Tuesday, December 4, 2007

college stereotypes

http://media.www.iowastatedaily.com/media/storage/paper818/news/2004/04/22/Opinion/Editorial.Destroying.College.Student.Stereotypes-1099943.shtml

according to this college article, the main stereotypes on their campus are that all the kids do is drink, destroy property, and then have their parents pay the bill.

http://media.www.easttennessean.com/media/storage/paper203/news/2002/09/12/Lifestyle/Defeating.Stereotypes.Key.To.College.Students.Gaining.Respect-273258.shtml

This article discusses that a lot of older generations this that college is full of a bunch of crazy party animals. Television and movies portray college life as different than what they really are.
Movies and television make say: like to party, stay out late, completely put aside their studies.

Truth is- hours of class during the day, work at least 20 hours, then study time at night or early morning. many college students are full of sleep depervation.

MTV show "Undressed" depicts college students with nothing but raging hormones. There are some that fit this category but many are concerned with that. The same goes for the Spring Break specials.

stereotypes for college life and the students are usually completely false.

Sunday, December 2, 2007

The wonders of energy...

http://www.healpastlives.com/future/cure/crfield.htm

According to this website, the human energy field is always receiving energy from the universe. This energy sustains your entire existence: body, mind and emotions.

Aura= energetic skin that holds all your inner energy bodies and outer body together.
Chakras= pores in the energy skin which regulate the flow of universal energy in and out of body.

Your energy field is the instrument of wellness and the source of illness. Your body gets sick or unwell if you are not listening to it. When you become healthy again it's when you listen to our whole self and not just take medicine. Without personal change, you will eventually create another problem that will lead you back to the disease in the first place.

*your aura is a vibrational energy that surrounds your outer physical body in all directions, and it extends both internally and externally. It reacts to your every thought, word, feeling, choice and action instantly.

~the flow of the universe if from energy to matter: energy flows from your inner bodies to create the matter of your physical body.

- your bodies are a balance of six flowing fluid layers and strong grid structure
physical= green physical body. the layer of matter that you see, hear, smell,, touch and taste.
astral- red astral body. emotions and heart energy
causal- orange causal body. the "seed body" where experiences are stored. filters your perception of new information.
mental= blue mental body. attitudes, beliefs, thoughts, and ideas.
etheric= purple etheric body. intuition, knowingness and guidance.
soul= white soul body. layer of energy that manifests as intuition, knowingness and guidance.

and much much more...

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Faith Healing...

http://www.faith-healing.com/

Dr. Helena Steiner-Hornsteyn was named ONE OF THE WORLDS TOP 4 PSYCHIC HEALERS by the National Examiner.

She says that faith healing is the activation of your own inner healing abilities.

She was born with a gift to see energy-fields inside and around the human body. With some time she discovered that certain cells within the body contaain the actual CAUSE for physical and emotional imbalance and that this information can be intuitively changed.

She found that there are three dimensions within and around us that determine our overall well-being and even our good or bad luck in life. It cannot be solved with technology or human logic. It can only be experienced in person...with the Dr. herself....

The rest of the website is her going on about her gift and giving inspirational quotes.

Adoption!

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=063807b03d92b010VgnVCM10000045f3d6a1RCRD&vgnextchannel=063807b03d92b010VgnVCM10000045f3d6a1RCRD

Adoption is the legal act of permanently placing a child with a parent or parents other than the birth mother or father.

Inter -Country Adoptions:

- adopting children from all over the world has steadily increased in the last decade. Over 20,000 inter-country adoptions are taking place per year in addition to more than 200,000 foreign-adopted children already living in the US.

-the US Department of Homeland Security, US Citizenship and Immigration Services all play a role in the adoption process

-Prospective parents are encouraged to familiarize themselves with inter-country adoption processes before filing applications. An adoption agency is helpful for guidance and assistance with immigration of orphans and adopted children.

There are 2 LEGAL ways to bring an adopted child into the country. Form 1-130 which is that you have the child in your primary care for two years, and then you can file the petition for an alien relative. And then there is form 1-600 which means you can petition to have that child adopted at any time, even if it takes place after they turn 16 or 18.

If the child is older, it is harder to adopt them except there are two exceptions: 1. biological siblings of a child can be adopted if under 18 years of age, and 2. orphans over the age of 16 may be adopted as long as the 1-600 petition was filed before their 16th birthday.

KINDS OF ADOPTION:
open adoption- the adopted child/person has access to her file and records. In the US the adults adopted as children can only access their birth records in Alabama, Alaska, Kansas, New Hampshire, and Oregon.

semi-open adoption- the birth parents may meet the adoptive parents one or several times but nothing more. Letters and pictures may be exchanged. The relationship can change to be open or closed over the years

closed adoption- non-identifying information such as medical records are shared until the point of placement. After the adoption is legalized, no further information is shared between the adoptive and birth parents. In some other cases, no information is shared at all.

Types of adoption:
Domestic adoption- within the country that he/she was born and normally resides.
Foster care adoption
Intra-family adoption- step parents or through surrender, the death of a parent, or hen the birthparent cannot care for the child and another family member steps in.

Same-sex couples: Very unclear in the United States. Judges and clerks vary on criteria.

Costs: adoption costs and assistance vary between countries. In some countries it is illegal to charge for an adoption, while in others, adoptions must be facilitated on a non-profit basis. adoption programs will give assistance, especially with their expenses. In the United States there is a $10,390 tax credit for adoption.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Guantanamo interrogation techniques

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/08/19/usdom9248.htm

Gauntanamo Bay is where the US has a detainment camp for people outside of the Unisted States who theu believe are involved in terrorist activities. They keep them here, and use "interrogation" techniques to get information out of them. U.S. policy says that they have to be treated "humanely", but the Department of Defense has never really told what all they do to the detainees.

Then three is a table of the dates in which certain interrogation techniques have passed through the government.

There is a link on the side of the website however that has another table of what interrogation techniques are allowed to be used, and what has been passed, and is seen as "humane". That list includes things such as:

Use of mild, non-injurious physical contact such as grabbing, poking in the chest, and light pushing

Use of wet towel and dripping water to induce misperception of suffocation

Exposure to cold weather or water (with appropriate medical monitoring)

Threatening to transfer detainee to a country from which he would fear death or torture

Removal of comfort items (including religious items)
Sensory deprivation (light and auditory stimuli)

~All of these things have been approved to use, and these are just a few on a long list.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Edgar Cayce

http://www.edgarcayce.org/edgar-cayce1.html

Edgar Cayce was an average person, he was a husband, a father, a photographer, a sunday school teacher, and a gardener, but he also had a psychic talent...

Cayce could go into a "sleep state" where he would lay down on a couch, close his eyes and fold his hands over his stomach. He would be able to go to any time or place and answer any questions. They called his answers "readings". He was very before his time, talking about maintaining a well balanced diet and improving human relationships to overcoming life-threatening illnesses and experiencing a closer relationship with God.

Most of his works and materials are still in tact and the Association for Research and Enlightenment, ICE (A.R.E). He was able to predict things that you wouldnt be able able to know about in his time. He predicted the downfall of communism , and he also used words like "meditation", "spiritual growth", "auras", and "soul mates" and "holism". These words will be used in everyday vocab later on.

Given the name and location of any inividual, he would be able to lay on his couch and answer any questions asked about that person. These are all documented at A.R.E. and it's the most massive collection of psychic information maintained from a single source. They say that he is one of the most versatile and credible psyhics the world has ever known.

Monday, November 5, 2007

The Nandi Bear

http://www.newanimal.org/nandibear.htm

They say that the Nandi bear is a bear from Africa that people from the Nandi tribe have seen and described. European settlers have also reported seeing the bear, and the descriptions sound exactly like a bear, right down to its posture and mannerisms.
The author of this site said that the descriptions had to be the truth or "outright lies or hallucinations". So I guess it's the latter.

The Nandi bear is small, no more than five feet tall when standing on its hind legs. They climb trees and are very good at it, which is how they escape from people. They look almost exactly similar to the European brown bear.

The article makes a comment about how the Nandi bear can be a surviving remnant of the Atlas bear, but then it lists all the things that they don't have in common and why they wouldn't be. So I guess that whole section wouldn't help the side that there is a Nandi bear.

The Nandi could have come from the Middle East and traveled to Eastern Africa when they found the hospitable forests. Then the ew settlers could have destroyed the link that connected the Nandi bears to the brown bears. Since the Nandi bears are now in a new climate and cut off from the other species, they would have picked up all the new traits that the brown bear doesnt have.

Other explanations of the Nandi bear are that it is an undiscovered species of giant baboons. But this is mainly because the Nandi tribes have not had any experience with bears and would have to compare this animal with something that they know, which would be a monkey. Crytptozoologists have compared it to a hyena family. That would explain why it was in the area that it is, and it would look a lot like a bear.

Monday, October 29, 2007

Halloween is coming...

http://www.doyouseedeadpeople.org/

This website is called "P.R.I.S.M" for Paranormal Research & Investigative Studies Midwest. This group is based in Omaha, NE and St. Louis, MO with satellite teams in these spots. Their goal is to record and capture as much evidence as possible to prove that paranormal exists. They are also like the ghostbusters because they can go to your house or place of business. Everything is free of charge, and no information will be released without the consent of those involved.

The website has a bunch of links at the sides with titles called "our investigations", and "our best evidence". They have an area where people can submit their own pictures of what they believe show ghosts or paranormal activity.

This site has a lot of things that you can look at that helps support them in their belief that there is paranormal. It's actually very interesting to look at.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Cottingley Fairies

http://www.cottingleyconnect.org.uk/fairies.htm

This website talks about the story of the Cottingley Fairy hoax.

In 1916/17 two girls names Frances and Elsie had been teased because they had told a story about them seeing fairies. Elsie borrowed her father's camera, took some pictures, and when they were developed there were pictures of the girls with fairies.
Mr. Wright, the developer banned her from using his camera again and put the pictures into a drawer. He thought that the fairies must have been made out of paper, but his wife however thought that it was real.

A year later Frances wrote letters to friends in South Africa talking about her everyday life and just mentioning the fairies in casual conversaiton, like it was an everyday thing. She put a picture in the envelope too.

Then, a couple years later Mrs. Wright went to a lecture on fairies and told the story of the pictures of the girls with fairies. People overheard her conversation and a man named Edward Gardner asked to see them. Gardner brought the pictures to a photographer who had the ability to examine them fully to see if they were authentic. The photographer said that they were completely genuine and unfaked. Gardner then wanted one other expert (Kodak's) to look at the photo and if they were not faked, he would write an article about them in the Strand article.

Kodak said that the pictures had not been tampered with, but fairies aren't real, so something is not right about the photo.

Gardner then went to Cottingley to interview and speak with Mrs. Wright and Elsie. So when the kids were out, Gardner went through the girl's rooms and looked around outside for any sign of something that would tell him the pictures were either real or fake. He didnt find anything. So in 1920 we published an article called "An Epoch Making Event- Fairies Photographed".

after that there was a lot of controversy and even more people coming out and saying that they saw fairies and wrote books about seeing fairies.

In 1983 Elsie wrote a letter saying that the fairies had been drawn by them, cut out, and pinned with hatpins. So that solved the mystery!

BUT in 1986 Frances maintained in her last television appearance that "there WERE fairies at Cottingley"

so the mystery lives on....


duh duh duh.

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Those fans will get ya...

http://www.fandeath.net/menu/definition.htm

Fan death is a Korean belief that if you are sleeping in a sealed room with an electric fan on, you could die. Apparently there are similar beliefs with air conditioners, and heaters in homes and cars.

How fans can kill you:

Hypothermia: if the fan is running in a closed room, it could make your body temperature lower so much that you could get hypothermia and die.

Suffocation: They believe that the fan creates a vacuum around your face which makes it impossible for you to breathe correctly. And if you can't breathe correctly, you die.

High Levels of Carbon Dioxide: They think that the fans use up oxygen and that it leaves levels of CO2 in the room at high levels.

The belief of fan death in Korea is is confirmed by the media as well as police officers. Professionals like doctors have even warned people of the dangers of fan death.

So now that you know the dangers of fans... always remember to keep a window open, or maybe a door.

Monday, October 1, 2007

The Illuminati are among us...

http://skepdic.com/illuminati.html

This aticle is all about the history and current status of the Illuminati.

The Illuminati was a secret society in the 18th century but were destroyed in 15 years of their starting. But the Illuminati is still out there, and trying to form a single world government with the Anti-christ, who is probably George Bush. Not only have the Illuminati succeeded, but according to this article, they now run every government and aspect of society.

The problem is because no one knows about them...and because there are no traces of them ever, that just makes them more dangerous. Which makes complete sense.
There are some people who also believe that the Illuminati are working with the anti-Christ and will destroy the world and bring about an Armageddon. The Illuminati have many people involved according to this, including the Kennedy family, Rockefeller, Onassis, and DuPont. These are just some major players.

Another main idea about the Illuminati is that they are run by aliens, and that they see everything in 4th dimensional time, not 3 dimensional like humans. This is thought of by David Icke. What is very amusing about this article is that Mr. Adachi's page is that he talks about the end of the world but then asks for money to his sponser to help with debt consolidation or a home loan... very nice.

Monday, September 24, 2007

did you know: there are cures for cancer...that no one knows about!

This article http://jackbenimble14.tripod.com/id10.html is about how the FDA knocks most of the practicioners of unconventional methods of cancer treatments out of thir studies, because if the people of the United States are not sick any more, then they lose money...and that's not cool.

The article began with him telling a story of how his foreign monther in coming to the United States was fooled by someone who wasn't even a real doctor. Her son, the author, had all these pimple things covering his body, so the "doctor" requested that he constantly boil his clothes and sheets, smear this lotion thing all over his body, and then sun lamp treatments. After he got second degree burns he went to a real doctor and was diagnosed with flea bites. The author is trying to gan the readers trust by telling some story about how he too has been fooled by fake doctors and how he would never so that to the reader.

According to this article, the United States is not very welcoming of new treatments and most things have to be FDA approved, which does not happen in most cases. The author makes a statement about the freedom te United States doesn't have compared to Germany and Russia, in these non-conventional practices.

Then the author goes on to talk about these certain things that can cure cancer, or AIDS, but does not go into how they are used, or what exactly it is. The first drug that can save pretty much everyone from getting cancer is called "Cesium Chloride". Apparently this isn't covered my insurance companies so the cost is very high for it, and it comes right out of your pocket. The second teatment is "oxygen therapies" which he means to be ozone, which is activated oxygen. He says that ozone can get rid of AIDS, but if the same dangerous lifestyle is continued, the virus can come back...

I found that to be very interesting. There is a cure for AIDS, and no one even knew about it...

The authr goes on to list a few more practices that aren't allowed in the United States, but have been very successful elsewhere. The author also makes a comment about how the United States is so dependent on drugs in their lives, seeing as everything goes wrong, that parents even find reasons to get their kids on drugs (ritalin) because they are preparing them for the future when everything will depend on the use of medicine and drugs.

I thought this article was very interesting. I had never known that urine, along with obscene amounts of vitamin C could cure so many diseases...
and since these are so easy to get, why aren't we? It must be the FDA... or it could be that I don't want to drink my own urine. That might be it.

Monday, September 17, 2007

Denying the Holocaust...

http://blogs.britannica.com/blog/main/2007/04/holocaust-denial-iranian-style/

The blog enrty that I had read is about why certain groups have denied that the Holocaust ever happened. In the west, the Holocaust itseslf isnt so much denied as the fundamental history. Like the gas chambers and the methods as to which the Jews were killed. However, in Germany where the Holocaust is denied is mostly coming from those who want to restore Germany's good name, as well as rehabilitate Fascism. In the Muslin world though, most of the denying is because the Islamic people are so infuriated that the Jews are being victimized by what has happened. The blog says that there are three main reasons why the Islamic people deny the Holocaust is because the want to make Europe look bad because they think Europe looks at itself as the tolerant and welcoming to outsiders. The second reason is because they want to demoralize the existence of Israel because they see themselves as the "legacy of the Nazis' victims" and the solution if another Holocaust were to happen. The last reason the blogger said is because they want to attack the United States because we use th Holocaust as a moral teaching against antisemitism.

The blogger said that if the United States along with the west and central Europe had not taken this stance on the Holocaust, there would be no point in denying it.

Then the issue of the Iranian President denying the Holocaust. The blog talks about the division that it has caused between the people and how there better not be a surge of people the agree with him and make him out to be some kind of martyr.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

UFO Believer...

http://frankwarren.blogspot.com/

*There has been UFO encounters with astronauts
  • Apollo 11 astronauts Aldrin and Armstrong reported to Mission Control before reaching the moon that they had spotted a cylindrical UFO
  • The conversation between these astronauts and Mission Control was picked up by other countries and published in newspapers, those of which have been suppressed in the United States.
  • It is claimed that Aldrin also saw a transparent being looking at him once he landed on the moon.

* The United States government has been covering up all UFO encounters

  • Because astronauts are mostly military officers, they could be sworn to silence by the US government
  • “Allegedly, NASA Director Kraft added that there was a public and a secret private A.S.A. radio frequency between Moon and Mission Control and that the conversation above took place during a mysterious two minute interruption in public transmissions.” – reasoning as to what could explain why people are talking about seeing extraterrestrial
  • Articles published in other countries about UFOs or extraterrestrial are suppressed in the Unites States, leaving most information unavailable to the public.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Shazam!

This is my blog spot. I do what I want. This is the first one that I am going to write. Super exciting. I know. So I went home this weekend, it was pretty decent. A lot of my friends came back which is ridiculous because we've only been in school for about a week. Oh well. I had a good time. And I'm not going back home until I have to, like on breaks, because I forgot that all my friends at home suck.