Damn, I Could Have Been Italian * "New" Online Bookstore by: W.P. Cirino
USED CAR DIET
Reasons to go on a: USED CAR DIET
What a great economy
PLEASE STOP BUYING OR LEASING NEW CARS
LET THE CAR INDUSTRY LOBBYISTS HELP US LOWER FUEL PRICES AT THE PUMP
As they punish us at the pump so we should punish them at the car dealership
Oil Companies are realizing record profits
in the middle of our great depression.
Car companies pretend to be our friends
offering to save us money at the pump
if we will only buy this years new "fuel efficient" models.
2004 while on vacation in the UK, my cousin tells me that his car gets 40-48 mpg
He takes me to a car show where FORD MOTOR CO.is showcasing high mpg models
that 7 years later we still cannot get in the USA
MDI makes a car that runs on COMPRESSED AIR
made by TATA Motors in India .... cannot buy one in the USA
not good for oil company fuel sales
While working in a hotel as an auditor I met several Exxon Mobile Oil VP's
visiting their office in Everett, Ma. USA
I asked about a rumor I had heard that despite environmental concessions to build an Alaskan Pipeline "to
free Americans from mid east oil, most pipeline oil was being sold overseas at a high profit.
The VP smugly smiled at me and said, " after all, Exxon is a for profit company"
FEAR DRIVEN OIL SPECULATION
Really
Do most trading PROS really make buying decisions based on FEAR
instead of technical data ? Do we now have grown men running around the trading floor
wearing little catholic girl school uniforms yelling "the sky is falling, I'm afraid, better buy more oil now"
PLEASE STOP BUYING OR LEASING NEW CARS
THERE IS PLENTY OF USED CAR INVENTORY IN AMERICA
BOYCOTT NEW CARS FOR ONE YEAR AND WATCH WHAT HAPPENS
ALL AMERICANS SHOULD GO ON A USED CAR DIET
FOR A FISCALLY HEALTHY AMERICA
FEED YOUR FAMILY NOT YOUR CAR
W.P.
Center of the Universe
Remember the good old days.
Before the Reformation.
When our Human
Egocentric Perspective
dictated that we were the Center of the Universe
When we thought that we were the enlightened masters of the earth
???????
When in fact the one thing that the Earth
would be better off without
is actually
Humans
The best way for the earth to go green again
is to go on a
"People Free Diet"
The earth could get along fine without us
can we get along fine without the earth?
Masters of the Universe
People are too funny!
W.P.
Golden Egg
The Chicken or the Egg
(not exactly a chicken , do you know where I am going with this?)
Lately this riddle seems to be making a little more sense as I reverse my perspective.
Growing up in a catholic centric world Adam and Eve were the principle focus of the creation myth and not many other details were taught us.
Later evolution seemed to logically explain how human life developed to ever-higher levels of refinement and complexity.
I believed that as humans developed in intelligence that the path from hunter gatherer to farmer and community builder to new technology developer was natural and proven out and supported by the history that we were learning in school.
Man got smarter, developed tools, canoes and gathered in co-operative living systems of small villages, then built boats and towns, large ocean going ships, cities and empires across the globe. New discoveries in technology changed the way we lived and redefined what people could accomplish. The discovery of electricity and the many ways we now use it, developments in transportation, new resources like oil, coal, natural gas and nuclear power. Mining of gold, silver, precious metals like brass, iron and steel marked man’s rise in development through to our present history taking the local blacksmith who first learned to fashion tools, weapons and jewelry from these new metals into global multi-nation mining corporations. Man’s progressive intelligence allowed him to master the skies and journey into space and beyond the world itself.
The problem is that the history, the timeline and the evidence do stand up to closer examination. Is that really how it all happened? Is that how we got to were we are today?
Perspective.
My exploration has continued these many years and taken me far beyond my catholic doctrine and far outside my old neighborhood. A new perspective prompted more questions and more discoveries.
Now, I may not be there yet but this is what I have so far.
Presented for your consideration.
Science suggests evidence that mining started on this planet before there were people.
Life developed and evolved into new species. Benchmarks like “Lucy”, Neanderthal man, Cro-Magnon man and the “Adamu” marked the development of the human species.. Is the catholic Adam and Eve story and other creation myth legends from around the globe actually true in the context that it may be the first account of modern man as we know us today?
Mining requires miners. Miners require food and lodging and tools.
Better tools, more intelligent, better trained miners result in more productive mines.
Improved support networks in health and human services, food production and transportation.
Larger populations require bigger cities and city government to organize and control the growing population, assist in exploring and developing new resources to exploit new mining opportunities. New belief systems and religious organizations aid in explaining our purpose on earth, who we are, were we came from and what is expected of us creating stability in our communities.
Bigger and deeper mines result in new by-products like oil and natural gas. Finding new was to consume these byproducts help develop a sustainable, global model.
That is important unless you plan to strip mine the planet and move on like a swarm of locust. A higher intelligence would realize early that destroying the planet could endanger the entire solar system and eventually cascade out in a chain reaction throughout the galaxy. Recent science has enabled man to look out into the stars and into the creation of the universe itself to understand what that means.
More new forms of energy and transportation can be created. Growing companies like to continue growing generating more products and the need for more consumers. More consumers require more products and services and the system begins to feed on itself. In theory until our planet reaches a saturation point.
Global development could become interplanetary if man can evolve to be useful in space.
This may be an over simplification of a radically more complex and to date a topic shrouded in heavily guarded secrecy but it is after all only my less educated opinion based on limited personal observation.
Since 2004 I have been attempting to publish some of my work. Due to a lack of science or theology credentials publishers have rejected my submissions.
I have reached out to the Dirac Theory Lab in Florida and the Noetic Institute in California to propose testing various theories derived from religion and theology and test them by applying new perspectives in String Theory combined with Intention and explain with “new science” what I believe “ancient mythology” already knows.
When you look around our world and question, “why does government allow this or that to occur” or you might protest and ask “why is XYZ multi-national corporation not held accountable for this or that”. When you change your perspective a little the questions result in different answers.
People sitting bedside at a hospital watching a beloved family member suffering from of a terminal affliction petition their god wondering how an all knowing god created such an imperfect human body or how could god allow so much pain and suffering to exist in the world. In other writings it is proposed that G_D created the universe and is as taught “the beginning and ending of all things” (from the nothing came the one). This in and of itself is another complete topic worthy of dialog.
The creators of the human race or races may not have been, through direct intervention as previously taught to us to be G_D.
That mankind “the Adamu” are a work in progress.
The depth of the total volume of mysteries that we would be required to frame this dialog and to establish a universally accepted premise, theory or doctrine is too enormous to put on paper. A room full of educated politicians for example can have difficulty agreeing on the formation of a single law or plan let alone ask seven trillion people from diverse global environments to agree.
“Freedom of choice” is the wild card and all that it implies.
What you allow in is what you become.
What you feed Grows.
What we think, say and do manifest out into reality.
The universe itself is still expanding. Still a work in progress.
There is much to know and seemingly little time to know it.
What do you think came first?
And does that change your perspective?
On a street level …
Think about this as you function in your daily life within your social structure. As you make your purchases and life choices. As you ask questions like; why is the price of fuel so high, why does my car on get 15mpg., why is my insurance company dictating what is medically necessary, do big companies exist to serve people or do people exist to serve big companies, how do I measure success, what do I know to be true?
On a higher spiritual level …
Remember: “what you think and how you think it” matters.
I know what I know.
I am that I am.
May G_D bless you with Joy.
Church Talk
Is there really a separation between church and state?
09-06-09
This letter was written and sent out to various research institutes, labs and universities in Ma., Ca. and Fl. along with a bit of companion material to propose a test of Dirac's hole theory, string theory and apply it to explain the mysteries of our mythology.
Dear Sirs,
The Inca, Aztecs and Mayans developed complex cultures, constructed elegant buildings and displayed an awareness of city planning, commanded a knowledge of astronomy that rivals modern accumulated data.
Who built the pyramids and the great wall of china. The Romans formulated a cement, built roads, aqueducts, buildings and monuments that have outlasted many modern construction projects and surpassed modern engineering standards.
The Egyptians formulated embalming fluids and methods that still cannot be completely duplicated. The Chinese developed gunpowder, rocketry and many medical advances. Sword master had an advanced knowledge of metalworking and chemistry.
The Greeks built intricate, clockwork like machines, possibly even the first working computer.
Modern historians often take the position that ancient civilizations worked from a base of religious beliefs and superstitions and had little scientific knowledge at their disposal.
I am pretty certain that none of the master builders of the pyramids held a Teamsters union card or graduated from Wentworth or Franklin Institutes. I bet that none of the ancient Chinese or European alchemists ever attended M.I.T. or graduated with an engineering degree from Cornell University but they did posses some knowledge of how things worked. The world should not deny that 2000 years later Roman cement is still strong and without a team of union qualified experts the pyramids are still standing.
What did these people know? How did they learn it? Religion, mythology, science I believe are all the same bank of knowledge. From some perspective they understood the physical world. They were able to recognize patterns in the natural world, the universe and I believe it is important for us to learn how to see the world through their eyes.
We now have a body of work we call science, physics, Quantum physics, Chemistry etc.
Today we know and recognize and universally accept an apple as an apple, 2000 years ago it might have been called something else but that doesn’t make it less an apple than what we today call an apple. Even if it wasn’t called science 2000 years ago ancient peoples were doing it. Have we overcomplicated science and overlooked the simple truth.
That simple truth that they knew then, that has been staring us in the face ever since but has remained hidden from us in plain sight. Is it too simple for modern scientist to admit that it could be true?
Please review my simple observations. Earlier this year I sent a copy of this material to Florida Southern University in the hope that experiments using the Dirac Magnetic Laboratory would prove out my hypothesis that a scale of notes, tones, frequencies or modulations would explain many ancient mysteries. That ancient peoples did have a working knowledge of string theory and quantum physics but to them it was a simple understanding of how things worked.
The modern scientific community is focused on building high energy lasers to solve problems like military defense and repelling asteroids in space from colliding with earth but what if we could generate an energy pulse that would transform the solid rock into a harmless fluffy substance or make it vanish altogether by modulating it into another dimension.
Did ancient peoples already know how to do this on some level? The trumpets blew down the walls of Jericho??
Perspective
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Perspective ….. Theirs not ours …. is what is now important for discovery.
Electricity is cool but what if we got it wrong. How about non electric energy?
The ancients had it …..why not us?
Thank you,
01-10-12 Today my perspective has changed a little more.
And it makes sense. The creators first built great stone civilizations and seeded the seven great wonders around the globe. That was what they considered normal and required then. That is what cities looked like where they came from. My father was a carpenter. A really good carpenter. I got hung up on why trades people today were not more skilled than the ancient builders of 2000 years ago.
In other writings like my ""Sheep Manifesto" I explored the human condition in an effort to understand why people were still so tribal and in conflict with each other.Why was it so hard to just be people.
Then I realized that we are being just people and that our leaders have just been making decisions based on good business principles. consider the principles of "Return on Investment", "Break Even Point" and "Saturation".
Like life on a farm the farm the owner or manager resides in a great, well appointed house, investors usually live off-site content to receive progress reports and dividends, worker housing is much more utility, farm animals are housed in a barn, the dog has a little house in the yard, pigs are provided a mud hole wrapped with a fence and other animals are allowed to roam seemingly free and unsupervised in a "free range" management style until herded in when it is time for them to achieve a higher purpose. Outside the farm exist the untamed nature and wildlife of our forests and national parks which is monitored and managed with only a very light hand.
It was no longer a good investment to continue building these grand granite and marble, clad in gold cities. The Romans were using cement with great efficiency. Cities like Ostia Antica, the seaport gateway to Rome would become the blueprint for our modern cities.
Look around our world today and remember.
Do you think the farmer really cares what the sheep think?
If he wants a farm full of happy sheep he does.
Especially if the sheep evolve to be really smart.
It was just "best management practices" for today's world.
Fundamental cost effective business decision making.
"Who knew"!
W.P.
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Ringraziamente,
W.P.
A Matrix to Live By
The Washington Mall Washington, DC. USA
Kabala Tree of Life
WHY DID OUR FOUNDING FATHERS DESIGN OUR CAPITAL CITY
TO CORRESPOND TO THIS DESIGN ?
"SEEK AND YOU SHALL FIND"
hint: read the various Kabala writings (a sample below will get you started)
| No. | Hebrew | English | Modern |
| 1 | Keter | Crown | Mind |
| 2 | Chakhmah | Wisdom | Force |
| 3 | Binah | Understanding | Substance |
| 4 | Chesed | Love | Kosmic Memory |
| 5 | Gevurah | Strength | Kosmic Will |
| 6 | Tiferet | Beauty | Kosmic Consciousness |
| 7 | Netzach | Victory | Desire |
| 8 | Hod | Splendor | Intellect |
| 9 | Yesod | Foundation | Sub-Conscious |
| 10 | Malkhut | Kingdom | Objective (Outer) Consciousness |
If we turn to the Bible and Genesis Ch 1, it has 10 statements of "God said". We can interpret the text to mean that it gives us the principle that God is creative and the method by which He creates. The number 10 is important because it takes us to the 10 sefirot. This is where the Tree of Life comes from. In the diagram, Fig 1, the sefirot are shown as circles. They can be thought of as centres of consciousness or centres of energy. The circles are connected by lines that are regarded as paths.
This brings us to the importance of words and language. The teaching suggests that the Hebrew word properly pronounced creates a direct channel to the principle that it represents.(from the Rosicrucian Library Copyright © 1998 by Stepney Nominees Pty Ltd (ACN 008 869 485) Trustee for Courtis No4 Trust )
Speak it and make it so
the power of intention
the "Big Bang" was the transitional moment of creation where thought and intention manifested into
physical reality (the ineffable name of G_D ) spoken into creation
"From nothing came the one"
Someone finally noticed that the universe is still expanding ( it is ) it is still being created
out in all directions ( it is not just science) ( it is the expansion of original consciousness)
Imagine ....
W.P.
"From Our Feet to Your Mouth"
"Unlike other traditions of great wine making...
we have no idea what we are doing..."
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"From Our Feet to Your Mouth"
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EN-JOY
W.P.
LAO TZU'S ZUCCHINI
From the NOTHING came the ONE
From the ONE came the TWO
From the TWO came the THREE
This is not 2000 year old Taoist wisdom
It is what happens when we grow our own food and share with friends and family.
"GROW IT, PICK IT, PACK IT" AND SAVE!
The Story of the Three Zucchini
Monday I picked a zucchini, a few cherry tomatoes and a head of lettuce from our garden.
Tuesday my brother-in-law stopped by with another zucchini from his garden
Wednesday my wife met her cousin for coffee and came home with a third zucchini from her garden.
The food that you purchase at the supermarket is "good food "but
the food that you grow in your garden is "special food."
I like to think that we are growing more than food in our gardens
we are growing a COMMUNITY .
Share some special food today.
Then get a copy of my cook book and learn what to do with all that zucchini.
Plant a few seeds, tend your garden and see what you can grow ....
Maybe more than you thought ....
EN-JOY
W.P.
DAMN, I COULD HAVE BEEN ITALIAN !
Traveling out of the country for the very first time.
Traveling on a plane for the very first time.
Newlywed, the Journey begins.
My wife was born in a small stone house in Raiano (AQ) Abruzzo. Right there in the kitchen.
Two of here sisters lived in Rome. Other family in and around Abruzzo and Lazio areas.
Her father was born in Alscace Louraine, then under German control. A German by birth, later he became a pilot in the Italian Air Force was shot down over North Africa and capture by the Germans. At the wars end he was released as a German P.O.W., returned to Italy and later to the United States.
Rome connected to something deep inside me. It awakened an ancient self long forgotten.
We traveled and journeyed through Italy for a month.
I have traveled and journeyed through myself for the last 35 years.
Before leaving Italy to return home to Boston my nephew asked me to stay in Rome. To live and work with them and not return to Boston.
I did not speak Italian well.
I just got married
Just rented our first apartment
Just bought all new furniture for the apartment
A job in Boston and nothing in Rome
Are you serious ...stay in Rome ...now...!!!
I was young and scared.
We went home to Boston.
"Damn, I Could Have Been Italian"
You will not believe what has happened since then !
Our Photo Gallery at : www.cirinopublishing.com
contains many original pictures from that first trip 35 years ago.
"Damn, I Could Have Been Italian " 2
"I Was Born a Dead Baby", removed from my mother's womb and placed aside on a table while the doctors worked on saving a critically exhausted, near death mother.
Growing up in "baby boomer " post war America my perspective of the world was molded. Over time and miles I have learned much more. The farther away I got from where I started, the more my searching revealed to me that most of what I was looking for was already all around me. 2000 years ago Lao Tzu wrote, " the farther you go the less you know" and " It is a fool who rides his horse across the country looking for what he already has." I read that once, a along time ago. Convinced myself that I understood the meaning of those words, until I did it anyway.
In 1999 I got off the horse and began writing. My son was growing up. I was missing it.
A collection of "Bedtime Stories" , some told to us by my father and some created by myself and my son from nightly storytelling.
Seeking literary representation I sent proposals for websites and television shows to PBS, Disney,Parent Magazine, Opra Wynfrey
and more. Manuscripts were mailed to countless publishers and agencies. Later the name was changed to "Bedtime Magic' in hopes of partnering with a local radio show of the same name, hoping that listeners would call nightly and build our story together. In 2004 I went to the London Book Fair seeking representation.
John Grisham was rejected in the United States for 10 years until being picked up in Europe.
Robert DiNero was told he would never make it as an actor
Julia Childs was told that she could not cook
While laid off from work in 2009 I wrote " The Recession Diet Italian Style". I decided to take matters into my own hands and self-publish.
WWW.CIRINOPUBLISHING.COM went live online. I learned how to build a website, how to blog and how to Tweet over that year.
Now text only Kindle versions of some of my works are selling on Amazon.com and other full color, illustrated versions are available in my own online bookstore.
A lot has happened since that first flight to Rome.
In this Blog entitled, "Damn, I Could Have Been Italian", I will share my Journey with you. I hope that you will 'En-Joy" reading about it.
To continue helping all of us save money shopping while preparing better meals for our families:
I will continue posting " Meat Price Locator" blogs
to tell you about great meat and fish deals.
In my next blog entry, we will go back to that 1st flight to Rome.
Because it was my wife and myself, alone on our honeymoon, I only purchased 2 round trip tickets
but 3 of us flew over together.
You will never believe who it was and to this day I still have not received the new suit that I was promised.
Cordialmente,
W.P.
