Election Day

Voted today, then took a walk.

This well dressed couple holding hands were talking about the incumbent opposition candidate in very unfavorable terms. I have lived in this neighborhood for over two decades and my mother used to live here when she was young. I have never seen this couple before. I have never heard anyone talk about politicians in public like this couple. Not in this neighborhood. It is the garment district of Seoul.

I followed them for maybe over 20 minutes. I wanted to take a picture and record them, but then they got in a car and drove off.

According to the exit polls, the ruling party just lost its majority in the parliment. The main opposition party is celebrating and a newly created party which is predicted to win almost 40 seats is also in a festive mood.

Democracy in Korea?

The "supposedly" democratic President giving a speech on national TV, on the day before the election of the national parliment? Asking voters to vote for a cooperative parliment. Cooperative to who? The ruling party? The people?

The Korean TV media says that they are impartial and unbiased, but when you look at the visuals, the story is clear. The picture on the screen always shows smiling and reasonable ruling parliment members versus unhappy and complaining opposition parlimentary members. They are also showing ruling party members with leading actors and actress supporting them in their campaigns. They also show opposition members with actors and actreses, but they are less famous and there were fewer references per party. Also the ruling party is always mentioned first. Even in discussion panels, the panel will rip into the opposition but are careful when mentioning the ruling party.

The Ministry of Unification giving a press conference on North Korean defectors? It is something the ministry has never done before. They are supposed to work towards ending hostilities, not increase them. The government never officially announces the defections of important North Koreans due to repercussions from North Korea, To do this would almost guarantee some rash reponse from North Korea which probably would only help the ruling party in the parlimentary elections. North Korean has been silent so far. Hey, maybe they are getting smarter. I hope that this doesn't count as promoting the North Korean regime, which is illegal. People get arrested every year, it seems.

Maybe someone should report on Korean media? It seems that the Korean President through the government can appoint the CEO of a major TV company and other things. Stand-up comedians cannot make jokes about the President for some reason.

Do you know that if I blog in favor or against a candidate today or tomorrow, I would be charged with a crime? It is true. I cannot blog in favor or against a candidate during the national election period of about 2 weeks.

And yet, the Korean government through the Military Cyber Command and the Korean NSA's undercover agents can blog against the opposition "to counter North Korean influence on the internet"? The Military Cyber Command was found guilty on some charges and NSA was found innocent, I think, on some technicality? They had agents try to commit suicide for faking evidence in spy cases and other shit in recent years. One suceeded?

Considering how much agitiation is being done by the media, it seems that the ruling party is in danger of losing its majority in the parliment for the first time in 5, 7 years?

Now, back to the metaphysical world. Can self-awareness actually be another intelligence "inside" the human? Explains our extraordinary intelligence and conflicts with human or "physical" nature.

Prove Jesus Right

Jesus taught how to avoid cognitive dissonance by speaking the truth, turning the other cheek, independence from material needs, doing good and many other actions.

Avoiding cognitive dissonance enables one to discern God, or some God-like phenomenon.

Playing For Change - Imidiwan Afrik Tendam

Mike & The Mechanics - The Living Years

Mind Clouding...

What are the meanings of "work by God"?
   1. God created work (labor, art).
   2. Work (labor, art) next to God.
   3. Work  (labor, art) abiding God.
Know any more?

What are the meanings of "mind clouding"?
   1. Confuse mind.
   2. Seed mind with thoughts.
   3. Getting confused.
Any more?

Roger Miller - “Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."
Bob Marley - Redemption Song
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Religions and Cognitive Dissonance

Telling people that they must believe most of what many religions preach or they are non-believers and will go to hell definitely causes cognitive dissonance.Whether you listen to religions or otherwise, unless you know God.

Telling people that God listens only to prayers done in a certain fashion with certain beliefs definitely distances people from God.

Telling people that officials of various religions are more knowledgeable about God and they represent God also distances people from God.

Should more religions let people know that God is also inside them? To think to God and to try to have a personal understanding with God?

God in the back of one's mind.

Get rid of self and only God remains.

Collective Soul - Shine
O.A.R. - Heaven

Favorite Song

Victor Wooten - I Saw God

How To See God?

Many try to see God with mostly eyes and ears.

See more of God through thought, logic, belief and by doing good.

Los Lonely Boys - Heaven

You Are What You Write

If written properly, written words are a better reprepsentation of what you are than verbal words which are more temporal and rushed.

With written words you can revise and refine what you are trying to put into thoughts and discover new meanings.

Change and refine the self through writing.

AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long

Conservation of Intelligence

Most believe in the conservation of energy and conserving it.

I believe in the conservation of intelligence and conserving it, at least a part, in writing.

Things appearing from nothing is magic. Is intelligence appearing from nothing, or is intelligence coming from something like God?

Also, are humans too self-centered? Should they start thinking about the universe from the perspective of meta-living, mostly metaphysical entities?

Lifehouse - Falling In

Logos

Some say that Logos is the Word of God. Some say that it is the intent, or will just before physical words form in the mind.

Is that how God speaks? Eliminate physical or material thoughts and connect to God. Slightly beyond words.

Billy Joel - River of Dreams

God Thoughts?

Does God speak through thoughts?
If God spoke to one, would one realize it?
How does one know if it is one thinking or it is God speaking to you?
Have to look, in order to see.

 Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror

Terminally Well?

Same here.

Alabama Shakes - Always Alright
Graffiti6 - Free
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things

Could Meditation Help?

If enough meditated and willed the world to understand, would it be faster than trying to explain?

Toots and The Maytals - Redemption Song
Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
Steve Winwood - Higher Love
Johnny Cash - Man In Black

Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See
Allman Brothers - Midnight Rider
Janis Joplin - Me And Bobby McGee
Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans

Ever Try To Imagine?

That the edges of the universe are connected?
Is The Universe A Dodecahedron?
Casual Dynamical Triangulation: Booting Up The Space-Time Contimuum

Is belief thinking and consciousness knowing?
Jon Kabat-Zinn: Coming To Our Senses

Namaste?
Jesus In India - Beyond Belief Documentary
Jesus In India by Edward Martin
Murree, Pakistan. Used to go there during summers.

Rob Thomas - Ever The Same, Someday, Little Wonders

Thank God/You!

Objective Thought and Subjective Thought.
Perceived Reality and Actual Reality.

Is consciousness after death of the physical body possible?
Is thought possible after death of the physical body?
One's thoughts mixed with God/You thoughts?
Distinguish thoughts and find the answer?

Bob Marley - Get Up Stand up
Dr. Wayne Dyer - You Are Not Your Ego
Jiddu Krishnamurti - On The Nature Of Love
Don McLean - Vincent

I Is Human Consciousness. What Consciousness Just Is?

Maybe there is some noumenon in higher dimensions that is manisfestated in life forms as consciousness with the physical body giving rise to the sense of self?

God trying to see God through human senses? Thinking?

Peter Russell - 'The Great Awakening' - Interview by Iain McNay
Dr Peter Fenwick - 'Consciousness and Dying' - Interview by Iain McNay
Bruce Lipton - 'The Power Of Consciousness' - Interview by Iain McNay
Dr Amit Goswami 'Consciousness, Quantum Physics and Being Human' Interview by Iain McNay
Alan Watts - The Nature Of Consciousness

Sting - If I Ever Lose My Faith In You

Classical Physics, Quantum Physics, Metaphysics

Ever watch "Quantum Physics and Consciousness", "Synchronicity and Quantum Entanglement", and "The Primacy of Consciousness" on YouTube?

Photons have no mass, time, or space? They can exist outside of space/time? Since human consciousness exists in space/time, for the photons to be observed in space/time, there needs to be 186,000 miles of distance for every one second of time? Like photons, consciousness can exist outside of space/time. Thought is a time dependent or change dependent process? Existing outside of space/time is the "Absolute"? And they can infer the non-locality aspect of existence outside of space/time from experiments on quantum entanglement and synchronicity?

Tracy Chapman - Give Me One Reason

Dimensions

Many dimensions seem unrelated to physical space, yet are connected to physical space. Like the dimension of information. Wonder if physical space, information, change, mass, energy, consciousness, and will are dimensions?

Rob Thomas - Her Diamonds

Heaven

A matter of perspective? Earth is in the heavens, if viewed from another planet. Is Earth Heaven? Depends on you?

One Republic - Good Life
Bob Marley - Get Up, Stand Up

Can Church Cause Cognitive Dissonance?

Today? Probably. Future? Only God knows?

Sam Cooke - Twistin' The Night Away
Jackie Wilson - Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher
The Clash - I Fought The Law
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
Bob Marley - Three Little Birds

5th Dimension?

Ever wonder and think about the 5th dimension? Could be energy.
What about other dimensions?

6-D could be the dimension of Order or Meaning
7-D could be the Self or Personal dimension
8-D could be the Many or Impersonal dimension
9-D could be the dimension of Heaven or God

Confucius said, "Heaven is being next to God".
To think is to be alone? To think is to be with God?

If the world were perfect?

Would one notice God? Could one find Jesus?

Bob Marley - One Love