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nice pic

It was phoenix vapors and had a woman with wings on it and her hair looked orangish which is strange it didn't look like the traditional phoenix. Guess she is like a helicopter, lol
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hi Fancy are you thinking of Vesta, Helios's twin,
[link to angelsandmasters.net]


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Oh, thanks.
This is interesting from the link.
Every fire was thought to contain part of Vesta's living spirit.
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Flight may have evolved multiple times in birds

............Writing online today in Nature, the researchers propose that, after pennaceous feathers evolved, they became adapted for different purposes in different creatures: to attract a mate, like a peacock's tail, or for insulation. Later, when the animals took to the skies, the feathers were recruited for flight, and eventually became more flight-specialized. Intriguingly, this suggests that the origin of bird flight was perhaps not a single event, the researchers say, but that different ancestors of birds may have begun flying independently.

The new specimen “fills in a lot of blanks,” says paleontologist Mark Norell of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He suggests that the shape and elaborate patterns observed in some early pennaceous feathers makes it likely that they originally evolved for mating display.............
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that is clever
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World's Largest Flying Bird Was Like Nothing Alive Today

The largest flying bird known to ever have lived has now been revealed, an extinct giant with a wingspan more than twice the size of the largest living flying bird, researchers say.

The new species, Pelagornis sandersi, had an estimated wingspan of 20 to 24 feet (6.1 to 7.3 meters) when its feathers are included. This is up to more than twice as big as that of the royal albatross, the largest living flying bird, which has a wingspan of about 11.4 feet (3.5 meters).

"Pelagornithids were once found on every continent, including Antarctica,"

The model suggested the bird was an incredibly efficient glider, whose long, slender wings helped it stay aloft despite its enormous size. It was probably too big to take off simply by flapping its wings and launching itself into the air from a standstill — instead, like Argentavis, P. sandersi may have gotten off the ground by running downhill into a headwind or taking advantage of air gusts to get aloft, much like a hang glider.
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Thicker atmosphere. Pathetic mortals.
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Didn't know they had one too

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Scientists Demand Overhaul of Europe's $1.4 Billion Brain Project

European scientists have called for the review of a major neuroscience initiative, criticizing the program for taking a narrow approach that they say is likely to fail.

More than 150 researchers signed an open letter to the commission in charge of Europe's Human Brain Project (HBP), a 10-year, $1.4 billion (1 billion euros) effort to simulate the human brain on a computer. The researchers who signed the letter are threatening to boycott the project if their recommendations are not heeded.

The Human Brain Project was launched in 2013 by the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, and is funded primarily by the European Union. The project is Europe's equivalent of the United States' BRAIN Initiative, a proposed $4.5 billion, 12-year brain-mapping effort that President Obama launched in April 2013.
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Birdbrains.
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Nothing worst than a fowl smelling fish.
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Nothing worst than a fowl smelling fish.
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Nothing worst than a fowl smelling fish.
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What about those flowers that smell like decomposing flesh?
...ah, what the hell
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I liked this one. He does not agree with nor endorse the route Crowley went either. And, I agree. Have always agreed with his line of thinking on it.
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Pausanias, in his account of Boeotia (9.39), relates many details about the cult of Trophonius. Whoever desired to consult the oracle would live in a designated house for a period of days, bathing in the river Herkyna and living on sacrificial meat. He would then sacrifice, by day, to a series of gods, including Cronus, Apollo, Zeus the king, Hera the Charioteer, and Demeter-Europa.

At night, he would cast a black victim into a pit sacred to Agamedes, drink from two rivers called Lethe and Mnemosyne, and then descend into a cave. Here, most consultees were frightened out of their wits, and forgot the experience entirely upon coming up.

Afterward, the consultee would be seated upon a chair of Mnemosyne, where the priests of the shrine would record his ravings and compose an oracle out of them.
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If this was Crowley’s, and other's (Rabelais) take on the Orphic Rites, it is what I noted of ‘Babel’ long ago, it is a level of sadism that is difficult to put into words.

Though I will try in an unrefined manner: It senses as an attempt at mindfucking the right brain. As the right brain is considered female, yes, we could say there was deliberate intent to use women.

As Mnemosyne was considered the Mother of the Muses, that makes them Mother Fuckers in the truest sense of the words.
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Oh, good. My thoughts on Crowley's interpretation and take on Boeotia and certain rites and the divine feminine as a precognitive and neurological construct regarding memory and so forth still exist on this thread. Perhaps not the most eloquently presented statement, but certainly gets the point across.
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what i like about leo is you can check what he says by what he says inside the vatican because he has rite to speak inside the vatican, he says and i believe him thus far

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Nothing worst than a fowl smelling fish.
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Nothing worst than a fowl smelling fish.
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What about those flowers that smell like decomposing flesh?
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Why do they put floral air fresheners in morgues.
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I have listened to a couple of his recent interviews now. Interestingly, some of what he imparts, remembers, shares, senses to me as, actually, if I were sitting around and listening to the conversation with ancestors. Now long gone of course, but the information to my senses as ancestral. One can tell he knows it in his bones, of all saints, so to speak.
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This floral print wallpaper is peeling behind the fridge.
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[link to en.wikipedia.org]

In reference to bones of all saints and Little Bear. Most interesting usurpation of Ursa Minor into quote saint hood.
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I hope all you weird folk are having a nice evening. grinning


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what i like about leo is you can check what he says by what he says inside the vatican because he has rite to speak inside the vatican, he says and i believe him thus far
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perhaps he can help me with my genealogy
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Plateau du Vercors


Aciculate peaks and curvilinear ridges outline giant circular depressions in the French Alps

As previously written, stone monoliths can be found all over the world. There are colossal formations that make up the French Alps, for instance. In particular, Mont Aiguille (Needle Mountain) is similar to the structures from the Amazonian region of South America that were discussed in another Picture of the Day.

Flat-topped mesas are common throughout Europe, the southwestern United States, the Amazon, and elsewhere. Arizona’s Monument Valley includes elevations that almost exactly mirror those found in the Alps, although they are composed of different rock matrices. Those in Arizona are sandstone tors with sharply delineated sidewalls and those in the French Alps, such as Mont Aiguille, are composed of limestone.

According to modern geologists, the mountainous uplift known as Massif du Vercors dates from the Variscan era, when Laurasia and Gondwana collided, forming the supercontinent of Pangaea. As conventional theories indicate, the consolidation of the two landmasses caused a mountain-building event that folded the crust and initiated a metamorphic phase in the development of the Alps. Volcanic activity during this metamorphic period caused a restructuring of the pre-Variscan iron-rich rocks into the hard, magnesium-rich composition that now exists....
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Vallée des merveilles

The petroglyphs (rock engravings), located on stone outcrops within the valley, were first identified by British amateur archaeologist Clarence Bicknell in 1881. Between 1897 and 1902, Bicknell copied and catalogued more than 10,000 drawings...
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Rock Art in the Alps - Mt. Bego Petroglyphs

Mt. Bego and Valcamonica are the two most important alpine rock art sites. Regarding the quantity and the quality of engraved rocks we can't find any equal in the other alpine valleys.

In Valcamonica some 200-300.000 engraved figures are estimated to exist, while in Mt. Bego 35,000 engravings were traced (and counted).

Natural blackboards
It is often claimed that this huge concentration was due to the presence of two open air sanctuaries, or sacred mountains.

Although we may consider the possible religious meanings as very important in the choice of this site by the prehistoric artists, we must also consider that the rocks, sandstone in both Mt. Bego and Valcamonica, are not exfoliated, not too hard, and are perfectly polished by the glacier, showing most surfaces similar to a natural blackboard, ready to receive the signs engraved by alpine cultures.......
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.........1. We KNOW we are conscious and we have experience. It is the only thing we can know for sure.

2. We ASSUME that other people have the same experience. This is probably reasonable; it assumes that there are other instances of a phenomenon that we know exists. In the absence of any further assumption it is the position that monistic idealism takes. It assumes that there is nothing outside consciousness. On the other hand...

3. Materialism ASSUMES that there are material objects that exist independent of conscious perception. We could never prove this since we cannot know anything without it entering conscious perception.

4. Further materialism ASSUMES that things which exist outside conscious perception generate conscious perception.

In other words, contrary to logic, materialism assumes that something we can never know produces the only thing that we can know. By the Principle of Parsimony, Occam’s Razor, it multiplies entities unnecessarily to account for the facts and it makes two assumptions neither of which can be verified.

Based on this analysis, Roberto suggests that materialism’s claim of the logical high ground is completely baseless and actually contrary to the facts. It also exposes the lie that the pursuit of science needs to be a materialist one. I’d argue that this single assumption sabotages science’s ability to study the human experience successfully
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Two things occur to me:
1. the recognition that materialism is founded on assumptions additional to those required to acknowledge that everything exists in consciousness and that it does not occupy the rational high ground as a philosophy and from that

2. information can enter consciousness by means other than the 5 senses and a disciplined approach to recognising and recording this needs to be developed.
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Philosophy is the discipline of human thought that allows us to interpret and make sense of our experience of ourselves and of reality, thereby giving meaning to our lives. While science constructs models of reality to predict what will happen with certain arrangements of matter and energy under certain circumstances, philosophy asks the questions: What does it mean when reality behaves as if these models were true? How does it all relate to our condition as living entities? Without philosophy, science is merely an enabler of technology; it tells us nothing about the "nature of nature," despite Richard Feynman's best hopes. Science provides mechanistic tools that mostly work, but it is philosophy, even when done by scientists, which interprets those tools in the framework of reality and of our being. This way, the importance of philosophy for giving meaning to our lives cannot be overestimated. Yet, for over a century now, I believe, philosophy has lost its way and become nearly irrelevant to most educated people. If you ask an educated non-philosopher to draw up a short list of key philosophers in chronological order, he or she will likely start with Socrates or Plato, mention a few key names like Spinoza or perhaps Descartes, and probably end with Nietzsche....................
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............... You see, the only carrier of reality as far as anyone can know is conscious experience. And conscious experience, while projecting objectivity onto the world at large, is fundamentally affective. By denying the affective nature of reality, academic philosophy has alienated itself from a large and significant part of what it means to be a human being alive in the world. In seeking to become more objective and real, it ended up distancing itself from reality.

As our civilization begins to face the inherent contradictions of the way it relates to reality and life, we need philosophy more than ever. The absence of true, integral philosophy is not a symptom, but a cause of the current world crisis. ..................
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Good Morning Aether.

How are you?
Think Golden Mirror!
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Sync(this song was on, know you can't watch though), lol, burning came back but along with ice instead of water like yesterday. Oh, remind me to tell you about caretakers again. Something new came up.

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argh can't find anything else with them on YT, are they new?
really like her voice and the mood
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Good Morning Aether.

How are you?
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i`m good thanks
you know what i have noticed , decisions of emotional importance of scale upon gaia are caused by the influence of philosophers being influenced by philosophers being influenced by philosophy
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Good Morning Aether.

How are you?
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i`m good thanks
you know what i have noticed , decisions of emotional importance of scale upon gaia are caused by the influence of philosophers being influenced by philosophers being influenced by philosophy
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"The unexamined life is not worth living."
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Good Morning Aether.

How are you?
 Quoting: OmniPhi Prime


i`m good thanks
you know what i have noticed , decisions of emotional importance of scale upon gaia are caused by the influence of philosophers being influenced by philosophers being influenced by philosophy
 Quoting: aether


"The unexamined life is not worth living."
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yes

what is philosophy in our 21st century because our threads clearly show to me that little of our philosophers philosophy fits what we experience in current reality

feels like the notion of philosophy is up for grabs globally and nothing looks likely cos nothing is not several thousand years out of date with a few bits a pieces floating around on the fringes in our past few hundred years

nothing really has occurred in anything for a few thousand years on the topic philosophy

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Good Morning Aether.

How are you?
 Quoting: OmniPhi Prime


i`m good thanks
you know what i have noticed , decisions of emotional importance of scale upon gaia are caused by the influence of philosophers being influenced by philosophers being influenced by philosophy
 Quoting: aether


"The unexamined life is not worth living."
 Quoting: OmniPhi Prime


yes

what is philosophy in our 21st century because our threads clearly show to me that little of our philosophers philosophy fits what we experience in current reality

feels like the notion of philosophy is up for grabs globally and nothing looks likely cos nothing is not several thousand years out of date with a few bits a pieces floating around on the fringes in our past few hundred years

nothing really has occurred in anything for a few thousand years on the topic philosophy
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and the good news is we have discovered enough in our past 50 years to write philosophy from the beginning without reference to our past before 1950
in practice we can not do that cos emotionally everyone is attached to our past philosophies but the good news is we don`t need any of our past philosophy today so we can be safe in what we say because we will harm nothing but our feelings by being this way





GLP