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Nervous System * “Evade every influence that keeps you frozen in the past. ” ― Rob Brezsny | pam grout * The mind is not contained to the cranium. It’s province is of the infinite imaginative spirit. - Synaptic Stimuli * The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it. —Sri Nisargadatta * "If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation." - Krishnamurti * Deepak Chopra, MD, "...we know that the mind and body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe, must leave tracks in the physical one...Your body is the physical picture, in 3D, of what you are thinking."1 While no one would consciously choose to become afflicted with tonsillitis, diabetes or cancer, or any other debilitating life-changing condition, there may be unconscious beliefs that exist to create the environment for an illness...www.lovehealsus.net * I see the world as I am -Paul Éluard * “The brain is a muscle that can move the world.” - Stephen King * What Work Is We stand in the rain in a long line waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work You know what work is — if you’re old enough to read this you know what work is, although you may not do it. Forget you. This is about waiting, shifting from one foot to another. Feeling the light rain falling like mist into your hair, blurring your vision until you think you see your own brother ahead of you, maybe ten places. You rub your glasses with your fingers, and of course it’s someone else’s brother, narrower across the shoulders than yours but with the same sad slouch, the grin that does not hide the stubbornness, the sad refusal to give in to rain, to the hours wasted waiting, to the knowledge that somewhere ahead a man is waiting who will say, “No, we’re not hiring today,” for any reason he wants. You love your brother, now suddenly you can hardly stand the love flooding you for your brother, who’s not beside you or behind or ahead because he’s home trying to sleep off a miserable night shift at Cadillac so he can get up before noon to study his German. Works eight hours a night so he can sing Wagner, the opera you hate most, the worst music ever invented. How long has it been since you told him you loved him, held his wide shoulders, opened your eyes wide and said those words, and maybe kissed his cheek? You’ve never done something so simple, so obvious, not because you’re too young or too dumb, not because you’re jealous or even mean or incapable of crying in the presence of another man, no, just because you don’t know what work is. — From “What Work Is,” by Philip Levine (Alfred A. Knopf, 1991). * We are collaborators in creation. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin * "All thought is metaphor. Every verbal map we make is metaphor, but existence is not words, it is not mathematical equations, the universe is much bigger and more complicated than any verbal map we can make of it. The map is not the territory. The words that describe the map are not the territory, are even further from the territory, so the map is a generalization that doesn’t fit any particular territory. What I perceive is not out there, it’s just what I perceive." — Robert Anton Wilson * A rift opened in the world, and guess what was on the other side? The world. That’s tonight’s poem: nothing but a small sudden understanding. Nothing permanent. Read the full version of Chase Twichell's final Monday poem for the Tricycle blog, "After Snow." * "The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds." — Albert Schweitzer * “The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.” —Khalil Gibran Waiting For Dinner | QUIDNUNC CURIOUSEVERYTHING.BLOGSPOT.COM * Many Christians live with a terrible sense of being rejected, because their religion is basically a worthiness game where no one really wins. That’s precisely not the Good News. It’s bad news. The Gospel will always be misinterpreted by the false self in terms of some kind of climbing or achieving. Since the false self can’t even understand the command to love one’s enemies, it has to disregard the message as naive, which is exactly what most of Christian history has done. Jesus’ rather clear teaching on love of enemies has been consistently ignored by all the mainline churches. Christians have been fighting one war after another, and excluding, torturing, and killing enemies right and left because the false self can never understand the Gospel. Yet we have been baptizing, confirming, giving communion to, and even ordaining false selves throughout our history. It is probably unavoidable, and God surely must be patient. -- Richard Rohr * "When you work, just work. When you eat, just eat. When you send out, just send out." ~ Zen Judaism by David M. Bader [Thank you “Alive On All Channels”] *

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Biomed Grid | Herpetic Encephalitis Associated with Multiple Myeloma: Diagnostic Challenge

Introduction

Multiple myeloma accounts for 1% of all malignancies and has recently shown an increase in its incidence. This increase can be explained by factors such as greater knowledge of the natural history of the disease, improvement of the diagnostic resources and increase of life expectancy of the population. However, in Brazil, its incidence is unknown, since the disease does not appear in the annual estimates provided by the National Cancer Institute (INCA). It should be noted that there are no screening exams of this neoplasm for asymptomatic individuals, being dependent on the clinical knowledge to make the diagnostic suspicion [1]. Among the complications of multiple myeloma, infections stand out, which often prove to be a major challenge for the clinician. The appearance of new therapeutic options that prolong the life of the patients with this neoplasm led to an increase in the prevalence of the disease, attributing a chronic character to it. The management of such infections is based on the evaluation of the therapeutic risk for myeloma, considering factors related to the neoplasia and the host [2]. Regarding infections and the different risks promoted by the myeloma, encephalitis is one of the infections that can overlap and increase the morbimortality of the first, being considered the most serious infection caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV), also called herpes simplex virus. Herpes simplex (HSV) 1 is the main causative agent, being associated with high lethality, even in isolation. Its clinical manifestations are related to the affected areas of the brain, but there are no path 3nomic signs and symptoms of this disease [3].

In this context, the study aimed to report a case of difficult diagnosis of multiple myeloma associated with herpetic encephalitis, whose patient presented with lowering of the level of consciousness without fever or associated behavioral state change. The patient described had multiple comorbidities, proposing a greater range of diagnostic hypotheses and confounding factors that characterized the diagnostic challenge of an atypical condition. The description of this clinical case aims to broaden the knowledge about the subject, and thus allow a more in-depth study of the association of both diseases that have high morbidity and mortality, based on the experience of different neurologists.

Case Report

A 64-year-old male patient, Caucasian, with type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism and depression; former daily and exsmoker (30 packs/year). He was referred to the emergency room due to lowering of consciousness level. The family reported that the patient was progressively experiencing the level during the last two weeks but denied that he had signs and symptoms such as behavioral changes, fever, headache, nausea, vomiting or any other symptom suggestive of infection. In the four days prior to hospitalization, the patient presented episodes of hypoglycemia, which led him to suspend his use of the hypoglycemic drugs he used (Metformin and Glibenclamide). He sought medical help from another service the day before he was hospitalized but evaded from the place given the delay in releasing the test results. He was admitted to our Service not very responsive, but obeyed commands and gave little information about his symptoms. He was referred to the emergency room with the diagnostic suspicion of diabetic ketoacidosis, due to the value obtained when measuring capillary glycemia above 500 mg/dl.

At admission to the emergency room, the patient was in poor general condition, bleached, dehydrated and eupneic in ambient air. The values of the vital signs were as follows: heart rate 120/ minute, blood pressure 175x86 mmHg, respiratory rate 18/minute, oxygen saturation 94% in ambient air, capillary blood glucose = 336 mg / dl. At pulmonary auscultation, vesicular murmur present and without adventitious noises. At cardiac auscultation, 02 rhythmic and normofonetics sounds in two times and without blows. He presented diffuse pain palpation of the abdomen, with a sudden negative abdominal decompression maneuver. The neurological examination showed Glasgow of 09, isochoric pupils and photo reagents, with no other findings abnormal to the examination.

Table 1: Arterial gasometry.

Table 2: General examinations (blood).

Arterial gasometry analysis (Table 1) and general examinations were performed (Table 2). From arterial blood gasometry analysis, the hypothesis of diabetic ketoacidosis was ruled out. Given the history of alcoholism, it was suggested possible alcohol abstinence syndrome; however, general examinations revealed normocytic and normochromic anemia, hypercalcemia, and impaired renal function. From these results, multiple myeloma was suspected, and additional tests were requested: urinary Bence-Jones protein, serum phosphate, serum 25- hydroxy-vitamin D, and protein electrophoresis in the blood. Sodium levothyroxine and vigorous hydration with 0.9% sodium chloride were started. The patient maintained satisfactory diuresis but did not present improvement of the neurological condition and progressed with worsening of lowering of the level of consciousness and the level of arterial oxygen saturation, necessitating orotracheal intubation (OTI).

After OTI and maintaining the patient’s clinical stability, the patient was submitted to computed tomography of the cranium, thorax and abdomen without iodinated contrast, showing bone lytic lesions that contributed to the diagnosis of multiple myeloma, but did not elucidate the neurological picture seen the absence of detectable abnormalities in the brain by the method. The evaluation of the hematology team, who performed bone marrow aspiration puncture, was requested, confirming the diagnosis of multiple myeloma after myelogram analysis.

The chemotherapeutic treatment was introduced with Melphalan and Dexamethasone. Liquor was performed, and liquor sample analysis showed pleocytosis with predominance of lymphomononuclear and hyper proteinorrachia, with normal glycemia. In addition to routine microbiological (bacterial, mycobacterial and fungi) stains and cultures, the DNA analysis of herpes simplex virus 1 and 2 in the liquor sample was performed using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique. It was decided to initiate the administration of Acyclovir (8mg/kg of 8/8hrs), Ampicillin (2g of 4/4 hours) and Ceftriaxone (2g of 12/12horas) with the objective of treatment of encephalitis of etiology still undetermined, according to the protocol of the hospital.

Figure 1: Changes in insular and temporal cortical subcortical signal on the left, characterized by hypersignal acquisition of T2 and FLAIR and post-contrast enhancement to T1 acquisition after administration of Gadolinium.

Despite the treatment regimen initiated above and all the measures of intensive life support, two weeks after admission the patient was ventilated under tracheostomy, totally dependent on mechanical ventilation, persistently Glasgow 03. In this period, the detection of herpes simplex DNA 1 and 2 in the sample of liquor collected at the admission of the patient presented results, which were positive for the presence of viral DNA (HSV type 1 and 2), confirming the diagnosis of Viral Encephalitis of herpetic etiology as the cause of neurological impairment. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain was performed, which showed extensive alterations of the frontal, insular, temporal, and cerebral bridge, cerebral peduncle and posterior arm of the left internal capsule, characterized by hypersignal acquisition of T2 and FLAIR, foci of restriction to acquisition of diffusion and post-contrast enhancement to T1 acquisition after administration of Gadolinium, which further corroborated the diagnosis (Figures 1 & 2).

Figure 2: Extensive changes in frontal, insular, and temporal cortical-subcortical signal at the bridge, cerebral peduncle and posterior arm of the left internal capsule characterized by hypersignal acquisitions T2 and FLAIR, restriction foci to the acquisition of diffusion and post-contrast enhancement to T1 acquisition after the administration of gadolinium.

The neurological evolution of the condition remained unchanged, even after the use of intravenous acyclovir for 21 days. After three months of hospitalization, due to the neurological sequelae and the multiple and repetitive clinical and infectious complications indicative of a reserved prognosis, the multidisciplinary team chose after informed consent from the patient’s relatives to conduct the case under a palliative care scheme. Patient died one week after this decision.

Discussion

Multiple myeloma is the second most common oncohematologic neoplasm, preceded by lymphomas [1]. It has a progressive and incurable character, formed by B cells, characterized by the deregulated and monoclonal proliferation of plasmocytic in the bone marrow, which produce dysfunctional monoclonal immunoglobulin or fragments of M protein [4]. In accordance with the case studied, Silva et al. [3] report that myeloma predominates in adult men aged 50-60 years, with a mean age of 65 years, and although the literature shows a higher prevalence in blacks, some studies show a higher prevalence in whites due to the pertinent characteristics of the studied population, [1-5] as was verified in the patient studied.

Silva et al. [4] further describe that the clinical manifestations of myeloma result from spinal neoplastic infiltration and the presence of the monoclonal protein in the blood and urine, so that the symptoms are variable: weight loss, bone pain, generalized fatigue and weakness, or be asymptomatic [4]. Since the patient in question did not present similar complaints, he was characterized as asymptomatic in relation to multiple myeloma. Among the pathophysiological features of the disease, there may be bone destruction, renal failure, suppression of hematopoiesis and increased risk of infections, [4] which helped to raise the diagnostic suspicion of herpetic viral encephalitis. However, other laboratory findings made the correct diagnosis difficult at first, leading the team to consider other differential diagnoses according to epidemiology

The diagnosis of multiple myeloma is made through bone marrow biopsy (BMO), but laboratory and imaging tests (Simple Radiography, Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance) serve as a confirmation aid. Laboratory tests may show renal insufficiency, hypercalcemia, anemia, presence of monoclonal immunoglobulin (M protein) in the blood and urine, as well as osteopenia, lytic lesions, pathological fractures and hepatosplenomegaly in the imaging studies. This case report was well characterized with multiple myeloma from laboratory and radiological evaluation, although asymptomatic. Treatment with Melfalan associated with corticosteroids should be performed as soon as possible after the diagnosis has been made to prevent the disease from progressing and to guarantee an improvement in the quality of life. Since chemotherapy alone is considered in patients who are not candidates for transplantation, it is observed that there is some level of response in up to 60% of the patients, although it is an option frequently approached as palliative treatment [5].

The prognosis of the neoplasia is reserved. Patients older than 65 years and symptomatic disease present worse outcome when compared to younger patients without symptomatic disease. Because it is a neoplasm that alters humoral immunity, it predisposes the patient to infections, which can occur with severity and relapses, [1] corroborating the current diagnosis. Samson and Singer (2001) apud Silva et al. [4] also describe that the survival of the patient with myeloma ranges from a few months to more than ten years, with an average survival of about 3 to 4 years. The patient had an oligosymptomatic and difficult to locate infectious condition. Infection is considered a major cause of morbidity and the leading cause of mortality in patients with myeloma [3,6]. There are additional risks for myeloma infection: advanced age, iron overload caused by multiple transfusions, Dexamethasone-induced hyperglycemia, renal failure and bone disease. There are a variety of different pathogens that can affect these patients, generating nonspecific signs and symptoms that make diagnosis difficult [6].

For Fonseca [3] the most common microorganisms involved in infections associated with multiple myeloma are the enteric Gramnegative agents. However, encapsulated Gram-positive agents, varicella zoster virus, cytomegalovirus, Epstein Barr virus (EBV), herpes simplex virus (HSV) and fungi can also be the cause of infections in these patients. Among the possible infections caused by HSV types, HSV-1 is most commonly associated with nongenital infections, while HSV-2 is more related to genital infections. Considering that there are several forms of manifestation of HSV infection, the mucocutaneous form is the most common [3]. Silva [7] also describes that evidence of HSV-2 infection is associated with the recurrence of a manifest meningoencephalitis first in the neonatal period [7]. Therefore, the patient studied, in addition to presenting HSV-1 infection, given immunodepression caused by myeloma, possibly presented a relapse of an HSV-2 infection.

HSV infection in the central nervous system is less common but is very serious and requires rapid diagnosis as well as early treatment to avoid neurological sequelae or even death. The CNS is predominantly affected by HSV-1.(3) Herpetic encephalitis has a mortality rate greater than 70% if untreated, and of these patients without treatment, only 2.5% may have recovery of normal neurological function [3,6] However, among the patients receiving treatment, mortality is 20%, and of the survivors, about 10% recover without sequelae [6-7]. Clinically there is no pathognomonic sign of viral encephalitis, but the classical triad of the disease is composed of fever, headache and behavioral alteration; emphasizing that it is not common the incomplete presence of the triad in patients diagnosed with viral encephalitis, [4-6] as was clinically demonstrated in the patient of the report, who attended alone with lowering of the level of consciousness. Silva [7] describes the main symptoms as cardinal signs: fever, headache, altered level and content of consciousness, focal neurological deficit and convulsion, which within the context of what was reported would consider only the third item mentioned above.

Herpetic viral encephalitis is a difficult diagnosis due to low suspicion of health professionals, and some tests may guide its diagnosis in the face of suspicion. Magnetic resonance of the brain is able to evidence the injured area, which usually affects the temporal lobe, as evidenced in the patient in question, who presented lesion of additional areas (cortex and insula); and the electroencephalogram may present wide and restricted slow waves to the temporal lobe [7]. Liquor may present pleocytosis with lymphomononuclear predominance, normal or increased total protein and normal or increased glycemia. However, the confirmatory diagnosis is the identification of virus DNA in the liquor by the PCR method (Polymerase Chain Reaction) [6-7], which confirmed in our report the presence of HSV-1 and HSV-2 infection.

Oliveira et al. [6] also infer about the importance of extensive diagnostic investigation since this may reveal new pathologies involved. This demonstrates to be true, since it was first evidenced the diagnosis of multiple myeloma, already complicated with neuro infection by agents not commonly found together in the CNS. Also justifying the importance of extensive research, there was also a description of clinical suspicions of possible diagnoses, which were also addressed in an attempt to diagnose the real etiology of lowering the level and content of consciousness: diabetic ketoacidosis, myxedema coma, dehydration, hydro electrolytic disorders and uremic encephalopathy. Treatment of viral encephalitis should be started with antiviral, such as Acyclovir 10mg/kg/dose intravenously 8/8hrs for about 14 days. [3] Immunocompromised patients may require up to 21 days of treatment with Acyclovir. Fonseca [3] states that the prognosis is poor in patients over 30 years of age, as well as Glasgow with less than 06 points and onset of symptoms for more than 4 days [3-7].

The current case report shows that several etiological possibilities were placed as diagnostic hypotheses before the final diagnosis of herpetic viral encephalitis. The lowering of the level and content of consciousness could be explained by dehydration, hyponatremia, hypercalcemia, hypothyroidism or renal insufficiency, but they were corrected and there was no improvement in the condition. The hypotheses of sepsis of possible pulmonary or abdominal focus had also been raised but were excluded after careful investigation. He was suspected of hyper viscosity syndrome in view of the diagnosis of multiple myeloma, which was discarded. The herpetic viral encephalitis hypothesis of this case was proposed only after the correction of the compensable alterations and exclusion of these other diagnoses.

Based on the above, the clinical presentation presented by the patient made suspicion difficult and delayed the diagnosis of herpetic encephalitis. The absence of other cardinal signs of encephalitis led the responsible team to consider a large arsenal of differential diagnoses in the initial management of the disease, resulting in delayed diagnosis and late initiation of treatment. The occurrence of neuroinfectious is frequently a challenge in the management of onco-hematological malignancies, and further studies are needed to contribute to a better diagnostic and therapeutic approach to herpetic viral encephalitis in patients with multiple myeloma.

Acknowledgments

a. Work Credits: State Public Hospital Hospital-São Paulo- Brazil.

b. Sources of Research Assistance: The present study did not receive financial support.

c. Statement of Conflicts of Interest: There are no potential conflicts of interest be it political, economic, research resource or intellectual property.

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A "Free Market" Future of Brain-Computer Interfaces: A Techno-Fascist Background of Neo-Eugenic Transhumanism

A 50% of century earlier, Yale Instructor of Anatomy Jose Manuel Rodríguez Delgado Jr. published a compound of his groundbreaking study on neural-implant technology. Organizing approximately twenty years of his lab experiments on individual as well as animal topics, Delgado's Bodily Management of the Thoughts: Toward a Psychocivilized Culturechronicled that

It is reasonable to speculate that in the future the stimoceiver may supply the vital web link from guy to pc to male, with an equivalent feedback between neurons and guitars which embodies a brand new alignment for the health care command of neurophysiological features [1].

Now, fifty years eventually in 2019, Delgado's futurist conjectures have come true as numerous Huge Tech firms, such as Elon Odor's Neuralink and Sign Zuckerberg's Facebook, are producing as well as industrying the next production of "stimoceivers," or "brain-computer interfaces," for business consumption.

The benefits of such "brain potato chips" variety coming from clinical devices that may handle nerve problems, including epilepsy and depression, to cognitive improvements which can easily "improve" individual mind electrical power so that it may user interface with the synthetically intelligent supercomputers which will definitely drive the worldwide economy in the new grow older of digitally automated staffs. Nonetheless, beneath these utopian-futurist leads, the present "free-trade" development of brain-machine interfaces is absolutely nothing less than the "free-market" expansion of Jose' Delgado's eugenicist goal happen true: a disturbing vision of a transhumanist advancement that neo-eugenically merges people and computers in to a new droid species.

Buyer beware: if you're considering "plugging in" to human-machine interfaces linked to the "world wide web of whatever," you could change your thoughts after thinking about the techno-fascist history of eugenics and also social design that has fueled the corporatist development of human-computer user interfaces.

Facebook Mind-Reading Technologies:

Facebook's Structure 8 research-and-development amenities has actually been engineering brain-computer user interfaces under the former Directorship of Regina Dugan, who formerly worked with the Protection Advanced Investigation Job Agency (DARPA) of the US military. On April 19, 2017, Dugan showcased a Facebook-patented brain-machine user interface that makes it possible for the user to kind on a computer system display only through believing. Based upon this thought-to-text medical, the Facebook company intends to evolve this prototype to ensure that it can easily allow "human brain clicks " which regulate virtual-reality and augmented-reality modern technologies.

Dugan has promised that the Facebook firm is actually "not talking concerning translating your random thought and feelings. That may be greater than some of us look after to recognize." Such a pledge is actually hard to think offered the fact that Facebook is a data-mining corporation that generates revenues by siphoning and selling the private information of everyone that uses the business's social-media platform. Undoubtedly, Facebook's social-media network is actually also an active attendee in the residential security operations of the Central Cleverness Force (CIA). Together, Facebook founder and also CEO Result Zuckerberg was contacted us to prove just before US Congress concerning his social-media company's complicity in the Cambridge Analytica election-tampering ordeal.

Essentially, Facebook possesses a scurvy reputation for preventing the privacy desires of its customers. It is affordable to suspect that Facebook's human-computer user interfaces will track, record, as well as sell an individual's cognitive-behavioral metadata installed in the electrochemical algorithms of his or even her neurobiological "pep talk" as well as "believed" transmissions (just like Facebook's social-media platform tracks, histories, and sells a person's cognitive-behavioral metadata embedded in his or her mental account which is actually accumulated coming from his or even her social-media posts).

Elon Musk's Neuro-Technocracy:

Elon Musk's Neuralink enterprise lately gave a push launch showcasing the 1st prototypes of the provider's "mind chips," referred to as "neural shoelaces," which Odor points out will definitely link to an "app" that "basically Bluetooths to your phone."

Back in September 6, 2018, Musk looked on the Joe Rogan Expertise podcast where he announced that his Neuralink organization will definitely be actually making integrated circuits which will certainly allow the individual brain to interface along with synthetically intelligent supercomputers. According to Odor, neural-lace computer potato chips "could be implanted in the individual mind, with the eventual function of aiding people combine along with software application and equal advancements in synthetic cleverness. These augmentations can enhance mind or even permit for additional straight interfacing with computer."

Odor even further preached that" [s] ome high transmission capacity interface to the human brain will definitely be one thing that assists accomplish a teamwork between individual and device knowledge and also perhaps deals with the command problem as well as the usefulness concern." For Musk, "fabricated standard cleverness [AGI]," or able to recognize AI, are going to quickly become "smarter than the most intelligent human on planet"; and also human creatures will come to be "worthless" unless our team neo-eugenically update in to transhuman-AI critters. In the course of the job interview with Joe Rogan, Musk literally mentioned, "if you can't beat it [AI], join it."

Odor, that is likewise the Chief Executive Officer of the Tesla electric auto provider, may champion his hi-tech neuro-brain implants as the evolutionary rescuer of humankind which will rescue the mankinds coming from being rendered obsolete by artificially smart machines. The ubiquitous merging of humankind with corporate equipments births a disconcerting similarity to the fascistic programs of Musk's grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, that was actually the Investigation Director of Canada's Technocracy Inc.: a techno-fascistic non-governmental company that was actually outlawed through the Canadian government in 1940 as a result of to anxieties that The Technocrats were sketching to "topple the government as well as the constitution of this country [ Canada] by power" [2]. Musk's gramps, Haldeman, was actually arrested due to his Technocracy registration, though he was actually later acquitted.

These techno-fascist backstories responsible for the Facebook as well as Neuralink companies suffice to result in worry regarding the firms' fashionable new brain-computer interfaces that are currently being industried. The befuddling techno-fascist past history of these recently commercialized brain-machine user interfaces presents all the way back to the "founding father" of neural-implant technology themself: Jose Manuel Rodríguez Delgado Jr., whose research study at Yale has been helped through the surprise hand of the Nazi-sympathizing top secret society known as The Purchase of Head and also Bone tissues.

In 1946, Delgado was chosen as an analysis fellow at the Yale School of Medicine's Anatomy Team where he later ended up being a professor from 1950 to 1974. Shortly after the very first year of Delgado's investigation alliance, in 1947, the Yale Educational Institution Council was set up "as a consultatory body system to the President of the College for the objective of studying and bring in suggestions on particular aspects of Educational institution life," including "important planning for the sciences, [and] developments at the Institution of Medication." A founding member of the Yale Authorities was Skull-and-Bonesman Frank Davis Ashburn, who offered on the authorities coming from 1947 to 1954 while Delgado was actually administering his neuroscience experiments at Yale [3]. It costs noting that Bonesman Frank Davis as well as his papa Percy Moreau Ashburn, that was actually a United States Military College Lecturer of Medical Health, co-authored The Scores of Death: A Medical Background of the Invasion of The United States, which chronicles how the spread of health condition contributed to the colonization of the America's by International settlers.

In short, in 1947, Bonesman Frank Ashburn, that was a scholar of case history, helped discovered and work the Yale Council to oversee "tactical preparing for the scientific researches ... at the Institution of Medicine" approximately one year after was actually Delgado worked with at the Institution of Medication, in 1946, to pioneer his transhumanist brain-implant surgical treatments.

As Delgado proceeded his transhumanist stimoceiver analysis at Yale coming from 1954 to 1965, Bonesman Charles Stafford Gage was actually the Treasurer of Yale Educational Institution [4]. As A Result, Bonesman Gage would have supervised of the Treasury Team which, depending on to the Yale website, "is actually accountable for sustaining the College's operating checking account, for observing the University's daily money role, for processing all in-coming and also out-going domestic and international cable transfers, [ and also for] the business of petty money funds." Gage would certainly have looked after the financing of Delgado's electronic brain-implant practices at Yale.

Altogether, throughout the years of Bonesman Ashburn at the Yale Council (1947-1954) and also Bonesman Gage at the Yale Treasury (1954-1965), Delgado's advanced study into neo-eugenic neuro-technologies was administratively as well as financially guided due to the hidden finger of The Order of Cranium and also Bone tissues.

During the course of his years at Yale, Delgado worked together along with Frank Ervin as well as Vernon Mark, that wrote the 1970 book, Brutality as well as the Brain. In this particular manual, Delgado's co-workers posited a eugenicist idea that the purported riotous inclinations of inner-city African Americans can be "quelled" by implanting city afro-americans with brain-chip stimoceivers as well as other electronic neuro-technologies. It costs noting below that Delgado's practices on digital "mind stimulation" were financed due to the Office of Naval Study as well as the Aviation Service Aeromedical Laboratory of the US armed force.

As a lecturer of the Yale Institution of Medication, Delgado was supported through his investigation partner Hannibal Hamlin, who assisted him conduct surgical practices on mental individuals at the State Healthcare Facility for Mental Diseases in Howard, Rhode Island, where Delgado and Hamlin implanted electronic units in to the human brains of people to study the abilities of neuro-technological thoughts command. In Delgado's Bodily Command of the Mind, he composes,

Hannibal Hamlin, themself a graduate of Yale Medical University, happens to become the daddy of Charles B. Hamlin, that was inducted in to the Yale Purchase of Head as well as Bone fragments in 1961 [6]. Charles B. would certainly occupy the mantle of his papa Hannibal as Charles became a performing orthopedic surgeon who opened up many "palm facilities" that concentrate on hand surgeries, consisting of "nerves ... repair or renovation" surgical operations. Holding the neo-eugenic lantern for Jose' Delgado and Hannibal Hamlin, Bonesman Charles B. performed many prosthetic-implant surgical treatments to assist people recover "considerable functional loss" of their possessions.

Right now resigned, Charles B. remains to ensure other transhumanist clinical advancements, including neuro-engineering through stalk cell treatment as well as genetics editing and enhancing:

It deserves keeping in mind that the United States Fda (FDA) submitted a 2008 file which records that Charles B. dedicated "serious violations of Title 21, Regulation of Federal Laws (21 CFR) Part 812 - Investigational Tool Exceptions, Component 50 - Defense of Individual Topics, and Section 520(g) (21 U.S.C. 360j(g)) of the Show." Especially, Charles Hamlin neglected to abide by FDA regulations pertaining to moral criteria for carrying out medical procedures involving "a device as that condition is actually defined in area 201(h) of the Federal Meals, Drug, and Cosmetic Show (the Act), 21 U.S.C. 32(h)."

Depending on to part 201(h), such an unit is actually a determined as

[i] ntended to impact the construct or any kind of feature of the body of man or even various other pets, as well as which carries out certainly not achieve its main intended functions with chemical activity within or even on the body of male or other pets as well as which is certainly not dependent upon being actually metabolized for the achievement of its key designated purposes. The condition "tool" carries out not include software features omitted pursuant to section 520(o).

Specifically, the FDA document files that Hamlin's trying outs a 201(h) gadget committed the observing "breakdowns":

" [F] ailure to await FDA approval before making it possible for topics to join the examination."

"Breakdown to guarantee that updated consent is acquired ... as well as failure to appropriately record well informed approval."

"Failure to carry out the examination in conformity along with the investigational strategy."

"Breakdown to ready and also submit total, accurate and also quick records of unanticipated unfavorable results."

It needs to also be actually kept in mind that The Order of Cranium and also Bone fragments surrounds neurosurgeon, Eric Leuthardt: an additional transhumanist pioneer that performs human brain surgeries which implant integrated circuit into human brains for the functions of managing cerebral-nervous handicaps. At Washington College of St. Louis, Missouri, where Leuthardt administers his transhumanist brain-chip surgical treatments, Bonesman Regis James O'Keefe is the Chair of Orthopedic Surgical Procedure [7]. Also, alongside professor Leuthardt and also Bonesman O'Keefe, there is Bonesman Bryan Fitch Myers, who is actually the Patrick and also Happiness Williamson Endowed Seat in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Washington University Institution of Medicine [8].

Depending on to the Massachusetts Principle of Modern Technology Evaluation, the Bones-acquainted "Leuthardt believes that in the next many years such [mind] implants will feel like cosmetic surgery or designs, taken on with barely a reservation." Leuthardt also wrote a transhumanist scientific research fiction story, "a techno-thriller referred to as Reddish Adversary 4, [through which] 90 percent of people have actually elected to acquire personal computer equipment implanted directly into their minds."

A Eugenics by Some Other Title:

The concept of transhumanism was coined through Julian Huxley, that was actually the brother of Aldous Huxley: the writer of the dystopic Brave New World. In Julian's 1957 New Bottles for New Red Or White Wine, he created a chapter entitled "Transhumanism," which proclaims "'I care about transhumanism'... a new sort of presence, as different from ours as our own is actually coming from that of Peking [prehistoric] man" [9]. For Julian Huxley, who was a President of the English Eugenics Culture, transhumanism is actually the height of a "medical eugenics," venture that requires a brand-new form of "advancement" in which pure organic assortment is actually changed with an artificial technical collection that merges people and also makers in to a brand new robot types.

As the first Director General of the United Nations Educational Scientific as well as Cultural Institution (UNESCO), Huxley authored UNESCO's 1948 purpose statement, UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Own Ideology, which calls for a worldwide eugenics plan:" [i] t is actually, however, essential that eugenics must be delivered totally within the perimeters of science, for, as presently indicated, in the certainly not quite small future the issue of strengthening the average quality of human creatures is actually likely to come to be emergency; and this can simply be performed through applying the findings of a definitely clinical eugenics" [10]. This founding UNESCO documentation asserts that techno-eugenic" [ e] volution in the human market comprises primarily of modifications such as culture, in devices and equipments ... [I] t resides in social organisation, in equipments, and in ideas that individual advancement is actually primarily made show" [11].

It needs to be taken note that as Director General of UNESCO, Huxley collaborated with the very first United States delegate to rest on the controling panel of UNESCO, Bonesman Archibald MacLeish, who authored the Prelude to the UNESCO Constitution [12]. Various other straps in between globalist eugenics as well as The Purchase of Head and Bones are connected through Bonesman Percy Rockefeller's uncle [Thirteen], John D. Rockefeller, that utilized his tax-exempt Rockefeller Foundation to pour cash into Nazi eugenics jobs at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, as well as Eugenics; the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry; and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research Study [14]. The Rockefeller Base also paid out large amounts to United States eugenics companies including Charles Davenport's Cold weather Spring Port Place for Experimental Development, which was actually set up through an additional Burglar Baron charity: the Carnegie Institute where Bonesman Daniel Coit Gilman was its own 1st Head of state [15].

Davenport's Cold Spring season Harbor eugenics research laboratory was eventually merged along with the Eugenics Report Workplace, which rose along with considerable contributions of loan and also land coming from railway tycoon E. H. Harriman's spouse, Mary Williamson Harriman(ne'e Averell), who was actually the mama of Bonesmen W. Averell Harriman and E. Roland Harriman [16]. E. Roland would later help in paying for the Nazi-eugenic requisition of Germany through his influence at Union Financial Enterprise (UBC), which directed capital to Hitler with one of the Fuhrer's primary financial underwriters: the German industrialist manager of UBC, Fritz Thyssen, whose fellow-Nazi banking partners, H. J. Kouwenhoven as well as J. L. Guinter, rested on the UBC Panel of Supervisors alongside E. Roland and also his fellow Bonesmen, Knight Woolley and also Prescott Bush, the latter of whom was actually the dad of Bonesman George H. W. Plant and also the gramps of Bonesman George W. Plant [17]. According to a 1989 Louisville Courier-Journal short article, there is actually a space in the Holy place of The Order on the Yale grounds whereby the Bones fragments "Tomb" residences "a little Nazi temple inside, [and] one space on the 2nd floor has a lot of swastikas, type of an SS manly iconography" [18].

On Second Idea?

From The Order of Skull and Bone Tissues to DARPA to Technocracy Inc., the past history responsible for transhumanist brain-computer user interfaces is actually a black heritage of militarized, techno-fascist eugenics. Today, Facebook's as well as Neuralink's human-computer interfaces are being publicized as hi-tech commodities that are actually manufactured for the "higher excellent" of improving cognition as well as administering health care aid for individuals along with epilepsy, depression, and also various other neurological specials needs.

To be certain, the future of neural-implant computer-tech might guarantee an utopian new grow older of scientific miracles that merge people and also devices in to an internet-of-everything "Singularity." Where the electronic rubber comes across the silicon roadway to an unnaturally smart cyborg future, the sordid past of technocratically weaponized eugenics might discover up to the current fork in the road where humankind determines whether to take a "fantastic leap forward" and also "develop" right into a brand new species that "upgrades" its own biology with electronic devices.

Caveat emptor: consuming transhumanist technological products that are classified as "utopian" may cause dystopian side-effects.

References:

[1] Jose' M. R. Delgado, Physical Command of the Thoughts: Towards a Psychocivilized Society(The Big Apple: Harper Colophon, 1969), 90-91.

[2] Joseph C. Keating Jr. and Scott Haldeman, "Joshua N Haldeman, DC: the Canadian Years, 1926-1950," Publication of the Canadian Chiropractic Association39 no. 3 (1995 ): 172-186.

[3] Kris Millegan, Fleshing Out Brain as well as Bone Fragments: Examinations into United States's Most Highly effective Top secret Culture, (Walterville, OR: Trine Day, 2003), 637.

[4] Ibid.

[5] Jose' M. R. Delgado, Physical Management of the Thoughts: Towards a Psychocivilized Culture(Nyc: Harper Colophon, 1969), 217.

[6] Kris Millegan, Fleshing Out Brain and also Bone Fragments: Investigations into United States's Many Strong Top secret Culture, (Walterville, OR: Trine Day, 2003), 658.

[7] Antony C. Sutton, America's Top secret Building: An Introduction to the Purchase of Brain and Bones, Upgraded Reprint, (Walterville, OR: Trine Day, 2002), 299.

[8] Ibid.

[9] Julian Huxley, New Bottles for New Red Or White Wine(London: Chatto & & Windus, 1957), 17.

[10] Ibid, UNESCO: Its Own Objective and Its Theory(Washington D. C.: Public Issues Push, 1948), 42.

[11] Ibid, 9-10.

[12] Archibald MacLeish and Henri Chapeau, "Unesco," Notice of the American Organization of College Professors (1915-1955) 32 no. 4 (1946 ): 605-620.

Antony C. Sutton, America's Secret Building: An Overview to the Order of Brain as well as Bones, Upgraded Replication, (Walterville, OR: Trine Day, 2002), 27.

Krishna R. Dronamraju, If I Am to become Born in mind: The Lifestyle and Works of Julian Huxley with Selected Correspondence(Waterway Side, NJ: Planet Scientific Printing, 1993), 68.

[Thirteen] Antony C. Sutton, United States's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Purchase of Cranium and also Bone tissues, Improved Reprint, (Walterville, OR: Trine Day, 2002), 290.

[14] Edwin Black,Battle Against the Weak: Eugenics and also United States's Campaign to Make an Expert Race(The Big Apple: 4 Walls 8 Windows, 2003), 283.

[15] Antony C. Sutton, The United States's Secret Business: An Overview to the Order of Skull and also Bone tissues, Updated Replication, (Walterville, OR: Trine Time, 2002), 285.

David Madsen, "Daniel Coit Gilman at the Carnegie Company of Washington," History of Education Quarterly9 no. 2 (1969 ): 154-186.

Edwin Afro-american,War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Project to Create a Master Race(New York: 4 Walls Eight Microsoft Window, 2003), 36, 41.

[16] Antony C. Sutton, The United States's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Purchase of Cranium and Bones, Improved Reprint, (Walterville, OR: Trine Day, 2002), 291, 292.

Daniel J. Kevles, By Eugenics: Genetics and also usings Individual Genetics(New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985), 54-55.

James D. Watson, "Genes and also Politics," Davenport's Goals: 21st Century Representations on Heredity as well as Eugenics, eds. Jan A. Witkowski and John R. Inglis (Cold Springtime Port, NY: Cold Spring Season Harbor Lab Press, 2008), 1.

[17] Antony C. Sutton, United States's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Brain and Bones, Upgraded Replication, (Walterville, OR: Trine Day, 2002), 126, 165-170.

Ibid, Exchange and the Rise of Hitler: The Impressive True Account of the United States Financiers Who Moneyed the Nazis(The Golden State: Clairview, 1976), 103, 107, 25-26, 57, 99, 102, 103, 106, 112-114, 141.

[18] Steven M. L. Aronson, "The Bonesmen's Connect: President's, Artists, Pundits as well as Pinkos Possess Sworn Loyalty to Head as well as Bone fragments, Yale's Rich and Powerful Secret Culture, and also the absolute most Exclusive University Club of All. What's All That Nazi Stuff Carrying Out in the Clubhouse?," Louisville Courier-Journal, October 8, 1989, estimated in Fleshing Out Brain and also Bone Fragments: Investigations into America's A lot of Effective Secret Culture, ed. Kris Millegan (OR: Trine Day, 2003), 140.

John Klyczekhas an MA in English and has educated college unsupported claims and analysis line of reasoning for over seven years. His literary scholarship focuses on the past history of international eugenics and Aldous Huxley's dystopic book, Brave New Globe. He is the writer of University Globe Purchase: The Technocratic Globalization of Corporatized Education And Learning(TrineDay Books); as well as he isa contributor to the Centre for Analysis on Globalization, OpEdNews, the Intrepid Record, the Dissident Voice,the Protestor Post, Information With Viewpoints, The Saker,and Natural Headlines. His site is details/

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pureimagineering · 8 years ago

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The Stories of Cranium Command

Observable Story

Buzzy wants to join Cranium Command, but he must prove he's qualified.

Cranium Commandos pilot people through their lives. A teenager's organs goad Buzzy into making poor decisions. Buzzy uses general knowledge to unite the organs and manage the teenager's stress.

Experiential Story

We want to join Cranium Command, but the show isn't designed for that.

We enlist in Cranium Command. Instead of piloting a person, we are forced to observe someone else piloting a person. Then they lecture us as if we had any say in any of this. The end!

#PI Story Catalogue #Cranium Command #Wonders of Life #Future World #EPCOT #EPCOT Center #Walt Disney World #Theme Parks #Disney

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Redesign for self insert because she lowkey looked nothing like me

#cranium command #self ship #oc self ship #yumejoshi #general knowledge cranium command #general knowledge

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squatchdetective · 5 years ago

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We know nothing about Bigfoot? Really?

One of my pet peeves in the Bigfoot community is the proclamation, “We don’t know anything about these creatures.”

For the people usually exclaiming this they are generally referring to themselves rather than people who have put in time to do their homework from a scientific basis.

For those that are scientific minded and have reality based research it is farthest from the truth provided these creatures exist, which I believe they do.

Unless you tend to throw out all the things we know about animals out the window when it comes to Bigfoot, then you aren’t being so scientific are you?

The fact is we know A LOT about these creatures if we look to what we know about similar animals. What do we know? Well let’s look at some of them.

Mammals

Mammals are vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia and characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or hair, and three middle ear bones. These characteristics distinguish them from reptiles and birds, from which they diverged in the late Triassic, 201–227 million years ago.

Features of Mammals:

Jaw joint – The dentary (the lower jaw bone, which carries the teeth) and the squamosal (a small cranial bone) meet to form the joint.

Middle ear – In crown-group mammals, sound is carried from the eardrum by a chain of three bones, the malleus, the incus and the stapes.

Tooth replacement – Teeth can be replaced once (diphyodonty).

Prismatic enamel – The enamel coating on the surface of a tooth consists of prisms, solid, rod-like structures extending from the dentin to the tooth’s surface

Occipital condyles – Two knobs at the base of the skull fit into the topmost neck vertebra.

Primates

Primates are defined as having characteristics that represent adaptations to life in this challenging environment, including large brains, visual acuity, color vision, altered shoulder girdle, and dexterous hands.

Anatomy and Physiological traits of Primates:

The primate skull has a large, domed cranium, which is particularly prominent in anthropoids. The cranium protects the large brain, a distinguishing characteristic of this group. The primary evolutionary trend of primates has been the elaboration of the brain, in particular the neocortex (a part of the cerebral cortex), which is involved with sensory perception, generation of motor commands, spatial reasoning, conscious thought and, in humans, language.

Primates generally have five digits on each limb (pentadactyly), with a characteristic type of keratin fingernail on the end of each finger and toe. The bottom sides of the hands and feet have sensitive pads on the fingertips. Most have opposable thumbs, a characteristic primate feature most developed in humans, though not limited to this order.

Primate species move by brachiation, bipedalism, leaping, arboreal and terrestrial quadrupedalism, climbing, knuckle-walking or by a combination of these methods.

The evolution of color vision in primates is unique among most eutherian mammals.

Behavior Traits of Primates:

Having Social Systems

Interspecific Associations – Some primates associate with other primates in the wild.

Primates have advanced cognitive abilities: some make tools and use them to acquire food and for social displays; some can perform tasks requiring cooperation, influence and rank; they are status conscious, manipulative and capable of deception; they can recognize kin and conspecifics; and they can learn to use symbols and understand aspects of human language including some relational syntax and concepts of number and numerical sequence. Research in primate cognition explores problem solving, memory, social interaction, a theory of mind, and numerical, spatial, and abstract concepts

Non-human primates and humans have been observed to be very similar in terms of personality, such as chimpanzees having "’Big Five’ personality factors found in humans, i.e. neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness". Primates seem to possess a sixth personality trait, dominance. Both humans and nonhuman primates, such as chimpanzees, exhibit proactive aggression, a type of preplanned aggression with a reward. This aggression is expressed between neighboring groups. Proactive aggression ultimately increases the fitness of the community as a whole as the size of the community increases. Unlike proactive aggression, reactive aggression is low in humans but high in chimpanzees. Reactive aggression is a result of anger in order to cease a stressful stimulus. Low reactive aggression in humans can be attributed to tolerance and cooperation. Wrangham found "evolution of within-group tolerance, such as individual selection for cooperative breeding, group selection for parochial altruism, and cultural group selection for prosocial norms". Ranking in nonhuman primates stems from the most aggressive male, while nomadic hunter-gatherers are respected for their prestige and ability to form alliances and negotiations.

Primates have slower rates of development than other mammals. All primate infants are breastfed by their mothers.

There are many reports of non-human primates using tools, both in the wild or when captive. The use of tools by primates is varied and includes hunting (mammals, invertebrates, fish), collecting honey, processing food (nuts, fruits, vegetables and seeds), collecting water, weapons and shelter. Tool manufacture is much rarer than simple tool use and probably represents higher cognitive functioning. Soon after her initial discovery of tool use, Goodall observed other chimpanzees picking up leafy twigs, stripping off the leaves and using the stems to fish for insects. This change of a leafy twig into a tool was a major discovery. Prior to this, scientists thought that only humans manufactured and used tools, and that this ability was what separated humans from other animals. Both bonobos and chimpanzees have also been observed making "sponges" out of leaves and moss that suck up water and are used as grooming tools. Sumatran orangutans have been observed making and using tools.

Virus Transmissions

Close interactions between humans and non-human primates (NHPs) can create pathways for the transmission of zoonotic diseases. Viruses such as Herpesviridae (most notably Herpes B Virus), Poxviridae, measles, Ebola, rabies, the Marburg virus and viral hepatitis can be transmitted to humans; in some cases the viruses produce potentially fatal diseases in both humans and non-human primates.

The above sources were from Wikipedia

This may answer someone’s question of can a Sasquatch catch Covid-19? It is very indeed possible and should not be ruled out.

Life Spans

Humans* – 79 years

Chimpanzee – 39 years

Bonobo – 40 years

Orangutan – 35-45 years

Baboon – 35-45 years

Gorilla – 35-40 years

*However due to the “Age of Enlightenment”, human life expectancy has doubled. Before this the average human life expectancy was about 40 years. So this should give us a scientifically educated guess of about 40-45 years for the life expectancy of a Sasquatch.

We have to remember science and knowledge are the parameters we work within. To say we know nothing about these creatures, is a a slap in the face to the folks that came before you and to science itself. Although many believe science is the enemy. Maybe many scientists are to the idea of the existence of a Sasquatch, but science itself is a tool just like anything other tool it is there for us to use.

If you read the behavior accounts from reports coming out of the 50’s, 60’s and early 70’s where did you see all this so called supernatural behavior? You didn’t.

It wasn’t suppressed, it just rarely existed. But the behavior you saw was consistent with primate behavior and habitation models we now know of today. Coincidence? No.

That are just some of the notes and thoughts for the day and am wishing everyone well and safe in the Pandemic lockdown!!

Till Next Time,

Squatch-D

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I Observed Kennedy's Ghost

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A motorcade traveled north on Torresdale Ave. in Northeast Philadelphia PA, Summer of 1960. I was wearing a shorter sleeve plaid shirt with button down collar and mild slacks. In the regular manner of Philadelphia for a sixteen-calendar year-old that summer months, my shirttail was out. There were huge crowds lining the two sides of the busy avenue. A few blocks to the West, neighborhoods bordered the Delaware River and its occupied inland port. At that time, a transportation hub and the most industrialized place on earth

Tens of 1000's of citizens lined the avenue to see Senator John Kennedy, who had lately announced his candidacy for President of the United States.

The gentle-colored Cadillac approached slowly but surely, behind a wedge of Philadelphia Bike Law enforcement. A business-like voice more than a megaphone urged, "Senator Kennedy's motorcade is arriving, please continue to be to the side."

The candidate's ideal entrance profile arrived evidently into watch. I tried out to catch his eyes. Confidently at 1st, but then came the realization that it wasn't occurring, he was going absent. I could see the back of his correct shoulder as he held it up and waved to the crowd. The convertible handed gradually and his back arrived into check out.

Someone instructed me a number of days' prior, that Kennedy's father had been nicknamed 'Black Jack' all through the prohibition times. "Hey, Black Jack" I shouted. He turned abruptly and looked specifically in my eyes. JFK waved as the Kennedy motorcade pale from watch. In my teenage intellect, I rationalized that it was all suitable. We would satisfy someday in the upcoming. I questioned if the comparatively mysterious, right until just lately, Senator would try to remember me.

All people understood Kennedy. It would seem as if he was a collective extension of our personal personalities. We admired his devotion to normally putting his best foot forward. That is why we cherished him so substantially.

Just about every yr due to the fact JFK's assassination, ideas of the incident return. On Tuesday, while the rain saturated the hemlock and great western cedar on just one of people damp, misty Pacific Northwest afternoons, I invested time by itself, meditating in my household home.

In my mind's eye, I observed the mist swirling outside the house the sliding glass door. The vapor handed through the glass and took type as the spirit of President John F Kennedy.

"Appear," the spirit claimed, taking my hand. "We don't have much time."

In an quick, we stood on a cliff on the Washington coastline overlooking the Pacific.

If our time was minimal, we desired to dispense with formalities.

"Mr. President, was Lee Harvey Oswald the lone assassin?" Last but not least, we would get an respond to to the most perplexing concern of my lifetime.

"All people asks that," President Kennedy answered. "The final factor I try to remember about my earthly existence was likely downhill in the again seat of a convertible. Just for an fast, I was taken aback in shock. I could see the still left front profile of a man or woman in the drainage culvert at the bottom of the slope about thirty yards in front of us. There was a flash from that site. Some thing sharp poked me in the Adam's apple. I gagged and gasped. Jackie referred to as my identify. There was blood, gore, brains and the back again of my cranium on the trunk of the convertible. I was now dead."

The reply was sudden and disappointing but I appreciated our time constraints.

"Do People in america these days even now share your values and vision," I asked promptly. Kennedy pondered the question as he watched the surf slam against the jetty in the distance below us.

"I have, ah, usually, cherished the sea," he smiled, gesturing toward the white drinking water and the inexperienced pacific further than, back-dropped by a moist, grey sky. "In my earthly lifestyle, I, ah, started off sailing as a child," the President said, with a large New England accent. "What about you," he questioned. "Have you gone to sea?"

"Indeed sir," I replied. "I was serving in the US Coast Guard at the time of your assassination."

"Very well, ah, you likely by now know about my thoughts to the Coastline Guard I experienced to transfer them from the Treasury Department to the Transportation Section," he said. "I preferred to dissolve the assistance fully but the folks bordering me recommended strongly from it. The new Transportation Section offered a ideal match."

"With present day expanding port stability complications and switching marine weather conditions, we will have to have the Coast Guard extra than at any time. I did deal with to get the Honey Fitz, our loved ones yacht, from...the Coast Guard."

"The rest of the military services was a distinct, ah, challenge. The Joint Chiefs of Personnel confirmed definitely no respect for me. They regularly produced jokes about my naval knowledge, or to be correct, naval inexperience," he claimed with a grin. "Remember, less rating officers below their command experienced authority to commence a thermonuclear war with the Soviet Union. Can you envision what that was like for me, with all the hawks associated in politics? These whom I surrounded myself with aided me wrest manage. I designed quite a few enemies among our military ranks. To make issues even worse, I was acquiring each day reviews of exploding racial tension in the army."

"My administration obtained to function on the difficulty and we were equipped to make several changes and improvements. Recognize, ah, the South is still fighting the Civil War. Any modifications in that way will often be tough fought. My administrations, ah, obtained the ball rolling to, ah, employ the Civil Legal rights Act. Race challenges add to so a lot heartache for Us residents. You would imagine right after all this time it would be improved currently."

"Mr. President," I questioned, "Do you imagine Weather Adjust, and the detrimental consequences on humanity, are America's most pressing issue?"

"Totally! Completely! Of course. Just, ah, the weather anomalies by itself must trigger alarm. All through my administration both get-togethers pulled alongside one another and paved the way for Public Operates Projects like, ah, the design of extra nuclear electricity crops. Just in advance of I, ah, acquired whacked, my administration was critically wanting at a land reclamation undertaking that had been, ah, proposed a 10 years earlier by the Military Corp of Engineers named the North American Drinking water and Electrical power Alliance. "

"Perfectly, I was taken out of the photo just about the time Los Angeles took motion to begin the task. Preserve in intellect, we ah, we planned to divert h2o from Alaska and Canada by way of the Tintina Trench close to the British Columbia-Yukon border to the Rocky Mountain Trench. It is seriously just one continuous trench. The job would create hundreds of significant construction jobs and thousands and thousands of building employment for two a long time. We could present h2o to all of the major agricultural areas in the Southwest, California and Mexico. Rivers like this 1 in entrance of us, the Columbia River," Kennedy stated pointing, "and the Frazier River in Canada, would, ah, have improved flood regulate and frequent irrigation h2o offer. Just after I was taken out of the photograph, the action in Southeast Asia begun. The usa and the Corp of Engineers experienced other priorities and the idea waned. California, our big agricultural agent is dealing with a long time of drought. It would not be a challenge if NAWAPA had been used. Look at it to Washington's Grand Coulee Dam and the irrigation it offers from the Columbia River exactly where, ah, drought issues are mitigated."

"Our youth were fired up about the path of the US was taking. We were initial in technological know-how, particularly communications technological know-how, wellness treatment, agriculture, producing, creation, transportation, strength and just about each individual financial sector," the spirit continued. "We regarded the will need for advancements in instruction, wellness treatment and we started out to create an enhanced social safety web. The tax amount for the middle class was much larger then. I think people today these days want the finer factors govt can supply but are not eager to shell out for it. That is the major variation. Maximize General public Operates and you will set our young era back to work with fantastic positions in profitable firms and professions. Only the govt has the ability to place it jointly, but you, ah, have to be eager to pay back for it."

"I consider the variance involving the younger males and women of all ages of November nineteen sixty-three and currently is, ah, present day staff just have a diverse benefit system," Kennedy asserted.

"Do you feel all those values are legitimate," I requested hesitantly.

"Of class," Kennedy mentioned, smiling. "Just be open to revision. My father experienced a saying, 'Trust every person, depend every little thing.' Examine the quantities. It is fifth quality math really. Nuclear Ability is the only option to balancing vitality needs and local climate adjust."

A dog barked in the length. It appeared to get louder and nearer. When the animal came into check out I saw it was my have minor Chiwene, Nene. She was scratching at the sliding door to the property. I was at residence. My ghostly buddy experienced disappeared.

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republicstandard · 6 years ago

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Justin Welby is Suffering from a Terminal Case of Confirmation Bias

It is the mother of all misconceptions and the father of all fallacies. It is incurable and infectious. Cognitive scientists could well refer to this dreaded disease by calling it cognitive cancer or the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome of the mind. Instead, they refer to it by the rather innoxious label of confirmation bias.

This is just as well, since the Most Rev’d Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Chief Custodian of 80 million Anglican souls is suffering from a terminal case of this degenerative pathosis as he let slip an interview with Justin Brierley on Premier Radio last week.

“In my own prayer life, and as part of my daily discipline I pray in tongues every day—not as an occasional thing, but as part of daily prayer,” Justin the oil-wallah told Justin the journalist. “Part of my daily prayer discipline is expecting to hear from God through people with words of knowledge or prophecies,” the Archbishop added.

The half-hour parley was a masterstroke in massaging the wobbly allegiances of evangelical and charismatic Christians in the Church of England about to make for lifeboats as their Titanic sinks after an almighty bonk against the LGBTI iceberg.

“Look at me, I’m filled with the Holy Spirit, I bring Christians together, I speak in tongues, I’m alert to prophecy, God speaks to me, don’t make for the lifeboats, together we can save the Titanic,” Captain Welby seems to be bellowing down his bullhorn, with all the persuasiveness of a bald salesman peddling a magic hair growth tonic.

No one with an iota of media nous should be surprised at how the media latched on like limpet mines to the bit about the Archbishop “speaking in tongues.” The top-most English cleric admitting to yammering gloopy gibberish just before his morning cup of Frappuccino is enough to make an Etonian’s toes curl like Ali Baba’s slippers. Poor Welby’s publicity pony threw a shoe.

The Daily Mail fantastically concluded that our Justin actually “speaks unknown languages as part of a spiritual experience.” The comments sections exploded with a rotten tomato-throwing competition as delirious commenters flung the fruitiest insults at Cantaur, whom they thought had gone completely cuckoo.

“The funny thing about glossolalia (Greek for speaking nonsense) is that the ‘language’ produced has the same characteristics as the speaker’s own language. So a Russian charismatic will talk rubbish that resembles Russian in its sounds. When the Bish talks rubbish it no doubt sounds like an upper class English patrician blind drunk,” scribbled one wag, rather unkindly. “I always thought his preferred language must be Russian or German as of Marx,” doodled another.

Poor Justin (Brierley, not Welby) had to jump into his fire engine and hosepipe the towering inferno with an apologia of “why the news need not come as a shock.” Justin’s defense of Justin (Welby, not Brierley) was based on the chestnut of argumentum ad numerum (If many believe so, it is so). “Yes, Justin Welby speaks in tongues. So do half a billion other Christians,” sang the headline.

A more credible headline might assert: “Yes, Justin Welby speaks in tongues. Because it’s biblical.” I have absolutely no doubt Welby uses the gift of tongues as his private prayer language. Indeed, it is heart-warming to know that the Archbishop is tuned in to the spiritual gifts listed by the apostle Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians—prophecy, tongues, interpretation, healing, et al. “Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophecy,” writes St Paul.

We must commend Welby for doing what he does because St Paul commands him to do so in the epistle to the Corinthians and Welby believes that the Pauline corpus of letters is Holy Scripture.

Understandably, Welby will have to contend with liberals who scorn anything supernatural and some evangelical Christians who believe that the “sign gifts” existed only during the apostolic period before the formation of the biblical canon and have now ceased. These Christians call themselves cessationists.

What all Christians agree (at least in theory) is that Paul’s ethical teaching in his letter to the Corinthians (and other epistles) has not ceased. Thus, while some Christians are cessationists when it comes to spiritual gifts, all Christians are continuationists when it comes to Paul’s moral teaching—e.g., no Christian will insist that Paul’s instructions against incest in 1 Corinthians 5 has ceased and is no longer valid for today.

This is where the cognitive consultant holds up an X-ray of Welby’s cranium, furrows his eyebrows, purses his lips, and in a strained whisper tells Welby the tragic news of his terminal illness. “Old boy, I’m afraid it’s rather grim. You are in the last stage of confirmation bias.”

Justin’s jaw hits the floor. “I’ve never heard of this malady,” he croaks. “Do you think I picked up a virus in Nigeria, or perhaps Pakistan?” The consultant looks quizzically at the Archbishop. “If only you’d read classics at Cambridge, you’d know the Greeks first diagnosed this disease. In The History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides described this plague: ‘For it is a habit of humanity to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not fancy,’” professes Mr. Consultant.

Confirmation bias is our tendency to cherry-pick information that confirms our existing beliefs or ideas. We give special weight to information that allows us to come to the conclusion we want to reach, while shying away from contradicting information, grasping for a reason to discard it because it is so unpalatable for our brains. The eye only sees what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Welby cherry-picks and dutifully obeys Paul’s teaching on tongue-speaking in 1 Corinthians. So why does he cold-shoulder and willfully defy Paul’s imperatives on fundamental ethical issues in the very same letter to the Corinthians?

On same-sex genital behavior (as on a number of other sins), Paul is scorching.

“Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”

This is a softball interview with Justin Brierley, and when Welby is asked about the hot potato of sexuality, he equivocates and does not give a straight answer. Instead, he points to his very own illness of confirmation bias:

“Read the Bible carefully. Not just the bits you agree with but read it carefully and seek God’s wisdom.”

If Welby speaks in tongues and listens to prophesy, can Welby tell us what is it in the above verse—part of the revealed Word of God—that is so ambiguous or difficult to decipher? He wouldn’t call for “good disagreement” over idolatry or stealing or greed (especially in its capitalistic avatar), would he?

Progressive scholars like John Boswell have argued that arsenokoitai refers to “active male prostitutes” but the majority of scholars, even those supportive of homosexual practice like Dan Otto Via, William Schoedel, and Walter Wink, agree that arsenokoitai designates a general condemnation of male-male intercourse.

Even Bernadette Brooten, a lesbian New Testament scholar who praises some of Boswell’s work, writes:

“Boswell argued that ‘the early Christian church does not appear to have opposed homosexual behavior per se.’ The sources on female homoeroticism that I present in this book run absolutely counter to those two conclusions.”

Dan Via, despite his unstinting defense of gay sex, concedes that the Bible’s prohibition of homosexual practice, in both Testaments, is “absolute.”

In the very next chapter after Paul claims: “I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you,” the apostle categorically affirms the bodily resurrection of Christ. “Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?” asks Paul. “If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith is in vain,” and “your faith is futile” and “we are of all people most to be pitied,” Paul repeats ad nauseam.

So how come only a couple of weeks ago, Welby blindsides this central pillar of Christian teaching and appoints as his ambassador to the Vatican, John Shepherd, a cleric who publicly from the pulpit denies the bodily resurrection of Christ? How come Lambeth Palace has the audacity to tell the press that this heretic is a priest of “good standing” and “due diligence” was used when appointing him?

In 1 Corinthians, Paul also commands Christians not to go to court against other Christians. “To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers!” writes Paul.

Welby’s buddy is Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (USA). Curry was invited at Welby’s behest to belt out his Beatles all-you-need-is-lurv homily at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Curry’s church is fighting cutthroat lawsuits against conservative Christians, which by the end of 2018 was estimated to exceed 60million dollars. Even more scandalous is how the church ‘is becoming less and less transparent in disclosing the waste on this huge scale’ by not breaking down ‘legal aid to dioceses’ or ‘Title IV expenses’ as ‘separate line items in their monthly statements’.

Paul emphasizes church discipline in the same letter to the Corinthians, calling for a defiantly immoral and incestuous member of the congregation to be excommunicated and “handed over to Satan.” A few chapters later, he warns people who are living in habitual sin of dire consequences—even sickness and death—if they eat the Lord’s Supper unworthily.

How very odd then for Welby’s bishops to be issuing fatwas ordering clergy not to exclude anyone from Holy Communion “on the grounds of their sexual orientation or gender identity,” which is prima facie acceptable because the statement does not refer to “practice” but in the very same ad clerum banning “intrusive questioning about someone’s sexual practices or desires” on the basis of the Archbishops mantra of “a radical new Christian inclusion.”

Speaking in tongues is not a gilt-edged guarantee of Christian orthodoxy. Paul himself underlines this in 1 Corinthians 13: “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.” This is not the ‘lurv’ Michael Curry or John Lennon is describing, but agape—the highest form of self-denying and self-sacrificial love which love which embraces the truth (2 Thessalonians 2:10) and “rejoices in the truth” (1 Corinthians 13: 6).

Jane Ozanne, the high priestess of pansexual perversity in the Church of England, speaks in tongues. “Out of nowhere words started forming in my head and coming out of my mouth—strange foreign words that I had never heard before,” she writes in his autobiography Just Love. Ozanne, like Welby, takes prophecy and words of knowledge seriously, while sticking two fingers at biblical teaching on sexuality.

Justin Brierley should know that it’s not just half a billion other Christians who practice glossolalia. George Cutten writes in An Ethnological Study of Glossalalia:

“Glossolalia is practiced among non-Christian religions: the Peyote cult among the North American Indians, the Haida Indians of the Pacific Northwest, Shamans in the Sudan, the Shango cult of the West Coast of Africa, the Shago cult in Trinidad, the Voodoo cult in Haiti, the Aborigines of South America and Australia, the Eskimos of the subarctic regions of North America and Asia, the Shamans in Greenland, the Dyaks of Borneo, the Zor cult of Ethiopia, the Siberian shamans, the Chaco Indians of South America, the Curanderos of the Andes, the Kinka in the African Sudan, the Thonga shamans of Africa, and the Tibetan monks.”

Plato refers to ecstatic speech that is unintelligible, so does Virgil in the Aeneid. Glossolalia appears in the Eleusinian, Dionysian, and Orphic Mystery Religions, as well as in the ancient cults of Mithra and Osiris. Sibyls and Pythias were known as well for their practice of glossolalia and ecstatic speech while under trance induced states. St Paul would have been aware of this phenomenon and so does not make it the litmus test for biblical faithfulness.

Justin Welby is not alone in his terminal illness. His pom-pom cheerleaders, including Premier Radio, are themselves deluded by a hefty dose of cognitive dissonance. They cherry pick his love for glossolalia while circumnavigating his conspicuous rebellion against other areas of biblical teaching. They conveniently ignore the fact that the most spiritually gifted church in the Pauline epistles was also the most immoral, fractious and disorderly church.

They simply cannot see the bizarre contradiction that Archbishop Justin who is a continuationist when it comes to spiritual gifts is a cessationist when it comes to the sexual teaching of the apostle Paul!

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The D23 Expo is the ultimate Disney fan event, with something for everyone. While most people flock to the Expo Hall and the big stage “Hall D23” for the big announcements, I prefer the smaller breakouts…The real Disney details. Stage 28 is a great example; a smaller, yet large stage designed to get a little deeper into all things Disney. Presentations like this one are just spectacular – Voices of the Disney Parks!!! A gem and a session I wish was 3 hours long, not just one. So many questions I’d love to ask. I hope you enjoy.

The D23 2017 Voices of the Parks Panel was hosted by Brian Nefsy, Casting Director at Walt Disney Imagineering.

The 2017 panel included 10 Disney parks voice actors including:

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Alison Blanchard: The voice of many computers including: Star Tours & Mission Space, The host of World of Color 60th Anniversary Special, Soarin over California and most recently appeared in the Flight of Passage preshow as Dr Jackie Odgen.

Chris Edgerly: The voice of Timothy Mouse from Dumbo and Scuttle in Ariel’s Undersea Adventure.

Bob Joles: The voice of Sallah, Indiana Jones Adventure, Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and Snow White Scary Adventures – Sneezy, Captain of the Mark Twain River Boat and most recently the voice of the Disneyland Railroad.

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Yeni Alvarez: You might say that her specialty is the Spanish safety spiels heard throughout Disney parks. Credits include Alice in Wonderland, Spaceship Earth, Flik’s Flyers, Tuck & Roll’s Drive’Em Buggies, Jumpin’ Jellyfish, Gadget’s Go Coaster, It’s a Small World and the Tomorrowland Transit Authority. She was also the Studio Backlot Tour Guide and can be heard on the parking lot trams.

B.J. Ward: Voices include Sarah (Mom) in Carousel of Progress, safety spiel in The Living Seas SeaCabs, safety spiel on It’s a Small World, unload spiel on Peter Pan’s Flight, Tomorrowland Transit Authority, Spaceship Earth, singing voices in Splash Mountain including Mother Possum and Mother Rabbit (Disneyland), Hall of Presidents, American Adventure, Space Mountain, Horizons, Kitchen Cabaret.

Peter Renaday: Best known for Henry and Max in the Country Bears, Peter started at Disney in 1959. He is credited with many Disney parks voice overs, current and retired. Credits include: Rocket to Mars, Rocket to the Moon, Snow Whites Scary Adventures, Captain of the sailing ship Columbia, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Disneyland), Mickey’s Philharmagic, Adventures Thru Inner Space, Mark Twain Riverboat, Abraham Lincoln in the Hall of Presidents and the narrator for The Walt Disney Story. Peter was the voice of Mickey Mouse for 10 Years for Disney Records (That’s LPs has he puts it) including Mickey Mouse Splash Dance and Yankee Doodle Mickey. Peter was the original “Ghost Host” on “The Story and Song of the Haunted Mansion record”. His voice was replaced by Paul Frees for the attraction.

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Fred Tatasciore: Fred’s Disney parks credits include: Darth Vader for Star Tours and Jedi Training Academy. The voice of the Expedition Everest Yeti, the Gungan Captain in Star Tours the Adventure Continues, Space Mountain Captain and can be heard on Grizzly Rapids. Fred is also Baby Groot for Guardians of the Galaxy Mission Breakout.

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Camille Dixon: From the rope drop to parade and special announcements throughout the park, Camille is the voice of Disney California Adventure.

Bill Rodgers: – Bill has recorded just about all of the Disneyland announcements since 1991 and can be heard in Disney parks worldwide. Bill replaced a retiring Jack Wagner who was the voice of Disneyland from the early 70s until 1993.

As the story goes, Bill had recorded all of the California Adventure voice over work and was set to be the voice of both Disneyland and DCA. Two weeks before the grand reopening of DCA in 2012, Bill was asked if his wife was available. She rerecorded all of his tracks and the rest is history.

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The husband and wife team has been the voice of Disneyland and DCA since.

On September 24, 2012, Disney introduced Camille Dixon, wife of Bill Rodgers the voice of Disneyland, as the new voice of Disney California Adventure in this Official Disneyparks Youtube video.

#93: D23 Expo 2017 Voices of the Parks. The D23 Expo is the ultimate Disney fan event, with something for everyone. While most people flock to the Expo Hall and the big stage “Hall D23” for the big announcements, I prefer the smaller breakouts…The real Disney details.

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