My birthday day is coming up in a month and half so here is one for all you moon buddies out there!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltLIwdXIc6w

So Mark, do you have anything good to say?

Sure.

I have a history in the visual world that is moving into some super cool directions.  After helping design three coffee shop interiors I am keenly putting my home into new and very exciting designs.  I borrow a little from only a few and am going into uncharted territory.  This project has been going on for about two years.  I am going to take some pictures to show people what I have done and probably blow them away.

I am also waiting for the full moon to some pictures using extra electronic equipment and other extras which create visionary art as if you were on some exotic unusual planet but with Earth's moon.

I am also (Sigh) going to take my visual meditation project to UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley to have the results tested scientifically with electronic equipment.  I had to leave the Professor I was working with in Chico before I got very far with it but I'm sure he could talk with a professor at another university.  This could be the discovery of the decade.  It would cure most eye sight problems and help with all kinds of mental disorders.

I would also want to teach people how to view a good computer animation for healing purposes.

So I hope that helps gives you an idea of good things in the works. 

BEEN THINKING IN THE MORNING

It seems that it is so easy to look at things the wrong way.  Even see yourself in the wrong light.  To really believe that the perception is true and even logical.  Then to find that there are very different ways to view something that seemed obviously the way things were.  As if truth has taken a hold on my mind sometimes, but really parading as the truth.  The thing is the other ways of looking at things doesn't have to be the exact opposite.  I don't think that is always the case at all.  I would think I was right on, but I was really missing the mark.  So I go from yellow to green.  That has a lot to do with acceptance I think.  Also how to be realistic about things too.  Being aware of patterns and being willing to adapt even when it is not ideal.  And if that sounds negative, maybe it is, but then other things start falling into perspective.   I can see the good I have more clearly and love that more easily.  I can feel happy now considering that things aren't so bad.  Complaining is never good even if there are reasons because it can lead to anger and resentment.  I really want to focus more on the positive since that is where my joys come from.  Nothing wrong with putting something under a microscope or telescope, but know what I want close to me, where my conscious wants to be the most, is what I need to focus on.

So, Mark how would you kind of describe your day?

The weather did not kick ass.   Very windy and cloudy.  I felt a bit out of it, but in a good way.   There has been much less drama in my life from many perspectives.  I get the idea that makes my life more peaceful.   I just hope I don't turn into a Buddha statue until I am six feet under.  Visually though it was an exciting day.  I saw the hidden view of the marsh where they have rocks, cement, and bark.  In the back you can see a the swampy marsh at the perfect angle.  Also I found that Junction side of the end of the Coyote Bridge is the best spot to view Tam Valley.  So you are leaning against the pole.  This has got to be one to the best views in the whole world.

So what do you enjoy most these days Mark?

I don't listen to music constantly, but I have the best collection of music I have ever owned, so that is an immense pleasure.  I found that I love those V8 fusion smoothies: Who would have guessed.  My love for Computer Animation has been rising lately as well and I want to re-collect my old collection.   I am into some of the natural spots around here and I know some spots are better than others.  Also I have been thinking about water imagery lately.  I hope to go scuba diving someday.  People interest me thank God.  I am not sure why sometimes, why I love my fellow humans, but I do!  Been feeling alone, but not so alone at the same time.  I suppose that is healthy, but also perhaps the California way.  I'm stuck here in California so I might as well love it.

So Mark what is really going on in that mind of yours?

Seems like I am standing on two planets lately

Things are looking better, but it is not always like I can pinpoint it

Almost a sense of warp speed in the air

Or a time warp

And yes spring is finally warming people's hearts up

I think I could use a long cat nap

But I am not that kind of cat

So I can do like my other cat friend does and just casually explore

Harry is my kind of cat

Very friendly 

But no lap cat for more than a few minutes

Harry knows that life has some cool things out there...

So Mark what do you find motivating these days?

I think things progress with out me sometimes and I need to notice the way life is doing it's things.  Sometimes the world can be a scary place and then you start to notice that in some weird way my faith and efforts are doing something.  This blows away the futility concept.  
Your hand reaches out

Only there is no key

And no green door

Just a green man

In a big gray city

And a lollypop

And he is making a sketch

Of a faraway place

Where the characters 

Lived beyond the city

And saw things 

Within the city

And played city games

Which were fun

It is now chapter one

And he looks at his thumbs

Watches for wind

And moves

Into something.
Sweet is the word I know

You were like a flower in the air

The grass was removed

I planted seeds

I prayed for rain

Bright sun came

The flowers are waiting 

They will return

When the rain comes again.
Try and there is rain

Trying rain

Opens the sky ways

To the part of favorites

Drenched in the rain

Parts of the beach washed on your face

Taking the liquid in 

Through wicked and dim

Some people lose their angels and swim

At the arctic with penguins

Like dreams happen with melting snow

I can hold them and I can let them go

It is always the best time here

As fate has this strange way

As fear fades

Fate smiles and makes miles

Have a look the view is fine.

So why this creativity thing you do Mark? Isn't it kinda weird to be creative?

Now this is how I would respond to such an idiot:

Science could have never happened with out creativity, nor would there be any culture without it.  If modern man is to be better than the cave man this is the reason.  There is an endless heart filled imagination in people.  What is weird to me is the white bread fears that people have, especially restricting things to "Family Friendly" or "Boring" "Insipid" "Dull" and in it's own way: Creepy!

Could you in just less than 1500 words give a warning as to why Nazism was so sersiously evil and how it could happen similar again if we aren't careful Nazism's Evil: A Warning from HistoryNazism, or National Socialism under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, ranks among the 20th century's most destructive ideologies. From 1933 to 1945, it transformed Germany—a cultured, industrialized nation—into a machine of conquest, racial pseudoscience, and industrialized murder. Its evil wasn't abstract; it was measured in tens of millions of deaths, shattered societies, and a moral abyss that still defines "crimes against humanity." Understanding it matters because similar forces—authoritarian impulses, tribal hatreds, and the surrender of reason to emotion—can reemerge wherever vigilance fades.The Scale of Its CrimesAt its core, Nazism rejected universal human dignity. It divided humanity into "superior" Aryans and "inferior" races, with Jews as the ultimate enemy. This wasn't fringe prejudice; it was state doctrine. The Holocaust systematically murdered six million Jews—two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population—through ghettos, Einsatzgruppen shootings, and death camps like Auschwitz, where Zyklon B gas and crematoria industrialized killing. Millions more died: Roma, disabled people, Slavs, political opponents, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses. The Nazis murdered for biology, not behavior.Beyond genocide, Nazi Germany unleashed World War II, the deadliest conflict in history. Aggressive invasions killed 70-85 million people worldwide (about 3% of the global population). In the East, the war merged with racial extermination: the Hunger Plan aimed to starve tens of millions of Slavs for German "living space." Concentration camps like Dachau and Buchenwald tortured dissidents; medical experiments by Josef Mengele treated humans as lab rats. The regime crushed individual rights. The Gestapo, SS, and propaganda ministry under Joseph Goebbels enforced total loyalty. Books burned, churches co-opted or persecuted, press censored, children indoctrinated in Hitler Youth. "Night of the Long Knives" and Kristallnacht showed how quickly law gave way to violence. Economically, it plundered occupied nations while building a war machine on slave labor. This wasn't mere dictatorship—it was a cult of death glorifying struggle, Führerprinzip (absolute leader obedience), and the eradication of "weakness."Philosophically, it perverted science and culture. Eugenics programs sterilized hundreds of thousands and euthanized "life unworthy of life." Nietzsche and Wagner were twisted into justifications for power; Darwin's ideas mangled into social Darwinism. The swastika and rallies created intoxicating spectacle, replacing reason with myth and blood.How It Happened: Not Inevitable, But EnabledNazism didn't seize power in a vacuum. Post-WWI Germany faced humiliation (Versailles Treaty), hyperinflation, then the Great Depression's mass unemployment. The Weimar Republic was fragile—polarized politics, street violence between communists and nationalists. Hitler, a charismatic veteran and orator, exploited this. His 1925 book Mein Kampf openly preached antisemitism, expansionism, and contempt for democracy, yet many dismissed him as a crank.The Nazi Party grew through savvy propaganda, promising national revival, economic order, and scapegoats. Blame fell on Jews ("stab-in-the-back" myth for WWI defeat), Marxists, and "degenerate" liberals. In 1933, Hitler became Chancellor legally via elections and coalitions. Then came the Reichstag Fire, enabling emergency decrees that suspended civil liberties. The Enabling Act gave him dictatorial powers. Opposition parties dissolved; unions crushed. By 1934, he was Führer.Key enablers:Economic despair and resentment: People traded freedom for jobs and pride. Propaganda and media control: Radio, films (Triumph of the Will), and newspapers repeated big lies until they felt true. Scapegoating and "us vs. them": Jews were dehumanized as parasites, Bolsheviks as existential threats. Gradual steps normalized horror—from boycotts to Nuremberg Laws stripping rights, to deportation, to extermination. Erosion of institutions: Judges, bureaucrats, and intellectuals conformed or were purged. The military swore personal oaths to Hitler. Charismatic leadership: Hitler fused nationalism with socialism's appeal to workers, creating a totalitarian hybrid. Many "good Germans" participated through banality of evil—desk murderers like Adolf Eichmann coordinated logistics without passion, just following orders. International hesitation: Early aggression (Rhineland, Austria, Sudetenland) met appeasement. Ordinary people joined: some ideologues, many opportunists, others fearful bystanders. Resistance existed (White Rose, military plots), but too late or isolated.Could It Happen Again?Yes—patterns recur because human nature doesn't change. Technology evolves, but psychology (tribalism, status-seeking, fear of decline) persists. No society is immune; Germany was among the most educated and advanced.Warning signs echo today:Economic and cultural anxiety: Stagnation, inequality, or rapid change breeds resentment. Demagogues frame it as betrayal by elites or outsiders. Polarization and identity politics: Extreme focus on race, ethnicity, or group grievance over individual rights mirrors Nazi racialism, just with different labels. When "my group first" becomes zero-sum, compromise dies. Propaganda 2.0: Social media amplifies echo chambers, conspiracy theories, and dehumanization ("vermin," "traitors"). Deepfakes and algorithms reward outrage over truth. Goebbels would envy virality. Erosion of norms: Attacks on courts, free speech, or elections as "rigged." Cults of personality, where loyalty to a leader trumps law or evidence. Scapegoating: Blaming minorities, immigrants, globalists, or "the other" for complex problems. History shows this escalates from rhetoric to policy to violence. Youth indoctrination and anti-intellectualism: Rejecting evidence-based debate for emotional narratives or "my truth." Authoritarian temptations: Both far-right ethno-nationalism and far-left class/race warfare have totalitarian potential. Nazism specifically fused hyper-nationalism with racial pseudoscience. It wouldn't look identical—no swastikas or exact eugenics. Modern versions might use digital surveillance, economic coercion, or "emergency" powers. Climate alarm, pandemic responses, or migration crises could justify overreach. Populist authoritarians of any stripe exploit crises, promising simple solutions and strongmen.Prevention demands:Defend universal human rights and Enlightenment values: reason, evidence, free inquiry, individual dignity over collective myths. Strengthen institutions—independent judiciary, free press (with responsibility), robust education in history and critical thinking. Reject dehumanizing language and conspiracy thinking. Call out scapegoating early. Promote economic opportunity and social cohesion to drain resentment. Vigilance against all totalitarianism. Monitor power concentration, whether state, corporate, or ideological. Teach the Holocaust and Nazi rise honestly—not as cartoon villains, but as human failure. "Never Again" requires understanding "How." Nazism's evil succeeded because millions normalized the abnormal. It reminds us civilization is fragile. Complacency, fear, or tribal loyalty can revive it in new clothing. Stay skeptical of utopias built on hatred, guard liberty jealously, and affirm shared humanity. The alternative is known: ashes, graves, and regret. History doesn't repeat exactly, but it rhymes. Heed the rhyme.