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The Most Extreme
The World Census developed the following ranking list based on a rather vague survey of nations to uncover 'odd or fundamentalist social, economic, or political systems'.
Our Top 3 Nations:
Rothbards is ranked and 944th in the world for Most Extreme.
Jared Michael is ranked 1,753rd in the world for Most Extreme.
Acheron92 is ranked 1,754th in the world for Most Extreme.
Looks like Jared and Acheron are next door neighbors.
CYCLES
Dawn is a shimmering of the horizon.
Dusk is a settling of the sky.
Dawn and dusk together represent the measure of a day. When the sun rises, the moon sets. When the moon rises, the sun sets. This represents the cycle of existence, for without such alternation, the power of the universe could not be generated. When the sun reaches its zenith, it will inevitably begin its descent toward its nadir. All events -- including our own plans and activities -- follow the same pattern.
It is wisdom to know the cycles of life and where any particular circumstance that we are involved in stands on the curve. If we want to perpetuate something, we should join it to new growth to compound our progress. If we want to destroy something, we need only lead it to its extreme, for all things decline after their zenith.
All too often, people express uncertainty about where they stand in life. It's important to examine both the short-range and the long-range. If you want to go far in a decade, you have to go far each year. If you want to go far each year, you have to make sure that you do something significant each day. Use the cycles of life to establish a measure to your life, and then arrange your plans according to the units that you have chosen. Then there will be no fear of not knowing your own progress.
tao
Chimera onida and Rio-Grande-Do-Sul
WKNS Radio: 1976 ~
"Oh, What A Night"
The Four Seasons
Oh, what a night.
Late December back in '63.
What a very special time for me,
'Cause I remember what a night.
Oh, what a night.
You know, I didn't even know her name,
But I was never gonna be the same.
What a lady. What a night.
Oh, I. I got a funny feeling when she walked
In the room and I,
As I recall it ended much too soon.
Oh, what a night,
Hypnotizing, mesmerizing me.
She was everything I dreamed she'd be.
Sweet surrender, what a night!
I felt a rush like a rolling bolt of thunder
Spinnin' my head around and taking my body under.
Oh, what a night!
Oh, I. I got a funny feeling when she walked
In the room and I,
As I recall it ended much too soon.
Oh, what a night.
Why'd it take so long to see the light?
Seemed so wrong, but now it seems so right.
What a lady, what a night!
I felt a rush like a rolling bolt of thunder
Spinnin' my head around and taking my body under.
Oh, what a night!
stevie
United lands of elysium, Draken-Wolfe, and Eristu
Post self-deleted by Sakaba.
The Most Armed in NationStates
World Census experts took their lives into their hands in order to ascertain the average number of guns per citizen
Our Top 3 Nations:
Aurora Islands is ranked 1st in NationStates and 124th in the world for Most Armed.
East Brightonburg is ranked 2nd in NationStates and 2,758th in the world for Most Armed.
Liuzzo is ranked 3rd in NationStates and 5,172nd in the world for Most Armed.
Today’s Featured Nation:
Epiria
”In Nation, We Trust.”
WA Category: Left-Leaning College State
Civil Rights: Superb
Economy: Powerhouse
Political Freedoms: Excellent
Epiria's national animal is the Snake, and its currency is the Euro.
Epiria is ranked 17th in NationStates and 13,894th in the world for Most Armed.
RETURNING
Angles against lavender sky
Flung far across heaven's vault.
Unfettered, swallows
Circle back to the nest.
Swallows are famous for their daring speed and the unpredictable paths that they take in flight. Yet no matter how far they fly, they circle back to their nests.
The idea of returning is significant for all of us. We must work, explore, travel, and make our achievements in life. No matter how much we strain and how wide we wander, we all need some lodestone, some center from which to operate. For some of us, this is a place, a home. For others, it is merely withdrawal into our own hearts.
Followers of Tao believe that there is a core spirit to which each of us should return. This core spirit is increasingly obscured by our own thoughts and the complexity of civilization. All education, while a necessary evil, is a stain upon the primal soul. Therefore, returning is a process of simplification that throws off the unnecessary problems of socialization. One gradually peels back the layers and makes one's way back to the unsullied, pure inner person. The time to do this is long, and one needs a great deal of guidance and self-cultivation to achieve it, but until one returns to the natural state, one cannot truly hope to be one with Tao.
tao
WKNS Radio: #15 March 8, 1969 ~
"Give It Up Or Turn It Lose"
James Brown
Baby give it up or turn it a loose
Uh ha baby gives it up or turn it a loose
Starting over again
Baby, give it up or turn it a loose
Oh ha baby, give it up or turn it loose
Oooooh all right
Baby, give it up, oh turn it a loose oh
Oh o o all night long, uh
All right, hey, hey, hey, hey
All night long, ain't no use oh o
Oh oo baby give it up ha
Lord have mercy, hey, hey, hey, hey
All night long, ain't no use oh o
Oh oo baby give it up ha
Lord have mercy, hey, hey, hey, hey
Uh ha oh oh e wow
Baby need you so
Uh turn it a loose
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Oh, oh, oh, hold you tight
Cause I need you so
With all my might
I've got to squeeze you
Hold you tight because I love you so
Oh oh oh baby oh
stevie
Good evening all.. :D
Vote FOR on the Condemn Swarmlandia WA Security Council Resolution!
The Largest Furniture Restoration Industry in NationStates
Our Top 5 Nations:Aurora Islands is ranked 137th in the world.
Morturaria is ranked 1,001st in the world.
Liuzzo is ranked 1,054th in the world.
Neu Orden is ranked 1,763rd in the world.
Libby the Lab is ranked 2,309th in the world.
Today’s Featured Nation:
The gelatinous blob
”Im a Hungry”
WA Category: New York Times Democracy
Civil Rights: Excellent
Economy: Powerhouse
Political Freedoms: Excessive
The Gelatinous Blob's national animal is the larvae, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the ooze.
The Gelatinous Blob is ranked 12th in NationStates and 7,027th in the world for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry.
CREATIVITY
Storm breaks into pieces,
Clouds change the horizon.
Revolving of the heavens
Generates all movement.
Without movement, there could be nothing created in this universe. The revolving of the heavens can generate wind, rain, thunder, lightning. The revolving of the earth enables us to have day and night, the very cycle of the weather, the seasons, and the growth of plants. Movement is responsible for creativity.
Followers of Tao value initiative, but mere aggression is not enough. One needs creativity. This can mean the ability to solve problems, to think of unusual strategies, or to compose poetry, music, and painting. In all these cases, one moves in concert with Tao not by blind aping, but by giving intelligent counterpoint and harmony. Creativity does not mean the arbitrary making of something out of our cultural minds. Rather, it is spontaneous movement in tandem with Tao, a movement that will generate life and not misery for others.
One has reached the ultimate levels of creativity when one has mastered skill so thoroughly that it can be forgotten. Look at heaven and earth. Do they think about creating the weather, the seasons, and the cycles of growing? They only go on revolving according to their nature, and the rest is generated without any thought or work on their part. This is truly effortless action and is considered the highest skill that a follower of Tao can attain.
tao
WKNS Radio: 1975 ~
"Black Water"
Doobie Brothers
Well, I built me a raft and she's ready for floatin'
Ol' Mississippi, she's callin' my name
Catfish are jumpin'
That paddle wheel thumpin'
Black water keeps rollin' on past just the same
Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon, won't you keep on shinin' on me
Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon, won't you keep on shinin' on me
Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon, won't you keep on shinin' on me
Yeah, keep on shinin' your light
Gonna make everything, pretty mama
Gonna make everything all right
And I ain't got no worries
'Cause I ain't in no hurry at all
Well, if it rains, I don't care
Don't make no difference to me
Just take that street car thats goin' up town
Yeah, I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland
And dance a honky tonk
And I'll be buyin' ev'rybody drinks all 'roun'
Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon, won't you keep on shinin' on me
Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon, won't you keep on shinin' on me
Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon, won't you keep on shinin' on me
Yeah, keep on shinin' your light
Gonna make everything, everything
Gonna make everything all right
And I ain't got no worries
'Cause I ain't in no hurry at all
I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland
Pretty mama come and take me by the hand
By the hand, take me by the hand pretty mama
Come and dance with your daddy all night long
stevie
Today’s Featured Nation:
Canzabar
”Eat or be eaten”
WA Category: Corporate Bordello
Civil Rights: Average
Economy: Powerhouse
Political Freedoms: Superb
Canzabar's national animal is the Hawk, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the dollar.
Canzabar is ranked 24th in NationStates and 17,267th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry.
Today’s Featured Nation:
Gardenpleasures
”We came, we saw, we lived!”
WA Category: Capitalizt
Civil Rights: Superb
Economy: Powerhouse
Political Freedoms: Excellent
GardenPleasures's national animal is the coyote, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the pyni.
GardenPleasures is ranked 48th in NationStates and 32,384th in the world for Largest Cheese Export Sector.
INDEPENDENCE
A solitary crane
In winter snow
Needs no jewels.
A single crane standing unconcerned in the falling snow is the very image of independence. It needs no one, it is secure in its environment, and it is capable of going through life alone. Its independence stems from self-sufficiency.
It needs no clothing, no building, no wealth, no status. It is content, even glorious in its naked identity. So too with ourselves: There is no need for dazzling clothes, an impressive career, an awesome temple, nor a bejeweled master. What we want is something far beyond such externals.
What facets of your personality are encumbrances? What personal aspects prevent you from being independent? These are the areas that will define your self-cultivation, for you must strive to stand alone. This doesn't mean that you won't ever join with others, but you will do so as an individual who will cooperate just as much as is necessary. In this way, you will never be lost in a group, and you will never fear being alone.
tao
WKNS Radio: Congratulations
Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, Jr. ~
Rock N Roll Hall of Fame 2011 Inductee
"Right Place Wrong Time"
Dr. John
I been in the right place
But it must have been the wrong time
I'd of said the right thing
But I must have used the wrong line
I been in the right trip
But I must have used the wrong car
My head was in a bad place
And I'm wondering what it's good for
I been the right place
But it must have been the wrong time
My head was in a place
But I'm having such a good time
I been running trying to get hung up in my mind
Got to give myself a little talking to this time
Just need a little brain salad surgery
Got to cure this insecurity
I been in the wrong place
But it must have been the right time
I been in the right place
But it must have been the wrong song
I been in the right vein
But it seems like the wrong arm
I been in the right world
But it seems wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong
Slipping, dodging ,sneaking
Creeping hiding out down the street
See me life shaking with every who I meet
Refried confusion is making itself clear
Wonder which way do I go to get on out of here
I been in the right place
But it must have been the wrong time
I'd have said the right thing
But I must have used the wrong line
I'd a took the right road
But I must have took a wrong turn
Would have made the right move
But I made it at the wrong time
I been on the right road
But I must have used the wrong car
My head was in a good place
And I wonder what it's bad for
stevie
Today’s Featured Nation:
United cool interests
”You do not have a right to NOT be offended.”
WA Category: New York Times Democracy
Civil Rights: Very Good
Economy: Thriving
Political Freedoms: Superb
United Cool Interests's national animal is the Gibbon, and its currency is the Gib.
United Cool Interests is ranked 67th in NationStates and 48,239th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry.
ENTERTAINMENT
The mind that turns ever outward
Will have no end to craving.
Only the mind turned inward
Will find a still-point of peace.
It seems people never tire of seeking new thrills. They crave entertainment, and they want newer, sharper experiences. Events do not even need to be actual -- people are more than content with recreations, displays, and stimulating machines. Music must be amplified. A historic location must have museums, shops, and festivals. Life must have elaborate ceremonies with images, music, speaking, dining, and drinking.
Followers of Tao regard all reality as being projections of our minds. All phenomena are subjective and relative. Therefore, it is folly to further entangle ourselves in confusion. True reality lies in withdrawal from the swirling variations of the outside world. It lies in looking within and then slowly peeling away the layers of subjectivity. What will remain is not a core of objectivity, but a kernel of truth that absorbs rather than reflects. If we enter into this kernel, our minds cease to continue their habits of creating stimulating realities, and we enter into a silence that feels perfect and whole.
tao
WKNS Radio: 1977 ~
"Songs From The Wood"
Jethro Tull
"Songs From The Wood"
Let me bring you songs from the wood:
to make you feel much better than you could know.
Dust you down from tip to toe.
Show you how the garden grows.
Hold you steady as you go.
Join the chorus if you can:
it'll make of you an honest man.
Let me bring you love from the field:
poppies red and roses filled with summer rain.
To heal the wound and still the pain
that threatens again and again
as you drag down every lover's lane.
Life's long celebration's here.
I'll toast you all in penny cheer.
Let me bring you all things refined:
galliards and lute songs served in chilling ale.
Greetings well met fellow, hail!
I am the wind to fill your sail.
I am the cross to take your nail:
A singer of these ageless times.
With kitchen prose and gutter rhymes.
Songs from the wood make you feel much better.
stevie
Today’s Featured Nation:
Govermentitan
”Your life may have downs, but it is not out”
WA Category: Inoffensive Centrist Democracy
Civil Rights: Good
Economy: Developing
Political Freedoms: Excellent
Govermentitan's national animal is the pikachu, and its currency is the pokebucks.
Govermentitan is ranked 83rd in NationStates and 61,830th in the world for Fastest-Growing Economies.
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