Monday, September 12, 2005

Open your mind’s eye

   It can appear mind boggling to grasp how blind some people can be, they see things in front of there eyes yet they still would deny that there is something right there in front of them. Have you ever been in that situation? You may feel like your being the one-eyed person  in the land of the blind. In the end you don’t know what to say anymore, as there are no ears around comprehending  what you say ,the listener(s) will simply make up their own explanation in their delusional and deprived mind of what your trying to show them . And get the thing they thought up thrown back at you, and they will say that this is what your trying to say . no point in  arguing  then is there?

     This phenomena is happening everywhere, but it appears more fixated in organizations and larger groups. Some appear to have sucked into some kind of ideology so much that they are completely unable to take any kind of exterior viewpoint towards there own group, not even towards issues outside of that group. What you get is agreements, some kind of secret possibly, unspoken code of behaviors that  are not to be questioned. You can say what  you want, you can do what you want also point out what you need, but it is entirely useless. You get the impression they created some kind of filter around them, and anything that goes through there gets distorted in some way. The terrible mind barrier but they themselves do not see it this way! They are convinced that they are in full control. You can’t reach these individuals, they are totally convinced they are right, and indeed they may even been right. But any criticism uttered, any question which may somehow appear contradicting or questioning the adopted rule can be met with indeed very hostile responses. You are almost instantly regarded as an enemy, you’ve become someone who is standing on the other side. And indeed you may be treated as such. You may get sneered at or ridiculed, you may get remarks that are aimed to clarify that you do not belong to the mentally very bright ones, you may get threatened with expulsion or you may even be excommunicated.

     There seems to be fear involved. But Fear of what? Are people afraid of being proven wrong? Afraid of not belonging  to some group? To stand alone? Why should one fear that? If you can’t express yourself as you feel or not ask  the questions, the other members of the group do not take kindly, then are you in actual fact in an actual group? In such a group you would be standing alone any way, it’s just a sham. what is the value of such a group if you only receive their support if you continuously say yes and amen to what the group adopted as their dogma? Should one not be allowed to learn and grow in one’s understanding? How can one come to any kind of true understanding if he can’t question things from time to time?

     We all know about the book burns in Nazi Germany. Even in the Catholic circles they also have this practice of having a forbidden books list. And if you find yourself in some kind of organization, club or any other small or larger group you will come across some ridicules senseless  rules of the  do and don’ts. Naturally we should live by some rules, but they should not limit or stand in the way of our development and our understanding of things. Rules like “Thou shall not kill” are pretty obvious. But forbidding people to read some book? Off course we can give some advice about some particular book, and then it’s up to the individual to do as he believes is right for him

     We also do remember senator Joseph McCarthy who started to hunt down supposed communists during the mid-1950’s with rather scandalous methods. History passed this on to us as McCarthyism. It is not so very different from all those thousands people who were tortured and burned for supposedly having signed a treaty with the devil during the dark middle ages. This was not a very long time  ago, are we so much different now? Are we still seeing witches flying on their broomsticks to the Sabbath?

     The purpose of any information is that it will add to your knowledge and understanding. If you understand you can easily categorize information. You may say: “Hmm, this is useful. And that I can skip. But I don’t know about this, hmm, I want to know more about that, let’s check if I can find out some more about that.” But you do have to watch out, to be able to remain objective you have to analyze the information, you have to categorize it, you also have to be willing to consult contrary information as well, that is if there is any around. Sometimes the best way to find faults in your own conclusions about things is simply to honestly look at what those who criticize you have to say, this will give you some kind of exterior viewpoint. You surely should look upon that with a critical eye, but do remain objective, take it in a new dimension of time! We also have to watch persuasive writers. It may sound right in the way some information may be formulated, but this does not necessarily make it true! And sometimes sources for information have been given, and they may be false, and they may be misinterpreted by the writer as well. So please do watch out, check your information. Don’t be like those who lost their objectivity and have no exterior viewpoint left. What is important though, is what you do with the information. Don’t let anyone tell you what works for you !

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Atlantis Vs. The Bible

Alas Atlantis! Ancient fount of a thousand tales ,yet legend has it that it still  lies sleeping beneath the ocean waves, waiting for her time when one day she will  rise again. If the legends written about her were half true, then Atlantis was at once magnificent beyond imaginings, and wicked beyond redemption. Fêted by Plato, reviled, nameless and unwanted in the Bible, yet described in cunning detail by Cayce, Atlantis emerges as a microcosm of the human condition, of the best and worst mankind has to offer.

All together, all the references in Plato, the Bible and Edgar Cayce make it obvious that Atlantis was at once both the center and the monarch of the antediluvian world. Located  in the middle of the Atlantic, Atlantis had easy access to both the eastern and the western hemispheres since it joined  them together . She likely controlled world trade with her powerful navy, dominated the world with her technologically advanced armies, and nearly conquered the world with her boundless ambitions.

The kings of Atlantis were no mere mortals, but giants, both physically and intellectually, semi-divine beings that considered frail mankind to be food for their controlling ambitions. These children of Belial tried to destroy the perfect seed that God had created, the Sons of the Law of One, but failed, due to the endless, bloody warfare with their other giant brethren around the world, the greatest of which, according to Plato were the Athenians. The Athenians were likely also giants, the offspring of the goddess Athene, which explains why they were able to defend against the Atlanteans where all else had failed.
 

These semi-divine giants were the children of a mysterious race of divine beings who, in the earliest times of Earth’s history, had come down to Earth in order to rule over it. These “fallen angels” had created a race of proto-humans, some of which were gigantic in size, as a race of workers that they used to accomplish this task. God, who was in conflict with these fallen angels, did not want this, and created Adam — man as we know him today — in order to destroy and replace the inferior and wicked creations of the fallen angels. However, instead of destroying the creations of the fallen angels, Adam and Eve instead were apparently enticed into intermarrying with them. In this interpretation, the two “trees” in the Garden of Eden account were not literal trees, but symbolized the two different DNAs of these two divergent races of mankind. Thus, by interbreeding with the giants, symbolically “eating the apple” from “The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”, Adam and Eve spoiled their pure genetic seed, “The Tree of Life”, by mixing it with that of the inferior creations of the fallen angels. As a result, they and their descendants were estranged from God, as they were now consorting with God’s enemies, the fallen angels and their giant offspring, the nephilim. Ever since that time, these “two seeds”, “the seed of the woman”, and “the seed of the serpent”, have struggled for dominance over the Earth, used as proxies in the ongoing war between God and the fallen angels.

For a time these two seeds, whom Cayce referred to as the Sons of the Law of One and the children of Belial, dwelt together in relative peace on the island of Atlantis and elsewhere, apparently intermarrying with each other even though this had been forbidden by God. Together they developed a high degree of technological prowess, to the point where they could travel equally well by air, land or sea, transmit information over long distances, and also transmit energy over long distances, either for constructive or destructive purposes, much like today. Whereas for a time the children of Belial dwelt peaceably with the Sons of the Law of One, their lust for power soon took over, and they separated from the Sons of the Law of One and began to focus more and more on developing military technologies in order to conquer the world. Refusing to cooperate, the Sons of the Law of One began to emigrate to colonies around the world, using their technology to help mankind, instead of enslaving and destroying them as the children of Belial sought to do. The children of Belial developed their technologies to the point where they could actually tap into the volcanic forces deep beneath the earth, and developed methods of causing earthquakes in diverse places in order to discomfit their enemies. This also weakened the magma 

pressure beneath the island of Atlantis, however, and as a result, much of the island sank beneath the waves of the Atlantic. This was the First Great Destruction of Atlantis.

Thousands of years passed as the Atlanteans rebuilt their shattered civilization, and the children of Belial repented of their warlike ways for a time. However, over thousands of years memories of the First Destruction of Atlantis faded, and the children of Belial again tried to take over the world, causing the Second Great Destruction of Atlantis, around 50,000 b.c. Many thousand of years passed, and the children of Belial took more care in handling their technology until around 9500 b.c., when their warmaking resulted in the Third Great Destruction of Atlantis, when the remaining islands of Atlantis sunk below the waves.

This final destruction was not completely the result of the world war that was raging just before the Flood, however. Apparently God saw that it was necessary to intervene before the Earth became so polluted that it would become uninhabitable. The Earth, already greatly polluted by the weapons of the Nephilim — which Cayce intimated were nuclear in nature — had to be cleansed, so God sent a Flood to destroy and bury the antediluvian world, save a precious few of the Law of One that were still genetically pure. God accomplished this by sending an angel to Noah with instructions on how to build an ark and, once this was accomplished, he instructed the archangels to hurl rocks down on the Earth, destroying Atlantis and Athens “in a single day and night”. These massive asteroids, besides causing massive earthquakes, caused huge tidal waves to drown the coastlands and also threw up massive amounts of water into the atmosphere, which rained down over the entire earth for 40 days and 40 nights. As a result, the entire surface was flooded for 150 days, and the entire antediluvian world was buried under hundreds of feet of sediment — purified from the pollution of the Nephilim and from the Nephilim themselves. Only Noah and his family survived to repopulate the Earth, though the spirits of the dead Nephilim, it is said, still roam the Earth, tormenting mankind. And what happened to the fallen angels? The archangels had been ordered to specifically target them with the huge rocks they threw down on Earth, burying them in the low places of the Earth, the abyssal plains underneath the oceans — exactly where the Azores — the remnants of legendary Atlantis — are located.

This brings us full circle in our study of legendary Atlantis. Cayce and others have said that Atlantis would one day rise again, at the time of the end when the Pyramid of Records near the Sphinx would be opened and the records of Atlantis’ history from the foundation to its final destruction would be revealed. Cayce makes it clear, however, that the Pyramid of Records cannot be opened until Atlantis rises. To this end, at the time of the end the Bible says that an angel that had fallen to earth — one of the fallen angels who had created the Nephilim — would be given the key to the Abyss which, according to the Book of Enoch, is where the angels Semjaza and Azazel had been buried by the archangels. This, is course, refers to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the lowest place on Earth, over which the Azores are located. Obviously, the Abyss, which is also associated with the deep sea in the biblical accounts, is the mid-Atlantic ridge, specifically, the area around the Azores plateau, which we have determined was the site of legendary Atlantis. Therefore, the fallen angel will be allowed to raise Atlantis once more.

Somehow, Atlantis, the Sphinx, and the Apocalypse are all inextricably linked. But what is the “key”? We know that the war between God and the fallen angels will break out again into open warfare at the time of the end, as it is clearly outlined in the Book of Revelation. At this time, God once again will direct the archangels to hurl rocks down upon wicked mankind, just as he did at the time of Noah, when the Nephilim were running rampant and polluting and destroying the Earth. When Jesus described how things would be at the time of the end, saying “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man”. ( Matt. 24:37), he knew that the Nephilim would be on the Earth again, up to their old tricks, giving man technology so that they could fight one another. However, this time, one group will be allowed to win and take over the Earth for a period of time, as this time God is coming to Earth to take over for good, and permanently imprison the fallen angels. The fallen angels will therefore work together to provide a unified defense. To accomplish this, just before the Apocalypse, mankind will be raised to a high level of technology in order to create “wonder weapons” that the fallen angels will use in a desperate last-ditch defense against the Second Coming. It is no coincidence that the Book of Revelation is rife with descriptions of world war, and of rocks thrown down to earth by the archangels, as they had done it once before, at the time of Noah.

So here we are, at a time of high technology, at the brink of world war, when the Nephilim appear to be on Earth once more. Soon, perhaps already, the final conquest and consolidation of Earth will begin once again, accomplished with wonder weapons of a technology level not seen on Earth since before the Flood. Already some areas of the Earth that may hold the key to unlocking Atlantis — and the not-so-pleasant characters that were buried with it — have been liberated. Perhaps a latter-day Nimrod will arise and find the key to unlock the secrets of Atlantis, and the details about humanity’s origins. That day may be a day of great hope and enlightenment — or perhaps a great day of fear and terror, the likes of which the world has not seen since the beginning. One thing is for sure, for good or for ill, Atlantis is rising again.

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Sunday, September 11, 2005

Type A personality

If we look up the word confusion we may find the following :-

  • disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably
  • a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior
  • a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused
  • an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended
  • a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another 

but above all it is just a human emotion that leads to a faulty action , eg. Wrongfully accusing people , being quick in passing judgment , and labeling people , this actions in turn show a negative side of a person’s personality , this type of confused people have what’s known as Type A personality , so just What is the type A personality, fundamentally?

 

Two personality types were developed by the psychological profession in order to define people’s behaviors. Each of these two types has a set of criteria by which those who belong to one type or the other are discovered. These types are type A, the strict and rigid, perfectionistic type and type B, the relaxed individual’s personality type. The type A personality is a very flat personality, very strict. Fundamentally this personality grows out of having had to earn acceptance rather than being bestowed with it unconditionally. This person as a child was probably given conditional love, had a role model who was raised on conditional love or both. There was a standard to be met and if it was met there was acceptance and reward; if the standard wasn’t met then there was neither reward nor acceptance.

Let’s look at type A people in more detail.

Type A folks have major issues around three key areas: time, money and dirt.

Type A’s and Issues surrounding time.

Type A people have limitless problems with time. Type A’s need to be on time, they need to avoid running out of time, they need to have a watch or clock handy so they can measure time, they invest time, measure the value of time spent and time left available. These folks have issues with deadlines, as they are restricting, yet they feel they must have them and they must be met. Time is a tool for measuring and a means of limiting, confining and defining. As such, time is important to someone who has always had to meet standards and deadlines for acceptance.

Issues with money.

Type A people have esteem issues, as they don’t base their value on solid ground but rather on meeting standards. As such, rather than by their inherent value as people, they value themselves and what they do by money. What’s it worth, what did it cost, how much do they earn, have and spend? They spend or give money as a way of showing love or affection. It is their empowerment and security. In relationships there is a medium of exchange and of acceptance with others and it is money.

Issues with dirt.

As the type A individual is perfectionist and of low self esteem they don’t want to have any association with dirt. Getting dirty makes them feel cheap and worthless. They need neat surroundings.

Remission.

Something like remission or over compensation can occur in which the type A personality may swing to the extreme opposite to cope. They may give away money to show they can, get dirty or do dirty jobs to confront their fears and may throw caution about time to the wind to set themselves free. Still you can see that they still are tied heavily to these issues.

Emotions.

Type A personalities may deny emotion or not know they have any. They may feel guilty for having or showing emotions as this would take them away from the source of real value for them which is to meet standards like a perfectly performing machine.

certainly this is the over all view of type A personality , some variations are present.

You can tell by people’s behave your , like jumping to conclusion , trying to shine desperately , trying to stand up and raise there voice in craving attention , not valuating what they say at the moment of anger. 

Remember , type A personality is not confined to a specific standard , people who are like that could very well be PhD professors , or doctors in the medical field as well.

So you have to ask your self , are you a type A personality statistic, and if you are what should you do about it , it’s not a shameful thing to realize one’s flaws and try to fix it , after all , to be faulty is just to be human.The image “http://www.zacharyparker.com/Personality.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

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Saturday, September 10, 2005

IRON MAN

Real Name: Anthony Stark

First Appearance: Tales of Suspense #39 (1963)

Height: 6,1

Weight: 225 lbs.

Eye color : Blue

Hair color: Black

Powers/Weapons:-

  • Super human strength and durability due to armor
  • Genius-level intellect
  • Flight via jet-boots
  • Chest-mounted uni-beam
  • Repulsor blasts in gauntlets

He is the son of a wealthy industrialist, Tony Stark was an inventive mechanical engineering prodigy. Inherited his father’s business at the age of 21 , turned the company to the world’s leading weapons manufacturers (Stark international) .

Testing a battle armor in Asia , he was struck by a piece of shrapnel and taken hostage by the war lord Wong-Chu and ordered to create a weapon of mass-destruction in return he would receive the operation needed to save his life.

Imprisoned with the Nobel prize winner in the physics field Dr. Ho Yinsen , they worked on an exoskeleton , equated with heavy weaponry, Yinsen also designed the armor to sustain Anthony’s wounded heart. Dr. Yinsen died to give Anthony time to charge the armor to escape.

After overpowering the warlord’s army , Anthony came back to the USA and redesigned the suit. And inventing the story that Iron Man is his bodyguard, he developed a double identity life , he even found The Avengers, and became the team’s sponsor.

Unfortunately he must wear the breastplate of the armor at all times to prevent farther damage to his hart from the irremovable piece of shrapnel, he is also a recovering alcoholic .

Iron man’s enemies have taken a variety of forms , from would be world conquerors and corporate rivals to super-villains and foreign agents who have emulated or stolen his technology. As iron man’s opponents and needs have changed, so has the hero’s armor,  one suit in particular was so advanced that it gained sentience and attempted to replace Stark as iron man , armed only with his wits , Stark severely damaged the artificially intelligent Sentient Armor. Seeking to die like a man , to know the meaning of sacrifice, the suit self terminated  leaving it’s creator with a new mechanical heart fashioned from its power source.

Growing to feel more responsible for the use of his company’s technology , he wanted to stop making weapons , and so he broke off his company’s relationship with the U.S government by refusing to manufacture any weapons and instead turned his interest to technology that would enhance human life , and established many charity and foundations . upon reaching this new level of maturity Stark then revealed to the world that he is iron man and lifted the weight of his double life of his shoulder and becoming a public hero
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CB Radio

(CB) stands for Citizens’ band radio It is a form of communication , using radio waves on a 40 channel system within the single 27 MHz (11 meter) band , how ever The CB radio service should not be confused with FRS, GMRS or amateur radio . Because un like most of the previous CB does not require a license ( I don?t know if you need one in this country , how know every thing is so backwards that you really don?t know if the same rules that apply to the rest of the world applies to this country!) and unlike amateur radio, CB may be used for commercial communication.

the US government formed The citizens’ band radio service in 1945. it thought that its citizens should be permitted a short-distance radio band for personal communication.(constitutional rights) and so it took off the 11-meter band off amateur radio service for the Citizen’s band.

the CB market prospered in the 1970?s , cost of production was reduced and every body started getting one , and so this lead to many CB clubs were being formed and a special CB slang language evolved.

many people that owned a CB radio had nicknames k known as “handles”. The use of handles instead of call signs is related to the common practice of using the radios to warn other drivers of speed-traps set by the police to capture speeding truck drivers , so you could be driving over the speed limit when your buddy calls you up and says something like ? dude , slow down there is a patrol car hiding behind a tree waiting to take you down for speeding , just up 3 km? and so responding you roger his call and avoid the annoying pigs.

The early CB radios sold for mobile use in the US had only 23 channels and almost all were AM only, although single sideband was also allowed. In 1977, an additional 17 channels were added for a total of 40 channels, to relieve some of the overcrowding on the original 23 channels. Channel 9 was reserved for emergency use. Channel 19 for weather forecast information 24hrs became the most popular channel, especially among truck drivers.

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s a phenomenon was developing over the CB radio. Similar to the Internet chat rooms a quarter century later, the CB allowed people to get to know one another in a quasi-anonymous manner. Many movies and stories about CBers and the culture on-the-air developed. In more recent years CB has been losing its appeal. This could be because of introduction of mobile phones, the Internet, Family Radio Service and the declining quality in long-distance radio wave propagation due to the 11 year Sunspot cycle.

PS: i have 2 CB radios :-
The Cobra 29ltd classic
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Sunday, September 4, 2005

The History of Paintball

In the year 1970 the first paintball gun was made , by a man named James Hale that worked in a place known as Daisy Manufacturing.

Paintball guns then became manufactured and used by farmers to put marks on trees and livestock ( since some people thought branding the poor animals was cruel)

the actual game of paint ball officially started on May 1981  New Hampshire, U.S.A. , it was the brilliant idea of 3 men :-

1.      Bob Gurnsey

2.      Hayes Noel

3.      Charles Gaines

Surprisingly enough all 3 had legitimate jobs and were not adrenalin junkies or freaks (what are the odds of that !)

Bob Gurnsey, was a sporting goods retailer , Hayes Noel, a stockbroker and Charles Gaines, wasa writer.

Soon after on June 27, 1981 the first paint ball game was played it consisted of 12 players competing against each other in a game of capture the flag , surprisingly the guy that won the game captured all flags without firing a single shot! , as for the marker ( the name used to describe a paintball gun) used in this game was nothing fancy but a Nel-spot 007 pistols.

A guy by the name of Caleb Strong thought it would be a good idea to take this game from being an indoors sport to becoming an outdoorsy one , sure enough in  1982  Rochester, N.Y , The first outdoor playing field was opened.

Charles Gaines  started marketing the game as the National Survival Game (NSG) (not paintball) , soon after a company by the name Pursuit Marketing Inc.(PMI) started triad by marketing  and distributing  paintball products.

It was not until  1983 at the first NSG National Championship held with a $14,000 cash purse that the game franchised to Canada and the first outdoor paintball fields opened in Toronto, Canada.

And  in 1984
Paintball franchised in Australia as well , but became known under the name of  Skirmish Games
how ever finally on November 1984 in Buffalo, N.Y. The first indoor playing field opened by Caleb Strong ( you know the guy that thought it would be a good idea to play outside)

In 1985 England decided to join in and the first outdoor playing field was opened



As the game grow ever so popular , a set of firm rules was to be established , to insure a safe and fair game so sure enough in  1988 the International Painball Players Association (IPPA) was founded as a non-profit association dedicated to the education, growth and safety of paintball.

1991 was the year that the game boomed all over Europe , in major countries like France, Denmark and others.

The National Professional Paintball League (NPPL) was finally established in the USA in 1992-1993 started the NPPL Pro-Am Series with sites around the U.S.

It was in 1996 that the game truly reached universal status when fields sprang up all over the world in countries like : Mexico Scotland Denmark Holland Italy Norway Sweden Africa Russia New Zealand Brazil Venezuela Philippines Germany Austria Ireland Belgium Greece Israel Korea Thailand.

Finally in 1998-1999 ( officially as the website said 2000) that it came to Kuwait , in the form of an out door field , located directly behind aqua park and close to the Kuwait towers ,  

Paintball Kuwait
Operating Hours: 
9:00am to 10:00pm daily

I highly recommend it , so boys and girls of all ages get out there and have some fun , be safe and remember it’s Paintball - the war you’d love to fight

so keep your head down fall in and Move out because it’s GO TIME! Go , Go , Go !  - Time to get some

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