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We had eye contact. Just for a moment.
Press 'L' to see this on black. It's better. Really.
Taken with a Olympus E-PL1 PEN, Novoflex adapter, Minolta Rokkor 58mm f/1.2. I didn't think that any of my night panning shots could come out as this. But now that I'm starting to grok Aperture, anything is possible really...
In response to an interactive photo-story on the Action Man Mobile Operations forum:
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Another view of the diagonally colored level 1 Menger Sponge.
I started with three red units in the corner, and then added nine orange units to 'cover' the red ones. After that, I just followed the rule that no 2 units while traveling in a straight direction could have the same color -- that is, the diagonal planes had to be a maximum of one unit thick.
I was hoping to do this sort of coloring for a level 2 Menger Sponge, but since I still can't grok the pattern, I won't know how many pieces of paper to allocate. And I hate running out of a color that I need too soon!
"Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone! Therefore, you shall Love the Lord, your God, with all your Heart, and with all your Soul, and with all your Strength. Take to heart these words which I enjoin on you today. Drill them into your children. Speak of them at home and abroad, whether you are busy or at rest. Bind them at your wrist as a sign and let them be as a pendant on your forehead. Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.” ~ Deuteronomy 6:5-9
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“One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked Him, “Which is the first of all the commandments?” Jesus replied, “The first is this: Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall LOVE the Lord your God with all your Heart, with all your Soul, with all your Mind, and with all your Strength. The second is this: You shall LOVE your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:28-31
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“What is written in the law? How do you read it?” He said in reply, “You shall LOVE the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” He replied to him, “You have answered correctly; do this and you will live.” ~ Luke 10:26
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“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” HE said to him, “You shall LOVE the Lord, your God, with all your Heart, with all your Soul, and with all your Mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall LOVE your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.” ~ MATTHEW 22:34-40
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MEDITATION
“Faith and Hope strengthen our LOVE for God…
What makes our LOVE for God and His commands grow in us? Faith in God and Hope in His promises strengthens us in the LOVE of God. They are ESSENTIAL for a good relationship with God, for being united with Him. The more we Know of God the more we LOVE Him and the more we LOVE Him the greater we Believe and Hope in His promises. The Lord, through the gift of the Holy Spirit, gives us a new freedom to LOVE as He LOVES. Do you allow anything to keep you from the LOVE of God and the Joy of serving others with a generous heart?…”
PRAYER
“Lord Jesus, Your LOVE surpasses all. Flood my heart with Your LOVE and increase my Faith and Hope in Your Promises. Help me to give myself in generous service to others as You have so generously given Yourself to me.” ~ www.dailyscripture.net
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PRAYER
"Lord Jesus, may Your LOVE always be the foundation of my life. Free me from every fear and selfish-concern that I may freely give myself in LOVING service to others, even to the point of laying my life down for their sake."
#prayer and excerpt #meditation from today’s scripture reflection @ www.DailyScripture.Net or APP at Daily Scripture Servants of the Word
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“This passage is part of the Shema, a central prayer in Judaism, emphasizing the importance of keeping God’s commandments in daily life, teaching them to children, and making them a constant presence through physical reminders.”
A deeper study on these verses (the Shema) from Grok3 ~ grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMg%3D%3D_1ca45334-3bd1-4448-9f0c-b...
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Spiez Castle (Schloss Spiez) is situated on a picturesque peninsula jutting into Lake Thun in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. Its scenic location offers stunning views of the lake and surrounding Alps, making it a standout landmark in the region.
The castle’s history dates back to 933, when it was reportedly founded by Rudolph II, King of Burgundy, according to the Strättliger Chronicle. Archaeological evidence suggests the site was fortified as early as the 7th century.
The oldest visible parts, including the massive square keep with 3-meter-thick walls, were built around 1200. The castle evolved over centuries, with significant expansions in the 17th and 18th centuries, including the Baroque-style "New Castle" addition to the south.
Spiez Castle was initially home to the Freiherr von Strättligen (a noble rank akin to a baron). Ownership passed to the Bubenberg family in 1338, then to the von Erlach family in the 16th century, who held it for nine generations until 1875. After several private owners, the Spiez Castle Foundation purchased it in 1929, ensuring public access.
Today, Spiez Castle is a Swiss heritage site of national significance, housing a museum that showcases its 1,300-year history, including interactive exhibits about its former residents. The castle grounds, featuring gardens and vineyards, are open to the public, and the interior hosts events like weddings, concerts, and exhibitions.
The castle’s tower offers panoramic views of Lake Thun and the Bernese Oberland. Inside, you can find medieval graffiti of knights and tournaments, adding a playful historical touch.
The Church out back overlooking Lake Thun and adjacent to Spiez Castle is often referred to as the Schlosskirche (Castle Church). It is a gem of early Romanesque architecture with a rich history with the current church likely being built around 900–1000 AD and linked to the Kingdom of Upper Burgundy. However, evidence of an earlier Carolingian church exists, first mentioned in 762 in Bishop Heddo of Strasbourg’s will, making it one of the oldest Christian sites in the Berner Oberland.
The Schlosskirche (Castle Church) is a three-nave, flat-ceilinged basilica with a vaulted chancel, a raised main apse over a crypt, and two smaller side apses. The tower, possibly added in the 11th century, stands on the steep lakeside promontory, offering dramatic views over Lake Thun.
Originally a proprietary church tied to the castle estate, it served as a parish church until 1907, when a new village church took over. It’s been part of the Spiez Castle Foundation since 1929 and is now popular for weddings and cultural events.
The Schlosskirche (Castle Church) features faded Romanesque frescoes in the apse and crypt, dating back to the Middle Ages, including a medallion of Christ and apostle sketches. A large stucco coat of arms from the von Erlach family (added in the 1670s) and heraldic stained glass panes reflect its later history.
Perched on a rocky cliff overlooking Lake Thun, the church’s location enhances its serene and timeless appeal, blending seamlessly with the castle’s medieval ambiance.
Together, Spiez Castle and the Schlosskirche (Castle Church) form a captivating historical duo, reflecting Switzerland’s layered past against the stunning backdrop of Lake Thun.
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I asked Google's AI engine 'Bard'on 28th Nov 2023 if there is any year-on-year projection data which shows the uptake of electric vehicles in Australia as compared with ICE vehicles.
I also asked at what year will the decline of Ice vehicles become significant?
Google 'Bard' also gives 2 additional equally informative alternate drafts, all 3 able to be narrated by clicking on the speaker icon.
Yes, there is year-on-year projection data that shows the uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) in Australia compared with internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. The data shows that EV sales are growing rapidly, while ICE sales are declining. This trend is expected to continue in the coming years, with EVs expected to become the dominant type of new car sales in Australia by the mid-2030s.
Here is a table showing the projected year-on-year sales of EVs and ICE vehicles in Australia:
Year - EV Sales - ICE Sales
2022 - 20,443 - 867,622
2023 - 46,624 - 754,074
2024 - 110,000 - 660,000
2025 - 170,000 - 550,000
2026 - 240,000 - 430,000
2027 - 320,000 - 310,000
2028 - 410,000 - 190,000
2029 - 500,000 - 80,000
2030 - 600,000 - 10,000
As you can see, EV sales are expected to grow by more than 2,900% between 2022 and 2030, while ICE sales are expected to decline by more than 98%. This is due to a number of factors, including government incentives, falling battery costs, and increasing consumer awareness of the environmental benefits of EVs.
The decline of ICE vehicles is expected to become significant around 2027, when EV sales are expected to outpace ICE sales for the first time. By 2030, ICE sales are expected to be less than 10% of total new car sales.
This is a significant shift in the Australian automotive market, and it is one that is being driven by a number of factors. Government policy is playing a major role, with all states and territories offering incentives for EV buyers. Additionally, battery costs are falling rapidly, making EVs more affordable. And finally, consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the environmental benefits of EVs.
As a result of these factors, the Australian automotive market is expected to undergo a major transformation in the next decade. EVs are expected to become the dominant type of new car sales, and ICE vehicles will become a niche market. This is a positive development for the environment, as it will help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It is also a positive development for the economy, as it will create new jobs and industries.
Note - My wife and I intend to be among the early adopters. In early November 2023 we placed an order online for a Tesla Model Y similar to the one shown in this image above.
Delivery date as of 28th November2023 has still not been confirmed but possibly before Xmas 2023.
Elon Musk has moved into the AI space despite warning that AI has potential for harm to society not just improve things.
His AI Platform is called GROK. Grok will be integrated into X (Twitter) for paid subscribers.
Grok will also be integrated into Tesla cars in the near future.
Planet of the Apes / Heft-Reihe
Apeslayer
cover: Herb Trimpe
Reprints from Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1970 series) #21 [War of the Worlds; Killraven] (November 1973)
Marvel Comics Ltd
(London / England; 1975)
ex libris MTP
The Time It Takes Falling Bodies To Catch Light ~
Creator, Judge or Architect?
There Is a Sanity Clause!
“So tell me,” O’Grady asks with a glint in his eye, “do you believe in God?” The black snake venom is coursing through my bloodstream and organs and his eyes are glowing in the semi-darkness.
He swirls in my blurring vision as the reply rises full-blown from my heart without pause for censorship or amendment; “When most people ask that question, I get the impression they don’t mean ‘is there a creator?’ – they really mean ‘is there a Judge?’.” He meets my gaze levelly. “That’s a very penetrating insight,” he says, “very Jesuitical.” My heart doesn’t pause to bask in the glow of flattered pride but continues to pour out of my mouth; “The question has more than one answer, depending on what you really mean. I don’t believe that you mean ‘is there a Judge?’ – but let me answer that one first anyway.” We’re both sitting cross-legged and I shift around to face him more directly.
“There’s only one judge that counts, and at the moment of your death your eyes are riveted open to every act and deed you’ve ever done, stripped bare before the completely aware gaze of a conscience that’s more penetrating and aware than you could believe. You are your own worst and best judge, stripping yourself to the core.
“But at the same timeless time you’re also suffused with the very spirit of parental compassion, so your judgment of yourself is an admixture of Severity and Mercy, if you like.” I touch my left shoulder with my thumb held between my first two fingers and draw a line across to my right. “Those are the names of these two Sephiras of the Tree of Life, by the by, translated from ancient Hebrew – I prefer ‘Clarity and Compassion’ myself…” O’Grady nods slowly, trailing afterimages in the gloom while my mouth continues moving and my voicebox keeps vibrating as the venom flares in my foot and spreads into my brain.
“So you are the judge, the best you could ever hope for – who knows thee more intimately than thine own conscience? And from that immortal perspective beyond time – beyond matter and space you’re beyond time as well, beyond time’s well…” The memory of my deaths return in full-blown Technicolor and quintaphonic Dolby; “…you decide whether you’ve created a perfect pattern or not – one that satisfies your expanded esthetic and ethical senses, the heart that balances the feather of truth.” Psychedelic images begin feathering inward from the periphery of my vision and it becomes increasingly difficult to focus. I concentrate on deepening my breath and slowing my pulse as my voice goes on and on;
“But more than that – from the true perspective of immortal Justice, the obvious macrocosmic truth is revealed – the secret of all enlightenment – that everyone is everyone and everything you do to anyone is something literally done to yourself. In that moment of crystal-clear awareness karma is something obvious and ever-present, and the only important thing – the only thing relevant to your blown open mind – is the impressions you’ve made on other beings, the links you have to others.
“And you decide whether you’ve lived life as best you could, or fallen short of your own abilities. You keep coming back until you’ve done it – I don’t want to use the word ‘right’, because of all the polarised connotations, and ‘correct’ is no better – but you decide to return to the Wheel until you’ve done it right by yourself, and all your selves. Then you have a further choice to explore something else entirely, or not.
“You may even decide to come back here again anyway, to help out.
“But if you want the short version,” I ramble on, “you are the Judge, Jury, Prosecutor, Defender, Executioner and Redeemer. Don’t accept any substitutes.” I need water to dilute and process the foreign proteins spilling through my blood, but the oxygen-rich air of the rainforest does nicely at present.
O’Grady nods and strokes his emerging beard, smiling into my blur. He’s a Saracen and a Viking, a Highlander and a Persian. “All right then,” he nods, “do you believe there’s a Creator?”
My hallucinating mind reviews the massed ranks of distant primate people who will cast me into imaginary hellfire or oblivion if my answer is negative – but this translucent vision doesn’t slow my open heart. A deep breath fills my lungs.
“On the one hand I side with the Gnostics – before they were all slaughtered and burned at the stake they insisted that those who purport to be the Creator – like Jehovah, for instance, or Jupiter – are actually demons masquerading as the One True God. But it gets complex – the ancients viewed the planets as gods and goddesses, remember, and many deeds and attributes ascribed to them are referents to planetary events, changes and catastrophes. Incidentally, ‘god’ is a pretty horrendous word for what we’re talking about, don’t you think?”
“I’ve always thought it pretty odd,” he agrees.
“Ugly,” I aver. “The Gnostics pointed out that no compassionate creator would ever do the things described in the old babbling books, and that any entity that did, was an ego-driven demon who should be ignored and driven out at all costs. The Gnostics went a little too far for my taste, claiming the universe itself was an evil cage – I understand their erroneous point of view, but in the long run they were a bit too nihilistic for their own good.” The Ark of the Covenant rears before my inner eye, resplendent and glowing with a blue aura of electrical charge. Before my mouth can wander in that direction my interlocutor intervenes, sparing us both a long digression. “Ah, yes, but – do you believe there’s a Creator?” O’Grady laughs.
“On the other hand,” I begin, “we’re talking about something not constrained by our primate templates of authority and awareness – and if it comes down to a choice between the archetypes of Sky Father and Earth Mother, these days I have to come down on the side of the Mother…” O’Grady laughs again. “I’m with you there, bro. It’s ‘Nungeena’ around here, right?”
“Great memory,” I congratulate him. “You got it the first time.”
“It’s just that where I first became exposed to this stuff, Her name was ‘Pacha Mama’.”
“Of course,” I smile.
“Nungeena,” he repeats as I nod. “But on the third hand,” I say, miming the emergence of another arm from my shoulder, “if you want to know what I really believe…” He leans forward as my voice drops. “How much do you know about, uh dimensional theory? Have you ever seen a hypercube?” O’Grady nods emphatically. “No,” I change my mind, “let’s start at the other end – it’s easier from down there.”
“Okay.” “You know there are an infinite number of points in any line?” I mime the action and a fluorescing trail of dot patterns laces the ground in the darkness while he nods. “And there are an infinite number of lines in any given plane, right?” I inscribe long lines at various angles on a scroll of parchment that appears in the nocturnal air.
The serpent poison is coming on strong and my foot is throbbing, swollen and red, but my monolog keeps me loosely bound to the world; I’m grateful to have an audience in this remote Paradise – and haven’t been condemned to merely sitting here alone and dealing with the poison while listening to all this stuff going around inside my head. I haven’t told him about the black snake yet – don’t want to worry him unduly. She will bruise thy heel…
“Well there are also an infinite number of planes in any solid, right?” I chop paths through an imaginary sphere from various angles, as it hovers between us like a small planetoid. O’Grady agrees. “And there are an infinite number of three-dimensional solids in hyperspace,” I conclude my series, sweeping my arms outward to indicate all the other spheres hovering in an immeasurable array that spreads away from us in all directions. “Virtual worlds from this point perspective, just as our universe is an illusion when viewed from theirs.”
For a moment I glimpse the view from hyperspace, from the fugue-riding perspective of the Crown Chakra, and all the spheres interpenetrate each other at various angles and progressions of mutual absorption – and then my mouth keeps working around the cud of my words.
“So from that heightened perspective, from the view of a consciousness dwelling in hyperspace – not beyond or apart from this world but implicately involved in everything here, as intrinsic as space or time – you could be aware of every sparrow that falls, every leaf on every tree and every thought in every being simultaneously. You could be aware of the flux of all the alternative timelines from a sufficient remove…
“It’s like this,” I continue as I see him attempt to imagine that view. I draw a circle on the ground between us. “From up here you can see everything inside that flat circle simultaneously, right? It’s all visible at once.”
“I see,” he says, and he does.
“Now, on the second last and penultimate hand in this trick deck, there’s another point or two I must make if you want a near-complete answer. There are those who draw a distinction between not only Judge and Creator, but also include an Architect in their triune pantheon…”
“Like the Egyptians with that dwarf character – what was his name?” He hands me a smoke.
“Ptah. Ta, thanks. That’s the one. “Around here he’s known as ‘Puntjal’ – pretty similar, considering. Here we have Nungeena (or Mother Nature, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Breath, the Nephesh) as well as Puntjal, the Architect of the Universe – and there’s also the indwelling Creator who dwells at the crown of your head, whose arms extend down through ours from the Dreaming, the Al Chera, Hyperspace, from the Crown of Creation, to work within the world and worlds. But I won’t speak his name here and now…”
“Fair enough. The Architect – ‘Puntjal’?”
“Perfect.” “So the geometric certainty of an interpenetrating series of interdimensional realities – not just some mathematical theory, but an infinitude of multiverses and a vast range of nesting dimensions – informs us that there must be, at very least, the likelihood of a Witness – a consciousness that is aware of everything in our little circle. Infinity is a pretty big place – infinity implies that anything we can imagine must actually exist somehow, somewhere, somewhen, on every scale…”
“So we have a Judge, an Architect, Mother Nature and a Witness – but what about a Creator?” he persists as I pass the smoke back to him.
“For a start, it’s all a hologram so you are already partaking of all of those forms of Godhood – your consciousness already extrudes into all the other dimensions, but we’re usually untrained to perceive or make use of any of them but the familiar ones that are useful to terrestrial primates. They’re all accessible, if you start young enough or are very fortunate or have enough focus and will power. The truth is, thou art God.” I’m pleased to see he doesn’t rebel at the prospect as a circlet of six-pointed stars surrounds his brow and an etheric topknot extrudes from the crown of his head.
“Now, if you really want to pin me down about a Creator – on the one octopoid tentacle, with an infinity of infinities to ponder, a Creator can’t be rendered impossible – and anything not impossible is not only probable, but likely – or even mandatory…”
“Anything not forbidden is compulsory.”
“Exactemundo, compadre.” And on the last tentacular extremity of all, interdimensional theory well understands how to create universes – we can do it in the lab, here at the dawn of the Third Millennium.”
“We can?”
“We can – I’ll explain how, if you like… do you know anything about Brane theory? M theory? Membrane theory?”
“Is this answering my question about a possible or probable Creator?”
“Okay then – you know how in current understandings of time travel, if you go back in time and kill your grandfather there’s no paradox at all?”
“You don’t snuff yourself out of existence then?”
“No – because when you leave the bubble of this hologram and enter another one, it is another one – times ain’t times and oils ain’t oils.
By entering another time stream the current belief is that you create a new time stream – although I differ on that point; I say that within infinity all virtual realities are equally real, and that the traveler is not a creator but just another vainglorious usurper of the title. These so-called ‘creator gods’ are simply stepping into a pre-existing continuum, not creating a new one at all. We don’t each simply create a new universe with each act of will, as postulated within the imagined constraints ascribed to quantum theory – we shift into a pre-existing virtual co-creation. There are an infinity of them.
“If you can imagine the sort of obsessive personality that wants to go back in time and change history – and not even their own history you understand – they know it’s a parallel history they’re tampering with but want to do it anyway – you’ll understand why a lot of the so-called ‘gods’ of the past have been such primitive control freaks.”
“Third Reichers and the like.”
“Precisely – and in some cases literally. Anyway, it’s all a variation on Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, if you like…”
“That’s where you can’t tell the velocity and trajectory of any subatomic particle at the same time?”
“That’s right – and the implications, as derived by modern physicists, are that the observer creates reality. So we’re all the Creator; manifest reality as we know it is a co-creation, combined from the various point perspectives of innumerable lifeforms in innumerable shapes, with utterly divergent environments and ways of viewing the universe. The manifest world is made by all the intersecting perspectives and wills of us all – and certainly not just those of human beings.
“The more diverse the range of lifeforms in a place, the more enduring the landform itself – and all other factors, like climate for instance. Life changes the odds in favour of itself – the evidence is all there if you take a look, all duly notarized and scientifically notated. Mind and will alter the odds, the flip of the dice, the spin of the electron, the intensity of the Sun, the trajectory of asteroids. You know what the native Americans say – the Web of Life holds it all together and each of us is a strand. “And if mind over matter is real – and it is – then all the other so-called psychic phenomena are equally real and accessible to us all.
“We’re creating it all, all the time. Everything’s an interpenetrating hologram and we’re all points of the same distributed consciousness, of the same – there has to be a better word than ‘oddgod’ – but if you’re looking for a Creator, look in the mirror,” I laugh, drawing a planar pane between us.
We grok. It groks.
“Okay,” he asks as pregnant Molki awakes from her drowsy slumber and leans against him. “What do you think gravity is?”
Step out of the chains binding your mind and life! Your parents and grandparents were happy and satisfied to be lied to by those who still get away with stealing the wealth and knowledge of the Earth (and everywhere else) for themselves – are you?
Turn on. Tune in. Opt OUT! You have nothing to lose but your blinkers. Security is only found within and true abundance comes only to those prepared to give everything away when they no longer need it.
Money is not abundance – it’s a tax on abundance! Why are you reading this? Why are you here? What is it that you need? Why do you need it? Who are you, really?
- R.Ayana
Image - author's - 'The Time It Takes Falling Bodies To Catch Light'
From nexusilluminati.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/creator-judge-or-...
These fun little video clips were created by Petra cdv from photos taken by me using Grok which is an AI tool. Such great fun and very clever!
Normal vs Paleo Diet Bodybuilder - Is the Caveman dietgreat for bodybilding? See the pics.
Grok is pale, from living in a cave. Things living in a cave turn pink and white, like albinism, or a cave mushroom. Ice Age paleo man would also be pale and sickly looking, because in the arctic he'd get no sun. Paleo man in the arctic didn't go to the beach.
The Paleo Diet, espoused by Mark Sisson, Robb Wolf, Richard Nikoley and others, is based on the principle of do what Grok the Caveman did. That means they and you are to live in a cave and turn pinky white.
This is probably why they calle it the PALE eo Diet.
That, plus your face when you see that according to Robb Wolf and The Paleo Diet, you have to do what Grok did, and Grok probably ate lice, raw offal meat, hair, eggshells, parasites, and botfly maggots.
Many people "believe" that "The Paleo Diet" (the one in their books) is actually what paleolithic man ate. This is not true. The Paleo Diet is not thousands of years old and what mankind evolved to eat for thousands of years, it's a few years old, concocted in a fad diet book that they are pushing, to feed their checkbook by chewing pieces out of yours. If you don't think so, ask yourself or the guy telling you you have to go paleo, How many MAGGOTS do you eat? If they say none, or just look at you funny, remind them that meat draws botflies within merely a few minutes, sorry grok can't fan all of them away, they land and lay eggs, which turn into larvae in the meat, and maggots. Grok ate more than a few maggots.
Remember Cavemen also didn't have refrigerators. If some caveman can eat only a few ounces or grams, and the beast he theoretically killed weighs upwards of a thousand pounds or 500 kilos, that means he can't eat it in one sitting. So it's gotta sit. Warm meat. Perhaps out in the african noon day sun, or sittin in some dirt. Or drug into a mouldy dank mildewed cave, and it would begin to rot.
Caveman Grok couldn't put any food in a freezer, so technically if you are on the paleo diet, you cant either. You have to leave your food and meat out. Not just in your house, but OUT. As in outside, in the sun, and where flies can land on it. Afterall, it's what grok did. Plus, according to Robb Wolf and Mark Sission, you not only 'should' do this, you were explicitly DESIGNED for it! Because according to their paleo diet, you are expressly evolved to eat maggots. In fact, you should be inborn with a desire to eat them and have your brain wired to the idea they are delicious. That is, if you subscribe to the paleo diet.
Paleo food is full of maggots. It would also be potentially infected with viruses, such as AIDS, SARS, Bird flu, H1N1 virus, swine flue, spanish flu, trichinosis, brucellosis, ecoli, fecal bacteria, and Scabies.
Naturally, your brain right now is wired to think these are scrumptious sounding! Afterall, the paleo diet says you EVOLVED precisely to eat these. And, according to paleo, you can eat it and not get sick, because afterall, if you'd been eating it for thousands or millions of years, you'd be immune to salmonella, ecoli, giardia, cryptosporidia, sars, aids, and anthrax by now as a human, right?? This is what Robb Wolf, Richard Nikoley and Loren Cordain and whoever signed you up for that crossfit class and wants yout to go paleo, want you to believe.
Crossfit is now widely regarded as a humiliation. It's considered a laughing-stock of the fitness world, sort of like disco rollerskates and the mullet. It involves doing burpees and some pushups. Running around, and pretending you're going up steps. Crossfit is often ridiculed as "Paleo Pilates!" (the woman's light exercise).
Cavemen didn't have olympic barbells. Not even dumbbells. And certainly not the fushigi of fitness fads: the kettle bell. If you see anyone with a kettlebell, you know immediately they're into the latest fad diet, might as well have been into spandex in the 80's. Sorry, Grok didn't use kettle-bells. Especially little pink rubber coated 2 pound ones.
If you are doing ANY weightlifting, or using iron plates, barbells, kettlebels, dumbbells, any machines, leg presses, cables, nautilus, treadmills, etc, sorry but you're not Paleo Crossfit. And since we see No structures in paleolithic archeological digs, cavemen didn't run around with stones, or logs, or stumps, they ran around after animals with a tiny pointed stick. Probably more often ran AWAY from the animal in the opposite direction. And with meat lying around, the carnivores would smell it for miles and end up making Grok their next meal. Carnivorous wild animals don't eat fruit, so if Grok had that, the carnivores would have left him alone, and would have had higher survival rates. A diet of meat would have meant predators smell the stink and would have led to paleo man's more likely death and eventual extinction.
Thus this is why crossfit and paleo are horrible for bodybuilders. Lack of protein, parasites that would eat muscle and cause tissue degeneration, diseases that would waste muscle tissue, body odor, bad breath, vomiting in cross-fit puke-buckets, no weights or barbells, just what amounts to esentially warmup 'calisthenics' (burpees and jumping jacks, and pushups), which is not sufficient to build bodybuilder class muscle mass.
UFC FIGHT RESULTS LIVE
The UFC was created by Rorion Gracie of the Gracie Family, a vegetarian.
In fact, a vegetarian created the entire Octagon, the idea of fighting in an 8-sided cage, and MMA as we know it in the UFC today were all created by a Vegetarian, the ultimate fighter.
This is why vegetarians are dominating the UFC. In fact, a pesca vegetarian, Royce Gracie, won the very 1st UFC. And he won the 2nd one too. Vegetarian diets have proven superior for athletes, including ones where you need to be the toughest, strongest, muscular contender with incredible cardio and endurance that won't quit. Plant diets do this.
Witness the fact that endurance athletes don't go out and eat a 5 pound steak before running an ironman triathlon or a marathon. You'd feel sleepy, feel weighed down, lose the race, and after a pitiful distance of running, you'd throw it up. On the other hand, what do elite athletes do before a race? Eat carbs! And an apple or fruit. And they are fit, thin, and strong. This confirms plant diets yield fantastic stamina, endurance, muscle firing strength, and energy. Lowcarb high meat high fat diets are now considered a debunked fad myth. It turns out in actual studies Meat is the worst diet for athletes. But many people who are not so educated in science don't know this and laughingly still believe the lowcarb fad diets, or even worse, the paleo diet, which has been found to be a scam. (Many believe that the Paleo Diet told to them in the books is what caveman actually ate, it's not true. For example, Cavemen drank untreated water. Like from a stagnant pond, or drank out of a mud puddle outside, or from a stream that may have bacteria in it. The Paleo Diet books don't tell you this. What this means, is that The Paleo Diet in the books is NOT the same thing as what Cavemen actually ate. Yet you'll see many under-educated people raving and insisting that The Paleo Diet is 'the best because it's what all our ancestors ate'. No it's not. The funniest example is when you ask a Paleo Dieter or Crossfit ballerina what they eat and they say steak because it's paleo, and then they find out Beef isn't Paleo. Beef cattle were genetically bred. And only arose 2,800 years ago. So Beef isn't paleo. Sorry, but if you are paleo, you can't eat steak. Beef isn't paleo. Cavemen didn't have it and didn't eat it. So if you thought beef and steak were 'paleo' and you've been eating it, guess what, if you thought you were paleo, this entire time you're not. This is yet another example of how the paleo diet books and paleo fad is non-scientific, and was found to be a scam. Most paleo dieters are simply easily duped by what's called 'pseudo-science'. It's when a diet scammer concocts a bunch of 'scientific-looking' things, articles, etc which appear to be all scientific but they are all containing flaws. But since those on the Paleo Diet are often not as smart, they don't know it. In fact, the opposite is true and they'll rave and insist that they are the ones who have the 'real' science. Until you start pointing out that beef isn't paleo and they've been eating it, which stuns them, and now they can't drink treated water out of the tap in their own house nor bottled water, cavemen didn't do that, they need to drink untreated bacterial water from a watering hole that just had animals pooping in it, that's what Grok did. And there were no refrigerators 20,000 years ago in Africa, so guess what, you can't put your meat in the refrigerator, you have to let it sit outside. And a paleo diet probably contains maggots, so anyone saying they are paleo will need to eat some maggots. You can't brush your teeth, cavemen didn't have toothbrushes and salival mouth bacteria is where the diet and digestion starts. Oops...horrible bad-breath, body odor, rotten lukewarm meat with parasites and botfly maggots is now revealed as what cavemen really ate, so this is what your man is going to be doing, ladies, if he is bragging about the paleo diet. Oh, and ladies, grokette didn't shave her armpits, use mouthwash, and ate tapeworms, offal organs, and probably had a bit of feces in it, so be sure to dunk your food in the toilet first to be sure you get all the things paleo man ate into your diet. Paleo still sounding good? But we haven't even gotten started about meat now found linked to anus and rectal cancer yet.
In any case, as you see, one of the toughest men on Earth, the man who is responsible for one of the manliest athletic sports on earth, the Ultimate Fighting Championship is a Vegetarian, because vegetarians tested to have more testosterone, higher IQ, and more endurance and muscular stamina. Plant-based diets generate higher quality denser packed muscle. Meat-based muscle is flabbier and lower quality. Just look at meat-eaters, like a lion, lions are felines, they're feminine, their muscle is all smooth and lanky, not defined, and they grow tired and sleep all day. Cats sleep nearly 22 hours a day. They get exhausted easily and fall asleep. Also in lions, the male doesn't even do most of the hunting. The female lions do it. The male sits around panting in the heat. Now look in contrast to the muscle definition of a vegetarian, like a horse, you can even see the muscles rippling on the body of a horse. And if you think a horse isn't muscular and powerful, you shall now be reminded that it's the very definition of it. Even your car's engine is rated in "Horse Power", showing that its the strength of a vegetarian that is used as the very definition of how powerful something is. Now think how silly it would sound measuring your car's engine in "lionpowers".
As far as masculinity and manliness, there is nothing greater than the ALPHA MALE. Know where that phrase came from? A Silverback Gorilla. Guess what. Gorillas are vegetarian. Vegan in fact. Gorillas weigh upwards of 400 to 800 pounds, dwarfing any human man, and literally rippling with powerful muscle. If you still falsely believe that you can't get 'protein' or somehow you need meat to grow muscle, go up to a Gorilla and instigate it. Tell it that if it eats plants it's sickly, weak, wimpy, has no muscle, and can't ever get any protein by eating plants and fruit and poke it. When it gets done flapping you around like a girl's rag doll and then after you get out of the hospital, you'll now be more educated on the subject. Oh, and sorry '4 stomachs' arguers, Gorillas only have 1 stomach, they're like us. We're like them. Our DNA is nearly 98% the same. Sorry, but plants contain higher quality protein and generate bigger, stronger denser muscle cells.
The strongest land animal on earth is a vegetarian: The Elephant. 20-thousand pounds. Where did it get its protein? Elephants don't eat meat. And have 1 stomach. Like us. Same as the gorilla, a primate. Like us. Tallest animal on earth is a vegetarian: Giraffe. The biggest dinoaurs to ever roam the earth were the plant-eating ones. If you still believe you can't get protein from plants when you have plant-eaters with huge muscles reaching everywhere from 800 pounds, to 20,000 pounds and even reaching 100 tons, you must not be smarter than a meat-eater. If you still believe that steak has protein and not plants, and you have to eat meat to get protein, then where did all that protein you think is in the steak come from? Cows don't eat meat. It all came from original plants. In other words, a vegetarian is eating the fresher, more original proteins. A meat-eater is merely taking the same protein and putting it into the mouth of another animal first. A meat-eater's protein has been chewed and inside an animal's mouth. In other words, a man eating steak, a meat-eater, is simply getting a vegetarian man's "sloppy seconds". The vegetarian is getting the better quality, freshest, proteins. The original.
Indeed this is why a vegetarian invented the UFC. A vegetarian invented Gracie Barra Jiu-Jitsu, BJJ, and Mixed Martial Arts as we see it in the UFC today.
THE UFC WAS INVENTED BY A VEGETARIAN.
I'm fascinated with Porcupines. If you ever have a chance to quietly sit down and observe a Porcupine in the woods ... do it ... It's a Zen experience.
I talk to them, it seems to calm them down.
North American Porcupines are immigrants from the southern hemisphere: survivors of GAFI, the Great American Faunal Interchange, the continental exchange of long separated species which occurred when an island chain rose to form the Panamanian Isthmus connecting North and South America about 30 million years ago.
Here, they remain strangers in a strange land ... Their closest living relatives are the South American Capybara, and the domesticated Guinea Pig.
They have strange eyes , which protrude dramatically from their sockets, and rotate slowly, very independant of facial movement.
( I sat calmly next to this fellow, about 3 meters away, for nearly half an hour the other day, trying to grok the Porcupine mind.)
Grok Xi
We lived in Juneau for many years and have always cherished every memory. Kat and I would walk along the shoreline and see this daily. I never got a good shot. This is my way of bringing back a memory. Hope y’all dig!