Farm Update & Some off Topics News....

ShaRaab

The usual here at the farm chores and whatever else needs done. I am still trying to figure out the starting issues with the D-15. I might have one other idea; that is actually the starter button and the wiring to it. I believe it is probably the original, which would make it 48 years old. Something that happened the other day just made me think of it possibly being the starter button and wiring. I will share more on that at a later date. Oh my, another 2 years and the tractor will be an antique officially. :)

The picture above is my horse ShaRaab. He is all Arabian, just not registered. This was taken a few years back. He looks the same except he got a few cockle burs in his hair again this year. This coming year I need to work on that problem. Burdock is a widely used herb, the root part. I need to look up and be sure that this particular species is the one most commonly used. I may share that on my new blog 'Liana's Food & Herbal Cupboard'. It is not created yet just in the planning stages at this point.

The weather here is unusual. I really should be use to it by now. It has been in the 30s. It tries to snow, but it usually melts. I really don't mind actually. It has been raining more, which has it positive and negative effects. It is good to get moisture, but ice with temps this low can be make things icy. We are also getting muddy, which has its own issues.On to my off topic (meaning non-farm related) news.

I do a bit of reading on various topics that does not come from main stream media. At least, not from NBC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOXNews, plus the main stream news papers, or things like yahoo, etc. I think people get my point here. I stumble across news from more alternative media found on the web. I really have to use some discernment whatever I read. I feel most everyone should. Don't buy into the propaganda put out on the typical news outlets or social media.

I found this a bit interesting about Facebook, which I dumped here about a week ago now. This is not the first time I have left Facebook, but it will be my last time.I will link the story here and place some quotes. I figure everyone will read it if they wish or not.I have not read news from this site, so I do not know a lot about it. I just found the article interesting and actually hit the nail on the head on how I feel about Facebook and what it promotes. How it's users are used and what they actually end up sharing on it. In a nutshell, Facebook really promotes more negativity in the realm of emotions, promotes the things that keep us divided as a human race, and other things I won't mention here. Personally, I really don't want to feed into that mentality. There is more to it. It is actually very multilayered and somewhat complicated to put into written words or it would take too many. I feel most will know what I am talking about.

Link: Facebook Colonialism 2.0

"Facebook is the pinnacle of social engineering, an online operant conditioning chamber – also known as a Skinner box – that is being used to track, trace, document, and manipulate half of the entire online population. Despite users attempting to utilize Facebook to connect and communicate with individuals and organizations of interest, Facebook has turned its features against users, insidiously manipulating their timelines to show selected posts and updates while “soft censoring” others to manage public perception."
 
"We show, via a massive (N = 689,003) experiment on Facebook, that emotional states can be transferred to others via emotional contagion, leading people to experience the same emotions without their awareness. We provide experimental evidence that emotional contagion occurs without direct interaction between people (exposure to a friend expressing an emotion is sufficient), and in the complete absence of nonverbal cues. Not only are the findings troubling – illustrating that Facebook possesses the ability to influence the emotions of its users unwittingly through careful manipulation of their news feeds – but the invasive, unethical methods by which Facebook conducted the experiment are troubling as well."

 "Far from a college kid with an overgrown corporation, what Facebook is doing is the manifestation of every tyranny’s dream scenario since the beginning of human history – a means by which to completely and insidiously manipulate and control the minds of its subjects."

I am sure Facebook is not the only online media doing this. I joined LinkedIn via a few people kept asking me to. I found it is also turning into another Facebook by promoting the negativity and division between people. I got rid of it too. I was never on Twitter or any of the other similar social media outlets. I have joined Pinterest, which I find more pleasing. I can look up interesting things under various topics, 'pin' them for myself to look at later and to share with others. I have set-up many boards with my interests, likes, etc. Even boards for my blogs here. I find this for myself a more positive way of sharing 'stuff' and I don't have to see all the negative, drama laden, and 'topics' that keep us humans divided, instead of teaching and helping us grow. The other big win here for me is I can find what I have shared. It does not get buried in all the posts with crap on them. Yea, I said it!

I am all for sharing whatever recipes, better way of living, DIY stuff, herbs, just about anything that helps us to grow mentally, help us to lead a more happy and fulling life, and to grow on a spiritual level. I have learn a lot of things I would have never thought of or never really knew. I am sure there are many out there who also could use their 'horizons' expanded a little too. There are positive things out on the internet, just not everything is.There are many outlets like reading, but I would have never found all my books on herbs, sustainable and organic farming if I had to utilize just the library and local bookstores. 

Thank you internet for all you have exposed me to, even the stuff I had never wished to have seen ever. 

Happy Farming and internet browsing! 

Liana