The angel said we should fear not.
The angel said thirty years ago, during the "Energy Crisis" of the seventies, we were afraid of running out of fuel. There were long lines at the pumps.
Now, we're afraid of global warming. But global warming is just an excess of energy. So what is the problem? Do we have too little energy or too much?
The angel said all we need to do is to figure out how to capture and then re-direct the energy. When we grow more things, we capture the energy.
We can grow our way out of our problems.
We can grow trees to store energy in lumber and use it to build things. We can store energy in sugar and grain that can then be processed by yeast to produce ethanol.
If we grow lumber and use it to build more floating islands that allow us to grow more things, we could have geometric growth in the number of floating islands.
We could have geometric growth in the amount of plant life on Earth. We can shape our earth as we see fit. We can be EarthShapers for good. We can be builders, not burners. We can balance our earth to optimize life.
We can create a lush garden paradise with peace, prosperity and freedom for all.
That's what the angel said. At least I think it was an angel.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
The Angel said... seek out Sheryl Crow...
The angel said... "seek out Sheryl Crow".
Sheryl Crow wants to soak up the sun. The answer to global warming is to promote life and grow more things and soak up the sun. The more plants we grow, the more energy we capture.
We need to capture lots of energy to balance out all the energy we burn. We need to burn less and grow more. We need to make our world a lush garden paradise with an array of arks floating on the ocean, soaking up the sun.
Sheryl Crow would help the cause.
Sheryl?
Sheryl Crow wants to soak up the sun. The answer to global warming is to promote life and grow more things and soak up the sun. The more plants we grow, the more energy we capture.
We need to capture lots of energy to balance out all the energy we burn. We need to burn less and grow more. We need to make our world a lush garden paradise with an array of arks floating on the ocean, soaking up the sun.
Sheryl Crow would help the cause.
Sheryl?
The Angel said... Oprah might help!?!?
The angel came unto me and said... "Oprah might heed the call."
Well I think it might have been an angel. The angel said we should ask Oprah. How would Oprah respond if we asked Oprah to help?
If our mission is to stop global warming, promote life, promote grace and create peace, prosperity and freedom, would Oprah help? But wait, there's more... what if we could eliminate hurricanes, too? Would Oprah help?
Oprah?
Well I think it might have been an angel. The angel said we should ask Oprah. How would Oprah respond if we asked Oprah to help?
If our mission is to stop global warming, promote life, promote grace and create peace, prosperity and freedom, would Oprah help? But wait, there's more... what if we could eliminate hurricanes, too? Would Oprah help?
Oprah?
The Weatherman says...
The weatherman says it is out of our control! Aarrggh. AARRGGH! I wanted to play tennis. But the rain is coming down. And the radar shows more on the way. It will be a long day.
But what if the weather was in our control? What if we could manage weather?
If you listen to the weatherman... he'll talk about warm air masses, cold fronts. Hot air rises. Cold air sinks.
If you think globally, we have hot air around the tropics and cold air around the poles. Our goal is to mitigate the extreme weather for the midlands.
What if we had a systematic way of capturing energy in the tropics and then judiciously releasing energy to manage the weather for the continents?
The angel (I think it was an angel!) told me that God wants us to build arks. Not just one. But many.
This time, the arks won't save just Noah and his family and some animals. No, this time the arks will provide freedom and sanctuary for all of humanity AND create refuges for many of the animals.
The angel told me there was a symbol. The angel said life is a circle. And the symbol is a ring. What goes around, comes around.
The angel said we can make our world a garden paradise if we understand the rings. We need to understand the ring of truth. We need to let freedom ring. We need to build RingWorld.
The angel showed a vision of rings on the ocean. It was if one was looking at the sea from a satellite. There were these huge concentric cirles of floating islands!
The outer rings were marshy topped wildlife sanctuaries. Just within the outer ring was a ring of power generation islands. These islands were built to harvest wave and wind energy. Within the power band were a ring forest lands. Within that were the farmlands, centered around the hub.
The hubs of the rings were the central business districts and the safest location. The outer ring marshes would get pounded with the wind and the waves. The power gen belt and the forests would absorb much of the blow. The goal of the outer arks is to protect the inner arcs or farms and homes from the blows.
The angel then showed me the globe, covered with such rings of arks. The rings at the tropics were designed to soak up the sun. God wants us to create an infrastructure that will promote life at the tropics.
We start by soaking up the sun. We create floating wildlife refuges. We can take our trash, bundle it and float it and cover it with nutrient rich mud, and let life find its way. Grasses will grow. Critters will come.
The rings at the tropics need to focus on photosynthesis. The ring systems there need to mainly capture energy. So assume we soak up the sun at the tropics and then convert the plant growth into ethanol, which is then shipped to the "45th rings".
By contrast, the rings near the 45th parallel need to primarily burn energy. By choosing where and when to burn energy, we can control world weather.
So saith the angel? Was the weatherman right? Is weather out of our control? Or is the angel right? Could we really control the weather?!?!
But what if the weather was in our control? What if we could manage weather?
If you listen to the weatherman... he'll talk about warm air masses, cold fronts. Hot air rises. Cold air sinks.
If you think globally, we have hot air around the tropics and cold air around the poles. Our goal is to mitigate the extreme weather for the midlands.
What if we had a systematic way of capturing energy in the tropics and then judiciously releasing energy to manage the weather for the continents?
The angel (I think it was an angel!) told me that God wants us to build arks. Not just one. But many.
This time, the arks won't save just Noah and his family and some animals. No, this time the arks will provide freedom and sanctuary for all of humanity AND create refuges for many of the animals.
The angel told me there was a symbol. The angel said life is a circle. And the symbol is a ring. What goes around, comes around.
The angel said we can make our world a garden paradise if we understand the rings. We need to understand the ring of truth. We need to let freedom ring. We need to build RingWorld.
The angel showed a vision of rings on the ocean. It was if one was looking at the sea from a satellite. There were these huge concentric cirles of floating islands!
The outer rings were marshy topped wildlife sanctuaries. Just within the outer ring was a ring of power generation islands. These islands were built to harvest wave and wind energy. Within the power band were a ring forest lands. Within that were the farmlands, centered around the hub.
The hubs of the rings were the central business districts and the safest location. The outer ring marshes would get pounded with the wind and the waves. The power gen belt and the forests would absorb much of the blow. The goal of the outer arks is to protect the inner arcs or farms and homes from the blows.
The angel then showed me the globe, covered with such rings of arks. The rings at the tropics were designed to soak up the sun. God wants us to create an infrastructure that will promote life at the tropics.
We start by soaking up the sun. We create floating wildlife refuges. We can take our trash, bundle it and float it and cover it with nutrient rich mud, and let life find its way. Grasses will grow. Critters will come.
The rings at the tropics need to focus on photosynthesis. The ring systems there need to mainly capture energy. So assume we soak up the sun at the tropics and then convert the plant growth into ethanol, which is then shipped to the "45th rings".
By contrast, the rings near the 45th parallel need to primarily burn energy. By choosing where and when to burn energy, we can control world weather.
So saith the angel? Was the weatherman right? Is weather out of our control? Or is the angel right? Could we really control the weather?!?!
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Thanks to all our angels...
Sometimes the spirit really moves. I feel it. That sense of rightness. Of oneness with something bigger and better.
Sometimes the spirit really moves and you share it with someone. It is like being at the movies where the soundtrack tells you something mysterious is happening.
In real life, things happen. And sometimes things are electric and things are created and the feeling is ... wow! Sometimes these shared moments are spiritual. Sometimes they're material.
The moments of creation... the moments of wow... have given us so many blessings to be thankful for. We should extend our blessings to the world. We should live cleaner and greener. Our lives could be beautiful. Our world could be beautiful.
Another blessing I am so thankful for, is the spirit of grace I've been shown in my life. I really try (but often fail) to live gracefully.
Let us show our thanks for the grace we have been given, to extend that grace to all our fellows, no matter their color, national origin, sexual orientation, drug preference, musical tastes or fashion sense (or lack thereof! :). Let us live and govern with grace. Let freedom ring!
Happy Thanksgiving 2008!
Sometimes the spirit really moves and you share it with someone. It is like being at the movies where the soundtrack tells you something mysterious is happening.
In real life, things happen. And sometimes things are electric and things are created and the feeling is ... wow! Sometimes these shared moments are spiritual. Sometimes they're material.
The moments of creation... the moments of wow... have given us so many blessings to be thankful for. We should extend our blessings to the world. We should live cleaner and greener. Our lives could be beautiful. Our world could be beautiful.
Another blessing I am so thankful for, is the spirit of grace I've been shown in my life. I really try (but often fail) to live gracefully.
Let us show our thanks for the grace we have been given, to extend that grace to all our fellows, no matter their color, national origin, sexual orientation, drug preference, musical tastes or fashion sense (or lack thereof! :). Let us live and govern with grace. Let freedom ring!
Happy Thanksgiving 2008!
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
The angel said... Burn Less
So maybe an Angel said it. Or maybe not. It is still hard for me to believe. But it sounds so true! Does it sound true to you?
The angel said to in order to stop global warming and get our Earth back in balance that we needed to Burn Less and Grow More.
If we burn less, we'll put less carbon into the atmosphere. If we grow more, we'll soak up the sun and the carbon and have a cleaner, cooler planet. It sounds simple, right?
I heard the cynical voices say: "But we'd need to change things and people don't like change."
The angel told me, you need to make the change attractive and sexy. Tell the people about the FlyPods. They are better than cars. Tell the people about getting rid of the IRS and governing with grace.
What?! Govern with grace? Get rid of the IRS? That does sound attractive.
The angel said... God wants you to be free. The IRS isn't freedom. It is partial slavery. The government owns part of you. Is it 33%? Is it 50%? Some people are half slaves to the IRS.
The IRS lives off of payroll taxes. But whatever you tax, you discourage. Employment taxes discourage employment.
How many workers and how many businesses would like it if payroll taxes went away? That might be change that is attractive.
But if payroll taxes went away, we would still need a broad based tax system. One that discourages burning. We need to burn less fuel. We need to live clean. With a Natural Tax system, we'd tax the use of fossil fuels and raw materials and we'd live smaller and cleaner.
We'd recycle because it is economically attractive. We'd live small to avoid taxes. We'd efficiently use the bounty that God has given us.
Whatever behavior you tax, you discourage. Isn't it just moronic to tax employment? Why do we discourage employment?
Let's tax fossil fuel and other natural resource usage instead. And people will head to the Pods. Efficiency will be demanded by the marketplace. Positive change will happen. It can be beautiful. You need to sell it as sexy and attractive.
The angel said... if we have but the faith of a mustard seed, we can make it happen.
The angel said to in order to stop global warming and get our Earth back in balance that we needed to Burn Less and Grow More.
If we burn less, we'll put less carbon into the atmosphere. If we grow more, we'll soak up the sun and the carbon and have a cleaner, cooler planet. It sounds simple, right?
I heard the cynical voices say: "But we'd need to change things and people don't like change."
The angel told me, you need to make the change attractive and sexy. Tell the people about the FlyPods. They are better than cars. Tell the people about getting rid of the IRS and governing with grace.
What?! Govern with grace? Get rid of the IRS? That does sound attractive.
The angel said... God wants you to be free. The IRS isn't freedom. It is partial slavery. The government owns part of you. Is it 33%? Is it 50%? Some people are half slaves to the IRS.
The IRS lives off of payroll taxes. But whatever you tax, you discourage. Employment taxes discourage employment.
How many workers and how many businesses would like it if payroll taxes went away? That might be change that is attractive.
But if payroll taxes went away, we would still need a broad based tax system. One that discourages burning. We need to burn less fuel. We need to live clean. With a Natural Tax system, we'd tax the use of fossil fuels and raw materials and we'd live smaller and cleaner.
We'd recycle because it is economically attractive. We'd live small to avoid taxes. We'd efficiently use the bounty that God has given us.
Whatever behavior you tax, you discourage. Isn't it just moronic to tax employment? Why do we discourage employment?
Let's tax fossil fuel and other natural resource usage instead. And people will head to the Pods. Efficiency will be demanded by the marketplace. Positive change will happen. It can be beautiful. You need to sell it as sexy and attractive.
The angel said... if we have but the faith of a mustard seed, we can make it happen.
The angel and the PeoplePods...
When the angel (at least I think it was an angel) shared the vision, it was pretty incredible.
PeoplePods rolled around everywhere. And they were so cool! They looked like skinny cars! There were four wheels, but the Pods were a little less than half as wide as one of today's cars.
The interior of one of the Pods looked like a jet ski. To get in, you popped the canopy top and straddled the bench and then dropped the canopy down. Some of the Pods were single seaters. Some were doubles and triples.
The Pods were really light weight so they didn't need much of an engine. Driving the Pods was a blast. You'd lean into corners and the suspension was set to let the Pod tilt hard and still keep all four wheels glued to the road.
The Pods were really cool in that you could form PodChains. Assume you had a group of Pods all headed for the same destination. You could link up in a chain and let the leader drive. Each Pod was independently powered and braked. But the electronics in the Pod would respond instantly to the acceleration or braking of the leader pod.
It made the PodChains really efficient in fuel use because the PodChains drastically reduced average wind resistance.
But that drivable version of the Pods wasn't nearly as neat as the flyable 
version. Some of the PeoplePods could be attached to a hang glider wing. The whole Pod was in essence suspended under a Rogallo wing. The Pod had electronics to shift the weight of the pod underneath the wing just like a hang glider flyer would do.You could fly to wherever you wanted. You could land just about anywhere because the hang glider wing didn't need much runway. Then you detached your Rogallo wing and your PeoplePod could drive where ever you wanted.
If you had bat wings, you just left them permanently attached. In the tuck mode, they just trailed the pod. When you wanted to fly, you just punched a button and the wings unfolded into their wide spread mode for slow flying. After lift off, the wings went into a semi-tuck that drastically reduced the surface area of the wing. In the semi-tuck, the Pod could just zing you anywhere in a hurry.
There was this incredible fish tail power. The pod had a flexible propeller power train extending from the back of the pod. With a flick of the tail, the pod can change directions or flight attitude. The thing was incredibly responsive.
The angel said... "the future could be really cool... and it could be soon... do you want to help make a new free world?"
But of course, I struggle to believe. This can't be possible. There are cynical voices in my head that tell me I am wasting my time. I need to have faith. I need to have hope. I need to share the vision of a new free world.
Did the angel say... "We can solve global warming!"
Okay. So maybe there was an angel. Or maybe it was just my imagination.
But there were chills. And everything seemed so right. So simple. So true!
At least it seemed true to me. We have been given an incredible vision. This vision had a path to Earth as a lush garden paradise of peace and prosperity.
God wants us to be free. God wants us to take care of the earth. God wants us to live and let live. God doesn't want us to judge and condemn. He doesn't want us to control each other. He wants us to live in peace. And the first step in the path to peace is to solve global warming.
So the angel said we need to solve global warming. He said we need to "Burn less and Grow More."
The angel said... there is a yin and a yang to people and plants. The people burn oxygen and give off carbon dioxide. And plants soak up the carbon and give off oxygen. The more stuff people burn, the more plants are needed.
We are out of balance. We burn too much and we cut down rain forests. Our planet is out of balance because we have too much carbon in the air.
The simple solution: We need to burn less and grow more.
But there were chills. And everything seemed so right. So simple. So true!
At least it seemed true to me. We have been given an incredible vision. This vision had a path to Earth as a lush garden paradise of peace and prosperity.
God wants us to be free. God wants us to take care of the earth. God wants us to live and let live. God doesn't want us to judge and condemn. He doesn't want us to control each other. He wants us to live in peace. And the first step in the path to peace is to solve global warming.
So the angel said we need to solve global warming. He said we need to "Burn less and Grow More."
The angel said... there is a yin and a yang to people and plants. The people burn oxygen and give off carbon dioxide. And plants soak up the carbon and give off oxygen. The more stuff people burn, the more plants are needed.
We are out of balance. We burn too much and we cut down rain forests. Our planet is out of balance because we have too much carbon in the air.
The simple solution: We need to burn less and grow more.
If an angel asked...
If an angel came to you and asked you to help save the world, would you do it?
What if it was something really easy? Like just forwarding some email? Would you do it?
Our world could be a phenomenal place. We could have a lush garden paradise, where freedom rings. Global warming would be a thing of the past. Hurricanes too, because we can manage the weather. We would have food galore and no one would go hungry. We would promote life and an abundant life at that. We would create a New Free World where the inspired could move to pursue utopias and the afflicted could move to seek the freedom to flourish.
God wants us to be free.
I think an angel has asked me... but I'm not sure. That's why I am an Uncertain Prophet.
But I need to share the vision, and ask you... does it ring true? Read the vision. If it rings true, share it. Lend us your voice to raise the call for freedom!
What if it was something really easy? Like just forwarding some email? Would you do it?
Our world could be a phenomenal place. We could have a lush garden paradise, where freedom rings. Global warming would be a thing of the past. Hurricanes too, because we can manage the weather. We would have food galore and no one would go hungry. We would promote life and an abundant life at that. We would create a New Free World where the inspired could move to pursue utopias and the afflicted could move to seek the freedom to flourish.
God wants us to be free.
I think an angel has asked me... but I'm not sure. That's why I am an Uncertain Prophet.
But I need to share the vision, and ask you... does it ring true? Read the vision. If it rings true, share it. Lend us your voice to raise the call for freedom!
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