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Manneken Pis

Manneken Pis

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The statue of Manneken Pis in Brussels, which is now the administrative Capital of Europe, is exactly the symbol of why Belgium once sought and found independence from (silly over-regulation and control in) the Netherlands.

Some measures are just a form of employment and sentimentality. People assert this as work to a degree they don't do anything useful at all. Fascism is a narcissistic and sentimental journey in these days.

Giving

Bill Clinton only made one small mistake when he was elected as president of the US, that he had to 'admit' in an interview that people must work before they eat. We forgive him this now he better understands how many people have died for this illusion.

Bill Clinton has signed his book "Give and change the world" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on October 3, 2007. The title of this book seems to refer to what world teacher Maitreya has said for so long: "Share and save the world." The original English title of the book is just "Giving". Changing the world is automatically included in the term "giving" more so in English than in Dutch, it seems, where the intention of giving is perhaps less naturally accepted without an ulterior motive or at least a clear objective in mind, and needs explanation, as does everything.

Equal discrimination is no equality

I have had moments on the beach that I saw what kind of things have happened in the past and how I was left alone totally by everyone, including the masters of wisdom, when I got a serious handicap.
Benjamin Creme, who gives public speeches on Maitreya, his masters of wisdom, and the Ageless (lost) Wisdom teachings, says it would be preposterous anyway to expect a kind of loyalty from them, as they are too important, busy and impersonal, and this is what my brother said at the time.

According to Benjamin Creme, the masters of course don't smoke, and neither does the pretender. Nor did they have sex until recently, but their image has so been adapted to the media that there may be a possibility.

I nearly had a nervous breakdown recently by certain negative patterns I seem to attract. And my health was not so great, my heart. The last few years I made an effort to save some things I lived for which were never accepted (or understood).

Even as I went shopping for the first time in my life in a certain provincial town, the same day the front page of the local newspaper opened that a new safety plan will be worked out in the next two years to improve safety in the shops there. When I had to pass Rotterdam in the Netherlands by the Underground (Metro), I read that only chip-cards will be accepted to enter.
These passes are fabricated from greed, in cooperation with banks, especially hard to get by foreign travellers.
So I can't pass here again or visit family or friends in the future.
I cannot handle even the supermarket with its passes and additional intimacy for a discount and security guards. Really, these things give me heartbeats and heart trouble. The semi intimidation of these empty people who make this control seem sexy is heart wrenching. Many people start talking to me in a supermarket, often in an inquisitive tone of course, for they cannot do anything else to lift their own self-esteem than put the other down kindly and dirty your aura by direct or indirect suggestion, whereas everywhere else it will take ten years or so to get a normal conversation with anyone anywhere, if at all. People can not use their brains anymore outside the shop. It even seems they cannot think for themselves, independently, at all. They are so lonely outside the shop that they are even pretending and competing inside. And if you stand in a line with just a few things, you are ridiculed; you are a tramp.
The reason people cannot think is also why there are so many accidents in traffic. Also here more rules won't help, they will confuse more. And the rules in traffic have been a model for those concerning public health and smoking and much more. This is all imitation.
Another element regarding this obsession with regulation and passes and so on, is hygiene, a kind of concern of mainly women in politics - (being forced to): always carry a tampon and frequently check.
An accident was reported in the newspaper that a bicycle was ridden over by a truck, and a young woman died in this way. We did not read that the police is frequently checking bicycles near this busy intersection, and that people approaching either with perhaps no identity card in their pocket or a bicycle that may have some minor defect, hesitating, have an automatic impulse to turn or stop.
We can imagine the rest, and it is symbolic of many other problems in society.
More blue in the street! More police! More safety!

I got a fine near the train station (Central Station) in Amsterdam for smoking, from a police woman, very intimidating. I walked the corridor underneath connecting two public roads, and lit a cigarette, and realised it might not be allowed to smoke either here (which I knew it wasn't on the quay), but I didn't want to throw the cigarette on the floor, so I took it in my mouth when I was outside the station and was arrested by these two women. I disagreed and they warned me that I would lose all my civil rights if I would make one more comment.
Some genius, a woman, once said to me that if I always get problems it could be saying something about me. That is true, but this 'something' has been not only used as a negative indication by many people, also friends until then, when something negative happened, this explanation itself was the main line in these negative occurrences, supposedly my own projection according to these mentally lazy people who can easily give a kick in the back in this way for no reason at all.

Many have contributed to this character assassination. I don't want to revenge, but it is the truth. The only spiritual idea from the West is that of negative projection in clinical psychology: alike attracts alike or creates alike. In the East which is more esoteric and closer to the truth, it is said that the more light attracts the more darkness. The analogy in thought and speech is that the more you think or see and speak the truth the more lies you get in response, if people have nothing to give.
So we can start and keep lying for a long time. For this is the truth.
This is also why the State is constantly pestering through its army of dumb people boasting and pretending in their silly power game, playing the boss in the street, but being nothing more than volunteering slaves, sadomasochists and perverts.
It is recommendable that the police will get a number on their back again, as in the past, so that they can be more easily identified if there are complaints about them instead of the other way round.

An innocent man in Amsterdam was forced to quit his job as a photographer because he carried a parrot on his shoulder, with which people could be photographed. Keeping a parrot in this way was seen as mistreatment of animals. Whatever it is, let us compare this sentimental type of justice to what is really taking place in the animal world as well as the world of humans, and then start a discussion about morals. But leave out the police. They only like discussions which were set-up and they can only win, a form of contemporary politics and politeness, and humiliation. In the Pyrenees in Spain, farmers were not allowed anymore to throw animal cadavers before the vultures (that had already nearly become extinct in the last century if no real measures had been taken), and so they spread around Europe. This rule was made by bureaucrats in Brussels, unoriginal people who have learnt to speak a few words, like parrots - also to protect animals from abuse. But who are the vultures?

When people start protecting people, we must suspect them.

Since Europe has become unified and communism disappeared, a certain check on our conscience was gone. Europe tends to even commercialise more than the United States in some fields like public services.

Next to public services that were really developed from and for the people, there are social services and secret services that have privatised it seems (as we can see from the rate of objectivity in the investigation of Iraq's nuclear capacity and so on that has led to the war 'on terror' in Iraq). And they seem to be working.

People do not even understand what competition is. So manipulated and drilled they are in a pseudo morality of competing, that they don't see this is what they are doing and demanding of others, which makes it really criminal. It is a form of control, no personal choice or freedom, the free market; it is lack of imagination and common sense. Men don't even trust you if you don't compete with them, emotionally, for their own wives as it were. Women don't even understand if you don't crave them, and their arrogance is a rejection from pretence aimed at thin air and no reality at all. What society can live which is based on no reality? Is this emancipation? In this way people constantly both humiliate each other and themselves. Only dying people are safe. Fearful, people are trying to show they are not afraid. How can one stand this degradation? The only form of self-respect and romance is gained from the police going after you. There have been times that police didn't even exist. But there is no use getting rid of them if everyone is controlling one another.

Life has no meaning in this way. One can not put the disrupted pieces of society together by a million discounts of a penny and petty passes, just because you don't have a car or a wife. Neither does it help to make the fine for urinating in public ten times higher, as planned in Rotterdam. A police officer even feels no shame to catch an adult in the act of pissing, and he orders him to stop immediately. I have seen it happen.
Who are the ones who are shameless?

If anyone, Bill Clinton will understand the moral level of the type of control on urinating in public, and other forms of genital fixation in politics, the police and society in general.
Indeed, who are the ones who are shameless?

After a young woman was murdered (before) being thrown from the window in a train, in France, the family of the victim has lobbied extensively and achieved that all trains in Europe are manufactured without opening windows.
This is, with all respect for the victim and her karma, out of proportion.
Many trains in Europe now don't have opening windows anymore or fresh air, and are air-conditioned with a cold, neutral breeze all year long; there are no seasons here; one gets a sense of a nuclear winter. Are we being prepared?
Some people get associations with holocaust trains, it is suffocating. Others suffer from a slight claustrophobia and become ill-humoured or even aggressive.
Passengers feel to be either potential criminals or victims or both.
People have to stop generalising their personal traumas and thus sour the life of all mankind.
All this seems to be happening by the philosophy of woman always being a potential victim.
And so all humanity has to live in a cage.

As far as the masters: they cannot be controlled, and they use different names and modes of appearance, or a messenger, exactly to avoid instilling official habits, or a sense of status or pretence and control in people's mind. The requirement to carry all sorts of passes is a reaction against this only, and it therefore concerns the meaning of life, which is interfered with.

That is probably why I am ill.

We understand now why in the US everybody drives a car, which is not a sensible alternative either.

The above though makes clear how smoking prohibitions have developed in trains, in Europe, already without fresh air.
But smoking prohibitions in general were really developed a little earlier by coincidence, by a woman who had no other way of being creative in the late days of her life, suffering from cancer admittedly, than making her case a measure for the whole planet, and so become immortalised as a martyr.

We also understand now why there are hardly any cafes in the US.

In trains, before, people were always merry and communicating; all this is gone now, and the Internet is the only means of communication left.

Not only the Arabs are committed to their martyrs.

Every day I suffer from a sense of restriction and near suffocation and I have to exercise to not get heart trouble from the bourgeois happiness people have and seek. As soon as I come to a point my soul breathes, people will get an automatic tendency to mock and humiliate. This way, life has nearly become impossible, and it has been so since a long time. Even the fact it took so long and I am exhausted was exploited.
We must think clearly, if we want to contribute to this, and how far our scepticism can go. It seems women already gladly want to take responsibility for this degradation.
Even the best willing, like one loving, are as foolish as to think they can do a favour trying to adapt one to their mainstream society (self-generalisation). Trying to help they will ruin someone even physically.
Like sheep they follow the line and make no problem to anyone who stands in the same line, but they try to pull along any expression of individuality and incapacitate it. They think they can follow everyone and be loyal to the individual and make a point. A greater disloyalty and treason are not possible than such an arrogant illusion.
This sweetness honestly is the worst assassination, not even character assassination anymore. It blows one's mind.
And all this for an occupation.

Let us think of the film "Sicko" by Michael Moore. And let us put this in perspective. Those who are ill or handicapped are treated like criminals, those who are more or less okay and healthy are nurtured like handicapped, and start to 'behave' accordingly.

What is inside the skull of many people can be seen from the outside as well; there is nothing more.

Finally, I should like to say that at the moment humanity is so much enslaved by mechanisation that the majority have become, consciously or unconsciously, robots. It is necessary to liberate them from this calamity, which threatens to destroy many subtle abilities of man by benumbing his spirituality. Honest and great scientists openly declare that many of their discoveries cannot be revealed at present. They are so much in advance of average humanity that the application of these discoveries in life might bring more harm than benefit.

Since the invention of cigarettes, some people have said that smoking causes for instance blindness. The cause of blindness (when it happens) is due not to the smoking but because cigarette tobacco is prone to soak up nuclear radiation from the earth and atmosphere.

The (OV) chip card to pay in public transportation in the Netherlands was originally part of a 20 point plan to help reduce environmental pollution from cars and traffic in the cities. It was merely intended for car keepers to park their cars in the outskirts of the cities from where to proceed by public transportation (Metro or underground), facilitated by (using) a chip card.
The chip card was a subservient element to a kilometre (or mile) tax plan, by a telephone device, to make taxation proportional to the kilometres driven, fuel used, and pollution created.
The plan was discussed with technical business representatives advising the government, but while seemingly ignoring the original idea and its intellectual owner, it proceeded.
The plan has been discussed now in the Dutch parliament and has admittedly possibilities, but the intellectual owner never intended a single chip card for all citizens, as an extension to the already controversial and repressive identity card, excepting all other more conventional or current forms of payment.

Identity theft does interest me, for identity cannot be stolen of course. Many artists have copied, some however have enhanced original sources. Originality is not given with a name. A name can even cause an automatic reaction from an earlier formed prejudice.
What's in a name? Our names are registered and state owned. Therefore the state can do as it likes with our identity and even take it away, which is already part of a formula. What is crucial is if the state serves our identity or the other way round. Identities which are bought can also be stolen. The state is 70 per cent confined by business.
Education has turned around certain priorities, making people useful to the state for money to money. And so there is no growth other than economic, as we can see from the identity crisis expressed in an increased number of suicides and psychiatric cases.
The state or a big corporation can take revenge if we criticise them, which does happen, especially in countries that don't discriminate between inner and outer identity, a form of materialism.
Materialism considers only the outer man, and is the key to his bondage and non-originality. The name of a person has two layers more or less analogous to the terms nation and state, the nation being the organic side of a group, the state its outer formula.
A general confusion denying the soul and emphasising the personality has arisen from the choice towards materialism of the people authorising the state, and thereby authorising identity theft, mostly from others.
The only remedy to this impoverishment is real and organic identity, which needs no emotional recognition, and is free from theft. And this is exactly what the state is afraid of as it depends on that very selfishness expressed but not functioning in group form.
Even the emotions people have in these circumstances are a fraud.
The individual identifies with the state from personal ambition and so has lost the way along with it.
Small and big thieves have an understanding among one another.
Identity has been gradually abolished to such an extent that it is often hard to speak of identity theft.

The essence of market forces is greed, and it has been formulated as an economic theory and process in response to the greed of rich nations and rich individuals.

Baruch de Spinoza, a 17th century Dutch philosopher of a family of refugees of Catholic (Jewish) Portuguese descent, wrote about the logic of truth (and therefore authenticity) and became a symbol of Dutch tolerance. He was employed by the Dutch in their seeking independence from Spain, executed, and published after his death, but nearly all that he has written was allegedly copied from his teacher Van den Ende.
His identity could be said to have been stolen but also given by the state. In fact his name was linked to the very establishment of that state.

I would not call Spinoza a thief.
Although, he may have written down and put together intelligently what he had heard, which maybe no one else could in this way, and still be set up.
His identity has attracted contemporary attention revealing the political element of tolerance not only in the state of the Netherlands today, but also elsewhere, and of identity, real or not.
Spinoza is not part of the basic philosophy lessons in Dutch schools. This is still rooted in a protestant Christian (let's say Calvinistic) attitude that does not like his 'atheism', which was really a pantheistic approach to God.
Spinoza is frequently used although to flatter the supermarket of tolerance of all sorts of actors who believe themselves to be Jesus and express this by ridiculing God. It does not matter whether or not one is an atheist, for an atheist presumably can use his brains, but certain forms of godlessness are just arrogance and cannibalism presented as haute cuisine, integrated in a plastic identity.