Computers and mercury retrograde

[gene]

As I mentioned before, I had been having some serious computer problems. For some reason, I waited until Mercury was retrograde before I tried to fix them. Most of these problems stem from things I had done in prior Mercury retrogrades. Well, this Mercury retrograde, I managed to fix many problems with my computer, but not without a price, in the process I lost, at least temporarily, over a thousand dollars worth of very good software. Many of my programs I no longer have the original discs for, or they are corrupt.

Anyway, hackers had gotten in and corrupted some of my disk space. The solution it finally dawned on me was to download windows xp updates. That was not as simple as you might think though because a program I had accidentally downloaded in a previous mercury retrograde had changed the registry so that active x no longer worked. Well, I had deleted this program, but active x still didn't work. Well, that is because I thought I had deleted it. But over and over again, I found parts of the program still not deleted. It took a while for me to catch on that this program was being autoprotected by Norton Antivirus. I couldn't delete it. I ended up doing a restore on my system all the way back to the beginning. I lost most programs that were installed after I bought the computer, but everything worked again. Everything except that everytime I went online, I got dialog boxes constantly. Sometimes it was all I could do to keep shutting down the dialog boxes. These were not pop up adds, my computer blocks those, but dialog boxes, mostly from some porno place, but close to half of them saying my computer had been infected and I needed to buy this patch. Well, I didn't. Once my system was restored, I was able to download patches I was not able to download before. It seems to have worked. I am still not sure though, as, true to mercury retrograde fashion, after downloading the last six updates, while the system was installing those updates, there was a power failure, and a few of them didn't get installed. The windows update page though, knows they have been downloaded so it thinks I don't need them anymore, and will not bring them up on a search. Ever tried to get ahold of microsoft? Especially during a mercury retrograde? Kind of like trying to pull teeth out with your fingers.

In a couple of weeks, I should be on a cable modem, and then I will be able to start writing a little more often.

Gene

[gene]

Well, at least I found my printer installation CD, got that fixed and am printing things out, so, for a time at least, I am happy as a lark.

Gene

[hilary]

Gene, there is a link just for you at the end of today's newsletter http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/I_Ching_community/clipart/happy.gif
Here you go (http://cgi.mildlyamusingarea.com/cgi-bin/maa_sjoke.cgi?10486)

[gene]

Hi Hilary

I can believe it. I was turned down once for a job in microsoft's technical support. Probably a good thing. However, I turned down an offer by my boss at Aldus who transferred to Microsoft, which may not have been a good thing. I quit working at Aldus (Maker of PageMaker, later taken over by Adobe) over personal differences in their process of hiring supervisors which was a mixed bag. I felt good but I went hungry ha ha. The company is not often right, but they usually win. They have more money behind them than individuals do. Especially when they charge you for services they don't give.

Gene

[dharma]

Gene,
running into many computer glitches myself - can't wait till the end of the month when the retrograde ends.

i figure the package i've been waiting for through snail-mail will finally arrive then, too. to think, it was only travelling in from a couple of townships away, not the bleedin' south pole! http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/I_Ching_community/clipart/wink.gif but that's MercuryRx for you...

glad you've corrected your computer problems and that you'll be around more often. i for one have missed your regular input http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/I_Ching_community/clipart/happy.gif

[megabbobby]

Gene is the yoga master

[gene]

Thanks Guys and Gals

For some reason, I always tend to forget that it is Mercury retrograde, and for some unknown reason, it is always the first day of a mercury retrograde that I get around to doing anything with my computer, and usually it cramps up the system unmercifully. It seems to me that the most serious communications problems happen though mostly when mercury is stationary, getting ready to go retrograde. I don't know if anyone has done any research on that.

Gene

[gene]

Come to think of it, I believe that every computer I ever bought was on a mercury retrograde, first day. No wonder I have bought so many of them.

Gene

[lenardthefast]

Hi Gene,

Perhaps this will be of some help...

mercury retrograde (http://www.astrologycom.com/mercret.html)

Namaste,
Leonard

[gene]

Thanks Leonard

It is all so interesting.

Gene

[candid]

RE: Leonard's link and my question:

"Planets are never actually retrograde or stationary, they just seem that way, due to this optical illusion."

If this is only an optical illussion how is it that factors/forces on earth become disrupted?

[gene]

Everything is an illusion, nothing is real, nothing at all, except consciousness. So, it appears, we have an illusion affecting an illusion. Do I understand it? No. But it seems to work.

Technically, it is not so much an illusion as it is the same effect of one train passing another going the same direction. To the people on the faster train, it will almost appear that the people on the other train are going backward. And in terms of relativity, perhaps they are.

Gene

[candid]

Gene, so then is it safe to say, if one isn't aware of this thing called ?retrograde? that they will in no way become affected by it? To my thinking, it is either a real effect/affect or it isn't. Otherwise its just the power of suggestion. The earth spinning on it's axis is also an illusion, according to your statements, yet it affects everything on earth whether they?re aware of the earth spinning or not.

So my question hasn?t been ansered yet in a way I can understand: If this is only an optical illussion how is it that factors/forces on earth become disrupted?

[gene]

Candid

I readily admit I don't understand it. Although I will say, even though it is an illusion, it is a real illusion. This may have happened to some people not to everyone, it has happened to me...while sitting at a stop light, my peripheral vision notices a car backing up just a little bit, and I suddenly have the feeling I am moving forward, and slam on the brakes. My brain interpreted something in a different way than what was real, and I had the strong sensation of actually moving forward. Although the people on the train who have their windows closed don't see the train being passed, it is still being passed. So the effect of having another train appearing to go backward is still there, some just don't notice it. Often, during a mercury retrograde, or more accurately, a stationary, people who are no more aware of it than anything still experience the effects though they have no idea there is an indicator in the sky as to why. On the physical level, these things happen, but ultimately, only because we unconsciously believe they happen, whether consciously aware of it or not. Why do we unconsciouly believe it? Because we are caught in a matrix of illusion, and the only way out of the illusion as far as I know is through repeated, and constant meditation, when we overcome the limits of our unconscious expectations. Science has proven that even the hardest of bodies are made up of atoms, (or I would say wave forms) that are ninety percent empty. It is only by their rapid movement that they appear solid. In reality, they are not solid, they are only as solid as we unconsciously think they are. But since most of us do not have easy access to our unconscious, it is better not to try to convince ourselves we can fly off of tall buildings.

Gene

[candid]

chuckles.. good advise, Gene.

[candid]

Gene, the ?train theory? may not be exactly the same as your analogy but it does seem related.

Its said that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Yet if a train is traveling at the speed of light, and the people inside the train are walking forward in the direction of the train, the people in the train are then moving faster than the speed of light.

Still I wonder how this optical illusion (if that?s what it is) affects the stabilization of physical life forms and mechanical devices. I?m not really questioning whether it does or not so much as how it does.

[heylise]

When you stand on the earth, and the sun is in a certain spot, and Mercury 30 degrees behind, that does affect you. Their going away from each other does something different than their coming closer. So if you could look from out space, retrograde does not exist, but seen from the earth, it does. Something inside you feels the movement of planets, not their theoretical movement, but what you actually see up there, and moving the other way is confusing, or at least different from what you are used to.

So it is not at all an illusion. It just depends where you are, and usually we are not somewhere in space.

LiSe

[lenardthefast]

I had the same question as Candid when I first became aware of the illusion factor. I finally came to terms with it by understanding that it is the 'condition' (planetary-wise) that produces the illusion which is at the core of the effect.

Namaste,
Leonard

[rinda]

Newbie question again (- and thank you for your patient answers to my earlier questions!)...

I'm wondering if it's the planets, etc. that cause the effect, or are the planets themselves kind of a material symbol/effect of a larger pattern? Like fractals, where the pieces correlate with the whole?

Rinda, admitting up front that the question itself is probably flawed, and still hoping to learn...

[candid]

Well sometimes I am somewhere up in space, or at least it feels like it. Is that the same thing?

But seriously, thanks, LiSe and Leonard. That does makes some sense to me, and I think Rinda's question relates as well. I guess its like saying that daylight vs nightlight creates a different effect, yet that too is only relative to where one is at a given time, and in a sense its only an optical perspective or illusion based on relative position?

I'm thinking also in terms of 'personal space', if someone is standing directly behind you, that produces a different 'feeling' than if they stand directly in front of you, or off to one side within peripheral view.

Interesting.

[lenardthefast]

The following is a mostly-true account of me working on my bike during a particularly wicked Mercury retrograde....(Some artistic license applied)....


How Murphy-ish. I am uninstalling battery and voila!, I discover the reason the old battery(which was'nt so darned old it turns out after checking large box of receipts), has a loose crimp on the positive cable which conveniently falls into a black hole. After much screaming at the gods, Gisele, motorcycle cable manufacturers, bad luck, constipation and the neighbors' dog(half of the previous had nothing to do with my present problems, but what the f**k, might as well fill my dance card while its convenient), I retrieve the errant little copper f**k and recrimp it. So, the upshot is I just spent $55.00 for a new battery I did'nt need and some info I could have obtained for free if'n I'd just looked. Then...

The freakin' bike starts right up just like it always does when I've been nice to it, except the goddurned pilot jets are clogged(two of 'em, anyway). More screaming at Jap carb makers, the G-word(can't get too much screamin' on HER card), my miserable, broke station in life,my mother(for having me), my father(for having her) and then jerk the carb bank and clean the f**kin' jets. Now...

I reinstall the carb bank, start the bike and everything is just wonderful and I'm getting that warm and glowey feeling as I whack the throttle open on the first straight after leaving the gravel part of my road and blaaw, blaaw, choke, sputter, die, I run out of F**KIN GAS? Yes... I do...

I now have a bruised larynx from all that previous screaming so I just start punching myself in the head and walking circles around the bike whilst gleaming at it evilly,all the time tossing negative vibes in the direction of the G-word(see above), which is how my neighbor observes me as he stops to ask what the problem is. In a screamin' whisper I ask him if he has a large sledge hammer and his pistol(hammer for the bike,pistola for me),in his truck so I may commit inorganic homocide on the bike and you know what on yours truly. Being a true friend, he just plants his large, hammy fist smartly between my eyes and drives my unconsious a*s to the nearest gas station and back. F**k the ride, I need a Valium...


Namaste,
Leonard

ps: Excuse the profanity, but this was originally a letter to a friend who 'understands'!

[cheiron]

LMAO

--Kevin

[gene]

Hey Leonard

That would make a preacher cuss. No doubt.

I guess a lot of this boils down to which came first the chicken or the egg? The physical reality we live in or the consciousness that created it?

There is a physics theory that can explain astrology, although the creators of this theory did not intend it. It is not yet accepted in general scientific circles but it may be eventually as it explains a lot of things that can't be explained. Unfortunately, I can't explain the theory too well, only having seen the basics of this, but hopefully, without doing the theory a disjustice, on the simplest of terms, the rotation, speed, and angular momentum of a physical body creates an electromagnetic field that interacts with the electromagnetic field of other bodies. In fact it has an effect everywhere, unlike gravitational pull, (which I personally think is only one aspect of electromagnetic phenomenon). This could I suspect tie in with Einsteins theory of the curvature of space in the proximity of a physical body. There was an article about this in the local newspaper just a few days ago. This is a very limited part of the overall theory, and to get more of it, you can go to Richard Hoagland's enterprisemission.com and get further info on it. In some circles this is a hotly debated topic. It also involves a theory that a physical body has a vortex or vortexes in which energy from a superphysical field enters the body. On planets this vortex occurs at about 19.5 degrees north lattitude. On our planet, this happens in at least one place, the Hawaiian Island of Hawaii, which is 19.5 degree north lattitude, and is more specifically where the Kileaua (SP?) volcano is normally going off. This interaction of the electromagnetic fields of various planets can very well have an effect on the electromagnetic fields of other planets. We see on this planet the effects of sunspots, which are huge outlays of electromagnetic forces. Most major wars are fought during high sunspot activity. Notice what is going on right now in Iraq. We have the saying "lunatic" for someone a little more than just crazy. luna is the word in some languages for moon, and where we get the term lunar. Anyway, if you have any interest, check it out.

Gene

[gene]

Oh, I should have added, it is called the hyperdimensional theory, and you will have to look for it on his website, it is not front page material. You can also do a google search on hyperdimensional physics.

Gene

[lenardthefast]

Hi Gene,

Yeah, I am pretty well aquainted with the material. There is supposedly a connection to Tesla's theories about the free energy source he was attempting to harness tied into the planetary body vortex. You probably already know about Jupiter's Great Red Storm/Spot being located in a similar latitude, etc, etc. Haven't been to Hoagland's site lately, but, used to visit it frequently.

Thanks for reminding me of more homework. http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/I_Ching_community/clipart/happy.gif

Namaste,
Leonard

[lenardthefast]

Gene,

Michio Kakau (sp?) has a GREAT website on hyperdimensional physics. (He is also a frequent contributor on coast to coast am radio, Art Bell.)

Namaste,
Leonard

[gene]

Yeah,

Michio, a great exponent of the ten dimensions theory. And some saying possibly 26. I think it is called the superstring theory. I don't understand the technical aspects of this, I mean the math etc. Most physicist feel you can't run with the wolves if you do not understand their math and have their background, Maybe they are right, but they are more and more saying what the metaphysicians have been saying for centuries. There is something more than meets the eye in all of this.

Gene

[lenardthefast]

Yeah, what I like about Michio is that he is a proponent of NOT having to know the math. Have you read his book "Hyperspace"? This book is just outstanding. Its on my Top Ten list.

Leonard

[lenardthefast]

Gene,

Here is the NASA link to that newspaper article material you were referring to:

gravitomagnetism (http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/19apr_gravitomagnetism.htm?list1156032)

Namaste,
Leonard

[gene]

Hey Leonard

Yeap that is it.

By the way. There are a lot lot more people nowadays who believe in the aliens. I have had personal conversations with truck drivers who drove into area 51 and have seen first hand the aliens speaking, (or telecommunicating) with high ranking military officers. I am finding now that a large majority of the people I am around now are very aware of area 51 and its alien reputation.

Area 51 is a highly restricted military base which the government officially declares does not exist. Of course every government that has satelite technology knows it does.... but anyway. Some of the triangle shape antigravity craft that are being seen these days though, are probably not alien, they are experimental military craft....

Well, enough.
The last poll I saw shows that at the latest, the majority of americans do believe in aliens and alien technology. Of course you can do a google search on area 51 and see it for yourself.

Gene