Post about Kastrup's commentary on the LSD/Brain Activity experiment

Here's a spot-on essay by the acute observer Bernardo Kastrup.

Dr. Kastrup has a PhD in computer engineering, and worked on the CERN Large Hadron Collider (i.e., "atom smasher") in Switzerland.  

Kastrup notes that much of the media has misinterpreted the study to mean that taking LSD correlates with increased brain activity.  

In fact, that is not what the study says  It suggests that a reduction of brain activity is the result of ingesting psychedelics.  This is consistent with the findings of earlier studies of this type.

This is also consistent with the model of the brain as a reducing valve for reality, tuned to ensure physical survival.  In other words, the brain is specialized to only let in the input necessary to ensure survival of the body.  (This valve phenomenon was well-observed in Aldous Huxley's "Doors of Perception.")

So, when LSD is introduced, it has a strong tendency to relax and open up that reducing valve, which lets more of the "screened out" aspects of creation come through the consciousness floodgates.  It sort of "falls asleep at the wheel" of it's job to only let in sensory input pertinent to physical survival.

From the book "Doors of Perception"...

According to such a theory, each one of us is potentially Mind at Large. But in so far as we are animals, our business is at all costs to survive. To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet.

However, since this doesn't fit in with a common scientific model that consciousness is generated by the brain, a misinterpretation of the findings can slip by easily.  Unconsciously, reporters focus on a pre-conceived notion that LSD causes an increase in brain activity, not a decrease.

Post to Prescott's site about Survival eBooks DOT org

Off topic: I discovered a boatload of free downloadable old writings and recordings about psi topics.

Perhaps this information source has already been mentioned in this blog...?

Some person or persons put in a lot of work assembling this library of free materials.

I've just started to wade through it.

The site is called "Survival eBooks."

Judging by the look and style of this website, it was made quite some time ago. It's straightforward, barebones HTML -- no bells and whistles.

Much of the info is in the form of downloadable WinZip files.

(BTW, you'll need a way to unzip the WinZip files. You can buy the WinZip software, but no need to. If your computer doesn't readily unzip the files for you, trythese approaches.)

FYI, some of the audio files won't download for me, for whatever reason.

Here's a link to the website:

Survival eBooks

Post to FB about bernie sanders' socialistic proposals

Hi, Jon Henderson: I will accept your interpretation of the part of the US Constitution that you mentioned (rather than going and reading it myself). I trust what you are saying about it. OK, let's say the government is not explicitly authorized in the Constitution to tax for things like Sanders suggests. Now that we've established that, how do we get highways? How do we get public schools? How do we get cops? We need these things, so how shall we go about getting them? One could say, "Let the free market provide that service." But, there would be big problems with this approach. For example, who would coordinate the various capitalistic companies vying for their piece of the pie? For example, who would prevent the road system from becoming a chaotic mish-mash of mismatched roads, traffic rules, and styles of signs? What would prevent one company from buying out all the other companies and becoming a monopoly and charging huge fees to drive on their toll roads? Another example: Who would decide which fire department would cover what area? How would the fire departments charge for their services? It would be like, "That will be $12,716 for putting your fire out, Mrs. Jones." Mrs. Jones would splutter back, "But, but, but I didn't even call you. It was going to be cheaper to let my insurance rebuild my house than to have to pay you for stopping the fire. Now I'm out over $12,000." Meanwhile, fire department "B" is chiming in, "Hey, and we helped out, too, so we need $5,345." Having a government agency in charge would avert such conflicts in these and other areas of national need. Forget what the Constitution says or doesn't say; I'm looking at it as a matter of what works and what doesn't work. I don't think Bernie is off-base for advocating this.

About hunting

Hey, guys. I agree that charging to hunt is a good thing in that it finances conservation.-- financing that probably would come in no other way. The trophy hunters are supporting the species. I also agree that issuing hunting licenses as needed to manage herd size (as in the case of deer in Michigan, for example) is a great thing -- otherwise, the deer herd will decimate the forest. This applies to other animal herds, as well. I also think that hunting for food is totally OK, as long as it doesn't screw up the local ecology too much or drive a species into extinction. I also agree that hunting is a way for hunters to share a joyful, basic, human experience together. We are, after all, hunters and gatherers from way back, and our success as human beings is based in good part on group affiliations against a common foe. Deep lasting bonds can be, and are, formed between hunters. All of of the preceding is true, and good. My main point is that the lady in the picture seems almost sadistic. Yes, this lady in the picture probably paid money that helped wildlife conservation. That is one issue, and that is a very good thing. But, another issue is what seems to me to be her almost gratuitous love of dominance. She seems to be getting off on nailing that lion in a extremely lopsided fight, for no other reason than she likes seeing that lion go down. That is what I am talking about, It feels and looks really shitty to me.

Post to Bruce Siegel's blog about Ram Dass doing primal therapy

Post to Bruce Siegel's blog

Hi, Bruce!  I like your posts on Michael Prescott's blog.

In case you haven't read this, here is an account of Ram Dass undergoing an intense primal therapy session.

This account I find interesting.

1) Ram Dass is one who has embraced, due to direct experience, various spiritual and psi perspectives.

2) From what I have read, many of those involved with primal therapy specifically reject anything along the lines of a spiritual and/or psi perspective.

3) Yet, Ram Dass considered his primal session to have furthered his ability to experience directly the spiritual and psi perspective, and not to have undermined it.

Here's a link to the his account:

http://bit.ly/Ram-Dass-Primal

It is excerpted from Ram Dass' book, "Still Here"," which is a book about prospering from the aging process.

Best,
Jay

Arguing against the work of D. D. Home being explainable by magic tricks

From this discussion in Michael Prescott's blog:

Bill wrote:

"In conclusion, there is not a shred of evidence a trained conjurer or magician endorsed the feats of D. D. Home..."

There is, however, considerable evidence that a number of skilled magicians were/are at a loss to explain how Home did what he did.

This is very significant in that it suggests that accounting for Homes's activities as simply being magic tricks is quite possibly a dead end hypothesis. Many magicians have tried and failed to account for Home's activities in this way.

What is needed is a high caliber magician to account for Home's feats with clear, plausible illusionist techniques. To my knowledge, this has not been done.

Bill, I look forward to seeing the 40 books you had mentioned earlier in this thread. Perhaps this group of books contain an explanation involving magic tricks.

At this point, however, this seems to me to be a pretty much "mined out" avenue of exploration.

A much more promising avenue of exploration, it seems to me, is to suppose that at least some of Home's work was paranormal. This hypothesis has much evidence supporting it. The magic trick hypothesis, on the other hand, to my knowledge, has no evidence supporting it.

Bill, I applaud the vigor and effort you have put into exploring this question!

Post to Prescott's blog about Lunt's book about cheating mediums

The following post is on this page:
http://michaelprescott.typepad.com/michael_prescotts_blog/2015/11/home-sweet-home.html

Here's another book about trickery by mediums, written by Edward Lunt, published in 1903.

It is entitled Mysteries of the Seance and Tricks and Traps of Bogus Mediums: A Plea for Honest Mediums and Clean Work.

In the book's opening commentary, the author bemoans the great amount of fraud that polluted the credibility of the Spiritualist movement of the time. He gives his considered opinion that examples of true paranormality could be found, but were comparatively scarce compared to the huge number of bogus presentations.

Lunt's goal was to teach the sincere seeker how to spot fakes and sincerely misguided Spiritualist practitioners.

From the book's introduction:

"It is not a pleasant task to write regarding the faults or misdoings of our fellow-mortals, but there are times when it becomes a necessity, in order that the public in general, and our friends and acquaintances in particular, may be protected from the rascality and greed of conscienceless scoundrels. It is a fact well known to the brainiest men and leaders of the movement, that Spiritualism is to-day carrying an immense load of fraud and rascality. They know that a large proportion of so-called mediums who are posing as demonstrators of 'spirit return' are dishonest in their work, and use more or less of deception. This is true, not only of 'phenomenal' mediums, but also of those whose specialty is the mental phase, or 'test' mediumship, as we shall show in these pages.

"The writer of this has been a 'confirmed' Spiritualist for many years, and has passed through all the various stages of investigation, credulity and skepticism usually experienced by converts to the Spiritualistic philosophy. He has investigated carefully and without prejudice every phase of mediumship presented by professed mediums from Maine to California, and is as firmly convinced as a mortal can be from the evidence of his five senses, supplemented by intuition and a fair supply of common sense, that death (so-called) does not end all, and that the spirit or immortal exceedingly rare, and entirely beyond the control of any medium. To show how the counterfeit presentments of these phenomenal manifestations are produced, in order that Spiritualists may be able to detect and expose them, is one of the objects of this book; and to defend and assist the honest mediums of our land, and of the whole world, in fact, is another object."

Most of the book covers how the fraud is perpetrated.

Regarding D. D. Home, again, as was the case with Abbott's book (mentioned earlier in this thread), I do not see how the techniques of cheating described by Lunt can apply to Home's alleged feats, as described by Crookes.

I remain on the lookout for a book describing illusionist techniques that can explain Homes' purported abilities.

Again, as with Abbott's book, time constraints have prevented me from "fine tooth combing" Lunt's book. I was only able to give it a deep skimming. Please correct me if I missed an area that could potentially explain D. D. Home's supposed psi activities, as reported by Crookes. I saw nothing that was edging in that direction.

Here's a link to the book. I found the "flowing text" setting to be more readable than the "original pages" setting.

https://books.google.com/books?id=1x0qAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_similarbooks

Posted by: James Oeming | November 16, 2015 at 12:57 AM

Stored response to NetSpend survey that their computer rejected

Stored response to NetSpend survey that their computer rejected

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Warn the customer that you may need identity verification, and that if it is not provided, this will tie up their money for possibly weeks.

You required documents from me for identity verification.  I have opened NetSpend cards in the past without a hitch. I didn't have the documents readily available.   I didn't see this coming.

Meanwhile, my $300 was tied up EXACTLY when I needed it the most,  That's why I opened a NetSpend card, so I could swiftly pay creditors before a deadline.  I was told it would take many business days to mail me my money back.  That's not true!  If i were the relative of NetSpend executive, my money would be returned quickly. A higher manager could've authorized an immediate reversal of the agreement.  We both know this.

You also did not warn the consumer that their money might be tied up for many days awaiting mailing,  This looks REALLY bad.  It sounds like NetSpend CEO Chuck Harris  just wants the interest rate float, and that he doesn't want the expense of addressing this issue on a routine basis.

Chuck Harris also knows that if he warns the customer more documentation might be required, he'll lose a lot of business. So, I was sacrificed so Chuck Harris and the NetSpend execs could line their pockets.

From this link

http://michaelprescott.typepad.com/michael_prescotts_blog/2015/11/home-sweet-home.html

One of the most skilled psi critics ever is Dr. Ray Hyman.

He is a magician, a statistician and an accomplished academician (Professor Emeritus at University of Oregon). He is long-time major figure in CSICOP. He was hired by the Department of Defense to scrutinize psi research done at the Stanford Research Institute. He also served as chair of the parapsychology subcommittee of the National Research Council (NRC) study for the U.S. Army on enhancing human performance.

It takes very strong evidence for Dr. Hyman to concede that a psi event may have occurred. He very seldom makes that concession.

In this book The Elusive Quarry: A Scientific Appraisal of Psychical Research, Hyman had this to say about D.D. Home:

“It is true that no one who has studied the reports of seances by Home or Crookes’s accounts of his tests on this medium has come up with plausible ways he could have cheated” (p. 286).

Bill, if you have potentially plausible ways Home could've cheated, you will have a most interested audience in the estimable Ray Hyman.

Test for lawmakers

Ideally, US Congress members should be required to vote on at least 90% of all bills. If they fail this requirement, they should be fired and fined for not doing their job, and for obstructing the orderly function of the United States. This like being the captain of a giant oil supertanker. It is completely unacceptable to not be at the steering wheel at all times. No excuses. Also, they should be given periodic spot quizzes about the bills they've voted on. If they regularly fail to score at least 70% on the quizzes -- if they literally don't understand what they are voting on -- they should be kicked out of office, fined and jailed. Doctors and vehicle operators can be fined and jailed for negligence -- and so should lawmakers. When lawmakers are creating laws THEY DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND, they are creating havoc and gridlock and endangering all of us. They are asleep at the wheel. This should be considered criminal negligence. I bet a large % of lawmakers would fail such quizzes regularly. Maybe I'm wrong. Let the quizzes decide.

Post about nursing to Facebook. Topic is PhD nurses

I'm a nurse. I've been an LVN for 21 years. I was a nurse's aide for 10 years before that. 31 years total. (In Michigan, an LVN is called an LPN. An RN is sort of like a lieutenant and an LPN/LVN is sort of like a sergeant. In actual practice, there is often no difference in the practical skill levels of the two.)

My observation: Having a PhD doesn't correlate well with real-world nursing capability. The number of years spent in actual, hands-on practice correlates a whole lot better. From what I've seen, PhD nurses are frequently researchers and writers, and are not necessarily great practitioners. They're good at schoolwork.

In terms of day-to-day chops on the floor, as long as you are reasonably bright and motivated, and -- ABOVE ALL -- give a damn, you'll do just fine. You'll pick it up, You don't need to have spent years writing a thesis on the optimum fabrics for diaper construction for quadriplegics, and then performed field studies in major hospitals to provide evidence. (If you are lucky, someone might actually read your research.) That sort of academic research has its place, but it has approximately no place in the day-to-day practice of nursing, which is sort of like being a high-tech waiter in sometimes life-and-death situations. Also, it in no way guarantees that you'll be a good instructor, which is an occupation unto itself.

Being a good nurse is like being a good waiter. A good wine waiter, for example, needs to know wines very well, but doesn't have to know, for example, the techniques of crushing grapes for Napa County Zinfandels, for example -- which is analogous to what a PhD nurse might have researched.

Academia is too often a out-of-touch paper tiger meritocracy that has little to do with the real world.

Post about GMOs

Many food growers resent having to put a GMO label on their food when there is no evidence it is hurting anyone.  They see it as feeding into arbitrary hysteria. To use an extreme analogy, it's like Jews in Nazi Germany being forced to wear a yellow badge, which was a badge of shame, in effect. What was the justification for that? The "justification" was based on a tyrant's non-scientific fear. (It's like saying, "We have the right to know if someone is Jewish so we can make an informed choice.") Similarly, what is the scientific justification for forcing labeling of GMOs? Everyone is living longer and longer despite eating GMOs, which are very common in our food supply. Nature, herself, has constantly created GMO-like mutations. Man has, in effect, eaten GMOs all along. Why should this well-established process suddenly have to be labeled when there is no evidence it is hurting anyone or affecting the life expectancy? It's almost like being forced to cave in to a baseless temper tantrum.

Scanning antiquities

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Jay Oeming Regarding the above, I was thinking today about how I've had three dental crowns made quickly by the following process:

1) Dentist waves a laser wand around inside my mouth.
2) 3-D image of my teeth appears on a screen.
3) Image is downloaded into a 3D-printer. 
4) Printer pop out a crown, ready to wear. 

Entire process takes 90 minutes, start to finish.

I was thinking that it would be perhaps good to similarly capture laser 3D images of endangered antiquities that are being trashed by the Taliban, and others of their nefarious ilk. If images of precious antiquities were captured, there would be a chance at recreating them some day in a 3D printer. 3D printers are already making entire office buildings, as well as human body parts, so why not antiquities, also? This reminds me of the movie and book "Fahrenheit 451" where citizens reacted to systematic book burnings by memorizing books and passing them down orally to the next generation. Book burning is sort of like what's going on with the wackos trashing antiquities. Digitization is perhaps a way to address this. There could be "citizen digitizers" capturing local images. In the same way that Google Maps has captured street views of most places on the planet, locals could be equipped with a digitizing tool and laptop to scan endangered antiquities. It would be analogous to taking the census. One outfit that could tackle this project, no problem, would be Google. After all, they are trying to scan all of the books on earth, so why not scan a few antiquities, too? Guessing they -- or someone - has already addressed this idea in some way. Just throwing it out there, in case.

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Comment to Quora about blackjack

Short answer:  Card counters get penalized because they lose the casino money.  Casinos have no legal obligation to deal to anyone.  They are not there to make card counters money.
Long answer: I used to count cards at low to medium stakes for a living.  This was in 1997-99.  Casinos never intended blackjack to be beatable. With the advent of ace mathematician E.O.Thorp's book "Beat The Dealer" in the early 1960s, it was discovered by many (including the casinos) that blackjack WAS beatable.  So, the casinos had a problem on their hands. They first tried to tighten the rules way up to make the game statistically unbeatable -- but were met with big flack from their "whales" (high rollers who played a losing BJ game and made the casino big money).  So, they had to reinstate the rules that made it technically possible to beat blackjack in the long run, in order to keep the big profits rolling in.  Now what they do is simply squash anyone who is too good by asking them to leave. This is called getting "backed off." If you get backed off, and try to play again, and they catch you, you may get trespassed, which means you are legally not allowed to set foot in the casino again, and can do jail time if you do. I was backed off enough times (and trespassed once) enough times that I finally retired.   BTW, the autoshufflers will stop any card counter.

global warming notes for essay

Global warming has happened many times -- it is not new. The difference this time is the SPEED at which it is happening, which is without precedence.

"In the past 2500 years, it has been warmer than it is today -- not once, but six times! Our present warming is actually a rebound from the Little Ice Age that gripped the earth starting in 1200 and lasting to 1900. Today we still have not reached the warm temperatures during the days when the Greeks and Romans flourished." -- from Dr. Richard Muller's book "Ice Ages and Astronomical Causes"

•  I'm guessing Richard Muller takes into consideration known historical factors in global heating and cooling, -- and, even when taking those into account, is finding the present warming up is due to some other extra factor which happens to correlate very well with increased greenhouse gases. Just guessing, just thinking out loud... 
  After that previous comment, I did a little digging on Dr. Richard Muller regarding ice ages. He has been way into this subject since at least 2002, when he published a long and deep graduate student text about how to measure ice ages scientifically, along with numerous theories as to what exactly causes ice ages.... 
  The upshot is that no one knows for sure what causes the coming and going of ice ages, just that these cycles exist, and there have been many of them, and they correlate to various factors. What is different about the present global warming is that never has there been such a RAPID rise in global temperature -- which correlates to the rapid manmade increase of greenhouse gases....
  Muller has investigated ice ages as far back a half a million years ago. An interesting fact [from muller's book] : "In the past 2500 years, it has been warmer than it is today -- not once, but six times! Our present warming is actually a rebound from the Little Ice Age that gripped the earth starting in 1200 and lasting to 1900. Today we still have not reached the warm temperatures during the days when the Greeks and Romans flourished".... 
  Again, what is unprecedented about the present global temperature rise is how FAST it is rising. This has not happened in the past half million years, according to the best evidence available.

Post to quora about 120 IQ worried he isn't good enough

http://www.quora.com/Is-it-normal-that-when-I-see-those-famous-geniuses-with-160+-IQ-I-get-very-desperate-and-feel-like-doing-nothing-Is-there-a-way-to-reach-the-same-intellect-as-them-I-have-an-IQ-of-120
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.  There are LOTS of people who have been VERY successful with a moderate IQ.  An IQ is like a knife., It doesn't matter so much if you have a really really sharp knife, or merely a decently sharp knife -- what matters FAR MORE is what you DO with the knife.  Tight scheduling,  clear plans, and working your plans, and learning how to lead others will carry you much farther than merely having the ability to make intellectual manipulations a little faster than the next guy. You don't have to be a genius to be a big success.  The ability to endure boring tedium, to deal with tiresome people, and to consistently field the "easy ground balls" year in and year out count for a huge amount.  There are plenty of guys with 180 IQs who are in the gutter.  Conversely, there are many with mediocre intellectual rapidity who have achieved greatly. I would say that a MUCH more important factor is whether you have been, for whatever reason, blessed (or cursed :) with an enduring fire under your behind.

post to fb about deer hunting

I know that in some places, hunting licenses are issued in order to save the forests. If there are too many deer, they eat the bark off the the trees and ravage the forest. Hunters help correct this by "pruning" the herd size. This is considered to be prudent stewardship of the forest. Prudent pruning. Or, so I once read.

Post to thread on Amazon about atheists

Link to post

My read on many atheists is that they've such a bad experience giving their heart over to religion and getting burned, that they throw the baby out with the bathwater and resist any notion that there might be a supreme being. They don't want to be fooled again. They go overboard to compensate. They can become almost cult-like in their determinisitic worldview, which is what I am seeing with some of Richard Dawkins's followers.

Pt 2 Andrew Jackson $20 thread

• Jay Oeming Check it out!! A warlike woman on the US $20 bill! No kidding....  

  

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  Biofuels Chris You just fell in the deep end, Jay. A historical $20 won't buy you a life ring with the ladies.

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  Jim Williams I think president and war hero Jackson should stay where he is.

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  Diane Craig oh stop it, Jim Williams! I know you're just pushing my buttons!

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  Cathy Salustri Andrew Jackson was an asshole. A murdering asshole with no disregard for international policy or human rights. Take his ass off the twenty.

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  Diane Craig Yup, couldn't have said it better my self, Ms. S. He was also the one who determined "only savages could possibly live in Florida!"

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  Diane Craig Referencing the Indian Wars, no?

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  Diane Craig Perhaps we have an expanded definition ...

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  Cathy Salustri I meant people from New York.

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  Diane Craig Ah! Should have known, really.

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  Jim Williams You certainly could have and would have said it better, Diane. You wouldn't have embarrassed yourself with the choice of words.

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  Jim Williams But I still love you, Di. Even though I like my Jacksons.

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  Jim Williams By the way, I suspect there was no such thing as international policy or human rights during those war years 200 years ago.

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  Diane Craig Jim: I love how we disagree and do so with smiles on our faces. And whether or not there were policies that protected anyone doesn't change what happened. And who he was. I do think it would be nice…and fitting…to have a woman on one of our bills. Curious … who would you choose?

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  Diane Craig Probably see you in September, by the way, for the reunion thingy.

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  Cathy Salustri Actually, there were agreements between countries, and Jackson violated at least one to murder Seminoles. We have a road that follows the trail he used to do so. But I think it's almost adorable that you think you know different.

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  Jim Williams Insisting on a woman? Because she's .......a woman? Isn't that sexist? Anyway, I would instead promote FDR or Ike, because we'd be speaking German but for them. Worldwide significance. And yes, see you at the thingy.

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  Jim Williams Maybe we should replace Washington he had slaves. And Jefferson too. And all those revolutionary leaders since they violated international law by murdering redcoats and stealing land and defaming the king of England. Compared to them, Jackson 200 years ago was a rank amateur!

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  Jim Williams Criticizing anybody 200 years later for actions the government tolerated and we benefited from, is foolish, in my opinion. And all to be sexist and put a woman's face on a bill and remove a war hero and leader and president because he's a man? I think it's nonsense. My opinion, of course. And notice I didn't attempt to discredit any of the women in your picture. GO LIGHTNING!

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  Jay Oeming Jackson's been looking progressively more feminine on the $20 bill with each successive redesign. From CoinWorld magazine: "President Jackson has been treated with injectables to fill in his temple hollows and laugh lines (nasolabial folds). His lower-eyelid fat bags have been removed to make him less tired-looking, but he has acquired an overall 'surgical look' in the process. Together with the hair styling and blow-dry (does he still have a stylist's apron on?) he looks a bit less masculine than before."

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  Jay Oeming So, I propose this. I propose that we kill three birds with one stone and have Jackson dress in drag on the $20 bill as Rosa Parks. We will then represent: 1) Women; 2) LGBTs; 3) Racial minorities.   

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  Jay Oeming I would urge those who are indignantly righteous about the war-like behaviors of Jackson to reflect upon our immune systems. In our bodies, 24/7/365, is a crew of ruthless, savage murderers -- aka, our immune system. If not for this army of T-cells, et.al., destroying ALL opposing microbes, Mother Theresa, Gandhi, and Rosa Parks would not exist. There are no avatars without annihilation. This touches upon the concept of the "tough love" goddess Kali.

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  Jay Oeming Maybe we should put one of Rosa Parks' T-Cells on the $20   

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