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RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING?
5/11/2012 9:28:48 PM

10_1_136.gifHi Luis,

The last few posts were quite interesting and I agree with most, however I find some aspects of our new way of life somewhat confusing. On the subject of The Lost City of Atlantis there have been at least twenty-eight sunken cities discovered in different parts of the world. Therefore, what area of our planet are they referring to when they talk of the falling of Atlantis? Most of the posts dealing with the Ascension say that everyone will live in happiness and love. This sounds great. However, there are different things that different people consider to be important for them to be happy. Our past traumas and sad thoughts will be removed from out minds as though they never happened. I would like to remember the bad as well as the good. Forgiveness is something that I have learned to be able to do, although sometimes it is difficult. It does seem that along with Ascention, we will also be loosing our individuality as well. I do not wish to be a carbon copy of everyone around me. Perhaps that is what they refer to as giving up our ego, which will be very difficult for me to do. Learning, to me, is making mistakes and trying something over and over again until I get it right, and studying different ways to do things. I don't want to pick up a brush, look at one of your paintings and paint mine exactly like yours. I want mine to look like what I percieve it to be in my mind, not someone elses. In other words, I want to have the freedom to create my own individual thoughts. I want to maintain what I feel is beautiful and what is not. The closer that it comes, the more worried I become because I believe that we will all loose one important factor. Our unique way of being different than others. Therefore, although I follow these discussions with interest, I'm not sure if I fully agree with everything. We will not have a group of people that will be telling us when we can be happy and when we cannot be happy, so I find it hard to see how this is going to improve our future. If we can learn things simply by thinking about it, is there any point in trying anything new? If I want to visit you in Peru all I have to do is think about it and I'm there. Did I see the beatiful mountains or the market place and Llamas, or the smiling women? No. My thought was visiting you. We may be gaining a lot, but I'm afraid that we will be loosing much more. We have some sad times ahead.

GOD BLESS YOU

~Mike~

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RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING?
5/11/2012 10:16:38 PM
Hello Jim, and no, I don't mind at all. I have always tried to be as open to new ideas as Hindus are because I profoundly admire their tollerance. But "there is nothing new beneath the sun," as the saying goes. From the old Hindus and Greeks with their atomistic theories to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (usually misunderstood as ill-conceived futurology) to feronomes, now this "new" theory seems to me to be mere speculation, that is, no more than an idea, or a theory, or a hypothesis.

Looks like people are always trying to find new paradigms in which to believe. Unfortunately what we always try to find is a way to deny the existence of a spiritual cause underlying all existence. The Hindus would have no problem in accepting this "new" approach as simply another way to understand reality, in this case, from an entirely material perspective. But that is all, and they would never deny at least the possibility of several other approaches to a better understanding of it and, ultimately, of a divine universal first cause that includes everything else.

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Miguel

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Hello Luis,

I hope you don't mind me posting the following here, But, I felt it quite appropriate.

The Vampire Economist and the Moral Molecule: Q&A with neuroeconomist Paul Zak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WJxVq-yogLM
Thanks,

Jim


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RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING?
5/12/2012 1:17:27 AM
Hi Mike,

Out of the two main fascinating topics touched by you in your post, I would like to only refer for now to the Lost City of Atlantis and its falling. You wonder which of the twenty-eight and more sunken cities found in different parts of the world may the last posts in this thread be referring to when they talk about the falling of Atlantis. My belief is none of them is likely to be, but there is yet another fascinating possibility. Let me please explain myself.

According to Plato,
Atlantis was both the city-and-island in the middle of a lake AND also the big island - rather a continent - within which the lake was contained, the two of them called indistinctly Atlantis by him in his relation. All the mystery thus dissipates if you consider that the only way Atlantis may have sunk is, it was the island Atlantis that disappeared in the "ocean" (actually a big lake) and not the continent. On the other hand, the only continent existing at the time of the "falling" of Atlantis in the only possible location for it to exist as per Plato's account was the American continent and more precisely the South American continent, because in ancient times the Northern part of the continent was separated from its Southern counterpart. It follows that if the South American continent actually was the continent Atlantis, it would explain why most historians, scholars and other people have overlooked this possibility and rejected the idea that Atlantis may have been a continent... However, in a way (but only in a way) they were right.

Note: This theory is not mine. A few years ago I posted two articles about this topic
at Jill's Mountain of Love thread (here). One of them was written by a brilliant English investigator by the name Jim Allen, who formulated the above theory about Atlantis the continent; and the other by Martin Gray, a no-less brilliant investigator and photographer who claims the ruins of Tiahuanaco, in present-day Bolivia in South America, are the only direct remains left of Atlantis the island. I posted this fascinating material at my New Age forum as well (here).

Hugs,

Miguel

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10_1_136.gifHi Luis,

The last few posts were quite interesting and I agree with most, however I find some aspects of our new way of life somewhat confusing. On the subject of The Lost City of Atlantis there have been at least twenty-eight sunken cities discovered in different parts of the world. Therefore, what area of our planet are they referring to when they talk of the falling of Atlantis? Most of the posts dealing with the Ascension say that everyone will live in happiness and love. This sounds great. However, there are different things that different people consider to be important for them to be happy. Our past traumas and sad thoughts will be removed from out minds as though they never happened. I would like to remember the bad as well as the good. Forgiveness is something that I have learned to be able to do, although sometimes it is difficult. It does seem that along with Ascention, we will also be loosing our individuality as well. I do not wish to be a carbon copy of everyone around me. Perhaps that is what they refer to as giving up our ego, which will be very difficult for me to do. Learning, to me, is making mistakes and trying something over and over again until I get it right, and studying different ways to do things. I don't want to pick up a brush, look at one of your paintings and paint mine exactly like yours. I want mine to look like what I percieve it to be in my mind, not someone elses. In other words, I want to have the freedom to create my own individual thoughts. I want to maintain what I feel is beautiful and what is not. The closer that it comes, the more worried I become because I believe that we will all loose one important factor. Our unique way of being different than others. Therefore, although I follow these discussions with interest, I'm not sure if I fully agree with everything. We will not have a group of people that will be telling us when we can be happy and when we cannot be happy, so I find it hard to see how this is going to improve our future. If we can learn things simply by thinking about it, is there any point in trying anything new? If I want to visit you in Peru all I have to do is think about it and I'm there. Did I see the beatiful mountains or the market place and Llamas, or the smiling women? No. My thought was visiting you. We may be gaining a lot, but I'm afraid that we will be loosing much more. We have some sad times ahead.

GOD BLESS YOU

~Mike~

http://www.countryvalues65.com

"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)

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RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING?
5/12/2012 5:18:53 PM

Offshore Wind Energy Picking Up Speed













“In the North Sea alone we have a potential to economically exploit the offshore resources to cover seven times Europe’s total energy consumption. We wouldn’t have to import fuel if we can tap into that.” Christian Kjaer, chief executive at the European Wind Energy Association, is not talking about deep sea drilling, but offshore wind turbines, which have doubled their total power production over the past three years to 866 megawatts,
MarketWatch reports.

Though offshore wind farms are still outnumbered by their land-based equivalents, they are growing at an accelerated rate.Wind turbines need to be placed in areas that have a fairly consistent current of usable wind. Large flat expanses, like prairies, are best, though nothing is flatter than a body of water. Of course, farms still need to be near enough to shore that power can easily reach land.

The majority of offshore wind energy development in 2011 (about 80 percent) was developed privately by utility companies. Some experts are citing increased fossil fuel costs as making wind power more attractive.

Besides taking advantage of the flat expanses and unused wind energy just offshore, another advantage is not having to deal with complainants who say wind turbines ruin their view. Not long ago, the Union of Concerned Scientists ran a sadly funny cartoon on this topic:

(Image credit: Joe Heller)

Frankly, I’ve always considered wind turbines very sleek and attractive. Even more so when one thinks about what’s not hidden inside those towers. No cauldron of toxic smoke, no nuclear waste, minimal (though not zero) disturbance to the local environment and wildlife.

Here’s the first image I ever saw of a wind farm, in a futuristic animated sci-fi movie from the 1990s:

(Image credit: Bandai)

Isn’t that lovely? Maybe that’s why when I hear about the growth of the wind power industry, I feel like we’re taking one step further into the future, and one step further away from this kind of thing:

(Photo credit: Wknight 94)

Let’s hope this trend continues.

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RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING?
5/13/2012 12:15:23 AM

One year on, Spain's 'indignants' take to streets

Masses of chanting "indignant" activists poured into the streets across Spain on Saturday in a vast show of strength one year on from igniting a global protest against economic injustice.

Tens of thousands packed Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square, the emblematic birthplace of their popular movement against inequality, sky-high unemployment and spending cuts that shook the political establishment.

Many had marched to the square for hours in separate columns of protesters from all directions and defied an official warning that they must disperse after 10:00 pm (2000 GMT).

At midnight, as promised, they lifted their arms to the sky and held a minute of silence before chanting; "Yes we can, yes we can," in a gesture of defiance.

In the early hours of Sunday, several thousand protesters remained in the square, surrounded by numerous police cars parked in nearby streets.

Madrid police estimated that 30,000 people had taken part in the protest during the day. In Barcelona, Spain's second city, the turnout was 45,000 according to police, and 220,000 according to organisers.

The marches, held in 80 cities and towns across Spain, launched a four-day protest that will end on May 15, the anniversary of the movement's birth -- dubbed 15-M.

The movement, which relies heavily on online social networks to campaign and organise, has inspired similar protests from Britain to the Occupy Wall Street campaign in the United States.

"We never ceased to exist. It is not that we have returned, we never left," said a 25-year-old nursing intern in Barcelona, adding that she planned to camp overnight in the square.

While Barcelona city hall seemed prepared to tolerate a camp for a limited period, the authorities in Madrid insisted that they will not allow a repeat of last year's month-long sprawling encampment in Puerta del Sol that included everything from a canteen to a kindergarten and a library.

Spain's conservative government, in power since December, has issued a permit for the "indignants" to use Puerta del Sol for a five-hour assembly Saturday and for 10 hours on each of the following three days.

Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said the government would ensure that the regulated hours are respected.

A year after the movement's birth, Spaniards have even more to protest: a recession, unemployment at 24.4 percent for the general workforce and 52 percent for the under-25 population, and more than 30 billion euros ($39 billion) worth of austerity cuts so far this year.

"We are here because we continue to be angry over the austerity policies which an economic elite is imposing on us," said 21-year-old philosophy student Victor Valdes at the Madrid rally.

Another protester, 23-year-old office worker Marina Santos said: "It is important to show that we are still here, that there are thousands of people that want a change and are willing to work for it."

She carried a handmade sign that read: "Another World is Possible" as she marched to Puerta del Sol to the beat of drums.

The "indignants" have staged overwhelmingly peaceful protests and neighbourhood assemblies since their camp at Puerta del Sol was dismantled on June 12, but interest has tapered off.

"The movement has mutated, it is still there. What has happened is that it is not on the streets, it is online and in social networks," said Noelia Moreno, a former spokeswoman for the movement in Madrid.

"This is a long-distance race, no one can change an entire political system in one day or one year, it takes time," the 30-year-old unemployed video producer added.

Critics charge that beyond staging rallies, the movement has had little impact.

Antonio Alaminos, sociology professor at Alicante University, said the "indignants" had failed to organise and were left expressing a discontent born from social and economic malaise without a concrete ideology.

"The result: lots of small relatively disconnected groups that no longer form a social movement," he said.

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