Arhat

"He who disregards
ordinary sorrows and joys,
A cultivator is he.
He who has not attachment
to worldly loss and gain,
An Arhat is he."

 

-May 1995, Li Hongzhi

 

 

 

 

 

A Person With Great Spiritual Inclination

Now, what’s “a person with great spiritual inclination”? A person with “great spiritual
inclination” is different from somebody with “a good base.” People with great spiritual
inclination are hard to find. It’s only once in a great while that somebody like that is born.
Of course, for starters, someone with great spiritual inclination has to have a lot of virtue.
That field of his white matter has to be pretty big. You can be sure of that. And at the
same time, he has to be able to bear the hardship of hardships, he has to have great
endurance, he has to be able to make sacrifices, he has to be able to guard his virtue, and
he’s got to have good comprehension, just to give you an idea.

And what’s the hardship of hardships? In Buddhism it’s believed that being human is
suffering hardship—as long as you’re a human being you have to suffer. They say that
none of the beings in other dimensions have this kind of body that ordinary people do, so
they don’t get sick, and they don’t have the problems of birth, aging, sickness, or death.
They just don’t have that kind of suffering. The people in other dimensions can float in
the air and they’re weightless, and it’s just so wonderful. But ordinary people, exactly
because they have this body, they have these problems: if it’s cold they can’t stand it, if
it’s hot they can’t stand it, if they’re thirsty they can’t stand it, if they’re hungry they
can’t stand it, and if they’re tired they can’t stand it, and then they have to deal with birth,
aging, sickness, and death. You get the idea, it doesn’t feel good.

I read in the paper that when the Tangshan City earthquake hit, a lot of people died,
but some folks were resuscitated. A special investigation was done with that group of
people, and they were asked what it felt like to die. But, to people’s surprise, they all
talked about one unique situation—and they were all consistent on this—and that is, at
the very moment they were dying they didn’t have any fear, and just the opposite, they
suddenly felt a sense of relief and could feel an excitement brewing. Some of them felt
like they’d been suddenly freed of the restraints of their bodies, as if they’d floated up
like something buoyant and wonderful, and they saw their own bodies, some of them saw
beings in other dimensions, and some even went off to various places. They all said that
they experienced at that instant a sense of relief and a brewing excitement, and there
wasn’t any feeling of pain. So this tells us that when we have a mortal human body we’re
suffering. But since we all came to this world the same way we don’t realize that we’re
suffering.

I’ve said that a person has to bear the hardship of hardships. The other day I
mentioned that mankind’s concept of space-time is different from that of other, larger
space-times. What’s for us over here a traditional block of time, like two hours, is
actually a year for beings in another dimension. Let’s say somebody is here cultivating in
this tough environment—to them it’s just incredible. He wants to find the Dao, and he
wants to cultivate, so this guy’s just amazing to them. He suffers so much, but he hasn’t
ruined his original nature and he still wants to cultivate and return. Why can a cultivator
be helped with no conditions attached? That’s why. Say somebody meditates for a whole
night in the ordinary people’s dimension, when they see it, they can’t help but say he’s
just amazing. “He’s already been sitting there six years”—and that’s because a couple
hours for us is a year over there. The human dimension is just extremely special.

So what is “bearing the hardship of hardships”? I’ll give you an illustration. There’s
this guy who goes to work one day. His company is in a slump, and it’s got to do
something about its lack of productivity, so his company has to be restructured to
increase individual accountability, and extra employees have to be laid off. He’s one of
them, so he loses his job all of a sudden. Now how’s that feel? He has no source of
income now—how’s he going to support his family? He doesn’t have any other skills. So
he goes home depressed. When he gets home he finds out his elderly parent who lives at
his house is sick, really sick, so he gets worked into a frenzy and quickly sends his parent
to the hospital. He goes through a ton of trouble to borrow some money so he can secure
a bed at the hospital for his parent, and heads back home to get some things for him or
her. No sooner does he get home than a teacher comes and tells him, “Your son hurt
somebody in a fight, you’d better hurry over and patch things up.” He takes care of it,
goes back home, sits down, and just moments later a phone call comes, “Your wife is
having an affair.” Now of course you won’t run into that. The average person couldn’t
take the hardship, and he’d think, “Why go on? I’m gonna find a rope and hang myself—
I’ve had enough! Time to put an end to it all!” I’m saying that you have to be able to bear
the hardship of hardships. And of course it doesn’t have to take that form. You get caught
in the middle of people scheming against each other, tensions wear on your character, and
there’s all that fighting for personal gain—that’s not much easier. A lot of people just live
to prove their worth, and they’ll hang themselves when it’s too much. So if we want to
cultivate in an environment this complicated, we’ve got to be able to bear the hardship of
hardships, and we’ve also got to have great endurance.

So what’s “great endurance”? To be a practitioner you should, for starters, be able to
“not hit back when attacked, not talk back when insulted.” You have to endure. If you
don’t, what are you calling yourself a practitioner for? Some people have said, “This
endurance thing is hard to do. I’ve got a bad temper.” If you have a bad temper then just
change it. Practitioners have to endure. Some people blow up even when they’re
disciplining their kids, they’ll yell and make a big scene. You don’t have to be like that
when you’re disciplining your kids. You shouldn’t really get angry. You should teach
your kids with reason and good sense, and that’s the only way you can really teach them
well. If you can’t even get over little things, and you lose your temper, then forget about
gong. There are people who say, “If I’m walking down the street and somebody kicks
me, I can endure it, since nobody knows me.” I’d say that’s not good enough. Maybe
later on you’ll be slapped in the face a couple times in front of the very person you least
want to lose face around, and that’s to humiliate you, to see how you handle it, and to see
whether you can endure it. Maybe you can endure it but you can’t get it off your mind.
That’s not good enough. You know, when a person reaches the Arhat level he’s not fazed
by anything he comes across. He’s not the least bit concerned about any human things
and he’s always upbeat. It doesn’t matter how much he loses out, he’s upbeat and doesn’t
mind. When you can really do that, then you’ve achieved the initial Arhat Fruition.

Some people have said, “If we endure that much, ordinary people will say we’re so
weak and so easy to take advantage of.” I’d say that’s not being weak. Let’s think about
it. Even among ordinary people you find older folks and people with better education
who always exercise polite restraint and don’t stoop to the other person’s level. Then that
should be doubly so for us practitioners. How is that weak? I’d say it reflects your great
endurance, it’s a reflection of your strong willpower. Only practitioners have that kind of
great endurance. There’s a saying, “When the common man is humiliated, he draws his
sword to fight back.” He’s an ordinary person, so of course—“You insult me, I’ll insult
you. You hit me, I’ll hit you right back.” That’s an ordinary person for you. Could you
call him a practitioner? If you don’t have a will of steel, or if you aren’t able to control
yourself, you won’t be able to handle it right.

You know about General Han Xin who lived in ancient times, and how they said Han
Xin was talented. He was Emperor Liu Bang’s chief general, he was the pillar of the
state. And why was he able to do such big things? They say that from a young age Han
Xin was no average person. There’s a classic story about Han Xin being “humiliated
under somebody’s legs.” Han Xin was already practicing martial arts even in his youth,
and a martial artist would always carry a sword on him. One day Han Xin was walking
down the street when a thug blocked his path, with his hands on his hips, “What do you
have that sword slung over your shoulder for? Would you dare kill a man? If so, I dare
you to cut off my head.” And he stuck out his head as he was saying that. Han Xin
thought, “Why would I want to cut your head off?” Back then, too, you’d be reported to
the authorities for cutting off somebody’s head, and you’d have to pay for it with your
own life. Could you just kill somebody on a whim? When he saw that Han Xin didn’t
dare kill him, he said, “Since you don’t dare to kill me, crawl through between my legs.”
And Han Xin really did crawl under his legs. That showed that Han Xin had amazing
endurance, and that he wasn’t like your average guy, and that’s why he could do such big
things. “A man has to struggle to prove his worth”—those are ordinary people’s words.
Think about it, everybody, isn’t life exhausting then? Isn’t that a pain? Is it worth it? And
Han Xin was an ordinary person, after all—we cultivators should be a lot better than him.
Our goal is to reach a level beyond ordinary people, to forge ahead to even higher levels.
We won’t run into anything like he did, but when a cultivator is insulted or humiliated
around ordinary people, it’s not necessarily any easier. I’d say that those frictions with
people that wear down on your character aren’t any easier, they’re actually worse, and
they’re pretty hard to handle.

Now at the same time, a cultivator has to be able to let go—let go of all kinds of
attachments and desires that people have. You can’t up and do that in one shot, but we
can do it gradually. If you could just do it right off today, then you’d be a Buddha today.
Cultivation takes time. But you shouldn’t slack off, either. If you say, “Teacher said
cultivation takes time, so let’s take our time,” that’s not the idea! You have to really be
strict with yourself. In Buddha Law cultivation you have to boldly and vigorously forge
ahead.

You also have to be able to guard your virtue, you have to guard your character, and
you can’t act rashly. You can’t just do whatever you want—you have to guard your
character. There’s a saying you probably hear all the time when you’re around ordinary
people, “Accumulate virtue by doing good things.” Practitioners don’t think about
accumulating virtue, though. What we do is guard our virtue. And why do we make a
point of guarding virtue? Because here’s what we’ve seen. Ordinary people make a
practice of accumulating virtue, and when they’ve accumulated virtue and done good
things they’ll get good things in their next life. But that doesn’t apply to us here—if your
cultivation’s a success you’ll attain the Dao, and there won’t be any question of the next
life. But there’s another layer of meaning to this “guarding virtue” we’re talking about
here. It’s that these two kinds of matter we carry with us on our bodies aren’t
accumulated in just one lifetime, they’ve been passed down for ages. You can scour the
city but there’s a chance you won’t run into any good deeds to do. And you could even
do that every day and maybe you still wouldn’t come across anything.

But there’s yet another layer of meaning, and a person needs to know about it if he’s
going to accumulate virtue. Maybe you see something that looks like a good thing to do,
and you go and do it, but maybe it turns out to be a bad thing. Or maybe you see
something that looks like it’s a bad thing, and you step in to stop it, but maybe it turns out
it was a good thing. And why is that? It’s because you can’t see the underlying causes.
Judicial laws govern ordinary people’s affairs, and there’s nothing wrong with that. But
being a practitioner is a higher thing. So as a higher person you have to hold yourself to
higher laws and higher logic. You can’t evaluate things with the reasoning of ordinary
people or with ordinary laws. When you don’t know the underlying causes of something
you’ll probably handle it wrong. That’s why we talk about nonaction—you can’t just do
whatever you want. Some people say, “But I just want to make sure justice is served.”
Then I’d say great, we should all just enroll in police academy then? But we’re not telling
you to do nothing when you come across terrible things like murder and arson. I’m just
explaining that when people are fighting with each other, and maybe one person even
kicks the other, or one of them slugs the other one, maybe that guy owed the other person
something, and now they’re settling the debt. So if you step in they can’t settle it, and
they’ll have to do it again the next time around. What this means, then, is that you’d
probably do the wrong thing and lose virtue since you can’t see the underlying causes.
It’s fine for an ordinary person to do something about some ordinary people’s thing.
He sizes it up with the reasoning of ordinary people. But you, on the other hand, you have
to use higher reasoning to size things up. And there’s a problem with your character if
you don’t do anything when you see something awful like murder or arson. How could
you then demonstrate that you’re a good person? If you don’t even do anything about
things like murder and arson, then what would you do something about? But one thing is,
these things don’t have a lot to do with us cultivators, so chances are that wasn’t planned
for you, and chances are you won’t be made to encounter them. When we talk about
guarding virtue, it’s to have you avoid doing bad things. Maybe you do that thing ever so
slightly, but it could still be doing a bad thing, and then you’ll lose virtue. And once you
lose virtue, how are you going to raise your level? How will you achieve your final goal?
So these kinds of questions are part of it. And also, your comprehension has to be good.
If you’ve got a good base, maybe it’ll make your comprehension good, and influences
from your environment can play a role, too.

And we’ve said, too, that if every one of us cultivates inward, if every one of us
examines his own character for causes, if when we don’t do well we look inside ourselves
for the cause, and we try to do better next time, and if we think about other people first
any time we do something, then the world will change for the better, morals will go back
up, people’s civility will improve, and crime will go down. Maybe we won’t even need
policemen. There will be no need for things like neighborhood watch, and everyone will
watch over himself, and they’ll look inside their own minds to fix things. Wouldn’t you
say that’d be great? We know how laws and regulations are now getting more and more
complete and tight over time. Then why do people still do bad things? Why don’t they
follow the law? It’s because you can’t police their minds, and when nobody is watching
they’ll still do bad things. But if everyone were to cultivate inward things would be
totally different, and you wouldn’t need to be a whistleblower all the time.

We can only teach the Law up to this level. You have to cultivate to get what’s
higher. The questions some people are asking are getting more and more specific. Now if
I were to answer every question in your life, what’d be left for you to cultivate with! You
have to cultivate for yourself, and you have to come to your own realizations. If I spelled
everything out you wouldn’t have anything left to cultivate with. But you don’t have to
worry, because the Great Law is now being spread, and you can base your actions on the
Great Law.

 

I think the time for my transmitting the Law is pretty much coming to a close, so I
want to leave you with the true things, and this way you’ll have the Law to guide you
from here on out as you cultivate. The whole time I’ve been transmitting the Law, I’ve
made a point of being responsible to you and to society, and we’ve really been able to
follow through on this. I won’t comment on whether we’ve done it well or not—public
opinion will tell. My wish was to spread the Great Law to the public and have more
people benefit from it, and to make it possible for those people who truly want to
cultivate to follow the Law and cultivate up to high levels. And while we’ve been
spreading the Law, we’ve spelled out how to act like a good human being, and I hope that
after you finish this class, at the very least you can be a good person even if you can’t be
somebody who cultivates by the Great Law, and that will benefit our world. Actually,
now you know how to be a good person, and after this class you can be a good person.
There have been some things that haven’t gone smoothly while I’ve been transmitting
the Law, and big-time interference has come at us from all sides. But thanks to all the
enthusiastic support from the organizers and community leaders, and also all the efforts
of our staff members, our classes have gone pretty well.

All the things I’ve taught you during the classes are to guide you in cultivating to high
levels, and nobody has ever taught these things before when they preached the Law.
What we’ve taught is really clear-cut, and we’ve incorporated things that have been put
forth by modern science and today’s human-body sciences, and what’s more, the level
we’ve explained it at is quite high. We’ve done that mainly for you all, to help you truly
obtain the Law in the time ahead, to cultivate up—that’s my starting point. While we’re
transmitting the teachings and the exercises, a lot of folks feel that the Law is pretty good,
but hard to put into action. But actually, I think that whether it’s hard depends on the
person. A really average, ordinary person doesn’t want to cultivate, and he’ll feel that
cultivation is just way too hard, that it’s unthinkable, and he’ll think it’s a waste of time.
He’s an ordinary person and he doesn’t want to cultivate, so he’ll think it’s really hard.
Lao-zi said, “When the highest type of men hear the Dao, with diligence they will
practice it. When average men hear the Dao, it seems some is kept and some is lost.
When the lowest type of men hear the Dao, they laugh at it heartily. If they didn’t laugh
at it, it wouldn’t be the Dao.” For a true cultivator, I’d say it’s easy—it’s not some
impossible mission. And in fact, a lot of our veteran students here in the audience, and a
lot of them who aren’t here, have already cultivated to levels that are quite high. I didn’t
tell you this before because I was afraid you’d form attachments, that you’d be pleased
with yourselves, and so on, and that would affect how your potency grows. For every one
of you who makes up his mind to cultivate, you will be able to endure things, and when
your personal welfare is on the line, you will be able to let go of your attachments, and
you will be able to take those things lightly. As long as you can do that it’s not hard, in
fact. Now those people who say it’s hard, it turns out, they just can’t let go of those
things. Doing the exercises isn’t hard in its own right, and there’s nothing hard about
raising your level in and of itself. They only say it’s hard because they can’t let go of
their human thoughts. The reason is, it’s hard to let those things go when your personal
welfare is on the line—that benefit is right there, in front of you, how can you let it go?
When they think it’s hard, we should know that that’s the reason why it’s hard. When we
get into conflicts with people, if you can’t swallow that anger, or you aren’t able to
handle it as a practitioner, I’d say that just doesn’t work. Back when I was cultivating, a
lot of men of great character told me this: “It’s hard to endure, but you can endure it. It’s
hard to do, but you can do it.” And that’s really how it is. When you go back you might
want to give it a try. When you’re going through an awful tribulation, or maybe a critical
juncture, give it a try. When it’s hard to endure, try to endure it. When it seems
impossible to do, or just hard to do, give it a try and see just what you can do. And when
you can really do it, just like that worn and weary traveler, you’ll see, “the shade of
willows, the blooms of flowers, a place to rest my head”!

We should probably stop here, because if I say too much it’ll be hard for you to
remember it all. So I’ll just say a few things in parting. I hope that in your cultivation that
lies ahead you’ll go about things as a practitioner and truly keep cultivating. I hope that
both our new students and veteran students are able to cultivate in Dafa, and have
complete success! I hope that after you go back home you’ll seize the day to really
cultivate.

 

From Zhuan Falun, Turning The Law Wheel by Li Hongzhi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Not Usual.

     Something strange happened yesterday so I'm transferring it into my site so I can study it.





(When I came here today, the point of entry to the music was at 14:49)

Marilyn Manson-The Pale Emperor[deluxe edition] Full Album(HQ)

Jakuf  (Subscribed to)





Published on Feb 24, 2015



Belialith   1 second ago  
Oh my goodness, thank you Jakuf for not deleting that post. I woke up this morning thinking I had put this in a blog, which I'm going to do now, because that was one of the weirdest experiences. I was searching for where I had put this. Interestingly enough its in the Pale Emperor album. While I was writing, interference occurred. I could feel the energy, some invisible thing around, but I couldn't tell who it was or where it was coming from...and there's a lot of thought I need to do about what occurred, so I'm taking this into my blog. Thanks for being a good sport. Love you!


Jakuf   3 months ago  
100+ views.Nice.


Belialith   22 hours ago  
Sweeties, they don't JUST manipulate the words you use, and have fun with you when you're trying to describe what is happening....it's like Michael Tsarion said....they did something to our minds. Whether we ourselves are in control of that aspect, there are also outer aspects one must deal with. They change words right in front of my face and all I can do is laugh, or giggle. Who the fuck can control those forces? What ARE those foreces, to begin with?


Belialith   22 hours ago  
It;s so falkoning faunny tht he sings 'we got guns" aan awl that, and we don' t need them, nor do they need us. So! To make a long story short..... The best way to deal with such and such a  ahhh, that situation, is to make, hahahha, men, instead  of  Boize, How 2 tieeeeeey deeeeeeeeeee, up l. Not a question about it. It is already done.. Toooooooooooop iy....Ali4nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnea//? POSESSION ! Shutup, I  have a fibonacchi right scale to experience it.




Oh My Goodness, Those devils who WILL write through you, are the most interesting to observe. They don't seem to know a fucking




aLRIGHT I APPOLOGIXZE/   I've BEEN OVER DO? ING IT. tHANK YOU FOUR REMINDING ME, NOW SHUT THIS FUCKING UPPER CAPS DOWN. Summmmmer, time time time, oh, the livin is easy........
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ZarathustraDK   3 weeks ago  
Am I the only one who think Brian's aging like a good wine? People grow up, deal with it, the only arrogance is people expecting antichrist superstar to stay his yelly self to the end of days. Those days are long gone, and so it'll be for you.


KirosWinstone   3 weeks ago (edited)  
+ZarathustraDK
Absolutely, I think his music has really matured and he seems to be exploring new contemporary art styles and sounds. Loving his new album.



Jakuf 1 month ago

Just uploaded Nirvana's Nevermind.Check it out:https://youtu.be/iR8lCEewkqY

(And what's really freaky is that when I woke up this morning (night-time, I'm a night person right now) is that I went to look at my computer and this album was sitting there on my screen. Nirvana Nevermind. And the entrance point for that one was 44:18)


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    So now.... to figure out what happened. Time to meditate.


Ok. Putting it together. While watching Michael Tsarion's Tarotscope videos I was thinking to myself, hey, maybe I should purchase a set of Tarot cards and start checking them out myself, and I was wondering what stores around here might sell something like that. So I was seriously thinking to go out and buy a deck.

Then when I was sitting on the toilet removing liquid waste, I suddenly had a picture show up in my head. I was watching one of those old fashioned trains, the wheels, turning round slowly and picking up speed. There's this bar across the wheels and it goes up and down and moves faster and faster as the train picks up speed. Then the picture disappeared. I was then trying to figure out what that symbol might mean. And since the word "train" was the only thing I could think, I figured it meant that I must train myself, train the mind and emotions, since that was a post I had written about earlier and of course that's what I thought it might be all about.

Later on that evening, I was on a site, and it was this one, the one I have copied into here, and I was writing. I had a very deep and important thought, and nonchalantly I was writing it into this place. But as soon as I began writing, everything started jamming up and messing around. I had to keep looking down at the keys of my keyboard because the words were not being spelled correctly and I wanted to make sure my hands were positioned correctly on the keyboard. But they seem to keep on moving out of position. It was getting frustrating because I couldn't write what I wanted to. And then I felt a presence because when I looked at the words I had just written which were correctly written, they had instantly changed right in my face. Those weren't the words I wrote. In fact, they were something totally different and they didn't make any sense, just garbled letters. So that's when I realized I wasn't the only one here. Another presence had moved in and was screwing around with what I was trying to write. Of course now I forgot what I was even going to write, I was having so much trouble just trying to type out ANY word! All the words I typed took so much energy and force of focus to write, that I just had to start laughing, because there was nothing else I could do. I just gave up trying to write it. That's when I wrote that message atop the one that's all garbled.

  "Sweeties, they don't JUST manipulate the words you use,..."


And that was the end of that. I just went to go listen to some other music, which was Nirvana, Nevermind.

When I woke up today, that was the first thing on my mind and I wanted to find it so I could analyze it. But I couldn't find it. I thought I had put it in my blog. It was such an intense effort, which is what I usually put into my blog, but it was I finally found, only a response in Jakuf's site with the Marilyn Manson album The Pale Emperor.

Then things started flowing in my mind. I remembered that time when I was 21 years old and living in Toronto. It was Saturday and I didn't have to work that day so I went to the store around noon and bought a book that showed how you could read regular playing cards and find out everyone's past, future, and fortune. So I bought that book and a deck of regular playing cards.  I went home, and Gregory was at work, so I read the book, then spread the cards on the desk and proceeded to read everyone's fortune that I could think of. I didn't think it would be so fun. I ended up the entire day reading everyone's I knew, fortune. I didn't even know what time it was....but then I began hearing this thudding sound under the house, which sounded like the subway, but I didn't live anywhere near the subway, so I thought to myself, what the fuck could this be? But since I couldn't do anything about it, I just kept on reading cards. Then I heard a screaming cat fight in the backyard. It was so loud! I took a short break to root for a cat, u know, having fun...and then I continued reading the cards. But oh my goodness, those screaming cats sound turned into the sound of metal screeching against metal. That's when I stopped reading cards. In fact that was the end of cards. It was about 10:00pm by that time. So the banging under the house which sounded like a train going past, began at around 9:30pm because I looked at the time. Then when the cats screaming turned into metal screeching against metal it was about ten o'clock in the evening...August, nice calm warmish night.

Then the sounds started turning really strange. It was like the sound of an elephant and then a bear, and a high pitched bird's sound, and all kinds of different animal sounds. And they were really LOUD. And in the midst of those sounds, once in a while, I would hear the sound of a man crying, and crying so deeply that his voice box fluctuated, like full of sorrowful emotion. So I could hear all these weird animal sounds and a man crying, alllll in my backyard! Ha! So I went outside and standing on the stairs I could feel such a thick oppressive feeling of electricity in the air. I almost stupidly dared to go down there when I remembered a dream my friend Tony had about me that he called to tell me about just a month previous, and told me to be careful. That's when I remembered his warning, "be careful." So I stopped walking down those few short stairs and just looked into the backyard from where I stood, and I saw that one tall lone evergreen tree in the middle of the lawn, and it had only one branch moving up and down on the tree, near the middle bottom of it. A steady up and down motion, and there was nothing to be seen in or on the tree, while the rest of the tree was dead still.

I went back inside, and because it was kind of oppressive and even a bit frightening to me, and I'm  not frightened often, I decided to turn the radio on so I could listen to some music over all that noise.
The moment the radio was on, it was the sound of metal screeching against metal. I just listened for a while, kind of got freaked out about it and then switched through other stations and landed on this one which was a Pink Floyd tune, "Wish You Were Here." Fucking freaky. But I left it there anyway. After a while, after that song was done, I just shut the radio off and decided to listen to my backyard noise instead, to try and figure out what was happening. Anyway, a lot of things happened that night which I won't go into here. But the thing is, Gregory who always came home from work, never came home that night, nor did I even get a call from him telling me he would be late or whatever. I had to go through that entire night with strange noises all around my neighborhood, and deal with it. Finally early in the morning when it was sunny again...I saw my landlord out there in the yard and I went to him and asked whether he heard some weird noises last night. The first thing he asked me is, "are you religious," and I kind of like, duh, wondered what the hell does that all have to do with it, and because my parents said I was a roman catholic, I said to him, "yea," and he said, "oh those were raccoons, they always make weird sounds like that." So I left him thinking he was a little strange in the head, but, knowing I had my answer. It certainly wasn't any fucking raccoon that for sure.

And then Gregory came home and told me he had to work all night, that he didn't even have time to call. Or something like that. Then I told him what happened, and he was like, don't you EVER go near something like that again! That is dangerous stuff. Then he proceeded to tell me about how when he worked at very wealthy people's homes, he said how he saw in the middle of the marble floor a design of a pentagram or something, and he knew it was all evil stuff. The customer he and his crew were working for at the time, he said that his skin changed colour right before his eyes sometimes...he said it turned dark, and he told me that when a person's skin turns dark, it means they're evil, so you have to be careful of having any dealings with them. So after he bitched me out about things like that....I decided there was something really wrong with being with him because he was under the power of those things since he didn't even come home that night, let alone call. I figured I should move on. A week or so later, I moved to Ottawa. But those strange things followed me, and even in Ottawa weird things were happening all around me.


Anyway....lately, my friend Dan and I were sitting on the bench outside my home and looking at the stars, talking. When I went to the washroom and came back, he said, the weirdest thing just happened when I was gone, and he seemed scared. He told me that tree in front of him was waving at him, just one branch. There was no wind, no breeze. It was a warm, still, comfortable night. And so I proceeded to help calm him by telling him some of the stories I had encountered when trees were waving and there was no breeze out. I didn't tell him about the incident in Toronto, I didn't want to scare him, just ease him. So I went over to the tree and had fun. I took a branch in my hand and began waving it saying, hello, how are you, nice to meet you. That got him laughing. So that was the end of that.

But then a few days later, my long term part time lover comes over and tells me that when he and his dog were jogging back at his cottage in the country, down that lane, every single tree on each side of him had a branch that was moving, waving, but there was no breeze, and only one branch from each tree was moving up and down. He said it happened a few times, I think about on three different occasions? or was it two occasions? I forget what exactly he said. But I'll ask him when I see him again.

Then tonight, he called me to see whether I was a night or day person, and ended up telling me that it happened again, but differently. He said, as he was jogging, this time the dog was way behind him, he said all the way down the lane, one side of the lane a tree's branch was moving, and then further on the other side the branch was moving, and then on the other side, like a zig-zag motion. And he said it happened all the way down the lane, from one side to the other. And the first thing that I thought of was an old fashioned train, how they have that bar on the wheels and as the wheels turn the bar goes up and down....and it's a looooong train, it's a loooong lane on which Tim was jogging. Boom. Right there. That's when I understood that last night's trying to write on Jakuf's site where the Marilyn Manson video The Pale Emperor was on, I knew this all fitted together somehow.

But now...

How?  And what does it mean?

Anyway, for me, the moral of the story is, do not buy any cards, Tarot or Playing Cards. I and they do not mix.


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  About the unusual part (with purple text), check this out. If that isn't Alice in Wonderland, huh?

Fibonacci sequence
Medieval mathematician and businessman Fibonacci (Leonardo of Pisa) posed the following problem in his treatise Liber Abaci (pub. 1202):

How many pairs of rabbits will be produced in a year, beginning with a single pair, if in every month each pair bears a new pair which becomes productive from the second month on?


Oh and there's another thing I wanted to comment on. Yesterday I saw on g+ a comment by some guy on the Michael Tsarion's site. So I commented back wondering what was his idea saying something like that?

Well, what I think NOW, after all of this happened, is that he was trying to warn me not to buy a deck of Tarot cards, because that is what I had earlier decided I was going to do. But when I went to the site, I noticed Michael had deleted his comment from the site, and that got me upset because I was talking to the air when I answered, and he didn't delete my answer, so it was just weird. U know? This is the comment that guy wrote which Michael deleted.

American Mysteries & Conspiracies (July 20, 2015)

 REAL men think for themselves and will never be pathetic enough to need a deck of cards to do it for them. You immature teenagers follow Tsarion more than any intelligent educated grown men do anyway. You should
really grow up and stop being mind pimped by a Crowley supporting sack of Euro. trash like Tsarion.


And here's what it looks like without it:

UnslavedFilms   2 days ago  
hod is on the pillar of severity, not mercy. made a small slip there.


Belialith   2 days ago  
So what does that suppose to mean? I mean, give us your take on all this, in a nutshell. After all, I have found his work very enlightening, but I still had to do most of the work myself. Nevertheless, what is it about this guy that some people just seem to, uh...'hate?' him?


Mike Davino   2 days ago  
+UnslavedFilms   thanks.


Belialith   2 days ago  
You know? That's what happened in my last few replies. I suddenly couldn't find them. But then I realize, you Michael Tsarion, have hidden them. So this guy who I just replied to in the sentence or two just above this one, doesn't make sense, since you have destroyed his comment...therefore there is no conversation that can even take place here. Perhaps I ought to delete my posts too, because they don't make sense replying to a ghost. I think that last guys comment that you removed, shows he is quite correct in his comprehension of you. And just because your work has been great and very helpful....eventually, a person's character is going to decide whether we stick around to listen to it or not. I also have been cheated by you. In many of my coments which I thought were innocent, but obviously there must have been something direly wrong with them that you had to remove them. It kind of is a power ploy over others. Only allowed to talk about what I want you to talk about because if you don't, I won't understand you possibly and therefore, can't handle the situation, and therefore everything just may get out of hand. As life does once in a while. So yea. When I first met you three or four months ago and began replying, to find all of my comments being maneuvered and even deleted by you...I felt kind of abused, even...used. If you want us to say specific things, could you please write out a manual so that we could study it, and then parrot it back so that you're not offended by what we say when you read back the manual you gave us to indoctrinate within ourselves? Please? Thank you.


Belialith   2 days ago  
I know you have every right to delete comments. So I'll just leave this one here to give you the pleasure of "gonging" it out of existence. I like to see you enthusiastic.....happy....pleased.


And then etc. etc. whatever, nothing else to do with this. But there was another somewhere else who said something that made me stop to think there was something going on here. It was on a different site but Michael didn't delete his comment. So I'm wondering....


And I haven't played with cards, any kind of cards for fortune telling, since that time in Toronto. So I may have went to a couple of fortune tellers, but I never attempted it myself, ever, since that happened back then. And so for me to be thinking to even buy a deck of Tarot? could be inviting danger.


BUT, I'm going to tell you something. The WIERDEST thing about last night while writing in that place of the Pale Emperor video, was watching my words already written, suddenly change into something fucking strange, and then hearing like a silent or a telepathic giggle or laugh or something like that, as I observed. FREAKY STUFF!

Excellent Website; Open Media International !

        I love this place. It's great!


OPEN Media International. Home of the pro-Internet community


Do you see that? It's a link! You can click it to read what's there and you don't have to pay for it. No taxes on links! This is the kind of thing these people do. They protect us from the dulluminati elite who are trying to steal our rights and freedoms by trying to tax linking from one place to another on the internet, amongst other stupid ideas (like GMO's for example), by informing us about what is happening.
 [Hahhaaa it just sounds so stupid, those idiots who are doing such stupid things, they just don't make any sense. They've truly lost their minds those zionist zealots.]



Here's one of OPEN Media's stories. This is the link to it.

 http://www.communia-association.org/2015/07/08/european-parliament-must-not-open-the-door-to-ancillary-copyright-for-press-publishers/


This is the story:

European Parliament must not open the door to ancillary copyright for press publishers

 

 

Posted on July 8, 2015 by Paul Keller 
 

Tomorrow the European Parliament will vote on the Reda report on the implementation of the 2001 copyright directive, which has been approved by the legal affairs committee on the 16th of June. One of the most contentious issues during the vote in the legal affairs committee was an amendment by proposed by the German EPP MEP Angelika Niebler that would have encouraged the Commission to introduce an new ancillary copyright for press publishers on the EU level.
In a last minute departure from the already agreed on compromises, both EPP and ALDE insisted that this amendment should be voted on separately, clearly hoping that this manoeuvre would somehow succeed in getting the desired language into the text of the report. Unfortunately for the proponents of the ancillary copyright, this move backfired and the legal affairs committee voted the amendment down with a relatively clear majority.

Quality journalism or ancillary copyright?

A couple of days ago it emerged that the proponents of the ancillary copyright for press publishers have mounted another last minute attempt, this time attempting to insert language calling for the introduction of an EU-wide ancillary copyright for press publishers into the report via another amendment tabled by MEP Niebler. This amendment will be voted on during the plenary vote on Thursday. The amendment proposes to add a new paragraph (57a) to the report:

Calls on the Commission to evaluate and come forward with a proposal on how quality journalism can be preserved also in the digital age in order to guarantee media pluralism, in particular taking into account the important role journalists, authors and media providers such as press publishers play with regard thereto.

While the text of the amendment does not explicitly talk about an ancillary copyright for press publishers, it is clear that this language is intended to give the Commission an excuse to come forward with a proposal that would introduce such a right.

Commissioner Oettinger and the publishers

Commissioner Oettinger has not made any efforts to hide that he wants to introduce an ancillary copyright on the EU level, and an explicit request for a proposal from the Parliament would give him the opportunity to do so (after he failed to get this ambition included in the Commission’s Digital Single Market strategy). The fact that Oettinger acts as a champion of the (primarily German) press publishers who lobby for an EU wide ancillary copyright became clear during a recent appearance at an event on ‘The relevance of ancillary copyrights for the European Media Diversity.’ The event was hosted by the German collecting society VG media on the day after the legal affairs committee voted down the first attempt to introduce pro-ancillary copyright language into the Reda report.


At the VG media event Commissioner Oettinger not only promised the assembled press publishers and collecting society representatives that they would have the opportunity to provide input on the text of the upcoming legislative proposal before it was published. He also made it clear that he was determined to get the ancillary copyright included in these proposals, and ignored the often made observation that the German and Spanish attempts to generate new revenue from news aggregators for publishers have failed. Oettinger argued that these failures are attributable to the fact that both the German and Spanish markets are too small for publishers to be able to force multinational news aggregators (read: Google) to pay.


Commissioner Oettinger’s solution? Introduce a pan-European ancillary copyright for press publishers, because this ‘would force the intermediaries to the negotiation table’. In other words, Commissioner Oettinger is publicly suggesting that 26 member states (who have decided not to have ancillary copyrights for press publishers in their domestic legislation) should adopt this approach in order to fix broken and domestic legislation in 2 member states. One could only wish that the Commissioner would show similar enthusiasm when it comes to harmonizing even the most basic copyright exceptions.

New copyrights do not mean media diversity

Both the VG media event (‘European Media Diversity’) and MEP Niebler’s most recent amendment (‘media pluralism’) attempt to frame the discussion in terms of increasing media diversity. So far the proponents of an ancillary copyright have failed to show how their proposal would contribute to increasing media diversity. On the contrary, it is very likely that requiring news aggregators to pay for aggregating news will only strengthen the position of existing large aggregators to the detriment of smaller players, which could undermine media plurality in the long run.


In any case, introducing new rights just because the intended beneficiaries (and pretty much no-one else) call for their introduction seems like a very bad idea, especially since we know that these rights can cause substantial collateral damage regarding access to information. In this context it is important to consider that rights that get introduced tend to stay around forever. This makes it crucial to properly analyse the potential effects of new rights, and not push them through via last-minute amendments.


MEPs should vote against MEP Niebler’s ‘stealth amendment’, which attempts to open the door for a Commission proposal for the EU-wide introduction of an ancillary copyright. Ancillary copyrights are a bad idea (and haven’t accomplished what they intend to address). And instead of presenting proposals at the behest of publishers, the Commission needs to focus on harmonizing exceptions, adapting user rights to the digital age, and reducing the impact of copyright on our ability to access and share our culture via the internet.