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I am so, so thankful that I am not a horse.
And clearly, when Allah had this chat with the wind, he had not bothered to check on exactly what it was up to a little closer to the Arctic circle. If he had, he would not have wanted to make a creature out of it. Maybe a military force, but nothing that could reproduce on its own.
I don't know. I get the impression that Allah is a little more cranky than Adonai God. Maybe these winter winds were exactly what he was thinking of when he created the Gypsies' Gold.
That first line was the statement my mind came up with today as I was leaving church. On my way home, depending on which road I take, I either pass horses and longhorns; or ponies, sheep, and longhorns (in finer weather, there are a few peacocks on that road. Don't ask me.)
And I admire horses. The majority of them are very pretty. They can be fairly intelligent (they can also be on a level with sheep when they get scared or take some foolish idea into their heads). They're strong, and graceful, and warm, and big, and all sorts of good things.
But I am very glad not to be one. Because the majority of them are still outside right now.
It. Is. Cold. It is very cold. It is somewhere between 10 and 15 below (F), so it shouldn't FEEL that cold, but the reason that nobody knows exactly what the temperature is is because nobody can stand still outdoors long enough to read a thermometer. Gotta keep moving. Really really cold. There's some wind, yeah, but I really can't figure out WHY it feels this cold, if it's not more than 20 below.
This is probably the point where K makes some observation about the fact that I'm at a significantly higher elevation than what I'm accustomed to for winter, and how that affects things.
It's very pretty, though. Beautiful sunny-cold day. You want to be out there sledding...until you actually get out the door, and then, nope, you want to head right back inside. Build a fire. Make goodies. Wrap up in a blanket, have a cup of cocoa, watch a good movie with your sweetheart. All excellent suggestions.
One of my good friends here is from Montana, so we were comparing a bit.
"There are different types of cold. We're Great-Lakes cold. Evidently (it's been explained to me by other Minnesotans who've moved here) this is very different than Mountain Cold. Or at least, Rockies-Cold. Appalachians just think they have a handle on winter. We laugh. Appalachians have some good snowstorms, but for the most part they have pretty go-play-in-it winter
"Great-Lakes cold takes effect over the months. Your first snow is in October, November, but it doesn't REALLY start to get to you until January. It's been spending all this time gradually seeping into you, seeping deep into your core, and taking up residence in your bones. It's bone-deep cold - it lives in there and radiates out through the muscle tissue.
"This is why we Minnesota women have instinctive lists on ways to keep our menfolk warm out there."
And we do. I can't explain it, but as soon as the weather starts getting fun, I start making sure that everybody's dressed warm, I feel compelled to bake, and I have to remind myself that, since I'm not married, I have to find more creative ways than the obvious to make my guy warm.
It should be noted that, a) this hasn't hit as hard in past years as it is now, and b) the absence of my guy doesn't seem to have any effect on the mindset. I can't shake the feeling that he's just out at work or shoveling snow or something else, he'll be in in a little while, and I want to have warm ready for him.
Which is also interesting, as I happen to think of shoveling snow as one of my chores. Er, no, that's not entirely correct. Mowing the lawn is mine. Shoveling is something you do together, like my sisters and I or me and my Dad or all four of us - there's interaction, fellow griping, playing around. Work gets done a lot quicker, you're less tired because you've had people to play with, and you all come stamping in around the same time.
I've also had an entertaining discussion about what I do as a Christmas elf. It involves under what circumstances elves beat ninjas. I may have to share that with y'all at a later date.
For now, I'm trying VERY hard not to go bake cookies (I need 'em for Friday, if I make them now, there probably won't be enough then).
it's not until my gf put on her long-sleeve shirt did i realize it's Autumn now. Now I know why we also call this season Fall. You see, it always FALLs upon the earth quietly, at least in our city, like a leaf from the sky.
But my students say you can hardly feel the changes of seasons here, which certainly goes beyond the imagination of many residents in the north. Even on Mid-Autumn Day, the traditional Chinese festival symbolising the half way of Autumn, we still felt like hot and stuffy summer. But a fortnight later, the chill morning drives you to search for the scarf buried in one corner of your garderobe. It in fact finishes its immediate transistion from Summer to Winter, as sharp as a u-turn highway(if we have).
It's acknowledged that human's characters and personalities differ from one region to another. Actually it attributes to climatic changes rather than geographical locations. People tend to have much milder temper when the seasons change slightly,and vice versa. I've met a lot of people without distinct personalities from other provinces. When climate goes like a torrential stream, guys from that part seem to have a clear idea of likes or dislikes. Love or hatred is shown obviously on their faces. Passion will be as strong as Summer, and cold-heatedness as Winter. So you seldom come across goody-goody there.
Let Fall be fallen leaves...
You can click the following link and take a quiz on that page. Find out which season suits you best.
Find out which season suits you best.
| Question 1: What is your favourite natural thing? |
| Bark (on trees) |
| Water |
| Leaf |
| Sun |
| Question 2: What is your favourite colour? |
| Green |
| Yellow |
| White |
| Brown |
More at: http://www.allthetests.com/quiz25/quizpu.php?testid=1219533102&katname=Season-Personality-tests
WATER: The relationship between glaciation and desertification has, or reveals, an inverse ratio of available vegetation to glaciation. The system infers a finite and balanced ratio of water to climate condition. Thus when there are glaciers there is desert and low vegetation.
As each takes time to develop, it follows that there is a timescale for any change from desert to forest which exceeds the life-span of any one tree.
More important, since there is a fixed quantity of water under all conditions, it must be located somewhere at all times. Seems obvious. If deserts are increasing, and glaciation is decreasing, the amount of surface and sub-surface water must increase.
Sub-surface water is a lubricant – as has been discovered in oil drilling regions – which releases fault-lines locks. That is, where two earth plates meet, seeking to overlay, friction holds them against pressure from systemic movement. Add water, and the plates will slip, the straining pressure will be violently relaxed through an event defined as an earthquake. (Gas and magma pressure cause same affect in volcanic regions.)
If sub-surface water is not allowed to accumulate, and so does not allow for lubrication of the tectonic plates, eventually the plate pressure will grow to the point where the slightest lubrication will cause a major slippage.
If sub-surface water is not allowed to accumulate, accumulation will still occur in the atmosphere or surface reservoirs – lakes/oceans. The atmosphere has a limited absorption capacity, made more limited by those conditions associated with desertification.
Ultimately the seas take on the job of retaining the balance, and levels rise while land area becomes dryer, or is submerged.
One can easily see how the preservation of natural balance serves to eliminate elements of life which might be disruptive to that balance. Desertification forces life to consolidate into a narrower habitats; and to consume food while restricting opportunity for its replacement.
Curiously, this could favor modern humans. There would be an obvious division between those who lived in remaining habitat and those who created desert habitats. The deserts would require the creation of closed environmental systems to be maintained over a minimum of multiple centuries, and possibly several millennia.
The result could be genetic drift, and mutation toward creation of several new and separate species of hominid.
Conversely, humanity could move into currently uninhabited areas. A population decrease would be necessary; and thus an increase in disease would be anticipated (necessitated by natural balance and mutation opportunities for microbes which have not been exposed to human hosts prior to occupation of the empty territories).
Reproductive success remains, as it has in the past, the only criteria for general accomplishment. Reproductive success will be defined as both the ability to produce children, and the intellectual ability to adapt the needs of humanity to the natural world.
Given history, as defined by the past five thousand years, and as also evidenced in the record for the past two hundred thousand years, about fifty-percent of the world population will die with one generation. When the count for, the first day of, that generation will begin cannot be defined now; but it will be sometime in this century.
Sea levels are rising, a northern-passage has opened in the arctic, and the deserts are expanding. In addition, ground water reserves in those regions prone to earthquake activity are being steadily depleted, and expelled water is being contaminated in all regions.
Dates – years – which are cited, on a recurring basis, include 2012, 2030 and 2050. There is a convergence of actions emerging around, and involving, these time frames. We are, by current projections, one generation away from the onset of a new era of mankind.
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Date Line June 2, 2007
Michael Griffin, administrator of the NASA, recently stated: "I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with. To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of Earth’s climate today is the optimal climate."
OK. I love it. We have an honest thinker in the administration, as opposed to the head idiot who simply asserts in denial of all reality.
1. Is this the optimal climate for humanity?
2. Is there a reason why we should want sea levels where they are? 3. Is there a rational reason to restrict growing conditions in the northern latitudes?
Should we care if Edgar Cayce is proved correct in his prediction that the Great Lakes would flow into the Gulf as a single body of water; or that the seas would rise and much of what is now dry land would be submerged? Is there a reason the "sleeping prophet" is to be proved, or made, wrong?
We have wars to decrease the surplus population. A half-million Iraqis have been killed, over the past four years. The Islamists of al-Qaeda would love to see that number increased.
How many millions could be displaced over the next few decades? How many would die because of flooded lands? And how many of these would be the same followers of Islam which al-Qaeda is in the process of killing?
Al-Qaeda, and other fundamentalist Islam movements, take what can only be termed extraordinary pride in the willingness of their people to kill themselves and their neighbors for the cause.
I must wonder why nobody has realized the reality of the al-Qaeda program. Think about it!
On 9-11 we roughly 3,000 died. Since then, 3,500 soldiers have died in the Middle East. In that time, more than half million Islamic followers have died; almost all at the hands of sectarian violence by fellow Islamists.
Al-Qaeda has been very active; few Europeans have died; fewer of our people, and many Islamists. In fact, the death toll seems to show a body count of one Westerner for every NINETY Islamists.
If we can keep this up, and manage our own exposure at a slightly improved margin, we could easily see a body count of one to one hundred.
At that rate, how long would it be before there is no longer anyone in the Islamic following? Al-Qaeda is systematically exterminating everyone who is associated with Islam.
Now, to al-Qaeda efforts, we can add climate change caused by our high standard of living. This is a climate change which promises to increase the amount of productive American or Canadian farm land.
If Edgar Cayce proves right, we will have a bumper crop of food to increase our already disgusting surpluses; and if the body count and al-Qaeda activities remain consistent, we will see an end to Middle Eastern Islam, with al-Qaeda and flood waters combining to end all South Asian Islam.
In short, continued "war" and global warming are proving to be the most effective evolutionary forces for the survival and dominance of western culture.
That should not be construed to diminish the increasing, or historic, importance of Asian culture. Islam has proved that it is just a waste of bodies. What importance can be assigned to a religion or culture whose ideal is the self-destruction of its own people?
Islam exists because of the violent Christianity which was emerging 1,400 years ago. That violent and hypocritical Christian faith took power under the Vicar of Christ, the Christ stand-in of the thousand year prophecy of Christ’s reign. That age has passed.
Now starts the time when religion is again reborn. Many shall die. Thus the perception of some. What is your perception of reality?
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