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Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion.
The Beatles, You want a Revolution [Link]
A man who doesn't talk ACTS/Creates. 42 BUS Bunker, Ontario [Link]
Streptococcus mutans, the major culprit behind tooth decay . So then we use industrial waste like fluoride to kill it? Somebody needs to read...
What a loaded article What principles DW?? Todays' children were yesterdays' adults. Spin Spin Round n Round 🙈 Get off the MerryGoRound🎡
Where is the SOURCE? What is the lesson? all else is rabbit holes and contaminating rhetoric.
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Paying attention to the Signs of the Times, left, right, inside, outside, all around?
"Symbolic Universe - Boston, Waco, Oklahoma, Revolution" [Link]:
"What is clear is that folks are picking up on the 'connectedness' of it all, consciously or otherwise."
In seeing the recent batch of snake related articles in the news recently and curious to see what connections, if any, may be found by simply searching on the word 'snake' within SoTT's Search function, I came up with this on the second page in "Search Results":
"Asian astrologers warn of stormy Year of Snake" [Link]:
"As befits "skin-shedders", Snake years are marked by major transformation and change -- and sometimes great upheaval," CLSA said."
The other thing that came to mind? Snake-oil salesmen:
"UK: Groupon Criticized For Literally Peddling Snake Oil" [Link]:
"As many have pointed out now, the order of operations largely resembles a Ponzi scheme [Link]."
Hmmm, what other 'snakes-in-suits' stylized, rigged game epitomizing, Ponzi scheme predation do we have around--one that ends up, perhaps, with its apex poking up through the floor of the worldwide casino otherwise known as the global economy?
"The entire economy is a Ponzi scheme. The global financial system is insolvent" [Link]
Other snake-oil stories that came up:
"Snake Oil Humbles Nexus Conference" [Link](snake in suit selling snake oil?)
"Repsol and Canary Snake Oil" [Link](snakes in suits with environmental disaster track records insanely pursuing extremely risky oil drilling enterprises)
"The Sport Of Psychopaths - Does Cheney Hunt Human Beings?" [Link](one of the biggest and ugliest of the snakes in suits preying on...er, uh...hunting...er uh...fishing near the Snake River in Idaho)
How snake symbolism may benefit us if taken as a big "heads up", with regard to potential food scarcity ( "Rising food prices, climate change and global 'unrest' [Link]): "How Snakes Survive Starvation" [Link]
"Another surprising finding: The snakes continued to grow despite the lack of food - a counterintuitive finding, but a measurement that again does not appear in the research literature.
[...]
"It also means the snakes have become extremely efficient in their ability to use available resources.
To illustrate the strategies employed by snakes to combat starvation, McCue uses an economic analogy of supply and demand.
"When you're cut off from resources, you are an organism that still needs to expend energy," he said. The "demand" end is met by decreasing their metabolic rate. The "supply" end must be met by frugal use of resources they have at hand for energy, which comes from within."
Another Snake River related article:
"Is Yellowstone's volcano bigger than previously thought?" [Link](also made me think of an article dated 8/01/13 ant titled "World's largest geyser puts on rare show at Yellowstone" [Link])
Scottish standing stone with snake engravings: "Out of this world solution to a Scottish standing stone" [Link](pretty wild theories but, the snake depictions are probably more likely a symbolic representation of cometary fragment bombardment, catastrophe, and cataclysm more than anything else)
On a more humorous note, do you remember this one that was posted recently?
"Are snakes smart enough to open doors?" [Link]
And, last but not least, in connection with Julius Caesar, the Mithraic Mysteries, and the Mithraic 'tauroctony' [Link], this may be one of the most profound articles of the lot: "Cosmic Snake Star Pattern Now Slithering Across Night Sky" [Link]:
"A giant celestial snake is slithering into view in our current night sky this spring.
We can look to the south to trace it during the early evening hours. In fact, the snake is one of the most extensive of all star patterns: the long and mostly faint constellation of Hydra, the female water snake.
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"A LONG STREAM OF STARS [CAPS for emphasis, mine]
Hydra begins just below Cancer with a boxy shape of five stars representing the snake's head, between Procyon and Regulus, and south of the faint Cancer, the Crab.
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"Hydra's trail of faint stars finally ends in a distant tail below Virgo that reaches almost as far to the east as Libra, the Scales. The entire snake, running from high in the southwest sky, over toward the south and finally down low to the southeast, is now in view as soon as it gets dark.
Hydra is slithering underneath faint Sextans, the Sextant; Crater, the Cup; and brighter Corvus, the Crow.
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"One of the more famous Hercules stories is how he killed a hundred-headed serpent known as the Hydra. Perhaps that's why when the constellation of Hercules [Link]stands triumphantly overhead on warm summer evenings Hydra's tail is slithering out of sight below the southwest horizon.
TRICKY BIRD GETS HIS DUE [CAPS for emphasis, mine]
Of the three smaller constellations sitting just above Hydra, by far the most conspicuous is Corvus, which on star charts appears as a small, moderately bright quadrilateral-shaped pattern of stars. Were we to add a fainter, adjoining star, the pattern would then resemble the battened mainsail of a Chinese junk.
Corvus is supposed to represent the unfaithful raven of the god Apollo. The bird was sent out with a goblet or cup for some water, but instead loitered at a fig tree until the fruit became ripe. He then returned to Apollo without the cup, but with a water snake in his claws, alleging the snake to be the cause of his delay. As punishment, the angry Apollo changed Corvus from silvery-white to the black color that all crows and ravens bear to this day.
In addition, Corvus was forever fixed in the sky along with the Cup (Crater) and the Snake (Hydra). Thanks to Hydra guarding the Cup and its watery contents, Corvus will go thirsty seemingly forever.
[...]
"Crater, the Cup is a small and rather faint figure, which corresponds quite closely to its name. Its stars indeed outline a goblet, but unfortunately they're hard to distinguish when the sky is hazy or when there's a bright moon in the sky. There is also a mariner's sextant that goes by the name of Sextans, a shapeless figure composed of a few very faint stars.
A FORGOTTEN BIRD [CAPS for emphasis, mine]
Lastly, we should mention one other star pattern, which can be found on some older star atlases sitting complacently on the end of Hydra's tail.
It is called Noctua, Vel Avis Solitaria, or simply, the Owl. Composed of nearly two dozen mostly faint stars, this night bird was created in 1776 by a Frenchman, Lemonier, in memory of the voyage of the famed French astronomer, Alexandre Guy Pingré to Rodriguez Isle.
Unfortunately for Lemonier and Pingré, today the Owl is no longer recognized as an official constellation, its dim retinue of stars belonging now to Virgo and Libra.
It's ironic in a way, since there are a variety of different birds that inhabit the nighttime sky, yet the bird that is most associated with the night is not one of them!"