<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: 26.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION WITH DANGLING</span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: 26.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDeVh2_SwlIyDI6yFfZtD0Leh1sOmNFbkeaLCaRaMJPDd30NUPoDK0-0qluIvK8scJ6GxPoJWte4HiEjmgJJxFG_bVFALw2fuMJPc0AIJRtR_NhCoIrPGGVqYyKhx6X8iFhylvXv18erXO/s1600/Screen_20130827_074446.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDeVh2_SwlIyDI6yFfZtD0Leh1sOmNFbkeaLCaRaMJPDd30NUPoDK0-0qluIvK8scJ6GxPoJWte4HiEjmgJJxFG_bVFALw2fuMJPc0AIJRtR_NhCoIrPGGVqYyKhx6X8iFhylvXv18erXO/s200/Screen_20130827_074446.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div> <span style="font-size: 26.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">  </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Keep or leave someone: This means to keep somebody in an uncertain state by not telling then what they want to know; E.g. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.75in;"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">(i)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">                         </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She kept him DANGLING for weeks before making her decision known to him. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.75in;"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">(ii)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">                     </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> The lecturer left all the students DANGLING before she gave the topic at late hour. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">  </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dangling something be’ fore or in’ front of someone: This means to offer somebody something good in order to persuade them to do something E.g. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.75in;"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">(i)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">                         </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The politician dangled money publicly to the people and they gave him their mandate; <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.75in;"> <!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Baskerville Old Face"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">(ii)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">                     </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(ii) She dangled her love with smiles which made him felt for her. (Dangling relationship).<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">                                   (Grammar) <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: .5in;"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">DANGLING PARTICIPLE.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This refers to a participle that refers to a noun which is not mentioned in a sentence<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Look @ this statement; “While I was <span style="background: olive; mso-highlight: olive;">walking</span>, my phone rang.”  Walking is a dangling participle but is considered incorrect thus; the correct form of saying it would be:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While I was walking home, my phone rang.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 36.0pt; line-height: 115%;">DANGLING MODIFIER<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A Dangling Modifier is a modifier that has nothing to modify. Remember modifiers describe a word or make its meaning more specific. A dangling modifier is an error caused by failing to use the word that the modifier is meant to be describing.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let see some examples here:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background: fuchsia; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">Having read your letter</span><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, my cat will stay indoors until the ducklings fly off.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> ^{<span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(N/B) </span>}<span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In this example, the missing word is we<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Consider the correct way to put it;<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">*Having read your letter, we will keep our cat indoors until the ducking fly off.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(In this examples, the modifier having read your letter is modifying we as it should)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Logically, the wrong example suggests the cat read the letter.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here is another example of a dangling modifier:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background: olive; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-highlight: olive;">Meticulous and punctual</span><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, David’s work ethics is admirable.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In this example, the missing word is David (as a standalone subject)<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A correct way of putting it would be:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">*Meticulous and punctual, David has an admirable work ethics;<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(In this example, the modifier meticulous and punctual is modifying David as it should, not David’s work ethics).<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Logically, the wrong example suggests David’s work ethics is meticulous and punctual.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Consider another example of dangling modifier.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background: olive; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-highlight: olive;">Having watched the Calabar Carnival</span><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, the carnival costumes are more impressive.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In this example, the missing word is she. Let’s try the correct version:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">*Having watched the Calabar Carnival, she thinks the carnival costumes are more impressive.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(In this example, the modifier having watched the Calabar Carnival is modifying she as it should, not the carnival costumes.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Logically, the wrong example suggests the carnival costumes watched the Calabar Carnival.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A DANGLING MODIFIER AS A MISPLACED MODIFIER<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sometimes, a modifier can dangle a bit. This happens when the word being modified is present but is not next to its modifier.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Look @ this example:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background: olive; font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-highlight: olive;">Vicious smelly creatures with huge tusks</span><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, the ship’s crew found it difficult to drive the male walruses from the beach.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is still a dangling modifier but it’s not dangling fully because the object being modified (the male walruses) is present.  <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is better known as misplaced modifier.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Consider the correct version:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">*Vicious smelly creatures with huge tusks, the male walruses were difficult for the ship’s crew to drive from the beach.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 36.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SQUINTING MODIFIER<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A squinting modifier (usually a verb) is a kind of modifier which could feasibly modify the words before it or the words after it. A squinting modifier is a type of misplaced modifier.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Examples of squinting modifier here:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">*Cycling up hills <span style="background: olive; mso-highlight: olive;">Quickly</span> strengthen your quadriceps.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(In this example, the adverb quickly is a squinting modifier. It is unclear whether quickly pertains to cycling up hills or strengthens).<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">* Taking a moment to think <span style="background: olive; mso-highlight: olive;">Clearly</span> improves your chances.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(In this example, the adverb clearly is a squinting modifier, though it unclear whether it pertains to think or improves).<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">FIXING A SQUINTING MIDIFIER<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Like most misplaced modifiers, a squinting modifier can be fixed by changing its position in the sentence or by rewording.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Examples:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">*Cycling up hills strengthens your quadriceps quickly.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">*Taking a moment to think clearly about the issue improves your chances.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Did you know? The wild animal that attacks and eats humans are called <span style="background: gray; mso-highlight: gray;">MANEATER</span> and this name are humorously refers to a young lady who has many sexual partners, eehm #wow!</span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">LEARN\ING ENGLISH<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">British vs American English - Grammatical Differences<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">English language is used differently in the United States and in England and in other English speaking countries. There are some skeptical differences between American and British English in vocabulary, spelling, pronunciation as well as a few grammatical differences. In this section I'm only going to tell you the grammatical differences.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <span style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1. The use of present perfect<br /> <span class="textexposedshow">The American English prefers the simple past tense to the present perfect tense.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> <span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">American:<br /> • They just arrived home.<br /> • We just finished our meal.<br /> • Did you have lunch yet?<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">British:<br /> • They have just arrived home.<br /> • We have just finished our meal.<br /> • Have you had lunch yet?<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">Perfect tense "Have"<br /> American:<br /> They have most likely landed by now.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">British<br /> They most likely have landed by now.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">2. The use of subjunctive<br /> The American English tends to hide "should" from the sentence.<br /> [It’s Necessary/ essential / vital / urgent / imperative… that + (hidden should) + verb]<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">American:<br /> • It’s essential that she be told the truth.<br /> • It’s vital that you be taken to hospital.<br /> • It’s important that Barry stop smoking.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <br /></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">British:<br /> • It’s essential that she should be told the truth.<br /> • It’s vital that you should be taken to hospital.<br /> • It’s important that Barry should stop smoking.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <br /></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">3. Asking for the person on the phone<br /> American:<br /> Hello, is this Julie?<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">British:<br /> Hello, is that Julie?<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">4. Use of look like /as If<br /> American:<br /> He looks like he is an expert.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">British<br /> He looks as if he is an expert.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">5. The use of tags<br /> The Americans use tags much less often than the British. Americans often use "right" and "OK" as tags.<br /> American:<br /> • You're coming with us, right?<br /> • I'll bring the baggage in, OK?<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">British:<br /> • You're coming with us, aren't you?<br /> • I'll bring the luggage in, shall I?<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <br /></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <br /></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">6. The names of the rivers<br /> The Americans put the word "river" after the name, whereas the British put it before.<br /> American:<br /> Colorado River<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">British<br /> River Thames<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <br /></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <br /></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">7. The title of an important person<br /> The Americans normally put both the title and the descriptions of offices in front of the names.<br /> American:<br /> • President Roosevelt<br /> • Prime Minister Churchill<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">British<br /> • President Roosevelt<br /> • Churchill, the Prime Minister<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <br /></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <br /></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">Posted by Ettefreeguy<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="background: white; line-height: 22.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.2pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.2pt;"> <span style="color: #141823; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt;">Fb.com/Danglingmedia<o:p></o:p></span></div> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9.0pt;"> <br /></div> </div>

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GOD AND POETRY

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> </h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 80.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">G</span><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">od is God, #Poetry is fiction<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">God is love, Poetry needs attention<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">God made everything, Poetry made only someone<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">God will deliver us from evil<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Poetry will expose the work of the devil.<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Poetry is in schools and God is in the Heaven<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Doors are made not only for Christianity<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">But for them with tangible opportunity.<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> </h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> </h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">God has never made anything accidentally<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Poets will always rendit their meditation willingly.<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">God loves poetry, He made it delicious<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Poets loves ideas, they made it fictitious.<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">God is a designer and Poets are modifiers<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">A Poet, once decided he will make God cry<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">That because God always frown to see good people die.<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">If you walk through a part of a chaff shadow<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">You are at the last bottom of your pass horror<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">A wise person wouldn’t blame God cos this life is borrow<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">One must give back those paths that will miss tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> </h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> </h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">LET ME EXPLAIN,<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">God made man in His image<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Man made Poetry under his likeness<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">A </span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">    poet </span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">            will </span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">                   amend,<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">If God want to listen to amen!<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Poets will never involve an Angel,<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">If they are asking God for an inspiration<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">When you walk along with God, Angels entertain you with Poems<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Ooh! Calamity besiege not your dream<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> </h3> </div> <h3 class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> </h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Recreate room for those that will misunderstand you<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Young recusant will not make the day blue<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Just incase you forgot to do the devotion<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Poetry cannot ask you for a dedication<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The stars keep close, the moon remain one.<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">How did the devil learn to lie?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSXr1lKkF3RgClppRhLHIc-DgOFOAtGQIDZd6x8JzAYBp8zqqF18R74iJvETde-zT4MpSNFmPkZoIVhrrTuCSYodEJzQNYDoFSpjeocK8WqdxTNC7GziYOJjgxxrXu36WW98QiSVzx0IMp/s1600/welcome.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSXr1lKkF3RgClppRhLHIc-DgOFOAtGQIDZd6x8JzAYBp8zqqF18R74iJvETde-zT4MpSNFmPkZoIVhrrTuCSYodEJzQNYDoFSpjeocK8WqdxTNC7GziYOJjgxxrXu36WW98QiSVzx0IMp/s320/welcome.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Some people can dance yet others did cry.<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Let God wake you up and Poetry take you to bed<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Make an offering to God in your blessed documentary<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Poor ink to allusion, unparallel to Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">God is omnipresent; Poetry is from a great mind<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Where human race ends; Poetry ends<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">When God say yes! Poetry begins<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> </h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> </h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> </h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">God made a tree<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Man breed from the tree<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Genre grows out of man<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Hunger made Poetry tasteful over sand<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It’s evil to compare God and Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> </h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Posted by ettefreeguy<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Fb.com/kissdwall<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> <h3> <span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Twitter: @Etefreeguy<o:p></o:p></span></h3> </div> </div>

GOD AND POETRY

G od is God, #Poetry is fiction God is love, Poetry needs attention God made everything, Poetry made only someone God wil...

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THE HOLY BOOK AND YOU

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i>Slavery may have ended, however the chains of #religions still hold our minds. We were robbed of our names, history, and culture and did not have a promised land to go to.</i><img src="https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/s280x280/10959706_594184070711962_6878729144240507292_n.jpg?oh=1e489a3d75e1a3e83127e30bee9c8252&oe=55557BB5" /><i><br />The holy books have been the weapon of choice as when you systematically remove over generations a person from their innate understandings; you can rewrite their spiritual inclinations to favour your agenda.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />When you own the chains to their mind and their path to the natural curiosity to understand themselves, you can design their reactions to defend you at their own expense.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />As these concepts of God have only spoken when the holy books were created, people no longer have a direct relationship with God, they only have a relationship with the books. They mentally devour the books as these are the only words their god is ever going to say.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />This is made worst by the fact that stories mentioned in the books happened over a thousand years ago and was not written about our lives today. When the slaves found the Promised Land did they live happily ever after?<br />The truth is in living colour, we have been created in belief. We are born into a paradigm where all the answers have been educated to us; however they just forgot to teach us how they arrived at them.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />Hidden in plain view, we cannot see, feel, smell or touch this concept of God, even though it is everywhere. We are to follow or burn in hell, we must give our lives to get to heaven, there does not seem to be much free will to discover your own path.<br />To follow our Ancestors is deemed Satanic and a Black person; pre-slavery traditions are products of the Devil. When you appreciate that there are no positively regarded black religions, you have to ask what holy wars had we fought in to get such a bad name.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <a href="http://danglingmedia.blogspot.com/p/humans.html">http://danglingmedia.blogspot.com/p/humans.html</a><i><br />As we say a black person is not allowed to have their own. As regards to concepts of God, Amen Ra has been one of the concepts that have lasted over the 6000 modern history period.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />The Egyptian Tutankhamen broken down to Tut –ankh-Amen, hidden in plain view, they said Amen at the end of their prayers too. As these modern religions are just abbreviations of older Egyptian understandings.<br />No one no longer calls Zeus to come to their aid, now that everything has been simplified to just God, one concept, easy to manage.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />It seems when you stop calling the God they cease to exist. Do these gods need us to believe in them before they can help us or is that our belief in them enables them to exist? We have been mentally managed from day one.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />The architects of this reality use religion as just one of the layers built into the external story line we call our lives. We are the ones who create the images, sounds and sensations we experience within ourselves. It`s our beliefs that give meaning to these internal experiences.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />We have lost our connection to the energies within us that make all of what we do possible. We are no longer speaking to ourselves. We have been forced to look for answers outside of ourselves for problems coming from within us. It`s like looking for something in another person`s home that you lost in your own, you can never find it.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />Hence we began to look externally for our creator as we have lost contact with ourselves. Religions seem to only deal with the external reality, people do not pray to connect to their inner creator self, and they are usually asking for material things, world peace is not even on the list anymore. God of this construct is really just an external idea, not a reality.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />Like Jesus there is no evidence beyond the holy books that either of them ever existed. Existence is not evidence of God, existence is evidence of existence. We have been given beliefs and made a God from it.<br />The intelligences behind existence work from inside of you and enable you to create the external world as images in your mind. You are part of everything you experience as your mind speaks the light languages to translate the waveform of the frequency into solid looking objects.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />There are things your mind no longer sees, their light languages are lost to us and therefore we are unable to create an image for them. If I can create light in my day dreams and night dreams, then I can generate light within me like the sun, however without the sun. The sun did not create us.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />Religion is not soul food; it is more like cold comfort. The problem is the soul needs to be constantly stimulated with new concepts to challenge and to feel invigorated.<br />Religion</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i>             gives </i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i>                       your </i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i>                        soul </i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i>                              rules, which entraps it and limits you to the understanding of the writers of the holy books.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />As the apparently only living Gods are not speaking anymore, people need more stimulus, they gravitate to the old ways, the ones calling them from within their soul.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />Religion is memory based as people can only exchange holy books scriptures as opposed to their own original thinking. The person with the ability to recite more scriptures is regarded as the more gifted, not due to originality but to ability to recite script.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />This can be good but this does not end the growing urge of the soul to get back to your real mission. The battle now commences with soul arguing with the programmed religious mind.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />The soul will search for more whilst the mind condemns it. The mind has been programmed to look out for that pesky soul and will try and shut such curiosity to avoid the fear and the pain generated by the program for being disobedient.<br />The soul will want more and will want to hear alternative ideas to empower it, the programmers of the religions were ready for this and created Satan as a title to give to all those who needed more than the programmed script.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />To think of yourself as evil and to trust in a god concept is real. This was security for longevity of the corruption of our minds.<br />The programming is ego based and needs to win the battle against the soul yearning to remain in control. The problem is that ego is not wisdom, so when it is challenged it does not increase in the breakdowns of the questions asked, but it may increase the sound volume and threats as well as insults.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />They know what they are saying is not true and seek the company of other people in denial to make them feel better. No matter what they say the curiosity will not go away. They need to follow other spiritual paths as their soul demands it.<br />As we go along this path, we have remained strong to be able to ignore the wrath; the insults will become strong, yet with no breakdown of understanding.<br />As people give up their own spirituality to pursue religion, the holy books is all they have of their god. To challenge the book written by authors unknown is to abuse them; they feel too compelled to defend something that they do not know the origin of, does that sound natural to you?</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />God is not a man. Which gives you a hint who devised this plan, the truth requires a much deeper understanding. We travel to this dimension as we have life scripts to play out; we need to experience all the different characters. The ancients understood that life requires more than can be found in books, the library of the universe still can only be found inside us.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />Spirituality requires that you ask questions of yourself, whilst religions requires you to rely on books to move forward. When you appreciate you cannot be wiser than your creator, the holy books have locked millions of soul`s minds down.<br />Sadly, slavery still exists as religion was the slave owner’s mental back door plan.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />When you debate with someone that can only recite from the holy books, they tend to not listen to reason, their aggression increases with the depth of your challenge, they are trying to break you as opposed to exchange ideas with you and violent language or behaviour is threatened when you do not fall into line.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i><br />That sounds a lot like the slave master converting the slave to me. Is it only me that can see this.</i></h3> </div>

THE HOLY BOOK AND YOU

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One of Shakespeare’s Rare First Folios Discovered in French Library

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3> While preparing an exhibit on English-language literature last fall, staff members of the public library in Saint-Omer, near Calais, pulled what they thought was an unremarkable old book off the shelves. Instead, it turned out to be a first folio of William #Shakespeare’s plays, of which only around 230 are known to exist. As no known manuscripts of his plays survive, the first folio has been credited with preserving much of Shakespeare’s work, and has been called the most important book in the history of English literature.<br /><img src="https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/p240x240/1511914_676952825751941_5629777952597053460_n.jpg?oh=73e73734ac62307b9e5b3e76ac0242ff&oe=555F9A6A" /><br />Edited by Shakespeare’s friends and fellow actors John Heminges and Henry Condell, the first folio of the Bard’s work was printed in a run of about 800 copies in 1623, seven years after his death. It contains 36 of Shakespeare’s 38 plays, and is considered to be the only reliable text for half of his works, including “Macbeth.”</h3> <h3> <br />First folios are among the world’s most sought-after volumes, and Shakespeare aficionados track their whereabouts like bloodhounds. According to Rasmussen, a new one surfaces around every decade. Over the centuries, there have been some famous first folio disappearances: one went down with the doomed S.S. Arctic off Newfoundland in 1854, while another burned in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. More recently, a first folio sold at Sotheby’s in 2006 for $5.2 million.</h3> <h3> <br />The volume recently uncovered in the library in St.-Omer is the 233rd known surviving first folio. It is missing its title page and several introductory pages, and was originally catalogued as an ordinary old edition, believed to be a reprint from the 18th century. But Rémy Cordonnier, director of the medieval and early modern collection at the library, suspected it might be a first folio. He turned to Eric Rasmussen, a professor at the University of Nevada in Reno and the author of “The Shakespeare First Folios: A Descriptive Catalogue.” Rasmussen traveled to Calais late last month to examine the volume, and found it had the distinctive watermarks that appear on the handmade paper used in the original folios. Within minutes, he deemed the folio authentic.</h3> <h3> <br />As </h3> <h3>      Rasmussen</h3> <h3>                          told</h3> <h3>                                the </h3> <h3>                                     New </h3> <h3>                                            York </h3> <h3>                                                     Times: </h3> <h3> “First folios don’t turn up very often, and when they do, it’s usually a really chewed up, uninteresting copy. But this one is magnificent.” Scholars pore over the variations—however minute—between Shakespeare’s first folios in the hopes of uncovering something new about the master playwright’s intentions. The St.-Omer folio has a number of handwritten notes in the margins, which may provide clues as to how the plays were performed in medieval times. For example, in one scene in “Henry IV,” the word “hostess” is changed to “host” and the word “wench” to “fellow,” indicating that a female role might have been changed to a male.</h3> <h3> <br />Most interestingly, the first folio found in St.-Omer may fuel the controversial debate over whether Shakespeare may have been a secret Catholic, which has been going on for years in scholarly circles. The public library inherited the holdings of a long-defunct Jesuit college founded there in 1593 to provide a Catholic education for boys, which at the time was banned in England. The name “Neville,” inscribed on the folio’s first surviving page, links the volume to Edward Scarisbrick, a member of a prominent English Catholic family who took that name, and who may have brought the book to St.-Omer in the 1650s. (The college was expelled from France in 1762 and relocated to the Low Countries before finally settling in its present home in Lancashire, England, where it became Stonyhurst College.)</h3> <h3> <br />But even if this particular first folio has Jesuit connections, skeptics warn, that doesn’t necessarily indicate anything concrete about Shakespeare’s personal religious beliefs. As Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro of Columbia University told NPR News: “If it had been found in a yeshiva in Vilna, I wouldn’t suggest that Shakespeare was Jewish.”</h3> <h3> <br />The first folio will go on display in St.-Omer next summer as part of the library’s planned exhibition. Though it will no doubt prove a special draw for fans of English literature, the folio is not the rarest book among the small-town library’s collections: It also has a Gutenberg Bible, fewer than 50 of which are known to survive.</h3> </div>

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10 Things You May Not Know About Abraham Lincoln

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i style="font-weight: normal;">This fall, #Hollywood threw its support behind Honest Abe. With the release of the new biopic “Lincoln,” America’s 16th president is now a box office draw. As Steven Spielberg’s film hits the big screen, explore 10 things you may not know about Abraham Lincoln.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/p240x240/10420174_676963169084240_302157482996957290_n.jpg?oh=16201acf31d8d41a18ccc59eb35528a6&oe=5563E68B&__gda__=1431178252_759033eb6a0c7d4ff59bbd3cf6b33a0b" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/p240x240/10420174_676963169084240_302157482996957290_n.jpg?oh=16201acf31d8d41a18ccc59eb35528a6&oe=5563E68B&__gda__=1431178252_759033eb6a0c7d4ff59bbd3cf6b33a0b" /></a><i style="font-weight: normal;"><br />1. Lincoln is enshrined in the Wrestling Hall of Fame.<br />The Great Emancipator wasn’t quite WWE material, but thanks to his long limbs he was an accomplished wrestler as a young man. Defeated only once in approximately 300 matches, Lincoln reportedly talked a little smack in the ring. According to Carl Sandburg’s biography of Lincoln, Honest Abe once challenged an entire crowd of onlookers after dispatching an opponent: “I’m the big buck of this lick. If any of you want to try it, come on and whet your horns.” There were no takers. Lincoln’s grappling exploits earned him an “Outstanding American” honor in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i style="font-weight: normal;"><br />2. Lincoln created the Secret Service hours before his assassination.<br />On April 14, 1865, Lincoln signed legislation creating the U.S. Secret Service. That evening, he was shot at Ford’s Theatre. Even if the Secret Service had been established earlier, it wouldn’t have saved Lincoln: The original mission of the law enforcement agency was to combat widespread currency counterfeiting. It was not until 1901, after the killing of two other presidents, that the Secret Service was formally assigned to protect the commander-in-chief.<br />Abraham Lincoln circa 1846.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i style="font-weight: normal;"><br />3. Grave robbers attempted to steal Lincoln’s corpse.<br />Secret Service did come to Lincoln’s protection, but only in death. In 1876 a gang of Chicago counterfeiters attempted to snatch Lincoln’s body from his tomb, which was protected by just a single padlock, in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois. Their scheme was to hold the corpse for a ransom of $200,000 and obtain the release of the gang’s best counterfeiter from prison. Secret Service agents, however, infiltrated the gang and were lying in wait to disrupt the operation. Lincoln’s body was quickly moved to an unmarked grave and eventually encased in a steel cage and entombed under 10 feet of concrete.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i style="font-weight: normal;"><br />4. John<br />Wilkes<br />Booth’s<br />brother<br />saved<br />the<br />life<br />of<br />Lincoln’s<br />son.<br />A few months before John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln, the president’s oldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, stood on a train platform in Jersey City, New Jersey. A throng of passengers began to press the young man backwards, and he fell into the open space between the platform and a moving train. Suddenly, a hand reached out and pulled the president’s son to safety by the coat collar. Robert Todd Lincoln immediately recognized his rescuer: famous actor Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes. (In another eerie coincidence, on the day of Edwin Booth’s funeral—June 9, 1893—Ford’s Theatre collapsed, killing 22 people.)</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i style="font-weight: normal;"><br />5. Lincoln is the only president to have obtained a patent.<br />Benjamin Franklin isn’t the only American political leader who demonstrated an inventive mind. After being aboard a steamboat that ran aground on low shoals and had to unload its cargo, Lincoln, who loved tinkering with machines, designed a method for keeping vessels afloat when traversing shallow waters through the use of empty metal air chambers attached to their sides. For his design, Lincoln obtained Patent No. 6,469 in 1849.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i style="font-weight: normal;"><br />6. Lincoln personally test-fired rifles outside the White House.<br />Lincoln was a hands-on commander-in-chief who, given his passion for gadgetry, was keenly interested in the artillery used by his Union troops during the Civil War. Lincoln attended artillery and cannon tests and met at the White House with inventors demonstrating military prototypes. Although there was a standing order against firing weapons in the District of Columbia, Lincoln even test-fired muskets and repeating rifles on the grassy expanses around the White House, now known as the Ellipse and the National Mall.<br />Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes, as Hamlet in 1870.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i style="font-weight: normal;"><br />7. Lincoln came under enemy fire on a Civil War battlefield.<br />When Confederate troops attacked Washington, D.C., in July 1864, Lincoln visited the front lines at Fort Stevens on two days of the battle, which the Union ultimately won. At one point the gunfire came dangerously close to the president. Legend has it that Colonel Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., a future Supreme Court justice, barked, “Get down, you fool!” Lincoln ducked down from the fort’s parapet and left the battlefield unharmed.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i style="font-weight: normal;"><br />8. Lincoln didn’t move to Illinois until he was 21.<br />Illinois may be known as the Land of Lincoln, but it was in Indiana that the 16th president spent his formative years. Lincoln was born in a Kentucky log cabin in 1809, and in 1816 his father, Thomas, moved the family across the Ohio River to a 160-acre plot in southern Indiana. Lincoln did not migrate to Illinois until 1830.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i style="font-weight: normal;"><br />9. Poisoned milk killed Lincoln’s mother.<br />When Abraham was 9 years old in 1818, his mother, Nancy, died of a mysterious “milk sickness” that swept across southern Indiana. It was later learned that the strange disease was due to drinking tainted milk from a cow that had ingested poisonous white snake root.</i></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <i style="font-weight: normal;"><br />10. Lincoln never slept in the Lincoln Bedroom.<br />When he occupied the White House, the 16th president used the current Lincoln Bedroom as his personal office. It was there that he met with Cabinet members and signed documents, including the Emancipation Proclamation.</i></h3> </div>

10 Things You May Not Know About Abraham Lincoln

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Uptown Funk' holds onto British music chart top spot.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> <img src="https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/v/t1.0-9/p240x240/10959837_713523232094900_929131254086559141_n.jpg?oh=01b78830e24de7de3813a055a0844d74&oe=5553C00A" /><br />"Uptown #Funk" by English DJ and producer Mark Ronson secured a seventh week at the top of the British singles chart on Sunday, the Official Charts Company said.</h2> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> </h2> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> The single, which features Hawaii-born singer Bruno Mars, outsold Irish artist Hozier's song about love and religion "Take me to Church", which came in second place, and "L.A. Love" by Fergie in third.</h2> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> <br />The top five was completed by "Lips are Movin" by Meghan Trainor in fourth and new entry "Four Five Seconds" by Barbadian star Rhianna, which also features Kanye West and Paul McCartney.</h2> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> <br /><div style="text-align: left;"> Ronson could not hold on to number one position in the album charts, where Trainor's new entry "Title" earned her a chart-topping debut studio album. Ed Sheeran's "X" continued its long spell in the top five, charting in second place ahead of Ronson's "Uptown Special".</div> </h2> </div>

Uptown Funk' holds onto British music chart top spot.

"Uptown #Funk" by English DJ and producer Mark Ronson secured a seventh week at the top of the British singles chart on Sunday, ...

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Signs That You Are Still A Slave

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXNCMah65x4reGVF28TC0rAbJFGmruCnDfrs3GUBd4ZaAIFVNHmGwTQg4EJJMeY7_9cJLY7dzwC-ASyZjfbIaVW-1q20NzgaEY3EEAwpZGDYJzTjPmfBTqnbY1hTF-qEBpKkuNJgJp5khM/s1600/the-matrix-animated-gif.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXNCMah65x4reGVF28TC0rAbJFGmruCnDfrs3GUBd4ZaAIFVNHmGwTQg4EJJMeY7_9cJLY7dzwC-ASyZjfbIaVW-1q20NzgaEY3EEAwpZGDYJzTjPmfBTqnbY1hTF-qEBpKkuNJgJp5khM/s1600/the-matrix-animated-gif.gif" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> <div data-iceapc="3" data-iceapw="115" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <span data-iceapw="47" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">#Today’s world is a strange place. We are inundated with signals from early on in life, encouraging each of us to walk a particular path, establishing blinders on us along the way to discourage us from looking for alternatives to what the herd is doing or thinking. </span><br /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;" /> <span data-iceapw="68" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Life is so complex that overtime, if we are paying attention, we realize that there are an infinite <a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/04/25/within-range-possibilities/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Within the Range of Possibilities">number of possibilities</a> to what the human experience could be, and we come see that <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static;">the world</span> is on fire because individuals all too infrequently question why things are the way they are, failing to notice that their mindset or behavior needs adjustment in favor of more intelligent, common sensical, or sustainable patterns of existence.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"> </span></div> <center data-iceapc="3" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> <ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8947047327644044" data-ad-slot="4738825556" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" data-iceapc="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <span data-iceapw="22" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Not meant to be overtly critical of anyone’s lifestyle choices or personal situation, the following 16 signs that you’re a slave to </span>the matrix<span data-iceapw="34" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"> are meant purely as an observational approach to helping you identify the areas of your life where you may be missing an opportunity to liberate yourself from someone else’s self-destructive design for your life. </span><br /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;" /> <span data-iceapw="20" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;">Read on, and please take a moment to comment below with anything you’d like to <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static;">add to</span> the list or object to.</span></div> <div style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://worldtruth.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/enslaved.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088cc; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;"><img alt="enslaved" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-43164" src="http://worldtruth.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/enslaved.jpg" style="background-image: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inherit; height: auto; line-height: 0 !important; margin: 5px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></a></div> <div data-iceapc="1" data-iceapw="80" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <strong data-iceapw="13" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;">You pay taxes to people you’d like to see locked up in jail.</strong> This is perhaps the biggest indicator that we are slaves to the matrix. The traditional notion of slavery conjures up images of people in shackles forced to work on plantations to <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static;">support</span> rich plantation owners. The modern day version of this is forced taxation, where our incomes are <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static;">automatically</span> docked before we ever see the money, regardless of whether or not we approve of how the money is spent.</div> <div data-iceapc="4" data-iceapw="55" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <strong data-iceapw="9" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;">You go to the doctor, but you’re still sick.</strong><span data-iceapw="12" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Modern medical care, for all of it’s scientific progress, has sadly become </span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/02/19/follow-the-money-in-sick-care-whats-behind-the-drugs-and-needles/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Follow The Money In “Sick”-care: What’s Behind The Drugs And Needles?">sick care</a><span data-iceapw="33" style="box-sizing: border-box;">, where we are rarely advised to eat well and tend to our mental and physical health, but instead are routinely advised to consume expensive medications and procedures that are pushed by the </span><a href="http://humansarefree.com/2014/04/20-signs-that-big-pharma-is-scamming-us.html" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="7 Tips on Surviving The Medical Industrial Complex">for-profit healthcare matrix</a><span data-iceapw="1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</span></div> <div data-iceapc="5" data-iceapw="85" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <strong data-iceapw="17" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;">You’ve picked Team Democrat or Team Republican and argue with your friends, family and co-workers about politics.</strong><span data-iceapw="15" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> This is what the control strategy of divide and conquer looks like in our society.</span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/04/03/beyond-left-right-escaping-matrix/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Beyond Left & Right: Escaping the Matrix">Both of the major parties</a><span data-iceapw="21" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> are corrupt through and through, and independent candidates are not even allowed to. By believing in one of these parties and </span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/02/22/politics-is-exhausting-%e2%80%93-and-that%e2%80%99s-exactly-its-point/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Politics is Exhausting – And That’s Exactly Its Point">burning your personal energy</a><span data-iceapw="12" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> on arguing with other ordinary people you are turning over your soul </span>the matrix<span data-iceapw="18" style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and doing your share in making sure that ‘we the people’ will never be united against corruption.</span></div> <center data-iceapc="3" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> <ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8947047327644044" data-ad-slot="4738825556" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" data-iceapc="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 90px; width: 728px;"><ins data-iceapc="1" id="aswift_2_expand" style="background-color: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-table; height: 90px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 728px;"><ins id="aswift_2_anchor" style="background-color: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 90px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 728px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="90" hspace="0" id="aswift_2" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="aswift_2" scrolling="no" style="border-style: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 728px;" vspace="0" width="728"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></center> <div data-iceapc="4" data-iceapw="121" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <strong data-iceapw="11" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;">You work hard doing something you hate to earn fiat dollars.</strong><span data-iceapw="41" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Work is important and money does pay the bills, however, so many people lose the best years of their lives doing things they hate, just for money. The truth about money today is that we do not have money, but instead, </span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/01/08/dollar-dies/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="When the Dollar Dies…">inflationary fiat currency</a><span data-iceapw="51" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> that is privately owned and manipulated.Since it is still necessary to get by in this world, it is best that you get more value for your time by doing something you enjoy or by working with people you do not despise. It is easier than you may think to live on </span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/02/17/money-the-rise-of-the-alternative-currency/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Money & the Rise of the Alternative Currency">less money</a><span data-iceapw="18" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> than we believe we need, we just have to be willing to go against the grain realize this.</span></div> <div data-iceapc="5" data-iceapw="101" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <strong data-iceapw="16" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;">You’re willing to accrue personal debt to fund the acquisition of consumer a consumer oriented lifestyle.</strong><span data-iceapw="3" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Each time a </span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/03/28/cashless-society-almost-sinister-implications/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="The Cashless Society Almost Here And With Some Very Sinister Implications">credit card</a><span data-iceapw="31" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> is swiped it creates digits on the balance sheets of the banks that are most involved with the financial looting of the world today.These digits are then multiplied electronically by the </span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/02/04/illusory-money-economic-system-construct/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Illusory Money and the Economic System Construct">fractional reserve system</a><span data-iceapw="50" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> in place, which exponentially increases the power of these institutions. To participate in this, and by agreeing to pay this fake money back with interest, in order to maintain a certain lifestyle is a strong indication that you are bound by one of the main tenets of the matrix – </span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/03/12/assumption-consumption-weve-sold/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Assumption Consumption and How We’ve Been Sold">consumerism</a><span data-iceapw="1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</span></div> <div data-iceapc="3" data-iceapw="63" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <strong data-iceapw="12" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;">You converse with real people about the ongoing happenings of TV shows.</strong><span data-iceapw="8" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> TV is the most potent tool used for </span><a href="http://humansarefree.com/2013/12/how-mainstream-media-deceives-you-with.html" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Nano-Bots, Mind Control & Trans-Humanism – The Future of Consciousness?">mind control</a><span data-iceapw="43" style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and the ‘programming’ that is available, while certainly cool, fun, or entertaining is geared to reinforce certain behaviors amongst the masses.Dramatizing the ego’s importance, over sexualizing everything, glorifying violence, and teaching submissiveness to phony authority are the main features of modern TV.</span></div> <ol data-iceapc="1" data-iceapw="48" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 9px 25px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <li data-iceapw="48" style="box-sizing: border-box;">By taking what is happening onscreen and making it a part of your real life, you are doing your job of <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static;">supporting</span> the matrix’s desire to confuse us about the nature of reality, proving that something doesn’t have to actually happen in order it to feel real to people.</li> </ol> <div data-iceapc="3" data-iceapw="89" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <strong data-iceapw="9" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;">You don’t have anything to hide from total surveillance.</strong><span data-iceapw="32" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> If it does not bother you that someone, somewhere, working for somebody is watching you, listening to your conversations, and monitoring your movements, then, you are a good slave to the matrix.Invisible </span>surveillance<span data-iceapw="47" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> is an insidious form of thought control, and by using the logic of, ‘I have nothing to hide, therefore, it will do me no harm to be surveilled,’ then you are mindlessly admitting that you have an earthly master and are not of sovereign mind and body.</span></div> <div data-iceapc="2" data-iceapw="70" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <strong data-iceapw="12" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;">You think the world would be safer it only governments had guns.</strong><span data-iceapw="58" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> This is a violent world, and criminals engage in criminality against honest people at every level of society, including from within the government.Sure, in a perfect world, weapons wouldn’t be necessary for anyone but, sadly, our world is anything but perfect, and firearms are indeed a very effective form of protection against common criminals and abusive governments alike.</span></div> <div data-iceapw="36" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> The willingness to forego your <a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/04/10/the-right-to-self-defense/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="The Right to Self-Defense">right to self-defense</a> is a sign that you’ve relegated personal responsibility to someone else. Having the masses abdicate personal responsibility is one of the most important aspects of controlling them. Welcome to the <a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/08/07/5-ways-the-matrix-feeds-your-addiction-to-the-matrix/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="5 Ways the Matrix Feeds Your Addiction to – the Matrix">matrix</a>.</div> <div data-iceapc="3" data-iceapw="90" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <strong data-iceapw="5" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;">You knowingly drink fluoridated water.</strong><span data-iceapw="30" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Of all the health debates taking place today, the topic of fluoridated water is the easiest to understand, for it is a toxic by-product of an industrial process.Water is supposedly </span>fluoridated <span data-iceapw="54" style="box-sizing: border-box;">to aid in dental health, which is debatable in itself, but if this were so, then the involuntary fluoridation of public water is a medication without your consent… a form of slavery. Knowing this and continuing to drink fluoridated water is a sign that you’re content with your slavery to the matrix. Here are </span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/04/22/fluoride-ingesting-fluoride/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="18 Scientifically Validated Reasons to End Public Water Fluoridation">18 scientifically validated reasons to end public water fluoridation.</a></div> <div data-iceapc="3" data-iceapw="58" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <strong data-iceapw="9" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;">You knowingly consume toxic poisons like MSG and Aspartame.</strong><span data-iceapw="40" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> These two chemicals are widely known to be toxic to the human body. Knowing this and continuing to poison yourself with tasty, but chemical-laden processed foods is a sign that the matrix has programmed you to place less value on </span>your health<span data-iceapw="7" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and future than on your immediate gratification.</span></div> <div data-iceapc="6" data-iceapw="129" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <strong data-iceapw="15" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;">You depend on the pharmaceutical industrial complex for the management of your own mental health.</strong><span data-iceapw="3" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> The use of </span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/04/03/manufacturing-madness-pseudoscience-modern-psychiatry/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Manufacturing Madness: The Pseudoscience of Modern Psychiatry">psychotropic medicines is rising</a><span data-iceapw="13" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> rapidly in our society because people have been convinced that mental states are <a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/04/02/adhd-real-disease-says-leading-neuroscientist/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088cc; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank">s</a></span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/04/02/adhd-real-disease-says-leading-neuroscientist/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088cc; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank">imilar to diseases</a><span data-iceapw="5" style="box-sizing: border-box;">, while the truth about </span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/04/08/health-longevity-secrets-around-world/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Health & Longevity Secrets From Around The World">natural mental health</a><span data-iceapw="59" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> has been obfuscated by corporate media and a for-profit medical establishment.If you’re taking psychotropic medications, then you are under one of the most potent forms of mind control available. Part of this control is to convince you that you have no authority over your own mind. This is perhaps the matrix’s most terrible lie, and by willingly taking these </span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/10/03/violent-side-effects-antidepressants-many-ignore/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="The Violent Side Effects of Antidepressants that Many Ignore">psychotropic medications</a><span data-iceapw="34" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> you are conforming to the worst kind of slavery, and inhibiting your natural mental and emotional responses to the life stressors that are signaling to you that you need to <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static;">change</span> your behavior and habits.</span></div> <div data-iceapc="4" data-iceapw="65" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <strong data-iceapw="11" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;">You haven’t yet stopped watching your local and national news programming.</strong><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/02/27/everything-mainstream-media-fake-6-examples-media-manipulation/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Is Everything in the Mainstream Media Fake? – 6 Examples of Media Manipulation">The mainstream news media</a><span data-iceapw="37" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> is a tool of control and manipulation, and by continuing to support their ideas and world views by giving them your attention you are volunteering to be a slave to this not-so-subtle form of mental programming. Even </span><a href="http://humansarefree.com/2012/07/new-york-times-openly-admits-mainstream.html" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank">the local news is scripted</a><span data-iceapw="17" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> at the national level by <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static;">agents</span> of the handful of corporations tasked with shaping our opinions of events.</span></div> <div data-iceapc="7" data-iceapw="82" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <strong data-iceapw="20" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;">You’re more concerned with televised sports or other mindless distractions than you are with the quality of your natural environment.</strong><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">  </span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/04/21/deepwater-horizon-bps-toxic-legacy/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Deepwater Horizon: BP’s Toxic Legacy">The Deepwater Horizon</a><span data-iceapw="1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/05/20/10-reasons-canada-needs-to-rethink-the-tar-sands/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="10 Reasons Canada Needs to Rethink the Tar Sands">Alberta Tar Sands</a><span data-iceapw="4" style="box-sizing: border-box;">, the rise of </span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/03/05/frackquakes-every-state/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="6 States Where Fracking Earthquakes are a New Feature of Reality">Fracking</a><span data-iceapw="2" style="box-sizing: border-box;">, the </span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/10/30/gold-mining-amazon-rainforest-surges-400/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Gold Mining in the Amazon Rainforest Surges 400%">sacrifice of the Amazon</a><span data-iceapw="2" style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and </span><a href="http://humansarefree.com/search/label/Fukushima" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="50 Reasons We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima">Fukushima</a><span data-iceapw="53" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> are all life-changing events that will severely impact the our future on planet earth.To be unconcerned with all of this while tuning into a never-ending stream of sports trivia and distraction-based living is a sign that your sense of self-preservation has been stolen and replaced with an impulsive tendency for triviality and escapism.</span></div> <div data-iceapc="5" data-iceapw="94" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <strong data-iceapw="16" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;">You’re skeptical of any area of life that hasn’t been ‘proven’ or validated by modern science.</strong><span data-iceapw="30" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> The very essence of science is the inquiry into the unknown, implying that until science can grasp something, it is unexplainable.By discrediting or ridiculing experiences that other people have, yet </span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/10/04/chi-dmt-two-accessible-mysteries-that-evade-scientific-validation/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Chi and DMT – Two Accessible Mysteries That Evade Scientific Validation">evade scientific understanding</a><span data-iceapw="4" style="box-sizing: border-box;">, like near-death experiences,  </span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/01/29/science-finally-confirms-existence-acupuncture-points-human-body/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Has Science Finally Confirmed the Existence of Acupuncture Points, Validating Chinese Medicine?">acupuncture</a><span data-iceapw="7" style="box-sizing: border-box;">, or the life changing effects of </span><a href="http://humansarefree.com/search?q=ayahuasca" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Ayahuasca, Alternative Medicine and the Amazon Rainforest">Ayahuasca</a><span data-iceapw="37" style="box-sizing: border-box;">, then you are slavishly reducing your understanding of the world to a narrow range of possibilities. The matrix is made possible by efforts of volunteer gatekeepers people who are unwilling to think outside of the box.</span></div> <div data-iceapc="4" data-iceapw="85" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <strong data-iceapw="13" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;">You’ve never questioned the popularized version of <a href="http://humansarefree.com/search/label/Forbidden%20History" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank">ancient history</a> and the origins of our civilization.</strong><span data-iceapw="28" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> There are many unanswered questions about the origins of the human race that point to a different version of human history than what is taught in school. Read </span><a href="http://humansarefree.com/2014/03/top-20-still-unanswered-forbidden.html" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="20 History Questions They Refuse To Answer In School">20 history questions they refuse to answer in school</a><span data-iceapw="41" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> to discover some of the many ways in which our history has been hijacked. By never questioning what we’ve been told about our origin we are acquiescing to many of the imposed belief systems and narrow-banded views of human potential that </span><a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/01/21/mind-matrix-matter/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #42b6f6; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank" title="Mind is the Matrix of Matter">t</a>he matrix<span data-iceapw="1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> promotes.</span></div> <div data-iceapc="1" data-iceapw="14" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <strong data-iceapw="14" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;">You haven’t yet realized that you are a spiritual being living a human experience. </strong></div> <div data-iceapc="2" data-iceapw="30" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <span data-iceapw="30" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />If you can relate to any of the items on this list, then the matrix has you, and it is now your duty to engage more deeply in your liberation.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"> </span></div> <div data-iceapc="1" data-iceapw="1" style="background-color: #f7f8f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"> <strong data-iceapw="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;">Source:</strong></div> </div>

Signs That You Are Still A Slave

#Today’s world is a strange place. We are inundated with signals from early on in life, encouraging each of us to walk a particular pat...

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No ‘Northern’ or ‘Southern’ citizen in Nigeria – President Jonathan

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> #President Goodluck Jonathan, has on Thursday urged Nigerians not to see themselves as “Northern” or “Southern” citizens, but as people and a race bound by the same history and constitution.<br /> <br /> Jonathan gave the advice in Abuja at the annual National Migration Dialogue, organised by the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and internally Displaced Persons.<br /> Vice-President Namadi Sambo, who represented the President, called for an end to the classification of Nigerians as “indigenes” or “non-indigenes”of any particular state.<br /> “We must insist that in relating among ourselves as a nation, there are no Northern or Southern citizens neither are there citizens of any particular state in the East or in the West.<br /> “We are citizens of Nigeria, a people and a race bound by the same history and constitution.<br /> <br /> ‘We must continue to insist and uphold our constitution that guarantees the right of all Nigerians to live anywhere in Nigeria without any fear of economic, political, religious, or social exclusion.<br /> “Our ethnic diversity, ideally, should be a source of strength, not weakness; a country where people freely profess and practice their respective religious beliefs anywhere within our national boundaries, without any fear of discrimination.<br /> <br /> “The future I see is of a nation where people are no longer identified by their ethnic or religious affiliation but by the very virtue of their Citizenship as Nigerians,” he said.<br /> According to him, the Nigerian Constitution and the recommendationsof the recently concluded National Conference guarantee the right of every Nigerian to reside anywhere in the country without discrimination.<br /> <br /> While acknowledging the role migration plays in national development, the President noted that the country has the highest volume of international migrants, and the largest remittances in sub-Saharan Africa worth 20.76 billion dollars in 2013.<br /> He, therefore, stressed that Nigeria, while aiming to mitigate the negative impact of migration, would continually deploy strategies to encourage Nigerians in the Diaspora to invest remittances in social infrastructure,human capital development and other activities.<br /> The President further stated that his administration had made it a cardinal principle that Nigerians must be treated humanely and with dignify in any country of their residence.<br /> <br /> On internally displaced persons, the President said he had directed that victims must be given due care and maintenance without any form of social exclusion.<br /> Jonathan expressed the hope that the national migration dialogue would help shape Nigeria’s national migratory orientation.<br /> <br /> In her remarks, the Federal Commissioner for Refugees, Hajiya Hadiza Kangiwa, noted that Nigeria was the first country in ECOWAS sub-region to institute the dialogue.<br /> She said the dialogue was conceived as a strategy for mainstreaming migration into the post development agenda, and was also a derivation of the draft National Migration Policy document.<br /> <br /> According to her, the objective of the dialogue is to provide a platform for debating the impact and linkages between migration and development thereby shaping Nigeria’s national migratory linkages.<br /> She said the dialogue would also provide opportunity for reviewing the various operational challenges at the implementation level.<br /> <br /> The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that participants at the dialogue were drawn from the 36 States of the federation.<br /> It also has the participation of international development partners such as the International Organisation for Migration<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /></div>

No ‘Northern’ or ‘Southern’ citizen in Nigeria – President Jonathan

#President Goodluck Jonathan, has on Thursday urged Nigerians not to see themselves as “Northern” or “Southern” citizens, but as people an...

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NASA’s Kepler Reborn, Makes First Exoplanet Find of New Mission

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <h3> <img height="254" src="https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10407668_685407904906433_4762830622546606335_n.jpg?oh=03149957f5247f7fc623e80d15c3730a&oe=550B23E1" width="320" /><br />The artistic concept shows NASA's planet-hunting Kepler #spacecraft operating in a new mission profile called K2. Using publicly available data, astronomers have confirmed K2's first exoplanet discovery proving Kepler can still find planets.</h3> <h3> <br />Image Credit:NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T Pyle<br />NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft makes a comeback with the discovery of the first exoplanet found using its new mission -- K2.<br />The discovery was made when astronomers and engineers devised an ingenious way to repurpose Kepler for the K2 mission and continue its search of the cosmos for other worlds.<br />"Last summer, the possibility of a scientifically productive mission for Kepler after its reaction wheel failure in its extended mission was not part of the conversation," said Paul Hertz, NASA's astrophysics division director at the agency's headquarters in Washington. "Today, thanks to an innovative idea and lots of hard work by the NASA and Ball Aerospace team, Kepler may well deliver the first candidates for follow-up study by the James Webb Space Telescope to characterize the atmospheres of distant worlds and search for signatures of life."<br />Lead researcher Andrew Vanderburg, a graduate student at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studied publicly available data collected by the spacecraft during a test of K2 in February 2014. The discovery was confirmed with measurements taken by the HARPS-North spectrograph of the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo in the Canary Islands, which captured the wobble of the star caused by the planet’s gravitational tug as it orbits.</h3> <h3> <br />The newly confirmed planet, HIP 116454b, is 2.5 times the diameter of Earth and follows a close, nine-day orbit around a star that is smaller and cooler than our sun, making the planet too hot for life as we know it. HIP 116454b and its star are 180 light-years from Earth, toward the constellation Pisces.<br />Kepler’s onboard camera detects planets by looking for transits -- when a distant star dims slightly as a planet crosses in front of it. The smaller the planet, the weaker the dimming, so brightness measurements must be exquisitely precise. To enable that precision, the spacecraft must maintain steady pointing. In May 2013, data collection during Kepler's extended prime mission came to an end with the failure of the second of four reaction wheels, which are used to stabilize the spacecraft.</h3> <h3> <br />Rather than giving up on the stalwart spacecraft, a team of scientists and engineers crafted a resourceful strategy to use pressure from sunlight as a “virtual reaction wheel” to help control the spacecraft. The resulting K2 mission promises to not only continue Kepler’s planet hunt, but also to expand the search to bright nearby stars that harbor planets that can be studied in detail and better understand their composition. K2 also will introduce new opportunities to observe star clusters, active galaxies and supernovae.<br />Small planets like HIP 116454b, orbiting nearby bright stars, are a scientific sweet spot for K2 as they are good prospects for follow-up ground studies to obtain mass measurements. Using K2’s size measurements and ground-based mass measurements, astronomers can calculate the density of a planet to determine whether it is likely a rocky, watery or gaseous world.</h3> <h3> <br />"The Kepler mission showed us that planets larger in size than Earth and smaller than Neptune are common in the galaxy, yet they are absent in our solar system," said Steve Howell, Kepler/K2 project scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. "K2 is uniquely positioned to dramatically refine our understanding of these alien worlds and further define the boundary between rocky worlds like Earth and ice giants like Neptune."<br />Since the K2 mission officially began in May 2014, it has observed more than 35,000 stars and collected data on star clusters, dense star-forming regions, and several planetary objects within our own solar system. It is currently in its third campaign.</h3> <h3> <br />The research paper reporting this discovery has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.<br />Ames is responsible for Kepler's mission concept, ground system development, science data analysis and K2 mission operations. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, managed Kepler mission development. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colorado, developed the Kepler flight system and supports mission operations with the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder. The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore archives, hosts and distributes Kepler science data. Kepler is NASA's 10th Discovery Mission and was funded by the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.</h3> <h3> <br />For more information about the Kepler mission, visit:<br />http://www.nasa.gov/kepler</h3> </div>

NASA’s Kepler Reborn, Makes First Exoplanet Find of New Mission

The artistic concept shows NASA's planet-hunting Kepler #spacecraft operating in a new mission profile called K2. Using publicly avai...

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