Category Archives: Op-Ed
February 3, 2017
There’s some good energy today for grounding your dreams and planting some seeds for tomorrow so don’t be afraid to take advantage of this. There may be some ego and emotional clashes, so try not to let yourself get too caught up in everything. Do your best to stand your ground, but still facilitate positive change and growth.
- Taurus Moon sextile Pisces Neptune
- Taurus Moon square Aquarius Sun
Blog suspension?
For reasons that are ENTIRELY unclear to me, my main blog “Grandtrines” has been suspended for “Violations of Terms of Service.” Precisely what this means remains unclear as I write this. If you like my material, both the reblogs and the occasional piece that I write myself, I would appreciate it if you contact the WordPress support team and request that Grandtrines be re-instated. (Otherwise, the service that I provide will not be able to continue.)
Was Bowie a Starseed?
For many (most? all?) of the readers of this blog, that seems like a particularly dumb*ss question. Sorry for the “coarse language,” but it really seems to be the only way to fully express the sentiment. David Bowie HAD to be a Starseed (or Wanderer).
For those who are not familiar with the term, I will not elaborate here. (Much discussion can be found elsewhere.) But Starseeds / Wanderers (many debate the nuances and differences between those, if any difference really does exist) are characterized by a sense of alienation that starts at an early age and never goes away. This isn’t just alienation in the community or neighborhood; it is a sense that one is from another planet from another galaxy.
Bowie’s content, both in music and in acting, focused either directly or indirectly on this kind of thing. From the disoriented Major Tom who drifted off in space through Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars to “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” Bowie wrote (and acted and performed) this theme repeatedly over a number of years.
If you think you might be a starseed or wanderer, and you have not seen “Man Who Fell to Earth,” see it as soon as you can. Opt for the uncut version if you can handle adult issues involving sexuality. Chances are good you will feel a striking familiarity with this story. (One caveat: some parts of it are quite disturbing.)
What Your Favorite ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Character Says About You
#1, it had to be #1. (Like the person I reblogged.) Maybe a little #3. No, No, NO! It has to be Luke. It has ALWAYS been Luke. When I was a naïve kid, I admired Luke the naïve kid. When I was a journeyman professional, I admired Luke as the same.
And, now that I am a reclusive old man who might teach someone if they are willing to try, it is STILL Luke! But, he is not an option in this list. Looks like it is back to #1, Han Solo, with a tiny dash of #3. But, I am more scavenger than smuggler, just not garage sales; used book stores, instead.
Then again, maybe BB-8 is the best pick….
You don’t tolerate nonsense or drama in your life. You are resilient toward other’s opinions of you, and you pride yourself on being fiercely determined.
Debatable News
We focus on the more controversial news. Almost all of the content is in the form of “reblogs” from other sources. Just because we reblog it does NOT mean we endorse it, agree with it, or even thing it is legitimate. We do NO fact checking, so you are “own your own” regarding the question of veracity. What we do is echo out to our readers the most controversial, and sometimes “crazy,” news that we can find. (Some of it is quite mainstream, and some of it is not.)
Anesthesia for my ears
Interesting.
“Piropo” in portuguese is what we call a flirtation remark usually regarding te physical features of someone. Usually it’s between people who don’t know each other very well, or nothing at all. I went to look for the translation for English and I found two things:
1- “Piropo” only exists in Spanish, not portuguese. I’m not sure if this is truth or if google just thinks that Spain and Portugal are one and the same. Unfortunately I have no Portuguese dictionary at my place.
2 – “Piropo” is translated to English as a compliment or Catcalls.
Excuse me? A compliment? I don’t take a “piropo” as a compliment. I take it an unwanted remark from someone who should have remained quiet.
In circa 2013, there was a huge debate here in Portugal to analyse whether this should be considered sexual harassment or not.
For me it is sexual harassment. Sometimes…
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The internet poses a worldwide threat
biomimetics
Excellent point about this.
Humanity’s greatest innovations
start by studying the wild.
Our first understanding of medicine
came from watching the changes in eating habits
of sick or injured birds.
This continues today,
like how fish influence automobile aerodynamics,
or how the idea for Velcro came from burs on a dog
or the way bees taught the beauty industry
how to build an empire using, almost exclusively, bulimia.
The 21st Century IV – The Most Important Thing Is Fear
This’ll Expand your Perspective a bit…
While you were watching that, did you Feel Smaller than usual, or Bigger? Was it Both/And? In what ways did you Feel Smaller and in what ways Bigger? Expanding is one of the esoteric processes that extend PIAVA. Watch it again, full-screen, while you Imagine having What you Want.
Saturn means The Most Important Thing. It tells us when we need to quit multi-tasking and focus intensely on Priority #1. On 1/1/2000, Saturn danced with the Moon, Pallas, and Uranus, advising that The Most Important Thing during the 21st Century will be Trusting our Instincts and adjusting our Boundaries to make room for our True Soul Self to Manifest (our Yintegrity) without its Habitual Masks.
Saturn Opposed the Moon and T-Squared Pallas and Uranus at 12am on 1/1/2000 – in the Western Hemisphere. In the Eastern Hemisphere the Moon-Saturn Opposition forms a…
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘I stopped Large Hadron Collider destroying human race’, claims ex-politican
Campbell’s goes homo
What do you think of the Campbell’s “I Am Your Father” ad? Is it charming or offensive? Some people advocate a boycott. How do you feel about that?
The Future!
Yesterday was the 21st of October 2015, the day that Marty McFly and Doc Brown travelled to, in the future, in Back To The Future, in 1989! I couldn’t post yesterday because I had maths revision and art homework, which took me billions of years to finish. 
I find it amazing that they thought that in 2015, there would be hover boards, flying cars, motorways in the sky, etc, when none of that exists or at least isn’t a ‘big thing’.
I thought it would be a great chance to write down the things that I think might happen in the future! 😀
- By 2020-2030, cancer will be cured!
- There will be people living on Mars by 2040. (I know they’re going in 2026 but just to make sure. XD)
- We will be able to transfer information from a computer into our own brains. (It’s crazy but I can imagine it happening…
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Stephen Hawking warns about the greatest threat to humanity and its not global warming
Interesting thoughts.
Lost Dudeist Astrology 
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