Quote often attributed to Jefferson but actually by Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu from his 'Spirit of the Laws' 1748. A wise insight. Thomas Jefferson transcribed it into his Commonplace Book during his early legal studies (circa 1760s–1770s).

Fascinating, well written, clarifying.

Mind is not located in Body except through our own identification with it being so. Mind is a non-local awareness field.

Organic native common sense wisdom.

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. T S Eliot.

Operation Depopulation

I've done this many times and it is MUCH better than any store-bought brand, even the premium ones. And if you can get fresh, local cream it's even better.

CNN once chose the 31 most beautiful places in Japan. One of them is a private garden that one man planted on a hillside — and that his family has now tended for over half a century. Kawachi Wisteria Garden, Kitakyushu. For about two weeks in late April, two tunnels — 80 and 110 meters long — come into full bloom: twenty-two varieties of wisteria pouring from overhead trellises in curtains of purple, violet, white and pink. Walking through feels like being inside a waterfall of flowers. The founder, Masao Higuchi, started planting on this slope decades ago, far from any city, with no guarantee anyone would ever come. The family pruned, trained and waited. Year after year. Vine by vine. Then one CNN list, and the world showed up. Tickets now sell out at convenience stores nationwide. The garden is open about two weeks for wisteria, then quietly closes again. Fifty years of patience, for fourteen days of bloom — every single year. That math only makes sense in Japan. 🇯🇵

Une des meilleures vidéos que j'ai vu sur internet 🥹🤩🤩🤩🥰

Tom Bombadil is the most mysterious character in The Lord of the Rings. He's the oldest being in Middle-earth and completely immune to the Ring's power — but why? Bombadil is the key to the underlying ethics of the entire story, and to resisting evil yourself... Tom Bombadil is an enigmatic, merry hermit of the countryside, known as "oldest and fatherless" by the Elves. He is truly ancient, and claims he was "here before the river and the trees." He's so confounding that Peter Jackson left him out of the films entirely. This is understandable, since he's unimportant to the development of the plot. Tolkien, however, saw fit to include him anyway, because Tom reveals a lot about the underlying ethics of Middle-earth, and how to shield yourself from evil. The hobbits meet Bombadil early on in their quest, before they reach Bree and the Prancing Pony Inn. He rescues Merry and Pippin from Old Man Willow, and invites the hobbits to stay at his house in the Old Forest. There, the hobbits realize something strange about him: the Ring has no power over Bombadil whatsoever. When he wears it, he remains visible. He treats it as a plaything, making it disappear with a magic trick. Indeed, at the Council of Elrond, Gandalf rejects the idea of giving the Ring to Tom, for he would likely misplace it or forget about it entirely. So just who is he, exactly? When Frodo asks this very question to Tom's wife Goldberry, she simply responds "He is." It's a cryptic answer that echoes God's famous answer to Moses in the Book of Exodus: "I am who I am." Thus, many theorize that Bombadil is God, some kind of angelic being, or even the spirit of the Music of the Ainur (due to the fact that he is constantly singing). But Tolkien's letters reveal something considerably more interesting… In April 1954, Tolkien wrote: "The story is cast in terms of a good side, and a bad side, beauty against ruthless ugliness, tyranny against kingship… but both sides in some degree, conservative or destructive, want a measure of control.But if you have, as it were, taken a 'vow of poverty', renounced control, and take your delight in things for themselves without reference to yourself… then the questions of the rights and wrongs of power and control might become utterly meaningless to you, and the means of power quite valueless…" So, Bombadil is a representation of what it means to take pure delight in the world around you — to experience people and things simply as they are, without any thought for what they could be or how you could use them. And this is why the Ring has no power over him. To Bombadil, the One Ring is simply a ring, and the possibilities of what can be achieved through its power are of no importance. He is able to resist its evil precisely because he is entirely content with the world around him. At the end of the story, having accomplished what he set out to do in Middle-earth, Gandalf pays Tom a visit before returning to the Undying Lands: "I am going to have a long talk with Bombadil: such a talk as I have not had in all my time." If Bombadil is the epitome of simply enjoying life and being, Gandalf is the epitome of doing. He guides the hobbits, fights the Balrog, and runs up and down Middle-earth to help destroy the One Ring. But now that he's finally liberated from doing, he immediately heads to Bombadil's. He does so with a sense of relief, as if he's at last able to access a purer and higher mode of being — a sort of innocence that cannot be fully experienced by those consumed by doing. Of course, by this Tolkien doesn't disparage the value of action. The entirety of LOTR displays the importance of rising up against evil, even in the face of all odds. But with the inclusion of Bombadil, he does remind readers that fighting isn't all there is. Bombadil reminds us that while it's important to strive and *do*, it is just as important to occasionally step back and *be*. Indeed, your ability to do so plays a crucial role in helping you resist the allure of evil… Read the full piece here: theculturist.io/welcome The unsung hero of The Lord of the Rings...

One of the darkest moments of our time has been captured on video, The horrifying moment when tents sheltering displaced families in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, were struck, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of civilians, A tragedy that should never be erased from memory, and a video the world must never forget.

🚨 WTF?! A USS Liberty survivor confirms President LBJ intentionally set them up to be sunk by Israel as a false flag. He reveals Washington maliciously denied escorts and called back rescue planes twice, leaving them to die for 17 hours to appease the Zionist regime.

I’m a Boomer. We don’t give a shit that you can’t have a respectable chat with us. There are 5 young people (29-38) in my life. One is successful and built a home and cement and deck. (32 years old) One is building a home right now. (29 years old) One is a home owner single and raising a child happy as a clam (35 years old) One has a good job, money in the bank and renting a house. (33 years old) One blames boomers for his failures every time he visits. Lives with his parents and eats all their food. (38 years old) In my small sample, 80 percent of them are successful and work hard For the 20% blaming boomers. You are whiny cretins that want the good life without putting in the work. It ain’t our first rodeo. We see you. Loser

No, I happen to know the war started in 1953 when the CIA overthrow Iran's legitimate government on behalf of Big Oil, and then installed the Shah, who robbed the country blind for the next 25 years, and imprisoned anyone who dissented. When the Iranian people finally had enough and millions poured into the streets in a mass uprising in 1978, Jimmy Carter stupidly gave the brutal Shah sanctuary in the USA.....That's what provoked the student seizure of the US embassy, which could have been easily resolved had Carter sent the Shah back to Iran to face the justice he deserved, and met the students fair demand for an apology for the CIA coup. The so-called 47 year war on America never would have happened if the hard core cold warriors like Brzezinski had not so badly misled the hapless peanut farmer from Georgia.

Thanks! Good coverage, though the long walk through of the management was a tad tedious. So: the island is a hardened military zone with anti-nuclear shelters plus strategically located making the tourist development a cover - like Trump's ballroom over an Intelligence bunker.

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“The concept of ‘social justice’ has been the trojan horse through which totalitarianism has entered.” - Friedrich Hayek

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