Overview of America - From YouTube

A wonderfully done, informative overview of politics, trade, history, the Founding Fathers, etc..

Please go into this with a curious mindset... regardless if you are familiar with the society that put this on.  

We (must inherently) have loyalty to Concepts, Ideas, Metaphors, and Principles (and Good [Remember that "Still Small Voice"] ones at that)...and must be wary of having a fixed mindset to a Word.  Anyone can use words and turn around and do anything they wish, hence the term "Doublespeak".  Living by, from, and defending (Right) Concepts & Virtues and such and not by Words alone is sublime & profound and evident, followable, non-arguable, and honorable, so on.

The concept anyone seeks is Balance & Harmony with the occasional hint of Risk & Adventure, to keep things Real...  We of course have different personal ideas about this, which is the Relative... Thus the sublime Laws that govern are Absolute.  You have your idea and I have mine...Relative.  Where the ideas fundamentally stem from is the Absolute...like the air we breath.

No Party is correct if they do harm to others directly or indirectly.  WWIII is a war on the mind, public opinion, your idea of where to spend your dollars...etc..  Thus we come to the issue...do we really have free will in a massively over propagandized society?  The idea of free will is complex and yet simple.  We live here, on the earth, with others.  We have free will to think and do within the context of the earth & our being and face the effects of our causality.  No doubt "The All" that created us is in us..."The All is All and is in All".  So, we have a Guide or Law to follow and from that our free will begins...we can choose to listen to our intuition (call it what you like) or not.

The sequence of nations, as observed by Alexander Tyler, 1750, follows a predictable pattern “from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependence back again into bondage."

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Top 10 Historical Monsters

Enjoy this short list of traditional monsters. If you are unsure of a halloween costume this year… here is your guide!

10. OniJapanese

Depictions of oni vary widely but they are usually portrayed as hideous, gigantic creatures with sharp claws, wild hair, and two long horns growing from their heads. They are humanoid for the most part, but occasionally, they are shown with unnatural features such as odd number of eyes or extra fingers and toes. Their skin may be any number of colors, but red and blue are particularly common. Their fierce appearance is only enhanced by the tiger loincloths they tend to wear and the iron club they favor. There is also a very obvious similarity here to devils in Judeo-Christian tradition.

15 Historical Facts You Don’t Know

by Jamie Frater

We all love facts – especially historical ones and ones that are new to us. This list looks at 15 facts that are, hopefully, unknown to most of us here. From the Ancient world to the early modern times, these are all entries that have not appeared before on Listverse. Be sure to add your own unusual or little-known facts to the comments.

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1. Saint Simeon Stylites (pictured) was a monk who gained fame in the 5th century for spending 37 years standing on a small platform on top of a tall pillar in Syria. He did it for ascetic reasons and his example was followed in later years by other well known stylite saints. His story is quite amazing and you can read more about it here.

The Secret Histories of Those @#$%ing Computer Symbols

By Gizmodo  August 16, 2010  2:58 pm

By Bryan Gardiner


They are road signs for your daily rituals – the instantly recognized symbols and icons you press, click and ogle countless times a day when you interact with your computer. But how much do you know about their origins?

Power

 It’s plastered on T-shirts; it tells you which button will start your Prius; it’s even been used on NYC condom wrappers. As far back back as World War II engineers used the binary system to label individual power buttons, toggles and rotary switches: A 1 meant “on,” and a 0 meant off. In 1973, the International Electrotechnical Commission vaguely codified a broken circle with a line inside it as “standby power state,” and sticks to that story even now. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, however, decided that was too vague, and altered the definition to simply mean power. Hell yeah, IEEE. Way to take a stand.

Nuclear Testing Turned All Our Teeth Radioactive

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Nuclear bomb testing in the 1950s has resulted in an unexpected occurrence: it has turned the teeth of all humans on the planet radioactive. Researchers discovered this phenomenon while trying to determine the age of deceased individuals. They have found that all our teeth are, in fact, radioactive clocks.

6 Most Amazing Treasures Nobody Ever Found

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November 5, 2008 by uphaa

1. The Ark of the Covenant

To the ancient Israelites, the Ark of the Covenant was the most sacred thing on Earth. The central and paramount object of the Hebrew nation, this ornate chest was, according to the Bible, designed by God.