<< Now humankind has found another theater for war. Killing can literally reach new heights. We should all be proud of our species. >>

http://www.koyaanisqatsi.com/films/naqoyqatsi.php
Na-qoy-qatsi: N. From the Hopi Language. 1. A life of killing each other 2. War as a way of life. 3. (Interpreted) Civilized violence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
Technological singularity
In futurism, a technological singularity is a predicted point in the development of a civilization at which technological progress accelerates beyond the ability of present-day humans to fully comprehend or predict. This prognosis is based on statistical data showing the acceleration of various trends in the human civilisation... Since the term technological singularity refers both the the advance of technology and their impact on the human society, it can be also understood as a sociological singularity.

http://bible.gospelcom.net/
Matthew 24
3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
7   For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
12   And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

http://www.timeenoughforlove.org/saved/LeakedPentagonReportWarnsClimateChangeMayBringFamineWar.htm
Leaked Pentagon report warns climate change may bring famine, war: report
Feb 22, 2004
The report, quoted in the paper, concluded: "Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life.... Once again, warfare would define human life."

http://www.killer-apps.com/
1.7 THE LAW OF DISRUPTION, OR SECOND-ORDER EFFECTS
This is not the world of the future but the one we already live in... It's already begun, and it will make feudalism look mild by comparison. We refer to these second-order effects, the combination of Moore's Law and Metcalfe's Law, as the Law of Disruption. It can be simply stated as follows: Social, political, and economic systems change incrementally, but technology changes exponentially.

http://www.mindspring.com/~what/bigmountain/bigmtn5.html#rock
Prophecy Rock - Hopi Prophecy
The present world is separated into two paths. The lower path is followed by the One-Hearted people, and leads into a Paradise on Earth. The upper path is that of the Two-Hearted people and leads to self-destruction. It is the path of technology without spirituality. … This time is known as the Day of Purification, when it is said that common people the world over will become disillusioned with the world leaders, and band together to fight for world peace.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1844935.stm
Doomsday Clock set closer to Armageddon
27 February, 2002

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
Drake Equation
He believed that the Drake Equation suggested that a large number of extraterrestrial civilizations would form, but that the lack of evidence of such civilizations suggests that technological civilizations tend to destroy themselves rather quickly. This stimulated his interest in identifying ways that humanity could destroy itself, with the hope of avoiding such destruction and eventually becoming a space-faring species.

The great Way is easy,
yet people prefer the side paths.
Be aware when things are out of balance.
Stay centered within the Tao.

When rich speculators prosper
While farmers lose their land;
when government officials spend money
on weapons instead of cures;
when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible
while the poor have nowhere to turn-
all this is robbery and chaos.
It is not in keeping with the Tao.
- Lao-tzu , Tao-te ching “The Book of the Way and Its Power”
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060812451

 

<< But this is not a battle between good and evil. It's a battle for the growth of human civilization and maturity. >>

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000A2062-66B1-1C6D-84A9809EC588EF21
“In Clarke's 1953 novel, called Childhood's End, humanity reaches something like a singularity and must then make the transition to a higher state of consciousness.”

"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point."
- Arthur Schopenhauer, http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~mvaldez/schop.html

http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/page1/98/03/16/iq.html
IQ scores are rising so dramatically, say researchers who study intelligence, that a high proportion of people considered average at the turn of the 20th century would be regarded as significantly below average by today's tests.

"It's a genuine mystery," said John Loehlin, a University of Texas-Austin professor of psychology. "All of the explanations given are probably true, but it's still hard to see how they would account for such a large jump."
- Todd Ackerman, 3/15/1998, Experts at loss to explain large jump in average IQ

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/FLYNNEFF.html
James Flynn, a political scientist working in New Zealand, observed in the 1980's that the scores of different groups of people on standard intelligence tests had consistently augmented over the past decades.

Since then, the so-called "Flynn effect" has been confirmed by numerous studies. The same pattern, an average increase of over three IQ points per decade, was found for virtually every type of intelligence test, delivered to virtually every type of group.

The increase was highest, 20 points per generation (30 years), in Belgium, Holland and Israel, and lowest, 10 points per generation, in Denmark and Sweden. Although the data are limited, it moreover seems that the increase is accelerating.

One might expect that the Flynn effect would be more clear for tests that emphasize culture or education. The opposite is true, however: the increase is most striking for tests measuring the ability to recognize abstract, non-verbal patterns. Tests emphasizing traditional school knowledge show much less progress. This means that something more profound than mere accumulation of data is happening inside people's heads. None of the scientists who have studied the effect can offer a simple explanation.

For one type of test, Raven's Progressive Matrices, Flynn found data that spanned a complete century. He concluded that someone who scored among the best 10% a hundred years ago, would nowadays be categorized among the 5% weakest. That means that someone who would be considered bright a century ago, should now be considered a moron!
- Principia Cybernetica Web, Increasing intelligence: the Flynn effect

http://bible.gospelcom.net
Revelation 9 (KJV)
4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

http://www.benziger.org/4function.html
The Physiology of Type
By Katherine Benziger, Ph.D., © March 1998; September 1999
Jung’s four Functions are rooted in four distinct areas of the cortex. Thinking is housed in the Left Frontal Lobe. Intuition is housed in the Right Frontal Lobe. Sensation is housed in the Left Posterior Convexity. Feeling is housed in the Right Posterior Convexity.

<< Know one knows what "god" is... Most people can't even solve a simple algebra problem, for crying out loud. No one will ever know what this universe is. >>

Where you see the word God, God = x. Solve for x.

"Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. …The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought. Individual existence impresses him as a sort of prison and he wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole."
- Albert Einstein, Religion and Science
http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/einstein/einsci.htm 

http://www.ewebtribe.com/StarSpiderDancing/begin/
In The Beginning
“The first Stone of the Sun Bear Medicine Wheel is in honor of Creator, represents Creator, is Creator in the Wheel. In the Wheel building cermony this Stone is placed first, with prayer and song, and in the very center of the space you have marked out for the Wheel.”

“…The Creator is the beginning of life and its ending, the Great Mystery within all things and around all things, the Universal Energy"..."In many Native languages the word for Creator… "was a verb, indicating the movement, the activity, the motion, the pulsation of this sacred, never-ending force."

http://exn.ca/Stories/2000/01/13/57.asp
Black holes: mothers of the Universe?
Cynthia Reynolds, January 13, 2000
"Black holes aren't exactly the celestial darlings of our universe. They're commonly thought of as giant space vacuums slowly and methodically sucking the universe dry. But these monsters of destruction may not be so monstrous after all. New research that identifies three new supermassive black holes - bringing the grand total so far to 20 - adds credence to the theory that massive black holes are also intricately related to the creation and evolution of galaxies. Maybe, without black holes, we wouldn't even be here."

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0006/05hstblackholes/
Black hole survey sheds light on galaxy formation
June 5, 2000
“Though this secret relationship between a black hole and its host galaxy has been suspected for the past several years, it is bolstered by the Hubble discovery of 10 more supermassive black holes in galaxy centers, raising the total to more than 30 black holes now available for study. "For the first time we can put strong constraints on the relationship between galaxy formation and black hole formation and growth," says Kormendy.”

http://bible.gospelcom.net
Genesis 2
1   Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2   And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

http://www.timeenoughforlove.org/saved/YahooNewsFinalProofProvidedMilkyWaysCentralBlackHole.htm
Final ‘Proof’ Provided for Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
Oct 17, 2002
While it’s not clear why the Milky Way’s black hole is relatively quiet, astronomers have long suspected that a black hole is a black hole, and that in a general sense what’s observed in the Milky Way can be applied to the more massive objects seen elsewhere. The Milky Way’s black hole may be simply taking a culinary break after billions of years of high consumption.

<< Why is it so difficult for some Christians to understand that God created man and all the creatures, and that evolution is how he did it? >>

“There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any error. Where science has been used in the past to erect a new dogmatism, that dogmatism has found itself incompatible with the progress of science; and in the end, the dogma has yielded, or science and freedom have perished together.”
 - J. Robert Oppenheimer
 http://www.chemistrycoach.com/science_and_other_disciplines.htm

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/280/5369/1532
"I have encountered a few "creationists" and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad, or only pretending to be mad. If I was a religious person, I would consider creationism nothing less than blasphemy. Do its adherents imagine that God is a cosmic hoaxer who has created the whole vast fossil record for the sole purpose of misleading humankind?"
- Arthur C. Clarke

http://bible.gospelcom.net
Revelation 3:5-6 : (KJV)
5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
6 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

http://www.timeenoughforlove.org/SolarSystem.htm
From my own research I’ve discovered that if you divide the geological time scale by our orbit of the Galaxy and accept ‘increasing’ inaccuracy for older dates, you will find major events occur at the beginning/end of galactic ‘years’. For example in millions of years, (* dates taken from “The Book of Life– An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth” http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393050033  )

~4,800 / 220 = 21.8 (Origin of the Sun) *
~4,600 / 220 = 20.9 (Origin of Earth and Moon) *
~4,000 / 220 = 18.1 (Origin of Life) *
~3,800 / 220 = 17.2 (Oldest known rocks) *
~439 / 220 = 1.99 (Begin Silurian (First land plants) also marks the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction) *
~220.7 / 220 = 1.00 (Very rapid mass extinction) – Christopher Behrens on Yahoo! News BBS, August 13, 2001, Misleading story , http://www.timeenoughforlove.org/saved/MisleadingStory.htm

http://bible.gospelcom.net
Genesis 1 (KJV)
And [Elohim] said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/01/07/national1656EST0679.DTL&type=science
Theory suggests sun's gamma ray burst triggered ancient mass extinction
January 7, 2004
All this happened some 440 million years ago and led to what is known as the Ordovician extinction, the second most severe of the planet's five great periods of extinction. The Ordovician was the first of five great extinctions in history. …the late Triassic, 220 million years ago, killed half of all species;

 

<< Life never comes from non-living matter by any natural cause of which we are aware. >>

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality....The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical [mysterious]. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men..."

"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
- Albert Einstein
http://www.simurgh.net/nada/planet/catalog.htm

http://www.gnosis.org/library/marygosp.htm
The Gospel According to Mary - Chapter 4
...Will matter then be destroyed or not?
22) The Savior said, All nature, all formations, all creatures exist in and with one another, and they will be resolved again into their own roots.
23) For the nature of matter is resolved into the roots of its own nature alone.
24) He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
…
30) Matter gave birth to a passion that has no equal, which proceeded from something contrary to nature. Then there arises a disturbance in its whole body.
31) That is why I said to you, Be of good courage, and if you are discouraged be encouraged in the presence of the different forms of nature.
32) He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/universe_expansion_020320.html
Royal Astronomical Society, 20 March 2002
“Their results show that the universe is full of dark energy, completely consistent with the earlier supernovae results. "It seems that Einstein did not make a blunder after all -- dark energy appears to exist and to dominate over more conventional types of matter," Efstathiou said. "An explanation of the dark energy may involve String Theory, extra dimensions or even what happened before the Big Bang. At present nobody knows. The ball is now firmly in the theorists court."

http://www.timeenoughforlove.org/saved/YahooNewsDarkMatterEnergyPuzzlingAstronomers.htm 
Dark Matter, Energy Puzzling Astronomers
June 19, 2003
Only recently have researchers come to understand the pivotal role it played in the formation of stars, planets and even people.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/remember/sagan_12-20.html
“The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore we’ve learned most of what we know. Recently, we’ve waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can’t, because the cosmos is also within us. We’re "made" of star stuff. We are a way that the cosmos can know itself. The journey for each of us begins here.”
- Carl Sagan

 

HOW TO MAKE MONEY
by: warpl00 (26/M/OP, KS) 06/16/05 04:05 pm

1) Take a renaissance artist.
2) Add "code" after his name.
3) Use it for a title for a fictional book with a few factual coincidences.
4) Let the cash flow like wine.
 

HOW TO MAKE RELIGION

1) Take an influential teacher
2) Add “god”, “son of god”, “lord”, “savior” before or after his name.
3) Ignore his teachings, create rules, preach dogma and practice tribal rituals.
4) Let the cash flow and serve wine.

"Since the promulgation of Christianity, the two greatest systems of tyranny that have sprung from this original, are the canon and the feudal law."
- A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law by John Adams, 1765
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=43

http://www.gnosis.org/library/marygosp.htm
The Gospel According to Mary 9
7) Now I see you contending against the woman like the adversaries.
8) But if the Savior made her worthy, who are you indeed to reject her? Surely the Savior knows her very well.
9) That is why He loved her more than us. Rather let us be ashamed and put on the perfect Man, and separate as He commanded us and preach the gospel, not laying down any other rule or other law beyond what the Savior said.

http://bible.gospelcom.net
1 Timothy 2 : (KJV)
11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

http://bible.gospelcom.net
Matthew 15 :(KJV)
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

http://bible.gospelcom.net 
Matthew 6:(KJV)
1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

 

<< Well fundie filth, I've asked you "god" to strike me dead repeatedly and prove she's for real. She hasn't, showing she's just a hopeless incompetent. >>

http://www.ewebtribe.com/StarSpiderDancing/mother/#top 
Beautiful Mother Earth
Loved, warmed, and made fertile by Father Sun, our Beautiful Mother Earth gives birth to, nurtures, and sustains us all:: Green Growing People, Standing People (Trees), Water Dwellers, Winged Ones, Creepy Crawlies, Four-leggeds and Two-leggeds. Materials for our homes, clothes, and tools of all kinds, as well as the food we eat -- all are provided by our Mother, the Earth. In this era we two-leggeds have not properly appreciated this, nor taken care of her. We need to start doing so NOW, or she may not be able to continue to give so generously and abundantly.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0192862189&itm=1
GAIA: A New Look at Life on Earth
The Gaia hypothesis, first put forth in the mid-1960s, and published in book form in 1975, explores the idea that the life of earth functions as a single organism which actually defines and maintains conditions necessary for its survival. Disclaiming the conventional belief that living matter reacts passively in the face of threats to its existence, Lovelock argues that the earth's living matter - air, ocean, and land surfaces - forms a complex system which has the capacity to keep our planet a fit place for life.

http://www.thenazareneway.com/essene_gospel_of_peace_book1.htm
And they asked him in amazement: "Who is our Mother and which her angels? And where is her kingdom?"

"Your Mother is in you, and you in her. She bore you she gives you life. it was she who gave to you your body, and to her shall you one day give it back again. Happy are you when you come to know her and her kingdom; …

"The blood which runs in us is born of the blood of our Earthly Mother. Her blood falls from the clouds; leaps from the womb of the earth; babbles in the brooks of the mountains; flows wide in the rivers of the plains; sleeps in the lakes; rages mightily in tempestuous seas.

"The air which we breathe is born of the breath of our Earthly Mother. Her breath is azure in the heights of t heavens; soughs in the tops of the mountains; whispers the leaves of the forest; billows over the cornfields; slumbers in the deep valleys, burns hot in the desert.

"The hardness of our bones is born of the bones of our Earthly Mother, of the rocks and of the stones. They stand naked to the heavens on the tops of mountains; are as giants that lie sleeping on the sides of the mountains, as idols set in the desert, and are hidden in the deepness of the earth.

"The tenderness of our flesh is born of the flesh of our Earthly Mother; whose flesh waxes yellow and red in the fruits of the trees, and nurtures us in the furrows of the fields.

"Our bowels are born of the bowels of our Earthly Mother, and are hid from our eyes, like the invisible depths of the earth.

"The light of our eyes, the hearing of our ears, both are born of the colors and the sounds of our Earthly Mother; which enclose us about, as the waves of the sea a fish, as the eddying air a bird.
…
And all those round about him listened to his words with amazement, for his word was with power, and he taught quite otherwise than the priests and scribes.

 

"Hello little sheep. I'm happy that you believe in your god. Believing there is a reward at the end of your miserable little life controls you and keeps you sorrowfully happy. Your morals, ethics and behavior are based on your religious beliefs. If you ever wake up and realize your god is a myth created to control you, you would act on your true urges and only get yourself into trouble. You would become a problem for society..."
by: happypantheist (42/M/Atlanta, GA) 12/21/04 06:52 pm, Christianity is great!!!

"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
- Robert A. Heinlein
http://www.heinleinsociety.org/rah/works/novels/ifthisogoeson.html

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html
3. Jesus said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is within you and it is outside you.
When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty."

http://www.gnosis.org/library.html
“The Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of thirteen ancient codices containing over fifty texts, was discovered in upper Egypt in 1945. This immensely important discovery includes a large number of primary Gnostic scriptures -- texts once thought to have been entirely destroyed during the early Christian struggle to define "orthodoxy"

http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/CHRIST/EUROPE.HTM
The Council of Nicea
…Constantine accomplished more, however, for the Nicene council also ratified his own power and Christianity would begin the long struggle, lasting to this day, between the anti-political ideas of Jesus of Nazareth and the Christianity that is compromised to allow for human authority and power.

http://www.mythsdreamssymbols.com/jesus
Elaine Pagels on "Jesus and his Message in the Gnostic Gospels"
Indeed, the suppression of the Gnostic gospels fits the pattern of rational patriarchy that has marked the Church throughout the centuries. …The forced exclusion of these Gnostic elements have kept hidden from Christians many aspects of their faith--until now

The Gnostics believed that by investigating the source of sorrow, joy, love and hate, one could cultivate insight and discover God as the fountainhead of all of these states of being. The significance of Jesus is interpreted to be that of a model, one whose instruction to come and know oneself as he did will transform human beings into sons (and daughters) of God like him. Consistent with the scholarly consensus that Jesus' purpose was not to found a new religion centering its devotion upon him, the Gospel of Philip, a companion text to the gospel of Thomas, urges followers not to become Christians, but rather new Christs. …In addition, it seems clear that the Gnostics had some contact with Buddhism in the formation of their ideas.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/9280/getting3.htm
Many Buddhas
“The word Buddha is a generic term, meaning the Enlightened One. It refers to a person who has realized the Dhamma and attained enlightenment. This enlightenment, as we have seen, is open to all, and so is Buddhahood. …this Buddha-nature is the inherent potential for enlightenment, which can be cultivated and actualize
 

"That's all very nice, but it is all written by man, and perpetuated by man.  Man created God in all kinds of religions."
by: happypantheist (42/M/Atlanta, GA) 12/21/04 07:07 pm

"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him."
- Arthur C. Clarke
http://atheism.about.com/library/quotes/bl_q_ACClarke.htm

"How much do we humans enjoy our current status as the most intelligent beings on earth? Enough to try to stop our own inventions from surpassing us in smarts? If so, we'd better pull the plug right now, because if Ray Kurzweil is right we've only got until about 2020 before computers outpace the human brain in computational power. Kurzweil, artificial intelligence expert and author of The Age of Intelligent Machines, shows that technological evolution moves at an exponential pace. ...This means that we'd better figure out how to deal with conscious machines as soon as possible--they'll soon not only be able to beat us at chess, but also likely demand civil rights, and might at last realize the very human dream of immortality."
- The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140282025

http://bible.gospelcom.net/
Matthew 13:37
He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nb20041216a2.htm
ASIMO one step closer to acquiring human touch
Dec 15, 2004, By KAHO SHIMIZU.
The latest version of ASIMO, the humanoid robot developed by Honda Motor Co., has taken a step closer to humanity

http://www.timeenoughforlove.org/Engage/The-Forgotten.jpg
The Forgotten - “Native artists, early watchers of the stars, leave us tantalizing reminders of their presence in the Southwest.

http://bible.gospelcom.net/
Revelation 1 :(KJV)
12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
18   I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
19   Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;

http://www.bcsproject.org/barrierstyle.html
THE BARRIER CANYON ROCK ART STYLE
“The Holy Ghost composition has the appearance of visual depth. At a distance, it is easy to see the composition, framed by a shallow arch, as a group of dark figures standing, or hovering, around (behind, in front, and to the sides) a tall light figure (Holy Ghost) which is, literally and figuratively, "head and shoulders" above them. In addition, the head of the Holy Ghost is represented in a three-quarter view—the only three-dimensional representation of an anthropomorphic head in Utah and, probably, the United States.”

“We are accustomed to seeing convincing representations of visual space in the paintings of today but this interest (on the part of the artist) in recreating a three-dimensional space on a flat surface really only extends, scholars think, to the classical Greeks (ca. 300 b.c.e.) and, certainly, the European Renaissance (ca. c.e. 1400). The Holy Ghost Group was probably painted before 2,000 b.c.e., perhaps well before.”

“What could account for this early, clearly intentional, representation of the space of the "real world"—in a world of prehistoric rock art, which was, for tens of thousands of years, dominated by a flat-looking, frontal or profile, two-dimensional image and format or visual space?”

E-mail to media concerning Anthrax killers

Hi Glen,

Have you heard of Zecharia Sitchin? He's drawn some interesting conclusions from his extensive translation of Sumerian writings. His view is that people from space genetically engineered humans in their image, and were an integral part of history/civilization in Sumerian times. He has hypothesis about most other early civilizations also, but the Sumerian is the most researched. Check out these links:

http://www.crystalinks.com/sitchen.html,  http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/8148/zchron.html and http://www.sitchin.com/ <<the official site.
 

Hi Glen,
I found a site with some ideas similar to yours. I think you might particularly like the scientific angle, although I make no claims about it's accuracy. ;^)
Here's an excerpt:

http://ascension2000.com/revelation1.htm
"In short, we now know that the Sun, the space between the planets and the planets themselves are all showing increased luminosity, increased magnetism and increased energy. This undeniably demonstrates that the entire Solar System is charging up, apparently reaching a critical threshold. As mentioned in our SOM article, we have already seen the following, among many other things: "
 

Hello Margie,

While it's true I am somewhat amused by the paradox of finding references to the most advanced science in the oldest of sources.   I really appreciate this kind of supporting material for my theory as I tend not to seek it out. You seem to have a tendency to locate and send me information that I wouldn't look for but is very useful and relevant.

And now for your amusement consider that I sent the following message to six different corporate news providers on November 1 (MSNBC, CBS, CNN, 20/20 etc.). I was motivated to try to send it to the e-mail addresses that they made available for the purpose of discrediting "rumors" on the Internet. The implication being that if you look for answers on the Internet you are gullible and you should instead consume their "quality" information. (I lied a little about "a friend forwarded". But it's not much of a lie because I put my real name and address anywhere it was asked for and if they read my site they will know it is me. According to my site logs at least two of them did.)

Well, A friend forwarded the following web page to me and I thought you folks might be interested in looking into it.

http://www.timeenoughforlove.org/WTC.htm

It compares the events at the World Trade Center to the book of Revelation in the bible. As crazy as that sounds there is quite a bit of supporting evidence of the US governments duplicity involving international terrorism. The site includes convincing citations from other web sites.

Could it be true that the CIA is really behind the formation and support of terrorist groups in Afghanistan? I saw a Frontline program on PBS that showed the CIA bombing a mosque.

I also had another thought. If evidence of CIA involvement in international terrorism is so well known and after 9/11 everyone was looking for the root cause of the attack don't you think that Congress was starting to take another look at CIA activities?

Here's the most disturbing idea I had. If the CIA actively commits and supports acts of terrorism and Congress began investigating them, then what do you think they would do to protect themselves? It’s curious "law enforcement" doesn't have any leads on the Anthrax outbreaks isn't it? Particularly the weapons grade stuff found in Senator Dashle's office? One of the results of these outbreaks has been to give the CIA and FBI more power. Let's see, the CIA has the motive, the means and the opportunity. hmmm.

If this is true who can stop them?

    That was on a Thursday. Guess what the number one question was in the standing room only Q&A with FBI Director Mueller the next day? "Don't you have any leads on the Anthrax attacks specifically the weapons grade material found in Senator Dashle's office?" Both the reporters and Mueller appeared seriously concerned. Mueller's basic response was that they could not report any progress but, "We are looking into ALL leads." He did indeed lean forward and emphasize "all". The reporters kept asking variations of the same question that day and for a couple of weeks afterwards. Notice I didn't mention attacks against the media? I let the reader fill that part in. Also notice how most of what I wrote is phrased as questions. Extroverted Intuition can be very influential when used effectively.

    Today I heard mention only once on CNN but I can't find confirmation of it on the web that the current word on some of the Anthrax samples is that they appear to be the same as that produced in the United States as part of a biological weapons program that was "ended" five years ago. Apparently the "quality" of this material is so lethal that even enclosed in envelopes some material apparently escaped and is the explanation for the various deaths such as the woman who worked in a mail room and the 94 year old woman. Oh, I also understand that two other federal intelligence agencies now report to the CIA. I suppose we won't be hearing about CIA involvement from them will we?  (Here are subsequent articles which quietly implicate the CIA in the Anthrax attacks.  For a web page of only politics please go here or the section of this site, here.)

Anthrax Sender May Have Military Past, Daschle Says
Saturday December 8 1:51 PM ET
“Asked if he believes the source was someone with a military background, Daschle said, ``That's correct.'' Daschle has been in frequent contact with investigators.”

U.S. Army Has Anthrax Strain
Thursday December 13 10:41 AM ET
"For years, U.S. Army scientists in Utah have been developing a powdered form of anthrax that matches the strain used in the deadly letters that have killed five people since September, according to a published report.”

Capitol Hill Anthrax Matches Army's Stocks
Sunday, December 16, 2001; Page A01
“The FBI's investigation into the anthrax attacks is increasingly focusing on whether U.S. government bioweapons research programs, including one conducted by the CIA, may have been the source of deadly anthrax powder sent through the mail, according to sources with knowledge of the probe. The results of the genetic tests strengthen that possibility.”

“The CIA declined to say where its Ames strain material came from.”

Law enforcement sources, however, said the FBI remains extremely interested in the CIA's work with anthrax, with one official calling it the best lead they have at this point. The sources said FBI investigators do not yet know much about the CIA program.

A law enforcement source said the FBI did not initially include the CIA on its list of labs working with anthrax because the agency was not among 91 labs registered with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to transfer anthrax specimens. But as investigators interviewed workers at those known labs, they learned of the CIA's work, and in the past few weeks posed questions about it to the agency.

THE SECRET WARS OF THE CIA - Part 1
JOHN STOCKWELL, 10 October 1987
"I did 13 years in the CIA altogether. ..We're talking about 10 to 20 thousand covert actions [the CIA has performed since 1961]. What I found was that lots and lots of people have been killed in these things.... Some of them are very, very bloody.”

All quiet on the anthrax front?
By Andy Oppenheimer, 05 June 2002
Even before 9.11, there was growing concern over the possible use of anthrax as a biological weapon. On 2 October 2001, this fear became reality as anthrax outbreaks, the result of a biological agent delivered through the mail, began to occur in the USA.

Weapons-grade anthrax, usually fatal in its pulmonary (inhalation) form, was removed, refined and eventually posted. It killed five people (not the mail recipients), sickened 17 others, paralysed mail delivery, forced many senators to evacuate their offices for more than two months, terrified the nation and caused some 35,000 more to take prophylactic antibiotics. There have been 15,000 anthrax hoaxes and false threats. The incidents have forced 540 postal facilities to close temporarily and have resulted in 71 arrests.

The anthrax discovered in the letters mailed to two US senators was so refined that it contained 1 trillion spores per gram. It was milled to produce the size most effective in spreading the bacteria: between one and three microns. This size is characteristic of weaponized anthrax made by US defense laboratories.

Anthrax attacks: FBI cover-up and New York Times whitewash
By Patrick Martin, 15 May 2002
A new genetic analysis of the anthrax used in last fall’s terrorist attacks has pinpointed the source as the US government’s own germ warfare program. This finding explodes the pretense, long maintained by the Bush administration and parroted by the media, that little is known in the investigation into the attacks, which killed five people and disrupted the lives of millions.
…
This cover-up has a clear political motivation: either the perpetrator is an individual with powerful friends in high places in the Bush administration, whose influence is stalling the probe, or the perpetrator is actually a US government agency—…

While the genetic evidence lays out a virtual blueprint for the investigation into the anthrax attacks, there are more accounts of foot-dragging by the US government. ABC News reported April 4 that US military and intelligence agencies have refused to provide the FBI with a full listing of the secret facilities and employees working on anthrax projects.

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