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  1. @Troy, I don't think lacking ability to concede to another perspective is a function of gender per se, but rather society's expectation put upon men. I also believe "catty" behavior is a function of women too. We will nearly annihilate one another to win the favor of men. My favorite quote is still "Patriarchy isn't men or women but society. We all have the capacity to become caricatures of our selves. BTW, I was around. I don't think Sara and Cynique were catty with each other.. Those arguments were downright eyebrow singeing-edge-snatching vicious. So glad they are over. I missed Cynique's Corner, so I was anxious to read what Cynique has to share. I thought the arguments took away from her content. Same with you three, when you all stopped building and start tearing down, the lessons, the how-to-use the knowledge was lost.
  2. @Cynique it is the earthly male's greatest downfall. They have the most difficult time with -AND- . I see three men who absolutely want to be heard by each other but go about it in the most clumsiest way. I read through all these posts and I didn't see anyone saying anything diametrically opposed to the other...I saw the proverbial blind men and the elephant. And the frustration building from not each seeing exactly from each other's perspective. Still, I do agree with the alpha theory - it's hard to build alliances without having your POV heard and respected in this society. We as a society do tend to follow and form allegiance to the folks who know the most. (Still can't figure out why 45* is in the Oval office) But I digress.
  3. I originally want to re-post here for @Pioneer1 but think my response to @Troy "Can blacks ever be normal" about "astral projection and agreement" can go here too. We didn't say anything that is in disagreement .. I never lost my consciousness. We don't lose our consciousness when we join the THE ALL... We are in agreement until we ARE NOT that is when we individuate. In Astral projection you are still corporeal entity, You're still matter. Your question reflects a value system; a hierarchy. Value systems exist here in this dimension - This is indicative of people who are still attached to material things... We all are attached to matter in this dimension...It is the foundation of the value system. Still it makes it difficult to answer but I'll do my best. Just like you don't believe there's such a thing as race - the same is true in the other dimension. There's no hierarchy. There's no value system in the eternal. What is the value of infinite? But if I had to judge what has served me well, here, it is understanding of energy and its vibration. Also seeing light in the dark. Livings things, even things we don't believe have life are illuminated here in this dimension. If it is made from life or of living that energy remains with it. It is same with people - some people give off more light than others - and while I don't believe what people say I do trust their light. The one thing I'll tell you about leaving this dimension and traveling beyond is this: There was no "bright" light like most people say they see. It is an incredible darkness ( I wrote this part in my novel) like looking into a school at night where those cut-out shapes of Washington and Lincoln, made from black construction paper, are taped to windows. You can see the shapes even though they are pasted to the window in a dark classroom. When you return here... you can see beyond darkness because everything is illuminated to different degrees.
  4. We didn't say anything that is in disagreement. I never lost my consciousness. We don't lose our consciousness when we join the THE ALL... We are in agreement until we ARE NOT that is when we individuate. In Astral projection, you are still corporeal entity, you’re still matter. Your question reflects a value system; a hierarchy. Value systems exist here in this dimension - This is indicative of people who are still attached to material things... We all are attached to matter in this dimension...It is the foundation of the value system. Still it makes it difficult to answer but I'll do my best. Just like you don't believe there's such a thing as race - the same is true in the other dimension. There's no hierarchy. There's no value system in the eternal. What is the value of infinite? But if I had to judge what has served me well, here, it is understanding of energy and its vibration. Also, seeing light in the dark. Livings things, even things we don't believe have life are illuminated here in this dimension. If it is made from life or of living that energy remains with it. It is same with people - some people give off more light than others - and while I don't believe what people say I do trust their light. The one thing I'll tell you about leaving this dimension and traveling beyond is this: There was no "bright" light like most people say they see. It is an incredible darkness (I wrote this part in my novel) like looking into a school at night where those cut-out shapes of Washington and Lincoln, made from black construction paper, are taped to windows. You can see the shapes even though they are pasted to the window in a dark classroom. When you return here... you can see beyond darkness because everything is illuminated to different degrees. I'm going to post this in the spirituality discussion for @Pioneer1
  5. From my experience, there's only agreement in the astral realm - All are in the ALL. It was how I was able to return here. As soon as I voiced "I" want to return "I" have something to do... I individuated from THE ALL.
  6. Absolutely it makes sense! Let me let you in on a secret.. I don't believe anything people say. I do, however, believe they believe it. For example, I don't believe you don't believe I visited another dimension...but I do believe that you rather not believe it because it would force you to lose your grip on this spot and you're doing everything you can to keep your foothold... I get that too - because I'm afraid of losing my grip too. So in a way, skeptics especially natural skeptics allow us, those of us who float between dimensions, an anchor or tether as you mentioned earlier.
  7. bwhahahaha! Straight from a comedy skit... Yes, syntax is our best friend especially in discussions on the internet. So, @Troy what would you convince that people die and return? That is if there "earthsuit" (body) is viable, that is.
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    OCEAN'S 8  Warner Bros. Pictures' and Village Roadshow Pictures' all female Caper Heist flick
    Music Superstar Rihanna is coming to a big screen near you.  She is set to join a group of A-list Film, Television and Web actresses in the updated Ocean's 8 caper heist flick set in New York City.  Ocean's 8 expected release June 8, 2018
    Photo Credit: Barry Wetcher

  9. I forgot I added AALBC to my warnerbros mediapass list of platforms. When I went to update my profile today, I went to add it, AALBC.com popped up. It's either an already recognized site or I made it one. Warnerbros.mediapass offers videos, photos, news releases on all their upcoming movies - they also host media junket Q & A... I keep active on the site to see if there are any black movies or black actresses I'd like to feature and promote. All this to say, we writers/journalists can also post enterprising stories on our own site and submit to aalbc for possible publication too!
  10. Look at 4 visitors coming here from TheLeadStory.org! One of my favorite links to AALBC from The LeadStory is the AALBC book event widget! Every author with a website should at the very least use the AALBC calendar of literary events widget. It is the one widget that promotes other authors, literary events and keeps one abreast of national literary events throughout the year. I just noticed an upcoming event in Jamaica.
  11. "see" is an interesting way to describe energy - I did "see" too but what "saw" wasn't with my eyes. It was more like "seeing" motion in which all were represented. Yes as @Delano mentioned sort of like the sea of tranquilty that spoke as one. Speaking of which, another thing I brought back with me was the ability to use my sense of "feel"... so I wonder if those claims are more that they are able to "feel" their deceased relatives - Like @Cynique mentioned "Words fail us in this dimension. Agreed. It seems magick and spirituality are connected though. My mom said she saw herself hovering over her body. It was during a time she was grieving for my father. Also it wasn't her first time experiencing a projection . When she was younger she saw a man sitting on the wall in her room She said her own projection scared her and I think she willed herself to never allow it happen again. I have a feeling we can literally do all these things but choose against it. In a way, it makes sense how grieving loved ones can follow the one who preceded them in death. The "Give up the ghost" idiom must have started with this type of transition.
  12. I don't think you are. It feels like you are helping us remember to enrich our own property. For example, would I cut my neighbors grass' and allow my lawn to be overrun? Why would allow my property value to decrease and risk a fine? I wouldn't. I'd take care of my property which in turn helps the neighborhood! There are so many abandoned black-owned website's that we've turned the "black web" into a ghetto. Everyone ran to the suburbs of Twitter, Medium and Facebook. But I digress. Mostly, I've been pressing articles that I like to two of my 3 websites and adding my own commentary. I sometimes share articles and info through twitter. I'm on google plus, twitter and I have 5 followers/likes on my facebook "page" (pages can only communicate with pages). I share my blog posts through those platforms and I post directly on my AALBC profile status because I don't have an aalbc social sharing button. When I wrote the commentary/review for "Severed" I linked to @VL Towler's website and her book on Amazon (I'm finally an amazon associates) ... I share aalbc.com discussions on my websites (melhopkins.com/theleadstory.org) and through twitter. AALBC brings traffic to my site as does other websites. In fact, I really like to see that I get traffic from other independent websites. It encourages me to leave my comments on their websites with my website address. As long as the website and its blog remains active I continue to get referrals. The cool thing is I actually took my melhopkins.com website down for a bit. When I put it up on wordpress.com I noticed I was still getting traffic from those websites! As for as searches, yes, SEO is still the best. TheLeadStory.org which is hosted through wordpress.org still gets the most traffic from google and would you believe the second highest is traffic from baidu (the search engine based in Beijing, Peoples Republic of China) ? Maybe you can tell me why? The LeadStory.org is focused on black media consumption and anything related to black community activism through the arts. Also can you answer why is my traffic higher on wordpress.org hosted website than wordpress.com hosted website? Thank you for reading. You touched on a topic that really excites and interest me.
  13. If I believed there was such a thing as unknowable - ^ THIS would go in that category! I agree because when I was out of my body... I "traveled" with my consciousness. I was "me" traveling to a "place"... I conversed with THE ALL in the space I call the "Aether" ... but that place was not a location.
  14. @Cynique Poetry! I can absolutely relate to this scenario! It's beautiful and definitely explains some of the activities in my dreams!
  15. In this edition of Black Minds, Black Power: Powers-that-Be who ignore Black minds do so at their own peril and demise.maxresdefault3.jpg

     According to the Milwaukee Community Journal article, Anari Sengbe, offered up "Go Vote" an app to the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign but they declined. The app would allow volunteers to wait in in line for voters and donors to cover the cost for rideshare for health-impaired or disabled voters to get to the polls.  While the Clinton campaign may have said "no" Mercedes Benz and Direct Tv are saying yes to his apps that allow drivers to pay direct from their cars using bitcoins and giving a gift for pay per-view programming...

    More at Community Journal

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    2. richardmurray

      richardmurray

      i see @Mel Hopkins thank you... well, like most modern programming products they are built on top of current systems. To make a electronic network from scratch, that is the only way you have the control some want, is to be blunt fiscally expensive. 

    3. Mel Hopkins

      Mel Hopkins

      Thank you, it makes a lot of sense! I actually did take some of my clients that route to build an audience. back in 2008.  We used the facebook and blogtalkradio platforms and encouraged the audience to go to the client's newly build website.  

      As for grabbit.deals,  I was going to check to see if he had a website... I only have a facebook page and it's difficult to interact as a "friend" from the page.  I don't understand "bitcoin" but this seems like a fun way to get an introductory lesson.

    4. richardmurray

      richardmurray

      welcome

       

      bitcoin originally started as a sharing system, an algorithm dictated the value to items in bitcoin and people would trade with each other, objects giving a remainder as bitcoin, thus allowing some to earn. the people who ran the system would back every transaction by their own bitcoin bank if you will and over time it would grow. the problem is, national banks financially back every dollar in every currency in all the countries on earth. bitcoin not supported by any of these banks made it legally very complicated, as fisal law especially internationally is complex, intentionally. PEr any market fiscal illegal profiteers ran into bitcoin and hurt the system very badly, and having no countries backing made the negative stories hard to handle. It has been restarted from some others, but until governments utilize it, it will always have problems as a system

  16. @Troy, As a former high-flying flight attendant for 8 years, I learned one thing about death in this dimension - you can be dead as a door nail for hours or until your flight lands and pulls into the gate but as far as the state is concerned you are "alive". Next time you hear of someone being unresponsive but on the way to the hospital ... that means they've left earth as we know it but no one in authority has pronounced them dead. Death here in America is a legal term - but when you give up the ghost that's an esoteric ... Yes, my soul departed my body... when they joined together again I was lying on the street in the arms of an angel who happened to be a nurse... How wild is that? She actually cradled my body and when I returned I heard her say "Come back to me, baby. Come back" The next thing I remember was being in the hospital having an ear reattached, my face sewn up and a doctor talking to my mother and stepfather. It was all surreal but not is surreal is being among the dearly departed... Another reason I know I "eft" is because when I returned I was able to occupy several dimensions and the ability remains. (I say dimensions for a lack of a better definition because really there's no here or there...there's only here and now. I believe so too!
  17. I do as well! I bookmarked the senators's website to follow up. And yes, I think pursuing direct advertising is the best and allow google and amazon to supplement!
  18. Now this is wonderful news! I was reading something today, not sure what but "magical key" was in the text... so, thank you!
  19. That's just it! We are NOT locked into this particular timeline. We choose to be. And yes but it wasn't near... I was a goner but returned. I guess my body was viable enough to inhabit it once again. My experience in eternity was nothing like you described especially "time" because there isn't any. Yes we all remain who we are but there is a oneness so there's no need to individuate in eternity. Or maybe it's not possible while you're in eternity because you are ONE... Some people say my earthly perception of what eternity would be like influenced my experience but it did not. I grew up in the church - fire-brimstone church and when I returned to the ONE it was nothing like preachers talk about - NOTHING... Prior to my death. I was heavily in to magic spells and casting - when I returned, I didn't anymore. I became extremely interested in life , and experiencing it while searching for that feeling - that wholeness, completeness or agreement that I felt when I was in eternity... The weird thing though when I was there, I said I had to go back because I had something to do - and as quickly as I said I had to go back... I was back here.
  20. I explore etymology in the essay I wrote about "unknowable"... Medieval magicians practicing sorcery were versed in Latin and used it in their spells. We must be mindful of our words.
  21. @Troy Somehow, I get the feeling you're with me on unknowable tip - unknown is different from unknowable - But once again, this discussion board inspired another blog post...Maybe I will start up a blog here too just so I can provide commentary to our discussions! Here's the The Unknowable got you under a spell
  22. been there, done that... got the scars to prove it...
  23. contemplation allows us to "know" a thing. It's the nature of that thing that is not yet known or as you put it, tested, proven or observed... But lack of these things but especially observation doesn't make a concept or element unknowable. For example, before the quark was a concept - it was an unknown. Then it became a known because of what existed along with the particle - but still no one knew the nature of the particles. Now physicist have figured out its nature but guess what? No one has ever observed it! So how do you know that you aren't observing the very thing you are contemplating. It's like existing in 4th dimension, until you can see it, you can't. What is unknowable may be your perception of the thing. Therefore, the concept of "unknowable" is a mental construct... So my question as always "who does it benefit to create a construct for "unknowable" elements? " I know right? These effing people with their politricks I have another one article that blew me away... It's a subculture , I had no clue existed but is a society unto itself.
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