PAST THE TIPPING POINT.

Freya

In Norse mythology, Freya is a goddess of love and fertility, and the most beautiful and propitious of the goddesses. She is the patron goddess of crops and birth, the symbol of sensuality and was called upon in matters of love. She loves music, spring and flowers, and is particularly fond of the elves (fairies). Freya is one of the foremost goddesses of the Vanir.

Goddess of sex, battle, and pleasure, most beautiful and desirable of white-armed women, Freyja was sister to the male fertility god Freyr. Freyja had unusual parity with Odin, for they divided the heroic dead amongst themselves. Half went to live eternally in Odin's hall, and half in Freyja's hall Sessrumnir- and the goddess got first pick.

As befits a goddess, Freyja owned potent magical equipment. Like Frigg, she possessed a falcon skin, which when pulled over her shoulders, allowed her to take the form of that raptor.This also provided a useful disguise when needed - important to a goddess whose personage made her instantly recognisable.

Freyja's most wonderful adornment was her necklace (or possibly a jewelled belt), Brisingamen.It was crafted by four dwarfs, and was of exceptional beauty.Freyja so longed for it that she consented to spend one night each in the arms of its makers as her payment.This was a just recompense in the eyes of the goddess, for as the necklace was the finest of all things the dwarfs could produce, the utter summation of their skill, why not repay them with an equally precious example of her love-art?

Freyja always wished to give her love freely.Her beauty and desirability often attracted the attention of those she did not want, such as the giant who offered to build an impregnable defensive wall around Asgard, the dwelling of the gods, in exchange for taking Freyja away as his wife. The goddess knew nothing of this agreement, and her outraged indignation at being so wagered grew the greater as the wall grew taller. Never believing they would have to forfeit Freyja, the gods grew more and more uneasy in their wager, until Loki ,who had urged the agreement, was forced to utilise his trickster ability to the fullest.

Three animals are associated with Freyja. She is pulled about in a cart to which two cats are harnessed. Their sinuous beauty and comfort-loving nature recall one side of the goddess. The other two animals are direct symbols of sexuality and strength.

Her golden-bristled boar is called Battle Swine (Hildisvini), and recalls her role as the receiver of heroic dead. Battle helmets topped with iron and bronze images of boars have been found throughout England and Scandinavia, for the boar's savage and cunning nature was widely revered. The other animal is the mare, associated with night, unbridled sexuality, and dangerous magical power. To "ride the night-mare" meant then, as now, to have bad dreams.

The above thanks to Google Images--Google from whom all blessings flow.

QUOTES OF SHRI MATAJI
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

"But today it is the day I declare I am the One who have to save the humanity. I declare I am the One who is Adi Shakti, who is the Mother of all Mothers, who is the Primordial Mother, the Shakti (Divine Primordial Power) of the Desire of God, who has incarnated on this Earth to give meaning to itself, to this Creation, to human beings, and I am sure that through My Love and Patience and My Powers I am going to achieve it.I was the One who was born again and again. But now I have come in My complete Form and with complete Powers. I have come on this Earth not only for salvation of human beings, not only for their emancipation, but for granting them the Kingdom of Heaven, the Joy, the Bliss that your Father wants to bestow upon you."Shri Puratana Devi(Purantana: Primordial or Ancient)On July 26, 1995, the Great Primordial Goddess revealed that the Miracle Photo was genuine. Implying that over the duration of 21 full moons all the Messengers of God Almighty had given enough evidence necessary for the Believers on Earth to surrender to the Divine Message to humanity the Great Primordial Mother ended Her Revelations with these parting words: "We Have Done Our Job Here." Thus 1995 fits perfectly with the ancient Mayan prophecy that "a calendar cycle of twice the Kal-tun of 260 years had to go by in order for the Solar culture to flourish again for the benefit of all humanity." The actual prophecy reads;“In the year 1475, before the arrival of the Spanish, The Supreme Maya Council revealed the long-held vision of an ancient Solar Grandmother named X'Nuuk'K'in, that a calendar cycle of twice the Kal-tun of 260 years had to go by in oder for the Solar culture to flourish again for the benefit of all humanity. In the spring of 1995, this 520 year period will be completed. Thus, 1995 is a decisive year and the human race will have to enter the path of the cosmic light if it is to remain a thinking species. Humans will have to seek the path of initiation on Earth and in Heaven. Through Solar Initiation they will be able to see the luminosity of the Great Spirit...through Solar Initiation, the sleeping body of humankind can be awakened." Hunab K'u (Creator) will flash like lightening that will pierce through the shadows that envelop the human race. Let us prepare to receive the light of knowledge" (paraphrased Mayan prophesy)www.nativenet.uthscsa.edu/

Friends, we have passed a tipping point. I submit the above as evidence. In the proverbial three score and ten years we have gone from patriarchal to matriarchal societal structure. Mind you, we are not all the way to the right side of the pendulum's swing. But we have passed the mid position, or tipping point.

We can see that the ancients lived variably under one or the other structures. In almost all cultures of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas we see patriarchal organization. But it was not always that way. Using the kind of gods the ancients worshipped, scholars find that there were different ways in the past.

Marija Gimbutas


Gimbutas gained unexpected fame — and notoriety — with her last three books: The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe (1974); The Language of the Goddess (1989), which inspired an exhibition in Wiesbaden, 1993/94; and her final book, The Civilization of the Goddess (1991), which presented an overview of her speculations about Neolithic cultures across Europe: housing patterns, social structure, art, religion, and the nature of literacy.

The Civilization of the Goddess articulated what Gimbutas saw as the differences between the Old European system, which she considered goddess- and woman-centered ("matristic"), and the Bronze Age Indo-European patriarchal ("androcratic") culture which supplanted it. According to her interpretations, gynocentric and gylanic societies were peaceful, they honored homosexuals, and they espoused economic equality.

The "androcratic", or male-dominated, Kurgan peoples, on the other hand, invaded Europe and imposed upon its natives the hierarchical rule of male warriors.

Gimbutas' books and papers are housed, along with those of her colleague, mythologist Joseph Campbell, at the Joseph Campbell and Marija Gimbutas Library on the campus of the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, just south of Santa Barbara, California.

In 1993, Marija Gimbutas received an honorary doctorate at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. On 2 February 1994, Gimbutas died in Los Angeles. Soon afterwards she was interred in Kaunas' Petrašiūnai Cemetery.

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Among other changes ushered in by a shift from matriarchal to patriarchal, one often as not sees a switch from gentle gods devoted mostly to feeding the people who worship them, to gods of war and conquest. Only one culture seems to have kept both the old gods and the new. These people seemed to have worked out a unique system in which some of the former were held as hostages in the house of the latter. To which people/culture am I referring? Check out Norse mythology. I refer to the Aesir and the Vanir, and Asgard.

Thor as a blond.

So, here's what's in store for us shortly: gentle fertility gods and goddesses regaining their place in the pantheon (gentle, but occasionally planting a virile youth for the sake of a good harvest in the Fall), storm gods like YHWH losing a large part of His following, women moving into top jobs, and ultimately into control, physically larger women outweighing men on the scale as well as in the halls of government, academics, the professions, and industry; less risk of world war and diminished status of the warrior, greater emphasis on the family, clan, tribe; less emphasis on the nation, state, empire. Look around you and see some of this happening. The reason historians don't study anything less than fifty years old is that we cannot analyze contemporary events very well. We are in a great change right now.

But just as people who lived through the end of the Dark Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance, or through the end of the Agrarian Age and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution could not fully appreciate the scale of change swirling around them, so we cannot appreciate what is happening now. Add the possible near future events prophesied by Hopi, Mayan, New Testament authors, and others, and you can imagine the exciting and scary ride we are on. Think of your favorite scary roller coaster ride: the cars leave the station, begin a slow climb up a surprisingly steep incline, round a sharp curve to the right (and you are afforded a splendid view in 360 degrees), and then, suddenly, the bottom drops out. We are past the tipping point on the testosterone/estrogen axis. Big T is losing its control, Big E is in its ascendancy. Everything human is in transition accordingly. We are alive to see and feel it. And at least we can be aware of these momentous changes.

You go girl!

From Thor to Freya, if not a complete shift, at least a better compromise--something along the lines of the Norse of old.

If you like redheads, you will love Norse gods.

Now if we can just get the Muslim world on board. Women of the world unite! Work on this. Allah is to the right of YHWH. Go Freya! Go Freya!

PELOSI'S TORT BOMB.

And a Buried Tort Bomb:

A stealth provision that would undermine state damage caps. Article Comments (71).



In his September address to Congress, President Obama made a nod to bipartisanship by acknowledging that excessive litigation "may be" contributing to rising health costs, and he proposed state "demonstration projects" to test medical tort reform. This wasn't much of a concession, but it apparently was still too much for House Democrats, who are using their bill to subvert reform that is already on the books in many states.

Buried in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's 1,990-page bill is a provision that provides "incentive payments" to each state that develops an "alternative medical liability law" that encourages "fair resolution" of disputes and "maintains access to affordable liability insurance." Sounds encouraging. Read on, however, and you come to this nugget: The state only qualifies if its new law "does not limit attorneys' fees or impose caps on damages."

Holy Bill Lerach.

Huge contingency fees and damage awards are the mother's milk of frivolous lawsuits. That's why 30 states have adopted caps on awards as the core of their reform, with huge success. Texas imposed malpractice caps in 2003, and the state has been rewarded with fewer lawsuits, a 50% drop in malpractice premiums, and a flood of new doctors. The House bill is intended to discourage other states from doing the same.

The Pelosi bill also provides these incentives only if states adopt watered-down alternatives to existing malpractice caps. Those alternatives include certificate-of-merit rules, which in theory require lawyers to get medical proof before suing but in practice mean that lawyers recruit and finance "expert" witnesses.

States could also provide "early offer" rules, which are supposed to encourage fair settlement of legitimate claims. But as organizations like the Manhattan Institute have noted, those offers only work if combined with restrictions on lawyer fees and damage awards that reduce the incentive to go for the jackpot judgment.

The Senate bill avoids tort reform entirely, notwithstanding Mr. Obama's showy pledge before a national TV audience.

Never mind that reducing medical lawsuits is a rare reform provision that really would reduce health-care costs. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the savings at $54 billion over a decade. Consulting firm Tillinghast Towers-Perrin has suggested the direct cost of medical tort litigation is more like $30 billion annually. PriceWaterhouseCoopers estimates that last year $240 billion in health expenditures were the result of doctors ordering unnecessary procedures to protect against the risk of lawsuits.

The hidden Pelosi tort bomb is one more example of the stealth radicalism that defines ObamaCare. If it passes in anything like its current form, we are going to be cleaning up the mess for decades to come.

Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page A24. Bold face mine.

This much should be obvious to everyone: when we drive up the cost of covering the populace, we must decrease the amount spent on any one person in the population. So when we divert health care dollars to the trial attorneys we take money away from the providers and recipients of health care. There is not an unlimited amount of money available for health care in our country. Our limit is $2.1 T, or $2,100,000,000,000.00--wow, that's a big number. But so is the number of dollars currently diverted to the fat cats who suck the juice out of the system. Trial lawyers like the presidential candidate John Edwards take directly and indirectly a significant portion of the allowance. Someone goes without care already on account of the Tort Lobby and its owners. Change the system according to the Pelosi Tort Bomb and we will see a really painful diversion of money out of the system of health care. Add more recipients, take away some providers, add government bureaucracy and its inefficiencies (the "employer of last resort"), use the bully pulpit to push chronically ill elderly into Hospice prematurely, fatten the take of the Drug Lobby owners, demoralize the providers in the trenches, and markedly increase the diversion of increasingly scarce monies into the Tort Lobby and its owners. One does not need to be a logician or mathematician to see what is going to happen here. No doomsday predictions, just common sense here.

People will die of the Tort Bomb. John Edwards made a ton of money pulling on the heart strings of jurors, retarded the specialty of obstetrics in America, pushed millions of expectant mothers into the care of midwives, and did not give anyone a red cent worth of care. Multiply John Edwards time thousands and add up the cost of diverting health care dollars to lawyers. And don't think for a minute that these fat cats advance the science or art of caring for the well or the sick. Too many lawyers in government already. Now add to their take by rolling back state legislation limiting fanciful awards for pain and suffering a la John Edwards. This country was born in Liberty and will die in Law. If you have a solution for this one, have at it. I think we have passed a tipping point. Glenn Beck and his group will point such things out, no doubt. But I doubt anyone will change the trajectory of the "debate" at this point.

Cartoon courtesy of the WSJ. It's tough to debate with these people! Got to love Pelosi, Reed, and our President Obama. We voted for change and we are getting it!!

PC DEADLIER THAN OBL?

Granted, Osama bin Laden killed thousands on 09/11/2001. But I submit that our peculiar American penchant for "political correctness" is killing Americans, American soldiers at home and in the war zones.

Some backround first. I served five years of active duty in the US Navy Medical Corps. Those were years in the Regular Navy, not the Reserve. I started as an Ensign and ended as a Lieutenant Commander. A few friends in medical school and I drove to Milwaukee to sign up for service. We were hoping to get better training, experience, duty stations, and rank by signing up for a Navy program than by waiting for the draft. (In those days a doctor was drafted right out of training unless he was blind in one eye and losing vision in the other, or dying of a lethal process, or from New England.) Just half kidding on that last one.

I am sure that my being in the Navy's Ensign 1915 Program helped me land a great internship at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. Excellent training and a great duty station but not a way to learn the ways and people of the US Navy. For that one must serve in the Fleet. And that came about in a fortuitous way.

Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin

I talked to residents and fellows and staff about choices for duty after the Postgraduate Year 1, or internship year. Our internship group was told we could opt for two years duty in Viet Nam, or other. The others for me were Northwest Cape, Australia, or a base in the outer Aleutian Islands where the people were taller than the trees. Alcoholism and/or frostbite, or opt for a three year tour. Easy enough so far. One of the choices for a three year tour was Charleston, SC. And, as luck would have it, one of the doctors at Bethesda was from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. Since I was from Wisconsin, and since this was a turbulent year of racial unrest, I was a little uneasy about the idea of the Old South. My wife was more adventurous and had a good feel about SC and about Charleston, even though she had never been anywhere in the American South except Florida--and St. Petersburg, FL, is hardly Southern. (For that matter, neither is the Washington, DC, area where people quipped that the city enjoyed a combination of Northern charm and Southern efficiency.)

Charleston Harbor, beginning of the Atlantic Ocean

My wife and I opted for the Charleston tour, and we will always be grateful for that experience. There was an adjustment period. Our realtor told us we would not enjoy the South unless we slowed down a bit--Charleston then and Charleston now are not the same place. As one example: my first day on base started well enough, but as I was leaving the house I found the garbage scow and crew blocked the driveway. I was very upset and about to yell something when one of the men said "mornin' Cap'n, ain't it a fine, lovely day!" Well, I definitely got an on the spot education in the mores and manners of the Old South.

My first year in Charleston was spent in the fleet: Destroyer Division 42 of COMCRUDESLANT, an organization of the Atlantic Fleet with ships and crews and Division officers. Each of my ships had a petty officer corpsman on board, often as not a chief petty officer. The Navy has its own way, but it's been around a long time and it works well. (The slogan "shine she must, work she might" is a joke.) Look closely and you see that the Navy is run by Admirals and Chiefs. That is worth a post all by itself. This experience allowed me to get to know the Navy from the bottom up. Experiential knowledge is better knowledge.

The second year of the tour was spent at the US Naval Base Dispensary. I was the assistant medical director with five doctors on staff. The Medical Director was a board eligible psychiatrist. (We saw all the sailors and marines who claimed they needed to be excused from service because of this or that reason, mostly psychological reasons. The psychiatrist was to be our solid resource for these clinical judgements.) But the psychiatrist was absent more than present. This impacted the work load of each of us but none of us complained about it or about our Director. We just got the work done with the four of us.

My final year was spent as a general medical officer on the Orthopedic Service at the Charleston Naval Hospital. This is knowledge and experience that every doctor ought to have. If nothing else, it helps a person with orthopedic complaints, and that is something we all have, doctors included. Added up, I got a good grounding in military medicine and the military. This allows me to make a few judgements of my own with regard to the Fort Hood massacre and what is going on in today's Army.

The Fort Hood massacre will turn out to be a disgrace for the Army and Army medicine. The initial announcements by Army spokespersons and by command that the "alleged shooter" (was there any doubt about who did the shooting?) was not engaged in terrorism will turn out to have been outright lies. The extraordinary concern for the "diversity" of the military, at the expense of lives of soldiers, likewise is preposterous. The good army is a homogeneous band of brothers and sisters who obey orders instantaneously, can cross train, share rations and ammo, carry out missions and their own wounded, and that is anything but diverse. Not to mention the demographics which show fewer than one in twenty soldiers is not Christian. If the army wants to attract Muslims, it should do it in some way that does not neglect the safety of the vast majority of its own soldiers. If the army is so politically correct that its high command jeopardizes the lives of Americans, most especially of Americans in uniform, then we need a top down retraining.

The psychiatrist/jihadist Muslim/shooter should have been drummed out of the service as soon as he spoke out with jihadist views so publically and so loudly. He should have been investigated years before this terrible tragedy. This is a train wreck that should never have happened. We need courageous investigation and vigorous prosecution. And we need to hope for change.

And why do civilian police have to bring down the shooter on a military base? Does the army not have its own military police? Have we outsourced that to civilians, too?



Worse than the wounded and dead in Fort Hood is this: I think that we lose soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq because of the same deadly, idiotic political correctness. I know of cases where a soldier was killed by a friendly Afghan. If there is a blithe indifference toward Muslims who might or might not be a massacre in the making, there is no reasonable solution but to pull the military out of the war zone to protect Americans. Political correctness kills more than Osama bin Laden, at least at this point post 9/11. PC DEADLIER THAN OBL?

At best, a burial ground for empires.

Are we Americans going to allow our soldiers to be killed by and for Political Correctness? We and they are better than that. This nonsense has gone on long enough. Time for common sense to prevail--if not in our society at large, at least in the life and death world of the war zones.