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Rise in Excellence,
We must constantly keep in mind the program that automatically runs anytime we think of Sci-Fi. Our world is has many construct of thought and it is important to recognize, given our genetic and spiritual make-up, that we have our own unique expression of energy and habits. Although everything is truly one, it does not have a be under the perception of one culture which claims it is uniting everyone as free individuals.
With that being said, within the realm of Sci-Fi, when I speak about technology, I will mostly be referring to elements of the body and nature synchronized (although they are never apart).
Let's look at downloading an essence or force. OR EMBODIMENT.
Through chanting and visualization, we can download, an essence or force into our bodies and take on the characteristics. In many of our cultural expressions, you will see statues, carvings or pictures in stone with these downloadable programs. Today they have the same thing in the form of webinars, DVDs, YOUtube, etc...
Keep in mind that the less involvement with external machinery, the more involvement there is of you. It is not a strange nor new idea. We do it all the time in life, taking upon elements of another person, animals, insects or even objects. And when it comes to art and what was left by our family (what many call ancestors), we are embodying not only the concept but the energy of the words spoken about the concept that inhabit the air and the ethers (akashic records).
In Renpet, Serqet is pushed to her limits and calls upon Sekhmet, the eye of Ra, power manifest, a lioness, fire. All that animates the power needed to serve justice and all that animates justice unchecked. Derived from the sound (word) sekhem coupled with the 't' sound to represent feminine energy, its closest expression would be chi or ki or prana, energy as a definition falls short due to the lack of hue-man involvement and connection to intelligent spirit.
Here is an that excerpt from Renpet:
My anger’s escalating into rage and my body’s temperature
is rising immensely. I sense a primal force released
in my body at a cellular level tearing through any restraints
held in place by my mind. Actually, my mind shifted from
a state of clarity to a reckless craving for justice and would
not settle down until it was satisfied. The serpent recognizing
this drastic rise in sekhem decided to feed off whatever
it could from me. Nevertheless, it was too late, I
reached such a high level of rage that whatever it took
from me would not diminish my strength. The mere
thought of the serpent thinking it could absorb my
sekhem only further excited me.
Brutal thoughts of crushing Apep are filling my mind.
I am going to pummel it, revel in its helplessness and then
devour it. I’ll call upon Sekhmet’s consciousness and do away with this intruder.
AAAKKKKEERUUUU!
The howl from the pit of my gut spiraled to the top of
my head giving me a charge of ecstasy. My trembling
hands grow heavy with the increased circulation of blood
and sekhem running through them. Where did that blinding
red flash come from?
“Do you want it? The power to crush your enemies?
The ability to bring order to chaos?”
Sekhmet is calling out to me. The stinging in my eyes
makes it difficult to see much less focus on her whispering
voice. What’s that? What is this red orb glowing brightly
in front of Apep and myself?
Ughh! I guess Apep squeezed my body tighter more so
out of fear than attacking me.
“The power is yours for the taking. All you need to do
is embrace me and I will breath in the spirit of Herukhuti
into your lungs.” Sekhmet urged me, goaded me with her
feline seductiveness.
She did not literally mean to embrace her but rather to
accept her, be open to her spirit entering my form. Her
voice is so alluring I can’t help but to do as she offered.
The touch of her lips to my nostrils is so welcoming. The raw sekhem carried in her breath fills my being with vitality.
My thoughts feel flushed of all doubts and replaced by
a burning desire to triumph over my ordeals. This primal
part of me roaming freely throughout my limbs urging me
to grind my teeth is exhilarating. Running my tongue over
my canines I can feel their increase in length and razoredged
sharpness…it sends tingles down my spine....
Find out more about Renpet at:http://www.djadjanmedjay.com/#!renpet-excerpt/c1mg5excerpt/ce6j
With that being said, within the realm of Sci-Fi, when I speak about technology, I will mostly be referring to elements of the body and nature synchronized (although they are never apart).
Let's look at downloading an essence or force. OR EMBODIMENT.
Through chanting and visualization, we can download, an essence or force into our bodies and take on the characteristics. In many of our cultural expressions, you will see statues, carvings or pictures in stone with these downloadable programs. Today they have the same thing in the form of webinars, DVDs, YOUtube, etc...
Keep in mind that the less involvement with external machinery, the more involvement there is of you. It is not a strange nor new idea. We do it all the time in life, taking upon elements of another person, animals, insects or even objects. And when it comes to art and what was left by our family (what many call ancestors), we are embodying not only the concept but the energy of the words spoken about the concept that inhabit the air and the ethers (akashic records).
In Renpet, Serqet is pushed to her limits and calls upon Sekhmet, the eye of Ra, power manifest, a lioness, fire. All that animates the power needed to serve justice and all that animates justice unchecked. Derived from the sound (word) sekhem coupled with the 't' sound to represent feminine energy, its closest expression would be chi or ki or prana, energy as a definition falls short due to the lack of hue-man involvement and connection to intelligent spirit.
Here is an that excerpt from Renpet:
My anger’s escalating into rage and my body’s temperature
is rising immensely. I sense a primal force released
in my body at a cellular level tearing through any restraints
held in place by my mind. Actually, my mind shifted from
a state of clarity to a reckless craving for justice and would
not settle down until it was satisfied. The serpent recognizing
this drastic rise in sekhem decided to feed off whatever
it could from me. Nevertheless, it was too late, I
reached such a high level of rage that whatever it took
from me would not diminish my strength. The mere
thought of the serpent thinking it could absorb my
sekhem only further excited me.
Brutal thoughts of crushing Apep are filling my mind.
I am going to pummel it, revel in its helplessness and then
devour it. I’ll call upon Sekhmet’s consciousness and do away with this intruder.
AAAKKKKEERUUUU!
The howl from the pit of my gut spiraled to the top of
my head giving me a charge of ecstasy. My trembling
hands grow heavy with the increased circulation of blood
and sekhem running through them. Where did that blinding
red flash come from?
“Do you want it? The power to crush your enemies?
The ability to bring order to chaos?”
Sekhmet is calling out to me. The stinging in my eyes
makes it difficult to see much less focus on her whispering
voice. What’s that? What is this red orb glowing brightly
in front of Apep and myself?
Ughh! I guess Apep squeezed my body tighter more so
out of fear than attacking me.
“The power is yours for the taking. All you need to do
is embrace me and I will breath in the spirit of Herukhuti
into your lungs.” Sekhmet urged me, goaded me with her
feline seductiveness.
She did not literally mean to embrace her but rather to
accept her, be open to her spirit entering my form. Her
voice is so alluring I can’t help but to do as she offered.
The touch of her lips to my nostrils is so welcoming. The raw sekhem carried in her breath fills my being with vitality.
My thoughts feel flushed of all doubts and replaced by
a burning desire to triumph over my ordeals. This primal
part of me roaming freely throughout my limbs urging me
to grind my teeth is exhilarating. Running my tongue over
my canines I can feel their increase in length and razoredged
sharpness…it sends tingles down my spine....
Find out more about Renpet at:http://www.djadjanmedjay.com/#!renpet-excerpt/c1mg5excerpt/ce6j
Hello everyone,
I pray all is well. After three long years, many late nights, and many hours of hard work, it is a blessing to announce that my first comic, Lightweightz: The Anthology Part One is now available for purchase! It's a 35-page pdf, and it's only $2! You can learn more about the comic and purchase it by checking out the links below. Soon I will be sending a follow-up e-mail with a trailer for the comic as well as a press-release in case you want to post it on your blogs/websites, and know of any individuals and websites to send it to.
Purchase from my website: http://www.rsquaredcomicz.com/store/
Purchase from Drive Thru Comics: http://comics.drivethrustuff.com/product/104129/Lightweightz%3A-The-Anthology-Part-One
What people are saying so far...
Want to know what people who have purchased the comic are saying about it? Then check out the link below:
What I'm aiming for...
Initially my primary goal was to just see the project through to completion, and I didn't care too much about how many copies I sold. I figured that since there are many comics out there for people to choose from, and given that this is my first release, it's best to keep my expectations very modest. While I'm not in this to make money, I've recently had a change of heart. It is only through the God's grace that this comic came to be, so there's nothing wrong with trusting in that same grace for the comic to do well. So I'm looking to sell anywhere from 1,000 to 1,500 copies at the minimum. If I only sold one copy I would be good (although thank God for me already surpassing that goal, lol!), but why not step out on faith?
Where you come in...
There are many ways you can help support me in this goal, and support what I'm doing in general. If you did one of these I would extremely grateful. If you did more than one, then I would be even more grateful than that, lol:
(1) Pray for me/keep me in your thoughts.
(2) Purchase the comic.
(3) Let others know about the comic and what I'm doing through sharing links to my website (www.rsquaredcomicz.com) and Facebook Page (http://www.facebook.com/RSquaredComicz) within your networks.
If you want to know more about the idea behind R-Squared Comicz and Lightweightz...
Here are a few resources to learn more, including two interviews I was fortunate enough to be asked to do:
About me: http://www.rsquaredcomicz.com/about-2/about-me/ (and before you say something I know, I need a new picture, lol)
Interview #1: http://www.examiner.com/article/r-squared-comicz-justin-martin-creates-spiritually-themed-comics-with-soul
...and that brings me to the end...
That's all I have for now, and thanks for taking the time to read through this e-mail. Until the next update, take care, and have a blessed one!
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| Sikhism message of love |
After 9-11, the French newspaper Le Monde had the title: "We Are All Americans"; "Siamo Tutti Americani" in Italiano. Suddenly, we'd become Israeli, Egyptian, Irish, British, Roman et al: a long list of countries that suffered terrorist attacks.
Two weeks after Colorado, we're here again: 6 souls versus 12; worship versus movie premire; peaceful immigrants versus Sci-Fi Action fans.
I list here some of the tenets of the Sikh faith. I ask if this, their color or culture, is reason to attack a house of worship, as if there is ever any good reason for violence:
1) One Source
One God is the Creator of the Universe.
2) Equality
All human beings are equal
People of all religions and races are welcome in Sikh Gurdwaras.
Women have equal status with men in religious services and ceremonies.
3) Human Life Precious Above Other Life
The human life is supreme and it is through this life that we can achieve oneness with God's will. Finding God in this life and living by his commands helps us to attain God's mercy.
4) Defending Against Injustice
Sikhs are a peace loving people and stand for Truth and Justice Guru Gobind Singh Ji said, "It is right to use force as a last resort when all other peaceful means fail."
Wikipedia: Sikh beliefs
About: Top Ten Sikh Beliefs
CS Monitor: Why US Sikhs Have Feared Attacks for More Than a Decade
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| Curiousity Rover: NASA |
NASA: Curiosity, the car-size, one-ton rover is bound for arrival on Mars at 1:31 a.m., EDT on Monday, Aug. 6.
The landing will mark the beginning of a two-year prime mission to investigate one of the most intriguing places on Mars.
NASA: Curiousity Lands on Mars
NASA2: Mars Exploration Program
JPL: Infographics
MSL: What to expect from first photos
The Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahatchie, Texaswas supposed to be where we'd discover the Higgs Boson. My wife's cousin was employed as an engineer there at the time before the budget ax. Thus, CERN and the Large Hadron Collider got the honor of discovering what gives mass well...mass.
Peter Higgs will likely get the Nobel Prize as will the researchers that confirmed his theories; Europe will become a Mecca of particle physics and science research. That will impact their educational curriculum, pedagogy and how they prepare their students to meet the demand of a complex world, learning how to problem solve, a skill becoming bereft in the US relegating evolution to "just [a] theory," the earth to 6,000 years old and the universe much younger despite the knowledge of light speed and the time it takes images to travel vast distances.
It is doubtful our relationship with money, politics and budgets will change in the foreseeable future. Fights in the echo chamber also known as "The Hill" will never get to a place that moves us forward as a nation, almost guaranteeing a stratified educational system that soon will not be able to produce talent beyond the usual privileged suspects, nor compete on a global level. We are soundbite-driven and jingoistic to inanity, fiddling as a modern Rome burns.
Unlike Star Trek, we won't evolve to just do science research for the greater good.
Such fantasies will be the providence of poets...and Trekkies.
THE REVOLUTION IS BROADCASTING LIVE IN YOUR EARS IN AFROFUTURISTIC STEREO....
http://www.djadjanmedjay.com/#!home/mainPage
Sci-Fi is Dead...
Simply put, if there is an absence of Afro-Futuristic thought in Sci-Fi, then Sci-Fi cannot reproduce life...only duplicates. In fact, although Sci-Fi is alive itself, it cannot produce anything that is a duplicate of a structure/construct already created by nature. Without a basis for creation to stand on, then of course, what can be created. That basis is Afro-Futurism.
http://www.djadjanmedjay.com/#!home/mainPage
Sci-Fi is Dead...
Simply put, if there is an absence of Afro-Futuristic thought in Sci-Fi, then Sci-Fi cannot reproduce life...only duplicates. In fact, although Sci-Fi is alive itself, it cannot produce anything that is a duplicate of a structure/construct already created by nature. Without a basis for creation to stand on, then of course, what can be created. That basis is Afro-Futurism.
What is Afro-Futurism?
One that is very apparent, is the fact that people of 'Afrikan Ascent' are not represented well within the Science Fiction Genre. With good reason...Currently Science Fiction does not possess the terms to adequately describe our expression in the art-form.
Through my writings, I work to take my readers out from the metal and experimental banks of Sci-Fi into the forest of organic awareness of Afro-Futurism...an exodus.
Our perception will be changing very rapidly...
Renpet - An inexperienced inter-dimensional being is thrust into the chaotic lives of a group of reckless young adults who survived the globally cataclysmic changes of The Great Year. With barely enough skill to keep herself from being swept by their psychologically and spiritually crippled minds...Can she keep them together long enough to realize the true cause of the dramatic transformation of the world's population into one heavily pigmented race?
N Eternity Reclaimed - A cosmic being, Neith, uncovers forgotten secrets on a hostile planet of giants. Neith finds herself forced to deal with decisions she made during the eons she spent as a warrior...the death of her son, the transformation of her husband into a malevolent beast... and the attacks by a planet that wants to kill her... Can she mend the wounds of her traumatic past before she's forced into bloodshed once more ORDER, SUPPORT, RISE
THE REVOLUTION IS BROADCASTING LIVE IN YOUR EARS IN AFROFUTURISTIC STEREO....
http://www.djadjanmedjay.com/#!home/mainPage
One that is very apparent, is the fact that people of 'Afrikan Ascent' are not represented well within the Science Fiction Genre. With good reason...Currently Science Fiction does not possess the terms to adequately describe our expression in the art-form.
Through my writings, I work to take my readers out from the metal and experimental banks of Sci-Fi into the forest of organic awareness of Afro-Futurism...an exodus.
Our perception will be changing very rapidly...
Renpet - An inexperienced inter-dimensional being is thrust into the chaotic lives of a group of reckless young adults who survived the globally cataclysmic changes of The Great Year. With barely enough skill to keep herself from being swept by their psychologically and spiritually crippled minds...Can she keep them together long enough to realize the true cause of the dramatic transformation of the world's population into one heavily pigmented race?
N Eternity Reclaimed - A cosmic being, Neith, uncovers forgotten secrets on a hostile planet of giants. Neith finds herself forced to deal with decisions she made during the eons she spent as a warrior...the death of her son, the transformation of her husband into a malevolent beast... and the attacks by a planet that wants to kill her... Can she mend the wounds of her traumatic past before she's forced into bloodshed once more ORDER, SUPPORT, RISE
THE REVOLUTION IS BROADCASTING LIVE IN YOUR EARS IN AFROFUTURISTIC STEREO....
http://www.djadjanmedjay.com/#!home/mainPage
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Rise in Excellence...
Afro-Futurism attracts the forces of creativity...making Science-Fiction realistically Sexy. According to the Principle of Gender, everything participates in sex and everything has gender. For a long time in your experience of Science Fiction, you have rarely been exposed to what the act of sex should engender...until now...
Ask yourself how many Sci-Fi Novels you know use
sex as a means to actually reproduce life, intentionally, and as a means of healing...only in Afro-Futurism...only at:
http://www.djadjanmedjay.com/#!n_/c19c9
Sci-Fi just got interesting...order now!!!Rise in Excellence...
Afro-Futurism attracts the forces of creativity...making Science-Fiction realistically Sexy. According to the Principle of Gender, everything participates in sex and everything has gender. For a long time in your experience of Science Fiction, you have rarely been exposed to what the act of sex should engender...until now...
Ask yourself how many Sci-Fi Novels you know use
http://www.djadjanmedjay.com/#!n_/c19c9
Sci-Fi just got interesting...order now!!!Rise in Excellence...
Afro-Futurism attracts the forces of creativity...making Science-Fiction realistically Sexy. According to the Principle of Gender, everything participates in sex and everything has gender. For a long time in your experience of Science Fiction, you have rarely been exposed to what the act of sex should engender...until now...
Ask yourself how many Sci-Fi Novels you know use
sex as a means to actually reproduce life, intentionally, and as a means of healing...only in Afro-Futurism...only at:
http://www.djadjanmedjay.com/#!n_/c19c9
Sci-Fi just got interesting...order now!!!
http://www.djadjanmedjay.com/#!n_/c19c9
Sci-Fi just got interesting...order now!!!
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| Discover Magazine |
While most of us take gravity for granted, physicists have a big problem with it. Their beef: As forces go, gravity is implausibly feeble. (Try asking a physicist why a kitchen magnet can pick up a paper clip even though the gravitational force of the entire Earth is pulling the clip down.) In 1999 University of Washington physicist Eric Adelberger heard a lecturer offer an intriguing explanation: Perhaps gravity only appears weak, because it operates in additional spatial dimensions beyond length, width, and height. These extra dimensions would be imperceptible in our macro world but might have a detectable influence on gravity at scales of less than the width of a hair.
Discover Magazine:
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| Credit: TheRoot |
Well done, Gabby! 
LONDON (AP) — Make it a pair of Olympic gymnastics gold medals for Gabby Douglas, who added the all-around title Thursday to the one she won with the U.S. team two nights ago at the London Games.
Douglas became the third straight American to win gymnastics’ biggest prize, taking the lead on the first event Thursday and never really letting anyone else get close. She finished with a score of 62.232, less than three-tenths ahead of Viktoria Komova of Russia. Aliya Mustafina won the bronze.
“I wanted to seize the moment,” Douglas said. “It hasn’t sunk in yet. Team finals hasn’t sunk in yet. But it will.”
Douglas brought the house down with her energetic floor routine, and U.S. teammates Jordyn Wieber, McKayla Maroney and Kyla Ross jumped to their feet and cheered when she finished. Douglas flashed a smile and coach Liang Chow lifted her off the podium.
TheGrio: Gabby Douglas' Gold Medal Winning Performance
TheRoot: 16 Black First at the Olympic Games
Remember when they were hinting about having one. Then you saw the movie and the hot animation and was like, hell yeah...make that animated series. I waited patiently for this to come about. Then you saw it was coming up on adult swim and was like oh man...can't wait....
And then you saw it....and then you saw it....ahhh yeahhh....
What can I say...What can you say....I was really disappointed...I'll tell ya why...Hold on..Don't rush me...
It didn't have the same feel as the movie...Black Dynamite was too damn serious, no change in the expression that you loved in the movie....Shoot...I thought it was just me but no one is talking about it...............................................................
With all the things I thought could be done with the story line...
What's your take? Do You have one? Do ya even care.
That's what I got...Signing off...And not matter what I love ya and there's nothin you can do about it...
The FIRST statement will cause controversy:
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| Technology Review |
Many climate models suggest that heat waves and droughts will increase as greenhouse-gas levels increase in the atmosphere (see "Planning for a Climate-Changed World" and "How Coders Can Help Fight Climate Change" ). But are the current conditions—and other extreme weather like the drought in Texas last year—related to climate change?
Technology Review asked the prominent climate scientist, Thomas Karl, director of the National Climatic Data Centerin Asheville, North Carolina, to weigh in.
1. What's causing the recent heat waves and droughts?
This heat wave has a contribution from human activities, and you can expect these kinds of things to become even more extreme during both your and my lifetimes as we continue to increase greenhouse gases. As temperatures warm, they affect extreme weather events. It's quite clear that we're seeing, not only here in the U.S., but across the globe, events that we've never before witnessed in our instrumental record, and it's quite apparent there's a human contribution.
Technology Review: Is Climate Change to Blame for the Current US Drought?
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| Dr. Mark J. T. Smith |
...in quotes because I did not come up with the title/clever double entendre.
Elizabeth Pain, July 27, 2012: With the 2012 Olympic Games set to kick off in London, Science Careers decided to have a chat with electrical and computer engineering researcher and former fencing athlete Mark J. T. Smith about what it's like to combine science and serious sport. Smith served as head of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, in Indiana, for 6 years and is now dean of the university’s graduate school. Smith was the national fencing champion of the United States in 1981 and 1983 and a member of the U.S. Olympic fencing team in 1980 and 1984. He carried the Olympic torch toward the opening ceremonies in the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, one of the last torch-carriers. The following highlights from the interview were edited for brevity and clarity.
What attracted me was not only the diversity, but that fencing is similar to my martial arts activities (30+ years and counting). My father started me in western boxing, then I gravitated to Kung Fu, Japanese/Korean Karate, Silat and Jeet Kune Do. I'm currently studying [a type of fencing in] Filipino Kali. As I recall, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson used to wrestle, among other social activities. If you know a 'nerd,' they're not usually one-dimensional, tied to their video game console, nor inept at social skills.
Besides, for the less evolved of the species, it's good to have some mastery of defensive skills.
More of the interview, and the relation science has to fencing:
What it do BSFS?! Been a long time since I logged in. Coming back to see a whole lot of beautiful visuals and a growing community is cool! This is a series of characters I've been doodling for fun since 2009, check em out. Full post here. Love and light
-Robert Trujillo/Tres
Bay Area, Califaztlan
Black life superheroes ( BLSH ) are part of the broader, media-labeled real life superhero ( RLSH ) movement while also being apart from it in some instances.
Civil rights activists who faced down state-sponsored terror from the first captive African who rebeled on these shores to epic change agents in the mid-10th Century are all BLSH.
Unlike our great peers who commute into our unsafe, need overrun inner city, Black life superheroes either come from these desperate places or have family still imprisoned within them.
BLSH isn't about separatism- it's about defending your community alone and alongside any good person who comes to help!
If urban crime could create the great fictional Batman the real life inner city should be over run with caped crusaders???!!!
Black life superheroes ( BLSH ) are the community caped/cape-less crusaders Black America has been waiting for to save the inner city from within!
We have no other choice.
Famous BLSH of our era include Martin Luther King; Malcolm X; Rosa Parks; Nelson Mandela; Clarence Thomas, etc.
Notable BLSH you may not readily know include:
James Farmer, whose 1966 March Against Fear
is something every creative activist should
know.
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Fannie Lou Hamer, whose Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party pushed voting
rights under threat of death.
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June 12th, 1963 to silence him- which didn't work!
Herman Wrice, " the John Wayne of Philadelphia " whose white hard hat and bull horn closed many crack houses across America.
Joe Clark, the no-nonsense high school principal immortalized
by icon Morgan Freeman in the 1989 hit movie, " Lean On Me "
Black life superheroes ( BLSH ) started out fighting external enemies. Now the enemy is alot closer to home!
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NADRA ENZI AKA CAP BLACK promotes creative crime prevention. (504) 214-3082.
nadracaptblack@gmail is where Pay Pal donations can be sent to assist my citizen patrol efforts which support civic duty and due process.
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Don't want to start no mess, but then again.......but I will say don't shoot the messenger. You know how selective we can be in searching the Internet. We steer around the knuckleheads, dingbats and the weirdos as fast as a mouse click. And then I came across a researcher named Joseph Atwill who has shocked the bejibers out of me. Said the New Testament and other biblical books were entirely or partly written by Josephus Flavius and/or his family. Well, in any case all you folks who claim Hebrew origins plus that the bible is your book, you need to weigh in. But the real sticking point is what happened to all the various parties involved between 60 AD and 325 AD. The Roman government, the Hebrews, the so-called Christians, and the Jews (distinct from the Hebrews). To think a family of Jewish/Roman aristocrats who were also wordsmiths, concocted a tale that has deluded the whole world for 2000 years. The idea was to make a passive Jewish hero to stem the tide of a militaristic Hebrew culture that would not bow to Caesar (the god). The end result was a compromising Israel, Hebrews killed and scattered and the birth of Christianity (the Roman religion).
This would be simple if Rome didn't have a habit of looting and burning libraries across Europe and North Africa. All non-Rome supportive literature had to go. So there is a huge vacuum of recorded histories for that time period. But it just so happens that the Flaviuses one of whom is Josephus, just happens to be the Roman govs chief historian. What?, he wrote the battle plan into the text of the NT (as an autobiography and prophecy), then recorded the play by play (the wars of the jews)!! And some aftermath stuff to boot.
The power of the story upon the unassuming masses? OK check out Joseph Atwill's 'Caesar's Messiah and the True Authorship of the New Testament. Both downloadable as PDF files. One thing is a story as a tool of control even to the empire level. The other thing is the truth hidden and misaligned. You are suppose to have blind accepting faith, unquestioning, unwavering, the Caesar said so, he after all is God in the newer part of the book. But the Jews who left Jerusalem and fled into Africa and only have the Torah even after all these years, are they.........? who said a pen is mightier than a sword? or was that the s-word?
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| Nanotech Web |
Researchers in the UK and Japan have succeeded in tracking dislocations in graphene – a sheet of carbon atoms just one atom thick – with unprecedented resolution using electron microscopy. The work may help scientists better understand plasticity in 2D structures and how dislocation motion affects the mechanical properties of this, and other technologically important materials.
Specifically, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy/Tunneling Electron Microscope (TEM). Shows a 3D image by using a stylus a given distance from a prepared sample.
Nanotech Web: TEM tracks dislocations in graphene
Nobel Prize education: Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM)
Hello,
Our Fantasy and Sci-Fi/speculative fiction presenters need help on their genres. If you know of movies, books, conferences... you can point me to, please send the information on and I'll forward it on.
I you hope you can join us in this event. We are trying to raise awareness in the group genres. The more people who participate, the more we can all learn from each other.
THANKS.
Dee deatrikingbey@yahoo.com
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| Science Blogs |
...could put a strain on not only Helium supplies (less birthday balloons), but it would affect industries involved in the manufacture of things you hold dear, like: the I-Pad, laptop, mobile device you may be reading this blog on, or the next generation Xbox could get a little tricky to produce. Beyond that, I'd be getting too detailed. Read excerpt from the article below:
“We may be heading for a crisis in many industries if we don’t face up to this issue” warned Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), Ranking Member on the House Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee at a July 20 hearing on the nation’s helium supply. Holt’s opening comment came at the start of a hearing entitled “Helium: Supply Shortages Impacting our Economy, National Defense and Manufacturing" that received testimony from an official of the Department of the Interior and industrial and scientific witnesses.
This was the second hearing that has been held this year on the nation’s supply of helium, driven by the very real concern that a legislative mandate will worsen already significant supply and price fluctuations. In May, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held a hearing on S. 2374, the Helium Stewardship Act of 2012. This 15-page bill, introduced by Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) would require changes in the management of the nation’s federal helium reserve in Texas. Indicative of the interest there is in this problem are the nineteen Democratic and Republican senators, with a wide range of political philosophies, who have cosponsored this bill.
The July 20 House hearing demonstrated similar bipartisan concern. In his opening comments, Subcommittee Chairman Doug Lamborn (R-CO) spoke of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) helium reserve and its impending closure, calling helium “vital to national security,” and warning of the “significant economic disruption” there will be to American manufacturers. Of note, he spoke of a global shortage of Helium-3. “The impending shortage of helium and H-3 could have disastrous consequences for U.S. industries that are dependent on helium to innovate, manufacture, and provide jobs for Americans,” Lamborn said. “Having identified these issues, the question is what is the solution? Clearly, Congress cannot simply allow this huge economic dislocation and national security threat, when action can be taken on alternatives. However, neither can Congress simply continue along in the process that has resulted in this critical juncture.”
Panic = bipartisanship. We'll take it anyway we can get it, ladies and gentlemen.
American Institute of Physics: FYI: House Hearing on Helium Supply
