Oct 31, 2008 8:32 am Mood: Irritated at self, 140 Views
Italian painter Allegretto Di Nuzi (b.1315 to d.1373), Gothic Era painter. This would be a painting perhaps representative of what I was seeking to convey in a previous blog. I cannot confirm whether the border is in Arabic or not.................? Anyways, I am sure fer folks that would like to seek further into the Great Mytery of "GOD, IS THE ONLY TRUE GOD AND MOHAMMAD IS HIS ONLY TRUE PROPHET." In the borders of clothing made in Arabic countries of 14th and 15th century European paintings can go Google these earth shaking truths up themselves.............................
Oct 29, 2008 11:49 am Mood: NOT HAPPY WITH IFF, 176 Views
Ya know, I think that perhaps we may move to a different forum, as I grow weary of censorship here in particular. We in America (The land of the FREE!) have Rupert Murdoch to censor what we see and hear in the news, a President and his administration that will lie at the drop of a hat. So i am fed up with censorship, it very much to my way of experiance and statistics show, a form of bondage of free will and builds walls of ignorance. People here at IFF are adults (mostly), and iffin somebody takes umbrage at a photo or what i have to say, then they can let me know and move the heck on down the road. Or in some cases, they will go on Jihad..and leave nasty comments upon every blog a person writes, and smear gossip around. Now, we could see iffin a photo was to violently graphic fer hanging in a public square of a large metro area. Or putting pornography in a public square, I would disagree with and move to censor fer childrens sakes. ~ ~ How much strife and war has been caused by censorship and how people thinkin that they know whats best fer others to think, see or say???????????????? ~ ~ So I say to the censors at IFF perhaps rethink yer thinkin aboot censorship. Here's wishing you folks the highest good.
We in America are creating democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan so well I thought we would share this collage of pics and entitle it
"SPREADING DEMOCRACY....ONE CHILD AT A TIME!"
Would you like fer America to come and spread a lil democracy in your neighborhood? If not write to these candidates in U.S. (McCain or Obama)for president of America and express your feelings about how we have broght democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan....please. I have been against this war before its inception and am even more against it now. Thank You.
I wanted to learn more aboot Islam the other day, just for the knowing about something I have next to no knowledge about. So we get a 3 hour documentary. It starts chronologically aboot 20 years prior to Mohammad's birth. and went to the end of the Ottoman Empire. When it came to the 14th and 15 centuries, I started laughing sooo hard. At that time period, Europe was just emerging from it's "Dark" ages and started importing silk and fine cloth from the Arabic countries. So that there royal folks and holy ones were buried in these as well as a great many paintings were done of Mother Mary and the babe Jesus in these fine linens n silks. Of course the royalty were very much wearing them in the fashions of the day. Well as common practice by the weavers in Arabic countries, a border of 1 to 1 1/2 inches wide was common practice of the time. The Europeans were so ignorant of arabic script or what it looked like, that they thought in general, it was a decorative border. Well written in the Arabic script within the borders was the Arabic saying "GOD, IS THE ONLY TRUE GOD, AND MOHAMMAD IS HIS ONLY TRUE PROPHET." I am sure Jesus got a real kick outta that one, as a good many paintings from this period of Jesus and the Mother Mary wearing silk with this border upon it showing plainly in paintings.
Oct 28, 2008 11:14 am Mood: lighter~~~~, 132 Views
OUTAKES FROM AN ARTICAL BY DIANE AKERMAN's Book--"A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SENSES"~~~~~~~~~~~In a 1975 study, teachers were asked to evaluate the records of an 8-year-old who had a low IQ and poor grades. Every teacher saw the same records, but to some a pretty child's photo was attached, to others a homely child's photo. The teachers were more likely to recommend that the homely child be sent to a class for retarded children.~~~~~~~~~~~~~Another study asked people to look at a photo of a man and a woman and to evaluate only the man. As it turned out, if the woman on the man's arm was pretty,the man was thought to be more intelligent and successful than if the woman was unattractive.~~~~~~~~~In one fascinating study, when men were asked to look at photographs of pretty woman,they greatly preferred pictures of woman whose pupils were dilated, which in turn caused the men's pupils to dilate as much as 30%.~~~~~~~~Aristotle was right when he observed that, "Beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of introduction."~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Thank goodness for Shakespeare in a "midnights Summers Dream"---"LOVE LOOKS NOT WITH THE EYES,BUT WITH THE MIND". All the great heros are handsome/sexy and the bad guys are invariably physically un-attractive by standards of the culture lived in. Yep, I want a bony superficial,anorexic model anytime .....
Oct 28, 2008 10:47 am Mood: Brief Clouds crossing my Sun, 187 Views
Once a love and in my heart eternal. Desires, torn by the spiritual and the worldly. In transition, the life we live seems torn by doubts, only the familiarity of experience, the safety net of "we have been here before." Sometimes the familiarity of old ways of thinkin start to insinuate my thoughts, dispelled by habit and replaced with something positive. No,I have been here before, once a love and in my heart eternal. Is always a love..........and in my heart eternal.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Amour Stanley
A re-paste of a poem from year n 1/2 ago, seemed right applicable to this mind, in the here n now.
Q. What do youget when you cross a rooster & a flea? A. An itchy cock.
One day when the teacher walked into the classroom, she noticed that someone had written the word 'penis' (intiny letters on the blackboard. She scanned the class looking fer a guilty face. Finding none, she rubbed the word off and began class. The next day, the word 'Penis' was written on the board again; this time it was written about halfway across the board. Again she looked around in vain for the culprit, so she proceeded with day's lessons. Every morning for about a week, she went into the classroom and found the same disgusting word written on the board, each day's being larger than the previous one, and each being rubbed off vigourously. At the end of the second week, she walked in expecting to be greeted by the same word on the board, but instead found the words: "The more you rub it, The bigger it gets."
"God and the Avatar are in one way the same and another way different. The Avatar comes from God and has the power and light of God. But we can differentiate because the Avatar has a human form while God has no form and yet all forms. Each Avatar is a manifestation of a part of the Divine, Paramatman. Each Avatar can be considered as one facet of a diamond and at same time the whole diamond is behind it and around it. Each Avatar has a specific task to fulfill."
"The Avatar is nevertheless a direct incarnation of God."
"Jesus knew from the beginning that he was the son of God. The changing experiances in an Avatars life have more to do with making it clear to the world who he or she is. Jesus symbolized sacrifice. Krishna brought love and peace and destroyed some of the asuras of the time."
"Was the Virgin Mary an Avatar? ~~~There is no doubt about it."
"A human realized guru is just a fingernail on one of the thousand hands of the Avatar....the Avatars power to change things is very much greater."
Strength, Wisdom and understanding from an anonymous Avatar.
Oct 23, 2008 10:10 am Mood: RISING BLISS, 224 Views
We met amma fer the first time in the physical in april of 2005. I went to her evening discourse...with a great wariness...perhaps this may-be one of those Guru's who would try to enroll us into a cult and have us selling flowers at the airport. By this time we had been living the traditional native american way for 15 years we are born to here. After Amma comes and is seated, we sit down and she does aboot 1/2 hour of different chants. She launches into her discourse always beginning with "I love you my babies, millions and millions and billions and gazillions of times!" When she says this, a person really "gets it", that she is Love. So I listen to the discourse, my mind is at war....lol's, about whether this person is for real. The second sentence she says after her greeting is, "I am "NOT" here as your guru, I am here as your Mother who wants only for you to be happy and become stronger in learning your own way, I am not here to convert you to the Yogi way." Finally shut brain off, and or disregard any further negative thoughts coming bubbling up, and just chose to belive that she is who she is. We come back the next day and its Darshan/blessing day. HOLY K-SMOLIES! I have no idea to express what she did to us, only that we have continued to see her whenever she comes to L.A. Some background........The year befor I had finished a pipe ceremony and asked my granpa fer understanding, specifically i asked if he had anything he wanted to say. He said "It would be good for you to go see so n so." So i left that place and went straight over to their place n told my frind what Granpa said , this launched a 6 1/2 hour visit where they filled me in upon Amma and the yogi tools they practice. They had for about 16 years followed the native american way, then after our granpa passed away, they ended up being led back to the yogi way. Some people not understanding, would talk bad aboot them. I always trusted there helpers n relationship with God, so was no big deal to me. I would stop by maybe 3 or 4 times a year and just say hello n visit a lil bit. well as I was getting ready to leave after the marathon 6 1/2 hour sit down. We were just getting ready to walk out the front door when I really became aware of Amma's picture(over the preseeding years, we had seen the picture more than a few times). I told my friend "Do you remember when I shared about the waking vision (i was laying down getting ready to go to sleep) we had back in "93", where Jesus came just smiled at me and left, then a womans face came and completely filled my vsion, with her warm smiling face?" He paused fer a sec, then said yes (He was before we became an interpreter, did all of my interpreting for me), Jesus is part of my way, the Woman represented Mother Earth who would help me learn my own way). I shared with him, that the Picture of Amma that was upon his mantle, was the same as the woman from the waking vision! Amma is the avatar of Divine Mother of Wisdom...Saraswati. So we reckon after 11 years later we bacame ready to meet Amma in the flesh, she has always been here, since the foundations of the earth and her love has never changed. We still pratice the native american way, as this is what we were born and committed to, also practice utilizing yogi tools Amma has so freely given into our keeping, from Khagda Mala to Sri Lalita Sahasaranama, to having Sri chakra to practice Puja/abishakem ceremony with. How many life times to get this far? We were not any kinda angel the first half of my life, we very much lived the thug life and figured we would be dead before 25 or 30. God thought otherwise........
We really feel like everything prior to ever meeting Amma in flesh, was simply prep school.
We wish you all the highest good in your spiritual life. We may ferget God N Divine Mother, they hold us in their hearts always....and have never forgotten us.
Why are we here? Well We reckon thats not a hard question, because my heart feels good being here regardless......I remember when we first came here, their was so much chaotic non-sense going on (what, aboot 3 years ago) I left fer awhile n came back, simply fer the need to express self n heart by another medium. We have changed a little, we look back at our first writings and the present.........like the physical universe n tracks in the snow, cannot hide where we were to where we are. anyway Thank you to all my Kindred souls here at Iff. Here's wishin you and your loved ones the Highest Good in all your endeavors in this life N beyond.........
anyway Thank you to all my Kindred souls here at Iff. 
