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Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973

RogerB said:
Hmm,

Personally, I would characterize it differently than to say "The military is protecting the women to some extent."

Personally, in the case of the ground troops, I would say the women are being wisely deployed to best suit their intellectual and physical strengths. I don't know the exact weight in pounds that the men are having to carry about on the battlefield but I have seen figures putting it up over 50lbs and closer to 75-100 . . . one shocker is the amount of weight in batteries to run all the personal gear such as night vision and such (have you noticed those funny things the lads have attached to the top of their helmets?). Today they have a rather vast array of personal electronic gear with them.

In the Navy and Air Force, the women are right on the firing line along with the men. In Desert Storm, for example, one woman was flying one of those tank-buster jets (called Wort Hogs?) that she brought back to base with most of its tail shot off and the fuselage shot through with holes about her cockpit.

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Yes, and for other reasons too...

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2011/04/marine-women-combat-marines-infantry-041911w/
 
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FoTi said:
Yes, and for other reasons too...

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2011/04/marine-women-combat-marines-infantry-041911w/
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In the Navy, women acted like women in service to their country. That could have changed since I was in the Navy.

Sea Orgers take note: Women who act tough, as if they have balls like LRH, are out-of-valence. They earn no respect.

Wait!

Clearly LRH lacked balls. His wife went to jail in his stead. He spent the last decades of his life running from the law. He got rid of anyone who rose in ability because he was threatened. ... I could go on.

"What would Ron do?"

Acting like LRH, is acting like a domineering, nutless coward.

That clears that up. :dieslaughing::dieslaughing::dieslaughing:
 
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Ted said:
In the Navy, women acted like women in service to their country.
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Like this?

[video=youtube;x_tmig8PxAw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_tmig8PxAw[/video]
 
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This for you politically correct types :biggrin: :biggrin:

As you will note below, this received from good old Oz this morning. :p


Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year!

I wanted to send some sort of holiday greeting to my friends and colleagues, but it is difficult in today's world to know exactly what to say without offending someone. So I met with my lawyer recently, and on advice I wish to say the following:

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non addictive, gender neutral celebration of the summer solstice holiday practiced with the most enjoyable traditions of religious persuasion or secular practices of your choice with respect for the religious / secular persuasions and / or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.
I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2012, but not without due respect for the calendar of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make our country great (not to imply that Australia is necessarily greater than any other country) and without regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.

By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms:
This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her / him or others and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. The wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.

Best Regards (without prejudice)
Madlene Pisano
Contact details withheld (Privacy Act).
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Gottabrain said:
Like this?

[video=youtube;x_tmig8PxAw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_tmig8PxAw[/video]
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:puke2: Excuse me for not watching this video. I guess I'm not politically correct or old fashioned or something. (Or my TRs are out?) I've just never been able to get used to this kind of thing. :blink: I guess society expects me to accept this, but honesty....I can't. :no:
 
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I think it's good. Let them be as they want to be. There's no reason for us to impose our "ought to be's" onto them.
 
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I saw this photo in the LA Times this morning. I like it.

As a society, as a culture, we have come a long way from the 50s.
 
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This is all so damn CUTE! Never seen this before like this. :biggrin:[video=youtube;kdSmtegThNE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kdSmtegThNE[/video]

Yippeeeeee YIPPEEEEEEEEEEE! He's here....he's here!!!!! :happydance::happydance::happydance:

[video=youtube;LWgkql-9L2w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=LWgkql-9L2w[/video]
 
Christmas

From 1790 through 1835, The Times of London didn't mention Christmas once.

Charles Dickens brought Christmas back with his tale of Tiny Tim.
 
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The First Santa Claus
Ed Butchart

CBN.com There have been some constants in all of my Santa Claus encounters. I still hear the same questions again and again, and I still answer them as though it’s the first time I’ve ever heard them. Many times this gives me a chance to give a minisermon about the significance of Christmas, and I welcome the opportunity. One of my favorite questions has to do with the roots of Santa’s role in the Christmas celebration.
A lot of people don’t know the legend of Santa Claus, so they have the mistaken opinion that Santa is a pagan figure with no relationship to the birth of Jesus Christ. Many of them have strong feelings against having Santa included in church celebrations. Unfortunately, some Santas don’t know the history either and do a poor job of explaining the connection.
The details are a bit obscure, since they go back hundreds of years. But there is no disputing the fact that the legend of Santa is based on a real man – and not just any man, but a bishop of the early church. His parents had died in one of the devastating plagues that swept Europe. This man, whose name was Nicholas, was left with a large inheritance. And though he was just a boy when his parents passed away, he found himself with the responsibility of caring for the church in his hometown of Myra, a small village in what is modern-day Turkey. Nicholas grew into a strong, healthy man and was very active in his community. When he was elected bishop, he was still quite young.
Aware of many needy families in his small village, he used his money to make their lives easier. Sometimes a family needed a specific item, and it would miraculously appear overnight. For example, there was a poor family with four daughters and no way to pay a dowry so that the daughters could marry. As the girls matured one by one, the money required to pay the dowry would mysteriously appear. The coins would be found in the elder sister’s shoes or stockings, which were hung by the fireplace to dry.
Acts of generosity spread throughout the parish – and so did theories about where the funds and items had come from. Nicholas always crept through the village very late at night, and since he knew everyone, even all the dogs, he was not confronted by a single creature. After the “miracles” had been told and retold, the stories began to spread beyond the borders of his country. Finally he was unmasked, but the legends, now attributed to Bishop Nicholas, continued to spread.
His parishioners began to call him Saint Nicholas. Years later the church would canonize him, making the title official. As the stories and legends spread throughout Europe, his name was transliterated. From Sint Nikolaas (Dutch for Saint Nicholas), it became the nickname Sinter Klaas in the Netherlands and was ultimately brought to the New World by Dutch immigrants. Eventually the name was anglicized to Santa Claus. This is, of course, a very abridged history. The full story of this man is quite remarkable. Perhaps that’s the reason there are more churches in the world named for Saint Nicholas than for any other saint.
Clement Clark Moore (or Henry Livingston Jr., as some contend) wrote the poem “Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas” (later known as “The Night Before Christmas”). This poem and the illustrations by Thomas Nast, a Civil War-era cartoonist, helped refine the modern image of Santa Claus. Then Haddon Sunbloom, the artist for the Coca-Cola advertisements of the 1930s and ‘40s, further developed the image into the Santa Claus we recognize today. The legend of Santa Claus has nothing to do with paganism and nothing to do with the Antichrist, but many people think this because they don’t know the real history of Santa Claus. That’s the reason I enjoy being Santa and sharing this true message of love, acceptance, and generosity.
 
Back when I was a teen (16-17), before we ever heard the word"Scientology" my friend and I would sit for an hour or two looking at one another. In her parents' living room.

In hindsight, her mother had to think we were crazy.

We did this for a couple of years most afternoons

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It was NOT confronting!

It was more than "just being there"

We owned our space.

Try this: sit in a room with a comfortable friend. Look at one another. Own your space ( your meaning both of you possessive).

If something comes between you or the environment, ITSA it and maybe E/S.


The problem, as I see it, is when we let others own or control our minds, culture, viewpoint.

This restores ownership to you.
 
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FoTi said:
:puke2: Excuse me for not watching this video. I guess I'm not politically correct or old fashioned or something. (Or my TRs are out?) I've just never been able to get used to this kind of thing. :blink: I guess society expects me to accept this, but honesty....I can't. :no:
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What you choose to accept for yourself is your business.

The problem occurs when others seek to impose oughts on others, as in flow 3.

Societies require laws to ensure the common protection of all. Customs often arise in tandem with those laws in keeping with popular attitudes. The extension of law or custom, either to limit the private freedoms of individuals or to protect the private advantages of the privileged, is what constitutes an unwarranted intrusion on personal liberty and the unjust usurpation of power for oppression.

As for me, I'm pleased to see she made it home safely.


Mark A. Baker
 
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Riverside Mission Inn Christmas Light Show -
I went out to Riverside, CA and visited Candy Swanson on Xmas. She was raving about the Festival of Lights at the Mission Inn there.

I visited the Festival of Lights with her and took some pictures which I have not processed yet. However, I am posting a picture off of the internet:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockbandit/3072541309/

We ate at the Mexican restaurant inside the Mission Inn but had a beer at the bar while waiting for our names to be called. Next to us at the bar was a Mother and Daughter having a drink who were extremely friendly. In fact the entire crowd there was very open and friendly. It turns out that the Daughter works only about one block from where Candy lives so they exchanged cards and are going to meet for lunch next week.

The Mission Inn is a world class type of hotel, built in the late 1800's. Its architecture is absolutely world class. In fact, downtown Riverside has tremendous architecture with many structures representative of Spanish architecture. Riverside is now a city of 304,000 which is big enough to have a lot of ambiance and a lot going on but small enough to still have that small town, homey, down to Earth feeling.

Here is a picture of the internet - not a very good one but the best I could find:

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q...2A1AD7CF4D9687FA26D1F11F&first=31&FORM=IDFRIR
Lakey
 
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New Movie Out - "A Dangerous Method"

I just saw an art movie called "A Dangerous Method". It has to do with Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud and their collaboration and friendship which ultimately breaks up. The movie starts in Switzerland in 1904 and moves around mostly between Switzerland and Vienna. A friendship is formed between the two men. They travel to the United States together in 1910.

Jung was much more progressive and willing to try new things than Freud who is pretty much old school. Ultimately, Freud breaks off their collaboration and their friendship.

A key figure is Sabine, a young Jewish woman of Russian descent who is very seriously mentally impaired at the start of the movie. Molestation by her father when she was a child seems to be her "item" and Jung is able to get through to her and help heal her problem. She turns out to be brilliant and particularly brilliant in the area of psycoanalysis. She recovers and becomes a successful psycoanalyist.

She and the happily married Jung fall in love and as a result their lives get messed up, particularly Jung's. Jung seeks out Freud to help him and the two men start to lose respect for each other at this stage.

The movie is based on a true story. Jung, Freud and Sabine were all early pioneers in what was then called, "talk" therapy. Jung even had an electric instrument with a plotter which operated something like a cross between an e-meter and a police lie detector, way back in 1904.

Anyway, I thoroughly loved the movie and rate it an A plus or 4 stars.

It is good for ex Scientologists to see this movie to see what was going on in the psychoanalytic field back around 1904 to 1912.
Lakey
 
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lkwdblds said:
Riverside Mission Inn Christmas Light Show -
I went out to Riverside, CA and visited Candy Swanson on Xmas. She was raving about the Festival of Lights at the Mission Inn there.

I visited the Festival of Lights with her and took some pictures which I have not processed yet. However, I am posting a picture off of the internet:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockbandit/3072541309/

We ate at the Mexican restaurant inside the Mission Inn but had a beer at the bar while waiting for our names to be called. Next to us at the bar was a Mother and Daughter having a drink who were extremely friendly. In fact the entire crowd there was very open and friendly. It turns out that the Daughter works only about one block from where Candy lives so they exchanged cards and are going to meet for lunch next week.

The Mission Inn is a world class type of hotel, built in the late 1800's. Its architecture is absolutely world class. In fact, downtown Riverside has tremendous architecture with many structures representative of Spanish architecture. Riverside is now a city of 304,000 which is big enough to have a lot of ambiance and a lot going on but small enough to still have that small town, homey, down to Earth feeling.

Here is a picture of the internet - not a very good one but the best I could find:

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q...2A1AD7CF4D9687FA26D1F11F&first=31&FORM=IDFRIR
Lakey
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Looks like fun. Here's a video of the Mission Inn Festival of Lights

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg6CDjY6VVM&feature=related
 
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