<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921</id><updated>2011-12-14T19:07:53.587-08:00</updated><title type='text'>blogofmike</title><subtitle type='html'>My thoughts on the world of 3-D, its reality, and how it works.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>217</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-4461628200788406357</id><published>2011-10-10T13:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T13:21:21.099-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Death of Freedom in America</title><content type='html'>This happens when the people of America want their government to do what they themselves should have done. The idea that once was America was based on individual freedoms, not government sanctioned freedoms. This idea that the freedoms of the one are superior to everything else the government decrees involves some individual responsibilities that are not even thought of today. The people of today take the government for granted.  They think that an emergency on their individual part creates an immediate emergency of the part of the rest of the citizens of America, and furthermore, that emergency entitles the person in trouble to use any and all funds of the Federal government to get out the predicament they find themselves in.  In other words, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. This is a socialist point of view, plain and simple.  Socialism does not work in practice. America was not built on this foundation. America was built on the idea of limited government, not an all powerful one. There are checks and balances built into the Constitution and the Bill of Rights that have been murdered by socialists who just wanted to use the federal funds to care for the people who were not able to care for themselves.  I don’t know about you, but I did not sign up for that. The America that I love is one where I can be whatever I want to be as long I make my own luck by being a better salesman / inventor /businessman /worker than the next guy on the street.  If I personally want to fight hunger or save the poor, then I start a foundation to do just that. I don’t tax the people who able to make the money so I can pay for the poor to have a job or a meal.  &lt;br /&gt;The individual responsibilities that I talked about briefly above do not take into account ones needs.  For example, if a person or a family decides to live on the coast of America that is often ravaged by hurricanes, that is their choice and their predicament if a hurricane should roll right over their home and wipe them out. A sane person would not try to rebuild in the same location. If a person or family decides to live in a place on the coast that is 10 feet below sea level and the sea comes rolling one day and destroys what they have built; a sane person would move to another location and not try to rebuild in the same location, inviting another disaster to happen.  &lt;br /&gt;What I am talking about is a certain amount of common sense is required to stay alive and thrive in this world today.  If you are in a job that is safe for now, but gradually gets rocky, remember that if you don’t stay up with the technology in that industry by going to school and maintaining you credentials you will be laid off sooner than later. &lt;br /&gt;If you are an older worker who has worked for his living without an upgrade in education and got his or her 2-3% raise every year for just showing up, then don’t be surprised when the company gets rid of you for a new worker  with much experience (I call it baggage)  and more education /knowledge. Sure you can complain that life is not fair, but it was you that was getting 40-50% more for doing the same thing others are willing to do for less.  &lt;br /&gt;Just because you got a liberal arts degree in college does not mean you can get a job in your field of endeavor.  Unless you plan your life after college and pursue it rabidly, with an interest in getting what you want, at any cost, most likely you will not achieve your dreams.  Life only works if you work at it.  The rules of this game are easy, but if you are not prepared, life can be hard. &lt;br /&gt;Even getting a technical degree or a nursing degree does not mean automatic job without moving to a different locale, necessarily.  You may have to get the right technical degree to get that job you want. If you don’t want to move, good luck.  &lt;br /&gt;Without a degree, it’s worse, because you are saying that you don’t want to educate yourself any more than the minimum high school requirement.  There is a lot of competition out there from immigrants, who are willing to work very hard to get where they want to be.  Without a degree, you have to have an edge, which may be starting a business.  If you start a business, it is not an easy row to hoe. You can expect long hours forever. In short, there is no more working harder, just smarter.  Smart workers are good sales people, in addition to what they love to do. The better mousetrap has to be sold before it puts food on your table. &lt;br /&gt;It seems that a lot of people today just have their hand out, expecting that the world owes them a living. All you get from this world for showing up is a bit of air, and that air does not have to be healthy for you, either. Everything else in this world has to be earned by you. Just because you happen to live in America only means you are more equal to the person next to you. This equality comes with a price.  You make yourself equal by being smarter than the rest of the world. Nothing is free in this life, least of all, freedom. Knowledge and the means to get is the leg up that America gives you.  Steve Jobs just died the other day, but up until that time he considered America the land of Opportunity. Steve Jobs had no college education, but he did have a spark of imagination that served him well. He self educated himself in what he wanted to learn and then innovated his way to success, selling his inventions all the while. He was the consummate entrepreneur, always reinventing himself and the products he made. Life rewarded him well, but his billions only came at the end of his life.  What is very true in this life is that if you wait for a handout, you may never get one, and you may get run over waiting for something to happen.  If you want your life to work, you have to take what life gives and make your dreams come true from that. The process is often not an easy one. If you are born in the ghetto, you can lie there and complain about it or you can move to live. That’s right, you can still move to live or wait to die. The choice is yours, America.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-4461628200788406357?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/4461628200788406357/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=4461628200788406357' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/4461628200788406357'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/4461628200788406357'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2011/10/death-of-freedom-in-america.html' title='The Death of Freedom in America'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-1307932322408615845</id><published>2011-02-20T13:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-20T13:38:38.933-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Survival of the Mentally Fit</title><content type='html'>Maybe we all aren’t supposed to survive right now&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While this may be a callous thought, it may be a true one. Mankind has always been about survival of the fittest. The fittest may be the ones that have enough intelligence to get out of the way of the storm that is coming. Now, it just may be about the non-survival of the dumbest. You may have seen George Carlin’s Video on the NWO. It is true and more than that, the NWO plays with us for fun, just to see what we’ll do. HAARP is run by the NWO. They throw things up in the sky just to see what will happen. They don’t know what will happen, but they like to play. When the Montauk boys were sent to do remote viewing, they were sent out without a life line. The managers did not care if they came back or not. They were just playing around to see what would happen. When the Russian contingent of the NWO gets mad at the American side, they throw hurricanes at us or Haiti, just to watch the fur fly. They have been doing it for 30 years and they are good at it. HAARP is just as good at making hurricanes, volcanoes, earthquakes and tidal waves as it is for getting into our heads with ugly, terrorizing cartoons. Very little happens on this earth naturally anymore. It always has a campaign or a reason. You see, a terrorized person cannot think well. They think about fight or flight response. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As George Carlin said, we have to be critical thinkers anymore to do more than just survive. You can’t hide on this earth anymore, but if you are aware of what is coming then you can minimize the harm done to yourself. First and foremost, this means do not do anything stupid to your self or others, like living in New Orleans, California, Florida, or Texas. I like to call it the hide in plain sight routine. This is not a time to stand out or draw attention to oneself. Leave your ego behind if you want to do well. Oh, you can be different, but just don’t advertise it. Use your mind to become fast on your feet. It also doesn’t pay to have too much baggage these days that you could not leave behind if you had to. The NWO leaves large hints when they move, but they are subtle and most people are not looking for them so they don’t notice. Me, I’ve been noticing for quite awhile now.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does it do me any good; beyond a weird sense of humor and an ego the size of Texas for saying I told you so? I like to think so. I get a lot of wake up calls like everyone else, but there is certain smoothness to my life. I don’t expect a lot so when I do get something it is a gift. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not a time to do stupid things with your life. If you do, you will surely pay dearly. This is also not a time to try to bring everyone along, for they will only bring you down. As we enter what possibly might be the second dark ages of the earth, there is no hiding from what is coming, but if you are a bit prepared then you may survive quite well. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know the norm in America is to accumulate things to excess, but remember what I said about baggage and the need to be able to be light on your feet, as you may have to move quickly at any point in time. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is also the norm in America to be overextended, but that may not be conducive to the atmosphere we may find ourselves in one of these days in the not too distant future. You may find it difficult to pay off the debt you have accumulated over a lifetime earlier than what you might have if the ugliness of the world situation weren’t staring you in the face now; but it is tune with keeping yourself mobile. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know that today’s graduates have a tendency to graduate in Liberal Arts or Business, but you may want to get nearer to the action with such careers as Nursing or Engineering so that you may be valuable in any setting you find yourself in. It also might be a good idea to expand you hand skills by taking night courses in electricity, plumbing, first aid, and hvac. This is a time for well rounded individuals with all types of skills. You may not be able to get a job everywhere you go, but you can barter for your living if you have the skills to barter with. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Critical thinking involves some planning or looking before you leap because there may not be a government that is so forgiving in the future to look out for you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With unions pushing our salaries and benefits beyond what the world is willing to pay, the global economy just passed us by like a heart attack waiting to happen. In my mind, things will only get worse in America, not better. The Baby boomers did it to America with their wanting the American dream of keeping up with the Joneses without stopping to consider the long term view of debt. There are a lot of people on social security now and when it runs out, it will not be a pretty sight to see. When America finally faces the fact of a morally and financially bankrupt society, things will get ugly fast and a lot of good people will die for lack of shelter and food to survive. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About 80% of the people on social security couldn’t survive without it.  That is lot of angry old people who probably will die fast when things get tight. Baby boomers won’t go down easy and they make you want to doubt your sanity as they put you through an absolute hell on earth as they go through this transition to becoming debt free. A debt free society has options that a debtor nation does not. There is a certain amount of payback that has to happen every once in awhile on earth to balance out the easy times with the hard times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the government finally faces the fact that piper must be paid; the government won’t care about your social security check, or whether or not you got your meds on time. They will leave you as collateral damage along the side of the road as many other governments have done before. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America has already stepped beyond the Baby Boomers. Barrack Obama is not one of us; he is too young to care about us older people. The world passed us by along time back when the global economy made us obsolete. The Internet has made the violent young people of the world come alive and they will not go away. They want their share of the good life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China has a major problem with its young men. There is no one to marry, much less court. Chinese people our age have been killing girl babies at an astonishing rate. So much that now there are about 200-300 million young men who can’t marry or even have sex because there is virtually no one to have that sex with, unless you’re gay. These young men are angry and the situation may explode any year or decade now. What do angry young men do? They go to war because they have no good alternative. They rape and pillage. We’ve seen this with Muslims as well, in Africa. When one combines Religion and tribes; look out! The tribes all hate one another for the lack of territory and water so they don’t care about the human rights of the other tribes. Human tribes in Africa are like male lions that go after another pride and kill the babies and then rape the lionesses that are left to start their own pride. Human life does not mean much in Africa. In DRC, a jail sentence is death sentence because no one feeds the people in jail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In short an angry world is what faces us now and they want their share of the good life, at any expense. It’s coming down to Thriving, Surviving, or Dying. It doesn’t depend on how much you get from the government, rather how much you can benefit the hordes that coming.  There is no place to run to. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stark reality is coming; are you ready?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-1307932322408615845?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/1307932322408615845/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=1307932322408615845' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/1307932322408615845'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/1307932322408615845'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2011/02/survival-of-mentally-fit.html' title='Survival of the Mentally Fit'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-7857313284104326082</id><published>2011-01-01T16:24:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T16:24:52.427-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Truth depends on Mood</title><content type='html'>Your mood determines your reality &lt;br /&gt;If you feel anxious, then your answers to all the questions you ask are colored by your fear of what you are anxious about.&lt;br /&gt;If you feel unsafe, you live in an unsafe world.&lt;br /&gt;If you feel loved, you live in a loving, caring world.&lt;br /&gt;If you wake up on the wrong side of the bed, you are a danger to everyone around you.&lt;br /&gt;If you feel beautiful, then you are.&lt;br /&gt;If you feel sad, you are.&lt;br /&gt;Whatever you see in the world comes back to you 10 fold as if to prove the abundance theory. &lt;br /&gt;If you feel good, then you live in benevolent world.&lt;br /&gt;If you feel angry, then you are a threat to everyone around you.&lt;br /&gt;If you feel sad, then you are a victim.&lt;br /&gt;The world is abundantly yours, whatever you feel it reflects it back at you. &lt;br /&gt;What you see in the world sees you. &lt;br /&gt;If you believe you are rich, then you are already rich, in experiences. &lt;br /&gt;If you like people, they will like you. &lt;br /&gt;If you come onto people, they will come onto you. &lt;br /&gt;You are a magnet for whatever your mood is. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Truth is real for you only.&lt;br /&gt;The answers you seek depend upon the questions you ask and the mood in which you are when you ask them.&lt;br /&gt;The answers you get color your world by limiting your choices to the mood in which you are when you ask the questions. &lt;br /&gt;If you believe anything is possible, then it is for you until you stop believing it. &lt;br /&gt;Once you stop believing it, you have limited the choices which the world will throw at you. &lt;br /&gt;Human beings search out confirmation that they are right all the time. &lt;br /&gt;We do it to such an extent that we come self fulfilling prophecies. &lt;br /&gt;Most of the time we do it all subconsciously, but if we wake up to our own truth then the game begins. &lt;br /&gt;We then try to find out how far we can push the truth and still have it come true for us. &lt;br /&gt;This is where I find myself now, trying to find my own personal truth and define my reality by it. &lt;br /&gt;I am by far the most self righteous person on this earth, claiming that I know more of the TRUTH that anyone else alive today.  &lt;br /&gt;But I do and that makes me unusual in the extreme.&lt;br /&gt;For I now know that you find out the truth from minute to minute by living on this earth day to day with your eyes wide open, or at least not all the way shut.  &lt;br /&gt;I figure I know a little more than 1% of the whole truth about how things are run here on earth and the funny thing about that is, there is no financial gain to be had by it. &lt;br /&gt;I just get to chuckle a lot and say to myself, it can’t get any better and then it does as I figure some more out. &lt;br /&gt;I am a happy egomaniac who lives in his mind for fun. I enjoy it all. I can figure any out I really want to anymore, but more and more I let it happen because it is more fun. &lt;br /&gt;I am into laughing and having more than most and almost anything can get me going. &lt;br /&gt;I like it all because when you figure out how things are, that doesn’t mean you are allowed to do anything about it, but you can watch and snicker silently, sometimes in disgust at the plain horror of it all, and sometimes in awe because you are truly here in the moment enjoying what life has to offer. &lt;br /&gt;I have a great sense of humor and it comes out all the time just to see what people will do. &lt;br /&gt;People are the big thing for me now. I can watch families for ages at a time without ever getting bored. &lt;br /&gt;Having figured out the sex thing long ago, I am not into it much anymore, but I can still marvel at the game male and females play. &lt;br /&gt;One should never underestimate the power of the ordinary woman to amaze. They are much more delightful than the celebrity type that are just selling sex, but never interested in having it. &lt;br /&gt;My wife had me pegged a long time ago and she knows it. At least she thinks she does. I don’t have the heart to tell her that she doesn’t know me by a mile.       &lt;br /&gt;She has this body pegged for sure. She knows what moves it. She doesn’t have a clue as to what moves me though. I hide in plain sight. I am good at it. &lt;br /&gt;I suppose you could say I love her for I do, as far as that 1% will go. &lt;br /&gt;Even though we stopped having sex a log while back; there is a comfortable quality about us that is noticeable to even the casual observer. &lt;br /&gt;Our relationship has a grace about it that is hard to come by. &lt;br /&gt;I know of no one else who has this quality. I call it the quality of life. We both drift in and out of each others lives with ease not making many requirements of each other, but appreciating the quality of our lives together. &lt;br /&gt;When I am with her, I laugh a lot. &lt;br /&gt;The quality of your life is determined by how much you can take a moment in time and just chuckle at it. &lt;br /&gt;I have always been a laugher and I love it. &lt;br /&gt;I love all my different kinds of work and I am very good at it. &lt;br /&gt;I please people for a living, but mainly I please myself as I go through the process.&lt;br /&gt;I have achieved a sort of plateau in my life and I am waiting for the next thing to come about so I can change to fit it.&lt;br /&gt;Change is what makes life so interesting.&lt;br /&gt;Without change, life is very boring. &lt;br /&gt;The funny thing about it is the more we try to make it stay the same the more it changes us to make us frustrated. &lt;br /&gt;What does this have to do with TRUTH?&lt;br /&gt;Everything! When your mood changes, you become a different person, shaped by the consequences and events that you let surround you. &lt;br /&gt;It is very simple to change, just let go of everything you have and do and then do something different in the next moment. &lt;br /&gt;Change is disturbing and your ego doesn’t like disturbances so it won’t let you change. &lt;br /&gt;We are all control freaks so we can’t change easily.&lt;br /&gt;If we changed we would have to adapt to the new consequences of our changing world and we don’t do that easily. &lt;br /&gt;Our ego counts on things being the same so we can make sense of our world. &lt;br /&gt;When things change there is chaos and chaos is bad for us because we don’t know where we stand.&lt;br /&gt;We lose our reference point if we don’t know where we stand.&lt;br /&gt;However, real 3-D is constantly changing.&lt;br /&gt;The only way we can make sense of our world is to take snap shots of it and hold on to those moments as our reference points. &lt;br /&gt;One reason why we never learn anything new is that we are so good at holding onto the past. &lt;br /&gt;By holding onto the past, we feel safe and stable. &lt;br /&gt;However, this is delusional because the only safe place in our world is to accept the change as it is happening and go on with our lives. &lt;br /&gt;We all want freedom in our lives, but we are not ready to accept the responsibility of our inaction. &lt;br /&gt;Not making a choice is making a choice by default and it may not be your best choice. &lt;br /&gt;We all have choices and the ability to make the choice, but will we make it or let it be made for us. &lt;br /&gt;Having choices made for us is the so-called easy way out. &lt;br /&gt;In this scenario, our boss, mother, father, husband, wife, preacher, peer makes the decision for us and then if it doesn’t turn out the way we wanted, we have someone to blame. &lt;br /&gt;What a way to live, jumping from opportunity to opportunity, always ready to blame someone else for the miseries we live through. &lt;br /&gt;The biggest cop out is the decision not made because you’re living someone else’s life and they have more control over your life than you do. &lt;br /&gt;This is why you feel trapped all the time. &lt;br /&gt;It is easier to accept things the way they are than to figure out what is going and do something about it. &lt;br /&gt;I never said it was easy to change. &lt;br /&gt;How fast you change is the quality of your life.&lt;br /&gt;Note that I did not say the ability to change, but I said actually changing by making a decision. &lt;br /&gt; You have to make a decision about which way to go and once you do, a lot of opportunities become a moot point. &lt;br /&gt;Any one of these opportunities would have altered your reality here on earth and you just past them in favor of another decision.&lt;br /&gt;Your ego can hope for stability in 3-D, but it is fleeting at best, due to nature of 3-D, which is change.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-7857313284104326082?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/7857313284104326082/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=7857313284104326082' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/7857313284104326082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/7857313284104326082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2011/01/truth-depends-on-mood.html' title='Truth depends on Mood'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-1591073351465281646</id><published>2011-01-01T16:15:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T16:15:48.388-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Muslim Threat</title><content type='html'>This is not only a Muslim threat, but they the threat of the moment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have proven to be ineffective at fighting street or tree wars. We have a very bad history of war where we cannot bomb some territory into submission. Case in point: Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Bosnia, etc. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I saw &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Gran Torino&lt;/span&gt; for the second time last night. It struck me that Clint Eastwood was a suicide bomber, in effect. A good guy, to be sure, but a suicide bomber still. He planned it very well, as others have done in the past in real life. Clint Eastwood was fighting terrorists, street gangs, with his mind and body. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The human condition is at stake here and it is not a good prospect. There are basically 3 types of public awareness: apathy, motivated for public good, and chaos. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chaos is the terrorist way of looking at things. They just want to shake things up. Their motivation is usually religious, thinking their salvation comes from causing other people misery.  Everyone is their oppressor; virtually no one is a good guy, except their sometimes larger cause, which they themselves can often not define because they have been brainwashed by their peer group. I could talk about this group of people forever, but there is no point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apathy is where 99.85% of the world’s population is at now. That number is not likely to change. This equates to 9.75 Million people are either enough motivated to actually do something without being told to. The rest of the world considers the situation too large for them to impact by their own personal actions, they just don’t care, they just want to whine about it, or they are too busy just putting food on the table. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Motivated for public good is where most of the world’s politicians are at. They were wealthy enough to have time on their hands so they could do something besides putting food on the table and wanted to give something back to their sphere of influence  (country, state, city or area), or just wanted to make their mark on the world before they left the earth forever. The latter being the case more often than not. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My point is that there are a lot more people trying for chaos than people trying to do well in the world today. The people who are tying to do well are frankly overwhelmed. We can send our soldiers to fight them, but they win because it’s their territory and they make the rules. Our soldiers are constantly playing a game of catch up and we haven’t even started in Africa yet, which may be the worst to come. Currently, we are dancing with Iran and North Korea, while they build up. We use diplomacy, as if they cared. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do we know who to trust? Can we trust anyone? This game is made up sleepers that activate on a moment’s notice and become deadly in a very short time, often with no history of being anything but sane.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have written about this before and it is still happening. The new world order finds someone like me and injects a beacon, which they can track. The beacon has access to your personalities and can if activated, program a new activity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have heard of 3 areas of the world, all in Europe, that cater to Muslims: Iceland, Sweden, and Denmark. All goes well for about 10 years and then all hell breaks loose as the Muslims start to influence society. Muslims have more babies that white people so that as populations start to make themselves heard, there are more radicals to deal with than ever before. 12% of Muslims want Jihad while .15% of the world wants Chaos. That means radicals grow at an alarming rate of 80 times more than before without the Muslims in an ultra safe, low key country, like Denmark, Sweden, or Iceland. The apathetic majority in these countries feels overrun, but what can they do, when all their lives, everything has been quiet and sane. The governments of these countries don’t even react. They just try to contain their new citizens, all the while leaving them to multiply their numbers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Australia is the only government that has had a rabid response from its politicians. They say, GET OUT! We, here in America are just pacifying the Muslims and then something like Fort Hood, or the CIA incident in Afghanistan happens and we are dumbfounded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From a very real standpoint, it doesn’t matter who is activating these people, the point is, they are being activated by the droves and the world’s only response so far is to wait and see. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don’t see how one country can be the world’s policeman all alone, but so far, we are appointed only because the rest of the world is asleep at the switch and is tending to remain that way. Americans are very upset with the Bush wars and are having a hard time connecting the dots to see why little Johnny has to die in some foreign land, fighting for our own version of Democracy. The pendulum is swinging these days, as it swung in the last election, but in reverse. Americans don’t like nonsense wars or being broke and they will search for someone to lead them out of either or both. 21% of America is employed in jobs that support the Federal government. 24% of Americans are on social security or disability of some kind. 45% of America has a vested interest in following the Feds into what ever they say is right because they get their livelihood from the government. Only 6% more and the government won’t have to answer to anyone. What is scarier is that the baby boomers are just starting to retire and when most of them are retired, that will push the % over the magic 50% all by itself. Fascism or Socialism is just a step away for the supposedly freest country in the world. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While I am rambling here, I will point out that the world belongs to those who reproduce the fastest. India, China, Africa, and America, south of the USA seem to be winning that race, currently. If the white people don’t want to become Apartheid in reality, some of us could start reproducing more babies. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In conclusion, the world seems to be facing a long uphill battle for sanity these days, not unlike the Middle Ages. I don’t think the dark times will end in my lifetime.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-1591073351465281646?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/1591073351465281646/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=1591073351465281646' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/1591073351465281646'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/1591073351465281646'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2011/01/muslim-threat.html' title='The Muslim Threat'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-6810447024712294052</id><published>2011-01-01T15:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T16:05:09.003-08:00</updated><title type='text'>New World Order Supremacy</title><content type='html'>Hind sight is much better than foresight. The final financial collapse of the USA was accomplished in only 15 years. The start of the final collapse was the selling out of America by Mr. Clinton to the Chinese for a balanced budget, Ha Ha. This was continued by Mr. Bush and 911 starting Homeland Security and WW3. Then came Mr. Obama and his health plan, escalation of the war, QE 1&amp; 2 with IOR to boot. Bingo, we’re broke and a complete debtor nation anymore. No one in America will really work anymore and expects the government to make their living for them. Bankrupt morally and financially, we slide into history as lone more failed idea, leaving room the new world order to take over control of the world officially. No more hiding, the banks own us now. They are too big to fail and so we feed them so they can get bigger, while we become smaller and unable to move because the TSA holds all the cards.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-6810447024712294052?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/6810447024712294052/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=6810447024712294052' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/6810447024712294052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/6810447024712294052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-world-order-supremacy.html' title='New World Order Supremacy'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-7676773695359286033</id><published>2011-01-01T15:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T15:57:16.592-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Gullible</title><content type='html'>Human beings are a gullible race of beings.&lt;br /&gt;We seem to follow anyone who is determined to win and can come off as a like able fellow.&lt;br /&gt;We have our religions that don’t let us believe in ourselves. &lt;br /&gt;Our religions are all about conquering the world to save the world from other pagan religions just like ours. &lt;br /&gt;In elementary school, we all learned about bullies and what to do about them. &lt;br /&gt;Call their bluff and they will back down.&lt;br /&gt;The only problem with calling someone’s bluff is that you might get killed in the process. &lt;br /&gt;If you believe in something strong enough to die for it, that’s okay for you, but if you get me believe in your idea and then I have to die for it that makes me gullible and stupid to the point of absolute absurdity. &lt;br /&gt;There is a quality of life that must be addressed here on earth for sure, but if you never really question your beliefs then who are you to proclaim death before honor or some such nonsense.&lt;br /&gt;Give me liberty or give me death is the battle cry of an America longing to be free. &lt;br /&gt;Trying to make the world free when they may not want the same things as we do is quite another thing entirely.&lt;br /&gt;It is up each one of us to make our peace with this earth or depart it knowing we tried.&lt;br /&gt;As a self confessed happy person who has made his peace with this earth, I can tell you one thing, which is, live and let live is what all people should be living by. &lt;br /&gt;Pushing my ideas off on others is presuming that I know what is best for everyone else. That is taking yourself pretty serious, which is setting yourself and others up for failure. &lt;br /&gt;Why would I want to take on such a burden is beyond me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-7676773695359286033?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/7676773695359286033/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=7676773695359286033' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/7676773695359286033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/7676773695359286033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2011/01/gullible.html' title='Gullible'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-7903808504643618277</id><published>2011-01-01T15:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T15:54:13.199-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Heaven on Earth</title><content type='html'>Heaven on Earth for me is the fact that I, Michael James Liesveld, without any influence from any outside source, using my free will, can enjoy the beauty around me knowing full well, what that beauty represents, and surmising from my limited knowledge how it came into being. I am my own person. I think, therefore I am a living conscious entity with the full ability to reason and love as I wish.   I use reason to guide my emotions and am happy because I use reason as a guide. When I have a problem, it is because I caused it in some small or large way. I accept full responsibility for my actions and do not blame anyone or anything for my failures or successes. Reality will let me know if I how I reason is in tune or not. I read books for enjoyment and knowledge so that life is not just experience driven. My mind creates a symbiotic existence with the rest of life in the universe. To the extent that I flow with life, I am in tune with it. If I get stuck in one moment for too long, life knocks me around until I either wake up or die as a result of being stuck. Because I think things out before I act and I can define the reason why I act in such a way, my life is as smooth as I can possibly make it. In that way, I am the creator of my own life and do not need or want to wait for something better to come along. If I see something I want, I go after it, with passion. The only hesitation I use as a guide is Live and Let Live. I ask no quarter and give none. I am not a whiner. I live as I choose to live. I am a no limit being in the confines of a human body. I act, using reason as a guide. I do not react using religion as an excuse for not being a happy person in this life. I did not sin to get here on earth. The only sin on earth is to let religion take over my ability to think and reason and love as I choose to. I am a moral person that does things for the reasons I use logic to come up with. I am not moral because of religious convenience one day and immoral the next because I am not at church that day. I have no need or want to tell a priest about my life so that he can tell me I have sinned according to his doctrine. I am a spiritual person by my own definition of that word. I enjoy life on earth as heaven because I have the free will to make it so.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-7903808504643618277?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/7903808504643618277/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=7903808504643618277' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/7903808504643618277'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/7903808504643618277'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2011/01/heaven-on-earth.html' title='Heaven on Earth'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-4683597079600404146</id><published>2011-01-01T15:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T15:52:49.862-08:00</updated><title type='text'>World Stability</title><content type='html'>The world is semi stable due to the fact that no two very rabid opposing religions have got Nuclear power before at the same time. Well, it is happening now and if any one can push the button religious fanatics can. It is only a matter of time before both Israel and Iran push the button. Israel will drop a bomb on Iran first, for sure. The only question is, how many will be dropped after the first one flies. America has no control over this, at all. We can do nothing about it, except watch it unfold. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We got a hint last week about Israel’s intent and how they are as bad as what they claim to be against. Up to now, they have only killed 20 Palestinians for every one Israeli killed. The more they feel threatened the worse they could become. We gave them their military might and showed them how to use it. Should we be so naive as to not expect them to use it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran seems to be our next Terrorist goal. This could be a longer war. Iraq fought Iran using our technology and stopped. You would think we would learn a lesson. I doubt it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just remember how close Pakistan is to losing control to the Taliban and you’ll soon see a dangerous condition develop real fast on the Indian–Pakistan border. I’m not sure if India is up to the task of standing up to the Taliban, but we may out sooner than later. There again, religion is the cause.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make no mistake about it, if the world becomes an open graveyard again, religion will be the cause of it all. Very few wars are not religiously inclined when all is said and done. When President Bush went to war with Iraq, he used the axis of evil words to do so. Axis of evil is a religious term. He said he trusted his conscience to guide him. Bush is a born again Christian so guess what conscience guided him to war, his religious one, that’s for sure. Of course, oil profits from the war did not hurt his family fortune any. That means he was completely justified in what he was doing as far as he was concerned. I’ll bet you he sleeps like a baby at night. Doesn’t the end always justify the means in any religious conflict? In any religious conflict, it is always the barbarians (pagans) against the righteous. The righteous become indignant and have to squash the pagans, and in so doing they lead them to the light (their version of God). In our case, the usual drivel is we are making the world safe for democracy and that is what makes us morally right when we kill thousands of people in the name of being the world’s policeman. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the Muslims take hold in Africa, more blood will be shed than ever before because now you have the tribal feuds plus the religion working against the African people. That is a real bad situation. Tribes always fight over territory and the water it takes to grow crops and when you add to that the power of religion to create turmoil, you really have the beginnings of something ill. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Muslims are taking hold now in Denmark, Sweden, and Iceland, which are for the most part, pacifist countries, until now, that is. Violence is erupting in those countries and no one knows what to do about it. Muslim terrorists just roll over pacifists and don’t even notice. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Middle East in particular has a code that everyone there follows, which is, be the biggest and baddest cat on the block because that is only way you get respect. Israel understands this and so do the Muslims. I don’t think Obama does, but Bush did. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama wanted to negotiate with the Republicans to get the other side’s point of view, instead of just pushing through what he wanted in the first place with his 60 vote majority. Now that majority is gone and he will get nothing for all his efforts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He is beginning to come around in both the Middle East and with the Congress, but it may be too little too late for him with Congress. The jury is still out in the Middle East. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America is without a doubt he largest Military power in the world and yet we have now become irrelevant because the face of war is the streets or the jungles. We still fight wars as we did in the war to end all wars (WW1). We have all this new technology, but it doesn’t do us any good because religious fanatics want to die for the glory of their god. What can we do to give them pause? Anything we do now will make them martyrs for their cause, which is religious, so it must be just, by definition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a peaceful Iraqi family of 8, all it takes is one boy or girl paying more attention to their peers than to their parents to call that family Al Qaida. In other words, one bad egg spoils the lot. In this world as it is now, boys and girls learn most of their training for the real world from peers. Maybe this has always been the case, I don’t know. I know my parents never taught me much that I couldn’t learn for myself, better and faster. I didn’t learn from peers or parents, I read a lot.  How can I expect kids to change when the parents don’t?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both Iraq &amp; Afghanistan have pseudo Democracies that we helped put in place in a place where Democracy is not wanted by the most powerful classes of people in those countries (Al Qaida or Taliban). If the decent people of Iraq &amp; Afghanistan wanted Democracy bad enough to fight for it themselves; like the Americans fought a civil war to end slavery, then it is obvious to me, the casual observer, that the peaceful people of both countries will be overrun until they have had enough. It is quite evident that now is not the time since both Al Qaida &amp; Taliban are growing in numbers and violent crimes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is obvious to me that when we get tired, as a nation of fighting a war where we have no business, except oil and poppies, we will leave, like we did from Vietnam and the stronger will overcome the weaker and things will go back to being what they were before, a religion based Muslim Cleric government. How long will it take us to learn is another matter? If the Sunnis and the Kurds don’t like the Shiites having all the oil, they can go to war or shut up and be poor, like they were before. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As far as we are concerned, we will always find different ways to kill young Americans in a world gone mad. One would hope that once we do bring the services home, at least we could stop awhile and rebuild our infrastructure and start a youth campaign to clean up America before we go on the warpath again. Naive, aren’t I. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In most of the world, we are thought of with ill will for no good reason. I would issue a proclamation to the world that if any influence is shown to be true involving a killing of an American citizen on American soil that is cause for America to destroy the largest building in the country that was responsible for the death. Put our bombs and technology to use where, at least if we are hated, we will be hated for a reason. There would be no reason for us to lack any sleep over killing a building that we gave notice we were going to destroy. If the terrorist country wants to put people in the building just to hate us more then that country would be willing to put their people at risk. Of course the country would say that it is not responsible for some nutcase going off and killing Americans and hate us for killing their prized building, but it’s about time the world learned that what you don’t know in this world does have consequences, sometimes deadly ones.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-4683597079600404146?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/4683597079600404146/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=4683597079600404146' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/4683597079600404146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/4683597079600404146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2011/01/world-stability.html' title='World Stability'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-5781044112976823570</id><published>2011-01-01T15:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T15:49:13.903-08:00</updated><title type='text'>What is Right and Wrong about America</title><content type='html'>The people are what is right about America. Essentially all people are kind and courteous to others and would not go out of their way to harm anyone. Most people just want to live their lives in the way that gives them the least amount of pain and suffering and the maximum amount of joy and happiness. That is, unless they are riled up about something or someone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Americans have been led to believe that we have been wronged and by the “purely human right” of righteous indignation, we should go to war with whoever did such a monstrous thing as to try to pick on the one so-called “Super Power” left. We have been wronged; it is true, but by our own government. Not by any political party, but by the whole system that supports war at any price as an end not a means.  Political parties only implement that system of war. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America had a government limited to doing a few things when it was founded.&lt;br /&gt;Most Americans still want as little government intervention in their lives as only necessary for a safe life. Our present form of government has clearly overstepped its bounds and now assumes that everyone wants the government to do everything for them. &lt;br /&gt;There is not one person in America that wants this as it is inconsistent with high self esteem, if given a choice. We are not given a choice.  Americans are proud of their independence and instead want the government to get out of their lives and leave them to do what they have to do to survive well on this earth. American politicians misinterpret the signals their voters are giving them because they want to be reelected so badly, they will promise anything to do so. Most of these promises die on the vine after the politicians are reelected and the people are sorely disappointed. The American people do not like being led to the slaughter by ill meaning politicians interested in only lining their pockets with money while printing more to deflate the value of the dollar. Before the year 2005 when a barrel of oil cost less than $50, the American people were not in a useless war that deflated the US dollars to an all time low with respect to other currencies.  Before America went in to save Iraq from Saddam, Iraq was producing a lot more oil at significantly lower prices. If securing the oil source for America was the goal as many people believe it was and is, then America is doing a very poor job in Iraq. However if war is the goal then America is doing very well because from all hints, we are about to step into Iran big time. Now that most large American cities have a crime/murder rate higher than Baghdad, our purpose can longer be keeping the Iraqi safe from the kill squads. If fomenting war is the goal in Iraq however, America has done very well, pitting Sunnis against Shiites at every turn. If America wanted to free Iraq from murder then why have we put sworn enemies next to each other in a Parliamentary setting and expected them to behave nicely when the sun goes down. The only thing the Sunnis and the Shiites agree to is the fact that they hate Americans more than they hate each other. &lt;br /&gt;Do the American people like this war? No, they have said so loud and clear.&lt;br /&gt;Have the American people been led down the primrose path? Yes, by several presidents all in the name of Democracy and peace. &lt;br /&gt;Can Americans be manipulated into the position of supporting any war? Yes, Vietnam, Bosnia, Iraq, Somalia, Germany, Japan, and even civil war among themselves. All one has to do is push the right buttons. And believe me our buttons are being pushed by expert psychologists who know exactly what they are doing to us.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-5781044112976823570?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/5781044112976823570/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=5781044112976823570' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/5781044112976823570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/5781044112976823570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-is-right-and-wrong-about-america.html' title='What is Right and Wrong about America'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-6251185275649424734</id><published>2011-01-01T15:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T15:47:04.667-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Welfare and other subjects</title><content type='html'>Anyone on welfare should have to relinquish their right to vote because they always vote to continue the dole. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Anyone on welfare who has a child while on welfare should have their tubes tied as they have gotten too used to being on welfare. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Schools&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Failing the 3 R’s should not be optional. Make the kids who leave school before they learn the 3 R’s go to a work gang to clean up America at below minimum wage while going to school at night to learn what they didn’t in school. When they can get a GED and are proficient at some level, they can then graduate to more cleaning of America at minimum wage.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upon graduation, everyone should have a choice of working for America at minimum wage or going to the armed forces. Armed forces are not supposed to be the world’s policemen or policewomen; they are supposed to protect us from threats to our country’s shores, like illegal aliens coming over the border. American kids rarely clean up their rooms so let them clean up America instead. Have them learn what work is. After 2 years hard labor, guarantee them a good education or a good trade school.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Social Security &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyone on social security before the full age of retirement should not vote as they will vote to continue the dole.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyone on social security before retirement who has a child while on Social Security should have their tubes tied as they have gotten too used to being on social security without paying for it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Government Workers, State and Federal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyone who is a government worker should not be allowed to vote as they vote to continue their job. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Immigration&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tag everyone you catch just like those children that get body tags inserted in their skin so that when they come back again, you’ll know who it is and why they come back. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ask them if they have work in the USA. If they say yes, deliver them to it as it is probably something we Americans do not want to do, like getting dirty. Make sure they pay taxes. If they have someone with them, show them the way home unless they also have a job waiting for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If they don’t have a job waiting for them and they are sick, take them to the hospital, but have them sign a paper in Spanish or their language that says they will have their tubes tied. Then, show them the door. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make everyone go to school and learn English. If they won’t or can’t learn, return them to their country. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If they have guns, shoot first, ask questions later. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If they are underage show them the door. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To find them use HAARP and deep earth tomography to locate the tunnels they came in. Blow the tunnels up with no notice, but first, place big signs on the other side of the border telling them exactly what you intend to do, in their language, of course. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If they are trafficking in drugs, shoot first, ask questions later. Don’t shoot with small arms, use howitzers and blow them to pulp.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-6251185275649424734?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/6251185275649424734/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=6251185275649424734' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/6251185275649424734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/6251185275649424734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2011/01/welfare-and-other-subjects.html' title='Welfare and other subjects'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-9043679580968505411</id><published>2011-01-01T15:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T15:43:27.103-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Too big to fail ittus</title><content type='html'>First it was the banks that were too big to fail and now it is the oil companies. Too big to fail in m mind just means that someone paid in too many political contributions to let them go down or someone works too well with the government to fail. Any government supported enterprise is bound to be bad for business.&lt;br /&gt;I do business with Chase and Bank of America. I find that they are lousy companies. They are too big to fail by government standards, which means by anyone else’s standards they should fail. They all perceived loopholes in regulations and exploited them to miserable ends. They took advantage of our gullibility. They sold what they knew were bad products to people who were told they too could live the American dream of owning their own home.&lt;br /&gt;I also do a lot of business with large companies like Trane and Honeywell. These companies are disasters when it comes to customer service. They don’t care and when it comes right down to it they don’t know the answer, but they will never tell you anything. They just keep you on the line forever, waiting and hoping. They give you the wrong part number and then blame you for ordering it. They will not accept returns. Not knowing the answer is not a solution so they just stop answering. &lt;br /&gt;This not knowing part is rampant in the world today. I am an engineer and I fight it all the time at work and everywhere in life today. No one seems to pay any attention to details in their work anymore. They are too busy on Face book and Twittering away their time to actually get it right.  &lt;br /&gt;BP, Exxon, Chevron, Conoco and the like are all pushing the limit, trying to extend the life of oil boom on earth. They are all too big to fail, but constantly ignore all safety devices and forge on with their oil profiteering. BP deserves to fail for ignoring 3 safety device tests that all would have proved the same thing. The safety devices did not work so they knew they were in trouble and forged ahead anyway. This is just a copy of 3 Mile Island, where we got scared and left the industry hanging out. We still don’t know where to put nuclear waste because no one wants it in their backyard. Now, other potential disasters are coming to light from companies who should have known better than to push oil drilling into the seabed without a long term plan of what to do at the end of the project. &lt;br /&gt;The government is just as bad, not wanting to open up pristine lands in Alaska, or other places that have proven reserves. They are afraid of what might happen if the companies are allowed to proceed and not do what is right to put the land back the way it was. They are right. Have you ever tried to replace moss, or permafrost 3’ deep? It is a tough proposition. Permafrost is one of these slow growth things like coral and very important to the ecosystem.&lt;br /&gt;Natural gas has to be fracked out of the earth and runs out quickly; then the well has to be fracked again and again to be able to produce at a rate that would pay off. This uses a lot of water typically to get it going again and water is also a dying resource. It is a vicious cycle that takes a lot of resources to replace oil and a source of energy. &lt;br /&gt;Coal is just too much sulfur to deal with. The amount of filtering and scrubbing it takes is phenomenal. Have you ever heard about the awful amounts of water an average power plant takes to make electricity. It is ghastly.  &lt;br /&gt;I can tell you that solar and wind energy are not ready to take over; just as nuclear failed to plan ahead far enough to stay alive. Wind energy has the problem of over speed shut down. The weather just won’t cooperate, it seems. Solar Energy has the problem of batteries not being good enough to handle the back up. Both have the transmission problem to deal with, as no one really wants to look at the turbines or the panels. Nuclear energy has a couple of failings like what to do with the waste when no one wants to store it because the half life of Plutonium is 24,000 years. It has the same failing as with deep oil drilling equipment; the safety devices can get you if you don’t pay attention to the process. Slack off one time and you’re history. Companies are too interested in their bottom line to care and people do get careless, if pushed beyond their natural limits by stress applied by management. &lt;br /&gt;I don’t know which I hate more a company being bailed out that has no business being in business because they clearly don’t pay attention to their business, or the government that pretends to be everything to everyone when all it really does is increase the debt it owes to the people with every giveaway program. A government that goes to war just to be at war because it can’t make money any other way; as it doesn’t know how to make money, only spend it. . A government that has so many illegal programs going on that it can’t reveal them even to Presidents. A government that uses Nazi department like the CIA &amp; NSA to spy on its citizens to keep them in line. A government that fakes 911 to impose Homeland Security upon its people and uses HAARP to keep them dumb enough to believe the government is the one all, do all, end game in their lives. A government that is good at seeding the clouds above the people’s heads with toxic chemicals.  A government that appeases its people by giving everyone health insurance to for an alarming price that will never be paid by anyone ever is just too good to be true, and it’s true. A government that charges Microsoft with Antitrust only to get a couple of lines of code in their operating system so it can spy on the people when ever it wants. A government that both runs drugs to pay for the CIA/NSA mad schemes off budget and then runs the war on drugs to appease its people, while collecting all the drugs it receives and selling them elsewhere. A government that finds a neutral country and then sets up howitzers in it to bomb the neighboring bad guys, only to pay the neutral country back with building a school  where there are no teachers to teach. A government that kills its own people just to keep secrets is definitely bad enough to win my game of distrust. I guess the government wins my distrust hands down because there are so many bad guys in government and just a few in these too big to fail companies. &lt;br /&gt;A company cannot affect your life the way the government can unless it is too big to fail. Then what you will see is a government enforced monopoly powered by a few large companies that are you only option to buy from. What about Wal-Mart? They seem to be doing a good job until you really look. Then you find things like extreme employee mental abuse going on. Wal-Mart reduced prices in America back to before the 1970’s in some cases, but at what cost. No other company in history has grown as large as Wal-Mart, or affected the way we shop. This company started the Chinese evolution into so called capitalism and away from the strict communistic way of doing things. It proved that Americans were overpaid by at least 5 times what the market was willing to pay for producing goods. It made the global revolution in production as it pushed for lower prices with no apparent compromise in quality, even though its food quality is questionable due to no FDA oversight in China. Japan was famous before for not paying any attention to intellectual property, but China took that to a whole new level of ignorance. &lt;br /&gt;But again, it was the government that undermined the American worker by selling more and more of the US debt to China emphasizing that we are a debtor nation, tried and true. Politicians like Clinton then came and sold US companies like Hp &amp; IBM to China and let Mr. Ho off Scott free, effectively giving all our defense ideas to China for a year of Balanced Budget and an election landslide. &lt;br /&gt;Now that we are relegated to a lowly second place in financial affairs, with China essentially owning us lock, stock, and barrel; what is our next move? The stimulus funds have run out and the workers that were employed for those tasks are not being taken up by industries that have just moved everything increasingly offshore like GE and Trane.      &lt;br /&gt;Everyone blames Clinton, Bushes, and Obama for it all. They had a large part, to be sure, but the American public has sooner or later got to wake up to the fact that the gravy train is running out of gas, literally. How much of a credit trip can be bought, forever, without a wake up call? Can we consume ourselves to death? It appears so. We gripe about everyone else, but he Buck stops here. America has to clean up its own act or die an ugly death.&lt;br /&gt;Americans apparently don’t want the “bad” part of the Mexican invasion, but we do love the good part of it. How come we can’t clean our own streets and pick up our own garbage or fruit? We apparently don’t like manual labor anymore, but we can’t stand those who do either. WE have come full circle, finding out what it means to embrace let the government do it conveniently equates to letting someone else do it. This has its problems when we don’t have the money to pay the piper. Letting someone else do it eventually lets them take over that and other industries and ravages our basic skill base of competency. We then become too lazy to do any physical labor at all. BY saying let the government do it enough, we give our core skills by letting someone else do the hard stuff so much that when it comes to designing a new widget, we give that up too. This creates less demand for engineers who design and solve the problems of society.  When we as a public, see the 911 tragedy and do not even question the government that set it up because we believe the government can do no wrong and it will protect us. HAARP won that battle of wits by dimming our wits so much that we could care less. HAARP has lost the war of ideas for America by dumbing us down so far that we expect the government to support us. America is now embracing the new socialism by not fighting for its own Capitalistic beginnings. Americans have no one to blame, but themselves in this battle of wits. We became too lazy to care and just gave up our power. Hard times are upon us for doing exactly that. The way out of this is a long, hard road of wake up calls. Self responsibility equals self esteem and those who forgot that fact will pay the price of low self esteem and a powerless existence.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-9043679580968505411?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/9043679580968505411/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=9043679580968505411' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/9043679580968505411'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/9043679580968505411'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2011/01/too-big-to-fail-ittus.html' title='Too big to fail ittus'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-3852331497042587349</id><published>2011-01-01T15:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T15:38:53.401-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Karsai is right</title><content type='html'>We should get out. We are not wanted there. We should concentrate on where the nuclear Weapons are in Pakistan. With us getting out of Iraq now and not really wanted in the Mid East at all maybe we should come home and protect our own borders and rebuild our roads. At least we would have what we protect. You can call it rebuilding the infrastructure, but there was no infrastructure there to begin with. Why build it up if they are just going to bomb it away again?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-3852331497042587349?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/3852331497042587349/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=3852331497042587349' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/3852331497042587349'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/3852331497042587349'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2011/01/karsai-is-right.html' title='Karsai is right'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-8370130432523076143</id><published>2011-01-01T15:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T15:36:33.792-08:00</updated><title type='text'>QE2/IOR/ Inflation</title><content type='html'>I am about to commit a serious heresy through oversimplification, but here goes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The media is not talking about this at all. It’s funny because the 1 trillion bank bailout was front page news. I never heard of IOR until I looked into QE2. Of course, all the bankers are laughing all the way to the bank, their bank. Imagine a failed banking system due to their own bad judgment on some pretty bad loan risks on derivatives and loaning money to people who no intention or way to pay it. The world was in a mess financially. FR steps in to stimulate the economy. They bail out the banks and insurance companies to the tune of 1 trillion dollars inflating our currency beyond belief to stimulate the economy. But the FR has a bad problem; bank reserves are low. They invent IOR to solve that problem. Only no one realized how well they solved it. Would any banker, let alone anyone else with half a brain loan out their reserves if they were getting a ¼ point to keep their reserves locked away? Not on your life would you get a banker to make risky loans in a bad economy when they can make ¼ point on keeping the money in a vault. Meanwhile QE2 program starts up with a 600 Billion buyback of the treasuries to stimulate the economy without removing the IOR program. QE2 is on its way to 2 trillion dollars on major inflation to our currency over the next 1-½ years. If the FR is successful, it will own more of its treasuries than China at the end of the program. But the goal is to stimulate the economy by having the banks lend the money out to America. With IOR in place, this makes not sense because there is no motivation on the bankers’ part but to let the money sit in the vault and earn a safe rate for sitting there. If the bankers do lend the money out, they are more likely to lend it overseas where labor is cheap and they can get a decent rate of return for their dollar than to lend it inside America where labor is sky high. So at the end of the exercise, inflation is ratcheting up in America at a record pace, the dollar is worth nothing globally, and unemployment is still at 10% minimum, but the banks are rich from double dipping and that is what matters, evidently.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-8370130432523076143?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/8370130432523076143/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=8370130432523076143' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/8370130432523076143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/8370130432523076143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2011/01/qe2ior-inflation.html' title='QE2/IOR/ Inflation'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-185805230396447320</id><published>2011-01-01T15:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T15:32:34.651-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Muslims and Enlightenment</title><content type='html'>The Muslims in power are stuck in 1200 AD. We, the USA are trying very hard to bring them into the 20th Century, where we are stuck. Some of the Muslim people want to change, but not those in power, at least not yet. These people are going to have to realize something is wrong with their religion and the way it treats people in general. This will be a long wait. This will be far longer than the Soviet Union coming out of Communism, which it hasn’t fully yet, or China coming out of Maoism, which it definitely hasn’t yet. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I submit to you, my imaginary reader, that it is not anyone else’s place to bring someone in to the light when that person or people are drenched in the beliefs of a past age. We cannot and should not direct their destiny. We should leave them to their own type of reality and do the best we can to see that their reality does not infect ours. They have the right to be as they are or were which they will probably go back to when we leave. When Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, or any other essentially Muslim nation elect a non-religious government leader who is willing to ask how to proceed with that endeavor, then we will be getting somewhere. We cannot and must not force the issue upon them before they are ready to accept it. We do not and must not control another nation’s destiny, especially by forcing it on them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By being stuck in the supposed 20th Century, we are fooling ourselves too. This is the 21st Century and the Chinese are in control because we forgot what we were about. We got complacent and now have to reinvent ourselves all over again. For one thing, we are still fighting war in the 1900 style when war has changed. How do we maintain that just bombing everything in sight is going to work when all the supposed bad guys just hide in the caves and in the ground until we get tired of bombing them? They then come out and kill our soldiers in a street kind of way that is still baffling our commanders. Not only are we deceiving ourselves, but then we have to rebuild the city we just bombed. We are distinctly not good at rebuilding cities from scratch in areas of the world where we are not wanted. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a nation that exports war and mayhem, we are not doing so well. We would be better off concentrating on rebuilding our economy and recognizing that the world has left us behind in the job skills market arena. That is, hopefully before China pulls our financial plug and lets us all drown in our own mess. China has a plan, that is for sure, and we are in it. Now that China owns us, we have to figure out what that plan is and play our part, while reinventing the greatness America has inside. We have to re-figure out that it is not our government that is great; it is the American people that are great. We made this mess and we can get out of it only by getting rid of the socialism that keeps us in the 20th Century. The power that made us great is not our unique ability to foment war, but our ability to invent things that make our lives better. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right now, the world is in an oil age and trying to break free. When the world was in a coal age and that caused us not to breathe so well, we changed to an oil age, which is still great for making plastic, but not so great financially speaking because we are out of oil in abundance in America and it costs us too much to maintain the level of stability we are used to without inviting Muslims to be nice to us and give us “their” oil. They are running out too, and now have to frack more and more to get the oil out in any quantity that is useful. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The way out for America is to use our ingenuity to reinvent the energy world around us. True enough, solar has battery problems, and wind has the same battery issues with an over speed shutdown problem to boot. Nuclear has to storage of waste issue. We must begin to think long term and get our best minds on it or we face the Muslim terror built with our very own funds that we continue to give to them. Why are we giving the Muslims our money if there is another way out that doesn’t involve killing 1.5 Billion people?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-185805230396447320?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/185805230396447320/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=185805230396447320' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/185805230396447320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/185805230396447320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2011/01/muslims-and-enlightenment.html' title='Muslims and Enlightenment'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-6124211537613730927</id><published>2011-01-01T15:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T15:28:27.908-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Issues with Governments</title><content type='html'>People who want to help the world rarely have all the skills themselves to help others. This fact is simple and true. One man or woman is not an island. It takes many skills to run a society of human beings. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyone who has the talent for selling their services does. People usually gravitate to what they do best, not always what makes them happiest. As we are a teaching species, this usually includes what they are taught to do well. If what you are taught to do well or have a natural inclination to do well pays well, you usually get along swimmingly. If not, one finds it difficult to eke out a living in this world. This is another fact of life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If for some reason there is no market for your particular services, or you can’t sell yourself well, you still have to get along in this world; what do you do? You may have to work for less or you could work for the government. I am one of these people. I work for the government. It seems that the world at large does not care for the services I give out. It just seems that way. I do quite well when given a chance to perform my service for anyone or any company. However, I do not sell well. Maybe it is because I developed skills that give in depth service that is ordinary and everyone can do if they put their mind to it. What I mean is pointing out the obvious. What is obvious to me is not necessarily obvious to you. Each person has a certain focus, or way of looking at the world. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I do particularly well is troubleshoot systems that are failing and make cases that build up solutions. This means I dive into the details. By understanding the details of how and why something works, I can build a better system. Most people are not inclined to believe that this will work. This is why I find it difficult to sell myself. Once I am in a system, it is easy to sell what I do because people begin to see my value. It just takes that initial leap of faith and I am off doing my thing. I am extremely good at what I do so I quickly rise to the top and become heavily responsible and responsive to the needs I see need to be met. I am deeply into service. It is what I do best. On the other hand, I am very sure of myself and most of the time, I overwhelm people with service. What do overwhelmed people do; they shut down. Most of the time, people shut down during the selling of me because I seem too good to be true. I am, but the old adage about what seems too good to be true is usually a scam gets me a lot. This gets me a lot. I have trouble stopping once I get started. I tend to oversell and say too much, putting the person in sensory overload right away. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most people are generalists by nature. Some people are big picture by nature. I am detail by nature. There aren’t very many of us around. This makes me a very good engineer, but a lousy salesman or conversationalist. I am too intense for most people to stand. I tend to go straight to the heart of the matter. There is no tea and crumpets for me. I am not a nice or kind person, just get to the point right away. Because of this, I get carried away easily and tend to forget about all the other unimportant stuff that other people tend to need. I am a find a problem, solve it person. I tend to become an expert at what other people don’t pay any attention to. People tend to forget the same things time after time because they don’t even think in those terms. If they do think of them, they usually will delegate the task to someone else and promptly forget it even existed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My whole point in explaining all this is to let you, the reader, know my worth. But even that is secondary. Every company needs someone to do the details or else nothing works. If it is a small company, the boss usually takes care of this. The larger companies hire this done or employ a person to do this. This is what engineers are supposed to do, but in fact, rarely do.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I‘ll give you a case in point. When a company buys a boiler it comes with all the connections ready to turn on in most small cases. You bring the water and gas to the boiler and turn it on after you wire it up and program it. Well, I am the person who comes along and makes sure that the pipes don’t corrode because of incompatibilities between dissimilar metals. I add a dielectric union to make the piping last. I make sure the ground is good so that stray currents don’t degrade the metal over time. I am the finisher if I come in as the inspector. I am the drawing checker if an engineering firm is doing the drawings. I make sure things fit together. I check the mfr specs that final time to make sure that the machine will do what we want it to. It has been my experience that the generalist engineer will usually skim over these details and hope someone else has done their job. He completely forgets that this is his job. This is what he was hired for. There is a law in engineering that is very true. Don’t expect what you don’t inspect. This is true for the world as a whole, but especially this is true in engineering. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Engineering as a profession is made of many kinds of people, just like any other profession. Doctors, politicians, pilots, or any other skilled profession that requires more than just average training all have the same basic problem, which is the 80-20 rule squared, or 95-5. As a profession requires more skill and training, the level of competence must go up. If 80 % of normal people just get by in their jobs and wait for each Friday to come so they can booze it up on Friday and party all weekend; that leaves 20 % to be somewhat responsible and do a good job. In the so called higher professions the figure is 95% just get by or not and 5% do the work. Whenever you hear of a bridge failure or an oil spill that just means that one of the 5% did not check the other 95% of the work force. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This oil spill reminds me of 3 Mile Island where 3 independent safety systems also failed. If any one of the 3 systems fails that puts a lot more suspicion on the other safety systems, naturally. The one system failing means that some one did not do their job and the engineer that checked it did not check it for real. When one thing like this fails, it always brings up the obvious question, will anything work as designed? 3 Mile Island stopped 30 Nuclear Power Plants from being built in America. Can you imagine how many drilling platforms will be affected. I would say hundreds, at least. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The main reason for checks and balances in industry are fear of a lawsuit, or a possible hit to the bottom line. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In government, where I work and all over as far as I know, no one ever checks anything. This is why the government is fairly inefficient. Everyone checks to see that the work is done, but no one ever checks that it is done right. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The government engineers are not really engineers, but statement of work writers and bad ones at that. The people that do these tasks mostly copy other work before them including the same faults of those before them. No one ever looks or questions what they do. It’s like every manager has a quota of SOW’s to get out and it is a race to see how many they can do. Not one thought is ever given to quality because almost no engineers are in this process. The government is into spending money quickly. The government gets money only rarely during the year and then it is a race to see how much of it can be spent in the time they do have it available. This emphasizes production of SOW’s over doing it right the first time. The government is also all about form. It must be in the right form or it is not an SOW. Government contracting is all about schedule. Everything must be on schedule and tracked. The government is also into checklists and inspections. No question is ever put forth to ask if the inspection accomplished the intended result. There again it is hoped, that someone in the time of the project did something right. The only sin is to be late. Government people have too much to do with all the lists and checking, so no one does anything and the project gets signed off as if they everything fine. Everyone just on about their business as if everything was fine. There are, in short, so many rules and regulations to follow that no one follows any of the rules or regulations.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So very few in depth reviews are possible in government contracting, but everything is documented as if it were fully checked. The few people who do check are worn out pretty quickly because once the government finds out you are a worker, they inundate you with work. The pay is no better if you work or if you don’t, so eventually the best workers also slow down and play the game too. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The government is good at one thing; spending money. That is its job. Keep the economy oiled and running.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-6124211537613730927?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/6124211537613730927/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=6124211537613730927' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/6124211537613730927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/6124211537613730927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2011/01/issues-with-governments.html' title='Issues with Governments'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-2048024712601985565</id><published>2011-01-01T15:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T15:19:18.667-08:00</updated><title type='text'>HAARP</title><content type='html'>I learned a long time ago about this project and what it could do to the earth and everyone on it. It’s a game that goes back several decades and it can be and often is a deadly game. The NWO controls most of the sites around the world and there are a lot of them around. The major sites are in the USA and Russia. Through work on nuclear test sites in the Pacific, we learned that nuclear war was just too destructive to the planet and since the NWO have to live here too; they shifted with the help of the aliens around the earth to a more earth friendly technology of beaming energy around. Most of the things we think of as being science fiction, like weather control, time travel, teleporting, telekinesis, mind control, mood shifting, telepathy, soul shifting, instant manifesting in 3D, alternate realities, curing all disease, etc… have already been done by the government with the help of alien technology. Governments keep these things and ideas “safe” from prying normal minds and use them to experiment on us. Since the NWO lives on Earth, no one is allowed to go too far with any one technology. That is why I eventually stopped playing the mind game of trying to keep up with new government technology. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Fort Detrick built the AIDS virus and released it on the African continent and it got away from them, this was a wake up call for the NWO. They not so quickly found out if they weren’t careful with what they were playing with, US, we could get carried away and kill us all off, much like a runaway mob with blood in their eyes. Since the masses of people are the only game in town, the NWO does not want to kill the golden goose. The NWO gets off on manipulating us and then standing back and watching the fur fly; seeing how far they can push us in order to have the power trip they all have. Then too, there is at least one alien, a DRACO reptilian, in the middle of the earth who has overriding psychological control so no one can really go hog wild and kill everyone else. I become a little concerned when warring religions go too far, but then I remember who made the religions in the first place and stop worrying so much.  Alas, I digress. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HAARP was made to be the new technology of choice. By manipulating the weather through the use of magnetic wave technology, like what Tesla invented, governments could be openly mad at other unsuspecting governments without a shot being fired. A simple large wave, earthquake, or monsoon thrown at some country is supposed to only “god” created, right? Not so anymore. The Russians were the first to develop this technology and used it for years against the USA, keeping us busy with hurricane clean up details. Now that we have it too, the hurricanes are usually shoved elsewhere. There are also various individuals that have this technology and use it to stop the havoc. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Panic among the masses has a bunch of things going for it if you have no scruples at all about using this technology. &lt;br /&gt;• It activates the fight or flight response quite nicely&lt;br /&gt;• Usually it improves our immune response&lt;br /&gt;• It develops character, as panic sorts the good eggs out fast&lt;br /&gt;• It provides a lot of amusement for those in power&lt;br /&gt;• It also makes a lot of money for those in power&lt;br /&gt;• Money is power and power is the name of the game&lt;br /&gt;• Above all, it keeps us busy and not so much into spying&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HAARP also uses magnetic waves to mood shift populations. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first major test of this was done prior to HAARP becoming active at Montauk Point in upper Long Island Sound. Montauk has been a center for a lot of misery for quite awhile using alien technology. The Air Force fired up some prototype technology to test the idea of mood shifting populations. They put an Ultra Low Frequency in the air over the small town of Montauk spread out over the immediate area and watched what happened. Within minutes of the frequency being spread, the town became quiet and happy, people started hugging one another and animals came into town to be petted by the human population. Success! Then they tried another frequency on a different day and everyone started fighting. There were multiple deaths from stabbings and gun shots. Another kind of success was achieved. The Air Force had proved HAARP technology could work on humans and animals (mammals). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another case in point was 911. First, planes were thrown at the twin towers and then a slight notching up in brain activity was required to produce the impetus to start a war with Iraq and dull our cognitive mind to the fact that the Towers fell from being hit with planes when they were designed to withstand just such an impact. Then we were off to the races killing every Muslim in sight, mad as wet hens. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another case in point was even more pronounced. The first Iraq war in the early 90’s was fought on a different scale as an experiment (everything in this life is a game that someone is playing with or against someone else.) Anyway, I digress. Saddam Hussein’s Presidential Guard was about 150,000 -200,000 fighting men of the first order. This is how he kept his people in line. Now, they were turned against us, even though we supplied the arms and technology to them in the first place to keep Iran from overthrowing the region in 1980. Anyway, the stage was set in Kuwait for a large confrontation and the killing of a lot of soldiers. It was not pretty. Along comes HAARP in its first real wide test of mood control and wallah, the Iraqi soldiers lay down their arms and surrender. The Iraqis were made happy so all we had to do was collect them up and send them home after taking their weapons away.  The experiment was a success. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make no bones about it, if the NWO didn’t want us warring against one another, they could stop it instantaneously. Unfortunately, panic among the masses is like an aphrodisiac to them, so the warring will continue. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everything that lives has a frequency. A case in point is glass can shattered by a strong human voice singing a high note. The frequency either is in tune or it is not. Obviously, we are being excited to not be in tune. There are obviously degrees of being out of tune. An out of tune frequency can be sent out to disrupt our cell structure and we appear to disappear from existence since without our structure us and everything around us is just nothing. It all depends on the power behind the signal and frequency being used in the experiment.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HAARP is dulling down Americans. They know how we sleep, at what frequencies are brains go into REM sleep. The y use those same frequencies to program our brains on a Continent wide scale. I have tried to stop it with no real luck. I can see it starting sometimes. I am dimly aware of violent cartoons playing over and over in my head. They seem to want us helpless so we will ask the government to save us. This is the most insidious thing ever. Programming the American public to be helpless is a crime of the first magnitude. It is our government at work.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As governments get more and more bold with their experiments, we soon realize that nothing just happens anymore. HAARP has the ability and the people using it have the will to make almost anything happen at will. For a long while, I was scared enough to paranoid about this. Each person who has acquired this knowledge must come to grips with it or die of sheer terror. While I was going through the process of adjustment I was not much fun to be around. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I could write for days on this subject, but I lost interest a long time ago. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-2048024712601985565?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/2048024712601985565/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=2048024712601985565' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/2048024712601985565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/2048024712601985565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2011/01/haarp.html' title='HAARP'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-6730235824601852438</id><published>2011-01-01T15:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T15:08:26.824-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Find What you Love and Be What You Love</title><content type='html'>Life is worth living if you do it right. Becoming what you love is not hard, it just takes commitment. Do not pay attention to any well meaning people who tell you you can’t do it. Life is all about living your dreams. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not about positive mental attitude, it is about going out and getting dirty with the nitty gritty of your dreams. It is a proven fact that when you are doing something you truly love to do, you become unstoppable. When you are your dream, in fact, you become so engrossed in it that you begin to attract what you need automatically. It is all about focusing your power, not whining that it is just too hard to do and stopping just when you close. If it was easy, it would have already been done.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life is all about the process, not the destination. Destinations are boring because you already climbed the mountain in your imagination anyway. Every mountain should lead to another so your whole life becomes one interesting ride of striving for the next goal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is some planning involved, but that is just to get a basic road map so don’t waste time climbing the mountain. If you don’t plan at all, you are planning to fail. You must know how large of a step to take so you can gage your step to your abilities.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you lack the ability to go after your dream that is what schools are for. If the schools don’t teach what you’re after, then learn enough to become competent in the discipline you need and invent the rest of it through experimentation and documenting what you find as you go through it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you become involved in your dreams, life is stressful, but if you’re inventive enough, you can live through it and come out stronger than ever before. Set your dreaming time at night to work. Give yourself permission to dream about the way your life will go. You are what you think about. If you think you can’t do it, you are right. If you mark a line in the sand, and say this far and no farther, prepare to be disappointed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creation involves risk and flexibility. There is the risk that you might fail and die. That is why you must be flexible and consider all possibilities before you draw that line in the sand. Lines in the sand are usually about egos and your ego is not creative at all. It just wants things now. Egos draw lines in the sand while your creative genius finds ways around lines in the sand. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conditions change, even ones that have been true for a long time. The one thing about life that is constant is change. Change therefore needs to be embraced as a good thing. If everyone was the same life would be very boring, just as if everyone were a millionaire and had good health and a great education, what would be the next goal to strive for.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-6730235824601852438?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/6730235824601852438/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=6730235824601852438' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/6730235824601852438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/6730235824601852438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2011/01/find-what-you-love-and-be-what-you-love.html' title='Find What you Love and Be What You Love'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-4161506451885037759</id><published>2011-01-01T15:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T15:04:37.988-08:00</updated><title type='text'>We are all connected</title><content type='html'>Quite simply put, everything is connected to everything else in the universe. A thing cannot happen without affecting something or someone else. Say that someone hits you and you want to hit them back. If you actually do it, you are hurting yourself in many ways. Whatever you use to hit them with has a vibration or energy level and some of that energy is reflected back toward you. Or in other words, you physically abuse yourself by hitting them back. You also have to create a lot of negative energy to hit someone else. By creating negative energy, you have disrupted your body’s healing processes and slowed down your positive view of life. So as you now see, you have mentally abused yourself also by creating this negative energy. Furthermore, all you have to do is think about negative energy to manifest it. Your negative thought is a string and we now know that strings are physical things that start thought patterns. By thinking negatively, even for a moment, you create millions of strings into the world that grow into thought patterns that do harm. You have harmed humanity itself by just entertaining the thought that you are going to strike another human being. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why not just send love to them and help them on their way. You can’t imagine the power of doing this. They will eventually go on their way anyway, but by sending them love you have sent out a positive thought into the world, helping your mental processes along the way, and not hurting yourself anymore than you have already been hurt. The best part of all this is; think about what put them in front of you in the first place. Most of the time, you will find that you ask them to be there and that is why they show up. You have something to learn from them being there so they show up to teach you. Until you learn what it is you are supposed to learn they will keep showing up to teach you. You learn by consulting your inner wisdom and letting it flow through you so that you can move on too.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everything and everyone are here for a purpose and if they or it has come into your life directly or indirectly, their purpose affects your life. You have the alternative to look for the good in things and people, if for no other reason than to be aware of your own existence. If someone or something stands in your way, you can knock them down or you can flow around them. To do this, all you have to do is see the reason they are in your way, from an observer’s point of view. Stand back and take a look at the larger picture and you’ll see why. Sometimes it takes awhile, but a new direction opens up for you to flow to. Then by flowing to the opportunity that has just opened up, you begin to see the way life flows around and through you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You see yourself as flowing with life, not stopping and grabbing an opportunity so much as letting it come to you. If you stop and grab at life, you stop the flow. Life must flow through you. You must become what you can be. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many ways to be grateful for what you have and giving back is one of the greatest ways to receive more in your life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you stop and grab at something that you specifically want, such as a car, a person, a position, a house, or more money, you stop the flow that would have given it to you anyway, if you would only let the universe do what it does best; give life.  By wanting anything or anyone now, you have stopped the flow that was going to give it to you. Demanding is not the way to manifest anything. Wanting or needing won’t get it either. Going with the flow or live and let live will get you there soon enough.       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life is a process not a destination. What will do when you get the house? You’ll have to fill it with stuff. Stuff creates more junk for you to lug around the earth, weighing you down with worries about how you will pay for it all. All that worry is emotional baggage just weighing you down even further away from your goal of harmony and peace.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-4161506451885037759?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/4161506451885037759/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=4161506451885037759' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/4161506451885037759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/4161506451885037759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2011/01/we-are-all-connected.html' title='We are all connected'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-2270172919912772688</id><published>2010-03-13T19:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-13T19:32:21.527-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hard Choices Are Upon Us</title><content type='html'>The reason energy (oil) &amp; water prices will rise &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was at a conference the other day and a man named Chris Edmonds spoke about oil and water. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the gist of what he said: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Oil Boom days are over, it seems. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everywhere in the middle east, there are fields of oil under the ground, but each field is between 40-60 years old and are producing less each day now and have been since 2004 (Peak Oil Theory). Don’t get me wrong, everyone is drilling like there is no tomorrow, but the finds are less than satisfying, to be sure. So much less that when oil almost hit $150/barrel; all the Middle East could produce was 32 Million barrels/day (bpd). The world then needed 36 Million bpd. Now it needs less due to the depression, somewhere around 28 Million bpd, but this won’t last forever, even though it seems like it will when we are in it. Maximum production is down to 30 Million bpd. To show you how profitable oil is, it costs between $11-$17/barrel to get the oil out of the ground. Then shipping costs take over.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will Shale or Tar help the situation? Chris says no because those methods are more expensive, way more expensive. Colorado Shale takes $60/barrel to get out the oil and Canadian Tar Sands take $45/barrel to get out the oil. Now, you can see why no one is beating down our door in Colorado. Let alone this oil is heavier than the Light Sweet crude we are used to and take way more environmental controls to make it as clean as light sweet crude. Shale and Tar production rates decline faster too.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same thing is true with Fracing a well. It costs bunches more than just pumping it out. You have to get really creative with drilling these days to get anything to pay off like the old days and it seems that the production rates decline real fast anymore. Bakken oil shale has proved more difficult than at first thought due to the methods of extraction. Horizontal drilling largely involves fracing and that is how the Baaken shale oil has been developed. The porosity and permeability of the rock is very low in the Bakken Basin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Offshore drilling rigs are risky at best because of the high seas around the rigs and the depth one has to go to get to the oil.  It seems that the most productive drilling is right in the middle of hurricane row. The fight to build these rigs is more complicated now by the Exxon Valdez dumping. Once again, the environment controls everything we do. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Viable supply is now an issue into the far future and that means high oil prices will be the norm. As the price goes higher, new alternatives become available, but the new alternatives carry a high price tag with them. The problem is our whole economy is based on oil. We make the most of the by-products. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is natural Gas in much better shape? Chris again says no, due to the production rates of new gas fields decline extremely rapidly. Then more expensive methods have to be used to get the gas out of the rock and shale, like horizontal drilling and fracing. After all, T Boone Pickens is an oil man and he has his motives. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then there is the business of infrastructure, refineries have not been built because of the greenies and their need to go to the stone age of Avatar. Once you get past the 5-10 years of Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), then you have another 5 years at least of construction. New laws in California that were accepted by the USA congress make it impossible to build refineries that accept shale or tar sand oil due to the possible chemicals that have to refine the heavy oil. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s worse with nuclear plants, since 3 Mile Island puffed its small cloud that did not hurt anyone, but scared us very badly; we have built very few nuclear plants. With nuclear, an EIS takes 10-15 years, with the same for construction of the plant because of all the inspections that have to happen. The waste issue is the worst as no one wants it at all. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s talk electric energy for awhile. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because of sulfur emissions, coal plants are almost outlawed anymore. Coal is still plentiful, but low sulfur coal is hard to get anymore. We have developed technologies to get the sulfur out, but these methods are extremely expensive, therefore we have delayed building more coal plants. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Natural gas is far cleaner and the preferred choice, but here too, any plant is viewed dimly by the greenies, who prefer Avatar. An EIS for a Natural Gas electric plant takes at least 7 years, with construction taking another 5 years minimum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hydro plants are almost a thing of the past because the greenies like their natural waterways above all. A dam EIS can take 20 years minimum and then at least 10-12 years to build. Denver Water gave up on the Twin Forks Dam 20 years into the EIS and 2 billion given away. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Solar Photovoltaic Arrays are a neat way to collect the energy of the sun, if the sun shined all the time, these panels would be great. To date, the problems much outweigh the benefits. The panels in construction now are 12-18% efficient. The efficiency depends on the angle you face them and if the panels track the sun. Technologies to build batteries to store the energy have not kept pace with the need to store energy. This alone makes clean energy unreliable because what do we do when the sun doesn’t shine, especially in the eastern USA, where it is gray most of the time. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wind farms have become in vogue today, but getting the wind to cooperate is another thing. If one of the large wind turbines goes into over speed, it stops or tears itself apart. Then there is the lightning to contend with. Wind turbines are great lightning rods, it seems. A couple of lightning strikes can badly degrade the hull of these wind turbines. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wind and solar takes a lot of space that the east does not have. This means that the west is the place to be for these technologies. In the west, there are huge transmission problems with getting the energy to the population centers.  It seems that people only want clean energy if they don’t have to look at the panels, turbines, or transmission lines. At a cost of more than 1 million dollars a mile of transmission line, it adds up quick; and this is over level land, not mountains. In the mountains, the cost triples. Our main infrastructure in America is over 50-60 years old. This means that when things get tight, the aging infrastructure just fails. It is just like the bridges and roads of America. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both Chris Edmonds and my wife think that Ocean wave energy is largely overlooked and could supply a lot of energy if properly harnessed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conservation has been touted to be the only good way to the future, but with America’s love of new electronic gadgets it is hard to realize. Every new gadget has a small electronic power supply that stays on all the time. It adds up quick when you look at all the computers in sleep mode today, with their screens and printers in sleep mode too. All the coffee pots have little red /amber lights on them. Think of all the cell phone charging that goes on in America. How many home furnaces out there are below the 98% energy star rating for new furnaces? Most furnaces are 85% at best in today’s homes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conservation comes into play also with cars. There is a push for home workers these days, mostly from the workers themselves, since bosses cannot micro-manage their workers at home. Fuel efficient cars are the rage too. Americans still go to work where they can find work; we have made almost no progress on that front. With at least 10% of Americans out of work, they are at home with the TV on most of the time, or computer hunting for a job. Unfortunately the job situation does not look good for the future since the global economy has taken hold and our workers are paid more than what the rest of the world is. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, let me shift to the lack of potable water in the world today. We need it and we are having problems finding enough of it that is easily distributed among the population of the world. The oceans have plenty of salt water which can be desalinized, but there is a large energy price tag that comes with Desalinization Plants. The facts are that getting the salt out takes a lot of energy and technology. There is little money in the places that do not have developed water resources to supply the fuel for desalinization. If one develops the power plants for desalinization, one quickly finds that power plants use a lot of water too. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the modern world, computer servers have to be kept cool so Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) units require large cooling towers that evaporate the water into the air.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Famine is prevalent in Africa. Growing food takes a lot of water away from the cities and the aquifers everywhere are drying up and can’t keep up with demand. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In short, the world is fast approaching a time when hard choices will have to be made. Our generation has no will to make these hard choices so it will fall to the next generations to make them. Money will have to be set aside for huge projects in every area of the world. Technology will have to come to the aid of the future people on earth to help with the cost of living on the earth without destroying it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An easy lesson is one of war. When hard choices have to be made, human beings are quick to find the easy choices of taking what someone else has even if it kills them or the other people. War is the easy choice that has always been made. Pretty soon, even war will not save us, unless a large enough war is made to seriously reduce the number of humans on the planet. To me, it is outright sad the way we save the whales and the polar bears, but continue to kill ourselves in larger and larger numbers just because we fail to see the other guy’s point of view. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The religions of the world are going to have to wake up to the reality that people like to have sex for recreation and if contraceptives or condoms are not used extensively then we will overpopulate the earth eventually, if only by accidental births. Of course, the religions of the world are the major proponents of wars on earth so this fact possibly counteracts the other idea about overpopulation becoming an issue. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has taken us quite awhile to come around to our senses about the global warming situation, which is based in the belief that we have the more effect on our planet than anything “nature” supposedly does to the planet. If we want our stability of temperature we cannot overlook this item. While the jury is still about how much we affect the climate of the earth we live on, everyone would agree by now that we have some effect. One only has to look at the jet stream on its way to America from China to observe that fact; or to look at the pile of plastic on the ocean in the spots it collects in. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While humans only do things when they are faced with a panic situation; we have become like the frogs that boil in water just because it is gradually heating up, rather than hot right away. Like cutting down our forests to make way for more cities eliminates the plants ability to create our own oxygen we fail to see how soon the crisis is upon us. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will have to become very creative in the future to have enough resources to go around. The world’s future will look very different from the 20th Century we once knew of easy choices for energy and water resources.          &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Michael J. Liesveld        3/7/10&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-2270172919912772688?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/2270172919912772688/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=2270172919912772688' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/2270172919912772688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/2270172919912772688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2010/03/hard-choices-are-upon-us.html' title='Hard Choices Are Upon Us'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-7843965427624385742</id><published>2010-03-13T19:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-13T19:30:04.734-08:00</updated><title type='text'>It’s not rocket science</title><content type='html'>If you ever why things happen in this world, it’s not rocket science, its common sense from a no holds barred point of view. When things don’t make sense, you have to check your perspective and adjust. The world works from a different perspective than most of us have. Your reality is what you think of the conditions that surround you. These conditions are not easily manipulated by you physically, but you can tone down your mental reaction to them. Things happen for verifiable reasons. Just because you may not currently understand those reasons does not mean they don’t exist. Nothing just happens. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me go through an example.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So-called natural disasters just happen, or do they? This could be just one of several explanations beyond just random acts of the universe raining on your parade.  It is not common knowledge, but our own military has the knowledge and the will to modify the weather patterns any way they wish. The Soviet Union developed ways to modify weather patterns in 1960’s. At first, it was just an experiment, but then it got serious. The Soviets found out that if one seeded a cloud in just the right position in the Atlantic, a hurricane would develop and hit America. Walla, natural disaster! Now, our own military seeds clouds above cities and counts the number of people that get sick. They do this to supposedly improve our immune systems. Other military applications involve beaming energy down know fault lines to cause earthquakes and tidal waves. The earth is living thing and if you understand enough of the mechanics of how it functions you can drive it in certain ways so things just appear to “happen”. For instance, if one of the 100’s of military satellites in the sky just happened to beam some energy at a tectonic plate, it may cause an earthquake in Haiti. I don’t know why anyone would ever do such a thing, all I’m saying is, it is possible to create such an effect. Perhaps someone wanted the world to focus on misery for awhile so we would not be able to think about what is really going on the sidelines. So-called magic happens this way. Just get people to focus where you want them to and one can pull the wool over anyone’s eyes very easily. Its basic mental psychology 101, when people are busy reacting to a so-called circumstance, they don’t think too well, objectively speaking. Since people still have trouble with not believing what their eyes tell them, governments can get away with literally murder and almost no one is the wiser. I call it the smoke and mirror syndrome. All I am saying is that events in modern times are shaped. Any one with Adobe Photoshop can make something appear to be real.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me go through another example of a not natural disaster. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;911 happened because Al Qaida planned and executed it. On the surface, this appears to be true. 2 planes hit the world trade towers and they fell down. Ergo, some group was mad at us and now we have to kill them to get even. Simple, elementary tactics! Obviously some planes hit the world trade towers because people experienced it on earth.&lt;br /&gt;Modern skyscrapers are built in large cities with explosives in them at just the right positions to make them fall straight down. Almost everyone on earth has seen movies where buildings explode internally and they just fall down. Contrast this with how steel normally fares in a fire; it twists and bends something fierce. The standard government story was that steel was melted by the jet fuel burning; yet jet fuel burns at just 2100 degree Fahrenheit while steel melts at just over 3300 degrees Fahrenheit. The world Trade Towers did not twist or bend, they just fell straight down. The 3rd tower was only 5 stories high and not hit at all, but it also fell to the ground. What was the motivation for this story? Obviously the American people had to get mad at the Muslims in order to go to war in Iraq. True enough , the congress voted almost unanimously to go to war with Sadaam Hussein, even though there was no established connection at the time between the 911 “attack” and Iraq. What happened to the American people as they were being duped so badly, Homeland Security happened, that’s what? Homeland Security does very little to protect us from Terrorists, since we are the threat. How are we the threat? Can a terrorist make a move without someone on the inside helping them? NO! Homeland Security now does its untold job quite effectively; it keeps us in one place so the government can study us and herd us around like cattle. When Homeland Security took place , our first amendment rights went the way of the DODO. If that is not bad enough, there’s more to it than what meets the eye. Psychological conditioning has been around for a long time, but in the late 1960’s the military made a breakthrough in programming techniques. They found that the human brain is very susceptible to certain frequencies. Armed with this knowledge, one can now program normal people to be psychotic killers on cue, or suicide bombers, for that matter.  All one has to do then is manipulate the Muslim religion a little and you have the perfect Jihad soldier, ready to give his life against the infidels (Americans) in order to go to Allah. You don’t have to program too many because once the movement is started, it runs by itself. Walla, Al Qaida is born! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did I mention that wars are extreme money makers? The same thing has happened before, with Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt knew the Japanese were attacking, according to documents just being released now, but he needed the American people to get mad at the Japanese in order to build the American war machine. Johnny needed to fight and Rosie the Riveter needed to make the production lines go in full swing. At all times, people are the most expendable quantity, it seems. IT seems that it doesn’t really matter which side we are on, we are all played like pawns in a chess game and then thrown away when the task is complete, ad infinitum. The same military that programmed by frequency has also figured out how to move the masses. So they do move us with propaganda whenever they want to. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iraq needed a reason, why not WMD, weapons of mass destruction. It doesn’t have to be true; it just has to push the American people over the edge, to get them mad. Meanwhile, when we get to Iraq, we can tap into the oil reserves and no one knows any different. Then the price of oil sky rockets due to the “war” and oil barons like the Bush family and Cheney (Haliburton) get rich.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-7843965427624385742?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/7843965427624385742/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=7843965427624385742' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/7843965427624385742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/7843965427624385742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2010/03/its-not-rocket-science.html' title='It’s not rocket science'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-143727770010498139</id><published>2010-01-03T16:34:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-03T16:34:57.892-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Human Condition</title><content type='html'>I don’t know if I should even write about this or not. It’s just going to wind down into a mess, but here I go. I connected with some thoughts last night that kept me up all night. I rested, but I did not sleep a wink.&lt;br /&gt;Humans crave to be trained by a mentor and we are emotional and social beings. The difference between us and the rest of this planet we live on is that we have some limited control over our emotions; we can delay gratification if the prize is large enough to peak our curiosity. Delayed gratification is the key. We understand the concept at an early age. That enables mankind to build on their past mistakes and literally reach for the stars. We see what works and we go after it with a passion. We do seem to have a problem with thinking past our lifetime because the concept of death is so final to us and we cannot conceive of a world without us in it. Our passion for learning from a mentor is so great that we will keep doing something wrong just because we were taught that way until someone or some thing changes our direction. It can be a thought or an action by someone else that changes our direction if that learned behavior is not too deep. If the rut becomes too deep then we fall into a comfort zone and we are doomed to repeat our behavior and it takes some thing cataclysmic to jolt us out of our rut. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As no one relates to others as well as themselves, a small story is in order. My own!&lt;br /&gt;I grew up being my own mentor, which means that I had no pattern to mold myself after. I grew up on my own without friends or peers. That means that I am an emotionally stunted individual that lacks social graces. It also means that I am not good around people and I have a weird sense of humor. Because I did not connect with anyone else that overly impressed me I became my own teacher. I can stand myself and even prefer to be left alone, but if I am with other people too much, I tend to get on their nerves, let alone them getting on mine. I lived by myself exclusively for a long time, hidden in a cocoon of my own devising. I broke out somewhat eventually and got married, but I am still a loner. I married someone who can stand me in small bursts, but not all at once. There are parts of me that she can never touch or come close to. I am a very intense person that laughs a lot at the human condition. That’s right; I get a charge out of people being people. I always have. I learn a lot from them. They show this observer how to live. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We then have the audacity to teach people how to kill one another and the earlier we start the better they are at it. We then play on their emotions and watch them go haywire. All for a little company we would do almost anything. Take the emotional state of a crowd and add just one off the wall idea and they’re off killing someone for the fun of doing it. It may even be a friend they kill. They strangely feel almost no remorse because they can blame the crowd for what they did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just as we work together to kill something or someone, we can also work together to do something really great. We major in group energy, good or bad , it doesn’t matter. We make our best strides alone, developing ideas by focusing on them. It’s called going with the flow. When you are in the flow, go with it for as long as you can because it doesn’t come along that often. Get lost in the act of being. Brainstorming only happens after you have some ideas to brainstorm with. A group of humans that is in tune feeds off of itself. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finding someone to love and being loved in return is a blessing. It calms the mind and let’s you focus on the more important stuff of life. Life is a ride, not a destination. Trying to keep it altogether is the prize. I will admit I have an odd thought every once in awhile, but I live through it without doing the impulsive thing, the emotional thing that would inevitably get me into trouble, even if only to be physically hurt by doing some crazy thing too near the edge of life. The observer never takes chances; he just lives on in his own little world in the mainstream of conventions.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What makes us human is the experience of being human with passion.&lt;br /&gt;If you’re in love, why not make it passionate love. &lt;br /&gt;If you’re going to take chances, why not bungee jump or skydive while you’re at it. &lt;br /&gt;If you’re going to sing, why not do it with style. &lt;br /&gt;If you’re going to dance, do it with grace. &lt;br /&gt;If you’re going to invent, it helps to believe that you can. &lt;br /&gt;If you’re going to be an engineer, it helps if you are a problem solver. &lt;br /&gt;If you’re going to be a salesperson, it helps if you like people. &lt;br /&gt;It is not enough to know yourself; you have to do something about it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whatever you do, make your mark by doing it your way.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-143727770010498139?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/143727770010498139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=143727770010498139' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/143727770010498139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/143727770010498139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2010/01/human-condition.html' title='The Human Condition'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-8298188768233228967</id><published>2010-01-03T09:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-03T09:05:17.195-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Why I Scare People</title><content type='html'>I don’t try to scare people, but I always do. &lt;br /&gt;I suppose that it is the confidence I have in what I know. &lt;br /&gt;My test gives me that confidence.&lt;br /&gt;I believe I am my soul at the deepest level.&lt;br /&gt;I am truly a being from the 4th dimension. &lt;br /&gt;I have fought through 2197 levels of mind to become one with my soul&lt;br /&gt;I am not afraid of death because I have already died 2196 times.&lt;br /&gt;It’s no big deal.&lt;br /&gt;I am into the game of life&lt;br /&gt;The game of life is just another game.&lt;br /&gt;If I play it well, I win, meaning I have fun. &lt;br /&gt;I play it the best I know how to. &lt;br /&gt;I am having a ball in this game called life.&lt;br /&gt;I wouldn’t change a thing because that is what life is all about.&lt;br /&gt;Change and the mastery of it&lt;br /&gt;I master change by letting it flow. &lt;br /&gt;When I have a problem, which is never for very long;&lt;br /&gt;I let it flow and no more problem&lt;br /&gt;Stress does not stick to me for very long due to this.&lt;br /&gt;I do not take myself seriously for very long.&lt;br /&gt;To me, that is being stuck in ego mode. &lt;br /&gt;I would rather be stuck in learning or laughing mode.&lt;br /&gt;I don’t have any fears that I am aware of.&lt;br /&gt;This makes me unique because most people live in fear all the time.&lt;br /&gt;I am constantly learning or laughing one of the two.&lt;br /&gt;This also makes me unique as most people never laugh or learn. &lt;br /&gt;I don’t have much in common with other people. &lt;br /&gt;I just am not interested in the newest reality show on TV&lt;br /&gt;Or who won at football, baseball, or basketball this week. &lt;br /&gt;Everything is a game to me; there are no limits. &lt;br /&gt;I have more active area of brain than anyone alive today. &lt;br /&gt;This may not make me a genius, but it sure makes me scary. &lt;br /&gt;I am always on; especially when I am sleeping. &lt;br /&gt;I solve all kinds of problems when I am asleep. &lt;br /&gt;Ask me something and I probably have an answer.&lt;br /&gt;For me, the answer is the right one. &lt;br /&gt;It may be absurd to you, that is your right.&lt;br /&gt;I don’t try to prove I am right.&lt;br /&gt;If you point out a better solution that fits all the parameters, I am all ears.&lt;br /&gt;I am very opinionated, but you have to ask. &lt;br /&gt;I will not volunteer anything. &lt;br /&gt;I have no limits that I am aware of. &lt;br /&gt;I will think about any subject.&lt;br /&gt;If this is what scary is, then I want more.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-8298188768233228967?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/8298188768233228967/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=8298188768233228967' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/8298188768233228967'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/8298188768233228967'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-i-scare-people.html' title='Why I Scare People'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-932354217660392770</id><published>2010-01-03T09:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-03T09:03:33.919-08:00</updated><title type='text'>All comes from Flow</title><content type='html'>I believe anything is possible in this world. I get there by being in flow. I do seemingly impossible tasks at work all the time. With no data, I come up with estimates that are remarkable in almost no time. I am doing it faster all the time. My brain is accustomed to miracles happening all the time. The more I believe that I can do something, the better I become at it. I find if I try to control the actions of a project it actually slows down. If however, I set it in motion and give control up to the universe it runs smoothly. I now know that the harder I try to control something, the worse it becomes. Projects have a life of their own and will conclude in their own good time. The harder I push, the more they push back, seeking revenge. Some wars are not worth fighting and some are, if only to find out that I didn’t have to fight them in the first place. When I learn this at a deep level, then I can let flow take over. Hopefully, I know when to let go and let flow take place. It is the process of life that makes me happy, not the goal. This is why being happy is enough in this life. When I am in flow I am happy. When I am in the process of life I am happy. Living is a grand experience if I let it be. My life is smooth as long as I let it flow. At work, I handle more projects than anyone else because I let things flow through me and then they are not with me anymore. If I can’t solve something in a minute or two, then it is not ready for me to solve yet. When I say my life flows it is only because I let it flow. Worry is not a state I stay in for very long, as I let things go easily. People are most proud of a task if they do it well. I find with minimum supervision most people can get along quite nicely and think well of themselves.  If people think well of themselves they are not bothering me so I can concentrate on the things I need to do. People do not think well of themselves when I am in control of them so I don’t try to control their actions and everyone is fine. If they get upset, I immediately apologize and then they are ready to at least be neutral with me. I apologize because it is the most efficient way to get things done. Right or wrong has nothing to with it and is an opinion anyway. Truth and morality are variable. They both depend on your point of view. What’s moral and true in one culture is not done in another. What is moral and true for me now was probably not when I was younger. It’s the same thing with right and wrong. Holding on to things too long affects me badly so I try very hard not to hold onto things for too long. What’s too long is easy to tell. It’s when it starts to affect me. I let things become instantly better for me when I let go because I can then concentrate on something new and give it my full attention. I try to complete each day by getting some one thing done. It is very often not the thing I wanted to get done at the start of the day. So what! I don’t wear a watch or keep track of time at all. I am not time bound by anyone, least of all, me. My bosses all understand that I will get most things done way ahead of anyone else because I never stop working at work because it is not work to me, it is play. I love what I do and I do what I love. Why would I ever do something I didn’t love to do? I give love to the universe each day because we are all connected by energy and it is the most efficient way to live. If I give love to the universe each day, most people will see that and give me the benefit of the doubt, at least. I don’t need or even ask for attention or positive vibes. All I look for is a neutral playing field. People very seldom chat with me; instead they come around when they want something done. I am a problem solver that is solution oriented. My glass is always half full. I am not an expert at many things; I just have many things I do well. An expert always has only one way to do things. Most experts are so full of reasons why this or that won’t work that they ignore Intuition and ingenuity. I try to not volunteer anything unless I am asked because I am busy enough already with things I want to do, let alone filling my life with things I volunteered to do.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-932354217660392770?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/932354217660392770/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=932354217660392770' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/932354217660392770'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/932354217660392770'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2010/01/all-comes-from-flow.html' title='All comes from Flow'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-5487522581082686959</id><published>2010-01-03T09:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-03T09:02:34.400-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Flow</title><content type='html'>The universe is always behind us, whatever we are thinking, it provides. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With our new insight into this process, we will rise. The more we let go and flow with the universe, the faster we will get better at achieving what we want in this life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s kind of a paradox, the less you want, the more you get. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This happens because we hold onto the things we want so long that the universe has no chance to provide them to us. The universe is a great provider if we are in the flow. The moment we come out of flow by wanting something too much we deny the universe’s ability to give it to us. Change does not happen fast, it happens instantaneously, but only in flow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are finally finding out how change happens by reading the books on the brain. We bring it to ourselves by changing what our brains think about. Michael Phelps is a good example. The only way he won by .01 seconds in one of his gold medals was to know that he could win in the first place. Everyone else in the many races was intimidated by him and that gave him the edge. Paul J. Meyer was right with his horses about the difference between first and second. Michael Phelps thought like a winner the whole Olympic Games. He changed his brain to not accept defeat in the water and he has never been beaten since he made up his mind. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reading these books has changed us and how we perceive the world around us. We were winners all the time, but did not fully believe it. However we think, the universe provides. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can be the best sales people around only if we acknowledge the universe’s ability to bring the right people to us. We do this by letting go of the fears we have about not being good sales people. Once we can let go of the idea that we have to something to be happy, we let the universe flow it to us. The more we hang on, the less we are in flow. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel like I made this happen with Fritz. I made this final thing happen by letting go of it and giving it back to universe. I formally did this 4 days ago in a meditation because I felt I was hanging on too tight. It is now obvious that I was. The moment I gave it back to the universe, I let it flow. Flow gave it back to us in almost nothing flat.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-5487522581082686959?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/5487522581082686959/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=5487522581082686959' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/5487522581082686959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/5487522581082686959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2010/01/flow.html' title='Flow'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-1964779737119866995</id><published>2009-01-10T16:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-03T16:25:27.249-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Happiness</title><content type='html'>It’s a state of mind.&lt;br /&gt;No matter what you’re doing &lt;br /&gt;Don’t you see?&lt;br /&gt;Happy people find a way to make themselves happy.&lt;br /&gt;Take me, for instance, &lt;br /&gt;I am happy. &lt;br /&gt;I make my days go well. &lt;br /&gt;If I have a less than satisfactory day at first,&lt;br /&gt;I concentrate on some one thing I know I can do well &lt;br /&gt;Then I am again successful. &lt;br /&gt;Most of my days go so well that I just blow people out of my way.&lt;br /&gt;When I hear whining, I just go the other way.&lt;br /&gt;I have no time for it. &lt;br /&gt;All you have to do is be near me and hear me go through a day. &lt;br /&gt;I sparkle through my days. &lt;br /&gt;When I make a mistake and I do all the time, &lt;br /&gt;I admit it and go on. &lt;br /&gt;I don’t agonize over things in my way, I blow them away. &lt;br /&gt;Sometimes it takes weeks or even years, but I always blow them away. &lt;br /&gt;My track record is 100% on track.&lt;br /&gt;I am always moving forward, even when I have to go around an obstacle. &lt;br /&gt;I don’t even think in terms of failure or success. &lt;br /&gt;I just do what I think has to done and find I like it that way. &lt;br /&gt;Most people are stopped once in awhile, &lt;br /&gt;But I am rarely stopped and never permanently.&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes I have to be very nimble and quick to respond to a situation,&lt;br /&gt;While other times I am methodical and take my time to answer. &lt;br /&gt;People say I never have a bad day. &lt;br /&gt;They have the wrong attitude.&lt;br /&gt;I don’t think in terms of good or bad days. &lt;br /&gt;I am just always doing so much with my days that something just has to turn out well.&lt;br /&gt;Most of the time people just lay down for me.&lt;br /&gt;I just consider people like Auditors and give them everything they want and they go away &lt;br /&gt;I have another philosophy that works very well.&lt;br /&gt;Send everyone love and wish them on their way.&lt;br /&gt;I have the old standard about worrying. &lt;br /&gt;Why worry about the things you can’t do anything about as they are out of your control.&lt;br /&gt;Why worry about the things you can control because you are in control of them.&lt;br /&gt;There is always an alternative to be considered. &lt;br /&gt;An alternative you hadn’t considered before because it wasn’t obvious to you at the time.&lt;br /&gt;I am not Chicken Little. &lt;br /&gt;The sky is not falling on me because I am the one holding it up. &lt;br /&gt;To put it lightly, I am in control of what I think about my life. &lt;br /&gt;No one else is. &lt;br /&gt;I follow the old school of what you think of me is none of my business. &lt;br /&gt;Certainly, you are entitled to your opinion, &lt;br /&gt;But that doesn’t mean that I have to worry about your every word.&lt;br /&gt;Especially on a subject I know better than you, me.&lt;br /&gt;I follow the biggest rule of life, live and let live. &lt;br /&gt;My rules of life let me get though it with the least amount of stress&lt;br /&gt;And the most happiness&lt;br /&gt;Most people around me hear me chuckling through the day. &lt;br /&gt;I have several aha’s through the day and I am vocal about them, I chuckle. &lt;br /&gt;Sometimes, I even cackle. &lt;br /&gt;I can’t remember the last time I got mad because I don’t take life that seriously.&lt;br /&gt;Getting mad is holding up the flow of life and I am big on letting it flow. &lt;br /&gt;I view reality as a pliable condition which I can change.&lt;br /&gt;I never have to do anything. I only do things I want to do. &lt;br /&gt;I pay taxes just like everyone else, but I get paid for it. &lt;br /&gt;I do taxes for people in trouble. I solve the problems they have created.  &lt;br /&gt;They pay me well. &lt;br /&gt;You can call me a lot of things, but I am a person who loves my life. &lt;br /&gt;My life changes every moment of the day and I am proud to say that I like it that way. &lt;br /&gt;I am never bored.&lt;br /&gt;I am happiest solving problems. &lt;br /&gt;When I am solving them, time does not exist. &lt;br /&gt;I love people and they are my biggest mentors.&lt;br /&gt;People constantly show me that there is more than one way to skin a cat.  &lt;br /&gt;I convert most people sooner or later and they become my friends and supporters. &lt;br /&gt;The ones I can’t convert, I just send love and send them on their way, wishing them well.&lt;br /&gt;Certainly I am stopped by some situations temporarily, but not for long. &lt;br /&gt;I am very inventive with respect to method and so no one stands in my way for long &lt;br /&gt;Without a barrage of opportunities flying at them &lt;br /&gt;I throw lots of things at the wall until one of them sticks.&lt;br /&gt;I wake up in the middle of the night with an idea and I write it out of me.&lt;br /&gt;It is impossible for me to have a bad night sleep that way. &lt;br /&gt;Because I get a good night’s sleep I am fresh to tackle problems in the morning. &lt;br /&gt;Without a plan, you’re planning to fail. &lt;br /&gt;A careful planner always has options to bring into play. &lt;br /&gt;If I am stopped temporarily on one project, there is always one that requires my attention.&lt;br /&gt;While I am doing the other project, the one where I was stopped is always percolating.&lt;br /&gt;I consider all of life a game. &lt;br /&gt;I play it well and often. &lt;br /&gt;I am involved in the process of life because I am in the flow of life. &lt;br /&gt;I fully realize that everything is connected to everything else.&lt;br /&gt;There is no independent cause or effect in the universe. &lt;br /&gt;I had a rabid opinion about someone’s political views recently on my blog.&lt;br /&gt;It wasn’t long before one of my friends in Switzerland called me and told me I was crazy. &lt;br /&gt;It seems my blog was hot and no one ever looks at my blog. &lt;br /&gt;I wound up deleting my comments and reminding myself of my live and let live rule.&lt;br /&gt;I am reminded constantly of the rule that says,&lt;br /&gt;You should walk a mile in someone else’s shoes before attempting to judge them. &lt;br /&gt;Now, I send them love and wish them happily on their way.&lt;br /&gt;There is too much beauty in this life to waste time on non-functioning individuals that think they are the PooBah.&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes, it is such fun to just have at them, but in the end, as my mother used to say, &lt;br /&gt;If you don’t have anything better to say, SHUT UP. &lt;br /&gt;You see, for me, heaven is here on earth, now, where I am and I love every minute of it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-1964779737119866995?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/1964779737119866995/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=1964779737119866995' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/1964779737119866995'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/1964779737119866995'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2009/01/happiness.html' title='Happiness'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-2763255270821457483</id><published>2008-12-27T19:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-27T19:15:38.758-08:00</updated><title type='text'>When Work is Play</title><content type='html'>I have always loved my work. &lt;br /&gt;I am a self confessed workaholic.&lt;br /&gt;I have always been interested in why I love to work. &lt;br /&gt;The answer is simple. &lt;br /&gt;Work strokes my ego. &lt;br /&gt;Anything that strokes my ego is considered play. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make no mistake I like to get paid for what I do. &lt;br /&gt;But once I get involved wild horses couldn’t tear me away.&lt;br /&gt;You see, I sing when I work; exactly how is that work?&lt;br /&gt;I love to see how many problems I can solve while going through an otherwise simple routine. &lt;br /&gt;I crave the feeling that solving problems gives me. &lt;br /&gt;Getting paid is just a plus for me. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It helps to know what I am doing, but I am very content to just learn all day too.&lt;br /&gt;I love to learn from the people who actually work where the rubber meets the road.&lt;br /&gt;Being wrong is just another excuse to learn something new. &lt;br /&gt;I love the Internet, as it is the most wonderful learning tool I could ever dream of.&lt;br /&gt;All right, I have the knack for what to search for so it doesn’t take me too long to become versed in what I want to find. &lt;br /&gt;I am great at English, Math, Science, Music, Philosophy, and History and can converse successfully on any subject I choose because I am always learning.&lt;br /&gt;This just means I paid attention in school; yes, school has its uses.  &lt;br /&gt;TV bores me because it was made to keep people busy. &lt;br /&gt;I live a good book, which means I laugh all the way through it.&lt;br /&gt;I never go to a movie that I cannot learn from. &lt;br /&gt;You would be surprised what there is out to learn from.&lt;br /&gt;By now, you have guessed I am a knowledge freak. &lt;br /&gt;What can I say, knowledge strokes my ego too. &lt;br /&gt;When I can find out why something works the way it does, that is the key to me.&lt;br /&gt;You see, I live in my mind so I live and let live. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All this makes me a keen observer. &lt;br /&gt;I love to watch people in the act of being themselves.&lt;br /&gt;People are the best pleasure around; I love their complexity. &lt;br /&gt;Given enough time, I can usually figure out what moves them.&lt;br /&gt;You see, everything is connected by the energy of life. &lt;br /&gt;I can flow with the universe because I am part of it. &lt;br /&gt;Most people don’t think they can flow, but they automatically flow.&lt;br /&gt;They are just to busy to notice, so I notice for them. &lt;br /&gt;I am connected to them and it all.&lt;br /&gt;I send them all love and I get love back in the form of work, which is play.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-2763255270821457483?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/2763255270821457483/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=2763255270821457483' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/2763255270821457483'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/2763255270821457483'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/12/when-work-is-play.html' title='When Work is Play'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-534278467112137640</id><published>2008-12-21T22:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-21T22:40:32.074-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Send Love</title><content type='html'>That’s my response to everything anymore. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If someone cuts me off in traffic, I send them love and wish them on their way.&lt;br /&gt;All I have to do is leave enough room for a car to get in front of me and here it comes. &lt;br /&gt;This actually works well because most of the intruders on my space go away immediately into someone else’s space. If they don’t go away then it happened for a reason besides the cell phone users who are ever aware of what they are doing on the road. I look for the reason and pretty soon I find it and am pleased they slowed me down so I could notice life as it happens. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If someone does me a favor, I certainly do make time to send them love and wish them well. I find this takes up the majority of my time on the road. I am a people watcher. In that capacity, I am never bored or disappointed, but often pleasantly surprised and full of joy. Driving is fun to me and my time doing it is a never ending joy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I am in meditation, I naturally send love to everyone first. It sets the tone I want to set. When I am in flow, I am sending love all the time as that is what flow is, the state of abundance and being alive. When I am singing, I am giving love to everyone on earth because I am feeling so good.  When I am solving problems, I give love when I run out of ideas to solve the problem and the universe responds with an answer. When I cut stone, I give the world its due because without the earth, there would be no stone to cut. When I almost step on an ant, I acknowledge other species. When I see a tree swaying in the wind, I notice how it moves and acknowledge its flexibility. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I walk in the mountains, I feel the earth move. When I am in water, I flow like the ocean. When Aurita walks in the room, I acknowledge my love for her and her place in the world. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I am pointing out here is we are all connected intimately and if we acknowledge this connection life becomes easier. We draw things to us unexpectedly. I cannot expect a one to one correspondence because that is not the way the universe works. The way the universe works is that you give your abundance and it gives you what you need to flow. The universe does not give you what your ego thinks you need. You can want money all life long and unless you make it appear, it will not. The universe will send you opportunities but it up to you to take advantage of them. If you don’t recognize the universe’s abundance, it will elude you forever. You can think positive all day long, but if you act negative, you will get negative back. The universe is ultimately consistent, but it often not apparent to the unappreciative or non-inventive. You need only connect the dots to have the abundance appear before you. You have the creative power to use creation for anything, but you must notice the motion of flow. Once you get in flow, you will know what I mean.. Watch a child; they know how to get in flow. A child will cry and smile all in connected moments. Life is a process not a destination. Process life as you would go through your day by noticing it as it goes by. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notice life and it notices you, don’t and it will pass you by, unnoticed. While it will seemingly pass you by, you are still connected to it all. You are part of the abundance; all you have to do is acknowledge it to get some of it in your life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s like dark matter in the supposed void. We have now found that dark matter makes up most of the universe where we thought there was nothing before. It was there all along, but we just didn’t look for it. This is a confirmation of the abundance of the universe. When we now how to look; the abundance appears like magic. Sending love makes me stronger than ever before. Why do we pay entertainers more than we would most other people? They entertain us. That is a valuable commodity. The more people you make happy the more abundance you will have.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I hear about anything happening in the world, whether its good or bad in my opinion, I send love to the situation. In this way, my situation improves because I have done something positive. Hopefully someone will take this string of thought and use it for what they will, if nothing else. If the thought goes unheeded, then I have done what I can for strangers I do not know, but are connected to by the universal bond.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What can I say, it works.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-534278467112137640?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/534278467112137640/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=534278467112137640' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/534278467112137640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/534278467112137640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/12/send-love.html' title='Send Love'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-7060726826822911614</id><published>2008-11-15T08:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-15T08:51:53.752-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Living with a man can be hazardous to your mental health</title><content type='html'>The smell of our farts is sometimes overwhelming.&lt;br /&gt;The noise of our snoring is a bit bad at times.&lt;br /&gt;The flaring of our temper for no apparent reason is not too nice.&lt;br /&gt;The way in which you are expected to put up with the mass destruction of something just because we are mad at it.&lt;br /&gt;The flaring of the stomach as we age can be obscene at times.&lt;br /&gt;The crack of our ass as we bend over is a bit much to digest.&lt;br /&gt;Often a look is all the foreplay we think about because we are always hot to trot. &lt;br /&gt;We are always in the mood at the wrong time because that is all we think about.&lt;br /&gt;The way in which we make love with Wham, Bam, no thank you, mamm can be extremely harsh at times.&lt;br /&gt;The way in which we fall asleep on you after orgasm just when you are getting hot is sad.&lt;br /&gt;The way in which we are constantly looking at other women’s breasts and butts can be deceiving. &lt;br /&gt;You can’t disturb us while we are watching football without us going into a tizzy. &lt;br /&gt;We often leave the toilet unflushed like we expect you to do it for us.&lt;br /&gt;We are doing something inane and you come in for some attention, alas, and get ignored.&lt;br /&gt;We often leave the toothbrush out for you to pick up if we use a toothbrush at all.&lt;br /&gt;We come home, expecting a warm greeting with foul breath and wonder why you are not glad to see us. &lt;br /&gt;We expect you to cook and clean for us, but gripe when we have to mow the lawn or rake the leaves.&lt;br /&gt;We are insensitive to your needs, but gripe when ours are not met, as if you should know automatically.&lt;br /&gt;We never make the bed, but are always ready to mess it up.&lt;br /&gt;We outweigh you 2 to 1, but are surprised when our arm is too heavy for you to breathe.   &lt;br /&gt;We will go out and buy a new truck on a whim, but gripe when you spend $50.00 on something you need for the family. &lt;br /&gt;We will drive wildly, yet gripe when you follow too close. &lt;br /&gt;We profess to love you yet we look mostly at other women and pay no attention to you. &lt;br /&gt;We will make you wait on us, but get mad when you make us wait. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now just why would you ever want to get involved with a man in the first place? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can lift heavy things, but rarely do lift something heavy for you. &lt;br /&gt;We can fight someone off when you want us to, but spend most of our time fighting with you. &lt;br /&gt;We can open doors for you, unless you get here first. &lt;br /&gt;We can make the money you need to survive, but never make enough to make you comfortable. &lt;br /&gt;Our ability to focus is better than yours, but we never do.&lt;br /&gt;We can give you pleasure, but most of the time, it’s just painful. &lt;br /&gt;We can make babies, but never are around to take care of them. &lt;br /&gt;We are able to love you, yet run hot and cold on the relationship. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know why; it’s because we are so adorable.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-7060726826822911614?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/7060726826822911614/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=7060726826822911614' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/7060726826822911614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/7060726826822911614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/11/living-with-man-can-be-hazardous-to.html' title='Living with a man can be hazardous to your mental health'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-3364389647715188145</id><published>2008-11-13T19:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-13T19:24:48.672-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Life is What  you Think about</title><content type='html'>If ever there was a term that is misunderstood, it is life.&lt;br /&gt;Life is what you make of it. &lt;br /&gt;More importantly though, it is what think about. &lt;br /&gt;On a daily basis. &lt;br /&gt;There was a man at work last week who had it made by any standard you want to measure. &lt;br /&gt;He had just completed 20 years of civilian service. &lt;br /&gt;He had just got the job he always wanted, working with his best friend. &lt;br /&gt;He got a good raise to go out of a bad job into a good one. &lt;br /&gt;He was bright and happy, we thought.&lt;br /&gt;He had a loving family who supported him all the way. &lt;br /&gt;On the surface. &lt;br /&gt;Underneath, though, was a different matter altogether.&lt;br /&gt;He had had fears big time about everything turning out wrong. &lt;br /&gt;It was what consumed his day. &lt;br /&gt;He never saw things as working out well. &lt;br /&gt;So what does he do the day after he gets the fabulous job he had always dreamed of and could do without breaking a sweat? &lt;br /&gt;He kills himself.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-3364389647715188145?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/3364389647715188145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=3364389647715188145' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/3364389647715188145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/3364389647715188145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/11/life-is-what-you-think-about.html' title='Life is What  you Think about'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-2747219124686064559</id><published>2008-10-18T15:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T15:53:05.400-07:00</updated><title type='text'>All Presidents Lie</title><content type='html'>So President GW Bush lied, Big Deal, all Presidents lie. &lt;br /&gt;It is what they do best. &lt;br /&gt;Is this a whopper, I say which one are you referring to?&lt;br /&gt;Weapons of mass destruction? &lt;br /&gt;War on Terror?&lt;br /&gt;Declare victory and then kill 5000 more US troops trying to secure Iraq?&lt;br /&gt;Passing a bill into law and then not paying any attention to it?&lt;br /&gt;Did President Clinton lie too, you betcha, they all do.&lt;br /&gt;Letting China have our arms secrets? &lt;br /&gt;Getting elected with Chinese dollars?&lt;br /&gt;Oral sex is not sex?&lt;br /&gt;Giving IBM patents to China?&lt;br /&gt;Having China create a fake surplus?&lt;br /&gt;Did President GH Bush lie, you betcha, they all do.&lt;br /&gt;Going after Sadaam when you helped finance him in the first place?&lt;br /&gt;Getting paid by Kuwait for doing something you want to do anyway?&lt;br /&gt;Skull and crossbones worship?&lt;br /&gt;New World Order?&lt;br /&gt;Did President Reagan lie, you betcha, they all do. &lt;br /&gt;Iran Contra?&lt;br /&gt;Crashing the real estate market?&lt;br /&gt;Winning the Cold War?&lt;br /&gt;Did President Carter lie, you betcha, they all do.&lt;br /&gt;Peace Treaty in Iran?&lt;br /&gt;Shutting down all nuclear power in the USA?&lt;br /&gt;Did President Ford lie, you betcha, they all do. &lt;br /&gt;Pardon the president?&lt;br /&gt;Did President Nixon lie, they all do.&lt;br /&gt;Watergate?&lt;br /&gt;Did President Johnson lie, you betcha, they all do. &lt;br /&gt;Great Society?&lt;br /&gt;Did President Kennedy lie, you betcha, they all do.&lt;br /&gt;Marilyn Monroe?&lt;br /&gt;Bay of Pigs?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-2747219124686064559?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/2747219124686064559/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=2747219124686064559' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/2747219124686064559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/2747219124686064559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/all-presidents-lie.html' title='All Presidents Lie'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-2167111339386438844</id><published>2008-10-18T15:51:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-03T16:14:36.879-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Are we any better off?</title><content type='html'>After hundreds of millennia, I mean. Do our demons still shape us as in the past? &lt;br /&gt;This psychological adolescence is a long one to be true. We take one step forward only to take 3 steps back, falling into old very predictable traps. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We seem to be more tolerant of other species than we were before and less tolerant of our own. We go to war for just as ridiculous reasons as we did before and we ravage each other with utter delight. The same people who give their wealth for supposedly good causes control us beyond belief. Our everyday lives are more violent than ever. We seem to love our comic book movies just as much as our horror movies. Is that because we love to be scared just as much as we love to kill each other? What ever seems to get the adrenalin going works for us, I guess. Our love of soap operas has now become main stream as we look at TV more than ever before. Our kids are fatter than they have ever been because they play video games all the time for some release, that is, a violent release. We have now spoiled our kids so much that they don’t want to get physical at all, except to beat on other kids. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We seem to worry more about global warming than killing thousands of Muslims around the world. We recycle plastic but can’t seem to get off the oil for energy loop that pollutes the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The prices of everything in America are rising rapidly except for what Wal-Mart sells. The China wakeup call is everywhere, but we don’t seem to get the picture. We just use our credit cards more and more.  We don’t want to do physical work anymore, but we complain about the only people willing to do it, Mexicans. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We save the whales and polar bears, but sue our neighbors at the drop of a hat. We do much worse to anyone who is of a different religion or tribe. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have politicians that write laws of 400 pages or more and read only a one page synopsis of them and then vote on them. Can anyone but a lawyer understand our system of laws and have we asked ourselves lately how many lawyers have our interests at heart. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have a pill for everything today and every symptom invites us to name a new syndrome after it. We are so interested in the instant cure that we fail to see the long term consequences of our actions and I am not talking about global warming. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;40% of the world’s population lives in India &amp; China and they are changing the world to suit themselves, not us. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are the only world power left to run amuck saving the world for democracy without even asking if the world wanted to be saved. Maybe the world ought to be saved from us.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-2167111339386438844?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/2167111339386438844/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=2167111339386438844' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/2167111339386438844'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/2167111339386438844'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/are-we-any-better-off.html' title='Are we any better off?'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-7387082724008597410</id><published>2008-10-18T15:48:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T15:48:44.118-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Controlled, Ain’t I</title><content type='html'>We are controlled in so many ways and shaped by the events of our lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I was 8, I was traumatized by my mother for touching the girl next door on her bottom. She quickly forgot the whole deal, but it took me over twenty years to come out of my shell. At 28, I forgave my parents for raising me the way they did (the spoil the child and spare the rod type of raising). From there it took me another 4 years to get up enough courage to be involved with a woman. One year later, we married and are still together today. She controls my every movement and I let her because it’s easier than the alternative, fighting. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was extremely uncomfortable for me &amp; all those around me as I was growing up because I was very intense and I never developed any interest in sports, beyond swimming, and that stopped just after the Navy when I found I was allergic to Bromine &amp; Chlorine. I have always been single-minded and so anything I take an interest in, I do well in. Then I tried sales and failed miserably at it because I found out that salesmen have to talk a lot about sports. I found I had and continue to have to this day, no interest in what most people are thinking. I find it boring and so I am bored with it and talking about it. I found that no one really wanted to talk about the state of the economy, world, philosophy, or psychology. Now, these are the subjects I get off on. I could quite easily be the president except for one thing, which is the killing part of the job. Alas, I’m not a killer and it seems that all presidents have to be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While I was growing up I was rich and that continued until I got married and from then I was and am dirt poor. I have become accustomed to it so most days I don’t even think about it. Then came Y2K and the death of the stock market, America, and my finances along with it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-7387082724008597410?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/7387082724008597410/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=7387082724008597410' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/7387082724008597410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/7387082724008597410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/controlled-aint-i.html' title='Controlled, Ain’t I'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-3962161535644188310</id><published>2008-10-18T15:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T15:46:15.138-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Gullible</title><content type='html'>Human beings are a gullible race of beings.&lt;br /&gt;We seem to follow anyone who is determined to win and can come off as a likeable fellow.&lt;br /&gt;We have our religions that don’t make us believe in ourselves. &lt;br /&gt;Our religions are all about conquering the world to save the world from other pagan religions just like ours. &lt;br /&gt;In elementary school, we all learned about bullies and what to do about them. &lt;br /&gt;Call their bluff and they will back down.&lt;br /&gt;The only problem with calling someone’s bluff is that you might get killed in the process. &lt;br /&gt;If you believe in something strong enough to die for it, that’s okay for you, but if you make me believe in your idea and then I have to die for it that makes me gullible and stupid to the point of absolute absurdity. &lt;br /&gt;There is a quality of life that must be addressed here on earth for sure, but if you never really question your beliefs then who are you to proclaim death before honor or some such nonsense.&lt;br /&gt;Give me liberty or give me death is the battle cry of an America longing to be free. &lt;br /&gt;Trying to make the world free when they may not want the same things as we do is quite another thing entirely.&lt;br /&gt;It is up each one of us to make our peace with this earth or depart it knowing we tried.&lt;br /&gt;As a self confessed happy person who has made his peace with this earth, I can tell you one thing, which is, live and let live is what all people should be living by. &lt;br /&gt;Pushing my ideas off on others is presuming that I know what is best for everyone concerned. That is taking yourself pretty serious, which is setting yourself and others up for failure. &lt;br /&gt;Why would I want to take on such a burden is beyond me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-3962161535644188310?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/3962161535644188310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=3962161535644188310' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/3962161535644188310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/3962161535644188310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/gullible.html' title='Gullible'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-399279501167795678</id><published>2008-10-18T15:44:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T15:44:58.738-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What I have Learned</title><content type='html'>I don’t know much of anything for sure, so why be serious about any of it at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Truth is relative to your point of view. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sex will sooner or later die in a relationship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Porn will kill a relationship and harm your sex drive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Snuggle and long walks are a must&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go with the flow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you think you know something for sure, you most assuredly don’t.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An expert has stopped learning because his ego won’t let him learn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The female always controls the relationship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is always someone faster or better or trying to be. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you take yourself seriously, you’ll die early. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you find what you’re good at, do it a lot and you’ll love it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never lie to your spouse, they never forget.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never lie to yourself because you don’t either. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you’re just about to give up, give it one more shot. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Man is a social animal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Men and women deserve one another and this is not a compliment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Religion kills while faith heals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time alone is king. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reality is how you perceive it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are what you eat so don’t be a pig.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being the best can be an ego thing and is generally not good for your health.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-399279501167795678?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/399279501167795678/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=399279501167795678' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/399279501167795678'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/399279501167795678'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-i-have-learned.html' title='What I have Learned'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-6380859015639768141</id><published>2008-10-18T15:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T15:42:14.830-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Truth about Religion</title><content type='html'>The truth about religion is that is no truth in religion. Take the 911incident where 2 planes drove into the side of the twin world trade towers. There is no truth in that incident either, yet almost everyone around today will fight you to make it true. All it takes is convincing lie and a little naivety on the public’s part for some complete fabrication to become gospel. People are actually going to war over the 911 incident. Think of how many wars were fought over religion and how horrible if the religion that everyone thinks of, as gospel was just a fabrication. Do you ever wonder why 9/11/01 happened on that specific day and not any other? What good would it do to have all 911 calls be emergencies if the world trade towers incident happened on 9/12/01. If it was not just a coincidence then it must have been planned. Both 911 emergency and the world trade towers were conceived in the late 1960’s. Just a little forethought, 30 years of it, and what do you have, a bald face fabrication that becomes a fact. Are we that much superior to the humans around the time of the supposed Christ figure? Can we be duped just as easily?  All it takes for magic to happen is distraction. We all saw the towers fall so our mind works to make it believable. How hard would it be to convince someone of a religion based on some one supposedly dying for us to wash away our supposed sins? Would this person, if he existed be named a saint, even deified? We even proposed a date system around him, for Christ’s sake! Pun intended.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-6380859015639768141?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/6380859015639768141/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=6380859015639768141' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/6380859015639768141'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/6380859015639768141'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/truth-about-religion.html' title='The Truth about Religion'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-4484150610273234802</id><published>2008-10-18T15:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T15:39:58.068-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Truth</title><content type='html'>How many times have you known the truth only to find out that you were not fly aware of all the facts and had to backtrack? I backtrack all the time. I am a seeker of the truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I fully recognize that I do not know the truth, except according to Mike and he has been wrong so many times I can’t count them all. When I say I am a seeker, I should say that I love rabbit holes. I am Alice in Wonderland and I love being twisted around like a prize booby.  Now don’t think I am stupid because I am quick as lightning when it comes to figuring stuff out only to find that I have been led on a wild goose chase. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One moment I am human in the middle of a powerful new world order, the next I am a hybrid with 50% Draco blood. Then I have my blood drawn in the 4th dimension only to discover my DNA- Soul connection. Next I discover that I am not in the same time frame as I once was, and have become a Clone of myself in a different reality. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All through this, I am still here writing away observing how deep the rabbit hole goes, only to find out that it is not a rabbit hole at all, but rather my odyssey of the mind which carries me to all kinds of highs and lows. I had to lose my ego a long time ago to survive knowing what I think I know of the truth. It is a good thing I love mind games because this life in 3-D is one big mind fuck. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently, I found out that the Human/ Hybrid mind was made up of 13 cubed holographic spaces, each possibly containing some version of the truth. By thoroughly understanding one space, one is allowed to jump to the next space, and so on. One can jump more than one space at a time, but there is a risk of not knowing whom, when, or where one is when one does such a thing. I do things that make me in constant jeopardy all the time because of my Soul-DNA test and my ability to have my soul answer questions that I ask, not know the gravity of what I am asking. My assumptions often get in the way of my progress toward the truth. My ego continually gets in the way because I am constantly challenging all these truths that we as people of the earth just took for granted all these millennia. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back awhile I realized that my questions were too difficult and so I experimented to find that I had gone beyond his mere cover which I call my body. Not I recognize the difference between my body and me. It’s a lot like when John Quincy Adams was asked on his deathbed how he was doing, he replied, “I am dying, but other than that I am fine.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When somewhat enlightened creatures get to that point in their lives, they have truly accomplished something, that of being able to distinguish between the mundane body and the energy which gives us the spark of life. It usually shows up just before they die, as they have no choice, but to accept the inevitable anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These lessons of life have been happening to me a lot lately. Maybe it’s because I have a lot of time to myself to reflect on the reasons why I am here, or maybe it was just my time to get some real knowledge. I know that no one else can use the knowledge I have or even wants my specific knowledge, probably because it doesn’t belong in their lives. Everyone comes to 3-D on a different path with different things to learn in this lifetime. One thing is for sure; it is too short to mess around going after only material wealth, the perfect diet, or the most beautiful garden. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At age 61 I am old enough to know what I want and start going after it. Only thing is, I wake up each day and wonder what new idea or thing will hit me over the head enough to change my direction. At every stage of my life I knew I had this game figured out only to be dealt a blow in the head, sometimes it took several times going through the same thing over and over for me to see that my course was not set like everyone else’s and the rules that applied to the other people did not apply to me. I knew I was very different a long time ago when I did not fit into the mold like everyone else did. I have always been lost in thought, but now it is ridiculous as to the amount of thought I go into about a seemingly simple process. My analysis-paralysis has been cut way down by my test, but it has not stopped it altogether. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know what it is like now to be older and the world has passed you by. No one is interested in the slightest in what I have to say, it is enough to get it done and move on. There is no actual learning done today if the man or woman can write down the process of actually doing something and sell it on the net. Pretty soon, within a matter of months, it is common knowledge and you can’t even give it away. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are all infomaniacs for only what we want to see. Strip it down to the minimum time and feed it to me in my IPOD. If it is more than 2 minutes in length, forget it, because I’m not interested. I am part of the instant generation. Instant food, instant info, instant knowledge, instant learning is a part of what I was taught was good and true to have.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-4484150610273234802?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/4484150610273234802/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=4484150610273234802' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/4484150610273234802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/4484150610273234802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/truth.html' title='The Truth'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-3167930497900836394</id><published>2008-10-18T15:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T15:36:13.030-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Truth depends on Mood</title><content type='html'>Your mood determines your reality &lt;br /&gt;If you feel anxious, then your answers to all the questions you ask are colored by your fear of what you are anxious about.&lt;br /&gt;If you feel unsafe, you live in an unsafe world.&lt;br /&gt;If you feel loved, you live in a loving, caring world.&lt;br /&gt;If you wake up on the wrong side of the bed, you are a danger to everyone around you.&lt;br /&gt;If you feel beautiful, then you are.&lt;br /&gt;If you feel sad, you are.&lt;br /&gt;Whatever you see in the world comes back to you 10 fold as if to prove the abundance theory. &lt;br /&gt;If you feel good, then you live in benevolent world.&lt;br /&gt;If you feel angry, then you are a threat to everyone around you.&lt;br /&gt;If you feel sad, then you are a victim.&lt;br /&gt;The world is abundantly yours, whatever you feel it reflects it back at you. &lt;br /&gt;What you see in the world sees you. &lt;br /&gt;If you believe you are rich, then you are already rich, in experiences. &lt;br /&gt;If you like people, they will like you. &lt;br /&gt;If you come onto people, they will come onto you. &lt;br /&gt;You are a magnet for whatever your mood is. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Truth is real for you only.&lt;br /&gt;The answers you seek depend upon the questions you ask and the mood in which you are when you ask them.&lt;br /&gt;The answers you get color your world by limiting your choices to the mood in which you are when you ask the questions. &lt;br /&gt;If you believe anything is possible, then it is for you until you stop believing it. &lt;br /&gt;Once you stop believing it, you have limited the choices which the world will throw at you. &lt;br /&gt;Human beings search out confirmation that they are right all the time. &lt;br /&gt;We do it to such an extent that we come self fulfilling prophecies. &lt;br /&gt;Most of the time we do it all subconsciously, but if we wake up to our own truth then the game begins. &lt;br /&gt;We then try to find out how far we can push the truth and still have it come true for us. &lt;br /&gt;This is where I find myself now, trying to find my own personal truth and define my reality by it. &lt;br /&gt;I am by far the most self righteous person on this earth, claiming that I know more of the TRUTH that anyone else alive today.  &lt;br /&gt;But I do and that makes me unusual in the extreme.&lt;br /&gt;For I now know that you find out the truth from minute to minute by living on this earth day to day with your eyes wide open, or at least not all the way shut.  &lt;br /&gt;I figure I know a little more than 1% of the whole truth about how things are run here on earth and the funny thing about that is, there is no financial gain to be had by it. &lt;br /&gt;I just get to chuckle a lot and say to myself, it can’t get any better and then it does as I figure some more out. &lt;br /&gt;I am a happy egomaniac who lives in his mind for fun. I enjoy it all. I can figure any out I really want to anymore, but more and more I let it happen because it is more fun. &lt;br /&gt;I am into laughing and having more than most and almost anything can get me going. &lt;br /&gt;I like it all because when you figure out how things are, that doesn’t mean you are allowed to do anything about it, but you can watch and snicker silently, sometimes in disgust at the plain horror of it all, and sometimes in awe because you are truly here in the moment enjoying what life has to offer. &lt;br /&gt;I have a great sense of humor and it comes out all the time just to see what people will do. &lt;br /&gt;People are the big thing for me now. I can watch families for ages at a time without ever getting bored. &lt;br /&gt;Having figured out the sex thing long ago, I am not into it much anymore, but I can still marvel at the game male and females play. &lt;br /&gt;One should never underestimate the power of the ordinary woman to amaze. They are much more delightful than the celebrity type that are just selling sex, but never interested in having it. &lt;br /&gt;My wife had me pegged a long time ago and she knows it. At least she thinks she does. I don’t have the heart to tell her that she doesn’t know me by a mile.       &lt;br /&gt;She has this body pegged for sure. She knows what moves it. She doesn’t have a clue as to what moves me though. I hide in plain sight. I am good at it. &lt;br /&gt;I suppose you could say I love her for I do, as far as that 1% will go. &lt;br /&gt;Even though we stopped having sex a log while back; there is a comfortable quality about us that is noticeable to even the casual observer. &lt;br /&gt;Our relationship has a grace about it that is hard to come by. &lt;br /&gt;I know of no one else who has this quality. I call it the quality of life. We both drift in and out of each others lives with ease not making many requirements of each other, but appreciating the quality of our lives together. &lt;br /&gt;When I am with her, I laugh a lot. &lt;br /&gt;The quality of your life is determined by how much you can take a moment in time and just chuckle at it. &lt;br /&gt;I have always been a laugher and I love it. &lt;br /&gt;I love all my different kinds of work and I am very good at it. &lt;br /&gt;I please people for a living, but mainly I please myself as I go through the process.&lt;br /&gt;I have achieved a sort of plateau in my life and I am waiting for the next thing to come about so I can change to fit it.&lt;br /&gt;Change is what makes life so interesting.&lt;br /&gt;Without change, life is very boring. &lt;br /&gt;The funny thing about it is the more we try to make it stay the same the more it changes us to make us frustrated. &lt;br /&gt;What does this have to do with TRUTH?&lt;br /&gt;Everything! When your mood changes, you become a different person, shaped by the consequences and events that you let surround you. &lt;br /&gt;It is very simple to change, just let go of everything you have and do and then do something different in the next moment. &lt;br /&gt;Change is disturbing and your ego doesn’t like disturbances so it won’t let you change. &lt;br /&gt;We are all control freaks so we can’t change easily.&lt;br /&gt;If we changed we would have to adapt to the new consequences of our changing world and we don’t do that easily. &lt;br /&gt;Our ego counts on things being the same so we can make sense of our world. &lt;br /&gt;When things change there is chaos and chaos is bad for us because we don’t know where we stand.&lt;br /&gt;We lose our reference point if we don’t know where we stand.&lt;br /&gt;However, real 3-D is constantly changing.&lt;br /&gt;The only way we can make sense of our world is to take snap shots of it and hold on to those moments as our reference points. &lt;br /&gt;One reason why we never learn anything new is that we are so good at holding onto the past. &lt;br /&gt;By holding onto the past, we feel safe and stable. &lt;br /&gt;However, this is delusional because the only safe place in our world is to accept the change as it is happening and go on with our lives. &lt;br /&gt;We all want freedom in our lives, but we are not ready to accept the responsibility of our inaction. &lt;br /&gt;Not making a choice is making a choice by default and it may not be your best choice. &lt;br /&gt;We all have choices and the ability to make the choice, but will we make it or let it be made for us. &lt;br /&gt;Having choices made for us is the so-called easy way out. &lt;br /&gt;In this scenario, our boss, mother, father, husband, wife, preacher, peer makes the decision for us and then if it doesn’t turn out the way we wanted, we have someone to blame. &lt;br /&gt;What a way to live, jumping from opportunity to opportunity, always ready to blame someone else for the miseries we live through. &lt;br /&gt;The biggest cop out is the decision not made because you’re living someone else’s life and they have more control over your life than you do. &lt;br /&gt;This is why you feel trapped all the time. &lt;br /&gt;It is easier to accept things the way they are than to figure out what is going and do something about it. &lt;br /&gt;I never said it was easy to change. &lt;br /&gt;How fast you change is the quality of your life.&lt;br /&gt;Note that I did not say the ability to change, but I said actually changing by making a decision. &lt;br /&gt; You have to make a decision about which way to go and once you do, a lot of opportunities become a moot point. &lt;br /&gt;Any one of these opportunities would have altered your reality here on earth and you just past them in favor of another decision.&lt;br /&gt;Your ego can hope for stability in 3-D, but it is fleeting at best, due to nature of 3-D, which is change.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-3167930497900836394?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/3167930497900836394/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=3167930497900836394' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/3167930497900836394'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/3167930497900836394'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/truth-depends-on-mood.html' title='Truth depends on Mood'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-8729232139682613184</id><published>2008-10-18T15:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T15:34:51.596-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Souls &amp; Egos</title><content type='html'>Souls are pure as the driven snow and stay that way. &lt;br /&gt;There is no original sin.&lt;br /&gt;Egos can be corrupted by experiences. &lt;br /&gt;One ego can twist another.&lt;br /&gt;Egos can taught to be contrary to life. &lt;br /&gt;Souls enhance life. &lt;br /&gt;Sex is collaboration between Soul &amp; Ego. &lt;br /&gt;Souls provide the spark and egos provide the method of execution. &lt;br /&gt;Soul is pure love.&lt;br /&gt;Ego cannot love. &lt;br /&gt;Love is the glue that binds.&lt;br /&gt;Soul cannot hate&lt;br /&gt;Ego can&lt;br /&gt;Ego can override soul&lt;br /&gt;Soul cannot override Ego&lt;br /&gt;Ego can run the conscious mind&lt;br /&gt;Soul can only speak when the ego is out of the way.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-8729232139682613184?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/8729232139682613184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=8729232139682613184' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/8729232139682613184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/8729232139682613184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/souls-egos.html' title='Souls &amp; Egos'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-6304092825642266977</id><published>2008-10-18T15:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T15:31:09.380-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Bible is Great Fiction</title><content type='html'>In the ultimate irony, the bible was written by the Draco, who are a symbol for the devil or 666, the beast.  While not in the truth category, the bible is very symbolic as the Draco are in love with symbols and numbers. If this is true, what does that make Jesus besides another Hybrid Clone. For that matter, any prophet or guru, as they all distract us from what we really ought to be doing here in 3-D. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Was the great flood just Atlantis sinking and causing a huge tidal wave? Was the story of Adam &amp; Eve just a symbol for a long-lived species fall from grace into 3-D? Is Armageddon late or has it been happening all along without us knowing? Is reality, as you perceive it or is it just so, with or without your acknowledgement? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There again, though, what I would perceive as truth, someone else would say was hogwash and already has several times over. I have been called a fool so many times; it’s a cosmic joke. Almost as many times as I have been made a fool by things happening to me because I was too dumb to step aside. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this life, we are led places the Draco want us to go, but if you but open your eyes a little to look beyond what the big move is, you’ll see a little of what you’re not supposed to see. We are supposed to distracted by the misery and beauty of it all so that we will miss what is really going on. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s like in business, when you climb the ladder of success, only to find out that that is not what moves you at all. The problem with all this is that our lives are too pitifully short to waster going around being distracted by all the nonsense. It may take us several lifetimes to wake up enough to get on with our lives. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One thing for sure is that our beliefs shape our reality. When we believe something with gusto, we start searching for things that confirm that belief. Take a simple thing such as cars. Buy any one of a hundred types and without fail you will start picking up on them being in line you and your thinking. Pretty soon you’ll start believing that you made a great purchase. If you don’t like your purchase, you will do the opposite to justify your thinking. That is, you will search out owners of the same type of vehicle who had a bad experience, once more confirming your belief. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever tried to start anything really new? Do you notice how hard is it is to get people’s attention? This is not because people are basically dense, rather that people are stuck in the confirmation of their own beliefs. This alone makes change happen slowly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If people like their rut, it is virtually impossible for them to budge until the outside forces them to get in line with the greater version of reality. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bible is truly great fiction for me with a lot of similarities to today written in. It may be ultimate world reality for you as it is written. In that simple truth lies the justice of it all. Like Tom Hanks said at the end of The Da Vinci Code, in the end it doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you believe it enough so you can live your version of reality.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-6304092825642266977?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/6304092825642266977/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=6304092825642266977' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/6304092825642266977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/6304092825642266977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/bible-is-great-fiction.html' title='The Bible is Great Fiction'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-649701760093664364</id><published>2008-10-18T15:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T15:29:44.292-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Religion is the Misery it Claims to Avoid</title><content type='html'>Religion is the end all program game that I could talk for years about. It was designed by people and other beings that wanted to keep the majority of the masses in their lowly caste. What can I say; it works at keeping them low. This is the big enchilada, going for and grabbing all the marbles. No matter you do as a person, religion has got you, if you take it as the sucker you are intended to be. Religion has you wherever you turn. If I could plan a better way to keep everyone feeling low about themselves, I could not come up with a better plan. All ones motivation, accomplishments, and very soul are prescribed to this mystic light someone calls god. If you make up your own god, you are condemned. If you don’t believe, you are condemned. All right, I am an atheist. How come I haven’t died yet from sheer lack of motivation to live? How can I assume to be moral without a god to worship? The whole idea that one has to confess their “sins” weekly to a priest that has very little in common with reality is pure hogwash. It seems to me that if I leave that all behind and just and let live I am much better off. Making up prophets out of thin air so far back that no one actually remembers what went on is quite a trick. Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, &amp; Hare Christna never existed, but they have quite a following with 99.95% of the world believing in some kind of god so they don’t have to think. Everyone is cared of death and tired of living this miserable existence at the same time. Inventing heaven was also quite a trick. Why would everyone not prefer to go to heaven when this is such a “miserable” place to be? Misery is what religion is all about. We are meant to suffer in this life. PHOOEY!!! It’s all garbage. I can live with the fact that everyone else is delusional and I am not. Just let me be as I am.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I live in my own heaven right now because I think the earth is a heavenly place to be living on. I live by my rules, not someone else’s. I don’t hurt anyone. I am not afraid to walk down the street for fear of someone striking me down for blasphemy. I just go about my life in a sane manner and live as I want to. I accept the fact that I am unique and my beliefs also are. I accept the fact that we are all connected. I accept the fact that if I want someone else’s help I must show them a value large enough to have them help me. I am compassionate to people that don’t whine all the time about their situation on this earth. If they don’t like the situation they are in, they can change or die living in misery. I do not accept the tenet that we have to live in misery because I don’t. I am a happy person that doesn’t dwell on suffering at all. I could die tomorrow without regret, as I would have lived life my way without intending to do anyone else any harm. I am not out to change the world, rather to live in it as is.  I do a lot of hiding in plain sight. I have faith in myself. I believe that I can lead my life in such a way as to not have suffering as a major thing to deal with in my life. I do not even have the faintest notion of “original sin”. I believe in the basic goodness of man. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Religious people do not. They believe that this god has to direct their lives and without him, they are doomed to sin their lives away. NOT ME!! Religious people start wars so that their god will be the one god worshipped. I DON’T!! Religious people go on missions and crusades to try and convince other people of their inherent rightness. I DON’T!! Do you know how far off base one has to be to start a war in the first place? I DO!! All religions preach sweetness and light, but make war on the side. Which is more real, the war or the words. THE WAR, of course, because people are killed in wars.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-649701760093664364?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/649701760093664364/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=649701760093664364' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/649701760093664364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/649701760093664364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/religion-is-misery-it-claims-to-avoid.html' title='Religion is the Misery it Claims to Avoid'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-9079260977402608784</id><published>2008-10-18T15:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T15:27:08.990-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Programming in Action</title><content type='html'>Action depends upon your point of view. &lt;br /&gt;Say, I am reading a book or article and my whole life was spent as a WASP in the USA.&lt;br /&gt;I am reading to support my view of life. &lt;br /&gt;I am going to pull out the things that support my point of view and possibly not even notice the other stuff in the article, as it is not important to me. &lt;br /&gt;Say, I am reading a book or article and my whole life was spent as a Muslim in Arabia..&lt;br /&gt;What I am going to get out of the same article is quite different from what I formerly would have got out of it. &lt;br /&gt;Now, take it one step further and say that I am not all that sane and a bit radical. &lt;br /&gt;Now, depending on the depth of my beliefs, a WASP becomes a red neck or the KKK&lt;br /&gt;How long does it take to turn a WASP into a KKK member? Not long, it only takes an event that this person considers to be a turning event in their lives.&lt;br /&gt;The red neck is still a WASP, just a slightly more radical one. &lt;br /&gt;Would this person kill a Muslim across the world? &lt;br /&gt;Of course, if they perceived a threat to America.&lt;br /&gt;Now, say the war is over and a so=called peace comes about. &lt;br /&gt;The red neck is used to killing Muslims now and likes it. &lt;br /&gt;Then he encounters a black Muslim on the street one day in America. &lt;br /&gt;Say, he has a car accident with this person. &lt;br /&gt;It was his fault, but he perceives a threat to America in this person. &lt;br /&gt;He kills him out of habit and now he has completed his personal journey to KKK person.    &lt;br /&gt;Then, a Muslim becomes a terrorist as far as the WASP is concerned in the same way. . &lt;br /&gt;The terrorist who is still a devout Muslim considers anyone who would want to take his way of life and change it into his or her own version of democracy a demonic symbol when all he has known is a religious monarchy. &lt;br /&gt;In his world, this demonic symbol needs to put down at any cost, including his life. &lt;br /&gt;By putting down this demonic symbol in his mind, he becomes a savior of his people.&lt;br /&gt;Everyone knows that saviors are put on fight hand of god.&lt;br /&gt;He dies knowing he is going to Heaven. &lt;br /&gt;It only depends on programming and experiences of a lifetime.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-9079260977402608784?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/9079260977402608784/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=9079260977402608784' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/9079260977402608784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/9079260977402608784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/programming-in-action.html' title='Programming in Action'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-958144899999731077</id><published>2008-10-18T11:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T11:17:45.982-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My Passion is Knowledge of Truth</title><content type='html'>The problem is truth is variable.&lt;br /&gt;It depends upon your point of view. &lt;br /&gt;My version of truth is dependent upon my experiences. &lt;br /&gt;It also depends on what layer of mind you are operating in.&lt;br /&gt;Say, I am reading a book or article and my whole life was spent as a WASP in the USA.&lt;br /&gt;I am reading to support my view of life. &lt;br /&gt;I am going to pull out the things that support my point of view and possibly not even notice the other stuff in the article, as it is not important to me. &lt;br /&gt;Say, I am reading a book or article and my whole life was spent as a Muslim in Arabia..&lt;br /&gt;What I am going to get out of the same article is quite different from what I formerly would have got out of it. &lt;br /&gt;Now, take it one step further and say that I am not all that sane and a bit radical. &lt;br /&gt;Now, depending on the depth of my beliefs, a WASP becomes a red neck or the KKK&lt;br /&gt;How long does it take to turn a WASP into a KKK member? Not long, it only takes an event that this person considers to be a turning event in their lives.&lt;br /&gt;The red neck is still a WASP, just a slightly more radical one. &lt;br /&gt;Would this person kill a Muslim across the world? &lt;br /&gt;Of course, if they perceived a threat to America.&lt;br /&gt;Now, say the war is over and a so=called peace comes about. &lt;br /&gt;The red neck is used to killing Muslims now and likes it. &lt;br /&gt;Then he encounters a black Muslim on the street one day in America. &lt;br /&gt;Say, he has a car accident with this person. &lt;br /&gt;It was his fault, but he perceives a threat to America in this person. &lt;br /&gt;He kills him out of habit and now he has completed his personal journey to KKK person.    &lt;br /&gt;Then, a Muslim becomes a terrorist as far as the WASP is concerned in the same way. . &lt;br /&gt;The terrorist who is still a devout Muslim considers anyone who would want to take his way of life and change it into his or her own version of democracy a demonic symbol when all he has known is a religious monarchy. &lt;br /&gt;In his world, this demonic symbol needs to put down at any cost, including his life. &lt;br /&gt;By putting down this demonic symbol in his mind, he becomes a savior of his people.&lt;br /&gt;Everyone knows that saviors are put on fight hand of god.&lt;br /&gt;He dies knowing he is going to Heaven. &lt;br /&gt;It only depends on programming and experiences of a lifetime.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-958144899999731077?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/958144899999731077/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=958144899999731077' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/958144899999731077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/958144899999731077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-passion-is-knowledge-of-truth.html' title='My Passion is Knowledge of Truth'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-5158260111209366969</id><published>2008-10-18T11:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T11:15:09.341-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Life</title><content type='html'>When everything seems broke and that it’s the last straw. &lt;br /&gt;Life finds a way to go on. &lt;br /&gt;A baby still can make you smile.&lt;br /&gt;Their simple innocence is larger than life. &lt;br /&gt;If all the conspiracies were all of a sudden revealed there would be still be wars.&lt;br /&gt;People don’t always get along perfectly.&lt;br /&gt;Love is the key to living together.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-5158260111209366969?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/5158260111209366969/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=5158260111209366969' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/5158260111209366969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/5158260111209366969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/life.html' title='Life'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-7618975132303556842</id><published>2008-10-18T10:47:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T10:47:54.029-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My Special Talents</title><content type='html'>I was put here for a purpose. &lt;br /&gt;I am an observer; it is true.&lt;br /&gt;I am an investor that got lost in the market flow. &lt;br /&gt;I am now getting my second wind. &lt;br /&gt;I am a technician that lost his job for awhile.&lt;br /&gt;I am a singer who is turning a corner. &lt;br /&gt;I am a writer who is writing. &lt;br /&gt;I am in charge of my life and I just found that out. &lt;br /&gt;I am in charge of my reality.&lt;br /&gt;I am coming into my own..&lt;br /&gt;I am different and that is not bad. &lt;br /&gt;I am nothing like anyone I know and that is not a bad thing. &lt;br /&gt;I am connected to everyone and everything around me in a way that no one knows.&lt;br /&gt;I am seeing it all now&lt;br /&gt;I am seeing the patterns of life all around me and in me too.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-7618975132303556842?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/7618975132303556842/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=7618975132303556842' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/7618975132303556842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/7618975132303556842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-special-talents.html' title='My Special Talents'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-4376956174636955937</id><published>2008-10-18T10:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T10:44:55.413-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Many Sides of Me</title><content type='html'>I am living several lives at once. &lt;br /&gt;One is the nitty gritty pay the bills existence that is called crank and grind existence. &lt;br /&gt;One is a sexual fantasy where I can have any amount of sexual fun I want. &lt;br /&gt;One is loving Aurita unconditionally with all that entails. &lt;br /&gt;One is cutting stone.&lt;br /&gt;One is being an accountant. &lt;br /&gt;One is being an engineer. &lt;br /&gt;One is absolute fun playing with my mind and soul, creating worlds and predicting life as it should be.&lt;br /&gt;While I enjoy them all, I really love the last one where I can play continually without having to risk anything. &lt;br /&gt;All the time I wonder if I should be doing more than I am doing now.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-4376956174636955937?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/4376956174636955937/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=4376956174636955937' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/4376956174636955937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/4376956174636955937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/many-sides-of-me.html' title='The Many Sides of Me'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-1335402185656703487</id><published>2008-10-18T10:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T10:42:38.345-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Weaker Sex, HA HA!</title><content type='html'>I have heard this statement a lot and I think it is as equally untrue today as when I heard it the first time. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the record, Women are less brutish than men and it is a proven fact that men can focus better than women if they are inclined to due the differences in our brain connectivity. Men can hit a lot harder than women, due to their brutish nature and a tendency to get physical quicker when their adrenalin flows. Men are driven by sex and women know it very well. Women control most of the wealth today and if they don’t, they control the men who have the wealth. Women use the beauty and sex appeal to control their men, along with their ability to make the food their men like to eat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most women do not live any longer than a man today, if the man is not in a habit of physically beating himself up to prove how macho he is. This is due to the fact that women are under the same stress and more so, on the job today. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a man who is not proud of most of these so-called superiorities. The only place I use my superior strength is to lift stone as I cut it. I only cut stone because I like to cut it. My flashes of anger are very silly and I wish I could get rid of them; however it is a good way to let off steam. I have not hit anybody since 6th grade and I am 61. There is no need today to get physical with anyone. Most of the time when my adrenalin flows, I am stupidly mad at something I did wrong and I go a little berserk because of it. There is no need for the flight or fight response today if one thinks clearly. I shook my wife once and she used her fingernails to take a chunk out of my hand and I can still detect the scar today and that was 25 years ago. I wish I wasn’t driven by sex, but I am. I am proud of my mental abilities, but I don’t have a need to focus very often and so much for that superiority. I will probably out live my wife because I do not make a habit of doing stupid things to impress other males who are being macho. Macho is stupid as far as I am concerned. Pretty much every time I was being so-called macho I got hurt. I don’t do that much anymore. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have no real money to speak of and a lot of debt. My wife is a beautiful woman who cooks excellently and knows what I like, so she has no problem controlling me with her little finger. She is also very creative and smart so I can’t get away with much. Sexual fantasies do occur, but I keep them to myself. I am too scared and smart to become involved with another woman, as one is more than enough for me to think I can handle. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would give almost anything to have the intuition a woman naturally has. I can think for days on end and come up with brilliant theories that she will say, naturally to and make me think I am a buffoon for taking so long to come up with something that she instinctively knew from the start. She can look at me and tell me what I am about to say and most of the time she is right. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The weaker sex, I don’t buy it for a second.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-1335402185656703487?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/1335402185656703487/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=1335402185656703487' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/1335402185656703487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/1335402185656703487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/weaker-sex-ha-ha.html' title='The Weaker Sex, HA HA!'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-6421073293582964295</id><published>2008-10-18T10:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T10:37:56.479-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Georgia vs Iraq</title><content type='html'>Do we have a leg to stand on with Iraq and Guantanamo Bay and the way we handled ourselves there? I say no. We should do everything we can for the Georgian people and support their regime, but bad mouth Russia for doing what we did, no way. The only reason we got away with it was we were the bully on the block and Sadaam had no real friends. Did we say one thing and do another all in the interests of finding WMD’s and at the time, unconfirmed terrorists, or so we said. It had nothing to do with the fact that the newly appointed (not elected) president was a born again Christian who hated Muslims with a passion and was an oil man to boot (they all are). Just because Georgia is a US supported regime in the first place is a sore eye to the Russians who consider all of the Soviet Union as Russia and always will. What better time to use your troops and superior hardware before it rusts away for lack of use. Putkin may be the head of Russia, but he is still just a mobster in disguise that we helped put in place, like lots of our other mistakes, such as Sadaam Hussein himself. Bush, Jr is hardly any better when it comes to reputations, let alone, being dumb as a board. With our great intelligence gathering network we have such good backing winners like invisible WMD’s, Sadaam, Shah of Iran, the general from Nicaragua, and many African and South American dictators that we had to drive out after we put them in place. Our only defense has been so far that they were better than the alternative. We are dumb enough to first support the Taliban when Russia invaded and then fight the Taliban in Afghanistan. These people are used to living in the mountains in caves because it is all they have ever known. Hide, fight and run are all they know and we want to blow them up. We are still trying to catch them. Fat chance of that! The Taliban just hide in Pakistan on one side and the mountains in the west. They don’t need or want roads; they have trails that lead from the mountains to the cities. The Taliban is on the offensive everywhere in Afghanistan and we are on the defensive. Will we ever learn? NO, I’m sorry to say.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-6421073293582964295?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/6421073293582964295/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=6421073293582964295' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/6421073293582964295'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/6421073293582964295'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/georgia-vs-iraq.html' title='Georgia vs Iraq'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-762049542009642964</id><published>2008-10-18T10:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T10:36:31.830-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What is Right and Wrong about America</title><content type='html'>The people are what is right about America. Essentially all people are kind and courteous to others and would not go out of their way to harm anyone. Most people just want to live their lives in the way that gives them the least amount of pain and suffering and the maximum amount of joy and happiness. That is, unless they are riled up about something or someone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Americans have been led to believe that we have been wronged and by the “purely human right” of righteous indignation, we should go to war with whoever did such a monstrous thing as to try to pick on the one so-called “Super Power” left. We have been wronged; it is true, but by our own government. Not by any political party, but by the whole system that supports war at any price as an end not a means.  Political parties only implement that system of war. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America had a government limited to a doing a few things when it was founded.&lt;br /&gt;Most Americans still want as little government intervention in their lives as only necessary for a safe life. Our present form of government has clearly overstepped its bounds and now assumes that everyone wants the government to do everything for them. &lt;br /&gt;There is not one person in America that wants this as it is inconsistent with high self esteem, if given a choice. We are not given a choice.  Americans are proud of their independence and instead want the government to get out of their lives and leave them to do what they have to do to survive well on this earth. American politicians misinterpret the signals their voters are giving them because they want to be reelected so badly, they will promise anything to do so. Most of these promises die on the vine after the politicians are reelected and the people are sorely disappointed. The American people do not like being led to the slaughter by ill meaning politicians interested in only lining their pockets with money while printing more to deflate the value of the dollar. Before the year 2005 when a barrel of oil cost less than $50, the American people were not in a useless war that deflated the US dollars to an all time low with respect to other currencies.  Before America went in to save Iraq from Sadaam, Iraq was producing a lot more oil at significantly lower prices. If securing the oil source for America was the goal as many people believe it was and is, then America is doing a very poor job in Iraq. However if war is the goal then America is doing very well because from all hints, we are about to step into Iran big time. Now that most large American cities have a crime/murder rate higher than Bagdad, our purpose can longer be keeping the Iraqi safe from the kill squads. If fomenting war is the goal in Iraq however, America has done very well, pitting Sunnis against Shiites at every turn. If America wanted to free Iraq from murder then why have we put sworn enemies next to each other in a Parliamentary setting and expected them to behave nicely when the sun goes down. The only thing the Sunnis and the Shiites agree to is the fact that they hate Americans more than they hate each other. &lt;br /&gt;Do the American people like this war? No, they have said so loud and clear.&lt;br /&gt;Have the American people been led down the primrose path? Yes, by several presidents all in the name of Democracy and peace. &lt;br /&gt;Can Americans be manipulated into the position of supporting any war? Yes, Vietnam, Bosnia, Iraq, Somalia, Germany, Japan, and even civil war among themselves. All one has to do is push the right buttons. And believe me our buttons are being pushed by expert psychologists who know exactly what they are doing to us.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-762049542009642964?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/762049542009642964/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=762049542009642964' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/762049542009642964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/762049542009642964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-is-right-and-wrong-about-america.html' title='What is Right and Wrong about America'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-3971161919287856437</id><published>2008-10-18T10:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T10:34:40.869-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ammerica the Beautiful</title><content type='html'>Even though we pay dearly for it, our way of life is hard to beat.&lt;br /&gt;I have been working nearly all my life at one thing or another. &lt;br /&gt;I liked all the jobs I have had, most I loved. &lt;br /&gt;That said I am proud to live here in America. &lt;br /&gt;I live on a block where I can take a walk at any time of the day or night, without fear of being traumatized. &lt;br /&gt;I live in a home that is big enough for all my junk. &lt;br /&gt;Everything I need is within walking distance if my car were to suddenly die, including places to repair my automobile. &lt;br /&gt;Even though I travel 30 &amp; 60 miles to work, I love the drive as I can disconnect and daydream as I drive. &lt;br /&gt;I have a business that I can do at home if things get tight and they are now so my business is going great. &lt;br /&gt;I am close to the mountains and it is my favorite place to be. &lt;br /&gt;I have just enough money to get by doing exactly what I want to do. &lt;br /&gt;I have a job that lets me solve problems and I am very good at it. &lt;br /&gt;I have a place I can go to, to cut stone almost anytime I please and I get paid for it to boot. &lt;br /&gt;I laugh and sing a lot.&lt;br /&gt;If I ever wanted to travel, I could, but with all the wondrous things around me I don’t want to. &lt;br /&gt;In short, I am happy doing what I want when I want and life doesn’t get any better than that. &lt;br /&gt;I have a wife that constantly pleases me, is easy to love and I adore her. &lt;br /&gt;I am a loner and that pleases me just fine. &lt;br /&gt;I have time to read and write as I like.&lt;br /&gt;I could die tomorrow and have no regrets. &lt;br /&gt;What more could I want?&lt;br /&gt;Nothing!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-3971161919287856437?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/3971161919287856437/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=3971161919287856437' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/3971161919287856437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/3971161919287856437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/ammerica-beautiful.html' title='Ammerica the Beautiful'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-3006070106823359677</id><published>2008-10-18T10:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T10:31:44.609-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Human Condition</title><content type='html'>I don’t know if I should even write about this or not. It’s just going to wind down into a mess, but here I go. I connected with some thoughts last night that kept me up all night. I rested, but I did not sleep a wink.&lt;br /&gt;Humans crave to be trained by a mentor and we are emotional and social beings. The difference between us and the rest of this planet we live on is that we have some limited control over our emotions; we can delay gratification if the prize is large enough to peak our curiosity. Delayed gratification is the key. We understand the concept at an early age. That enables mankind to build on their past mistakes and literally reach for the stars. We see what works and we go after it with a passion. Although we have a problem with thinking past our lifetime because the concept of death is so final to us and we cannot conceive of a world without us in it. Our passion for learning from a mentor is so great that we will keep doing something wrong just because we were taught that way until someone or some thing changes our direction. It can be a thought or an action by someone else that changes our direction if that learned behavior is not too deep. If the rut becomes too deep then we fall into a comfort zone and we are doomed to repeat our behavior and it takes some thing cataclysmic to bolt us out of our rut. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As no one relates to others as well as themselves, a small story is in order. My own!&lt;br /&gt;I grew up being my own mentor, which means that I had no pattern to mold myself after. I grew up on my own without friends or peers. That means that I am an emotionally stunted individual that lacks social graces. It also means that I am not good around people and I have a weird sense of humor. Because I did not connect with anyone else that overly impressed me I became my own teacher. I can stand myself and even prefer to be left alone, but if I am with other people too much, I tend to get on their nerves, let alone them getting on mine. I lived by myself exclusively for a long time, hidden in a cocoon of my own devising. I broke out somewhat eventually and got married, but I am still a loner. I married someone who can stand me in small bursts, but not all at once. There are parts of me that she can never touch or come close to. I am a very intense person that laughs a lot at the human condition. That’s right; I get a charge out of people being people. I always have. I learn a lot from them. They show this observer how to live. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We then have the audacity to teach people how to kill one another and the earlier we start the better they are at it. We then play on their emotions and watch them go haywire. All for a little company we would do almost anything. Take the emotional state of a crowd and add just one off the wall idea and they’re off killing someone for the fun of doing it. It may even be a friend they kill. They strangely feel almost no remorse because they can blame the crowd for what they did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just as we work together to kill something or someone, we can also work together to do something really great. We major in group energy, good or bad , it doesn’t matter. We make our best strides alone, developing ideas by focusing on them. It’s called going with the flow. When you are in the flow, go with it for as long as you can because it doesn’t come along that often. Get lost in the act of being. Brainstorming only happens after you have some ideas to brainstorm with. A group of humans that is in tune feeds off of itself. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finding someone to love and being loved in return is a blessing. It calms the mind and let’s you focus on the more important stuff of life. Life is a ride, not a destination. Trying to keep it altogether is the prize. I will admit I have an odd thought every once in awhile, but I live through it without doing the impulsive thing, the emotional thing that would inevitably get me into trouble, even if only to be physically hurt by doing some crazy thing too near the edge of life. The observer never takes chances; he just lives on in his own little world in the mainstream of conventions.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What makes us human is the experience of being human with passion.&lt;br /&gt;If you’re in love, why not make it passionate love. &lt;br /&gt;If you’re going to take chances, why not bungee jump or skydive while you’re at it. &lt;br /&gt;If you’re going to sing, why not do it with style. &lt;br /&gt;If you’re going to dance, do it with grace. &lt;br /&gt;If you’re going to invent, it helps to believe that you can. &lt;br /&gt;If you’re going to be an engineer, it helps if you are a problem solver. &lt;br /&gt;If you’re going to be a salesperson, it helps if you like people. &lt;br /&gt;It is not enough to know yourself; you have to do something about it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whatever you do, make your mark by doing it your way.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-3006070106823359677?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/3006070106823359677/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=3006070106823359677' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/3006070106823359677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/3006070106823359677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/human-condition.html' title='The Human Condition'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-2519686079923617363</id><published>2008-10-18T10:28:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T10:28:56.358-07:00</updated><title type='text'>All comes from Flow</title><content type='html'>I believe anything is possible in this world. I get there by being in flow. I do seemingly impossible tasks at work all the time. With no data, I come up with estimates that are remarkable in almost no time. I am doing it faster all the time. My brain is accustomed to miracles happening all the time. The more I believe that I can do something, the better I become at it. I find if I try to control the actions of a project it actually slows down. If however, I set it in motion and give control up to the universe it runs smoothly. I now know that the harder I try to control something, the worse it becomes. Projects have a life of their own and will conclude in their own good time. The harder I push, the more they push back, seeking revenge. Some wars are not worth fighting and some are, if only to find out that I didn’t have to fight them in the first place. When I learn this at a deep level, then I can let flow take over. Hopefully, I know when to let go and let flow take place. It is the process of life that makes me happy, not the goal. This is why being happy is enough in this life. When I am in flow I am happy. When I am in the process of life I am happy. Living is a grand experience if I let it be. My life is smooth as long as I let it flow. At work, I handle more projects than anyone else because I let things flow through me and then they are not with me anymore. If I can’t solve something in a minute or two, then it is not ready for me to solve yet. When I say my life flows it is only because I let it flow. Worry is not a state I stay in for very long, as I let things go easily. People are most proud of a task if they do it well. I find with minimum supervision most people can get along quite nicely and think well of themselves.  If people think well of themselves they are not bothering me so I can concentrate on the things I need to do. People do not think well of themselves when I am in control of them so I don’t try to control their actions and everyone is fine. If they get upset, I immediately apologize and then they are ready to at least be neutral with me. I apologize because it is the most efficient way to get things done. Right or wrong has nothing to with it and is an opinion anyway. Truth and morality are variable. They both depend on your point of view. What’s moral and true in one culture is not done in another. What is moral and true for me now was probably not when I was younger. It’s the same thing with right and wrong. Holding on to things too long affects me badly so I try very hard not to hold onto things for too long. What’s too long is easy to tell. It’s when it starts to affect me. I let things become instantly better for me when I let go because I can then concentrate on something new and give it my full attention. I try to complete each day by getting some one thing done. It is very often not the thing I wanted to get done at the start of the day. So what! I don’t wear a watch or keep track of time at all. I am not time bound by anyone, least of all, me. My bosses all understand that I will get most things done way ahead of anyone else because I never stop working at work because it is not work to me, it is play. I love what I do and I do what I love. Why would I ever do something I didn’t love to do? I give love to the universe each day because we are all connected by energy and it is the most efficient way to live. If I give love to the universe each day, most people will see that and give me the benefit of the doubt, at least. I don’t need or even ask for attention or positive vibes. All I look for is a neutral playing field. People very seldom chat with me; instead they come around when they want something done. I am a problem solver that is solution oriented. My glass is always half full. I am not an expert at many things; I just have many things I do well. An expert always has only one way to do things. Most experts are so full of reasons why this or that won’t work that they ignore Intuition and ingenuity. I try to not volunteer anything unless I am asked because I am busy enough already with things I want to do, let alone filling my life with things I volunteered to do.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-2519686079923617363?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/2519686079923617363/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=2519686079923617363' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/2519686079923617363'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/2519686079923617363'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/all-comes-from-flow.html' title='All comes from Flow'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-1210614765851237262</id><published>2008-10-18T10:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T10:27:51.658-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Wonder of it All</title><content type='html'>We have two main choices in life while we’re in 3D.&lt;br /&gt;We can take ourselves very seriously, get cancer and die miserable; &lt;br /&gt;Or…&lt;br /&gt;We can make life a game and play it to the hilt, enjoying the ride. &lt;br /&gt;Of course, I prefer the second alternative to the first.&lt;br /&gt;I spent most of my waking life taking myself seriously, but I spent every non-waking moment playing in the stars and flying around the earth. &lt;br /&gt;Most of my youth I spent actually thinking I could fly, so it was not much of a turn for me to stand on a hill and take off in flight at night when I dreamt of flying to the stars. &lt;br /&gt;My non-working life has been filled with alien creatures ever since I can remember.&lt;br /&gt;I believe that you actually have a shot at becoming what you dream about.  &lt;br /&gt;Life is too short to be serious all the time. &lt;br /&gt;My main jobs here in 3D have been serious ones, like engineering and accounting and I do take them seriously, but I do have other roles to play too. &lt;br /&gt;I have been a good stone cutter, which means I have fun with granite. When I see a streak of color coming into the stone, I see rivers of molten granite colliding like galaxies that collide and intermingle. I like to find the flow and go with it.  One could say that granite is just a rock which is inert and lifeless, but they would be wrong. The granite I cut is so alive that each piece I cut is so different that I learn for every strike I make. I love to read the grain of it and plan my hits so that I make the crystals line up with my blows. My mind can affect the structure of granite as I cut it. &lt;br /&gt;I actually live a good book. I laugh the whole way through it. In the movies I used to see I actually was the hero that saved the world, I fought the villains in my mind and to look at me when I am seeing a movie is quite a laugh as I move around a lot. Then I wake up to become a pure pacifist who wouldn’t hurt a fly.  &lt;br /&gt;Some of my best time is on the road driving through life, laughing at the jerks that cut me off and then stoop in front of me, or being caught behind a buffoon on a cell phone that has to make just one more call while he or she is driving and not paying enough attention to it. I actually have become a better driver because I love it so much. I have a very good sixth sense about who is going to do what on the road and I don’t believe in accidents so my life flows fairly well. &lt;br /&gt;I do not vote, but I do laugh at all the silliness that governments put out; thinking that their tribe has the only answer and will inflict all kinds of havoc on the other tribes to prove their point. &lt;br /&gt;I think it is amazing how we can build a rationale behind any idea we have and make it work in our mind at least. I love how we can rationalize our mind into believing that black is actually white and that some wars are necessary. I have to laugh because it hurts so much to take it any other way. I am not into suffering, but I am into laughter. In college, I used to laugh so hard in the cafeteria that everyone got to laughing too. Having a good time is contagious; try it , you’ll like it.  &lt;br /&gt;I do not play the religion mind game as I got wise to that game a long time ago, but it never ceases to amaze me what people will do in the name of religion; like it all mattered somehow. &lt;br /&gt;I love to eat so I go to cafeterias and watch the endless variety of people in the act of eating. At cafeterias people eat what they like because there is a choice and when they eat what they like, they usually smile and have a good time doing it. I love to watch people being people, enjoying life. &lt;br /&gt;I spend a lot of time singing love songs and melodies that I have loved for along time. Sometimes when I am cutting stone I break out in song. &lt;br /&gt;Being a man, I think a lot about sexual fantasies also. I dream about being a great lover with a endless supply of orgasms that can satisfy any woman.  Then I wake up to realize that I rather rotund and dribble a lot so no woman would take me very seriously, but I can dream anyway. &lt;br /&gt;I guess you could say I find a way to make fun out of any situation if only to laugh myself silly about the really awful things we do to one another. I used to go around my house yelling to the world about how people could be so stupid as to not see what was going on because it was so obvious to me. I have always lived in my mind more than most; dreaming and half hoping that man would one day wake up to what he was actually doing to the world at large so he could stop doing it. We are all connected in so many more ways than anyone realizes and man’s sphere of influence is large indeed; so much that if we don’t stop taking ourselves so seriously we ruin 3-D in the process of being here. &lt;br /&gt;We are here to have fun learning about the process of life as we live it. I am 60 years old so I may have only 40 years left to enjoy this life I am living so I plan to stop and smell the roses a little before I die. &lt;br /&gt;What have I learned so far is only this, &lt;br /&gt;Live and let live; and have a ball doing it. I do.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-1210614765851237262?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/1210614765851237262/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=1210614765851237262' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/1210614765851237262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/1210614765851237262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/wonder-of-it-all.html' title='The Wonder of it All'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-9111802663571251830</id><published>2008-10-18T10:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T10:20:11.290-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Morality Tale</title><content type='html'>This is a tale about the futility of Morality. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The main people who boast that they have morals while everyone else is immoral are usually holy than thou people who usually lead two-faced lives, not knowing the meaning of the word in the first place. Morality is a trumped up word for what is supposedly right for the culture you happen to living in at the time. It is very much similar to the words right and wrong. What appears to be moral in one culture is not necessarily the case in another culture. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For instance, it is morally wrong to kill another human being unless your tribe or nation happens to be at war with another tribe or nation. Then it is almost a moral obligation to kill “them”. At least it seems to be a moral obligation to serve your tribe and support the killing off of the other tribe. I see “Support the Troops” signs everywhere. Who says that supporting the troops is not bringing them home so they can at least have the choice of being killed while driving a car around town suddenly hit by a drunk driver, instead of forcing them to carry 100 pounds of survival gear around a strange country being moral policemen afraid of what is around the next corner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about the war on terror? It is such an undefined quantity that the US government has to tell the people who to kill and who not to kill. This often varies with who is in power at the moment. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What made it so morally wrong when Idi Amin butchered the other tribe in such large numbers so that his tribe could always be in power and at the same time what makes us so sure we are morally right in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Pakistan, and Somalia to kill so many people that merely do not think as we do?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We invade their country and proclaim that Democracy is the only way to govern. Why can’t they see the light? When the student is ready the teacher will appear. Maybe we’re trying to push the 21st Century on a 10th Century culture. When the people of Iraq &amp; Afghanistan are ready for change, change will happen quickly. Look at the Berlin Wall as an example. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America has always believed that might is right with respect to foreign policy.  We seem to love war and being the world’s policemen, though no one is asking us to be that. It is supposedly good for finances, except for this war on terror, which is the first war that we openly started. We usually play at war with CIA/NSA supporting one side against the other until one side eventually wins. This time, however, was different. We actually invaded another country because we were told that they were bad enough to give us problems in the future. Once we were in the war, we found that they weren’t as bad as we thought, but by then we had destroyed their government and had the “moral” obligation to stay and make a new “democratic” government in its place. We did all this without asking the real people if they wanted democracy in the first place. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, with a change in American leadership approaching, we seem to be headed on the way out of Iraq, much the poorer for the experience, financially and morally. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will leave Iraq with a very weak government made up of different factions that do not want to work together and in fact kill each other behind the scenes. The infrastructure of Iraq is still destroyed with different religious sects bombing one another at will, each trying to terrorize the other into submission. This will only get better when the actual Iraqi people want it to and not before. Right now, the Iraqis’ want us out, along with our assumption that democracy is the only way to govern, preferring “civil” war as somehow better than our alternative (What is so civil about a war inside a nation anyway?). Theocratic Dictatorship is all Iraq has ever known to be a way to govern, where the religious thug of the moment rules supreme. It seems that any way to get rid of us occupying their country is preferable to us staying there influencing them in ways they do not care for. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think there is a lesson for us somewhere in this parable, but in our “moral police” mode, we are the “experts” who are teaching them the lessons so our minds are closed. There is something about morality and learning that are diametrically opposed.  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;For all our morals, we will leave a war torn country even more so than before we came in, knowing we were right to do so; believing that we had “the way”, the righteous way. With Sadaam in charge, the war was limited to dissenters who openly opposed him or angered him. Everyone who knew their so-called “place” could walk down the street without fear of being shot, raped, or molested. Now as we, the crusaders of democracy, leave; everyone lives in fear of being shot, raped, and /or molested. How this is better than it was before is a tale for the politicians to spin. And spin they will, just like Vietnam and Bosnia. It seems we will never learn when to leave well enough alone. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here we sit with largest, best funded, openly warring army in the world. I wonder where we will use this awful power next. One thing is for sure, there will always be some dictator who thinks he can kill another tribe, committing human rights violations galore such that we, in our “righteous morality” call it wrong and then a new wave of “moral indignation police” wars will begin again. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder how we can consider Guantanamo Bay morally right with its own human rights violations in play. How can we, on one hand, condone water boarding torture and then make an about face when some very poor African nation declares war on half the people in its sphere of influence, causing us to police them up with our own version of righteousness. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess I just don’t understand “American Morality” and that is why I wrote this tale.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-9111802663571251830?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/9111802663571251830/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=9111802663571251830' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/9111802663571251830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/9111802663571251830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/morality-tale.html' title='A Morality Tale'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-2856364690800871806</id><published>2008-10-18T10:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T10:19:03.678-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Live and Let Live</title><content type='html'>This statement is easy to say, but a little harder to live by. &lt;br /&gt;It means that you don’t offer advice until it is asked for. &lt;br /&gt;It means that you do your thing and let the other person do theirs. &lt;br /&gt;It means that you don’t push your form of religion off on anyone else. &lt;br /&gt;It means that you don’t push your form of government off on anyone else.&lt;br /&gt;It means that you don’t go to war with someone else just because you don’t like them.&lt;br /&gt;It means that you should not impose your way of life on anyone else. &lt;br /&gt;It means that if you want to be left alone you can be.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;However, it also means that if you ask for help, you must be willing to pay for it, in some way. &lt;br /&gt;It means that you must offer to pay for the help you want. &lt;br /&gt;It means that you must know what you want and state it so someone else has the option to help or not.&lt;br /&gt;It means that you must not get mad when no one helps you right away.   &lt;br /&gt;It means that when you need help, you must not assume that by osmosis someone else knows that fact and automatically offers help. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It also means that no one owes you anything in this world. &lt;br /&gt;It means that if you want something you must figure a way to get it that does not impose your will on others.&lt;br /&gt;It means soft selling of your product or service is the norm. &lt;br /&gt;It means that if someone else wants your product they can buy it or not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It means that you respect others rights to exist without you telling them what to do. &lt;br /&gt;It means no guns to enforce your rules because they are only your rules. &lt;br /&gt;It means that if you want something, ask for it.&lt;br /&gt;It means that if you make a mess you clean it up.&lt;br /&gt;It means look before you leap. &lt;br /&gt;It means no services if you don’t pay for them and you may have to wait for the service to become available.&lt;br /&gt;It means that if you form a team or partnership you must pull your share of the load.&lt;br /&gt;It means that if you get hurt you may not be helped so you have to plan for things like that to happen just in case.    &lt;br /&gt;It means no borders unless you make them.  &lt;br /&gt;It means no traffic lights or speed limits unless you make them.&lt;br /&gt;It means no government is going to coerce you into something you don’t like.   &lt;br /&gt;It means no courts to bail you out of a bad experience unless you form alliances to make the court possible. &lt;br /&gt;It means that if you form alliances, you agree to live by their rules and not break those rules.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It means independence in every meaning of the word. &lt;br /&gt;It means no rules and all the responsibility that that entails. &lt;br /&gt;It means that if you cross the street without looking, you may get run over. &lt;br /&gt;It means that what you don’t know may just kill you. &lt;br /&gt;It means that you must become informed and make choices that either make or break your life. &lt;br /&gt;It means that you cannot pay attention to some of the rules and gripe about others that don’t while not paying attention to some of them yourself.&lt;br /&gt;It means no whining, griping, or complaining without some form of action after you mention it. &lt;br /&gt;It means consistency is the name of the game. &lt;br /&gt;It means you do what you say you will do period.&lt;br /&gt;It means you think before you act or pay the consequences. &lt;br /&gt;It means that if you beg on the street and no one comes to your aid, you die on the street.&lt;br /&gt;It means that if you want your windows cleaned and there is no one available to do it for you at the price you want to pay you have to clean them or put up with dirty windows.&lt;br /&gt;It means no impulsive behavior without possibly paying for it with your life. &lt;br /&gt;It means that no one will stop you from walking too close to the edge so you may fall because your cry for help is after you have fallen.&lt;br /&gt;It means having to pay your way through life as you live it. &lt;br /&gt;It means that you and you alone are responsible for your life.    &lt;br /&gt;It means ultimate world reality. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you handle it?  &lt;br /&gt;If you can, good! &lt;br /&gt;If you can’t, stay out of my way because I can.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-2856364690800871806?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/2856364690800871806/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=2856364690800871806' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/2856364690800871806'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/2856364690800871806'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/live-and-let-live.html' title='Live and Let Live'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-3772576297152393210</id><published>2008-10-18T10:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T10:17:37.506-07:00</updated><title type='text'>How the war is really going</title><content type='html'>I have heard a lot in the past few days from soldiers who came back from the War when they didn’t think I was listening. I work at  an AFB. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afghanistan – We are losing the war here hands down. We are retreating in the South for sure. Taliban bomb our roads before they are built in the North where we still are holding on. Taliban bomb our roads as we are building them. Our troops are so scared they can’t even make sure their guns are loaded right before they shoot. 1/3 of our casualties in Afghanistan are due to friendly fire. ¼ of our casualties are from guns misfiring because the soldiers can’t spend the time to load their weapons right due to constantly being under fire. The only sin in a convoy is to be the last truck, which gets bombed ½ the time. He Afghan people have never known and do not appreciate the so called structure we gave them and the country is falling backwards as I write this.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only solution in both wars is to have everyone work 17-18 hours every day so they won’t think about what they are doing.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iraq – We are gaining because of the size of our forces in use. When we leave it is clear that the Iraqi’s will lose their sovereignty to the outside forces. The so called green zone is bombed at will by forces we don’t control. We control parts of almost every city we want to control, but we have to maintain a heavy presence in order to do that. Most of the Iraqi’s are good people and are sick of the war. The Iraqi people have the will to maintain  the structure we gave to them, but the people with guns want to rule and they will when we leave.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-3772576297152393210?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/3772576297152393210/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=3772576297152393210' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/3772576297152393210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/3772576297152393210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-war-is-really-going.html' title='How the war is really going'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-1226546526497829850</id><published>2008-10-18T10:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T10:15:22.845-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Happiness is an inside job</title><content type='html'>Happiness is how you feel about yourself all the time. &lt;br /&gt;Being in the flow of the moment in time&lt;br /&gt;Flowing with it not capturing it for all to see how great you are. &lt;br /&gt;Embracing change for what it is, the flow of life going through you&lt;br /&gt;Knowing that there is no difference between pulling weeds and writing a symphony&lt;br /&gt;It’s all one in the same. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All you have to do is think of pulling the weeds out of your mind, letting it focus on the moment at hand so the symphony can come out of you.&lt;br /&gt;You have to empty your mind of all the junk so that you can collect all the experiences that each moment provides.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-1226546526497829850?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/1226546526497829850/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=1226546526497829850' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/1226546526497829850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/1226546526497829850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/happiness-is-inside-job.html' title='Happiness is an inside job'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-3679559050710156594</id><published>2008-10-18T10:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T10:13:59.753-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Thoughts on my life</title><content type='html'>I am glad you could take it. I take quite a chance sending my stuff out. Most people are so unlikely to look at themselves that they actually get afraid if someone like me comes around and shows them what is so. I wrote a program called romance is passion awhile for sale on the internet. The whole thing didn't sell well and I can now see why. I alienated men and scared women to death. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;When I get going I can be very scary and many people will say I'm right, but they don't like to have to see it. My blogs are real hard to take and that is why I don't give them out at all. Everyone who ever reads much of what I write leaves. I guess the truth is painful. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I make sense out of my world and in doing so I alienate a lot of people. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Your writing on male-female relationships is quite good. Men are not any good at being introspective. The only reason women used to live longer than men and in most cases still do is because of the macho world men tend to live in. It's a world I never was good at being in. Women have their own ways of being stupid, but men really have a lock on it.  Men are used to being led around by someone who is pretty fake because she knows that men like big breasts and shapely butts, even if they are mostly silicone. This wham, bam, no thank you mamm, fall asleep on you attitude is a bit much. Over 99 % of the men think this is cool. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Men tend to live on the ragged edge of being totally out of control, especially in groups. I often wonder how many women would survive if all the laws and guns that protect them were suddenly gone. Very little, if anything has changed and that is why males are so easy to control. The dangerous hunts are now thrill seeking days off.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;My wife keeps things interesting for me. Without her around, I quickly turn into a very dull intense person that takes himself far too seriously. I married my wife for the sense of life she has. She is 6 years older than I am and 2-3 times more lively. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I have a distinct tendency to be a know-it-all which is very boring. She is my spark. She makes me laugh and I love it and her a lot. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I am good at everything I do and I enjoy it immensely. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I know a lot of stuff that no one has any interest in. I know a lot of stuff I shouldn't know anything about because I probe intensely and often. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I feel like Benjamin Franklin Gates in the movies, National Treasure. I am on the biggest ego trip around and I love it, make no mistake about it. Nicolas Cage has made a number of movies I can get into. Next deals with a man who always knows what is coming. I generally know what is coming too, but no one is interested in that. After awhile, it gets to be very boring. I have people figured to a fine point. To meet someone fresh like my wife is like a moment of joy in an otherwise dull gray world.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-3679559050710156594?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/3679559050710156594/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=3679559050710156594' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/3679559050710156594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/3679559050710156594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/thoughts-on-my-life.html' title='Thoughts on my life'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-4651367703080990240</id><published>2008-10-18T10:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T10:07:47.640-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Flow</title><content type='html'>The universe is always behind us, whatever we are thinking, it provides. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With our new insight into this process, we will rise. The more we let go and flow with the universe, the faster we will get better at achieving what we want in this life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s kind of a paradox, the less you want, the more you get. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This happens because we hold onto the things we want so long that the universe has no chance to provide them to us. The universe is a great provider if we are in the flow. The moment we come out of flow by wanting something too much we deny the universe’s ability to give it to us. Change does not happen fast, it happens instantaneously, but only in flow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are finally finding out how change happens by reading the books on the brain. We bring it to ourselves by changing what our brains think about. Michael Phelps is a good example. The only way he won by .01 seconds in one of his gold medals was to know that he could win in the first place. Everyone else in the many races was intimidated by him and that gave him the edge. Paul J. Meyer was right with his horses about the difference between first and second. Michael Phelps thought like a winner the whole Olympic Games. He changed his brain to not accept defeat in the water and he has never been beaten since he made up his mind. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reading these books has changed us and how we perceive the world around us. We were winners all the time, but did not fully believe it. However we think, the universe provides. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can be the best sales people around only if we acknowledge the universe’s ability to bring the right people to us. We do this by letting go of the fears we have about not being good sales people. Once we can let go of the idea that we have to something to be happy, we let the universe flow it to us. The more we hang on, the less we are in flow. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel like I made this happen with Fritz. I made this final thing happen by letting go of it and giving it back to universe. I formally did this 4 days ago in a meditation because I felt I was hanging on too tight. It is now obvious that I was. The moment I gave it back to the universe, I let it flow. Flow gave it back to us in almost nothing flat.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-4651367703080990240?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/4651367703080990240/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=4651367703080990240' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/4651367703080990240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/4651367703080990240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/flow.html' title='Flow'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-5255641400986202712</id><published>2008-10-18T10:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T10:06:48.348-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Everyone has their own gifts</title><content type='html'>My gift is my test. I am the only one with this gift for truth. &lt;br /&gt;Truth does not sell well so I will be alone most of my life. &lt;br /&gt;The amount of truth I will find is only limited by the type of questions I ask. &lt;br /&gt;If I ask the right questions I will get great answers.&lt;br /&gt;If I ask bad questions I will get bad answers.  &lt;br /&gt;I will develop my way of getting along in this world. &lt;br /&gt;I will then start to write about the truth and put it on my blog.&lt;br /&gt;No one will ever read my blog so I am safe from those who would tear me up. &lt;br /&gt;Truth is variable. It depends on the amount of emotion you have in the question. &lt;br /&gt;An unemotional question gives a great answer, but maybe to the wrong question. &lt;br /&gt;If I have a stake in the outcome I can count on a bad answer. &lt;br /&gt;If my ego is involved I will get a bad answer. &lt;br /&gt;The quality of my life depends on the purity of my questions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No good deed goes unpunished.&lt;br /&gt;Do not help the government as they will punish me.&lt;br /&gt;I must hide in plain sight.&lt;br /&gt;I must not attract attention to myself by being too good to be true.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-5255641400986202712?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/5255641400986202712/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=5255641400986202712' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/5255641400986202712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/5255641400986202712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/everyone-has-their-own-gifts.html' title='Everyone has their own gifts'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-1016507095204237010</id><published>2008-10-18T10:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T10:04:45.769-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Everything is as it should be in the universe</title><content type='html'>It all fits and works well.&lt;br /&gt;My soul pleases me because I am my soul. &lt;br /&gt;I am I. &lt;br /&gt;A is A. &lt;br /&gt;There is no identity crisis here.&lt;br /&gt;I am on earth to have fun and learn.&lt;br /&gt;My soul is here to let me have fun.&lt;br /&gt;If I learn anything in the process it’s a bonus.&lt;br /&gt;When I leave earth, I will be going back to the 4th dimension.&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile my test communicates with my soul through the 4th dimension.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My soul is an indicator of the abundance in the universe.&lt;br /&gt;If I have the slightest predilection for any outcome my soul says I should go after it. &lt;br /&gt;If I become emotional and test for truth all my soul will confirm is that I am emotional.&lt;br /&gt;My soul will confirm that I can manifest anything I desire, not that I ever will manifest it.&lt;br /&gt;My soul is a barometer of my emotional state, which is not the same as a measure of the amount of passion I have for what I desire.   &lt;br /&gt;Passion for my desires is the will power I have to make my dreams come. &lt;br /&gt;Will power is not so much the dogged determination you have, rather it is the amount of creativity you use to get what you want. &lt;br /&gt;If I want something bad enough I will figure out a way to get it.&lt;br /&gt;I can manifest anything I want if I have the time to do it. &lt;br /&gt;The more creativity I use in getting what I want the less time it takes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manifesting is easy if I do it in the right way. &lt;br /&gt;I can say I decide to do something, but that is not the truth. &lt;br /&gt;The truth is that manifesting is collaboration between the energy that surrounds me, me and my soul. &lt;br /&gt;The more enthusiasm I have for my idea equates to the amount of energy that surrounds my idea. &lt;br /&gt;The attraction factor cannot be overlooked. &lt;br /&gt;I do not live in a vacuum. &lt;br /&gt;If I did, manifesting would take a very long time. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My mind can affect small things very easily, but if I try to get one person involved in my game, I have to sell them on my idea first. &lt;br /&gt;What’s in it for me comes into play real quick.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-1016507095204237010?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/1016507095204237010/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=1016507095204237010' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/1016507095204237010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/1016507095204237010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/everything-is-as-it-should-be-in.html' title='Everything is as it should be in the universe'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-8585639920585997663</id><published>2008-10-18T10:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T10:02:17.925-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Story</title><content type='html'>I became self aware on 8/12/2005. This is my story of what happened to let me become self aware and what I have done with the knowledge so far. I am the only human being on the planet that is currently self aware.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first thing I remember was going out for ice cream with my grandpa. It was late summer 1951 and we stopped at Sheridan &amp; 26th Avenue for an ice cream cone. I still like ice cream. I just turned 61 on 7/25/2008 and I feel like 41.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has been a long and sometimes torturous road to get here. As far back as I can remember I have been a loner. I prefer my own company to that of others. I do get lonely, but not too often. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On 3/17/63 some human beings under alien control came to me at night and broke my nose and put a beacon in my head. This beacon was active until they deactivated it on the night of 5/12/2007. For a little over 44 years I was visited at night every time I was ready so they could get some body fluids from me.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The aliens need my bodily fluids to support their lack of human DNA. I am not special in this respect. About 150 people support this effort by the aliens in their search for human DNA. I did know the people who took my bodily fluids. They were under a compulsion to take my bodily fluids and did not consciously know they were doing it. I was under a compulsion when I had my bodily fluids being taken. I knew nothing about the taking of my bodily fluids except that I would have holes in my skin that grew into moles sometimes afterward. I was not aware of the process ever as it was happening, only aware of the effects after it had happened. I know 3 people who had their bodily fluids taken, mainly because I took bodily fluids from other people, just as mine was taken from me. I worked with these people during my career. I was not aware of having taken any bodily fluids while I was in the act of taking these fluids. When they came in the night, my wife was asleep and kept on sleeping through the whole experience. The time was about 0100 usually. I would be taken when my bodily fluids were rich with animal fat. My beacon had sensors that would sense this and put out a call for pick up. I have a lot of harmless moles on my skin from this process. I was not taken anywhere special. The humans teleported in and out of my bedroom usually and took the fluids on site. I was not conscious at the time. My 4th dimensional consciousness was conscious of the happenings at the time. There were 2 people who came; lately it was a husband and wife team. The taking of my fluids and me taking other people fluids stopped when I was deactivated from service. This whole process is automatic and continues to this day, just on other people. I am now too old for the process. The beacon is all biological and will not be detected by any scan because the doctors consider it just abnormal growth of the cellular tissue and ignore it. If I saw my own scan I would know what to look for, but no one would believe me anyway.  This not a common process and I was picked for this process.             &lt;br /&gt;I am the only human on the earth that knows about this process. This is because of my 4th dimensional access to knowledge about 3-D.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first thing I did after I became self aware was to figure out what was real and what was not. This was a weird experience for a person to go through because I found out during the process that most of what we take for granted is not too real and we can be made to believe anything. I started to investigate the levels of my mind. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I found that my mind had 13 cubed levels of one amount of information or another, many times duplicated and always misleading. After 2 solid years of trying to get a handle on it all, I came down to what I consider the truth or the capability for truth. I am now at level 1 of my mind and intend to stay in focus. There were large portions of those 2 years when I did not know who or what I was. I am the only human being I know of that is at level 1. I have worked out a method to tell when the people around me are lying to me or not. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a being from the 4th dimension in this 3-D body. I am here to experience all I can.&lt;br /&gt;I know and can access all data in 3-D if and when I want to. This body communicates with me through a test I devised whereby I instruct this body on the different aspects of 3-D. My body calls me its soul. As far as words can describe, this is an accurate description of my functions. When this body dies I will go back to the 4th dimension.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everything is connected to everything else, even though we cannot presently believe or imagine it to be connected as it is. There is a plan to life even though we cannot at present see that plan as a viable thing. Nothing happens by chance in the universe. Cause and effect is at work in all cases, many of the causes we cannot believe as viable yet. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The concept of god was invented by the aliens to keep us in check and not able to fully believe in our own power of deduction. God is an easy cop out for a society that has to lay blame somewhere. The aliens are very good at psychological war games. We are a very gullible species and therefore easy prey for the aliens to capitalize on. The concept of religion was invented by the aliens to control the human population of earth in order to keep us busy with mundane distractions that essentially mean nothing in the larger scheme of things. Leading a spiritual life has nothing to do with religion.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of what the humans are told with respect to news is filtered. There is a society that for lack of a better phrase is known as the New World Order. This order is one of the ways in which the aliens psychologically control the rest of the earth. This order is itself controlled by disinformation put out by the aliens. There are numbers of ways to go nowhere with this. I should know; I have been there and back 13 cubed times. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My belief that I know the truth is in itself disinformation because merely having access to the truth does not guarantee any evidence of the truth itself. I have found that I cannot determine what is real or what is true. I can at best come up with approximations based on my limited knowledge on the subject of truth and reality. I have come to think that I will always be adjusting my version as my insight into reality and truth increases. I am fully prepared to believe that this may never happen. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To date, I have not been able to come up with any way that would be believable to help the human condition. I am still trying. I know that my soul is a joker and loves to play games. My soul makes 3-D into a game. The winner is the one who figures out the game. If you figure out the game, the reward is another game. The next game is always a little beyond your reach so you have to grow and change, like the universe until you finally get the point. The point, so far, is to learn to be in tune with change. It’s like let go and live and hang on and die.  If you don’t figure it out then you’re stuck in that game until you do figure it out or your body just gets tired and dies. The losers die without ever recognizing that it was all a game. Happiness is another game and sadness is never knowing that it was all a game. Put another way happiness is letting go sadness is hanging onto to life so hard that it kills you.       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fifth dimension is the realm of OverSouls, for lack of a better word.  The 6th dimension is a level of organizing informational energies or grid. Beyond the 6th dimension there is an energy level that fills the grid. Beyond this is beyond my ability to label it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know that I am supposed to have a good time while I am in 3-D. I also know that I learn while I am here so that must be one of my goals too. I am only aware of these 2 goals for now. Having a good time is primary and learning is secondary. I know I remember all experiences in 3-D when I return to 4-D. I know I have free will while I am here in 3-D so I am enjoying the experience of that because there is no free will in 4-D. There is no need for it. Life in 3-D is not boring unless I make it that way, which I did before with almost disastrous results so that is one of the things I learned while here in 3-D. I am here to live and let live. I have lost my spontaneity since I became fully aware. More than anything else I am supposed to go with the flow. If I succeed in my efforts to go with the flow I will have accomplished what I came here to do. I know I am not supposed to control anything while I am here in 3-D. Control implies not going with the flow and is anti-life. I know I am supposed to be free from control while in 3-D. I know that the only down side to falling off the path I have chosen is to not learn in the process. Learning is key to me being in 3-D so I shouldn’t fall off my path. My path is accepting different options while in the flow. When I am in control I do not pay attention to the flow and I miss options that could further me along my path. My best impression of my path is to let it all flow and get in when I want to play some more. I am a player that is for sure. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before my test came about, I hardly knew anything about myself or the world, for sure. Now I am absolutely sure about myself, my way in the world, and the world itself. I knew I wanted to control everything about me and my world. Now, I find the less I control the better. I have almost learned how to flow continuously. There are still times in which my old habits of a control nature appear, but these times are getting less and less. I just know with a few simple tests what I want to do and where I want to go in this world. I know I won’t fail this body and I will live and very long and simple life. I was not and am not a worrier, but I am less so now. I am confident now. I guess that is what the test was for. I was confident before, but now I am over the top. I know that nothing will stand in the way of me getting anything I want, especially because there is nothing I currently want bad enough to do anything rash about. I am a being open to it all, with no reservations. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do exactly what pleases me without harming anyone. I never do anything that doesn’t please me. I test it all for what pleases me. I love my jobs, all of them. I love my time off and I love my wife. There is something to like in everyone I meet so I concentrate on that when I am with people. No one hassles me and I don’t hassle them. If someone doesn’t appear to like me at first, I concentrate on the traits they like in people and pretty soon they either like me or at least can stand me. I train myself to at least be neutral; if I can’t be positive, I shut up. I try not to judge people because to judge is to put in a box in a controlling fashion; I don’t particularly like that myself so why would anyone else like it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my book, live and let live is the only way to flow. My ideal is just flow through all life for 3-D to 4-D and beyond. Force is a way of life that I don’t follow.  This means that I don’t volunteer anything to someone. They have to ask me for an opinion first and then they get it. As long as they don’t ask, they don’t get my help or hindrance, I am neutral. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Between 500,000 to 550,000 years ago a group of aliens threw Venus at a planet between Jupiter and Mars, causing the asteroid belt. Mars was hit by this event and was lifeless on the top after that. The Moon and Venus were sent here by the same alien group. That alien group is the Draco. The Draco system is 20-30 Million light years away from this solar system. Our solar system is more than 4 billion years old. The Draco system is more than 10 billion years old.  The Moon and Venus are from the same system as the Draco. Both the Moon and Venus are fully mechanized and dormant at this time. About 400,000 years ago, the Moon came here from the Draco system. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Moon has at least 2 purposes: &lt;br /&gt;1. To Watch the Earth. &lt;br /&gt;2. To Protect the Earth.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Venus served its purpose by drawing water away from the Earth as it went by, allowing colonization of the Earth by the Draco. The Draco came to the Earth about 370,000 years ago. The Draco are reptilian beings. The Draco are psychologically fit and physically weak. The Draco still live inside the earth. The Atlanteans came about 110,000 years ago and established Atlantis. The Atlanteans are from the Pleiades system, which&lt;br /&gt;is 18 Million Light years from earth. Under 10,000 years ago, Atlantis was destroyed by the Atlanteans. The Atlanteans then left Earth to the Draco and us. Atlantis destruction caused the great flood of the bible. The bible is allegorical not literal. Jesus of Nazareth never existed. The Atlanteans have influenced our DNA structure also. The Draco and the Atlanteans kept their distance from one another until the Atlanteans sunk their Atlantis continent and lost interest in the Earth as a home. The New World Order runs the Earth with the Draco in the background. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Draco have been influencing our solar system for more than 50 million years. The Draco have influenced our DNA structure. This is why there is no missing link to find. They jumped us past the apes. The aliens “live” for 40,000 years or more so they have long horizons of success and failure. The Draco are asexual and very superstitious and like double meanings as well as the solstices. The Draco are our psychological masters at this point in time. The Draco plan everything so that either way we go they win.  Their long term view is one of the reasons for their success. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I, myself, am locked in a society that does not believe anything I say or do because all my knowledge is so foreign to them.  I know all this stuff, but it does not apply to Earth and cannot be used here. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Draco have been building us into an elite fighting being of the first order for quite awhile. The first thing they did was make our brains larger. Then they modified our brain stem to be reptilian. About 250,000 years ago, they found our specific brain frequency and honed in on it. They started to program a few of us for certain tasks. They found that Germanic type people were easiest to program. They brought in other alien beings and encouraged them to interbreed with us. They knew that these alien beings all hated one another and it would make better fighters if everyone hated one another from a genetic standpoint. This is one of the reasons why our goals are so shortsighted and we end up being mad all the time, seemingly flying off the handle at the smallest thing that happens. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Draco are very good at general programming so they don’t have to use too many beacons to direct people. Religion, TV, Politics, Internet, Music, News, &amp; Sex are just a few of our “hot” buttons.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Draco now use us to scope out other civilizations that may become good candidates for command and control. Those of us who were programmed were easy to control. A simple biomechanical beacon in our noses is all it takes. Then, at any moment, the Draco can send someone to put a program into our head to get us to their bidding, unknowingly.&lt;br /&gt;Snipers, homicidal maniacs, &amp; people that all of a sudden go wacko are their specialties. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are just less than 6.6 Billion people on earth today.  They are ruled by about 13,000 people who are finally ruled by 39beings. The 39 beings will only trust up to 3 of their counterparts, which leave 13 groups of possibly 3 beings who actually control what the world’s population does. The 13,000 who think they are in control can only trust at most 13 of their counterparts, which leave about 1000 governments, tribal elders, and religious leaders to control the actions of the rest of us. Each of these groups is interlaced and interwoven into the fabric of the world elite. 3 is a number that is pretty well understood, as in tripod, triad. It is a very stable number. 13 is a reptilian number of significance. There are 13 levels of Draco society from the top to the bottom. This, of course, is symbolic because this means there are 3 beings that sit atop the world and their thoughts control the actions of the other 6.6 Billion beings alive on this planet. One of the 3 is a Draco reptilian. The other two are Atlanteans and Draco minions. The 3 have minds of power that can overwhelm human senses. The Draco want warrior to do their dirty work. Warriors are honed in wartime conditions, hence all the wars on planet Earth. The 13,000 have beacons that can be specifically programmed to do anything the programmer wants them to do. The 13,000 have general programs in play that command them to be in power. What does someone in power want, except more power? When not specifically programmed for something, the 1000 groups war with and plot against  each other for more of the 6.6 Billion person pie. With basic genetics of beings that hate one another anyway, is it any wonder that we, as humans love to go to war. Using this kill or be killed mentality, it is easy for the Draco to hone excellent warrior classes. In this atmosphere, peace has little chance to blossom.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-8585639920585997663?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/8585639920585997663/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=8585639920585997663' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/8585639920585997663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/8585639920585997663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/story.html' title='The Story'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-3854536658563922690</id><published>2008-10-18T09:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-18T09:59:58.744-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My Early Years</title><content type='html'>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0in;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1  {size:8.5in 11.0in;  margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;  mso-header-margin:.5in;  mso-footer-margin:.5in;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-parent:"";  mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin:0in;  mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-ansi-language:#0400;  mso-fareast-language:#0400;  mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I have been a loner all my life. While I was growing up I had 2 best friends who did not consider me to their best friend. One of them used me heavily and the other ignored me altogether. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;My mother used the theory of tough love because that is all she knew. She was never kind to anyone, let alone anyone in the family. It just wasn’t in her to be civil. My father on the other hand was a push over and so nice it hurt. He is still going strong in his nineties. He was, however, cheap beyond belief so my mother divorced him after 25 years of fighting with him every day. My mother turned me off so badly when I was eight years old that I almost did not recover.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;She turned me on to the phrase look, but don’t touch and I took it to an extreme and did not touch anyone for over 24 years after that. To say I was overly sensitive was an understatement. I was and still not outgoing at all. I am an outright introvert. I live in my mind and always have. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I am the son of a granite man. I grew up in a family business that I assumed I was going to take over. I loved the wholesale monument business and still do today, but this was not enough to hold onto the business, as my father kept on socking away funds for retirement. We operated on a very small profit margin. I saw the writing on the wall and went to college and got an engineering degree along with an accounting major while I worked at granite. As predicted, my father sold his business for scrap when he was old enough to retire and I went into engineering. One of my younger brothers kept the quarry open and sold blocks. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;My other younger brother became an accountant. We all went to the service during the Vietnam War period. I tried to commit suicide from sheer boredom and got out on a medical. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I was very proud of being a good religious person until I went to my first adult sermon. I never went back. I became an Objectivist under the Ayn Rand philosophy until I found that no one could actually live like an Objectivist should. I was and still am very anti-social, but I did search out and marry another Objectivist. She is completely independent of me and we get along famously. I used to be good looking and fairly bright so I would spend all my time predicting what the world would do and building my ego up. I realized real soon that no one cared about my solutions or anything else I had to say so I retreated into myself. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;As an engineer, I worked for DOE as a contractor. I retired form there early convinced I could make a decent living at the stock market. I started a wholesale monument firm and began cutting stone when I retired from DOE. I did okay, but I began to get very bored with it all and so I went back to work at an Air Force base using my engineering and accounting skills. I am there today, cutting stone on the weekends with my brother. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-3854536658563922690?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/3854536658563922690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=3854536658563922690' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/3854536658563922690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/3854536658563922690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-early-years.html' title='My Early Years'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-2318692263790389344</id><published>2007-11-26T21:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-26T21:36:24.327-08:00</updated><title type='text'>We are Energy</title><content type='html'>As far as I know right now&lt;br /&gt;There is an energy field that surrounds us in the 7th dimension.&lt;br /&gt;This is an informational field of energy that binds us all together.&lt;br /&gt;This field of energy is not easy to access, but it can be done.&lt;br /&gt;There is no such thing as a chance happening or coincidence.&lt;br /&gt;There is only cause and effect.&lt;br /&gt;Merely because we can’t easily see the cause doesn’t mean that we can’t feel its effect.&lt;br /&gt;Evolution is the intelligent design behind us with a push from the Draco reptilians.&lt;br /&gt;The Draco began experimenting with Lucy type ape DNA 500,000 years ago and we are the result.&lt;br /&gt;There is no missing link by design.&lt;br /&gt;The Draco are warlike.&lt;br /&gt;We are aggressive because the Draco bred that into us.&lt;br /&gt;The Draco gave us religion to control us.&lt;br /&gt;The Draco are our psychological masters.&lt;br /&gt;The Draco are masters of deception.&lt;br /&gt;The Draco made our brain frequency easy to get to so they could easily control us.&lt;br /&gt;The Draco are very superstitious and are camouflaged by symbols and archetypes.&lt;br /&gt;Our chakra system is real and has uses we do not yet understand.&lt;br /&gt;Our souls come from the 4th dimension and use our chakra system to move throughout our 3-D bodies.&lt;br /&gt;The 4th dimension is a no time, no space dimension.&lt;br /&gt;Our minds are real and different from our brains.&lt;br /&gt;When our 3-D bodies die our souls go back to the 4th dimension.&lt;br /&gt;Ego &amp;amp; God are words that have no meaning.&lt;br /&gt;Good &amp;amp; Bad have no meaning.&lt;br /&gt;Some of us like me have beacons in us.&lt;br /&gt;I have had a beacon for almost 45 years.&lt;br /&gt;My beacon was turned off in May 2007.&lt;br /&gt;The New World Order was created by the Draco as a further means of control.&lt;br /&gt;All of the informational energy flows through us unconsciously now.&lt;br /&gt;We can pick up some of it by flowing with it.&lt;br /&gt;We stop the flow of information when we stop flowing with it.&lt;br /&gt;We allow the energy to flow when we open our chakras.&lt;br /&gt;We can grow only when we are open to growth.&lt;br /&gt;We are here to let go and grow.&lt;br /&gt;We do grow by letting go of ourselves and becoming the flow.&lt;br /&gt;We can relax and have fun by letting go and drifting with the flow.&lt;br /&gt;In a relaxed state of being we connect with the information we need to grow.&lt;br /&gt;Rigid focus is equal to static non-flow of information.&lt;br /&gt;We are at our best when we are not conscious of ourselves.&lt;br /&gt;When we are mentally floating we are open to the flow.&lt;br /&gt;At that moment we can do anything because the information is flowing through us.&lt;br /&gt;We become the flow.&lt;br /&gt;I want, I need, or I have stops the flow.&lt;br /&gt;I am becomes the flow because I attain the information only in the flow.&lt;br /&gt;Emotional involvement stops the flow.&lt;br /&gt;The way to becoming aware is to let go.&lt;br /&gt;Generally, when we are asleep we let go and that is when the information flows through us.&lt;br /&gt;When we sleep our bodies heal themselves because we are in the flow.&lt;br /&gt;Anything is possible while we are in flow.&lt;br /&gt;When we try to direct it we come out of flow.&lt;br /&gt;Let go and let flow happen.&lt;br /&gt;Your soul is in flow always and you are it.&lt;br /&gt;You already know how to flow because you are the flow, along with everything and everyone else.&lt;br /&gt;We are energy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-2318692263790389344?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/2318692263790389344/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=2318692263790389344' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/2318692263790389344'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/2318692263790389344'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2007/11/we-are-energy.html' title='We are Energy'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-115370031784321813</id><published>2006-07-23T16:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-23T17:18:37.866-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Humans with Beacons</title><content type='html'>I am a human with a beacon.&lt;br /&gt;I am rabid like a mad dog.&lt;br /&gt;When I get going nothing can stand in my way.&lt;br /&gt;I become the most self-righteous SOB around.&lt;br /&gt;I am so sure I am right that I will kill anything that stands in my way.&lt;br /&gt;Even when I’m saving the world, I’m a born killer.&lt;br /&gt;The more rabid we are the more we are reproduced.&lt;br /&gt;Rabid good or rabid bad, it doesn’t matter.&lt;br /&gt;We all have a built-in purpose and we are oh so holy about it.&lt;br /&gt;So don’t go getting in our way or you’ll be sorry, maybe even dead.&lt;br /&gt;One thing is for sure you’ll remember us.&lt;br /&gt;We are not the middle of the road on any issue.&lt;br /&gt;We are violent in our beliefs and boldly emphatic about the life we live.  &lt;br /&gt;We are not our own masters, but we may be yours.&lt;br /&gt;Look out for us, as we are the next galactic killing machines.&lt;br /&gt;If we are your friends and you turn on us, expect retaliation.&lt;br /&gt;If we are your enemy, heaven help you, for you will surely die.&lt;br /&gt;We are just as devout in our holier than thou attitudes.&lt;br /&gt;When we are good, we are saintly.&lt;br /&gt;When we are saintly, look out for us because you will not be able to keep up with us.&lt;br /&gt;A lot of the greatness that is in the world today is because of us.&lt;br /&gt;That said all of the badness that is in the world can be traced to us.&lt;br /&gt;We are this way because we are made this way.&lt;br /&gt;We are trained and bred to be the warriors of the universe.&lt;br /&gt;The training and the programming only go so far.&lt;br /&gt;The free will of the 3rd dimension comes in here.&lt;br /&gt;We can take the training however far we desire. &lt;br /&gt;We are willing participants in this game of war on all fronts.&lt;br /&gt;Just ask us, but don’t be surprised at the answer.&lt;br /&gt;Without us this world would be very boring and very safe.&lt;br /&gt;Since the reptilians implanted us in numbers we are the spice of life.&lt;br /&gt;We are the saviors and the terrorists all at the same time due to our beacons.&lt;br /&gt;We are programmed through our beacons to hate one another and we do faithfully.&lt;br /&gt;Some of us like me are programmed to watch and record.&lt;br /&gt;We are the silent ones who slip in and out without being noticed.&lt;br /&gt;I call it hiding in plain sight.&lt;br /&gt;Some beaconized humans are designed to watch me, though not me specifically,&lt;br /&gt;Just watchers who watch the watchers.&lt;br /&gt;Nothing is left to chance and everything and everyone is used.&lt;br /&gt;As in the Art of War, multiple advantages are gained even from an enemy.&lt;br /&gt;Everything is a test and there are rules except winning the game.&lt;br /&gt;We are great at manipulating and controlling others, as well as dedicated to our purpose.&lt;br /&gt;It is our forte if we have one.&lt;br /&gt;Whoever is winning the game is the one who can manipulate and control the best.&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes we lose our beacons and become loose cannons going off in all directions according to our last program.&lt;br /&gt;We lose our beacons when our clones are killed.&lt;br /&gt;Humans have clones.&lt;br /&gt;Clones are created when an advantage is seen by the reptilians to capitalize on a situation.&lt;br /&gt;It does not happen often, but when it does there is a split in time and space.&lt;br /&gt;2 timelines are then created and the game gets more complicated.&lt;br /&gt;The game is already played in at least 2 dimensions.&lt;br /&gt;Beacons are implanted  in the 4th dimension.&lt;br /&gt;Beaconized humans all have superior sex drives as a means of control.&lt;br /&gt;Beaconized humans all have a mental block to stop the randomness of baby making.&lt;br /&gt;Nothing is left to chance.&lt;br /&gt;When an advantage is seen, it is taken, rabidly.&lt;br /&gt;All traits are tracked and used to make a better hybrid.&lt;br /&gt;Better is seen in terms of the warrior traits i.e., better killer, controller, manipulator, etc.&lt;br /&gt;Reptilians have huge egos and are power driven, not sex driven, like humans.&lt;br /&gt;Sex, as great as it is for the participants is a disadvantage for us and a controlling point for the one who can keep his cool instead of blindly having sex.&lt;br /&gt;On this Earth, females are the ones in control, but they derive almost no pleasure from it.&lt;br /&gt;Males are the loose cannons shooting off in different directions.&lt;br /&gt;These traits are all programming features from a DNA standpoint.&lt;br /&gt;Think of DNA as hardwired instructions in the hardware and beacon programming as software for specific tasks.&lt;br /&gt;The humans that have no beacons are just breeding stock.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-115370031784321813?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/115370031784321813/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=115370031784321813' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/115370031784321813'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/115370031784321813'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2006/07/humans-with-beacons.html' title='Humans with Beacons'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-113625417357103449</id><published>2006-01-02T18:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-07-23T16:47:16.450-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Activation of Human Programming</title><content type='html'>All humans have several compartments of their mind which can be activated one time per program. This program can be one of many in action at the time since the mind is a matrix of 13 to the 3rd power of potential possible programs to run. The program is activated by a voice, much like the commanding voice in the movie Dune.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only certain humans have beacons or have had one in the past, like me. This voice activates this beacon onetime for each frequency, which contains a program. The human does what he or she is programmed to do. When the program ends, the human in use reverts back to his or her normal self and goes on with life, having no memory that is accessible of the event since that particular frequency cannot be accessed again. If they are programmed to kill someone or destroy something, they have no memory of ever carrying out the deed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deep hypnosis will only activate a false memory to throw the person on a trail to a dead end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These programs are standard for every human that has a beacon, but there is plenty of room left in our holographic minds for specific programs should a certain human ever become rich or powerful and need more specific direction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The programming never gets into your mind until it is activated. It stays in the beacon and is only activated one time. This way, no one can draw it out of you as the route to it inside your mind is vaporized like Mission Impossible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A voice activates you, but never the same way twice and you never wind up acting out the same program more than once. It is quite an elegant, clever and devious system all at the same time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whether you are programmed to kill someone or make love to someone, there is never any pattern that you follow. Since 13% of the world is made up of humans that have beacons in their nasal cavities, all it takes is proximity to the target for you to be activated. The hybrid never personally knows the target, although they may know of them if they are a celebrity. It may be just a jostle or a car crash where you actually kill someone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One thing for sure, nothing ever happens by chance in this world. We are all connected in a very large web of intrigue, not to even mention string theory or god-mind, which is constantly reinventing itself with all the endless possibilities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Say you get activated and drive your car into someone else’s vehicle, they get whiplash and sue you. Well, they may have just been wondering how to make some easy money and along you come and they suddenly have some of your money. Do you see what I mean about seemingly random events making sense out of the blue? This goes on and on until it may get back to you with something you did or did not wish for. All you have to do is dwell on something long enough and it will come to you eventually or soon if you’re good at manifesting out of thin air.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can be sad that you are in the reacting mode or you can turn the tables and starting activating others to do your bidding, in a positive way.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-113625417357103449?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/113625417357103449/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=113625417357103449' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/113625417357103449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/113625417357103449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2006/01/activation-of-human-programming.html' title='Activation of Human Programming'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-113132911193747940</id><published>2005-11-06T18:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-11-06T18:15:13.743-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Silly Americans, by design</title><content type='html'>I don’t get much into politics, but it seems to me that most Americans nowadays want the government to be a one-all-do-all. That is not what America was supposed to be. The people changed so the government changed, or was it that the government changed so the people changed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America was all about limited government, not having a fallback if you took the wrong turn. The what’s in it for me generation of baby boomers have undone all that. All right, maybe with a little help from the new world order manipulating the weather and doing little things like 911 and terrorism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, Americans expect government to step in and help them when they are down. So we get the logical conclusion of government help, staggering losses and large inefficient bureaucracies. 911 brought us homeland security to help us stay in one place. Katrina, Rita, &amp; Wilma is bringing us to martial law. Now, people expect the government to help them out when they have made an error in judgment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next logical step for government to take is to call in the troops to help us poor Americans who can’t control our urges. Now when we choose to live on a coast famous for hurricanes, if only made by the new world order, when one comes, the troops will help us out. Or when we live on another coast famous for earthquakes, the troops will also help us out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alas, all our troops are busy fighting terrorism in another country. But the poor Americans still need help, I know, what if the UN troops help out the poor Americans. Only they do it slightly better than the American troops would have, by design.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pretty soon, the Americans want the UN troops to help them out. Then, say a football game gets a little rowdy and the UN troops have to be called in to restore order.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then the USA attacks Iran because it has said it wants to do in Israel and the UN troops block the USA at home, on USA soil. America becomes a nation under siege.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once the most powerful nation America is now a struggling nation of financially weak debtors who have to have China pay their debt. (By New World Order Design)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now we see that our urges have not been controlled very well. President Clinton was a man of many urges, not only sexual. He wanted to be re-elected for a second term, but he also wanted a balanced budget. The Chinese gave him the money to do both, but wait a minute the piper must be paid. China got the computer industry secrets and the defense industry secrets in return for Mr. Clinton having a second term that was with a balanced budget. But wait, Mr. Clinton is gone and so is financial stability, what happened?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now who is the biggest bully on the block and what can we do about it. Just say no, but we won’t, after all, we are Americans, known for spending what we don’t have.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-113132911193747940?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/113132911193747940/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=113132911193747940' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/113132911193747940'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/113132911193747940'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2005/11/silly-americans-by-design.html' title='Silly Americans, by design'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-112347562548329554</id><published>2005-08-07T21:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-08-07T21:44:53.273-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Egos are Easy to Manipulate</title><content type='html'>The whole point to control is not to let anyone know it. Once they know it, the game has changed and it’s never the same again. There is a fine delicacy that is required to manipulate egos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This level of control is one step above the more obvious control of males and females. The whole point to ego control is that most of them are not self-aware.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Self-awareness is not an easy process to go through and not many people have the time or the inclination to find out about themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, onward with ego control:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The people with the largest egos are the easiest to control. One can control them very easily by giving them what they want, usually more power. After all, almost all people who have power generally fail in some big way sooner of later. It is just a matter of time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Case in point:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Clinton and the Chinese:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Chinese are masters at this, but they were not the players in this game. The New World Order wanted nuclear proliferation to come about and the Americans had all the cards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What to do:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The American President wanted to be re-elected in the worst way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was the gay 90’s, just like a century before. Everything the President touched, turned to gold, he couldn’t lose. Only thing that it took to get elected was money and he was broke.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China was awash in money and still is. They were buying our debt to keep long term US interest rates low. They still are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A minor politician in China was given access to the President. He proposed a swap, money to Clinton’s Campaign fund, which was broke in return for him looking the other way as Chinese men inside our DOE complex did some things not too ethical. President Clinton took the bait, although he did not know the extent of what was to be done. Presidents have a way of making things obscure so that they can plausibly deny any wrong doing when things get tight. All he knew for sure was that he was giving the Chinese access to some slightly confidential computer technology that was old at the time and not in the DOE area at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the time anyone would find out about it, he would be elected and maybe even out of office. President Clinton was the perfect man for the job. The Chinese knew it, as he had just slid by another money laundering mess and came out halfway clean. Truth was that anyone who got the goods on President Clinton wound up dead in a hurry. Word got around and everyone eased off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the New World Order wanting this to happen, as things go, it was a simple matter for the already compromised President Clinton to be once again compromised. Every time the matter got brought up, the Chinese were greasing the skid, by buying our T-bills when Japan would not. This supported the President when he wanted a surplus to brag about. When things got worse, and Dr. Ho was found with his hand in the DOE cookie jar then the president had a fall guy. Meanwhile the Chinese had their fall guy thanks to the New World Order giving a USA spy plane a work over. It’s not normally possible to shoot down an American spy plane unless someone wants it to happen as they did in the sixties when America was getting too far ahead of the Soviet Union.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not only did the Chinese get the DOE data on making things nuclear work for Los Alamos National Lab, but they got to look at a spy plane and disassemble it before returning it to a much-humbled America. Dr. Ho was fully exonerated a little later in this Greek tragedy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The New World Order got what it wanted in the form of Nuclear Proliferation to the 21st Century official new powerhouse, China. The Rothschild’s, who pulled Clinton’s strings, lost power in the New World Order and the Windsor’s who have control over China and America got more power in this high stakes game of who controls the world. The Windsor’s properly destroyed President Clinton’s influence through his many sexcapades in the form of Monica Lewinsky and others (As I said, he was an easy target). Vice President Gore got blamed for the Chinese money going to the Clinton Campaign Fund and a loyal Windsor figurehead got to be president in the form of Bush, Jr.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All this junk going on distracted the American public quite handily from the very real transfer of power from the USA to China, making the 21st Century - the Chinese Century.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, China controls us through their bulk buying of our junk T-Bills, as we casually slide into oblivion. China formally buys IBM and owns most of Hewlett-Packard, while producing most of what Wal-Mart sells. IBM has almost the majority of all the useful patents on computer software technology around, beside the Intel patents. So the people who are so good at illegally copying this technology now own most of it. China finances India to be Microsoft’s employee over the Internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of these years China will just take over Taiwan and we will say little because they can devalue the dollar at any time. By taking over Taiwan, they get a boost from all the Intel factories that are spitting out the newest chip technologies around, let alone erasing an eye sore right off their coast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What will we do as the second-rate country on the planet, besides stew? We can bomb them into submission. Unlikely. With just a tad less than 2 billion people, they would thank us for relieving some of their population problem and bomb us right back using our own nuclear technology and then invade our country and proclaim it the New Chinese Republic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It takes someone weird like me to watch this all unfold on a global scale. We are in for many more surprises in the coming years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this case study, I went from Presidents to countries, but just as easily I can go back to something more commonly real, the battle of the sexes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As most men have large egos, the women of the world find it fairly easy to control their men through the same distraction techniques that work for Presidents and Countries. What is football, baseball, basketball &amp;amp; golf besides major tools of distraction, let alone Jon Benet Ramsey, OJ Simpson, Michael Jackson, Shuttle Colombia, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Angelina Jolie, or any other star quality head turner? Men are so easily by sex and power that anyone with half a brain uses it against them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is happening to your world while you are being distracted?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-112347562548329554?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/112347562548329554/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=112347562548329554' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/112347562548329554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/112347562548329554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2005/08/egos-are-easy-to-manipulate.html' title='Egos are Easy to Manipulate'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-112227061135289581</id><published>2005-07-24T22:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-07-24T22:50:11.356-07:00</updated><title type='text'>To Evolve We Must Overcome Our Own Genetics</title><content type='html'>We have been put together from 13 alien races of beings to form a new super race. Only thing is, everyone knows it but us. The 13 alien races that put their best genetics into us all hate one another with a passion. They all put their most aggressive genetics in to make sure that their part would over come the rest of the genetics and become the super beings of earth, bound to rule the galaxy and eventually the universe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This galactic foundation formed us as a truce between the 13 alien races and an experiment.&lt;br /&gt;When one has 13 alien aggressive tendencies inside, one must fight all the time amongst one’s selves to be dominant among the natives.&lt;br /&gt;Unbeknownst to the Galactic Federation, each of the alien races left emissaries on earth to ensure the success of their specific DNA.&lt;br /&gt;Each of the races took a part of the earth as theirs and developed their aggressive genetics to beat down the rest of the hordes so that they could rule the earth, thereby claiming the prize.&lt;br /&gt;The Draco reptilians had the brain stem to work with, they are succeeding the best because they are great at psychology..&lt;br /&gt;The Draco are master psychologists and geneticists. This is a hard match to overcome.&lt;br /&gt;Almost everything we know is fabricated and only true from an allegorical  standpoint. There is some truth in everything, but from whose standpoint.&lt;br /&gt;We are easily distracted with fighting amongst ourselves while the Draco use us to build armies of elite warriors throughout the galaxy.&lt;br /&gt;We are used for sex as a breeding population for the reptilians.&lt;br /&gt;Human females are genetically bred to control the males with sex.&lt;br /&gt;Human males are genetically bred to be controlled by the female using sexual favors to get what she wants, security and safety.&lt;br /&gt;We are both easily distracted by events in our lives and led by the master psychologists, the Draco.&lt;br /&gt;The Draco are not into details so they created their own earth bound super race, the new world order, which is just a new version of the old world order.&lt;br /&gt;The Draco use religion and television to control the masses. &lt;br /&gt; The Draco travel by use of the 4th dimension and that is why you will rarely if ever see one of them. It is not a sight one looks forward to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So how do we break loose of this earthly bound prison of sexual and visual delights.&lt;br /&gt;We stop fighting with everyone we meet.&lt;br /&gt;I know it’s hard to do since they are all wrong from our very limited perspective.&lt;br /&gt;We start making our own reality come true instead of becoming so attached to another being’s purpose for being here. &lt;br /&gt;We can recognize this whole mess we call reality is made up just to keep us sane and contained on this earth while we breed for the Draco. &lt;br /&gt;We can find, use and do our own purpose or reason for being in 3-D. We each have one unique to us.&lt;br /&gt;We can rebuild our DNA to not be so distracted by sex and fighting by using our mind patterns in the right way.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-112227061135289581?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/112227061135289581/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=112227061135289581' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/112227061135289581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/112227061135289581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2005/07/to-evolve-we-must-overcome-our-own.html' title='To Evolve We Must Overcome Our Own Genetics'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-112196005076936720</id><published>2005-07-21T08:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-07-21T08:34:10.776-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Earth's Purpose</title><content type='html'>We are a breeding ground for a domination game that is being played out on a grand scale. Human’s are breeding grounds for hybrids who are bred to send out through this section of the universe. The Draco are unknowingly building their replacements. We are one stage of many stages that have to take place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have 500 children spaced throughout the known universe. I am one of 100 million hybrid males, who also have 500 children each spread throughout the known universe. That is a lot of children, at least 50 billion. And here we think we’re special, the only ones alive in the whole universe. What large egos we have. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;None of the male hybrids on this planet are allowed to breed with any of the 116 million hybrid females here. The females here are implanted with extraterrestrial hybrid male sperm that comes from throughout the known universe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This system of evolution is larger than the Draco or the Syrians, let alone the Galactic Federation. It is just one small part of god-mind reinventing itself for its own enjoyment. Each species has active mind pattern blocks that prevent them from knowing more than what they should know.  Except me, that is, and I am a test case, watched closely by my soul and oversoul. The nature of the test I use has built-in blocks in it. Once I can test for something, it is always true, but the test does not care about consistency, as 3-d moves on, the opportunities advance or recede, in an ordered universe. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not unique in that I get the test, this sort of thing happens all over the universe at various times and places. Call it a check up on the progress of things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Stargate travels through a dimensional shift and that is how the Draco collect the souls from the 4th dimension to make this thing work. Every piece of information we, as beings on this receive is filtered by some other higher as to the symbolic nature of the news. The news gets twisted to meet the distractive requirements necessary to bring about an end result that works within the framework provided. Our minds are fed a scenario much like The Matrix to keep us sane.  This earth is the matrix on steroids and it is only one of a whole bunch like it, all producing the next evolutionary step.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second moon is in the 4th dimension and is here for a number of purposes. One purpose is disrupt the earth’s gravity patterns and throw the magnetic poles out of alignment, as well as keep an eye on the New World Order, which is the most heavily controlled conspiracy on this earth. When they get out of hand, they are replaced.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are about 12,000 Draco in this solar system controlling us. When Jupiter becomes a sun, we will eventually populate the whole solar system.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-112196005076936720?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/112196005076936720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=112196005076936720' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/112196005076936720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/112196005076936720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2005/07/earths-purpose.html' title='Earth&apos;s Purpose'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110922753501811294</id><published>2005-02-23T22:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-02-23T22:45:35.020-08:00</updated><title type='text'>911 Vindication</title><content type='html'>Is it my imagination or what?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did the Madrid skyscraper still stand after a whopping fire went through it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did the Twin Towers in New York fall straight to the ground while burning?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What other forces were at work here?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, sure, jet fuel burns hotter than a normal fire, Right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ve got news for you. There is nothing odd about what happened in Madrid, but there is something definitely odd about what happened in New York.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact 1: Steel twists, but still stands when it gets hot, like in Madrid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact2: Jet fuel does not burn at 3500 degrees. It burns in the range of 1000-1600 degrees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact 3: Steel starts to melt in the range of 3200-3500 degrees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact 4: Steel does not drop straight to the ground ever unless a proper blast has been done by engineers in strategic spots all the way up a skyscraper. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact 5: The Madrid fire burned at 1000-1600 degrees, why didn’t the building drop like in New York. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fact 6: The world is laughing at America, and with good reason.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I could go on, but what is the point. The point is that someone or something was behind the New York Twin Towers collapse that was not behind the Madrid fire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Could it be that The Twin Towers were supposed to collapse to set Americans on a collision course  with “foul” Muslim world of terrorists just like Pearl Harbor and the “hated Japanese? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Could this all be fight between New World Order factions?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Could it be that Homeland Security is nothing but a sham disguised as a way to control Americans?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Could the new boss be as bad as the old boss?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes, what you see is believable and sometimes, it is not. Madrid is food for thought about who is running what and who is mad at whom.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-110922753501811294?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/110922753501811294/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=110922753501811294' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110922753501811294'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110922753501811294'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2005/02/911-vindication.html' title='911 Vindication'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110918032588329125</id><published>2005-02-23T09:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-02-23T09:38:45.883-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Earth�s Core in a Bottle - 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Let’s go back awhile, when we didn’t know much about radiological hazards, say 1950 for a start. Back then, we were giddy school children playing with fire and making big messes. We made lots of little messes in the middle of a mountain desert plain in Idaho, near Idaho Falls. Through trial and error only, the US Navy made about 25 mistakes that were just bulldozed over. No containment, just dirt. Then in Hanford , WA, we had another accident (chernobyl-like with an open N- type reactor) that severely contaminated hundreds of thousands of acres which was mostly farm land at the time. The government bought a lot of mutilated newborn cattle and paid a lot of farmers who had deformed cattle and children. You see, radiation accelerates the mutation of genes. The government is pretty lucky because then no one knew what they know now, so it could just pay people off and keep them quiet. Then we come to the nuclear bomb tests in Nevada where we contaminated hundreds of thousands of acres of desert with radiological fallout that practically no one said anything about. The French are still testing in the Atolls in the eastern Pacific Ocean, although they are just about through. Most, if not all of the people who had a hand in these operations are long since dead from cancer effects directly related to these operations.&lt;br /&gt;What I’m trying to say here is that the so-called “cold war” started this ecological nightmare and the so-called “do-gooders” had to find a safe use for Nuclear Energy, so the Nuclear Power Plant was born. This completed the ecological disaster we now are facing. Without a care in the world as to how to get rid of Nuclear Waste, we rushed into Nuclear this and that, spurred on by Mutual Assured Destruction strategies and so-called free energy. No more sulfur from coal or oil burning pollution for us, it was the new way of life. Then the waste started building up, power plant High Efficiency Particulate Absolute (HEPA) filters containing thousand year half lives hit us over the head by the ton. Some of the nuclear power plants began to age or fail creating more and more of this very radiologically “hot” waste. Mean while the DOE plants were putting out more and more nuclear bombs to keep up with the Russians, and first thing you know, you have a serious problem.&lt;br /&gt;Every state began to come up with its own rules on how to handle, store , and transport nuclear waste. The states that didn’t have any nuclear power plants or DOE facilities just said no to storing or transporting in their states. The states that had either one were stuck with what they had, but made strict rules about not accepting or transporting any other states waste through their state. I was on an inspection team that went to Idaho Falls to view 20 year old “low level” waste that had been buried there 20 years ago in drums under a mound of dirt. What we found was just waste, no drums, no liners, just waste. Doe Facilities had been burying low level waste in Idaho for years as a temporary fix. When the governor of Idaho found out about the just waste issue, he cancelled all those long agreements and shut off Idaho to any more low level waste. Now, each DOE facility stores these same steel drums of waste, with plastic liners above ground at their own facility, waiting for a solution. Several solutions have been proposed, but, to date, none acceptable or accepted. Doe is the arm of the government which has the “problem” . It came up with 2 solutions to the high level radiological waste. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) was built under New Mexico in impermeable salt beds, 1200 feet down. They built the facility to collapse on itself from the shear pressure of the earth. They built $200,000 containers to ship the waste in and tested them by bouncing railroad diesel engines off of them. I was part of the Waste Inspection team. We viewed the waste for liquids and sharp objects that were not supposed to be in the containers. It was a plan, until the governor of New Mexico threw a curve ball at DOE. He demanded a brand new 4 lane highway of concrete from the edge of his state to WIPP. This slowed things down enough to effectively stop the project. 10 years after it was supposed to accepting waste, it accepted its first waste. By this time the salt beds were crumbling under the earth’s pressure, so this raised more safety concerns. The project was completely stalled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, DOE came up with another plan to store low level waste in Yucca Mountain in Nevada. They again tunneled into the mountain, started building the facility, only to be stopped by the threat of terrorists acting on the shipments. The governor is up at arms and so is everyone else. Nevada, it seems had its fill of testing nuclear bombs awhile back and is not about to declare itself open season to terrorists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The big picture is that radiological waste eats plastic liners over time and water can then rust the steel and get to the waste. When water gets to the waste, the water table is at risk, and it flows anywhere it wants to, in underground streams. This takes a lot of time to happen, but tell that to a frightened public and you get over my dead body back . So, here we are, a problem created by war without a solution that is acceptable to everyone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The low level waste is really the problem as there is a lot more of it around, and any contamination has to be cleaned up when and where it spills. People have tried to burn it and were shut down, which is by far the best method of waste reduction, but the public won’t buy it. Which would you rather have, an Arc Melt Furnace, a few HEPA filters and some “hot glass” buried deep in the earth, or a lot of 55 gallon drums of waste rusting away above ground right near your home. I vote for the HEPA, but no one is listening, including the waste gurus at the DOE Facility where I used to work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a Hazardous Materials Technician, I am always amazed at the size of the dollars it takes to clean up a spill of any type. Generating the waste is easy, cleaning it up, transporting it, and storing it is another matter entirely. This is one of the reasons why a lot of Nuclear Power Plants were stopped in the 1980’s. The public was scared of the whole thing and so Environmental Assessments were done to prove feasibility before a project was started. The concept of cradle to grave with hazardous waste scares a lot of companies also. Then , you get the companies who are run by unscrupulous managers who don’t care if they don’t have an idea of how to clean it up. These are the companies who take on the job and file Chapter11 bankruptcy along the line as a solution to the problem that they created.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;True enough, a terrorist could probably destroy a truck carrying a low-level radiological shipment and spill the waste all over creation, but a high level container would just laugh off almost any bomb they threw at it. This brings up the difference between low level waste and high level. The high level is definitely HOT and you do not want to mess with it. 90% of the low level waste is almost harmless when you consider the average background radiation for the earth’s uranium. Then there’s that 10% that’s left which is not harmless by any means and someone probably looked the other way to get it in the low level category.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As bad as the radiological waste from the DOE facilities is, the Chemical wastes are much worse, due to amounts of hazardous chemicals used in the manufacture of the nuclear bombs. The public , however, is not as scared of these so-called “normal” mixed wastes, only because they are not publicized at all. The mixed wastes are part chemical, part radiological. Some of these are really hard to deal with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not talking about Biological Warfare yet. I believe the US Postal Service found out about the public and how scared it was of anthrax, let alone smallpox, aids, ebola, or mad cow disease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-110384979627360890?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/110384979627360890/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=110384979627360890' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110384979627360890'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110384979627360890'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2004/12/radiological-storage-of-waste.html' title='Radiological Storage of Waste'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110376939331615369</id><published>2004-12-22T18:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-22T21:05:47.853-08:00</updated><title type='text'>My Resume</title><content type='html'>G &amp; L Granite, Inc., 1121 Stonehaven Ave., Broomfield, CO 80020-2475&lt;br /&gt;Wholesale Monument Mfg.&lt;br /&gt;President , Present from 3/98&lt;br /&gt;Started business that stayed a hobby. Did consulting work in stone cutting, cost estimating, project management, roof construction, and home inspection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kaiser-Hill, Safe-Sites of Colorado, Plutonium Reclamation Operations, Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site, DOE “Q” Clearance Required&lt;br /&gt;Shift Technical Advisor,3/98 from 7/94&lt;br /&gt;Oversaw the safe detoxification of much of the Plutonium in the major production building at Rocky Flats as a Shift Technical Advisor. Responsible for all the rules of safe operation at Rocky Flats with respect to Nuclear Operations and the enforcement of the same. I advised the Facility Manager about how to keep his operations safe and stopped unsafe operations. In my STA role, since I was often the only one who knew all the rules, I was expected to expedite the process to a safe conclusion which I did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Retired 3/98 with full medical benefits to start my own company.&lt;br /&gt;Note of interest: In 7/98, My building was shut down because no one was doing my job. It was restarted in 9/98 at a slower pace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EG&amp;amp;G, Facilities Engineering, Plutonium Operations, Rocky Flats Plant, DOE “Q” Clearance Required&lt;br /&gt;Shift Technical Advisor, Systems Engineer 7/94 from 1/90&lt;br /&gt;STA work as detailed above. Wrote specifications for the safe shutdown of Rocky Flats as a Systems Engineer,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rockwell International, Facilities, Engineering &amp; Construction, Rocky Flats Plant, DOE “Q” Clearance Required&lt;br /&gt;Principal, Senior Principal Project Engineer/ Manager, Senior Alarms Engineer, &amp;amp; Advanced, Senior Electrical Engineer 1/90 from 3/80&lt;br /&gt;Wrote Specifications, Designed and Reviewed Facility Installation Drawings, Expedited and Managed Projects, Did Cost and Procurement Engineering, Negotiated Vendor Delivery Schedules, Traveled and Inspected What I Expected for Electron Beam Welders and their Cold Wire Feed controllers, Gas Tungsten Arc Welders, Pressurized Inert Gas Metal Arc Welders, Resistance Forge Welders, Homopolar Generators, Electron Bombardment Brazers, Induction Brazers, CNC Chucking Machining Centers, Realtime Radiography Units, 160 /320 /400 kv Low Energy X-Ray Machines, Major Whole Building Fire Alarm Systems, Inert Gas Chainveyors, Uranium Chip Roasters, Plutonium Hydriding Systems, Argon, Nitrogen, &amp; Helium Backfill Systems, Large Electric Furnaces, Cooling Towers, Casting and Tilt Pour Furnaces, Glove box Systems, Deionized Water Systems, EB, GTA, &amp;amp; PIGMA Welding Chambers, 200 amp Weldheads, Endoscopes, Rolling Mills, 100 Ton Presses, Major Plating Facilities, Arc Melt Furnaces, Plasma Spectrometers, X Ray Spectra photometers, and etc., etc, etc. In all., I spent over $100 million in DOE funds as a project manager working for a government contractor. I worked as a problem solver handling projects that had gone wrong or not on schedule and brought them back to life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Education&lt;br /&gt;North Denver High School&lt;br /&gt;Graduated 6/65&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Colorado State University&lt;br /&gt;EE Major 9-65 to 6-67&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;University of Colorado at Denver&lt;br /&gt;BSEE, Accounting Major, 1978&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Colorado Engineer In Training&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Military&lt;br /&gt;US Navy&lt;br /&gt;Machinist Mate 3rd Class, Attended Nuclear Schools, 6/67 to 2/69&lt;br /&gt;Honorable Discharge&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skills&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C Expediter, Situation Analyst, Problem Solver, Information Specialist, Business Consultant, Planner, Big Picture Person, Facility Planner, Manager, Organizer, Dedicated Worker, Detail Specialist, Bean Counter, Paperwork Person, Marketing Specialist, Efficiency Expert, Question Asker, Telephone Specialist, Personal Touch Person, Service Oriented Person, Responsibility Lover&lt;br /&gt;C Allen-Bradley PLC-3,5, &amp; CNC one week school certified&lt;br /&gt;C Computer Lover, Technology Lover, Internet Specialist, Computer Repairman&lt;br /&gt;C Safety Engineer, Project Manager, Project Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Procurement Engineer, Fire Protection Engineer, Alarms Engineer, Purchaser, Buyer, Patent Writer, Specification Writer, Contract Writer, Single Point Failure Analyst, Technician, Master Drawing Checker, Inspect What I Expect Engineer, Major Cost Estimator, Perfectionist&lt;br /&gt;C Hazardous Material Technician, Radiation Worker, First Responder, Shift Technical Advisor, Know It All Person, Root Cause Analysis,Use What Works Person, Work Until It’s Done Person, Independent Consultant Matrixed to Several Managers, Home Office User&lt;br /&gt;C Leverage Specialist, Option Specialist, Futures Specialist, Stock Market Analyst, Game Player, Mortgage Buyer, Tax Lien Specialist, Real Estate Contract Specialist, Go for It Person, Day Trader, Stock Market Enthusiast&lt;br /&gt;C Handyman, Sprinkler Repair Person, Electrician, Plumber, Welder, Driver, Stacker, Home Inspector, Moving Specialist, Truck Loader, Packaging Specialist&lt;br /&gt;C Granite Cutter, Stone Mover, Stone Polisher, Stone Sawyer&lt;br /&gt;C MS office pro, Corel office, Corel draw, Adobe photo, AuotCad Lite, Utilities, Win 9X/2000, IE, Netscape,OE, Eudora, MS Register,Cisco dsl modems, Routers &amp;amp; hubs, m-boards, modems, scanners, printers, digital cameras, video cards, monitors, Zip &amp; LS-120 drives, cdr/rw, sound cards, web design &amp;amp; marketing, pc install /repair, Quickbooks &amp;amp; Peachtree Accounting software, Writer of Computer Repair Manuals&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-110376939331615369?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/110376939331615369/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=110376939331615369' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376939331615369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376939331615369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2004/12/my-resume.html' title='My Resume'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110376905280720078</id><published>2004-12-22T18:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-22T18:30:52.806-08:00</updated><title type='text'>My Expertise</title><content type='html'>What I seem to do best is two things. Finding and sorting things out is one of my specialties. Another is my ability to focus in on a method, however boring, and do it until it's done. I have a certain ability to do marketing, as a behind the scenes person that I should develop. I appear to be best suited as an information technology junkie. I spend a lot of time thinking about method until it's down pat, then I put out the product. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-110376905280720078?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/110376905280720078/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=110376905280720078' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376905280720078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376905280720078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2004/12/my-expertise.html' title='My Expertise'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110376872480080204</id><published>2004-12-22T18:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-22T18:25:24.800-08:00</updated><title type='text'>What a Shift Technical Advisor Does</title><content type='html'>As a Shift Technical Advisor at RFETS,  I was in charge of Building 707 safety of operations during my shift which usually lasted 12 hrs, for 7 years. I was part of a team of  6 Nuclear Safety experts that were trained in all areas of safety to help the building function safely. I was expected to notice trends of practices that were going wrong as well as walk the floor and be involved at the worker level. When workers had a problem, they came to us and we reviewed their process, stopped it , if necessary, revised the operating procedures, and got their task restarted again safely. We stopped a lot Union hassles before they became a problem. We were involved in all areas of the process and advised top management directly, as to the safety of building operations. We were expected to oversee any test of  the facility that could affect safety in case something  went wrong during the test. During most of these tests, nothing untoward happened, but when it did, we made the proper notifications and made recommendations as to how to bring the facility equipment or operation back on line safely. A shift technical advisor was trained in root cause analysis so he or she could get to the bottom line quickly. In simple terms, we were the safety know-it-alls at RFETS. We were First Responders to any spill and were trained as Hazardous Material Technicians. We were always asked to reword the operational procedures so the procedures would pass all the safety rules and regulations that RFETS was under at the time. We advised operations managers as to who to bring in to correctly solve their problems, whether it be a Nuclear Safety Engineer, Radiological Safety Engineer, or an Industrial Hygienist. We held and refereed the meetings between the different groups, such that management’s needs were met. We oversaw all fact-finding missions in Building 707. Although we had a safety bias, we reported to, and got paid by the building manager. In that light, we were expected to keep the building flowing as smoothly as possible. We were constantly under the scrutiny of upper management and as such we walked a fine line. When any new piece of equipment was put on line, we had the job of making sure it was safe to operate, that all the operational procedures were correct for the operation that was going on, and the people who were going to operate the machine were properly trained and documented.. We were mainly floor people with an ear to the ground watching, waiting , and trending so that operations did not stop for any unknown cause. We were expected to oversee any maintenance of building safety equipment and be at all pre-evolution meetings held on the maintenance of vital safety gear daily, and shiftly if those operations changed from shift to shift. We always had direct contact by radio to the Building Manager anytime day or night, as RFETS was 3 shift a day, 7 day a week operation and we were always on shift. If an STA wasn’t on shift, the building could operate, even at 0100 on Sunday morning. There was no work-around for us. We were a requirement for building operation.  We toured the facility often and were constantly reminding people about the different OSHA rules and regulations that applied to their operation from our knowledge of the different CFR’s. We were constantly auditing the building and operator equipment for any sign of wear and noting when it had last been serviced, so we could cross-reference the data. We had regular daily meetings with upper management about the state of the building and the safety of its operations. We were trained to be up to date on air and water emissions standards, as well as the Life Safety Code, OSHA (24 &amp; 40 hr), DOT (2-4hr), Radiological, Nuclear and Criticality Safety regulations. Although we were AGCIH qualified, we attended the same schools as Industrial Hygienists. We were SCBA, RCRA, CERCLA &amp;amp; CPR qualified. We had to know how to respond to any emergency the building could have and direct it to safe conclusion. In that light, we knew the Criticality Safety Operating Limits for each glove box in the facility. The MSDS manuals were kept within 5 feet of us. We monitored all changes to all building manuals and distributed notices of the changes, as well as trained others on those changes and what the changes meant to the building. Building 707 had 3 – 4” thick binders of MSDS’s. We worked with the training managers to make sure that everyone was trained to do the job they were doing and had the proper certificate to back it up. Before each pre-evolution brief we went to, we audited the training manual for who was and wasn’t qualified to do the various jobs that were being done that day by the building workers. We were not only Waste generators, but we had to qualified as RCRA Waste Generator Trainers, to make sure we knew the difference between one type of waste and another, as well as the requirements for packing and storing that waste. We were expected to audit drum storage and flammable storage on each shift. We had to know the threshold limits of the chemicals that might be used in a building operation, the NIOSH gear required to respond to any emergency, and the North American Emergency Response Guidebook  was kept in our desk, for easy access. There were 6 of us on the team for our building , all engineers with a specialty, mine was electrical and I know the NEC well. We had to become  general engineers, knowing enough about all disciplines to ask intelligent questions, in order to protect the building from an engineering standpoint. We were always reviewing drawing and procedures before they became operational, such that building did not have any false starts.&lt;br /&gt;The Shift Technical Advisor position was a DOE mandated position, so the operating contractor had no choice in the matter of safety.  The STA’s were  literally written into the contracts between DOE and the various contractors. STA’s were not only required at RFETS, but at Nuclear Power Plants as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RFETS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RFETS (Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site) was a DOE (Department of Energy) nuclear materials refining plant . We took classified nuclear materials from the DOE reactors at other plants and molded  them into classified shapes. We always refined the materials to have the properties we wanted through chemical reactions .In that light RFETS was a chemical etching/ dipping plant, using highly reactive chemicals to achieve a desired result on the metals we wanted to refine. We took impure nuclear metals and refined them to a high  quality of purity. We were one of the very few Beryllium Refining Plants in the world and I was on the team that made that process safe.  RFETS used and stored major amounts of more than 15,000 highly reactive chemicals and metals, most of the time in artificial environments to ensure stability of the materials, consistent with the shelf life.  RFETS was a nuclear metals foundry and a major machining plant capable of tolerances in the range of 1/10,000,000 of an inch. Most of the processes were in nitrogen/ argon glove boxes and had to be temperature and humidity controlled. Each process had to be separately vented and some processes were scrubbed and cooled before they could be vented.  We lived and practiced time, distance and shielding  at RFETS. Radiological / Chemical/ Environmental/ Human Worker Safety was / is a primary concern at RFETS.  At the height of the cold war, RFETS employed about 10-12,000 workers, ½ of whom were engineers. It was a great place to work as long as you kept your wits about you. The pay was equivalent to the risk of working there. Many of the workers carried lung burdens of a radiological sort from previous fires at the plant.  I was lucky enough not to be one of them as the fires were in the late 50’s and 60’s at the plant. Thank goodness we learned from those mistakes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-110376872480080204?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/110376872480080204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=110376872480080204' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376872480080204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376872480080204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2004/12/what-shift-technical-advisor-does.html' title='What a Shift Technical Advisor Does'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110376860937995791</id><published>2004-12-22T18:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-22T18:23:29.380-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Granite Cutting</title><content type='html'>My first love is cutting stone. I have been cutting granite for more than 30 years in the monument field, locally. The place where I cut stone on a part-time basis is Colo. Rose Red, Inc. My brother runs it at a granite quarry on Route36 near Pinewood  Springs, CO. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-110376860937995791?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/110376860937995791/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=110376860937995791' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376860937995791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376860937995791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2004/12/granite-cutting.html' title='Granite Cutting'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110376847255662054</id><published>2004-12-22T18:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-01-03T18:47:42.270-08:00</updated><title type='text'>An Engineering History</title><content type='html'>As a Project Engineer /Manager for more than 10 years, I managed 30-60 large to small projects and their funding at a time. While in my role as a project engineer, I spent more than 100 million dollars of government funds. I had final say as to funds, engineering quality of the equipment/ buildings &amp; their installation, as well as schedule. I went wherever I had to go to get the information required to get the job done right , safely , and on time. I negotiated schedules for my projects that met management=s deadlines. I enforced those schedules with the specifications I wrote for the equipment /buildings that I engineered and helped procure. Usually I sat in on the buyer=s meetings during price negotiation at the vendor site to make sure the government was not getting overcharged.&lt;br /&gt;In short, I kept the vendor honest with my knowledge of how to design , build, inspect, &amp;amp; deliver the goods /equipment that the government had contracted for. I got what I wanted, when I wanted it because of my common sense ability to help the vendor schedule his project through their plant from the ordering of the raw materials, to its manufacture, pre-inspection, packaging and delivery. I also went on vendor qualification trips to pre-qualify the vendors of government goods and services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Rockwell International, the DOE contractor, at the time, started getting funny with my bookkeeping, I caught them in the act and they put the money back into my accounts. I paid close attention to who and where the money was going to. I knew all the codes and the people who were the players. I was / am not afraid to play hard ball. My job was always on the line, from one aspect or another.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the items of interest were procured, I followed up and made sure everything was on schedule with the delivery I negotiated. If a problem occurred, I went to the vendor's site, anywhere in the United States of America and helped them solve their problem so I could get what I wanted on time. I was in constant communication with the vendors and my project leads gathering information to regularly update management as to price and schedule. I inspected everything I bought and issued lists of possible problem areas to the vendors and the engineers on my projects. I also specified the packaging for the item(s) so it was delivered safely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My main forte as a project manager/engineer was my ability to understand a project from the details on up to the big picture. I am an adept drawing checker and got very good at asking the simple questions that drive people up a wall if they don=t know what they are doing. I did all my own safety reviews, as well as the stage 1.2.&amp;3 project /program reviews. I got and incorporated the detailed information I required to get the work done on time and on budget.&lt;br /&gt;Since I love detail work, I worked with software programmers very well. The programmers either hated me or loved me because they found they could snow me with buzz words. On the other hand, I understand their plight and have more than a little sympathy for the way in which they can creatively work with abstract thought patterns.&lt;br /&gt;Although my degree is electrical (I know the NEC well), I became very good at many disciplines. I go to the bottom-line very quickly. I read and understand P &amp;amp; I D’s very well. I have both book &amp; field experience in most electrical, electronic, mechanical, chemical, welding, civil/architectural fields of expertise. I have designed welded structures and P&amp;amp;ID’s. I used my copy of Industrial Ventilation, it didn’t just sit on the shelf. I understand how gases and fluids flow through pipes and ducts. I worked with all kinds and types of materials to get a feel for the types of chemical reactions the materials were capable of. I know a fair amount about strength of materials. I designed Fire Protection Systems from scratch.&lt;br /&gt;While the items were being delivered (some were years in the making), I concentrated my efforts on preparing the site for the equipment/buildings and went through the various reviews that management required to make sure that everything was proceeding as planned. I, often, designed the electrical and mechanical drawings for the installations, since I knew best what was required for the installation of the gear involved.&lt;br /&gt;After a few years, I became a sort of troubleshooting project engineer/ manger, who management would bring in to help solve problems around the site. In that role, I excelled at setting my priorities on the specific issues that needed solving so that I could get what I wanted in a suitable time frame and for a realistic cost. I fixed a lot of serious engineering problems in a calm ,cool, methodical way.&lt;br /&gt;Due to the nature of the Defense business, all the equipment I bought and installed had to be totally self-contained, including the source and object code of all the computers it contained. RFETS is a classified facility that is very difficult to enter and work in if you don’t hold a “Q” clearance. Not many people outside of DOE hold “Q” ‘s , so RFETS had all the people it required to understand, program and maintain the equipment I bought. RFETS signed a boat-load of Proprietary / Non-Disclosure Agreements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a System Engineer, I wrote the specific shutdown details for the outside contractors to shut down the major production building emergency generators and UPS. The outside contractors got paid very well to just turn over my instructions to a typist who would put them into their company format, word for word.&lt;br /&gt;In my role as an STA, later in my career at RFETS, I concentrated on the safety issues which management thought were out of control at RFETS. I advised management on a course of action that would get things done in a safe manner. Practically 100% of the time, I found that I was the only one who knew all the safety rules involved to get a project done safely. To put it lightly, I was in demand.&lt;br /&gt;Just prior to retiring, I was asked to inspect a large piece of equipment that was supposedly ready for delivery to RFETS. I issued an inspection letter to management that stopped that piece of equipment in its tracks and rerouted it to another building where it was eventually installed much later. This caused an international brouhaha and went straight to the top management of RFETS/ DOE. One of the best things I do is audit because I am so good with details. In the nuclear business, if you’re not safe, you’re dying a slow death, literally.&lt;br /&gt;As I retired from RFETS, the STA position, which was often the only real safety position standing for safe operations in a building, was formally written out of the DOE contract. This allowed the government contractor to be more liberal with their use of resources.&lt;br /&gt;RFETS was and still is a large part of the national defense structure. It was part of the DOE complex that built nuclear weapons. RFETS built the nuclear triggers for the weapons and was highly classified, so I had to get and keep a AQ@ clearance which is just one step above a secret clearance. This is all I can say specifically about the nature of RFETS business. I was part of a team that proved out laboratory ideas into a reproducible end result. It was / is a messy business at best, and can get away from you quite quickly if you are not paying attention to what you are doing. A lot of horror stories will die with me.&lt;br /&gt;RFETS is now in shutdown mode and is being brought down according to all the safety rules and regulations that any and all of the governments having jurisdiction over RFETS have. I am proud to have played a significant role in that shutdown process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-110376847255662054?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/110376847255662054/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=110376847255662054' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376847255662054'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376847255662054'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2004/12/engineering-history.html' title='An Engineering History'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110376827226078375</id><published>2004-12-22T18:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-22T18:17:52.260-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Personal Technology History</title><content type='html'>1965 - Took first Fortran IV course in College on a UNIVAC system that was literally as big as a house and required the cooling system of a major building to run. Spent a lot of time punching cards to run do loops.&lt;br /&gt;1966 - Took COBOL course which was fun, but not very effective.&lt;br /&gt;1966 - Took Assembly Language course which was neat because I.started programming at the machine level.&lt;br /&gt;1967 – Went into the Nuclear Navy.&lt;br /&gt;1969 – Bought first house.&lt;br /&gt;1970 - Bought my first calculator. It had +,-, x, and divide functions only, but I got my home work done faster than with my trilog sliderule &amp; my adding machine.  Stared collecting art and became a stone cutter.&lt;br /&gt;1974 - Got my first Xerox machine and started a mail order company&lt;br /&gt;1976 – Started a moving company.&lt;br /&gt;1978 – Graduated with a BSEE, power emphasis, and an Accounting Major (I can sit for the CPA exam). Bought first so-called computer, a Z-80 chip packaged in a touch screen type keyboard. This had a tv out plug which allowed a person to type on the tv set. It was neat, but not too useful.&lt;br /&gt;1980- Married my wife, Aura, who was an Electronics Engineer working for Martin-Marrietta.  I managed her Real Estate Rentals.&lt;br /&gt;1981 - Bought a used IBM PS-1 with DOS 1.1 and used it for several years to do all sorts of calculations and rudimentary word processing. Bought our first Video Camera.&lt;br /&gt;1982 - Upgraded memory and DOS2.1. Bought an HP-55 Calculator.&lt;br /&gt;1984- Upgraded to PS-2, got a new fax and Toshiba copier and started our first successful business. Bought a TI-59 calculator. Started a Success Motivation company.&lt;br /&gt;1986- Started trading commodities over the computer with an rf antenna and upgraded copier. My wife started designing AC/DC power supplies for Storagetek. Wrote my first Real Estate Note.&lt;br /&gt;1988 – Started a Sprinkler Repair company.&lt;br /&gt;1990 -  Bought a 25 MHZ computer with a 386 in it. Bought an HP-12C calculator.&lt;br /&gt;1991 -  Put a math co-processor in the 386. My wife made her first patent with a lawyer.&lt;br /&gt;1992 -  Bought a Gateway DX-33 with a 486 and 16B of ram &amp; a 250MB HDD/ win 3.1. I write a patent for my father without a lawyer.&lt;br /&gt;1993 - Upgraded to 38mb of ram and my wife started studying art.&lt;br /&gt;1994 - Bought a Packard Bell Legend Pentium 75Mhz with 32 MB of EDO ram and 500mb HDD/win 3.11 for workgroups. She did PCB design with Tango.  Upgraded the DX-33 to DX-66.&lt;br /&gt;!995 -  Bought an over clocked Cyrix 586, equivalent to 90 Mhz with 500 MB HDD. Started trading options through the computer.  Started my own “C” Corp with a PSP and a Limited Partnership. Upgraded Monitors.&lt;br /&gt;1996- Got on the Internet and was consumed by it. I still am and can get anything most search years to find. Got into an argument with my CPA and found that he had made several errors which cost me $ and made me go through 3 audits.  Converted my own books to the computer with Quickbooks and did taxes with Turbo Tax. No problems or audits have come up. Bought  first flat bed scanner and 2 hand –held scanners.&lt;br /&gt;1997- Was and still am upgrading the operating software and memory for the computers. Bought and maintained my 2 brothers computers.  Got inio Tax Deeds.&lt;br /&gt;1998 -  Bought 2 Tiger Direct PII 400 MHZ computers and upgraded them as much as possible. My wife became a Graphic Artist.  Upgraded to ZIP Drives and LS-120 Drives. Bought a second scanner.&lt;br /&gt;1999 -  Got a DSL line.  Bought 2 computer in an auction online and rebuilt my first computers for my parents and nieces. Converted my brother’s books to computer. Ran my a modified version of Peachtree Complete &amp; Quickbooks for my business. Bought first Digital camera. Upgraded Monitors.&lt;br /&gt;2000-  Built my first computer from scratch using parts for my nieces and brother.&lt;br /&gt;2001-  Built my wife a 1.3 ghz AMD Athlon, 756MB SDRAM, 30gb HDD to do her graphic artist work with a CDRW.  Bought my niece a 1.3 ghz Soyo Tiger Direct Athlon system online.  Bought my mother a 500 MHZ Celeron system online and a digital camera, so she could do pictures.  Upgraded scanner and monitor to 21” screen.&lt;br /&gt;2002 -  Wrote and copyrighted an ebook named This Dumb Computer about repairing and maintaining computers.  Networked 4 home/business computers together with a dsl hub/router. Currently, I am studying the registry and building more computers for myself and my family.&lt;br /&gt;As you can see, I like playing with technology and have become quite good at it.  I am a great buyer/ information getter of technology and always get what I go after.  I never pay retail for anything. I am very big  on inspecting what I expect so my quality does not suffer.  I pay attention to details so everything works.  I pick up on software quickly, so I don’t have any problem coming up to speed on new systems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-110376827226078375?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/110376827226078375/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=110376827226078375' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376827226078375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376827226078375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2004/12/personal-technology-history.html' title='A Personal Technology History'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110376812081630945</id><published>2004-12-22T18:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-22T18:15:20.816-08:00</updated><title type='text'>An Accounting History</title><content type='html'>I went through UCD and got a BSEE degree with an accounting major. I acquired enough hours to sit for the CPA exam.&lt;br /&gt;When I worked for RFETS as a Program Manager, I audited my accounts regularly and caught Rockwell, Intl. in an accounting misery and made them put the money back into my accounts.&lt;br /&gt;I am very good with details and enjoy having things come out to the penny.&lt;br /&gt;I am very familiar with QuickBooks and Peachtree software and have been doing the books of 2 corporations for over 3 years. I converted the books of these corporations to computer from a manual system. In that time, these corporations have not been audited. I am very familiar with computers and have written an Ebook named This Dumb Computer, which I copyrighted earlier this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-110376812081630945?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/110376812081630945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=110376812081630945' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376812081630945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376812081630945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2004/12/accounting-history.html' title='An Accounting History'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110376769180322976</id><published>2004-12-22T18:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-22T18:08:11.803-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Background Information</title><content type='html'>I suppose I might as well start at the beginning so I can bring you up to where my resume took over.&lt;br /&gt;I was born into the middle class of Denver, Colorado. I had a fair childhood, although I can say without a doubt that I have always been a loner. I do have great insight into things at large when fed the right information, although you can probably say that about every human being that is halfway aware. Between the ages of 6-12, I had a lot of visions of myself flying in my dreams. This culminated with a nightmare of me seeing a train wreck that actually happened within a few days. This scared me so bad that I hid this “ability”away in my subconscious. It is still hidden from my current level of consciousness. From very early age, I always wanted to help people to a fault. I did this disservice to all my so-called friends and I expected something in return. I did not get it. I did not know then that the world doesn’t work that way. You give only because it pleases you to do so and if you get something else back, that’s a bonus. By possibly expecting too much of people and not getting the undefined thing I wanted, self-esteem or self respect, I turned into a pessimist. This still affects me to this day, although I fight it. I became a real know it all, believing that the world was black &amp; white.  I was a boy scout proud of my God and Country Medal, until I went to church for the first time and the Presbyterian Minister was teaching about how money was the root of all evil.  I became an Objectivist renouncing God for good, or so I thought. As my mother said, Ayn Rand was my bible. Reason was the only way, existence exists, A is A... you know the routine. I did okay in high school, excelling in Math and Science. Although I was in love with my father’s business, Wholesale monument mfg., I thought that I should have a back-up. I went into engineering in college and excelled at playing cards, pool, and ping pong. Needless to say, I went into the Navy with my High school friend to avoid being drafted. We went in the Nuclear Navy because we were told it was special. The only thing that was special about it was that you were left on ship when everyone else got to go on shore leave and, oh yes, you stayed in for 6 years not 4. Typical for the government, with my electrical schooling, I became a machinist mate. Here I was, bunked in between 2 people who had killed blacks to get in the Navy, reading Atlas Shrugged, and quietly going crazy. About 9 months later, I tried to commit suicide in Nuclear School while getting straight A’s and writing morbid poetry. I was diagnosed Latent Schizophrenic and got a medical discharge. I thought then that the Navy was the problem so I went to college and got my engineering degree with an Accounting major while working for my father. The Navy was only part of my problem. My parents are divorced, although I do not claim them for my inability to be socially viable. I met my wife at a Seminar about Romantic Love put on by Nathaniel Branden after his break with Ayn Rand. Neither Nathaniel or Ayn were very good at practicing what they preached. As it turned out my wife saved me from myself. I still am not very social but I am getting better. My father retired and I left for the local bomb plant. The so called “cold war” was absolutely the worst thing to happen to the Earth, environmentally in a long time. I have always had problems with authority so I retired early in 1998 to go back to cutting stone and doing some investing. I found out very quickly that writing about the market and earning a living off of it are 2 very different things. I love options and am in the QQQ’s.&lt;br /&gt;As to space and metaphysics, I have always been an avid science fiction reader and a closet reader of metaphysics. I read a lot of Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer. It is very hard to get a rise out of me as I am mainly an observer of life.  I am an information junkie and spend quite a lot of time on the Internet. A while back, I got interested in Pleidians and other “real” aliens, instead of just normal science fiction. I spent a lot of time on the Internet, driving my wife crazy in the process, before I came up for air. I thought I had it figured out and so I wrote a paper from my very limited perspective and forgot the issue. Then I found Montauk and things changed. Things actually started making sense. I went to Hawaii, read everything on Montauk, excepting the Nazi book, swam a lot in the ocean, and thought about my life. I meditate a lot, without much apparent result. I consider myself a spiritual entity having a human experience, even though I still have a problem with believing in God. I think there are many dimensions and realities under some grand plan, but I cannot as of this writing say that any entity could make this much joy and sorrow coexist. I suppose that is what you call balance. Your perceptions determine what you see. Your focus and intent determine how difficult you make your 3-D life. I’m growing, giving, and having fun in the moment and that’s all I can ask. I am beginning to get a glimmer of what I’m here for.  After Hawaii, I found expansions.com and here I am. I am including the article I wrote when I figured 3-D out, for your laughing enjoyment.  I recently found a gem of a poem on the Internet which I am also including, as well as some of my own prose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-110376769180322976?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/110376769180322976/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=110376769180322976' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376769180322976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376769180322976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2004/12/background-information.html' title='Background Information'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110376741621129193</id><published>2004-12-22T18:00:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-22T18:03:36.210-08:00</updated><title type='text'>AA Engine &amp; Tail</title><content type='html'>A rather obvious thing happened this week. An American Airlines jet fell apart in the skies around Brookhaven and Montauk. I heard an engineer on PBS, sort of thinking out loud, about what would cause such a catastrophic failure of 2 major parts of a plane. Of course, the thought about what really happened would never occur to him because he is caught up in being an expert, and therefore rules out flights of fancy, such as ultrasonic beams of such intensity and accuracy, that overstress can happen in a matter of moments. Let me be the first to say that they will find exactly what they want to find, bolts and members were overstressed and the plane fell apart mid-air, i.e. mechanical failure. Mechanical Failure was the effect of what happened and not the cause. To say it was a beam that brought down the plane is enough to end one's holy career as a root-cause investigator. No one ever looks back and says to themselves, "has this ever happened before?" It is so obvious to the casual observer that the area around NYC is a virtual deathtrap if you are in a plane. There have been a lot of unexplained crashes in and around NYC throughout the last several years. This beam was, obviously, slightly less powerful than the one that brought down the WTC towers or maybe of the same strength, but not of the same duration. Beyond the fear of flying that the NWO is keeping high around NYC, what else is going on? The hybrids definitely want the population on the ground. This means they are doing something in the air above the earth that warrants looking at. Fear is always applied for reasons unknown to the person in the state of fear, that is the point of fear. An odd side benefit is, if you are reptilian in nature, you get to drink in the fear of a population be driven mad. What if the hybrids were actually planning a fake invasion using holographic Auroras to bring it off. One would want to have more control over the skies than one does now. Can you imagine how many useless inspections this will cause and how many airlines will go under because they are bankrupt and quite literally tired of chasing ghosts. Oh. they will find their fail points, all right, and they will fix them, for now, but at what cost? Our Freedom! HOW Dumb of me, of course that's the point, bankrupt all the airlines so that there can be only one global airline under the control of the NWO. This airline would boast a perfect record of flying, since the NWO is literally shooting down the rest of the planes in the air to accomplish this fact. Of course there will be other airlines who try to "compete", but when enough of these other airlines are knocked out of the sky, then the "honorable" government will have to step in for the "public good" and set up a mandatory fake inspection program that every plane, except theirs, will have to go through to ensure airline safety. The public, they say, will be crying for it, just as we are now crying for global ID cards. Have you ever written a piece about one of the real voices of the NWO, Nielsen? All these polling firms come out with exactly what the government wants to hear, or they are laughed out of business. Meanwhile, back at home, we are told that the government has found and are examining the black boxes. Has anyone else ever examined those black boxes before the government got in to erase the parts that are not consistent with the theories they want exposed? NO! To me, the pattern is so obvious. Who is watching big brother, besides his elder brother? Sorry for the odd bit of humor, but this pathetic. We are so mired in, "proud of", our right brain dead thinking and our 9-5 tie strangled suits, bringing home the incomes that will support our "protect number one" lifestyle, that we miss the point of being in 3-d in the first place. The point in being here is to experience life in its fullest by observing what is going on from moment to moment and jumping into the flow when we see a good thing going on. While the NWO is distracting us by doing all this to us and the elf transmissions are keeping us brain dead, we miss the point that this earth is a real treasure to be on. We can grow and have fun at the same time, if we, but notice what is actually going on around and recognize it for the distraction that it is. We are being distracted from our purpose her on earth, which is I believe, to become the true beings of light that we are, experiencing it all, growing, and having a belly laugh in the process. We can choose to be afraid of what we are made to not understand, or we can grow by making our mind patterns strong enough to reinforce our DNA so we connect the dots and have fun doing it. Take a moment to enjoy the formation of a snowflake or actually notice what photosynthesis is doing to the flowers around your home, reconnect to the brown color every once in a while and just marvel at the energy, "god-force" around us and running through us all the "time" we are here in paradise. We are all connected and if I improve , then I improve the whole thing. Have a laugh on them and about my silly notions, Mike.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-110376741621129193?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/110376741621129193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=110376741621129193' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376741621129193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376741621129193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2004/12/aa-engine-tail.html' title='AA Engine &amp; Tail'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110376723178060310</id><published>2004-12-22T18:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-22T18:00:31.780-08:00</updated><title type='text'>What I Can Do For You</title><content type='html'>My skills are varied so I can solve most, if not all of the problems I encounter. That's right, I am a problem solver. You just give me a problem that you can't solve or haven't found the time to get around to yet and I will solve it for you. I am a highly skilled and longtime Internet user. I build and repair computers in my spare time. I am a great contract negotiator. I don't mind traveling to job-sites. I enjoy getting into the details of a project. I have and use perspective and perception to solve any problems that occur. I look at things differently than most people, I really see them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-110376723178060310?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/110376723178060310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=110376723178060310' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376723178060310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376723178060310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2004/12/what-i-can-do-for-you.html' title='What I Can Do For You'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110376707954475064</id><published>2004-12-22T17:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-22T17:57:59.543-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Blame Somebody Else Shame on Me</title><content type='html'>Every time I blame somebody else for my troubles, two things happen. The blame comes back to me and my troubles get worse. Case in point: the stock market - I blamed Alan Greenspan quite openly for my troubles with the stock market. While he had a large amount of responsibility for this crash, he did not make me keep wanting the stock market to go up when reality told me every day that it was indeed going down. My losses got larger and the blame eventually came back to where it belonged: ME! No one was holding a gun to my head saying invest on the up side, certainly not Alan Greenspan. It was me that had a reality problem. When I stopped investing in the stock market, the losses stopped. When I cured the reality problem I was having, all of a sudden, there was no one to blame. By the way, a little off the wall advice for newlyweds, Husbands that want love or anything else from their wives realize that it is futile to blame their wives for anything. Even if the wife is to blame, are we as husbands going to get any points for pointing out the obvious, NO! Keep the peace, Keep quiet if they're at fault, but admit it right away if you're to blame, it's the courteous , loving thing to do. Have a nice life, Mike.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-110376707954475064?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/110376707954475064/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=110376707954475064' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376707954475064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376707954475064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2004/12/blame-somebody-else-shame-on-me.html' title='Blame Somebody Else Shame on Me'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110376679910257004</id><published>2004-12-22T17:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-22T17:53:19.103-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Brain Dead Atheists/ Pessimists</title><content type='html'>As we grow, things happen that we cannot explain by old fashioned rational means. In other words, we cannot easily rationalize it away. In our teens, we love to use logic to tear things down and prove our new found rational superiority. Because of this aspect of our makeup, most genius-like ideas happen early in life before we have learned too much about what is not possible. This kind of rationality is nice for a naive teenager, and many of us never outgrow this phase and become really obnoxious bores, impressed only with our left-brain qualities. The movie, Contact, has a great way of humbling this kind of person often. At the end of the movie, Jodie Foster was at a loss for words when presented with the same argument she herself had presented earlier in the movie. One time early in the movie, Matthew McConaughty has an argument with Jodie Foster where he asks her to prove that she loved her father. It sounds absurd, but the answer is obvious, just as existence exists generally for everyone on earth, the answer is no proof is required. All you had to do is look at her in the movie when her father was around and you knew she loved him. How do even try to prove a feeling exists? The idea is so absurd. It is one of the givens in life. As a person in my twenties, I was still a confirmed atheist and a flat earth rationalist so I wrote an absurd poem called pity where I tried to prove that love was rational. I failed miserably in my effort, but I was too proud to admit that I lost the bet. Someone said he didn't know enough to be an atheist or a pessimist. It took me 53 years to recognize the absurdity of my previous superior attitude to virtually everyone around me. Many people would still qualify me as an atheist because I don't believe that god is a entity and I will not ever set foot in a church. Churches are for those who need them to find sanity and peace in this 3-D life. I have always been at peace, even when I was Consciously Incompetent. I used to believe only what I could see, hear, or prove through some kind of weird logic. Now, I go through life wide open, taking nothing for granted. I am unusually grateful for finally waking up to some degree. This was brought to my attention by Deepak Chopra recently when he confirmed the neutrinos had been found to a wave sometimes and a particle in other circumstances. It's all one form of energy or another, what is the big deal. It all comes down to a photon which is supposed to be the smallest particle of light. Whether it is the neutrino or the photon, the object is always the same, trying to explain life in logical terms. If we add the mass of probable amount of neutrinos in the universe we come to a more representative number for the dark matter in space. If we can somehow come up with an accurate number of the mass of the universe, then we can somehow explain the reason for the big bang and therefore logically agree about life. The unified field theory is another absurdity that I follow with a lot of interest. When we can explain the unified field theory to a child and he understands, then we'll have something. What if he or she gets bored and decides to do something else. It's like the project that was supposed to contain life in a biosphere for a couple of years, it didn't last 2 months, little did we know that one of the key ingredients was missing, the midichlorians. This little gem of a bacteria or virus is so elusive that it makes the neutrino look obvious. Sometimes when the wind, temperature, and water conditions are just right, this little item can be found in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Now we feel better. Scientists can sleep because now they know what stopped their little god-like experiment. How absurd it all is! Why can't we accept the mystery of it all and get on with it. Merely because we have a controlling type ego base, does not mean that we always get our way. If someone on earth knew it all, why stay, the mystery is gone. Time to check out. Like the machine in Star Trek I who knew it all, but still wanted more. Along came a right-brained person to solve its problem, check out time, end of movie. Anytime you've figured life out you have a problem, what do you do for your next hat trick. How do you live through the next moment without a challenge to keep your interest peaked? Is a moment time bound or could a moment be an eternity when taken from another point of view.  What if you whole life had but one purpose, to be President of the USA, and for the purposes of this argument, say you made it. What do you do afterward? It is said a mind raised to certain level has a real problem going back to what ever it was doing before. It is all in the attitude that is taken about what one is doing.What I have been trying to point out is that life is a mystery for a reason. It like an infinite loop of paradoxes. Be grateful for the mystery and magic of it all because it keeps us on our toes, always growing , learning, serving, and loving. To evolve while on earth and still be in paradise, marveling at how it all works so effortlessly. It is a perfect system and we are part of it, evolving at a slightly different rate than everyone else, perhaps, but still in awe of how great it all is and how great we make it by consenting to it with our perception and through our perspective. We are the creators of what we see and do, just as any god is. Our intent shapes our world, whether hidden or not. I Take issue with the saying, "Our thoughts/ beliefs shape our world. I think it should go a couple of steps beyond that. A thought without an intent is just an idle whim. A real desire can take form if you put yourself behind it.     The mystery is what I missed as an atheist/ pessimist because I couldn't see it or prove it. I never really got it like I do now. Living life in the moment was for fools. Now, I long to live in the moment, appreciating what wonder , majesty, and beauty is in that one moment of life. Sometimes I do and those moments are the most precious ones I cherish because I can take experiences with me. I've learned to love the wonder of it all, and be a part of the manifestation of 3-D. Of course I am a god in embryo. Part of me is waiting to be born and another part is already flying. This is a great way in which to go through life. In awe of how great I can be when I am just at peace with life, accepting what I get and leaving what I don't , with no regrets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-110376679910257004?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/110376679910257004/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=110376679910257004' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376679910257004'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376679910257004'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2004/12/brain-dead-atheists-pessimists.html' title='Brain Dead Atheists/ Pessimists'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110376668477265886</id><published>2004-12-22T17:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-22T17:51:24.773-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Collective Reality</title><content type='html'>The more I buy into the mind control of today, the more I blend into a clone of everyone else. When I take responsibility for my life and its direction, I become more powerful and can begin to shape my own reality outside the whims of the masses. I can then determine that there is no spoon, just my perception of one, which may change depending on my perspective, or point of view. For instance, if I fall into the trap of believing in financial recession, I become poorer. If I believe in the natural abundance of life, I am rich. In this very small way, I can determine the direction of my life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-110376668477265886?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/110376668477265886/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=110376668477265886' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376668477265886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376668477265886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2004/12/collective-reality.html' title='Collective Reality'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110376661421942296</id><published>2004-12-22T17:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-22T17:50:14.220-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Coming Alive</title><content type='html'>How do you know when you are going right? It's when you feel good more of the time than not. Since I retired, I have had some time to reflect on the meaning of life and my role in this grand scheme. It comes down to being kind not right all the time and keeping your mouth shut so you can listen and observe what is going on around you. I have begun a real task lately of just not saying anything when given the chance. It's hard to not open your mouth even if all you were going to do was put your foot in it. I was so doggoned arrogant that I just couldn't help myself. I've noted that people are more kind to me since I started this effort of sitting on my ego. Very often, things come in from out of the blue to help me along my path. Currently, this is my path and I am writing each day. Not so much as a journal of the day's events, but I write about ideas that come into my head that often have nothing to do with what I'm currently involved in. I often write about what I dreamed the night before. I now can remember most of my dreams and that is nice because there is another world at night to live in. It is a bendable 3-D world where the laws of gravity and physics don't apply in the same context as they do when I'm conscious. Most of the time, I fly through my dreams sometimes going back to my previous self to tell me how to do things right. I know this is hogwash because if I would have done things differently then I would have other things to redo as hindsight is much better than foresight. In many ways, I am still stuck in my ways carrying around a large bag of rocks on my back for no reason, but I'm beginning to wake up and see the world differently. I can see the grand scheme sometimes with ease and other times, it passes me by without a glimpse. I am stopping more now to enjoy the moments as they go by. I notice things that I never looked at before, even though I waltzed right by them several times. The 3-D world is a wonderful place with endless diversity for us to share. I paint a good picture each morning as I wake up. My perception is that reality is what you make it to be. If you make it the same way every morning, then you will be doomed to relive 1 year, 70-80 times over and over again. Then, just for your lack of vision you may get to come back to 3-D again and redo the same things again until you wake up. Maybe that is what I'm trying to say. I'm waking up to my purpose for being here and that is just in time. I chop wood and carry water with a better attitude now. People all around me are nicer now that I don't judge them as quickly or harshly as I once did.You were born into the crowd to be comforted for a while, and then grow beyond the need for outside stroking. The crowd only strokes what is similar to itself. They can hold you back especially if you know why you're here. Doubt is a large part of their hold on you. If they can create doubt within you then they have won and you've accepted their rules as gospel. Only accept rules that you can validate as ones that do not enslave mankind. Learning from others does not mean you have to be like them or even like them for that matter. Know that you are connected to it all and can perceive a great part for yourself in this life, even if no one else thinks so. This life has many sides to it and usually winds up being a neutral experience. For every joy there is suffering, ups require downs, in and out, back and forth, give and receive, life and death, good and bad. Now, I've possibly stepped on someone's toes, but good and bad are relative terms. Good is only good according to someone's standards. All life is a trade off and we are constantly choosing our path so get quiet and live in the moment. If you really focus on what you're doing in this moment, release it for the next, and so on, you'll find a rich life full of genuine experiences that you'll cherish. Sitting on the edge of life complaining about how you never get a break will get you more of the same. Jump in, get your feet wet, remember it act then correct, not correct then act.  If you create your perfect world and do not ever live in it, won't that be a sorrowful event. Take a moment or a few to enjoy the fruits of your labors for only you can enjoy the result as you made it for you. Remember too, that almost all of life is a journey because if you stop at the goal for long than you miss the point. Enjoy the whole experience of life without hurting anyone else and you've got the best of it all. You are then doing what you want to do and growing wiser because of it. Wisdom is many things one of which is knowing hat you are of value. More than that, we all are of value. Just because you may not see that someone in the gutter is of value may mean that you have not learned that lesson yet so you may be in the gutter sometime in the future just to prove the point. Walk a mile in someone else's shoes if you have an ego problem. Realize that opinions are useless unless they are asked for. Whenever you judge, ask yourself, could I be spending my time better, because unless you haven't noticed, the other person doesn't care or shouldn't if he or she is put together at all well. One of the goals of this life has to be, be independent of the good opinion of other people, ie.. leave the tribe. My home, street, city, state, nation, earth, football team, etc.. Is all just geography to keep your ego happy. Is this our earth, who was here first, the Draco or us. This is really a stupid question if I've ever heard one. We are not humans, but spirits free of all entanglements. We create our world in our image daily each time we wake up and if we don't like it, we can make different choices and change our perception and therefore our perspective on life. What bothers us today, is yesterday's fodder or dust. You only have a responsibility for what you take on in this life. If you want a simple life, be a hermit or monk as your soul's purpose will guide you. Don't expect everyone to be happy doing as you do because they do not have your soul's purpose for being here. All kinds of people think that anyone piloting a plane that dies is a tragedy. Who are you to hold judgement over their soul and its purpose. That may be the lesson they needed to learn at this point in time. Life is a series of triumphs and tragedies, but don't dwell on any one too long because you'll miss the point. Capture your life with the gusto it deserves. Sometimes you watch and wait, other times you act, but there is always the souls there observing how wise you have become so you may walk down a different street sometimes rather than falling in those same old holes all the time. Too much of correcting or acting is usually a bad thing. You have to move to live and you have to correct your direction sometimes. In a perfect world or dimension, our soul and ego are one in the same. Who came first, the chicken or the egg, another stupid question. Are we having fun yet, now that's a decent question to ask. If we are on purpose, ie.. doing what our soul had in mind, then it is probably got some enjoyment in it for us. That's the ticket, focusing on what you want, doing no harm in the process, getting in the flow of life. You say, you don't know what your purpose is, well I can bet that it has something to do with what you like doing. Now, if you like killing people then you have a problem. this means you like killing what you are connected to. If you are connected to that which you kill, then you are dying a little each time you kill someone and you won't live very long. A thing is true to itself. As Wayne Dyer would say, no tree is so foolish as if one branch hates another. If you hate, it is you that has the problem, and you will have it until you let go of the hate, or you may develop cancer and die of the hate. We come here whole, not broken, while here we learn some things consciously incorrect things and we pay the price. Get quiet if you're having problems, listen to the earth or your heartbeat and stop and wonder at the marvel of this plan and how it works. Enjoy!The world is neutral in this 3-D experience. My soul is bathed in light and immortal. This vessel we call a body is not immortal, but this is just the cover over us. The god force is just there observing what I do with compassion and indifference because the god force is everywhere. The energy of life runs through the 3-D universe as well as other dimensions. When other forces encounter the 3-D earth, it stands out as a globe of energy that is vibrant and whole, not fragmented and separated like we see it. Why do we see it in a bad light? Possibly our egos don't feel complete all the time. We need to get quiet and discover the wonder of our earth and everyone on it.  We are connected to something quite light and free. How could it be negative? Maybe what we think is negative is just our reaction to not getting what we want all the time. Our ego's cry for more is quite a power in 3-D. We define who we are by our differences, but we strive to conform, to belong, to be accepted. It ‘s a fine edged sword, this life. We need to be complete to come home and how do we do this with something we cannot understand. I have to accept the fact that there are atoms in 3-D because I read it somewhere. Why is the god force such a stretch?  I have a lot of intuition and I use it all the time. Not enough, though, for I am not there yet. I am gaining on it, observing myself doing this ridiculous dance called life. Wayne Dyer says to do an exercise that stretches your ego out a lot. He takes you out of your body and lets you see what the earth is like without you. He lets you see the fireball of action without you, the star in the picture. It's a humbling experience, but a great one to see the earth as one piece of the 3-D universe and to know that all your ego's troubles are bound up in that one small, precious place. It makes you appreciate the earth and want to clean it up. It makes me want to sweep my own doorway before I judge how badly others have done cleaning up their lives. I am living now, trying to notice as many moments as possible. Not holding on too tight so I can enjoy as many as possible. I was trying to follow my bliss without knowing what it truly was, before. Now I know what it is and I am once again flowing toward the light. Now, if I knew that the Draco were messing with my spiritual energy, then I would blast them out of existence, but that is hard to nail down as of now.  I have also been carrying around baggage about how I treated Joe Serafini and Dennis Newton, as well as all the members of my family. I just found out why and it is simple. I tried to raise them up into my rare air and they lost touch with their energy as I gave them a new direction that they did not ask for. Shame on me, but now get on with my life and stop blaming myself for something stupidly implemented.  I shifted their evolution closer to mine and they did not want to be near me. They rebelled and I was left wondering what happened. In reality, I helped them because I needed to and not because they needed it. They did not ask ,but they got it anyway. Who am I to cry foul when they woke up in my evolution not theirs. I will not knowingly grab someone again and drag them out of their supposedly happy situation. It was my ego trip, not theirs. I am through with this baggage. I am releasing it now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-110376661421942296?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/110376661421942296/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=110376661421942296' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376661421942296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376661421942296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2004/12/coming-alive.html' title='Coming Alive'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110376647053324045</id><published>2004-12-22T17:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-22T17:47:50.533-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Different Topics</title><content type='html'>During the last several days, some things have taken shape that I thought I should write to you about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&gt;              What I call funny lights in the sky at night, of course, is what I believe to be troop movements. I have seen large lights about 1000 ft up in the sky that stay bright for several minutes and then go dim, to a point of almost turning off the light. These lights go from east to west about 30 miles north of Denver. I have seen them at all times from 1730-0130 at night crossing this area of sky for the last month or two. This area of sky was not normally active before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;                     My elf activations are continuing. Last night, you, or a clone of you was talking to me in a harsh manner and pounding with your fist on a podium. This was new at 0400 so I woke up and then tried to reactivate it. I did get a reptilian form after that, but you were gone. I also got at least one hour of someone directing a symphony without sound after that. For a long while now, I have wondered why the NWO lets you project what you do. Last night may be an inkling of the truth. You were admittedly under their control for a long time and now are free or on a long leash. Their game may be a ploy to discredit anything that you do with respect to them or I may be getting to close to the “truth” myself, whatever version is in popularity today. Now more than ever, I am interested in those deprogamming techniques that you mentioned.. I would look after myself if I were you.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;                     I got a big hint from David Icke that G W Bush was going to be assassinated. This fits right in, as they tried to assassinate Pres. Ford to get Rockefeller into power. I often wonder about the risks that GW is taking. These risks are far and above what any other Pres. would have taken before. Chaney is no fool and has been in the NWO camp for a long while. I have a hunch that his many “heart attacks” are so much hog wash and may be an excuse to get some chats in with his superiors. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;                     Deepak Chopra is a reptilian of the first degree or at least a major Hybrid. I have been studying his writing and ways for years. He changed his modis operandi about a year ago when he began writing these horrid novels about the coming the antichrist. He may have been reprogrammed or just playing his part in the grand deception. His eyes and expression have always been unusual to say the least. His eyes are extra large and his expression is definitely reptilian. He makes a point of worshiping the ancient Indian gurus which came from the MU - Sumerian civilizations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;                     I got another hint from David Icke that sat well with me. He said that certain entertainers may be reprogrammed into the NWO way of advertising since the politicians are on the way out with respect to influence over the masses. This brings to mind Pres. Reagan and his apparent lack of goodwill toward aliens in the early 80's, then Hinkley came around and all of a sudden, a new president emerges with Alzheimer for his thank you for showing so much NWO common sense. It seems that the VP’s of all the presidents who were shot recently had a lot to say with respect to NWO. “Dear” Arnold Schwartznegger recently underwent heart surgery and was possibly reprogrammed a little more as grooming for a future Kennedy presidency. His 6th Day movie is very prophetic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;                     The NWO Argonne National Lab was on PBS last night proclaiming that it had a machine in process that would be able to ID any virus on the planet within seconds, not minutes. This ID would come from its DNA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;                     The Internet has a cute photo going around now that is an ant carrying a microchip in its mandibles. I got this as a link from the David Icke website. This shows how small the microchips have become with nanotechnology coming of age. I am very careful now about genetically manufactured food from your hint, as well as getting any transfusion of blood at a hospital. Luckily, I have never had the misfortune of having to have a blood transfusion that I “know” of. Once when I was 21, a stick got stuck in my hand at a famous doctor’s home in Denver.  I passed out and was taken to the Denver Clinic. Who knows what went on until I regained consciousness.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;                     A lot of gurus are on PBS these days, especially Wayne Dyer. He worships Deepak Chopra. He has chnanged his modis operandi several times throughout his career. The most recent being to write volumes of books without a computer while in meditation (channeling the information through this heart chakra. He places his hand on the book that he is paraphrasing and the energy flows through his heart to his writing hand. His message is a calming one that usually works well and distracts people from the real issues. I like Wayne Dyer a lot, but realize that every message comes through a filter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;                     Another person who I trust a lot is like you in that he has lived the experiences he talks and writes about. Stuart Wilde is named correctly and been there, done it all. While people like David Icke and Wayne Dyer only channel their experiences. Stuart protects himself well as most psychics tend to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;                     It seems to me that there is a lot more going on in the world today than meets the news pages of America. Nothing is said about the possible troop movements for one thing. The government filters and leak process seem to have its hold on the American Press. Anyone who goes to a movie these days will be spellbound by the absolute wizardry going on in the screen by “special” kids and aliens, not us. Has anyone bothered to say that we can do all that is done on the screen if only we would wake up from our intended American dream of a 2-story house, 2 car garage, stable job and retirement, material success oriented philosophy. Stuart Wilde calls it coming out of tic-toc to slow down reality and actually live in the now. ie, Notice what is actually going on. The big movie hint these days is you have to be born special to do special things, WHAT CRAP! It seems that the movie themes are following the TB,BB lines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;                     As I examine my life to date, I find that I have a lot of the victim mentality in me. I am good at giving and lousy at receiving. I have been this way all my life. All my friendships are one way and my wife is proving to be the same. Maybe I will purchase the victim release video. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;                     This is a lot to digest, I know, but this is what is coming at me in recent days and weeks. I continue to connect my dots from the information I am able to collect and assimilate. Sometimes the assimilation takes awhile and may or may not be so accurate when it does come out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;                     The skies were empty tonight. Have a happy and stay safe. Mike.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-110376647053324045?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/110376647053324045/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=110376647053324045' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376647053324045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376647053324045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2004/12/different-topics.html' title='Different Topics'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110376635223914458</id><published>2004-12-22T17:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-22T17:45:52.240-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Conspiracies</title><content type='html'>What is a conspiracy anyway? Is it a mad hatters tea party? Does it always make your life unbearable? Can there be good conspiracies? What about a conspiracy of one? What about my goals and dreams? Can I be a conspirator of my life? Conspiracies get things done by unseen means most of the time. What if I meditated on what I wanted and got other people to believe in it too? Would I then be a conspirator? NO, it doesn't always have to be bad things that are conspired to happen. I could use the synchronicities that happen within my sphere of influence to better my life. That might seem to be magical because I would be capitalizing on things that happen spontaneously to make my life better. Who said I couldn't conspire to make my life on earth a great one? Magic is where things happen so fast that we cannot follow them through in a slow logical system of event following event. When we get connected, things can happen fast. As Deepak Chopra has said many times magic is all around us and it is effortless. Why do we make things hard? Failing to live in the now and actually notice the miraculous as it is happening is a reason. All we have to do is stop our mind going so fast down the rut of life to notice it going by, one moment at a time. How do you notice life? Just get quiet and feel it go by. How long has it been since you have heard your own heart beat? I stop and listen to mine often. How long has it been since you've stopped long enough to hear yourself breathe? Can you feel your circulation going through your fingers? This is life happening to itself on a regular basis. Hardly anyone notices the observer in the spaces between the heart beats and breaths. In the silence, your soul communicates with you and everything around you, hoping one day you will catch on and stop hurrying around in such a flutter of so-called activity. Does what you doing right now feel good? If not, why don't you stop doing it and do something that feels good to you. When you feel good about what you are doing then things begin to conspire for you. That is, you attract to you the things that you not only think about, but actually feel good when you do them. When you feel good, that is a signal to your brain that you are being rewarded. It makes you want to do more of it just to grab the feeling again. No, I'm not talking about the drug called Ecstacy. Even though it triggers your serotonin levels and makes you high on the feeling. That is an artificial high because it's a source outside you that made the feeling start. Most people feel good when they help someone else to succeed at something. It must be in the genes or somewhere. How about realizing that we are all connected and if you help someone else, you are actually helping a small part of you. It's like payday everyday when you feel good. Speaking of payday, how many people exist through the week just to get to the weekend. Talk about not living most of life, that's the ticket. Getting drunk on Friday night seems to be a favorite. Now there's an activity that makes a lot of sense. Coast through the week to live for Friday night so you can obliterate your senses so you don't feel anything for a number of hours. This is a really stupid thing to do. Are these people really living life or are they destroying it. Maybe their Karma says they should do it, but their Darma says NO! What about learning while we are here in 3-D? That's more like noticing the silent witness and paying attention to your life as it passes. I'm talking about feeling the flow of life in you, experiencing it fully. This is how the magic returns to your life. When you wake up , you'll know it. It is all so easy if you stop and notice the feeling. It will put a grin on your face that lasts for a long time. How long is up to you. If you let the consequences of not noticing life as it happens control your actions, it will and you will going down the path that someone else chose for you, merely because you don't have the sense to notice the difference between one path and another. You lack the feeling for life if you have become an automaton going through 1 year of life, 50 times. Wake up and smell the roses, they are in the flow of life, giving their beauty and fragrance to the world as they pass by. You'll feel better and more like the conspirator of your own life again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-110376635223914458?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/110376635223914458/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=110376635223914458' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376635223914458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376635223914458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2004/12/conspiracies.html' title='Conspiracies'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110376626224029392</id><published>2004-12-22T17:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-22T17:44:22.240-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Doing What You Love</title><content type='html'>Doing what you love is supposed to be easy, not hard. If you think you cannot make enough money to support yourself in that activity, get creative, branch out a little, but remain true to yourself and you will overcome all obstacles. If you take a job just for the money in it, you'll wind up bored with your life and somehow you will sabotage your chances in that area. Worse yet, if you convince yourself that even though what you're doing is not good for at least one other person, then your house of cards will fall in on you. The law of attraction operates that way. If your ego says yes, but your gut says no, follow your gut. When you're not helping others in the process, the people and funds you attract will go away sooner or later. The law of attraction states that you sell yourself to others in the process of selling a product or service. Word of mouth travels fast. If you're doing what you love, the goodness will shine through and bring you the business you deserve, sooner or later. If you have a hobby that you love and can stand the job you have in order to support your hobby, make a home business out of the hobby and word of mouth will let you quit your job soon. Above all,  it should be easy for you, since you love doing it so much. If it becomes hard, you're off track and you should re-evaluate what you doing wrong to make it hard. By hard, I mean that you think it's hard to do. Generally if you think it requires discipline to do, then it is wrong for you. Now, if you love discipline and the sacrifice that it supposedly requires, then go for it. When you're doing what you love or were meant to do, you often work longer hours just because you're having a good time. What can I say, when you do what you truly love, the time you spend doing it is in the flow state and the time does not matter. If you are stressed out constantly, then you probably are not doing what you love to do and you need to get a grip on your mind pattern and take a lesson or two from your heart to find out what really moves you. You shouldn't have to be convinced about it by anyone else, this is your thing. Hard work is just that , hard. Work smarter , not harder. I know that is a cliche, but it is true. Smart work involves knowing what you love to do, and finding a way to get paid for doing. Just because a thing is lucrative does not mean it is for you. The game is to make what you do lucrative to the public at large, so the law of attraction will start to work for you. People love to be serviced, and will pay handsomely for it. People also love products that are cheap and useful in their everyday lives. If you love making Ferrari's and you live in the Arctic, you may have to make some adjustments, like charging batteries or changing tires to get up enough money to build you own Ferrari or move to Italy, where there is more call for the thing you love to do. Even then you may have to build Fiat's to earn a living , so that your dream of building a Ferrari can have some hope of coming true. Desires come easy and the fulfillment of those desires should also be easy. We have a mind that is built to make things simple, so do just that, make it simple. Use the KISS method and Keep It Simple Smart. When it becomes hard to do, you can bet that you will lose interest fast. Being creative in the way in which you make what you love to do pay, is as simple as just noticing it all and taking action when you find something good for you. Opportunities come around all the time, but the best time to start is now, keep your feeling s wide open to life and make something good happen to you. Pull it to you through the Law of Attraction. What you think about and act on becomes yours almost effortlessly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-110376626224029392?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/110376626224029392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=110376626224029392' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376626224029392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376626224029392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2004/12/doing-what-you-love.html' title='Doing What You Love'/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110376593875007929</id><published>2004-12-22T17:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-22T17:38:58.750-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Enlightenment </title><content type='html'>This is a subject that is dear to me right now. It includes choices. I would call several people enlightened. Not one of them that I know or have heard of would take another 3-D life to save his own. Enlightenment means cutting loose from the tribal instinct bred into you from birth. It means letting go of the safety of tribal emotions. If a Draco came up to me today and tried to shoot me and I had it in my power to shoot him, I doubt that I could in all honesty, shoot him knowing that his destiny was not to shoot me first. The ego creates a lot of rules that are based on the fight or flight syndrome that I am finally growing out of. Does this admission make me a pacifist, coward, or enlightened, NO! It just points me in the way of knowing that I am firmly immortal and not into the idea that I should do harm. Does this mean that I would be used by the Draco, knowingly to do things that I would not normally do, NO! I would rather die than do anything that knowing ly would hurt another 3-D being. If I have to choose between life in a world where I have to kill or be killed, and not living, then I choose not be in this evolution at this point in time.  There comes a time in everyone's life when certain things ring true. There is a bell going off in my head right now as to the right way to go. The Stock Market is definitely not the way to go. Cleaning up Rocky Flats and making monuments for all the people who died that didn't have to, is. I am helping the earth, myself and others in the process. I helped pollute the earth big time and in my own small way helped speed people to their idea of god. I am not going to pick up people who are in the gutter of life anymore. I will not volunteer what I know to any one who is clearly not of a mind to ask for my help.  They have their reason for being and so do I. We are connected, but on different paths. Our souls may even meet and have a chuckle about the differences. I am leaving the crowd once more, never to return. For now, my way is clear and even though I took a long path to get here, I am here now. I cannot tell you where it will lead me, but I know it feels right. That is all that is important now. I am leaping again and it is something to watch. This time it is a evolutionary leap beyond the finite 3-D world into the unknown and I am ready to get started, knowing that everything will turn out fine for me. Do I have a clue as to how I am going to get out of debt, NO! I don't really care about the money. I have so much to give back for the privilege of coming to 3-D and I have lost so much time already, that I want to give something back to the earth and the people of this small planet that is so wise. I can now say that because I realize it as the truth. That which never changes is true. I can see only a small portion of this plan as that is what pleases me right now. I have always managed the coincidences of my life with ease so I again will do this. After being lost in the ego driven world of tick-tock Stock Market blues, I have gone back to chopping wood and carrying water. I don't even care to notice what I look like, though it is more than likely a fool. I have drifted one step into the observer zone, noticing and focusing on moment to moment life as it happens. I will reclaim my financial life or not. If I sold my home tomorrow, I would be out of debt. Right now, my wife says that is not an option to consider. I respect her wishes and go on to another solution.  She too, is on a path of her own choosing and I am helping her when asked. When I connect to the god force, I become a god, creating my world the way my soul intended it to be. I am empowered with it all the time, but I just do not realize it, because at one time or another, I am too full of my ego to learn anything new.  I finally have an opinion about my ego and that is; my ego is my opinion and nothing more. What I am starting to do when a supposedly negative event comes around, is to stand back not two steps, but a thousand to gain perspective so I can perceive the right thing to do from a feeling standpoint. Enlightenment is a process that one goes through, if one is lucky, and I am lucky.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9482921-110376593875007929?l=blogofmike.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/feeds/110376593875007929/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9482921&amp;postID=110376593875007929' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376593875007929'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9482921/posts/default/110376593875007929'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogofmike.blogspot.com/2004/12/enlightenment.html' title='Enlightenment '/><author><name>Mike Liesveld</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18250691958175058614</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OT86rZaFBSo/SRzqY4a3-cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/evYRsf7oVqM/s1600-R/mjl.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9482921.post-110376587895400198</id><published>2004-12-22T17:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-22T17:37:58.956-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Epilogue</title><content type='html'>I want to talk about the possibility that this world is not what it seems to be at all. I am not simply talking about 3-D or any dimension at all, merely about the possibility of a great plan to teach souls to grow into gods. There is an energy matrix that supposedly holds this world and everything in 3-D together. When we access the field or flow state we tap into that energy field and make manifesting possible. This is what we are potentially capable of. All it takes is the wisdom of silence, clarity and focus on our intent. We cannot care about what the outcome will be or when it will take shape for time and space have no meaning in field. How did we come to be where we are in this 3-D experience we call life? We came to be the way we are by just stumbling along and growing up with the crowd. We are starting to realize now that we can do incredible things beyond imagination a few years ago, if we separate ourselves from the crowd and its opinions. We are part of the crowd and if we stay within the crowd, we will only grow as fast as the crowd. The crowd's evolution is very slow taking millennia to inch forward due to the sheer inertia. However, if take our attention away from the mundane activity of just getting by and reach for a little more, we find a great system or plan that we are connected to.  We came to 3-D with a purpose of growing in some way that only 3-D can teach. If we grow now, in this moment, then we don't have to repeat this process until millennia go by while the rest of the crowd catches up. The 3-D universe seems to me to a testing ground for growth. There are several levels on which you can grow. One is physically while another is mentally, but these are both limited in scope and can get you only so far. Only you can make the transition from 3-D to the field. Why should you do it? That is a fair question and one that I will answer right now. If you don't make the transition sooner or later you will encounter a deep boredom or depression which will not be lifted until you leap. It is not a leap of faith rather a leap of questioning why we are here. To be or not to be, that is the question that will eventually come to your consciousness. For some of us, this question comes early in life and for others , not at all. Most encounter it only as they lay dying wondering about what their life has meant. As my purpose is unfolding, I find myself needing to write about what I have glimpsed in this life so far as to the nature of things in general. Always when I write things come clear as they are now. Most of this writing I am doing now is automatic, as it just flows out of me in a stream of consciousness. I find that I am writing to an audience who will probably never read this. Maybe this will get published someday, maybe not. Possibly this is just my way of clearing out my ego of thoughts that come directly from my spirit. All I know is that I feel so alive when I'm doing this that it has to be right. Maybe this is my flow state for now and I have the talent for writing now. Later, i know it will change and I will achieve flow in many new and different ways. I suppose that is the fun of it all, telling my story even if only I am listening. I can only hope I pay attention to the words I am putting down on paper, for I am feeling great about the experience of doing this in this moment. The meaning of my life is coming clearer day by day. I tend to do a lot of meditating these days. Along with the writing, I have become a more silent person. I listen to music a lot now and it soothes me. Music has always been a large part of my life. The lessons I have learned so far are amazing and not what I had intended just a few years ago. I suppose retirement gives one the time to reflect on their situation in 3-D. I retired early in life to absorb myself in whatever came around for me to do. It has been good for me to have a limited amount of funds because I never had that lesson before in life. I still have not mastered that area so I am doomed to keep falling in the same holes until I actually wake up to the financial flow of life. I am a very contemplative person and don't move much without considering what the move does for me. On the other hand, I move quite easily when the right condition comes along. My wife does not understand what I'm doing at all and is very frustrated with me right now. This will pass as everything does and I hope she will notice a greater dimension of me coming out of the current ashes of my past life. She can be very literal and pragmatic and she does not have patience with any dallying around. The direction of my life in 3-D has been through the four stages of normal growth. First, I was an inquisitive child, full of wonder, then I bought into other people's opinions and became one of the crowd in my own limited way. Then I rebelled and went off the deep end with anger at everything that appeared to be wrong with the world from my viewpoint, still deep in the rut of the mundane. Then I started to lose my anger as what was the point, if no one was paying any attention to me raging on like a lunatic all the time. I started to wake up very slowly from the dream of living in a seeing, touching, hearing world only to a new possibility of more than I had before. This was long after I went crazy for no apparent reason except boredom. Boredom taught me several things of which I am only figuring out. Boredom can in the service doing a menial task and then repeating it for no other reason than to keep busy. I know why human beings are kept busy. It is because if we're not kept busy we might begin to figure some things out on our own and that would not be nice for the so-called leaders to deal with. Their gig would be up and they would have to give up the charade that they have been playing with us. In a sense,  boredom woke me up and made me get on with life. I had a rude awakening which I ignored completely and dove into my work. It only took about 10 years of this before I was kicked in the shins again by boredom. This time I married my way out of it. Wives hate inactivity in their husbands and find all sorts of odd tas
