Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Diwali Photos
New Vrindaban Community celebrated Diwali on Saturday Oct. 25th. We hope you enjoy seeing some photos from our “Festival of Lights.”
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Happy Halloween
Posted in Jokes, Science
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Irrelevance
“The Bhagavad-gita informs us that in this body there is a proprietor — the spirit soul. I am the proprietor of my body, and other souls are the proprietors of their bodies. I say “my hand,” but not “I hand.” Since it is “my hand,” I am different from the hand, being its owner. Similarly, […]
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Irrelevance
“The Bhagavad-gita informs us that in this body there is a proprietor — the spirit soul. I am the proprietor of my body, and other souls are the proprietors of their bodies. I say “my hand,” but not “I hand.” Since it is “my hand,” I am different from the hand, being its owner. Similarly, […]
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Thinking Things Through
A hard rain fell, pounding the asphalt, collecting here and there in puddles and running into streams, and without a bus in sight. Five men stood forlorn, lost in their thoughts, waiting and wondering. Somehow it surfaced that they were all trying to get to the polls in time to cast their votes, and so they all decided to chip in for a cab. There was Joe the Plumber, Joe Six Pack, Joe Camel, Joe the Bartender, and Joe Mamma. The cabbie also happened to be a Joe – Joe Biden. But he was a strange guy in a Stephen King sort of way. The passengers each settled into their seats and tried to relax as their cab sped through the night.
Joe Six Pack was the first one to break the silence with a chuckle. “Ain’t this something. I haven’t voted in years and years. Usually to bombed out to vote. Didn’t even care about voting. Didn’t even know who was running. But when I found out that Obama might get into the White House, I had to vote. I said to myself “Joe Six Pack, it is your civic duty to vote. Sarah Palin is counting on you.” The last time I voted was when I was sober in Nebraska, years before I moved out this way.”
“Are you registered in the state?” inquired Joe Camel.
A confused looked appeared on Joe Six Pack’s face. “Registered??? What the…!!!”
Joe Mamma had a sudden realization, “If Obama got in, it shouldn’t be called the White House any more. Them blacks are always ruining things, looking for hand outs, bumming nickels and dimes, whatever. They are gonna ruin the whole economy. And just when I was about to land a job. Why should they get any special deals. It’s them and the Jews that’s spoiling everything… and the Latinos… and the Catholics… and the chinks in China whose taking away all the jobs. Obama is in cahoots with them. He’s a commie Marxist. Probably wants to raise taxes so he can send our hard earned wealth to China. That’ll be the day – over my dead body.”
Joe Camel budded in “And what about the gays. Can you imagine if the gays and lesbians took over. There wouldn’t be any more children to carry things on. Nobody goin to the car races, foot ball games… no kids around to see Saw XX. The seats would all be empty. Something has got to be done! I mean, what’s going to happen to traditional family values. Heck, I’m all for marriage. Been married three times myself. But you think Obama cares!”
“But the worst thing,” Joe the Bartender added, “is that Obama would pull us out of Iraq. To bring home the troops now??? It doesn’t make any sense. Especially with the job market the way it is. I still got my job because most people have their priorities straight. But has Obama ever even been in a bar? Bush knew what he was doing – creating lots of jobs and a cash flow to the right people. Spreading the wealth around to the Blackwater guys and Halliburton. And now it’s going to those fat cats on Wall Street. All these guys, when they come into my bar, they can really put it away. And then, in the natural God given course of things there’s what I call “the trickle down effect.” See, Reagan had it right. It’s just the way God arranged for things. But this Obama, I don’t know what he’s thinking! The guy’s a wimp. Somebody’s got to stand up for the freakin rights of the free world.”
Joe the Plumber was unusually silent. “McCain’s gettin my vote,” was all he could muster, and the rest of the group mumbled in agreement.
All the while, Joe Biden the cabbie had been listening intently, peering into what seemed to be an endless void, driving through the mother of all rainfalls as the windshield wipers worked frantically. He wanted to speak up in the worst way, but he bit his lip. All he knew is that he couldn’t let this bunch get to the polls any time soon. His man was Obama, and five less votes for McCain surely couldn’t hurt. He wouldn’t have to say anything, but he’d have the last laugh. The trip was just going to take a little longer than anybody expected. He decided to take the long way around, head over to the east side of town, and across the bridge at San Luis Rey. But he did not know that his cab would be on the bridge as flood waters swept it away. And paying the cab fare, which none of them had anyways, turned out to be unnecessary.
“In this world there is nothing so sublime and pure as transcendental knowledge. Such knowledge is the mature fruit of all mysticism. And one who has achieved this enjoys the self within himself in due course of time.” Bhagavad Gita 4:38
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Green Power a Real Threat To Coal
Full story
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Solar power plants and other renewable energy sources are real, competitive threats that neither the coal industry nor the state’s political and academic leaders should dismiss, a consultant warned Wednesday at the second West Virginia Coal Forum.
While the carbon in coal has many potential applications, its future as a fossil fuel […]
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Srila Prabhupada’s Disappearance Day
This Saturday, Nov. 1st is Srila Prabhupada’s Disappearance Day (fasting until noon).
Please come share your memories, appreciation or favorite Prabhupada story. This year we’ll begin by hearing from Srila Prabhupada’s grand-disciples first.
Everyone is invited to bring a food preparation for the 1:30 p.m. feast.
8:15 AM Bhagavatam Class
9:15 AM Breakfast
10:15 AM […]
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
The Limey X-Files
I must profess an honest interest, dating from my very childhood, when I used to go straight to the very beginning of the Dewey Decimal System in my local library to find books on Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, the Bermuda Triangle, and best of all……
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Bhakta Seva’s BBQ Sauce Recipe
2 1/2 Cups Tomato Paste
1/3 Cup Butter
1/4 Cup Water
1/4 tsp. Hing
1 Cup Sugar
1 Tblsp. Molasses
1 Tblsp. Salt
1 tsp. Crushed Chillis
1 1/2 tsp. Dried Parsley
3/4 Cup Lemon Juice
2 Tblsp. Soy Sauce
1/2 Cup Mustard (see mustard recipe below)
Put all ingredients in a pot and simmer on medium/low heat for 45 minutes, stirring regularly, until the sauce is […]
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
philosophy of mucus
Not the most nectar subject, but useful information nevertheless.
This in taken from Dr.Christopher’s book, “The School of Natural Healing.”
“Excess mucus in the body often results from partial decomposition of blood plasma, due to a nutritional shortage of potassium chloride, the element that enables fibrin to remain in solution in the blood.
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Laws of the Universe
I came across this in a book by Alan Seale called, Soul Mission, Life Vision.” These laws are attributed to an ancient Egyptian philosopher named Hermes Trismegistus. In the book he goes into great detail. Here I give an outline.
1)The law of mentalism:- everything exists in the mind of God, and the mind of God exists in within everything. Out of thought comes creation.
2) The law of correspondence:- there are inner and outer universes. As above, so below.
3)The law of vibration:- everything in the universe is in a constant state of vibration. Everything is in motion.
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Vote Mountain Party
Yesterday I went and did the early voting thing down at the courthouse. Early voting is used in West Virginia and a few other states so no one has the excuse that on Election Day they were too tied up to vote.
There were several other candidates on the ballot for president besides Tweedle dee and […]
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
“The Dead” by Billy Collins
The dead are always looking down on us, they say,
while we are putting on our shoes or making a sandwich,
they are looking down through the glass bottom boats of heaven
as they row themselves slowly through eternity.
They watch the tops of our heads moving below on earth,
and when we lie down in a field or on […]
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
The Last Bite
Excerpted from the New Yorker, check out the whole article here.
Is the world’s food system collapsing?
by Bee Wilson
“The World Bank recently announced that thirty-three countries are confronting food crises, as the prices of various staples have soared. From January to April of this year, the cost of rice on the international market went up a […]
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Prabhupada Letter July 1, 1971
Center: 3764 Watseka Ave. Los Angeles, Calif. 90034
July 1, 1971
My Dear Shama Dasi
Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you very much, for your letter and nice presentations. I was thinking of you since a long time because I have not received any letter from you. I am very pleased with your nice presentation […]