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The Defendant further submits her request to submit her full written Legal Argument, from which she had been reading the "Legal Argument: Application of Facts to Propositions of Law", out of her Draft Appeal, in this matter, should the Magistrate choose to find her Guilty. The Defendant would prefer to submit the document, into the record at this time, thereby avoiding the necessity of Appealing, any possible Guilt Findings. In the defendants opinion, should the Magistrate read the Draft Appeal, he would find the Defendant Not Guilty, on all counts. 2. Of the five charges of Crimen Injuria, Defendant was Found Guilty, on counts: #1, #2 Guilty on #4 and #5.
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TrinityLove Eco-Family:: Mothers Limbic Love Connection: Reptilian vs. Limbic Brain Love & Intimacy HeartSwan CourtShip This Mothers Day post was motivated by Dachshund's comment to Why People Work Hard (below intro) It is a brief snippets exploration into the possible neurological (psychological and emotional) foundations of love, from the perspective of individuals whose 'love' thinking and behaviour, occurs at the level of the reptilian brain, limbic brain, or neocortex. All mammals have reptilian, limbic and neocortex brains; Reptiles only have reptilian brains. In any mammal, any 'fight, flight, love, et al' behaviour may be rooted in any related, or a combination thereof brain. Additionally the practice of certain behaviours, in this case, love, touch and intimacy, from infancy all through life stimulates the growth and activity and intimacy in the limbic brain. The absence of loving touch, and intimacy from childhood, results in stunted limbic brains. A mammal/human with a stunted limbic brain, accordingly responds to 'love' by means of their reptilian brain knowledge thereof. Reptilian brains experience a reptilian truth: "no intrinsic restraint on harming people exists in the reptilian brain." ***** [Dachshund] Your pic: please note that while 82% of white American males enjoy fellatio, it has appeal [intended] for just 55% of African Americans. Now consider how little ... ahem ... appeal it has for blacks in Africa for whom "dry" unprotected vaginal intercourse is traditional. *****
Plato's Theory of Love: Rationality as Passion Perhaps if we were honest with ourselves, we may confront the reality that much of our life, our actions, our desires, our motivations, are all focused in some conscious or unconscious, direct or indirect way on acquiring some form of love, whether intimate, or in the form of recognition, or attention, or respect or admiration. Love is so important to us, and yet how often does it, or our concept of what it should be, and how we should feel about it, disappoint us? We expect a lot from our sexual passions, our partners, and often end up disappointed when romance disappears. Irrespective, we keep getting married, hoping that somehow, the next time will be different. In the Platonic dialogue, Symposium, Aristophanes explained via a comic and eccentric myth that love is our search for our alter ego, the part of us that we feel we need to make us whole. The ancient gods inflicted a curse on us, and divided us in two as a punishment for our arrogance, and love is our remedy therefore; love is our constant search for completion, for wholeness. Socrates responds to Aristophanes theory that our desire for love, for the other half of us to make us whole, unless that other half is good. In other words, our motive force in love is our yearning for goodness, not just completion. When we love someone, we desire possessing the goodness which is in them. Accordingly, 'Love is desire for the perpetual possession of the good.' Plato's diagnosis is that we are ignorant of what we want, and accordingly we err in our searching therefore. Our ignorance and confusion are the sources of our suffering, and can be amended either through recognition of the reality of our ignorance of our desires, and our understanding of the human condition.
Thoughts on Love...
In short, Plato tells us, everything begins where we used to think that everything ended.
'I profess to understand nothing but matters of love.' -- Socrates in Plato's Symposium.
Back to the Future: What is Love?
He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, seesâ&#x20AC;Ś The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the loveâ&#x20AC;Ś. Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes. -- Paracelsus
Perhaps to understand love, "we must start with feelings"? And to understand feelings, which are a cognitive interpretation of an internal state of being and sensations, we need to study the brain and its neurological and hormonal workings from infancy to adult maturity?
"What is love, and why are some people unable to find it? What is loneliness, and why does it hurt? What are relationships, and how and why do they work the way they do?
Its brief conclusions: Although love does not submit to commands, natural love can flourish as long as the conditions for it do not die. It gives us a look at the natural science of our feelings, and why communication, touch, and time spent with another individual plays a far more important role in healthy relationships than do all the drugs, fake friends and Freudian therapy can possibly hope to achieve.
'Steeped as they are in limbic physiology, healthy people have trouble forcing their minds into the unfamiliar outline of this reptilian truth: no intrinsic restraint on harming people exists outside the limbic domain." -- A General Theory of Love
A General Theory of Love, does exactly that.
We are provided with a poetic scientific explanation on the development of love upon our limbic brains, and
how such limbic love resonance, shapes our personalities. The studies and conclusions are interesting for anyone who wants to raise a child in love, or wants to understand why many people are capable of limbic resonance loving touch and intimacy; and others limbic brains are stunted, and cannot love; to reptilian behaviour that can kill without remorse, to taking pleasure in torture and murder.
Neurological Theory of Love: Reptilian vs. Limbic Brain Love & Intimacy Brief excerpts from A General Theory of Love (T. Lewis, MD; F. Amini, MD; R.Lannon, MD): "The limbic brain has more opiate receptors than any other brain area." "Everything a person is and everything he knows resides in the tangled thicket of his intertwined neurons. These fateful, tiny bridges number in the quadrillions, but they spring from just two sources: DNA and daily life. The genetic code calls some synapses into being, while experience engenders and modifies others." "... a child gets his first taste of his feelings secondhand. Only through limbic resonance with another can he begin to apprehend his inner world…. Before any glimmerings of event memory appear, he stores an impression of what love feels like." Our unconscious recognition of this feeling often determines whom we select later in life for intimate relationships, be they healing or destructive. This is the mechanism for being 'in love,' an important and wonderfully pleasing state; one that is quite different from loving someone. "As such, adult love depends critically on knowing the other. In love demands only the brief acquaintance necessary to establish an emotional genre .... A child's early experience teaches this skill [of reliably understanding another person] in direct proportion to his parents' ability to know him." A human being has dual hearts—the first, a pulsating fist of muscle in the chest; the second, a precious cabal of communicating neurons that create feeling, longing and love. …The meticulously crafted core of a neural network…learns from experience and transforms itself. …Love alters the structure of our brains. All of us, when we engage in relatedness, fall under the gravitational influence of another's emotional world, at the same time that we are bending his emotional mind with ours. …Ongoing exposure to one person's limbic (patterns) does not merely activate neural patterns in another—it also strengthens them. Long standing togetherness writes permanent changes into a brain's open book. In a relationship, one mind revises another; one heart changes its partner. This astounding legacy of our combined status as mammals and neural beings is limbic revision: the power to remodel emotional parts of the people we love…Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.
A General Theory of Love explores the realms of cognitive science, including implicity and explicit memory, learning, problem solving, etc.. all within the central context of the limbic brain system. They explain that infants are born with their limbic systems "open" and unregulated, and they need the mothers absolute closeness to slowly, over time, get regulated. This is a two-way thing. Mothers also require limbic connections with their babies, in order for themselves to be limbically regulated. All homo-sapiens require a limbic connection with another to be successfully regulated. Put differently: from earliest childhood, our brains actually link with those of the people close to us, in a silent rhythm that alters the very structure of our brains, establishes life-long emotional patterns, and makes us, in large part, who we are.
Three Level Brain Triune: Limbic Resonance & The Deprivation of Limbic Connections The model of a three-level brain is used throughout the book. This triune brain consists of the brainstem, or reptilian brain, which senses and controls internal functions such as heartbeat and avoidance of threat; the mammalian, or limbic, brain that represents the evolutionary advent of emotion in mammals, the ability to sense and respond to external phenomena; and the cortex, or neocortical brain, which consciously responds to that of which we are cognitively aware. We usually ascribe the most important aspects of our being to the neocortical brain. The authors use descriptions of clinical disorders and evidence from interesting and ingenious experiments to support this triune model of the brain. For example, reptiles are neither emotionally responsive nor playful. By contrast, we mammals can sense the internal state of another mammal and adjust our own physiology to match. This phenomenon of limbic resonance is illustrated by the calming influence a secure mother has on her baby by gazing into her baby's eyes or by cradling her baby so that it can listen to her heart beating. Although we all have made these observations, their meaning has escaped us, but their subtlety has not. The lasting importance of the emotional content of our early experiences is clearly illustrated by the devastating results of Harry Harlow's experiments with maternal deprivation of otherwise well-fed and wellcared-for infant monkeys and by Rene Spitz's observations of similar fates for children raised in foundling homes.
Our Cryptic Limbic Brain The brain's ancient emotional architecture is not a bothersome animal encumbrance. Instead, it is nothing less than the key to our lives. We live immersed in unseen forces and silent messages that shape our
destinies. As individuals and as a culture, our chance for happiness depends on our ability to decipher a hidden world that revolves-invisibly, improbably, inexorablyaround love.
Those who take limbic love for granted, as a natural emotional, and psychological physiological reality for all two-legged mammals; forget and cannot fathom reptilian brain thinking.
From birth to death, love is not just the focus of human experience but also the life force of the mind, determining our moods, stabilizing our bodily rhythms, and changing the structure of our brains. The body's physiology ensures that relationships determine and fix our identities. Limbic Love makes us who we are, and who we can become.
Those with stunted limbic brains; whose 'love' reality is not limbic, but reptilian; experience a reptilian brain truth:
"New scanning technologies show that perception activates the same brain areas as imagination. Perhaps for this reason, the brain cannot reliably distinguish between recorded experience and internal fantasy." "Assuming the world is the way it looks is the neurally prompted so-called naive realism to which most of us unwittingly subscribe. Reality is thus more personal than daily life suggests. Nobody inhabits the same emotional realm." "Many people live in a world so singular that what they see when they open their eyes in the morning may be unfathomable to the rest of humanity." 'Steeped as they are in limbic physiology, healthy people have trouble forcing their minds into the unfamiliar outline of this reptilian truth: no intrinsic restraint on harming people exists outside the limbic domain
The Social Contract of Reptilian Sex: The Praying Mantis The Social Contract: A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Sources of Order and Disorder, by Robert Ardrey: The evolutionary dillema of the preying mantis rests on the eagerness of the female to eat anything, including the male. The female is endowed with poorer eyesight than the male, and she can only see him when he moves. He approaches her compelled, but a turn of her in his direction freezes him. That sex for a male preying mantis is a dangerous game requires no comment. With a final leap the male may secure himself on her back unnoticed, there to proceed with copulation, a fair chance existing that he will fail. If at the last instance she glimpses his movement, she may seize him with her deceptively named forelegs, and begin to eat him. She begins always by chewing off his head. Having lost his head, he literally loses all fear of her. Headless, abandoned freely to the sexual compulsion, he wrenches free from her grasp, mounts her back where she cannot see him, and copulates. Then slowly he will weaken, lose his grip, die. When he slides to the ground, she will discover him again and finish eating him.
Limbic Brain Delusions about Reptilian Brain Realities
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TrinityLove Eco-Family:: Fathers Love for Justice State Controlled Consciousness: "The aim of public education is not to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. ... Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim ... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality." -- H.L. Mencken, The American Mercury "Perhaps school's greatest danger is that it may convince you life is nothing more than an institutionalized rat race" -- Grace Llewellyn, The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School & Get a Real Life and Education
State Indoctrination and the Destruction of the Family I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my 27 years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes any more that scientists are made in science classes, or politicians in civics classes, or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides, and even as administrators. But the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions. Although teachers do care, and do work very hard, the institution is psychopathic - by which I mean it has no conscience. -- John Taylor Gatto, The Exhausted School Scenario A: Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students. 1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again. 2009 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The school gets extra money from the state because Jeffrey has a disability. Scenario B: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car
and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt. 1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college and becomes a successful businessman. 2009 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist. Scenario C: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him. 1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing. 2009 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.
Brief Dot Connectors on the Road to the Destruction of the Family: "Communism and Socialism all know that they can not survive with strong families. Strong families make strong communities, and strong communities keep government power in check. Break down the families, and the door is wide open to centralizing power in government. Once families break down through divorce, welfare, cohabitation, etc. Government gets more and more involved in everyday life. More and more centralized government control." --- Red Squirrel's 'Nut Cracking' Nationalism': Why I am a Nationalist....
often they love their kids. Parents motivations are selfreinforcing, unlike those of 'educators' who are motivated predominantly by their pay-check. Accordingly parents need to be manipulated, for a few unhappy parents could disrupt the efficiency of the Dumbing Down Educational Experiment being conducted on their guineapig 'lump of dough' children. The second biggest obstacle to a planned society are religious 'cults', all of which have their own ideas as to 'Gods' plan for all human beings, including and particularly children. The third significant obstacle being local values and strong family ethnic cultures; which provide children with socially useful socio-cultural navigation maps for growing up. Accordingly a Planned Centralized Social Society needs to seriously suppress, if not attempt to entirely extinguish: individuality, cultural identity, a individual relationships with God, and close-knit family's. Few people are aware that the concept of Forced Schooling, was a recent invention, subsequent to the industrial revolution. Even fewer are conscious of how forced schooling has served the dual function of: l) The creation of a mindless proletariat stripped of its traditions of liberty, independence, fidelity to God, loyalty to family and land; and 2) The creation of a professional proletariat, suitably dumbed down and obedience specialized to serve functionally in a highly centralized corporate/bureaucratic economy.
The Path of Least Resistance: Debt Slave Consumers
The real purpose of modern schooling was announced by the legendary sociologist Edward Roth in his manifesto of 1906, Social Control:
"A man in debt is so far a slave." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Plans are underway to replace family, community and church with propaganda, mass-media and education .... people are only little plastic lumps of dough".
"Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver." -- Ambrose Bierce
Lump of Dough Children are accordingly in need of an education system that is deliberately designed to produce mediocre intellects, to hamstring their inner lives, to deny them appreciable leadership skills, and to ensure docile and incomplete citizens in order to render the populace "manageable." The Socialist "Father of American Education," John Dewey, stated his beliefs about how schools should be instrumental in developing a socialist society in America, in My Pedagogic Creed (1897) and The School and Society (1899). He suggested a system of 'progressive education' that should use psychology to deemphasize academics: "Our schools â&#x20AC;Ś are performing an infinite significant religious work. They are promoting the social unity out of which in the end genuine religious unity must grow."
Obstacles to the Central Socialist Planned Society: The biggest obstacle to a planned society are parents. Parents have their own plans for their own kids; most
"Debt is the slavery of the free." -- Publilius Syrus "Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people." -- Wendell Phillips "Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. But when you get in debt you become a slave. Therefore I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety. If your friend is in distress, aid him if you have the means to spare. If he fails to be able to return it, it is only so much lost." -- President Andrew Jackson "You can explain the model in a few simple sentences: Encourage people to spend. When they run out of money, encourage them to borrow. When they tire of borrowing and spending, lend them more at lower rates." "As a way for people to build wealth, this economic model of the Bubble Period was as ineffective as a bad
banker. It was a 'have your cake and eat it too' school of financial success with an obvious flaw."
"No comment." -- PR Office, Scotland Yard
"In the Bubble Epoque people tried to get something for nothing… Imagine, they thought they could get rich by borrowing money and spending it. Have you ever heard of something so ridiculous? Ha ha! Now, they think they can get rich by spending money that doesn't even exist." -- Bill Bonner, Daily Reckoning
"Fathers 4 Justice? The worst campaign group I have ever heard of." -- Downing Street Press Spokesman
The old mature ethics and values of 'no free lunch' and 'the path less travelled', honour and integrity, a man's word is his honour, etc... were replaced with new Highway to Hedonism and a Consumer Paradise Superficiality: Easy divorce laws removed the need for commitment to work at relationships; easy credit removed the need for fiscal self-control; easy entertainment removed the need to learn to entertain oneself; easy answers removed the need to ask questions.
Unschooling: Road to a Meaningful Life Adventure "Where did we ever get the grotesque idea that the State has a right to educate our kids? Where did we ever get the notion there is only one right way to grow up instead of hundreds? How did we lose our way and come to believe that human value and human quality can be reduced to numbers derived from paper/pencil tests?" -- John Taylor Gatto, The Exhausted School Now for the good news. Once you capiche the lump of dough conspiracy of modern schooling, avoiding its tricks and traps are easy: State propaganda trains children to be employees and consumers; teach yours to be leaders and adventurers. Socialist indoctrination trains children to obey reflexively; teach yours to think critically and independently. State zombies have a low threshold for boredom and being alone, addicted to external 'entertainment stimulus'; help your own to develop an inner life of adventure and wonder, into history, literature, philosophy, so that they'll never be bored. Challenge your kids with nature and solitude so that they can learn to enjoy their own company, and appreciate conducting their own inner dialogues. Sociliazed Sheeple prefer shallow and superficial friendships and relationships, quickly acquired and quickly abandoned; do your children deserve more? Your children can have a more meaningful life, and so can you.
Disobedient Adventurers for Love: Fathers for Justice: "…when historians look back on British Society at the start of the third millennium they will accord a small but important chapter to the men in tights." -- The Times Newspaper, January 2006 "…fiercely intelligent, charmingly foul-mouthed and a fantastic turn of phrase…few could equal O'Connor when it comes to taking a conversational thread, yanking, unravelling and generally running with it." -- Will Self, Author, GQ Magazine, June 2006
The civil rights group Fathers 4 Justice (F4J) was founded in December 2002 by Matt O'Connor after he experienced first hand the injustices of the secret family courts as he struggled to see his two boys Daniel and Alexander after a traumatic divorce. Started as a vehicle for social change, F4J quickly became the highwire act of protest groups, whether powder-bombing the Prime Minister in the House of Commons, scaling the balcony at Buckingham Palace in a Batman Costume, invading the Pulpit at York Minster during a General Synod Service or taking the National Lottery Draw live off air on BBC1 in front of ten million viewers. But behind the headlines and dramatic protests is a new creed for family law enshrined in our documents "Family Justice On Trial Opening The Door On Closed Courts" and "Blueprint For Family Law In The 21st Century." These pioneering, ideas-led documents set out radical and visionary frameworks for a fair, just, open and equitable system of family law. Both documents are essential reading and available on this web site for the first time. F4J campaigns not just in the name of the father, but in the name of all parents, grandparents and children seeking equality in family law. The achievements of F4J to date are best described by the Times Newspaper who in January 2006 wrote: "F4J caught the spirit of the times: they reflected the zeitgeist, and they changed it...for all the flaws within F4J, the issue of fatherhood has a currency that would have been unimaginable three years ago...when historians look back on British Society at the start of the third millennium, they will accord a small but important chapter to the men in tights." In just a few years Fathers 4 Justice has not only effected "climate change", but it has also succeeded in discrediting the secret courts and undermining public confidence in them. The result has been to force the government to advance proposals to open up the secret family courts to greater scrutiny and propose tougher enforcement of contact orders. Ridicule, satire and subversion are integral elements of the Fathers 4 Justice campaign. Naturally politicians, judges and the family law industry are targets for protests that are one part Monty Python, one part Pantomime and one part high-wire Circus act. Over the last four years, F4J has produced an ideas bank of creative work for campaigns, protest and demonstrations. Some ideas have yet to be realised and many never made it to their intended destination. Others though, like the infamous "In The Name Of The Father" banner graced a crane at Tower Bridge, the roof at York Minster and St Paul's Cathedral.