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  1. It appears @Del has developed a language of time as it relates to astrology. But in this case, he’s giving us insight (data) on how he communicates information about the movement of the “stars” as it relates to the subject. I feel this language is necessary because it is difficult to determine who’s moving - beings, the stars, or the earth. Although scientifically space-time is a measurement to help us take into consideration the unknown perceiver’s view - it doesn’t convey its emotional effects or help us to communicate effectively. You mentioned misinformation in another thread - but what if we could diagram it from an individual’s perspective? Then we might see the information differently. Seeing it wasn’t misinformation - but perspective. So It seems Del’s Time Markers can share insight with the subject from varying perspectives. - at any point based on the stars - even before the subject was born here (present). .This language tool can be handy - if you believe we are all energy that materializes in any form - during any point in time. The time markers - can allow us to “see” the incarnate’s feeling at a point in time .. Not necessarily what or who we were… And we can learn what emotions we are carrying in this life - whether they are useful to us or impeding our Journey. ASIDE: As I was answering, the film “Lucy” came to mind - “She used “Time Markers” to accomplish her goal - not sure if that adds to this explanation - but it popped up as reference to let me know I was assembling that picture to communicate. NOTE: This information may have nothing to do with Del’s Time Markers - it’s just the feeling I got when I read his words 🤷🏽‍♀️
  2. Ok - I didn’t expect this thread to go from algorithms to consciousness! - Excellent! I’m glad I read from the bottom up because I was going to write that I agree the answers are within - but first you must solve the first puzzle. #KnowThySelf. And look at your conclusion!! 👊 it’s impossible to know anything before you’ve solved your own equation - “know thy self” The avatars throughout the ages have advised this to all of their followers. I suspect it is the reason Feymann once said, “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.”
  3. Roads, bridges, highways, tunnels and facilities are in need of repair and maintenance. There's massive amounts of landscaping and clean up that needs to be done too. America should be beautiful everywhere we look. Not a piece of trash or a blade of grass should be out of place. No robots required. People need to get their hands dirty. 😎
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    @Pioneer It's a mystery to me why you think i would prefer having you rather than my dog and cat laying around. or even being in your company under any circumstances. You've really convinced yourself and continue to try and convince everybody else that I have thing for you. All i can say is, I don't. But dry your tears. Maybe Farrakhan can get you a job selling bean pies.
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    Maybe I won't have to. Maybe I'll just move to Illinois and move in with YOU if you move all those animals you got in the house out of the way....lol "Alright...... One of us gotta go"
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    ************************************************************************************ @Cynique This particular vaccination is different from the others we've had in the past because it was a rush job and it did not undergo the normal trials that vaccines must routinely endure. Then there are all the rumors surrounding the COVID vaccine, and the negative comments that influential people have made about it, all of this has caused people to be reluctant about getting vaccinated. What @Pioneer1 and other employees are going through is so much more than being punished for not being vaccinated. Citizens do not even have the right to their medical privacy anymore. This used to be sacred and it should be unlawful to violate people's privacy. Our rights are gradually being stripped away from us until we'll have nothing left, and then it will be too late to do anything about it. Right now, I'm just worried about Pioneer1, this is not a good time to be out of a job, or without an income. People have enough things to worry about. I just hope he will be alright. Where are you Pioneer1??? ************************************************************************************
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    Why have vaccines become such an issue? They've never been 100 per cent safe, but they've always been required in many situations; schools, the military, foreign travel. I still have a vaccination scar on my arm that dates backt 80 years ago. Nobody asked what was in the small pox vaccinations, and i'm here to tell you that whatever was in them was worth the risk. i don't advise people one way or another about geting the shot, but it's unfortunate that it has become politicized. I took my time about getting the 2 shot Moderna vaccine and I'm in no hurry to get the booster one. Whatever This world is so jacked up I will soon be disowning the human race. Freedom ain't free. That's a hard lesson to learn.
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    Great sounds by great artists who me and my husband may have been checkin out back in our jazz clubbin days...the way we were. \
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    Pioneer, I take it you have a plan to insure your financial needs are met. Be well. The ripple effects of this pandemic are wide. Population control. Social divide. Workforce restructuring. Do not be distracted by the balls juggling in the air. Always watch their hands.😎
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    ************************************************************************************ @Pioneer1 Good Morning! I am so sorry to hear that this happened to you. What are you going to do? Do you have a plan B? I don't want to give you advice if you don't need it. Let me know. ************************************************************************************
  11. @Del&@Mel Hopkins So is this like... living in the moment and - becoming the moment, the moment being a set time determined by a marker of one's choice??? Was "Lucy" the movie about a female android in heat? 😍
  12. Not in my experience and observation. Where I live, we see blue. Let's get this encounter over and done with so that I/we can get back to whatever we were doing previously. 😎
  13. Yep. There is a fine line between spicy enough to enjoy and too hot to taste. 😁 When I cook for other folks' consumption, I do not compromise the flavor of food for the sake of bringing the heat. But, I've always got my own stash of hot sauce to top off my portion. Cosby was a brilliant comedian. D8mn shame that dude looking chick helped in getting him thrown into greater confinement for a minute. White supremacy sent their message. As it relates to eliminating confusion, it would help if artists and musicians wrote songs with a real message that made the listener think and learn. Common is a conscience rapper. Jay-Z rapped that he could write lines like Common Sense but ever since he made $5 million, he ain't been rapping like Common since. Fast forward to present and these mumble rap n8gglets are not only rapping about nonsense, they repeat the same dumb azz lines as if they have a speech impediment. That sh8t is to music what McDonald's is to nutrition. 😎
  14. I think PTSD is the primary cause of it. They deal with and see things that cannot be unseen and/or forgotten. That's why I believe psychological evaluations need to be more extensive especially when folks want to go into law enforcement or military service. Also, mental health really needs to be addressed in this country across the board. I believe many folks have pre-existing mental conditions that go undetected. Anyone who's ever dealt with social services knows that some folks are unqualified to issue drivers licenses or food stamps. That funky azz attitude could be a mental problem. 😁😎
  15. Sounds like a really cool book title. When will it be finished Mel
  16. @Mel Hopkins Scroll down and check out Del's post Time Markers or experiments with time. and see if you get what he is saying to explain to me.
  17. Mzuri, all is well. No worries. I don't debate. Most folks know how to comply with police. As I mentioned, most encounters end without a problem. Unfortunately, there are ignorant people on both sides, citizens and law enforcement. That's when problems arise. Some people have little or no regard for life whether it's their own or someone else's. That needs to be fixed.😎
  18. Baise Moi has plenty of Sex and Violence.
  19. My Astrology teacher used to say this often Science is from the Latin Scio, to know. However I believe that all advances whether it be in Science Art and everything in between arises from inspiration. Inspiration literally means to breath in Spirit. Words or rather language is the key to thinking. There are different types of symbol sets: Letters; Pictographs; Glyphs; Hieroglyphics. Which range from being representation of physical objects, representation of ideas, or just markers that are arrange to convey meaning.
  20. This is true. It's about developing your self expression. Once you can express your questions you sometimes realize that the answer is in the question. I do believe that answers are all there just waiting to be observed and integrated into knowledge. 😲
  21. I used to read about mathematics and how it has been used over time. In my quest for understanding. Same with science and scientists. I also read a fair amount about the esoteric. It is only in the last decade, that I am getting close to the answers I have been seeking. I was using the wrong tools. If you look at Einstein, Newton Feynman, Pythagoras, Plato, Socrates, Malcolm X et al. There is a similarity they all had a laser focus and could see an articulate what other could not. They each used the tool that was best suited to their personality to find truths. The old adage is true the answers are inside of you, you just have to use the correct key. It probably helps to be an independent thinker.
  22. Unless engaged in a violent confrontation, nobody should fear that their encounter with the police will lead to death or severe injury. In fact, most interactions between police and society do not end up with somebody being dead or severely injured. Unfortunately, there are race soldiers embedded among those who have sworn to serve and protect citizens. Given an opportunity, a race soldier will maim or kill. IMO, police do not have to be re-trained. They know exactly how use restraint when dealing with people who look just like them. There are numerous encounters where police have engaged in hours long confrontations without firing a single shot while the assailant does. The police recently engaged in a standoff with some folks barricaded in a house. The police officer can be seen and heard on his bodycam begging and pleading not to have to pull his weapon. I believe police officers should be a reflection of the communities they serve. It does not make sense to stick a dude with a KKK mentality in a black community. The law enforcement community should do a better job when conducting pyschological profiles in order to determine who should become a police officer. They should keep a record of problem children (bad officers) to prevent them from going from one jurisdiction to another. While I don't necesarily think police need to be defunded, unless they are planning to go to war, I don't see the point in a police department having military hardware (tanks, rocket launchers, assault rifles,etc.). There isn't a city under seige anywhere in America requiring that much firepower. Jacob Blake's life was spared but the quality of it has been severely compromised. I wish him well in his physcial and mental recovery. 😎
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    Actually I didn't JUST quit...I quit my job about a week ago. Dozens of us did. I've heard that anywhere from 1/4 to 1/3 of the entire workforce at the company I worked for have quit over the vaccine mandates that they are imposing. ((Don't worry Troy this isn't gonna be an anti-vaxx propaganda post....lol)) They sent us an email and a letter the other month and I told them to go jump in a lake of shit, lol. We walked away a week ago. First a few of us, then more and more as the week progressed. But it wasn't finalized and we thought there might be a chance through litigations and other actions to halt the mandate coming from corporate, but apparently it didn't. Despite the White employees being the ones who made the biggest fuss over the mandates and were the loudest voices in the room about half of the Black employees quit and a smaller percentage of the white ones too; which I didn't find surprising at all because Caucasians are PART of the system....it's THEIR system. So most of them will obey orders, take anything, or do anything they are ordered to do to MAINTAIN the system...despite all of their "Live free or die" rhetoric. But a lot of the younger Black employees are confused and sitting around squinting their eyes and twisting their lips over how so many of their "white friends" betrayed them and went ahead and stay and got the shot...while telling them for month and months how they'd NEVER take it. I'd just sit there listening to them and grinning because I KNOW the drill and I know that most of them are working together to support the system. "I'll NEVER take the shot! I'll NEVER compromise my values and principles. America! Live free or die baby!!!" ((five months later)) "Well what do you want me to do man? I got a wife, a kid , and a dog to feed. Life happens dude...sheesh!" Lol...these people LIE like saying "good morning". You can't put your trust and faith in them and what they will or "won't never" do. I tried to tell the younger Black people this. They should have studied Neely Fuller Jr. like I told them to, and they wouldn't have been confused or atleast AS confused. When you don't understand racism and how it REALLY works...you WILL be confused.

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