 you might not want to watch it , 

you who are young and convinced that, when it comes to old age, an exception will be made in your case,

 but they still want to do it.

 Seize the wind,

Don't become the kite that never flies

 Life isn't about finding yourself. 

Life is about creating yourself.

 

All of us are creatures of a day;  the rememberer and the remembered alike.

 All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory. 

The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; 

and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. 

Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.

Predator

 

If Predators started out hunting humans in the jungles, we don't know how many centuries that may have gone back 

We work on the premise that the Predator would not harm a child 

So when tribal warriors were killed by them, there may well have been children who witnessed it 

So the stories about "demons" from the other side were passed down as the surviving children grew up and told their interpretation of what they saw

Sakki

 

Friend posts this story:

"I had that when I was working in a nightclub - I had passed the test years before and was a 6th dan by then - the bottle thrown at my head missed and hit the other doorman - I "wasn't there" when it arrived, and had no idea it had happened or I had done it until it was pointed out to me "he was aiming it at you" "

A Shihan who was a long serving policeman in UK would talk of similar incidents 

It maybe works best in a "chaotic environment" as what battle is not chaotic?

 Hatsumi Sensei once talked about how it works against a sniper you don't know is there

 Someone, a shidoshi rank, who had served frontline in war, long term combat infantry experience, said you sometimes get an incident when a sniper bullet from nowhere hits the tree or wall rather than someone on your team and you all duck - working on the premise that snipers don't "miss", the soldier moved and "wasn't there" when the bullet arrived

 He explained how distance rifle shooting works, his regiment were all trained in it, how you line up, pull the trigger between breaths - it all makes sense that a sniper would not miss the head of a man standing pretty much still - so he "moved" because of the "sakki" - the out breath and pulling the trigger is the sakki, the killer intention, that sends the bullet - so the man was "not there" when the bullet arrived because he "just moved" 

People who have passed the test and then go on to experience it in real life have trouble explaining it - but you can't deny it is real ,

Cows eat grass, cows make milk 

Scientists can't take grass into a lab and turn it into milk - the exact process isn't fully understood and can't be reproduced yet - we still have to milk cows 

The sakki test is something in nature, something that happens naturally, but it can't be fully understood, explained, or quantified yet 

Years ago nobody knew about motor neurons, axioms, dendrites, synapses, but reflexes have always been developed through the proper drills .

maybe it is understood in some way, but not so that it can be reproduced - you can't take grass into a lab and make milk - yet 

Like how the stethoscope came first , then X RAY, then MRI and PET - more can be seen of the body functions 

DNA, the genome being mapped 

So things are being understood that have always been there 

A lot of people over intellectualise the sakki test, the same way as people look for "psychic" and "mystical" explanations 

The milk coming out of the cow is not "magic" .

Electricity has always been there - but it was a certain point in history where people learnt how to harness it and then found ways to use it 

Steroids

 

The drugs were developed during WW2 

The super soldier program that Captain America in the comics was based on 

After the war, in the 50s, there was a surplus and they became available

 Everyone from Larry Scott onwards used them

 Dianabol

 Winstrol 

Deca 

Anavar 

As Arnold said, they were not illegal in the 60s to 70s 

Creatine

 Vitamins 

Amino acids 

Only when something got banned did the outside world pay attention

 Same happened with ephedrine 

Everyone used it up to mid 90s then it got banned

 Nobody banned caffeine 

Nobody banned alcohol

 If creatine was banned tomorrow the same thing would be said by outsiders 

"They were all on creatine" 

Makes the same amount of sense 

The idiots who say "natty" would equate that to someone who doesn't use creatine .

You guys who don't train need to stop saying "natty "

 Trying to sound like some insider using the lingo 

Sound as stupid as you look

Five Star

 

Michael McIntyre was there - as has been noted 

Rumour/theory in later years, after he became famous and this clip started getting posted, was that he engineered it, had his friend ring up to do this on that day when he was in the audience.

 This has never been proven or admitted to, though it does make a great story, urban myth.

 And, if he wasn't behind it, it could be viewed as quite a coincidence that it occurred on the day he "just happened" to be sitting right there. 

Eliot: "I want to ask Five Star why they're so fucking crap" 

Sarah: "OK, well let's ask Steadman - why are Five Star so fucking crap?"

Penny Big Bang

 

It's not as simple as "Nothing happened" 

They got naked and got into bed 

Probably kissing and lots of touching all over 

He gets erect - probably with help from her 

Penny rolls the condom down his erection and he prejacs 

So at this point the "encounter" stops, they do not have penetrative sex 

But they were going to - they both full intended to 

He got naked with Penny, got in bed with her, ran his hands all over he body, her breasts, probably her pussy, probably had his fingers inside her 

Penny had her hands all over him, held his erection, masturbated him, maybe used her mouth on him - and used her hand to bring him to climax 

So "nothing happened" ? 

And yes, it all "happened" in Leonard's bed 

No wonder Emily was so pissed when she found out as well .

Star Trek

 

Deleted scene Transcript: 

PICARD: Mister Worf, what does "p'tak" mean 

WORF: properly pronounced "petaQ" - it is difficult to translate - it refers to one who manually manipulates their own genitals for self gratification - the closest word in your language would be a "wanker" 

PICARD: I see - and how does one respond to this insult ? 

WORF: The correct response is to pose the question "Who are YOU calling a wanker?" .

Bangles Eternal Flame

 

Susanna recorded the song in the studio naked, to get a feeling of vulnerability which some fans say they can hear when it is played 

Apparently she enjoyed the process so she stripped of each day at the studio and did the rest her vocals undressed as well 

Pity there was never a live version of this - at least a public one

 Be nice to think she sang the song naked at least once for a private audience

 Quote: "I imagined it would feel like skinny dipping—vulnerable yet freeing – and I decided to try it. Nobody could see me; there was a baffle in front of me and it was dark." 

She liked the experience enough to sing all her vocals on the album that way .

Mr Olympia

 

Dorian had had his six wins 

Kevin, Shawn and Flex had come second to him in the first five, Shawn and Kevin doing so twice

 Nasser arrived and started moving up

 He had been 3rd, he had been DQd 

Now in 97 he came second - this year and lot of people thought he would have won and become the new Mr O 

As stated, Ronnie was 6th in 96, the year Nasser was DQ after placing 3rd - in 97 he drops to 9th

 In 98 of course Ronnie overtook everyone and won, with Flex coming in 2nd

This is the same as Ronnie and Jay

 If Lee had come back in 92 going for a 9th, Dorian still would have won

 Dorian said this back in the 90s and stands by it 

Even recently Dorian speculated about Lee having the 8th, being he only person to do so, beating Arnold's record, and what would be the point of going for the 9th

 If he win the 9th so what, if he lost, it tarnished the record 

Years later when Ronnie got 8, Lee's record was matched, and we know Ronnie went for the 9th to set the new record and he lost to Jay 

Of course if Lee had been able to win the 9th in 92 that would be a record still unbeaten to this day - Ronnie would need a 9th to equal it and a 10th to beat it, which we know was impossible 

Like Marciano with 49 fights undefeated - the only heavyweight champion who never lost - there was no point having a 50th fight just to make a number, and he faced being possibly defeated

Electric Chair

And still the humming of the electricity 

went on and on, 

filling my head, 

vibrating in there.

 I think it's the sound mad people must hear, 

that or something like it.

 

When you repeat a mistake, 

it is not a mistake anymore: 

it is a decision

 

God stood before the mirror 

whispering to himself 

"Please, God, 

why are you doing this to me?

Simulation

 

Do we live in a simulation 

There is a decent chance - about 55% 

Clue One 

Space and Time come in tiny units 

- like pixels in a digital screen 

Simulations have minimal resolution

 - natural universes don't need it 

Clue Two 

Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light 

A strange limit for nature

 - but normal for a system with a max processing speed

Clue Three 

Quantum particles behave differently 

when someone is observing them

Like a world that "renders" what a player only looks at 

Clue Four

The Universe is perfectly tuned for Life 

If the numbers were slightly different, 

nothing would exist 

Rare in randomness - expected in design 

Clue Five 

Consciousness is still unexplained

Science cannot show how atoms create awareness 

But in a simulation, a "mind" is simply a character's internal experience 

The maths of Physics is elegant and clean 

Not proof - just interesting 

We might be in the real Universe 

But there's a slightly higher chance we're in a simulation - about 55% 

 

No Water, No Moon

When the nun Chiyono studied Zen under Bukko of Engaku she was unable to attain the fruits of meditation for a long time.

At last one moonlit night she was carrying water in an old pail bound with bamboo. The bamboo broke and the bottom fell out of the pail, and at that moment Chiyono was set free!

In commemoration, she wrote a poem:

In this way and that I tried to save the old pail

Since the bamboo strip was weakening and about to break

Until at last the bottom fell out.

No more water in the pail!

No more moon in the water!

 

I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe.

 We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.

Merovingian

 

Apparently it's just a strung sequence of swear words, but the French "translation" - if slang has a true translation eg "fuck dick piss shit cunt wankstain ass butthole" he may have said " cat dog car oven potato wristwatch crystal" for people who don't know the words - ie people who do not have French as their first language From what French women have said - Cobb is Cock and Zizzi is Willy - they mean the same thing but are different "translations" of the slang words In German "fotzen" is "vagina" - "fotzen licker", you know what a "licker" would be - so "fotzenlickeri" is cunnilingus Pimmel is Penis etc Like wiping your ass with silk .

Mr Olympia

 

1980 Arnold won - simple as that

He was preparing for Conan and the shape he got into, for the film, what we saw in the film, was what he brought to the stage that night

While some say it was not up to the same standard as he earlier 6 winning years, he was still ahead of everyone else

During his acceptance speech, Arnold acknowledged how close the decision was, saying

"I have to be very honest, that this was the highest level of competition that I have ever faced in any competition in my life"

Zane had completely recovered from his injury, and had retained his definition, much of his muscular size from the year before was missing, so Zane was never going to win the title again

Zane didn't compete in 81

Came second to Dickerson in 82

83 he came fourth with Samir winning, and retired

81 Franco won his second title with a comeback, and Dickerson came second place, going on to win in 82 - Dickerson paid his dues and worked his way up

In 81, Frank Zane, Boyer Coe, Mentzer, and 6th place Roger Walker all boycotted and did not enter - though nobody cared about Walker

Babies throwing their toys out of the pram

According to Chris Dickerson, "the promoter was a real low life, a bigot, who had a real dislike for me –partly on racial grounds and partly for my sexual orientation." Paul Graham even told another official that "Chris couldn't win because he was a fag"

Yes because it had to be "racist" of course - and the gay thing

Dickerson winning in 82 proves that was nonsense

81 lineup

Franco

2nd Dickerson

3rd Tom Platz

4th Callender

5th Padilla

6th Wilcox

Samir placed 9th

If Mentzer, Coe and Zane had all entered in 81, where would they place after Franco and Dickerson - 4th, 5th and 6th maybe - Tom Platz was a factor as he probably would have still placed 3rd above all 3 of them

In 82, Platz dropped to 6th, and Zane came back but only at 4th - Albert Beckles and Casey Viator were inserted between them at 5th and 3rd

.

This never happened 

Nobody has ever scored 300 

This story that Mentzer did it in some obscure show 60 years ago is a recent invention reposted by the fanboys

 As athletes improve through the years if Mentzer had scored 300 then, being the only person to ever do it, he would have gone on to score like that at the bigger shows 

The only shows we can actually watch like the 80 Olympia he comes fifth 

The story that he once scored 300 was never true

This alleged competition 

There are no clips on YT or anywhere of this contest uploaded with this 300 result 

Nobody has uploaded any magazine article about this 

When this 300 story started being posted online a few years ago the Mentzer fanboys started quoting it 

 If you want people to believe it then you have to prove it did 

Which you can't 

The point is that you were not at the contest and you have never seen this magazine with the article and pictures

Mentzer fanboy never saw the contest or read the magazines or knows anyone that does

 Believes a story he saw online

The sad thing about you Mentzer fanboys is you don't really know why you think this 

You don't understand the mandatory poses and the scoring system

 You can't explain why you think the places were wrong

 You have locked onto this idea that they are 

Repeating endlessly what you have read online

 Ignoring the results, the facts, the history 

Low IQ small dick losers who support a loser