CONSCIOUSNESS SHAPES OUR LIVES
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Posted:Dec 12, 2012 12:00 am
Last Updated:Jan 5, 2013 8:17 pm 1989 Views
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It should come as no surprise to discover that you are a believer, skeptic, or agnostic. Yet when you look at where other people fall, which could be very far outside your belief system, it may be disturbing to consider that you might all be right.
Believers may go to the heaven (or hell) that matches their religious background. In the afterlife they will meet their most cherished version of God–or gods. They will find themselves surrounded by angels or bodhisattvas. The emotional tone of that afterlife could be one of total bliss, if that is the tone they anticipate, or it could feel more ambiguous, even sad.
The experience could even feel like nothing. Skeptics may find that the afterlife is a blank, devoid of conscious sensation. For them, dying could lead to a long sleep without any perception of the self. The question is how long this state will last or what it might become.
For agnostic the afterlife is problematic. They may perceive that they remain themselves, occupying a kind of limbo where good and bad deeds form a hazy cloud that never resolves decisively. In this kind of afterlife the same worries and ambiguities that reside at the center of the agnostic worldview may persist.
And the undecided or open-minded people? They may be in for the biggest surprise, because someone who is truly open-minded dies without any expectations. If your approach to life is to take it one day at a time, the very last day won’t be any different.
In short, the ability of consciousness to shape our lives is the most permanent thing about us, the one aspect of the mind we can expect to continue.
Adapted from Life After Death: The Burden of Proof,
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SOCIALISM !!!!!!??????
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Posted:Dec 6, 2012 5:53 am
Last Updated:Dec 9, 2012 7:32 pm 2059 Views
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Read this in writings of a friend of mine - the Late Mrs She wrote it about 30 years ago.
An economics teacher at a local school made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Gillard / Brown socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The teacher then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on the Gillard / Brown plan". All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (Substituting grades for Rupees -something closer to home and more readily understood by all). After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too, so they studied little.The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the teacher told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, and gives to those who do nothing, no-one will try Or want to succeed.
It could NOT be any simpler than that.
REMEMBER, THERE IS A TEST COMING UP.--->> THE NEXT ELECTION.
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
Can you think of a reason for not sharing this? Neither could I.
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A STORY THAT I REPEAT
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Posted:Dec 6, 2012 12:54 am
Last Updated:Dec 6, 2012 8:48 pm 1869 Views
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CHEERS to the Whole World -
His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.
There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death
The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse
surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.
'I want to repay you,' said the nobleman. 'You saved my 's life.'
'No, I can't accept payment for what I did,' the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own came to the door of the family hovel.
'Is that your ?' the nobleman asked.
'Yes,' the farmer replied proudly.
'I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own will enjoy If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of.'
And that he did.
Farmer Fleming's attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.
Years afterward, the same nobleman's who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.
What saved his life this time? Penicillin.
The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill .. His 's name?
Sir Winston Churchill.
Someone once said:
What goes around comes around.
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.
It's My Friendship Season - I send this to everyone because everyone is A FRIEND.
A FRIENDSHIP WISH :
I pray it works...
May there always be work for your hands to do;
May your purse always hold a coin or two more than you need;
May the sun always shine on your windowpane;
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain;
May the hand of a friend always be near you;
May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead.
BAD LUCK MAY ONLY CHASE YOU, BUT MAY IT NEVER OVERTAKE YOU !!
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BLONDES - WHOEVER SAID THAT THEY ARE CEREBRALLY CHALLENGED ??
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Posted:Dec 4, 2012 9:30 pm
Last Updated:Dec 6, 2012 5:34 am 1925 Views
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Mail from blonde friend  :-
Last year, I replaced, like, all the windows in my house with those expensive, double-pane, energy-efficient kind.
Today, I, like, got a call from the contractor who installed them.
He complained that the work had been completed a year ago. and I still hadn't, like, paid for them. OMG!
Hellloooo,............ Just because I'm blonde doesn't mean that I'm, like, automatically stupid.
So, I told him just what his fast-talking sales guy told me last year -- that these windows would, like, pay for themselves in a year.
Helllooooo? It's been a year, so they're, like, paid for, I told him.
There was only silence at the other end of the line, so I finally hung up.
He never called back.
I bet he felt like an idiot.
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MEN'S LOVE FOR BREASTS LIES IN HORMONES
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Posted:Dec 2, 2012 5:46 am
Last Updated:Dec 4, 2012 9:27 pm 2290 Views
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See, not our fault !!
Men's love for breasts lies in hormones
--IANS | Dec 2, 2012, 12.00 AM IST--
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Why are men obsessed with breasts? Authors of a book analyze the emotional, biological and cultural reasons behind and conclude that it is due to a hormone released during nursing.
Larry Young and Brian Alexander, authors of "The chemistry between us: love, sex, and the science of attraction", believe it is due to a hormone released during nursing.
The hormone helps to forge the powerful bond between mother and baby, and also creates a drive for a strong nurturing bond between lovers, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday.
"Men are the only male mammals fascinated by breasts in a sexual context," said Young.
"And women are the only female mammals whose breasts become enlarged at puberty, independent of pregnancy.
"We are also the only species in which males caress, massage and even orally stimulate the female breasts during foreplay and sex," he said.
The authors cite the success of Hooters, "men's" magazines like Playboy, and about "100,000 years of art" as obvious proof that men are "extremely" drawn to breasts.
However, the attraction is nature, not nurture, they say.
"Boys don't learn on the playground that breasts are something that they should be interested in. It's biological and deeply engrained in our brain," they wrote.
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15 SPECTACULAR TRICKS FOR YOUR BODY !
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Posted:Dec 1, 2012 9:23 pm
Last Updated:Dec 3, 2012 10:27 pm 1819 Views
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These are useful tips - I have tried about half of them myself. Please read on, save and share :-
1. If you have got an itch in your throat, scratch your ear. When the nerves in the ear get stimulated, they create a reflex in the throat that causes a muscle spasm, which cures the itch.
2. Having trouble hearing someone at a party or on the phone? Use your right ear it's better at picking up rapid speech. But, the left is better at picking up music tones.
3. If you need to relieve yourself BADLY, but you're not anywhere near a bathroom, fantasize about RELATIONS. That preoccupies your brain and distracts it.
4. Next time the doctor's going to give you an injection, COUGH as the needle is going in. The cough raises the level of pressure in your spinal canal, which limits the pain sensation as it tries to travel to
your brain.
5. Clear a stuffed nose or relieve sinus pressure by pushing your tongue against the roof of your mouth then pressing a finger between your eyebrows. Repeat that for 20 seconds it causes the vomer bone to rock, which loosens your congestion and clears you up.
6. If you ate a big meal and you're feeling full as you go to sleep, lay on your left side. That will keep you from suffering from acid reflux it keeps your stomach lower than your esophagus, which will helps keep stomach acid from sliding up your throat.
7. You can stop a toothache by rubbing ice on the back of your hand, on the webbed area between your thumb and index finger. The nerve pathways there stimulate a part of the brain that blocks pain signals from your mouth.
8. If you get all messed up on liquor, and the room starts spinning, put your hand on something stable. The reason: Alcohol dilutes the blood in the part of your ear called the cupula, which regulates balance. Putting your hand on something stable gives your brain another reference point, which will help make the world stop spinning.
9. Stop a nose bleed by putting some cotton on your upper gums right behind the small dent below your nose and press against it hard. Most of the bleeding comes from the cartilage wall that divides the nose, so pressing there helps get it to stop.
10. Nervous? Slow your heart rate down by blowing on your thumb. The vagus nerve controls your heart rate, and you can calm it down by breathing.
11. Need to breathe underwater for a while? Instead of taking a huge breath, HYPERVENTILATE before you go under, by taking a bunch of short breaths. That will trick your brain into thinking it has more oxygen, and buy you about 10 extra seconds.
12. You can prevent BRAIN FREEZE by pressing your tongue flat against the roof of your mouth, covering as much surface area as possible. Brain freeze happens because the nerves in the roof of your mouth get extremely cold, so your brain thinks your whole body is cold. It compensates by overheating which causes your head to hurt. By warming up the roof of your mouth, you'll chill your brain and feel better.
13. If your hand falls asleep, rock your head from side to side. That will wake your hand or arm up in less than a minute. Your hand falls asleep because of the nerves in your neck compressing so loosening your neck is the cure. If your foot falls asleep, that's governed by nerves lower in the body, so you need to stand up and walk around.
14. Finally, this one's totally USELESS, but a nice trick. Have someone stick their arm out to the side, straight, palm down. Press down on his wrist with two fingers. He'll resist, and his arm will stay horizontal. Then, have him put his foot on a surface that's half an inch off the ground, like a stack of magazines, and do the trick again. Because his spine position is thrown off, his arm will fall right to his side, no matter how much he tries to resist.
15. Got the hiccups? Press thumb and second finger over your eyebrows until the hiccups are over - usually, in a short while.
- Army Training Manual 19/2012
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NON-VEGETARIANS - ALL BEWARE OF THEM
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Posted:Nov 19, 2012 10:56 pm
Last Updated:Nov 22, 2012 5:04 pm 2245 Views
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The news item below appeared in The Times of India (TOI ), a leading Indian daily, yesterday.
"A Class VI CBSE textbook titled 'New Healthway: Health, Hygiene, Physiology, Safety, Sex Education, Games and Exercises' has created a stir because of its objectionable content.
According to the textbook, non-vegetarians should be careful as "" ........ your food causes you to easily cheat, tell lies, forget promises, be dishonest, steal and commit sex crimes. ....."".
Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE) Chief reportedly said, "This is not a Board recommended book. Schools are allowed to select their own text books according to the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) syllabus till Class VIII. We are looking into this matter."
I am a non-vegetarian; all readers, please beware. )
Perverts, who author such lies as the one appeared in The TOI, should be summarily sacked if not castrated.
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OUR MUTUAL ADMIRATION
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Posted:Nov 19, 2012 5:26 pm
Last Updated:Dec 3, 2012 9:05 pm 2056 Views
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This is what my boss and I think of each other :-
- He would be out of his depth in a parking lot puddle.
- He got into the gene pool while the lifeguard wasn't
watching.
- His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of
morbid curiosity.
- This man is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.
- This man has delusions of adequacy.
- Some drink from the fountain of knowledge; but he only
gargles.
- When he opens his mouth, it seems that this is only to
change whichever foot was previously in there.
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SIGNIFICANCE OF DIWALI
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Posted:Nov 15, 2012 5:12 pm
Last Updated:Nov 19, 2012 4:53 am 2108 Views
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Deepavali or Diwali means "an array of lights". It falls on the last two days of the dark half of the Hindu month of Kartik (October-November).
In a lighter vein, all of us Indians, across the religious and regional spectrum, gorge on sweets. 
Mythical Origins of Diwali
Diwali commemorates that blessed day on which the triumphant Lord Rama returned to Ayodhya after defeating Ravana.
On this day also Sri Krishna killed the demon Narakasura.
Some hold that they celebrate the marriage of Lakshmi with Lord Vishnu.
In Bengal the festival is dedicated to the worship of Kali.
In South India people take an oil bath in the morning and wear new clothes.
In Sikhism, Diwali is the celebration of release of Guru Govind Singh’s from prison.
On Diwali Day, Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth and Prosperity and consort of Lord Vishnu, is worshipped.
In some communities, Diwali is also the beginning of the New Year.
Togetherness and Unity
Everyone forgets and forgives the wrongs done by others. There is an air of freedom, festivity and friendliness everywhere. This festival brings about unity. It instills charity in the hearts of people. Everyone buys new clothes for the family. Employers, too, purchase new clothes for their employees.
Prosper and Progress
On this day, the merchants in North India open their new account books and pray for success and prosperity during the coming year. The homes are cleaned and decorated by day and illuminated by night with earthen oil-lamps. The best and finest illuminations are to be seen in Bombay and Amritsar. The famous Golden Temple at Amritsar is lit in the evening with thousands of lamps placed all over the steps of the big tank. Vaishnavites (followers of Lord Vishnu) celebrate the Govardhan Puja and feed the poor.
Illuminate Your Inner Self
The day is also to focus on spiritual illuminat ion of self.
There is a shloka (hymn) that reads thus, in Italics, for Diwali :
O man! Wake up from the slumber of ignorance. Realise the constant and eternal light of the Soul, which neither rises nor sets, through meditation and deep enquiry.
May you all attain full inner illumination! May the supreme light of lights enlighten your understanding! May you all attain the inexhaustible spiritual wealth of the Self! May you all prosper gloriously on the material as well as spiritual planes!
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