We celebrate Christmas, but it doesn't matter what you call it, LOVE and peace are the spiritual qualities of the winter holidays. My friend says "For our family, Christmas is the one time of year when we can count on smiling faces, bright lights, awesome gifts, giant twinkling trees, family reunions, childish games and believing in that old man that you know does exist. Christmas is the time when dreams come true. If there is no joyous way to give a festive gift, give love away. May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! Merry Christmas to you and your family May God watch over each and every one of you, and grace you all with love and peace.
Have a wonderful holiday, no matter what you believe in or don't believe in. Love and the Golden Rule are universal laws. I send love, peace, and blessings to you ALL.
I pray for peace on earth, and a new beginning, where the old fundamentalist religions fall away. Old, primitive archaic "us versus them" thought -- the ones that judge must stop judging others. The overly religious people who cannot stand to "live and let live" are the only enemy any of us have.
The new enlightenment is here. Love is all there is. God is love. There are no other gods before Love.
When you reach for the thought that feels better, the Universe is now responding differently to you because of that effort. And so, the things that follow you get better and better, too. So it gets easier to reach for the thought that feels better,
Merry Chrismas, Happy Hanukkah, Joy, Love, Peace and Prosperity to you all!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Lydia.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Heri za Kwanzaa to everyone.
ReplyDeleteI heard the bells on Christmas Day
ReplyDeleteTheir old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet, the words repeat;
Of peace on earth, good-will to men.
And thought how, as the day had come,
ReplyDeleteThe belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along, the unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men.
Till, ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day,..
A voice, a chime, A chant sublime;
Of peace on earth, good-will to men.
Then from each black, accursed mouth,
ReplyDeleteThe cannon thundered in the South,
And with the sound, the Carols drowned,
Of peace on earth, good-will to men.
And in despair I bowed my head;
ReplyDelete'There is no peace on earth,’ I said;
‘For hate is strong, and mocks the song;
Of peace on earth, good-will to men.
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
ReplyDelete‘God is not dead; nor doth he sleep!
The Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men
Merry Christmas Clif!
ReplyDeleteVery nice pics. And,I must admit that Fluffo appears to be doing rather well. If Fluffos happy then I'm happy!
ReplyDeleteBut, whats up with Ms. Cornell?
Shes totally flipping out on her Facebook site with endless philosophical comments.
I'm not sure who shes trying to convince more - herself or her fans?
I got you a Christmas present Johnny but I didn't know where to send it.
ReplyDeleteIts really neat..its an official, end of the world solar powered Mayan Calender countdown clock.
...it glows in the dark.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know what to get Volty so I just got him a years supply of Reynolds Wrap.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know what to get Volty so I just got him a years supply of Reynolds Wrap.
ReplyDeletePlease forward all gifts (hopefully expensive) to "Zion." That is my address.
ReplyDeleteBTW, how come those Facebook chowder heads get so much attention?
I guess were the unloved and forgotten ones.
:|
uh oh...Lydia, you're not paying enough attention to Johnny.
ReplyDeleteJohnny thinks his insults deserve more attention than we pay to them.
ReplyDeleteHAPPY NEW YEAR!
ReplyDeleteHows the weather down in Washington Worf? Its both warm and rainy up here right now.
You should fly up to Canada tonight and enjoy a few Mooseheads with me. Remember, the answer can be found in the bottle, you just have to drink deeper to find it.
I,ll even show you how to stuff a beaver properly. You can then take it home and mount it on your wall.
:D
"You see, there is only one constant, one universal, it is the only real truth: Causality.
ReplyDeleteAction. Reaction. Cause and effect.
Morpheus:
Everything begins with choice.
Merovingian:
No. Wrong. Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without."
Well gee Johnny, thanks for the invite, however I don't drink so guess I'll have to pass.
ReplyDeleteAs for stuffing the beaver, ... I didn't know you were married.
Worf said:
ReplyDelete"As for stuffing the beaver, ... I didn't know you were married."
:D
Where the hell is L. Cornell.
ReplyDeleteO.D.ed on Ecstacy & self promotion
ReplyDeleteVolty, you already came out of the close and admitted to being a card carrying member of the Christian right looney bin.
ReplyDeleteWhy bother posting as anonymous now?
Worf, you brute.
ReplyDeleteWorf, always remember when assume, you make an ass of you and me. Are you sure this is Volty?
ReplyDeleteIt could be FF, TT ,Mike, Clif, Carl, Larry, Clippy, Rusty, MooMoo, or any number of people...never ASSume.
ReplyDelete..an idiot by any other name...
ReplyDelete...and a loon to boot.
ReplyDelete..and as for making an ass out of you...
ReplyDelete:|
..someone beat me to it.
Anonymous said:
ReplyDelete"O.D.ed on Ecstacy"
Well, that was a little mean, however, it’s hard to disagree on the self-promotion part.
I have to admit...choke....that I have always respected Ms. Cornell as a fellow metaphysicist - where almost no idea is too absurd!
She is seeking answers to both the meaning and purpose of our existence and although our theories differ enormously I nonetheless hold her in high regards for searching.
Although, I often wonder if she simply enjoys furnishing fairy-tales to her followers for the sake of self-promotion…......kinda like the cult leader who uses both religion and unusually heavy doses of blue pills to benefit himself monetarily from all those lost souls craving escape from the harsh reality of life.
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ReplyDeleteThis must be coming out of the closet week.
Only problem with the Volty\Johnny\Anonymous troll, ...is once they come out, ...they just go right back in.
ReplyDeleteBecause they think no one notices.
...in fact, I'd wager Johnny still thinks he's actually fooling someone.
ReplyDelete...other than his probation officer, that is.
ReplyDeleteOn Jan. 5, 1914, Henry Ford, head of the Ford Motor Company, introduced a minimum wage scale of $5 per day. The average wage in the auto industry then was $2.34 for a 9-hr. shift. Ford not only doubled that, he also shaved an hour off the workday. Henry Ford was quoted as saying that the way to make big profits was to raise wages and reduce prices. At the same time he reduced the price of the Model-T from 600 dollars to 200 dollars, yet when he died, Henry Ford had between 700 and 900 million dollars (95% of the shares) to his name, and the company was debt free. Proving that one can still become rich while the poor gets a little richer.
ReplyDeleteToo bad the wall street bankers, their bought and paid for right wing politicos and their internet trolls forget what henry said when he did this;
Raising wages "has the same effect as throwing a stone in a still pond," creating an "ever-widening circle of buying" that increases everyone's prosperity.
Increasing the pay at the bottom increases EVERYONES prosperity, not just the riches at the top?
So the right wing and their water carriers have it all wrong?
Increasing the pay of the bottom increases the wealth of everyone, increases spending power, which leads to economic growth for all, and the wealth of those at the top, like Henry ford showed?
But isn't that what the right wing wants?
Oh wait, they didn't say that,
They think nothing is more important then beating Obama.
NOTHING.
Not helping the US economy recover from the damage George W Bush and a republican controlled congress allowed Wall Street to do to it.
Not helping the middle class recover from the games and scandals, Wall Street played with the money, that Wall Street scamed out of them.
Not helping the poor rise into the middle class, LIKE HENRY FORD DID.
Not helping the country get back to economic prosperity.
NO
Beating Obama trumps all this just for a republican victory.
The choice is actually simple,
Vote for the Henry Ford great idea, furthered by FDR during the great depressions, of increasing prosperity for all. An idea which resulted in the USA being the which resulted in richest country on the planet by 1980.
Or follow the ideas of the extreme right wing from the last 30 years which resulted in a country losing jobs to overseas, more people slipping out of the middle class, increasing economic uncertinity end result we are going broke with massive staggering debts (both public AND PRIVATE), which the right wing politics started by Reagan ET AL has wrought us.
We can go further down the right wing path to ever increasing economic ruin, or follow the path blazed by Henry Ford.
The choice is that simple.
BTW, anybody who thinks Romney made his millions "all by himself" is deluded;
ReplyDeleteBain Capital almost went bankrupt in 1991.
How did Mittens save his company?
By getting the Federal government to bail it out;
Via the Boston Globe:
Republican Senate nominee Mitt Romney's rescue of a business consulting firm was achieved in part by convincing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to forgive roughly $ 10 million of the company's debts, according to sources close to the deal and federal records obtained by The Boston Globe.
Romney, whose business acumen has been the cornerstone of his campaign, has said saving the Bain & Co. consulting firm from the brink of bankruptcy in 1991 was the accomplishment that most convinced him he had the mettle to be a US senator.
Bain & Co. and the FDIC agreed to the deal after months of intense negotiations. Moreover, bankers say debt forgiveness is relatively routine when a company is at risk of collapse.
But the $ 10 million cost to the FDIC raises the question of whether Romney's success, as well as the resurrection of Bain & Co., came partially at the expense of the federal agency that protects US bank deposits.
Not only did Mittens make millions cutting people's pay(if he even left them a job), he begged the federal government for a bail out.
BTW he is still raking in the millions while the people whose jobs he destroyed are not.
He certainly ain't no Henry Ford is he?
I heard they're talking about building skyscrapers in downtown Hollywood.
ReplyDeleteSeems like a smart idea.
...building skyscrapers in an earthquake zone.
Why not, Toyko has been doing the exact same thingy for decades.
ReplyDeleteSee here;
http://pic.templetons.com/cgi-bin/imget?d=brad/photo/japan/tokyo-above&fn=img_6146.jpg
Not to mention Hollywood is right down the Hollywood Freeway from downtown LA Look to the left side of the panoramic for the Hollywood area.
BTW SF has quite a few also.
Seems building engineers have that one figgered out.
Yea, figured out to how to get a lot of people killed.
ReplyDeleteWhere's Mike, at the local McDonalds?
ReplyDeleteWe're in a damned if we do and damned if we don't situation in Pakistan. If open elections bring a radical muslim wing into power then we're in trouble. Once a radical muslim wing, particularly one favorable to Al Quaida takes power, then suddenly the terrorists have nukes.
ReplyDeleteOur forces in Afghanistan would be wide open, and neighboring countries would be on the brink. Avoiding all out war with Pakistan will be tricky at that point, and who knows who might jump in at that point.
On the other hand Musharrif is a dictator and how can we claim to support democracy and still support a dictator?
Gee, I think the shock of realizing Mitt Romney is their candidate has taken the air out of our resident trolling section.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe its the reality that Ron Paul is going to split the republican vote the same way Nader did to Gore.
ReplyDeleteThey're going to lose again, and that's starting to set in.
I think Voltron want's the Newt.
ReplyDeleteNah, I was hoping for Bachmann or Palin. In their absence I was considering Newt or Santorum. But their recent leftist attacks on Romney put me off them.
ReplyDeleteI don't really like Romney either but it appears he'll likely be our nominee. I suppose I'll have to hold my nose and vote for him.
It really doesn't matter at this point who wins the nomination, anyone they put up will easily beat Barry.
And regardless of your belief, Paul won't be the republican nominee and probably isn't going to go independent.
ReplyDeleteThe libertarian vote will more likely go to the republican than the socialist in chief.
You shouldn't worry too much though, a Romney win will be a hollow victory.
ReplyDeleteI never said Paul would be the nominee. I said he'd split the republican vote by running as an independent.
ReplyDeleteOf course if Romney's smart, he'll pick Paul as his Veep and then he might have a chance of beating President Obama.
But if he doesn't do that, he doesn't have a Prayer.
Friends of Voltron said...
ReplyDelete"Nah, I was hoping for Bachmann or Palin. In their absence I was considering Newt or Santorum. But their recent leftist attacks on Romney put me off them.
I don't really like Romney either but it appears he'll likely be our nominee. I suppose I'll have to hold my nose and vote for him.
It really doesn't matter at this point who wins the nomination, anyone they put up will easily beat Barry."
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!.............ignorant as ALWAYS I see :)
Worfeus Focker said...
ReplyDelete"I never said Paul would be the nominee. I said he'd split the republican vote by running as an independent.
Of course if Romney's smart, he'll pick Paul as his Veep and then he might have a chance of beating President Obama.
But if he doesn't do that, he doesn't have a Prayer."
LOL..........now we're debating if the blueblood vulture capitalist with the off shore tax shelter that he "SAYS" isnt REALLY a tax shelter and who likes firing people is smart :)
Romney isnt smart he'll pick that fat smug slob Chris Christy and lose just like the senile McCaine did.