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Solar eruption “mistaken for UFO refeuling from the sun”..
Or was it a UFO………
Darkness falls.
The visions are coming..
Dreams are illuminating across bedrooms around the time zone that sleeps.
Good evening. Hope the sounds of silence in your neck of the woods are deafening..
"My childhood in 4 minutes"
And mine too.
Bravo.
Yes, there were primaries again tonight.. Mitt Romney won son, Rick Santorum, too.. Newt was in there. And yes there were more arguments and battles over birth control.. and KONY2012.. and all that other stuff. And lots of people were killed in Syria.. and lots of places.
But I looked to the sky in the midst of the chaos on earth.. and saw a brightly shining moon and a seemingly brighter Jupiter. This after a warm sunny day… the day shifted to night.. and magic seemed to be busy filling the early spring skies…
When you look to the sky, the reality of the ground shatters into pieces..melts away.. There is magic, after all, in looking at the sky.
We seem so small. We are small.
And sadly our actions on this planet are even smaller..
Must watch video from TED of Larry Smith on why we do not pursue our dreams and why we will fail at our careers.
The topic sounds interesting. Monsters. One of my favorite topics about American history.. monsters in our own history — mythical and real.
Looks like Punnutt will talk on the the fictitious.
Salem witches, frontier wilderness beasts, freak show oddities, alien invasions, and Freddie Krueger. From our colonial past to the present, the monster in all its various forms has been a staple of U.S. culture. Professor of History Scott Poole joins Ian Punnett for a discussion of the dark obsessions that have helped create America’s national identity.
This audio version of Toad the Wet Sprocket WALK ON THE OCEAN being chosen tonight for a few reasons..
Trust in your family and friends.. love one another. Life is speeding by like a train about to derail.. the only thing we have to fear is not fear itself, but instead the lack of love in our world.
If there is a God then love matters.. and if there is no God then what else BUT love could matter. We’d only be here for a brief blip in history.. may as well love your neighbor as yourself. And try loving yourself more, too..
Good evening.
We spotted the ocean at the head of the trail
Where are we going, so far away
And somebody told me that this is the place
Where everythings better, everythings safe
Walk on the ocean
Step on the stones
Flesh becomes water
Wood becomes bone
And half and hour later we packed up our things
We said wed send letters and all those little things
And they knew we were lying but they smiled just the same
It seemed theyd already forgotten wed came
Now were back at the homestead
Where the air makes you choke
And people dont know you
And trust is a joke
We dont even have pictures
Just memories to hold
That grow sweeter each season
As we slowly grow old
And into the great depths of the unknown you shall go. Into the light, or into a jungle. The future isn’t sure.. and neither is an afterlife. Clearly though the here and now matters to you, and the here and now is emotional and real. So if this is real, so must be the unknown, too.
—Unknown
But what is known is what it means.
The news from Pennsylvania’s Crapitol just continues to befuddle all who watch it..
DETAILS REVEALED: US SOLDIER GOES ON HOUSE-TO-HOUSE MURDER RAMPAGE IN AFGHANISTAN
*GRAPHIC IMAGES*
This is troubling.. Very troubling. It makes the Koran burning look tame. A soldier, maybe drunk according to some reports, and mentally breaking down according to others, goes on a house-to-house rampage. Killing innocent children and men and women in combat happens.. but people sleeping? People living their meager lives? And they succumb to death due to ..what? I guess we will find out the story in more detail. But until then I may have had enough detail for my own good..
A blast from the past: Reagan vs. RFK.
The debate that never ends?
The more things change the more they stay the same..
Ayden slept swell. I did, too. His fever is gone and two brand new teeth are out. And it is bright for 8am. Wait.. didn’t set the clock ahead yet.
As for news? It’s ugly.
Fifteen Afghan civilians were shot by an American soldier in Kandahar province Sunday, with seven of them feared dead, the provincial government said.
AP photographer sees 15 bodies of Afghans that villagers allege were killed by American service member ..
A year later: Japan’s emperor leads nation’s mourning as Tokyo comes to a halt in memory of the tsunami, earthquake and nuclear…
Strange explosions continue in Arizona..Progress in the world of consumer rights! Campbells bans BPA!
At least 90 Iraqi teenagers with “emo” appearances have been stoned to death by religious extremists in Baghdad in the past month after an inflammatory interior ministry statement dubbed it “devil worshiping”, activists said
Pink slime panic growing online..
But MSNBC asks if we are overreacting to the goo and gump that is in burger meat mostly fast foods, and mostly school lunches)..
It’s funny to me that about five years ago pink slime was described in all its gory detail .. full disclosure on this already happened.
The movie and book: FOOD INC. And it was a triumph of good journalism, good documentary, and muckraking.
Sadly it took five years for people to wonder.. what the hell is pink slime and why does my fast food burger have it in!?
A little easy going Saturday night tune.. hopefully setting the stage for whatever you want to do this night. Drinking… stinking… linking. Whatever your heart desires… just love.. give your life to your love as well. Drown in the laughter—die in the arms of the one who cares for you the most. Good evening everyone. Enjoy life. Solar storms and all.
Unbelievable cool images of the Northern Lights spawned by this week of solar mayhem..
How could chaos be this beautiful?
Saturday night.. My wife Tara away in Jersey. Ayden sleeping on the floor next to me with a fever and new teeth coming in. Me not tired.. But thankfully I can look at it this way: Ayden didn’t go to bed at 7:30 pm. he went to bed at 8:30. Right? ..
Finally down to earth? Harold Camping says his prediction(s) of rapture was a mistake..
Wonder who out there among his followers that lost everything and abandoned cars and jobs also think it was a mistake?
Sadly the cult epic we saw last year happened—with people literally crying in their back yards because they were not raptured from the earth and taken to heaven. But who is to say heaven is up anyway.
Maybe heaven is a place on, or in, earth..
Who is afraid of airplaines?
New jobs?
Success?
Failure…
Who is just afraid?
And how does one beat fear?
Good evening all…And goodnight to those who are giving up on the darkness.
I have been having a series of interesting discussions recently with some friends.. One is a Christian who has faith she says is unwavering, no matter what evidence may appear to the contrary. The other is an atheist who had unwavering faith that nothing of a God exists and instead it’s a fairy tale told by countless civilizations.
And then there is me.. the man in the middle who wants to hear both arguments and desperately find meaning to what I can only see as sometimes meaningless, sometimes pointless, sometimes beautiful.. and all the time confusing.
No doubt, you have heard each side’s arguments before. The person of ‘faith’ takes the Bible literally—but forgets the slavery and injustice to women—believes in a 6000 year earth, a flood, Adam and Eve.. and literal translations mean those pesky fossils are just .. well, forget about them. And as for the atheist, that argument is clear as well. The Bible is comical and cannot be regarded as anything but the rantings of frauds, fakes, and men of trickery. Jesus didn’t exist.. Nothing really does.
And again, me.
Where do I fall on these arguments?
I find myself applauding the atheist in his quest for science and the truth. I find myself frankly envious of the person of faith, that she can see facts and figures and not worry about it.. instead putting 100% of her faith in something that clearly cannot be proven and if it was proven may actually be proven to be wrong.
I put it this way to the Christian: I cannot have faith that NON carbonated soda exists, since I know it does not. I know, it was a bad example, but sometimes I’m not that great on my feet. But I told her I “hoped” it exists..
And that is what it may come down to for me.. Not faith, but instead hope. Hope that there is a God who is loving and merciful. Hope that the atheist is wrong.. but clearly I cannot have faith that the atheist is wrong since he had factually based and giving the full story according to what history has revealed.
I know this, too: Horus was the sun god who appeared to have a similar life to Jesus. As did lots of other people in cultures and civilizations of the past. That’s interesting, right …3000 years before Christ and a ‘virgin’ birth takes place along with a death and Resurrection.
And of course I throw in the added “what if the aliens mutated us” theory. That was laughable to the Christian and atheist all the same.. but I wondered why? Laughable to the atheist I can see.. but the alien theory compared to a guy walking on water and rising from the dead? I think the alien theory sounds better than that!
And after all.. my age old question: Did Noah’s Ark consist of being a space ship that beamed off of Mars before the great flood there? … are we aliens? ..are we stardust?
You know it’s magnificent to see the Northern Lights so far south with the latest flare up of the sun. Sure, solar flares can cause GPS outages, and maybe even Tumblr will go down (no surprise if it did) .. but the beauty of such chaos cannot be mistaken.
There is a lot of beauty in life, despite the chaos. That or our brains just try to find the beauty among the chaos—which could explain a near death experience, in a way too, can it not?
And it led me to the answer… at least the answer to me, and maybe the answer that may, perhaps if you contemplate it, lead to the unification of all people, despite the belief of lack thereof of a God. And it is this: Math is God.
Math is God.
That is simple, isn’t it? And sure, maybe it does not mean much. Perhaps I will not be able to translate my theory through the text of this posting here. But I will try.
Think of it this way: The only thing in the universe that is without chaos, that is perfect, and that always works, is math. Math is universal. One star will be one star here and one star in another galaxy (maybe not dimension, but that is a whole new road best not traveled down.) One chair plus one chair on earth will be two chairs. And that will be true on the moon, Uranus, or one of those fun little planets discovered and not named yet.
So in theory math is perfect—and despite the lack of our early ancestors in discovering it, it always existed. One and one were always two, even though few understand what that may have meant when they were hunting for meat and trying not to due from stones falling on their heads.
Math is more perfect, as a matter of fact, than much anything else. Gravity changes depending on your altitude or position.. DNA structures evolve.. people and animals evolve.. species die out and the earth goes crazy and gives us quakes and tsunamis.. the Bible is hypocritical .. Pastors lie .. politicians do too.. Cars sometimes don’t start.. the TV sometimes gives us nothing to watch.. and the internet even gets boring, now, too. There is little to have true faith in. There is little one can trust..
Except math. It will always work. You may need to work at it, but figures don’t lie. Liars simply figure.
So since you cannot change math, math is God. And I don’t know what that means.. but I think it means something. And I think somehow, being math is perfect and constant, it is the overall meaning of the universe.
But is math love? …even some people who love math don’t love anyone. So I don’t know.
My theory isn’t perfected yet. But it may be, in the end, the only way I can understand a theory of “god” …math…is God.
Agree.. disagree? Don’t care?..I’d love to know?
Sunspot AR1429 has unleashed another strong solar flare, an M6-class eruption on March 9th at 0358 UT. The blast hurled a coronal mass ejection almost directly toward Earth..
Forecast track..
News outlets and other sources breathed a collective sigh of relief when no major issues occurred from the solar flare unleashed two days ago — but What about the March 11 punch coming?
So finally.. proof of God… dirty filthy sexual pun of proof.
Joseph Kony.. and justice in Uganda.. is complicated..
The truth about the Kony film production: 32% of the money raised last year went to saving the children of Uganda.. the rest went to salaries, film production, and travel costs.. MORE here..
Without a doubt the Bible has been one of the most famous books ever created, ever written , and ever circulated on the planet earth. But, the question remains of whether it has as much meaning today as it has throughout the ages previous. For example, you may be able to find it in most American hotels, but does that even matter anymore given the proclivity of human nature to not care about what is written in it anyway? Going a step further, the debate over what is written in it and when it was written aside, what if the Bible as a whole simply doesn’t matter anymore? Could it be that state of spirituality is able to continue without any help from this book. I guess what I’m trying to say, is that while the Bible may be the most read book of all time do people really ever read it? If they did take it ad literally as they say they did, we may still have slaves and women wouldn’t have much of a right to vote or do anything. Maybe the Bible never even matter to begin with, and it’s a dead doesn’t matter one bit as much now as it did that…?
SUPER SOLAR TUESDAY: MAJOR X5 CLASS FLARE BLASTS OFF THE SUN!
Current NOAA solar data
Solar Ham
Spaceweather
Space weather NOAA scales..
Radio blackouts
Data..
Real time monitors..
Video..
As the Republican votes get counted in super Tuesday primary states, it’s noteworthy tonight that a major X class solar flare has just arrested and is taking place right now. More on this major flare coming in the next few hours, this was a big one!
Wow..
Read of it, about it, but never ‘it’.. and I should. I’d love to get in depth on it so I will make it a point to actually do that this year. But what I do know about Confessions that it seems to say that everything is good in so far as it exists. And that concept is interesting. I mean, murder and sin exist, in a way? And so does the death of infants and war.. so are they good?
I also know that Confessions points to a Neoplatonic system…
By the end of the summer I promise to know more and get more in depth. Life is about trying to figure out why we are here and what we are doing—it’s the never ending question and eternal mission of our souls.. why not start to read more in depth now, I guess.
Vlad the impaler lives to rule again. Putin wins the presidency in Russia.. feeling like the early 2000s all over again. Thought I doubt President Obama will refer to him as Pootie Poot.. and maybe he won’t stare into his soul.. but the new President Putin regime may be an interesting one for the world to deal with. Iran, Syria.. China.. the allies? Vs. who? maybe.. us?
War is always on the horizon, after all..
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. But people believed in “Horus” a lot sooner than Jesus. But I certainly don’t want to tell people who confide in Jesus that they are wrong.. because maybe I am.
But here is the deal.. I believe in Satan because this world is insane. Seriously. I believe that evil exists. So I have to believe in some type of God… And I fear that since evil is so prominent maybe Satan is .. the creator? This is my fear. What if, right? What if..
So do I believe in a God? Sure. I just hope the creator is a godly one.
'TORNADO MIRACLE' ANGEL BABCOCK LOSES BATTLE
Very sad to see the tornado miracle Angel Babcock lost her battle tonight and perished.. hopefully to join her family in an afterlife…
And… I hope there is an afterlife……..
First off the latest and not so greatest on the tornado outbreak and the recovery taking place in the aftermath:
INSULT: LIGHT SNOW FALLING ON SOME AREAS DESTROYED BY TORNADOES
Survival and heartache: Stories of those who lived through tornadoes..
Death toll increases..
Toddler found alive in field—but her entire family is dead..
She was ripped out of her mother’s arms during storm..
The lone survivor..
Husband dies protecting his wife..
Towns sift through rubble..
A predictor for the future? Not really..
There is trouble brewing on the sun, too.
Light snow is now falling on some towns that were destroyed by the tornadoes on Friday…
The town of Marysville Indiana, a town of less than 2,000 people, has practically been wiped off the map by the tornado outbreak this week..
Recovery seems to be far away..
Some homes were dropped 100 yards away from where they were.. the noises of chainsaws have now replaced the roar of the tornadoes.
The cleanup process now starting..
A young baby was found alone in a field.. alive. She is in critical condition but word now has come that the baby girl’s family perished in the tornado.
More than 100 tornadoes on Friday—a record for March and as many as we see in an entier month. All in one day.. All in one day……
Get ready to hear about asteroid 2012 DA14. It hurtling towards the planet earth and speculation is building online concerning how close to earth it will get — or if it will hit earth..
And just when you thought Armageddon was going to occur December 2012. Maybe the Mayans were off by two months.
Here is the storyline: A newly discovered asteroid named 2012 DA14 is about to come close to earth. Lots of sources online, for better or worse, are proclaiming the end to be near..
But lots of confusion also exists on the asteroid, too.
For example, this site says it will be closer than some satellites.
The always fun RT.COM speaks of it in a more apocalyptic tone..
And finally..
NASA.. the experts in all this..Well.. they are watching it too and giving us lots of graphs and numbers to showcase the whole event.
And finally, here is a YouTube video with horrific music showing us the progression.
And after all of this, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little creeped out by the chances that earth could face a perilous future.. But this soon? February next year?
Asteroid 2012 DA14 is too close for comfort. And maybe if we make it through February 2013 we will just say .. it was close. Hopefully. If we’re here. I suppose live every day of this year like it’s the last, eh?
I think it has something to do with gravity. Or the earth.
Or this: A fad!
And it happened before. Just Google it.
But that doesn’t mean I didn’t post a broom standing on my Facebook tonight. After all, it’s fun to hop on the Viral Bandwagon now and then.
Sometimes there is no recovery.. This image hit me a little more than others from the tornado outbreak.. These two folks who appear in front of a mound of wreckage may have been surmising their own house.. the comfort they know was taken off of the ground and moved forever. Away.
And now they simply stand and stare.. in wonder as the wander around to try to salvage any memories of the times that were. Maybe lucky enough to find an old photograph .. maybe they’ll be happy if they find a memento that was stuffed in a drawer in the house that is not just laying on top of the debris.
I don’t know their story. And as a matter of fact it is their personal story and their own business to know their story. So I don’t have to know or want to.. but I can only imagine that their story, and a big number of other people too, are going through a re-write of a story.
Their lives shaken and torn apart .. fabric of security of a home. That is important. It’s a foundation. A place of small luxury in some instances.. and a place of happiness and privacy. Ripped apart.
No, sometimes, there is no recovery.
Don’t you agree…
There is no recovery…
How can you look at a photo like this and not agree?
The total number of tornadoes yesterday? 95
Global warming? Nah
I was wrong earlier.. well not wrong but way off. I said 70+ tornadoes but didn’t realize it was up to 95.
The previous record was set in 2006 (not long ago, eh?) .. Broken now if all these are confirmed.
A record that I don’t think anyone really wanted to beat..
Not out of the woods yet with this storm system.. And the death toll sadly isn’t done rising..
But even more: the storms continue today. So despite the media reports of the storm being written in past tense, don’t let your guard down if the sky above is stormy.. Follow your local weather—and maybe it’s time to get a NOAA weather radio. Good investment for times like yesterday and today..
Lives and limbs lost due to the tornado outbreak.. And even more, an entire town has been wiped off the landscape due to severe weather—severe weather that just doesn’t seem right happening this late in winter.. or early in spring, depending on what your view of the seasonal change is.
As a matter of fact, the 70+ tornado reports (if all confirmed) will blow away the typical overall number for March in general—70 plus in just one day with an entire month to go.
And speaking of not being out of the woods yet, tornado warnings yet again abound: All the way from Alabama to parts of Northern Florida.
It goes without saying but I’ll say it anyway: Prepare and be aware. Watch what is above and know what is below.
This may be a very long and drawn out spring and summer of severe weather. Don’t be surprised if someone today believes that the Mayan calender is right after all..
Typical Limbaugh.. Gets more attention by saying something outrageous .. This time though he looks really bad and it could produce consequences for him… He’s a major figure so I’d assume he cannot be fired… But this could really continue to blow up and then who knows..
Tomorrow could be very deadly .. Tornadoes are set to abound.. A wild March ready — this after the Leap Day outbreak.. Prepare now and be ready.. Look above and know what’s below. It could be a very bad day..
The world lost Davy Jones today at the age of 66.. Known for being in the Monkees of course..
Therefore: The song of the day—who doesn’t know every word and sing along?
While Daydream Believer may have been the most famous song the Monkees performed.. While Anne Murray tried to redo the magic of the Daydream Believer in 1979, it fell short.. especially on a day when Davy Jones leaves the world.
R I P ..
Just when you thought the only thing to fear in December 2012 was the end of the Mayan calender and subsequent apocalypses, enter into the news fray this item of importance: Ben Bernanke is warning the nation of impending doom. A ‘fiscal cliff’ .. coming in January 2013…right as the new years eve ball (hopefully) drops on a nation that is relieved they weren’t destroyed by fire and brimstone.
So is it a relief when Ron Paul predicts that the FED will self destruct…?
Not at all, I suppose. The cliff just gets more steep..
I am beginning to get a very eerie feeling about this spring and summer coming up. If tornadoes are already occurring this bad (12 killed as violent storms ravage Midwest, South…) I think they will get even worse over the next few weeks and month or two.
We have had an abnormally warm winter. While few complained about unseasonably high temperatures all year with no measurable snow, I did worry. I wanted the snow to create springtime melting and growth.. I wanted the cold to kill the flu, bugs, and ticks. Nothing of that nature occurred. Bugs are already creepy and crawling.. ticks never went away..and the flu? Everyone is sick. Warmth like this isn’t good.
And now the deadly tornado outbreak today and tonight. I didn’t go to Penn State for meteorology, but as sure as I can say that Joe Bastardi is on my twitterfeed I know this: Storms this big and strong this early is foreboding. Supercells that decimate entire towns in winter..? Well just imagine what the spring will bring.
The leap day tornado outbreak started today.. and as of tonight it continues…
Hope I’m wrong.
Really. I hope I’m wrong.