It was announced that Eric Holoman, has been appointed to the Board of the Department of Water and Power. Mr. Holoman is experienced with management as he is president of Magic Johnson Enterprises. A businessman in a government position in order to fix things.
You know, I think I read about Mr. Holoman before. Yes, I am sure of it. Mr. Holoman resigned from the City pension board. That was right after ethics restrictions were put on board members. It required them to give their financials and disclose any work they did as placement agents. I guess the board of DWP has no such requirements. How odd.
You might enjoy this blog by someone else regarding Mr. Holoman.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Towel Day
Douglas Adams was the author of "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy". If you have not read the books than this post will make absolutely little if any sense. From Mr. Adams we learn that the secret to the answer of life, the universe and everything is ... 42. We also learn that the most important thing is to "Not Panic". Finally, he also taught us that don't go anywhere without your towel.
Well, today is "Towel Day" in honor of Mr. Adams and the great wisdom he has shown the world. His writings were a pleasure to me over the years and to millions of others.
Towel Day
Well, today is "Towel Day" in honor of Mr. Adams and the great wisdom he has shown the world. His writings were a pleasure to me over the years and to millions of others.
Towel Day
Monday, May 24, 2010
Quick Post Regarding Water
I will discuss this at a later time; but, wanted to post it before I lost track of it. There is currently an international issue regarding water in Africa. Keep an eye on any article regarding water and how it is to be controlled. Water is the source of life and our food supply.
Africa and Water Co-operation
Africa and Water Co-operation
Purpose of last few blogs
Once upon a time in a blog far, far away. This blog began with simple, small steps. It began with a discussion of awareness of sentience. I was asking the question of what are we and what does this all mean. At 50 I still ask myself that question.
We ask ourselves what the meaning of life is. It is as simple as "what is our purpose" and as ridiculous as "is it okay to have sex on the first date". The difference between what we are and we want. The final question is always, "What is an acceptable way to make it through this life".
In the beginning I delved into questions of existence and what conclusions I drew. After that, I destroyed the blog. The next step was to look a bit closer at the world around us and question certain "truths" we are told. This third iteration of the blog has focused on the impact or the mistakes our society has made, corruption and spirituality.
In regards to spirituality, I have chosen to look at the beliefs of secret societies. We all know in general what the common religions believe, few understand what other belief sets are out there. We have a tendency to focus on what we believe and ignore the spiritual beliefs of others. I think we need to understand other religions on a deeper level.
In the course of my life I was always interested in the hidden belief sets. Because many of these groups do not tell what their beliefs are, we cannot truly engage them in meaningful conversation. For anyone else interested in such things, I intend to find and link to copies of secret societies own documents. As we move towards a world with people seeking conformity of religion, I seek to know how they differ and why.
My posts are not meant to provide answers usually, they are not meant to condemn belief sets, merely to examine them. I watched a video recently, it was made someone who claimed that the "Illuminati" exist and that they are good because we cannot be trusted to maintain ourselves, basically that we are animals unless forced to be better. We might disagree with him; but, it is his belief set and he bases it on things he has observed.
I am interested in what is the best way for us all to have relationship. The answer depends on what you believe about one another, what you expect from one another and what you are willing to deal with and adjust to. This is sort of dodging around the point.
Where I intend to go next is to look at what we will be living in, the type of world we can expect considering the changes going on around us. If you are unclear on what you are, what it means, what belief sets are available and their rationality, how can you possibly determine what the coming changes will challenge you on.
If I were tell you that in the future your energy and utility use would be monitored minute by minute, that everything you watched or read or wrote became part of a computer profile and that movement from place to place would be inconvenient and less frequent, that you would work from home using a computer and not go into the office - what would it mean to your beliefs? Would you even look at it in terms of who you are?
Not long ago, Jackie Chan, the actor said that the Chinese people needed a strong government to make them do what was best for themselves. Is that true for us? When we spend all day chasing cookies and living for cookies, we become the cookie. We become what we want, our heart is where our treasure is. This is simply a fact. If we seek comfort then we become lazy and soft. If we seek pleasure we become merely experience. What we seek molds who we become. What we do to obtain what we seek defines the type of person we are.
We each must decide what we are and what we wish to become. A Satanist would tell you that their law is "Do as thou wilt". They believe that we live are spiritual beings living in a material world and that this world should be an expression of our will. They believe that we can become supreme beings if we work on it hard enough. They believe that those who make no effort deserve to be used by those who will.
What will these belief sets do as our world is forever changed by the emerging technologies? Many people are talking about micro-chipping people, some say it is the Mark of the Beast. I am not convinced; however, what does it mean to live in a world where everything can be tracked and located? When you go to the store and your discount card records every purchase, you leave a fingerprint of who you are.
Of particular interest is the issue of privacy. What does it mean to live in a world without privacy? How will that impact the coming generations thoughts? We are already seeing some of it. 15 year old girls posting provocative pictures on the web, people discussing their drug deals on line. What does it mean and where is it going?
We live in a world where everyone talks about what they are entitled to and does not believe there is any requirement to repay such debt. The debt is left for others, the ones who cared for us or gave us their products. Our youth are cripples because of indulgence and technology. They rely on what is unreliable. They stand for nothing except comfort. This is dangerous territory for a republic.
How many hours a day do you spend reading or thinking and how many hours a day to you spend with entertainment? We get up to the radio, listen to music in our car, read the internet at work, listen to the music in our car, watch television or go on the net or play video games and go to sleep. We are being programmed with others thoughts most of our waking day. We need to practice thinking and silence or others will do our thinking for us and we wont even know it.
Be well.
We ask ourselves what the meaning of life is. It is as simple as "what is our purpose" and as ridiculous as "is it okay to have sex on the first date". The difference between what we are and we want. The final question is always, "What is an acceptable way to make it through this life".
In the beginning I delved into questions of existence and what conclusions I drew. After that, I destroyed the blog. The next step was to look a bit closer at the world around us and question certain "truths" we are told. This third iteration of the blog has focused on the impact or the mistakes our society has made, corruption and spirituality.
In regards to spirituality, I have chosen to look at the beliefs of secret societies. We all know in general what the common religions believe, few understand what other belief sets are out there. We have a tendency to focus on what we believe and ignore the spiritual beliefs of others. I think we need to understand other religions on a deeper level.
In the course of my life I was always interested in the hidden belief sets. Because many of these groups do not tell what their beliefs are, we cannot truly engage them in meaningful conversation. For anyone else interested in such things, I intend to find and link to copies of secret societies own documents. As we move towards a world with people seeking conformity of religion, I seek to know how they differ and why.
My posts are not meant to provide answers usually, they are not meant to condemn belief sets, merely to examine them. I watched a video recently, it was made someone who claimed that the "Illuminati" exist and that they are good because we cannot be trusted to maintain ourselves, basically that we are animals unless forced to be better. We might disagree with him; but, it is his belief set and he bases it on things he has observed.
I am interested in what is the best way for us all to have relationship. The answer depends on what you believe about one another, what you expect from one another and what you are willing to deal with and adjust to. This is sort of dodging around the point.
Where I intend to go next is to look at what we will be living in, the type of world we can expect considering the changes going on around us. If you are unclear on what you are, what it means, what belief sets are available and their rationality, how can you possibly determine what the coming changes will challenge you on.
If I were tell you that in the future your energy and utility use would be monitored minute by minute, that everything you watched or read or wrote became part of a computer profile and that movement from place to place would be inconvenient and less frequent, that you would work from home using a computer and not go into the office - what would it mean to your beliefs? Would you even look at it in terms of who you are?
Not long ago, Jackie Chan, the actor said that the Chinese people needed a strong government to make them do what was best for themselves. Is that true for us? When we spend all day chasing cookies and living for cookies, we become the cookie. We become what we want, our heart is where our treasure is. This is simply a fact. If we seek comfort then we become lazy and soft. If we seek pleasure we become merely experience. What we seek molds who we become. What we do to obtain what we seek defines the type of person we are.
We each must decide what we are and what we wish to become. A Satanist would tell you that their law is "Do as thou wilt". They believe that we live are spiritual beings living in a material world and that this world should be an expression of our will. They believe that we can become supreme beings if we work on it hard enough. They believe that those who make no effort deserve to be used by those who will.
What will these belief sets do as our world is forever changed by the emerging technologies? Many people are talking about micro-chipping people, some say it is the Mark of the Beast. I am not convinced; however, what does it mean to live in a world where everything can be tracked and located? When you go to the store and your discount card records every purchase, you leave a fingerprint of who you are.
Of particular interest is the issue of privacy. What does it mean to live in a world without privacy? How will that impact the coming generations thoughts? We are already seeing some of it. 15 year old girls posting provocative pictures on the web, people discussing their drug deals on line. What does it mean and where is it going?
We live in a world where everyone talks about what they are entitled to and does not believe there is any requirement to repay such debt. The debt is left for others, the ones who cared for us or gave us their products. Our youth are cripples because of indulgence and technology. They rely on what is unreliable. They stand for nothing except comfort. This is dangerous territory for a republic.
How many hours a day do you spend reading or thinking and how many hours a day to you spend with entertainment? We get up to the radio, listen to music in our car, read the internet at work, listen to the music in our car, watch television or go on the net or play video games and go to sleep. We are being programmed with others thoughts most of our waking day. We need to practice thinking and silence or others will do our thinking for us and we wont even know it.
Be well.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Quick post on GPS
This article in the LA Times talks about the $8 billion upgrade that is being given to GPS. What is really interesting is that the article states that GPS worldwide relies on the satellites that America put up. Worldwide.
GPS Worldwide
I never knew we were responsible for the worlds GPS. That makes absolutely no sense. Why would we allow private people to use our GPS military system and not charge them? I don't get it. Well, maybe I do. Heck we let the world use the military backbone that is the internet.
GPS allows our government to know where everything and everyone is. How nice. Does this really not bother anyone other than me? It doesn't concern enough people because they don't consider how things can be used against them. Many don't even care as long as they get their cookie.
GPS Worldwide
I never knew we were responsible for the worlds GPS. That makes absolutely no sense. Why would we allow private people to use our GPS military system and not charge them? I don't get it. Well, maybe I do. Heck we let the world use the military backbone that is the internet.
GPS allows our government to know where everything and everyone is. How nice. Does this really not bother anyone other than me? It doesn't concern enough people because they don't consider how things can be used against them. Many don't even care as long as they get their cookie.
Just for fun, history of an occultist
Just for fun I am going to show the path taken by one particular occultist. Aleister Crowley. Mr. Crowley was a very famous occultist. He was a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and later went on to head the Ordo Templi Orientis or OTO. Both of these orders are in some way associated with Masons and Rosicrucians.
Mr. Crowley referred to himself as 666 or The Beast. Now one of his friends and adherents was Jack Parsons. Mr. Parsons took over the leadership of the OTO and was the founder of the Jet Propulsion Lab, this is why the rockets had the names of greek gods. He would invoke the greek gods before each rocket was launched.
Now Mr. Parsons was good buddies with L. Ron Hubbard. Now Mr. Hubbard worked on occult rituals with Mr. Parsons, married Parsons wife and founded the Church of Scientology. All were believers in Sex Magick.
L. Ron Hubbard later married Mary Sue Whipp. Mary Sue Hubbard was found guilty of getting a Scientology member to join the IRS in order to steal documents to use against the IRS.
Do you find any of this odd? I do. They didn't teach us the real history of the space program. I remember the Mercury and Apollo flights, nobody mentioned that they were thus named because the head of JPL was a Satanist. I didn't hear that in school.
While reading about the history of Jack Parsons and Crowley is interesting, the bigger issue is how come people are so unaware of our history. If you begin to investigate Crowley you meet some really odd ducks. Mr. Crowley is prominently displayed on the Beatles Sgt Pepper's Album as one of their heroes. Jimmy Page of Led Zepplin owns Crowley's old house on Lock Ness.
On an aside. There was a man called John Dee, he was the spiritual advisor ot Queen Elizabeth I. Maybe we can discover something about the old queen from what he taught her. What advice he gave. To begin with, the Rosicrucians claimed Mr. Dee as a member. Hmmm, now that is odd. He is believed to be the father of Enochian Magic. It is a form of ritual magic used to command spirits. I guess we know what he taught the Queen of England. The same queen that was fundamental in creating The Church of England.
The point of all this is how little people know or recognize the extent of occultists in their everyday lives and in history. We read that Washington was a Mason; but, do we even begin to understand what that means? Especially at the time.
I have a little time so we will continue down this thread. A big lover of Aleister Crowley was a man named Kenneth Anger. This guy is a crack up. Mr. Anger was friends with Jimmy Page (the one that owns Crowley's house), Mick Jagger and Anton LeVey (the founder of the Church of Satan).
Mr. Anger made "avant-garde" films since 1937. He was the first openly gay director in America. Martin Scorcese, David Lynch and John Waters all consider him an important influence. Mr. Angers may be best known for his film "Lucifer Rising". Mr. Anger was also friends with Alfred Kinsey. You may remember Mr. Kinsey, the Kinsey report on sex. If you read the link to Mr. Anger you saw a picture of Crowley on the wall behind Anger and Kinsey.
Look, Anger and Kinsey thought the world of Crowley. Crowley was a proponent of Sex Magick and Kinsey is known to have been a proponent of orgies involving his own wife and students. But, this is not about Kinsey, more interested in Mr. Anger for the moment.
Mr. Anger's film, Lucifer Rising, stars a man he found who he thought could become Satan (in the film). The man was Bobby Beausoleil. Beausoleil became famous as a member of the Manson family and is currently serving a life sentence for murder.
This is just funny. Recently I was in Vegas. We went to check out the new Aria casino, just to see it. My daughter noticed that on one of the walls was a outline drawing of a man with a goat and not in a nice way. Poor goat. Anyways, the same symbolism is present in the film Lucifer Rising. It appears to be a greek or Roman inspired drawing, same as we say at the casino. I am not sure what the meaning is.
YouTube has the film, it takes about 30 minutes to watch. I don't recommend it; but, I notify you of it. The film is basically the story of Isis and Osiris creating Lucifer who calls forth flying saucers. If you understand occultism, you will understand the imagery. Basically, Isis and Osiris, Osiris died and was cut up into pieces, Isis finds all but one piece, puts him together and builds him a phallus, has sex with it and births Horus.
An interview with Mr. Anger
You might notice that Mr. Anger refers to Sir Paul Getty as his benefactor, the person who paid him to make films. J. Paul Getty, the Getty museum. Yeah. Getty was the owner of Getty Oil. The Getty Museum has one of the largest collection of writings by the most famous Mason in the world, Manly P. Hall.
Kenneth Anger also wrote a book called "Hollywood Babylon". The book exposed what occurred in Hollywood during the silent years. He says he has written Hollywood Babylon III; but, that he hasn't published because it talks about Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology and he is afraid of being sued.
Well, I hope you enjoyed my ramblings. No real point, no real purpose, just taking a day of and reading and writing. I should point out how I became aware of Mr. Anger. I lived in LA during the Manson murders. I lived close to where he did. I found out about Bobby Beausoleil while reading about Manson. That is how I found out about Mr. Anger. I have also read that some suspect Bobby of being the Zodiac Killer, although personally I greatly doubt that.
Zodiac Killer. If you go to www.zodiackiller.com you can read the forums and see how some suspect a Manson-Zodiac connection. Again, I don't think it is there. We might as well follow one more thread. Anton LeVey, the founder of the Church of Satan and friend of Kenneth Anger. Mr. LeVey had a follower named Michael Aquino, I mentioned him before in a prior post. Mr. Aquino worked out of the Presidio and worked on PsyOps for the military. Colonel Aquino left the church of Satan and founded the Temple of Set, another Satanist organization. The connection, the Zodiac Killers last confirmed kill was just outside of the Presidio where Zodiac hid while the cops drove by.
I don't suspect Col. Aquino of being the Zodiac Killer. I have no reason to. I have always suspected that Zodiac was a military person stationed at the Presidio and have wondered if he tried to join the Church of Satan. My thoughts on this matter are not substantially different than those of some police at the time. The police have long held the belief that Zodiac was in the Navy. As far as I know they never found any evidence to prove such a idea.
Well that is my babbling for the day. A history of some rather odd characters, some of whom are still around. Funny how they all managed to connect to one another. One last thing, don't tell me that occultism is only in California or DC, it is very prevalent in the midwest and south. They tend towards paganism and wicca, look it up and see where they are the most popular. Farmers you know have always tended that way.
Mr. Crowley referred to himself as 666 or The Beast. Now one of his friends and adherents was Jack Parsons. Mr. Parsons took over the leadership of the OTO and was the founder of the Jet Propulsion Lab, this is why the rockets had the names of greek gods. He would invoke the greek gods before each rocket was launched.
Now Mr. Parsons was good buddies with L. Ron Hubbard. Now Mr. Hubbard worked on occult rituals with Mr. Parsons, married Parsons wife and founded the Church of Scientology. All were believers in Sex Magick.
L. Ron Hubbard later married Mary Sue Whipp. Mary Sue Hubbard was found guilty of getting a Scientology member to join the IRS in order to steal documents to use against the IRS.
Do you find any of this odd? I do. They didn't teach us the real history of the space program. I remember the Mercury and Apollo flights, nobody mentioned that they were thus named because the head of JPL was a Satanist. I didn't hear that in school.
While reading about the history of Jack Parsons and Crowley is interesting, the bigger issue is how come people are so unaware of our history. If you begin to investigate Crowley you meet some really odd ducks. Mr. Crowley is prominently displayed on the Beatles Sgt Pepper's Album as one of their heroes. Jimmy Page of Led Zepplin owns Crowley's old house on Lock Ness.
On an aside. There was a man called John Dee, he was the spiritual advisor ot Queen Elizabeth I. Maybe we can discover something about the old queen from what he taught her. What advice he gave. To begin with, the Rosicrucians claimed Mr. Dee as a member. Hmmm, now that is odd. He is believed to be the father of Enochian Magic. It is a form of ritual magic used to command spirits. I guess we know what he taught the Queen of England. The same queen that was fundamental in creating The Church of England.
The point of all this is how little people know or recognize the extent of occultists in their everyday lives and in history. We read that Washington was a Mason; but, do we even begin to understand what that means? Especially at the time.
I have a little time so we will continue down this thread. A big lover of Aleister Crowley was a man named Kenneth Anger. This guy is a crack up. Mr. Anger was friends with Jimmy Page (the one that owns Crowley's house), Mick Jagger and Anton LeVey (the founder of the Church of Satan).
Mr. Anger made "avant-garde" films since 1937. He was the first openly gay director in America. Martin Scorcese, David Lynch and John Waters all consider him an important influence. Mr. Angers may be best known for his film "Lucifer Rising". Mr. Anger was also friends with Alfred Kinsey. You may remember Mr. Kinsey, the Kinsey report on sex. If you read the link to Mr. Anger you saw a picture of Crowley on the wall behind Anger and Kinsey.
Look, Anger and Kinsey thought the world of Crowley. Crowley was a proponent of Sex Magick and Kinsey is known to have been a proponent of orgies involving his own wife and students. But, this is not about Kinsey, more interested in Mr. Anger for the moment.
Mr. Anger's film, Lucifer Rising, stars a man he found who he thought could become Satan (in the film). The man was Bobby Beausoleil. Beausoleil became famous as a member of the Manson family and is currently serving a life sentence for murder.
This is just funny. Recently I was in Vegas. We went to check out the new Aria casino, just to see it. My daughter noticed that on one of the walls was a outline drawing of a man with a goat and not in a nice way. Poor goat. Anyways, the same symbolism is present in the film Lucifer Rising. It appears to be a greek or Roman inspired drawing, same as we say at the casino. I am not sure what the meaning is.
YouTube has the film, it takes about 30 minutes to watch. I don't recommend it; but, I notify you of it. The film is basically the story of Isis and Osiris creating Lucifer who calls forth flying saucers. If you understand occultism, you will understand the imagery. Basically, Isis and Osiris, Osiris died and was cut up into pieces, Isis finds all but one piece, puts him together and builds him a phallus, has sex with it and births Horus.
An interview with Mr. Anger
You might notice that Mr. Anger refers to Sir Paul Getty as his benefactor, the person who paid him to make films. J. Paul Getty, the Getty museum. Yeah. Getty was the owner of Getty Oil. The Getty Museum has one of the largest collection of writings by the most famous Mason in the world, Manly P. Hall.
Kenneth Anger also wrote a book called "Hollywood Babylon". The book exposed what occurred in Hollywood during the silent years. He says he has written Hollywood Babylon III; but, that he hasn't published because it talks about Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology and he is afraid of being sued.
Well, I hope you enjoyed my ramblings. No real point, no real purpose, just taking a day of and reading and writing. I should point out how I became aware of Mr. Anger. I lived in LA during the Manson murders. I lived close to where he did. I found out about Bobby Beausoleil while reading about Manson. That is how I found out about Mr. Anger. I have also read that some suspect Bobby of being the Zodiac Killer, although personally I greatly doubt that.
Zodiac Killer. If you go to www.zodiackiller.com you can read the forums and see how some suspect a Manson-Zodiac connection. Again, I don't think it is there. We might as well follow one more thread. Anton LeVey, the founder of the Church of Satan and friend of Kenneth Anger. Mr. LeVey had a follower named Michael Aquino, I mentioned him before in a prior post. Mr. Aquino worked out of the Presidio and worked on PsyOps for the military. Colonel Aquino left the church of Satan and founded the Temple of Set, another Satanist organization. The connection, the Zodiac Killers last confirmed kill was just outside of the Presidio where Zodiac hid while the cops drove by.
I don't suspect Col. Aquino of being the Zodiac Killer. I have no reason to. I have always suspected that Zodiac was a military person stationed at the Presidio and have wondered if he tried to join the Church of Satan. My thoughts on this matter are not substantially different than those of some police at the time. The police have long held the belief that Zodiac was in the Navy. As far as I know they never found any evidence to prove such a idea.
Well that is my babbling for the day. A history of some rather odd characters, some of whom are still around. Funny how they all managed to connect to one another. One last thing, don't tell me that occultism is only in California or DC, it is very prevalent in the midwest and south. They tend towards paganism and wicca, look it up and see where they are the most popular. Farmers you know have always tended that way.
Rosicrucian Mysticism
I found this video produced by the Rosicrucians. If you watch it you will hear their leader describe what I posted last.
Rosicrucian Mysticism
Rosicrucian Mysticism
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