The
early days, weeks and months of recovery are some of the most scatter
brained times I’ve ever had. You may not have gone to the lengths and
depths I did in my use of drugs, but no brain suddenly plunged into
abstinence is going to perform at it’s best. We may never no what our
best might have been. We still have to deal with what we’ve got at the
moment.
I wanted to tell people what I did to compensate for the lack of
functionality I faced. There were two main problems I was having. One,
my head was filled with nonsense. Untruths, dumb stories, unworkable
(unwanted) ideas. Just filled to the brim with goofy crap. One of the
assets I enjoyed was – I knew it was filled with crap. During my life I
spent a fair amount of time studying things. I even spent some time in
college. (I couldn’t come up with anything worthwhile to do) So the one
thing I wasn’t confused about was that I was nuts. I even knew, to some
extent, why.
Two, I couldn’t remember anything. I’d forget why I stood up. I’d
stand up and…what the hell did I stand up for? Must have had something
in mind….No? Just…short term memory holes…the size of rooms in houses.
Couldn’t find anything in them. So I had to get some system for walking
around everyday.
As for the old crappy nonsense filled brain I went on an information
campaign. Somewhere I had learned that to end a thought I had to
replace it with another. That’s a different system but I applied it to
the whole “goof ball brain” syndrome. I just started entering data. I
got on the torrent sites and downloaded every documentary I saw that I
thought might have good data in it. I watched, something like 34 hours
of Krishnamurti. I watched a whole college science course put out by…I
can’t remember…probably Cal Tech. I set for days and absorbed Richard
Feynman. I watched around 14 hours of film on ancient symbolism,
astro-theology and the occult. Mythology, cosmology, astronomy. Noam
Chomsky, Joseph Campbell, Mark Twain, Samuel Johnson….on and on and on
I just crammed it in. I read Pema Chodron, Chogyam Trungpa, Alan watts,
Eckhart Tolle…crammed it in by the fist full.
My plan was that as I fed this data in through the front – the
crappy data would be forced out the back. The other thing I did was to
keep a pen and pad with me. I wrote things down that I wanted to
remember. Not the – get milk – stuff, well that too. More the – Watts,
on the ceramic model. Stuff I thought would be good to have on me all
the time. I put Tolle’s word “breathe” up where I couldn’t help but see
it. I put Pema’s word “Stay” up. All clues to what I should be focusing
on. My new, intentionally chosen, reality. My “crappy” brain was stuck
on a sex and money loop – ways to salvage my ego.
I also found me some binaural beats and subliminal meditation audios
– then glued the ear bugs to my head. I knew I wouldn’t survive being
nuts and I didn’t know how much time I had. So I treated it as a life
or death situation. I lived. I’m here to tell about it.
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November 10, 2009 by wilson
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Re: Welcome
November 10, 2009 by wilson
That's a great name. How come you're over here at this forum? I just use this to give my site incoming links. You should have a web page. One thing I've thought about lately is putting Portland recovery stuff on the events section of the Forum (not this one). Why don't you do that? OK, mail me through the other email or converse on the forum (not this one) C U
Addiction/Nutritional Studies
September 18, 2009 by wilson
Ten years ago the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse revealed their study of inmates, which determined that four out of five, or 80%, were in jail or prison due to some degree of illegal drug or alcohol use. There was little public will to invest in prevention or treatment and although the people in some states have passed laws to indicate their willingness to spend tax dollars on addiction treatment, such as Proposition 36 in California, in belt-tightening economic times like today, addiction treatment is considered a luxury, not a necessity.
“Treat the Addict, Cut the Crime Rate,” Dr. Nora D. Volkow, Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse; Op-Ed article, Washington Post, August 19, 2006. “As a clinician,” Dr. Volkow, a physician, writes, “I don't remember ever meeting an addicted person who wanted to be addicted or who expected that compulsive, uncontrollable, or even criminal behavior would emerge when he or she started taking drugs.” Keep reading at http://dgswilson.com/index.php/topic,36.0.html
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The system of life
September 18, 2009 by wilson
I suppose that everybody wants to learn as much as possible about whatever system they operate in, within or under. My, real quick in a nutshell, thoughts about life are: We are living, in what appears to be, two systems simultaneously. The first would be the system of the five senses. In this system I operate pretty well. I can learn it if I want to, just through observation and some trial and error experimentation.
I can explain a lot of things to others - in this system. This system is made up of objects - tangible things. It's a do this - get this system. It's also pretty easy to tell if you're on the right track. I was telling someone the other day that this "form" part of life was pretty simple in that the results are so closely connecting to the actions. That, and the actions are all physical and understandable - comprehend-able. Ex: I want to build a building, a big box that people can go inside and do things. I've already been through the trial and error part. I learned the system for building this type of structure. So I start building......http://dgswilson.com/index.php/topic,5.0.html
Great site search service - and it's free
August 1, 2009 by wilson
I
really like finding easy website tools. I have a thing against hard. If
I go to a website and it's looks really complicated - I get antsy -
most likely leave. When I find something easy, free, and it actually
works...well I want to support it. I'm doing this by telling people...I
like it. Below I placed the monthly report they send to me by email. If
you want a good site search for your website - check out free find
If you like FreeFind *please* link to us from your site.
Use the following HTML to produce a link to our site.
Just copy and paste this HTML:
<a href="http://www.freefind.com/">FreeFind.com</a>
provides the search technology for this website.
_______________________________________________________________
Daily Search Activity
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From: Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 PDT 2009
To: Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 PDT 2009
Day Date Queries
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Tue Jul 14 3
Thu Jul 23 2
Mon Jul 27 1
Thu Jul 30 3
Fri Jul 31 4
Total for Jul: 13
_______________________________________________________________
Top 15 Keywords
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From: Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 PDT 2009
To: Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 PDT 2009
(Not including common words such as "the")
Count Keyword
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3 light
3 willing
3 color
2 princples
2 garlic
1 EARS
1 big
1 Book
1 brother
1 priciples
1 oil
1 The
1 Enki
1 constitution
1 Lost
Testing web page lay out for SEOSearch engines tell us if lay out
July 23, 2009 by wilson
Search engines tell us if our page lay out is optimal...at least up to a point. Starting off we'll need a good title. Use about five words. Instead of flies, use, Flies, anatomy, origins, life spans and habitats. Next comes the content description. Use as many keywords as seems reasonable. "And" and "of " are not necessary - spiders aren't reading like you and I. I think it's safe to say they are looking at relationships. Do the words in the content description relate to the content. That's what I've come to understand so far.
When considering web page lay out - where - is really important. The example below shows search results for the page watching society. I just typed in the whole url "http://www.dgswilson.com/Society/WatchingSociety.html". By doing this I can see what a search engine thinks is an important part of the lay out on a page. Since I recently hit the delete button on my ftp machine - the page I typed in wasn't indexed. So it gave me something close. What you'll see in the serp's description is something about a bookstore. Why would that be there?
Anything below the page div on my web pages could be in the serp's. The meta description showed up. The meta description and the upper left area of the page content was used by Google on the results page. I don't want it to say bookstore on the results page. I don't want this because I don't want it indexed as "important". While it might be nice for vistitors to know right away that they can peruse a little library of related authors, it doesn't help get them to my site. So I want to find out, through the search engine results page, how spiders have indexed me. These examples are cached and the first two are pretty old (because of the delete fiasco). But what I can do is go to where this pointless stuff is on the page and pack it full of relevent content.
Societal Brain, understanding addiction recovery in society
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Alcoholism: Is not a disease
July 22, 2009 by wilson
Below is an exert from an advocate of the choice community. I put it here so people could read it. Do I know whether alcoholism is a disease (according to the AMA)? Not really. I choose to treat it as a disease. If I see it as a chronic disease I don't see a way to dabble in it's treatment. Chronic means it is going to get worse. It's not going away. So if I ignore it - I'll die from it. If I don't apply the full force of my energies towards arresting it and recovering from it - I'll die from it. So I don't care who defines this or that. I just know what I've found out so far.
"It has been estimated that 5.5 million Americans are in need of help
for substance abuse issues. In 1988, 10.5 million U.S. residents could
be diagnosed with alcohol dependency as set forth by the AMA and DSM
IV, and 7.2 million more abused alcohol. Estimates among the general
population indicate that 6-12% have substance abuse problems.
The population of substance abusers has slowly increased since the
1930’s coinciding with the spread of the disease concept and
governmental interference in individual freedoms.
What is interesting is that since the 70’s the percentage substance
abuse population has increased dramatically, just like the popularity
and prevalence of the drug treatment industry. The question is: if the
multi-billion dollar war on drugs and the multi-billion dollar
treatment industry have been growing, why does the drug problem
continue to get worse?
Irrefutable empirical evidence has shown that organizations and
institutions who promote, and adhere to, the disease concept, fail when
trying to help people with substance abuse problems.
Alcoholics Anonymous has successfully promoted itself as the only
hope for alcohol abusers. The public perception is that Alcoholics
Anonymous works, but the reality is something completely different.
In 65 years Alcoholics Anonymous has become a part of our social
structure. Its tenets have led the medical establishment and been used
to diagnose patients with alcoholism while simultaneously giving birth
to dozens of spin-off anonymous meetings.
It’s most outstanding accomplishment has been successfully promoting
a fictitious disease, as fact, and to be absorbed into the very fabric
of our society.
But, while Alcoholics Anonymous has accomplished the unthinkable,
its accomplishments have damaged the society. Although its intentions
are synonymous with help, the organization’s lies and manipulations
have damaged society as a whole, costing taxpayers billions of dollars
and costing families the lives of their loved ones.
In 1990, the Alcoholic’s Anonymous General Services Office or AA
GSO, the governing organization overseeing all “autonomous” meetings,
published an internal memo for the employees of its offices.
It was an analysis of a survey period between 1977 and 1989. The
results were in absolute contrast to the public perception of AA.
“After just one month in the Fellowship, 81% of the new members have
already dropped out. After three months, 90% have left, and a full 95%
have disappeared inside one year!” (Kolenda, 2003, Golden Text
Publishing Company)
That means that in under a year, 95% of the people seeking help from
AA leave the program. While this only speaks for attendance, it has
further implications. AA surveyors do not include dropouts in their
sobriety statistics, which is a deceptive, if not outright dishonest,
practice.
Using the AA GSO statistics, and including the program dropouts, the
success rate of AA, as a whole “…the total averages of sobriety for the
total AA membership become 3.7% for one year [of sobriety], and 2.5%
over five years.” (Kolenda, 2003, Golden Text Publishing Company) It’s
important to understand that 95% of all substance abuse treatment
centers in the United States are 12 step based programs. Thus, the
failures of AA, are also the failures of treatment.
Repeated studies have shown that the average person, who could be
diagnosed with a substance abuse problem, will discontinue use on their
own 20-30% of the time.
But, those who are exposed to AA and treatment, and who are taught
the disease concept, have a drastically decreased chance of achieving
sobriety. While treatment professionals are aware of program failure,
governing organizations support and promote the adoption of 12 Step
tenets into treatment programs for substance abusers.
Families pay tens of thousands of dollars to help their loved ones
only to place them in programs that follow guidelines of another
failing program. Any program based on a program that fails will
inevitably fail. For most, 12 Step has become synonymous with failure.
In contrast, programs that teach control and choice are far more successful than programs that teach the disease concept.
While conventional treatment methods result in a 3% success rate
after five years, programs that do not teach the disease concept, and
instead teach choice, have success rates of 86% after five and even ten
years (Baldwin Research Institute 2003).
In conclusion, after reviewing the available research from both
sides of the debate, the belief in the disease of alcoholism, creates
the existence of the disease.
Organizations and institutions that promote the disease concept are,
in many cases, doing irreparable harm to the individual and performing
a disservice to the population as a whole.
Geneticists are aware that a predisposition does not dictate
subsequent behavior, and treatment professionals are aware that the
programs they offer, fail.
It is an outright injustice when faced with the facts. Stripping
human beings of their ability to choose is damaging, whereas giving
them back the power of their own volition is essential for recovery.
Alcoholism is a choice, not a disease."
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Timothy J. Falcone, Copyright 2003 Baldwin Research Institute, Inc.
original article at
http://www.soberforever.net/researchdisease2003.cfm
Re: Social-Bookmarking/Back Link Creation Co-op
July 21, 2009 by wilson
There are a couple of real entries on the Website Support Cooperative page now. It still say's sample - but just be aware that some of them are real. I haven't thought the whole thing out - what is needed as far as website info? Should there be "Twit this" buttons? I suppose people can supply what they want to supply.
Keywords Aren't Bringing Traffic? This might be why...
July 10, 2009 by wilson
I started all this "build a website stuff" a little over a year ago. That means I started with - what is html? Yeah, that kind of started. When I got to the - page is OK - stage, and I had a few pages of content, I began looking for tutorials on traffic. Read all the forums, typed all my questions into the search bar and read any answers linked to the serp's page. I got a lot of opinions - people answering similar questions in the forums, blogs and SEO sites. But a general consensus was that you needed to use very specific keywords that would bring that perfect visitor your way.
The theory, or at least the theory we'll find searching for advice, goes like this: If you are selling green burlap dresses for small freckled women - you want to optimize your website for those specific keywords. What's wrong with that theory? The problem is unless there are literally millions of girls of this type looking for dresses of this type and they're all typing in that exact keyword string your website will just sit there. Lets say you had a little shop in a great big mall and you wanted to sell your dresses. What would you stick in the window or hang up as a sign to attract people? Small green burlap dresses for small freckled women? Or "Dresses"? How about - Dress Sale - Best Brands - All sizes. So aside from the obvious point that people selling that special dress that very few people, if any, are looking for are most likely going out of business very soon - what do we do to get more traffic?
Keep in mind that I'm just really getting a feel for the whole internet website thing. What I do know for sure is that although I am on the front page for many searches (specific to my site) I don't get enough traffic. So I'm not not going to listen to the experts. I looked at Google Trends this morning just to see if I could find out what the traffic deal was. How cam you be number one for recovery principles and have no traffic. The answer is found on the graph below. The search string - Recovery Principles - doesn't have enough people typing it in to even show up in the graph. It is one of my sites main themes. I was told by the experts to focus my optimization efforts on "specific keyword strings". It doesn't work. It's not because people aren't interested in the Recovery principles - they're just not typing it in. There is nothing I can do to make them type it in. So what should I do? If I target addiction help I have a chance of getting 0.03 percent of the global population searching that specific string and I'm up against 12,100,000 other results. Those aren't bad odds - they're horrible. Even if I'm number one - nobodies looking.
If I sell salty fish where would I set up my stand? Would I set up at a beef fair? Flower fair? No, I'd take my salty fish to the Fish Fair. Why? People looking for salty fish are all going to the fish fair. They look for the fish fair first. Then they walk around until they find the booth offering their specific flavor and belly up to the bar. There is no Salty Fish Fair. Optimizing for a keyword, in my opinion, should be the same as finding the right fair. After you are set up at the fair - people looking for salty fish will find you. If your salty fish is - Fantastic - things will work out.
Go to Google trends and type in the keywords your focusing on. If you don't see an zero point double digit - forget it. Nobodies looking. A one point something is good. Even a point three to five. Is OK out of billions of searches. So give it a try and let me know what happens. Below are examples of themes I deal with on my site. I found some others with good numbers and I'm going to focus my optimization efforts on them. Again I'm interested in what you find - let me know.
Scale is based on the average worldwide traffic of addiction in all years. Learn more
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Re: Social-Bookmarking/Back Link Creation Co-op
July 5, 2009 by wilson
Link for the "http://www.dgswilson.com/WebsiteSupportCooperative.html" idea...Investigate. It's really an extremely simple idea.
Tyranny: How it Works
July 4, 2009 by wilson
The Tyranny Movement began in earnest at the turn of the last century in 1913. The "Money Trust" as found to exist in a report by the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Banking and Currency, entitled: Investigation of Financial and Monetary Conditions in the United States managed to drive the final nails into the coffin of the American Constitutional Republic. The victory was secured with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act in December of 1913, which created the 3rd Central Bank of the United States.
The primary motivator was a desire by the "Money Trust" to regain its lost monopoly over the nation's monetary policy and larger influence over the government as a whole while fostering an endless cycle of credit, ergo debt. The private control over the nation's monetary policy had slipped from their grasp after Nicolas Biddle threatened to cause an economic depression by contracting the money supply if Congress did not renew the 2nd central bank's charter. Mr. Biddle's arrogant threat finally turned the tide in favor of President Andrew Jackson who promised during his campaign for reelection to end the reign of the 2nd central bank and return control of the nation's money back to the Department of Treasury. In defeat however, the central bankers learned an important lesson. Mr. Biddle's demise came from the fact that he was unable to secure enough support from the various state legislatures. Elected state legislatures were designated by the Constitution as the body in charge of appointing Senators to the Congress. After learning of Mr. Biddle's threat to cause an economic depression, the majority of state legislatures, including Mr. Biddle's home state of Pennsylvania directed the Senators to vote against renewal of the 2nd Central Bank's charter.
Thanks to: Allison (Alli) Bricker Editor & Publisher for the (cite)
Therefore, prior to securing passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the "Money Trust" first successfully waged a campaign of "democratic populism" urging the Constitution be amended to allow for the direct election of Senators. On April 8th of 1913, the 17th Amendment became law, thereby making Senators beholden to popular campaigns. Campaigns - which would require fund-raising and massive money expenditures just as has always been required by members of the House of Representatives. Consequently, instead of needing to lobby and influence forty-eight separate state legislatures made up of hundreds of individual elected members, the lobbying efforts could be directed at the ninety-six respective Senators. All of whom were now in direct reach while in the District of Columbia.
Finally, in order collateralize the "money" loaned back to the Federal government with interest, the 16th Amendment; Income tax became law on February 3rd also in 1913. Just eighteen years prior, the Supreme Court had ruled income tax unconstitutional due to it not being an equally apportioned direct tax as authorized in the Constitution.
The insidiousness of income tax was finally made plain in 1984 with the issuance of the "Grace Commission" report. The report illustrated how 1/3 of all income tax revenue was lost due to fraud or waste, the second third escapes collection, and the final third is split between existing "transfer payments" and interest paid to the Federal Reserve in order to service the national debt.
http://www.dgswilson.com/Society/Tyrants.html
http://www.dgswilson.com/Society/ThePeopleWhoKilledTheWorld.html
http://www.dgswilson.com/Society/NewWorldOrder.html
Step five
July 4, 2009 by wilson
Getting passed our fear of the fifth step…
Once we have our lists complete. Once we’ve decided to follow the
suggestions and share that list with some one, we need to get it done.
I’ll share my list with anyone, anytime. Why not? There’s nothing on
there that’s private. It might be embarrassing to let others know what
a dork I am, but…so what? They already know there’s something weird
going on. This is a good way to say, “This is why I act stupid
sometimes…”.
I put this page here for the sole purpose of taking the fear out of
the 4th and 5th steps. People who are most fearful of the steps are
people who haven’t read the book. These are many. It’s not hard to
figure out why. Most of the time we get here feeling pretty rough. We
aren’t in top form and even if we can get some reading done it’s hard
to make sense of it. There’s also a good chance that we’ll forget what
we just read. Or my favorite – reading and thinking about something
else. Reading and worrying. The point is, we’re not at our
comprehensive best.
I look at the steps as a linear process. A process that takes lots
of practice and we get better at it over the years – But – The process
needs to get moving as soon as possible. I stayed submerged in a
medicated state for many, many years. I had a lot of what I considered
fun – and a lot of what I would have to call suffering. I spent a lot
of time miserable. Some of it due to the amount and length of my
addiction practices. A lot of my misery – was just me. With or without
the drug I was pretty miserable. It’s in the fourth and fifth steps
that we begin to deal with the “me” aspect of our unhappiness. As
quickly as possible we want to be passed the physical part of the fifth
step. The part where we read our fourth steps to someone.
Is it magical? No. I’ve had people read their fourth steps to me and
disappear. I’ve never seen them again. Others have stuck around. Either
way – it needs to get done. The reason I mentioned the relationship
between fear of the fifth step and reading the book is because a lot of
the fear comes from not reading, or not understanding, the process.
There is no shortage of bad information, bad advice. There are those
who get people to do things that aren’t in the book. The worst of which
is that it’s a confession of our sins. It has little to do with that.
We know what our bad moves are when we get here. We know our wrongs. So
does everyone else. They may not know everything we stole but they know
we’re thieves. (If we’re thieves). They may not know every person we’ve
hurt, but they know we can get mean. We’re well aware of the actions.
It hasn’t helped us or led to a change. What we’re looking for is the
why. Not the what. That’s why the book says “The exact nature of our
wrongs”. That’s what we’re looking for. That’s what we are trying to
discover. Why am I like this?
Until we know something of our natures, we are not likely to get out
of our predicament. I thought the fourth and fifth steps were the best
part of the whole deal. I had fun doing it. It was really interesting.
I went along and watched as my problem unfolded on the page before me.
When I finished with step five I had the feeling I might make it. I had
what could be called hope. For the first time in as long as I could
remember.
If you need help with any part of the process I’ll gladly answer any
questions I can. This isn’t a business website. I’m not selling help.
When you’re here, it’s like you’ve come to my house. Get comfortable.
Dear Activist
July 4, 2009 by wilson
Response to an email from a well known activist Leader....
I got your plan. I read it. It isn't going to work. I can say this with all surety because I've been watching it - not work - for a long time. I understand peoples emotional attachment to their own ideas. In this case the cost of these attachments is dear. They stand in the way of getting the results you "claim" to want. I don't even know if you are truly in favor of these results. But let's accept, for now, that you are the genuine altruistic article. Here is why you'll never reach your goals.
You don't know your enemy. Absolutely a must in all battles. You claim that the opposition can be coerced and swayed. This is false. You're opposition responds only to the threat of populace uprising. Not populace opinion. Not grassroots campaigns for change. They don't respond because they understand your powerlessness.
You don't understand democracies. Read Thomas Paine. Here is a little example of why democracies always end in tyranny. A teacher addresses her class of 3rd graders: OK class, everyone who want's to study and learn about the history of the United States raise their hands. OK, everyone who want's to go to the park and get ice cream, raise there hands. Ice cream at the park wins by a landslide. The children have given the teacher a mandate. Now it's deal time. OK kids, we'll go to the park but first I'd like you to put a check in the box beside - I'm your favorite teacher and you want to be in my home room. The teacher goes on to be the most popular teacher at the school. Her class is voted best behaved. She promises more ice cream if they are quiet, do their assignment and talk nice about her. Now you have a corrupted system and a corrupted populace. Read Cicero.
There is no way you or me, who realize we're getting dumber and fatter, are going to change this system by gathering a majority vote. It's understandable when we look at this example using third graders. It's no different with what we refer to as grown ups. Especially those who grew up in this teachers class. Read John Taylor Gatto.
If you, or any other "group for change" wants a different world picture you'll have to get different artists. In the case of government you'll have to become one. When you, and all the groups, work together to put people - you choose from your groups - in office, things will change. At the moment you're trying to use human reasoning to talk to animals. A major mistake people make is in thinking - people in government, heads of multinationals, owners of Pharma, insurance, FDA, CIA...Most of all international bankers (the list goes on). It includes the heads of such things as the IRS, CFR, a handful of royalty and the elite minority - are people. People like me and you. They're not.
It's not realistic to look at them as people. If we see them as animals we can deal with them on their level. If we think of them as a different species we can deal with them realistically. Are they a different species? Some think so - but that's not the point. The point is to make a radical change in our thinking. The fact is - if government was interested in, or capable of, making any of the changes you and others want to see - it would be done. They've had a hundred years. How long does it take for you to get it? Read Noam Chomsky.
It's really very simple, not easy: simple. Create a solidarity. Gather all groups into one power structure. Pick your senators and congressman. That's the first thing that has to be done. That's what your opposition does. They may not be smarter than us but they are better at forming a government than us. They've done it. So pick your people. Pick them on their electability. Hire the people who get people elected. Do what they do. Start today building the new republic. Get the romanticism of democracy out of your head. It's not a real picture. It's a fabrication created by your opposition. It had to be created so that it could take over. Read Thomas Jefferson.
Here's what will happen. You are going to get your teeth kicked in. You will have the full force of the police state directed against you. Ridiculous amounts of money and influence will be used to discredit, subvert and disband you. That and more will be thrown at you. You will be attacked by the people who graduated from the example teachers class. This is how you'll know you're on the right track.
One million visitors to your site...
July 2, 2009 by wilson
I know what your thinking - this is to good to be true. Well, no it isn't. I know how to get millions of visitors to your site. Unlike those other sites that promise results, list a lot of testimonials, then let you in on the limited one time offer - I'll just tell you.
You want to make a website that's full of promises, lots of promises. The most popular promises seem to involve bigger boners. Bigger boners that stay big longer is good. I suggest you promise a little extra. On top of the bigger and last longer promises - increase the promised dosage with - great looking boners. Boners that people remember. Boners that make girls (and a ton of guys) shiver and get weak in the knees. Boners so beautiful that when you look at them you have to smile. Boners so attractive - you'll want to show people.
Make sure you plaster the site with models posing as the girl next door. Tell the visitor that these girls are lonely and horny. Tell them that a hook up is possible. Add some adds from self help gurus (just in case the visitor is feeling ashamed of them selves). Use that shame - it's money. Make sure to mention that most celebrities use these spiritual teachers and attribute much of their success to the gurus guidance and teaching. Do not let the visitor leave without giving him a chance at a miracle cure, blessing from a saint, getting their fortune told or a chance to discover their purpose in life.
OK - that should do it. You could always deal Viagra but I think the need to have sex, at the drop of a hat, with people you wouldn't ordinarily look twice at is wearing off....forget I said that...run the Viagra ads. Am I forgetting anything? Probably...maybe a free massage. Oh of course...women looking for husbands. Import brides. You get the idea. Do not - appeal to the higher self - who do you thinks doing better in the search engines, Noam Chomsky or Janet Jackson?
How to build your own website
July 2, 2009 by wilson
I'm going to start this topic on building your own website for people like me who want to have full control over their own site. When I started out I knew that I didn't want to pay someone for what I could probably do myself. So I searched what I wrote as the title for this topic. I found that if I wanted autonomy over my website I'd need three things right of the bat.
The first thing to do is get a Domain Name. This is done first because the age of a domain name is an asset to a website. I had a Domain Name at least 3 months before I had a page up on the web. I am using Arvixe to host my website now and am very satisfied. I purchased my domain names through them. The reasons for this are they have a good user record, I think I found about one negative review out of fifty, that's really good. Also when you want to talk to someone, you get to talk with someone. They answer their phones and they answer their email and that's absolutely essential for you as a webmaster.
these are my domain names:
addictionshelp.org, drugaddictionshelp.net and addictionshelpsite.com. All redirected to www.dgswilson.com
Domain Names
When we apply for a domain name we'll want to think about the future a lot. We'll want a domain name that will stand the test of time. One great piece of advice I got was to write content that is timeless. Meaning it will be just as relevant 5 years from now as it is today. In my case that is very important since I have a site that is mainly written essay type content - but the principle is the same for any web site. Lets say Mary wants to sell her dresses online. The most relevant domain name would be something like marysdresses.com. If that will work 5 years from now, OK. What about me? I started writing a site for people with addictions. Any of the above domains would work for that. But my main domain is dgswilson.com. I'm always going to have the name Douglas Wilson and the domain is fashioned around that. I got the other domains later just because I wanted to play around with redirecting parked domains, which I won't bother to discuss here. The deal is to get a domain that represents you. I really don't see a lot of value in the relevancy thing - in the long term. The way websites become successful is by providing people with what they want - marysdresses.com will go nowhere if no one likes the dresses, while marysplace.com could become the most popular dress shop on the web.
Getting Started with the Website
There are a couple of ways to put a website together. We could use a ready made platform with it's own templates. I don't know anything about those, so I can't recommend any and I can't tell you anything about how to use them. I played around with some and decided that if I was going to spend that much time on something I might as well learn how to do it myself. The point is if you really want to make the most of these products you'll need to understand html anyway. Either that - or you get what they give you.
There is one tool I would employ as soon as possible and that is wordpress. Worpress.org is available through a lot of web hosts and I would have to say, from what I've been able to find out researching webmaster forums, that Apache Servers, Linux platforms and Wordpress Blogs are as good as it gets. That's what I would have to recommend to people today. Someone else might say something different and have info that I don't, but I feel good about the recommendation.
Here is my wordpress blog and here is the forum for my website. Both of these are available for free with the hosting package. I'll write about types of websites and how to think about them a little later.
Next you'll need to know how to write a web page. For this we use whats called hyper text mark up language (html). Mark up comes from the world of printing and editing. So we are the printing editors and we are going to put out pages much like the newspaper or a magazine does. That's the way we should think about web pages when we look at them from a web page editors stand point. When we look at this forum page as we would a newspaper what do we see? An ugly black strip across the top. What is it? How did it get there? What it is, really, is a rectangular box or square. In fact the whole page is one box with other boxes laid on top of it.
We write those boxes like this <div></div>. I guess the div represents "dividing up the page"? I think of them as boxes. We might want to say they are squares, but they're more than squares, because they have depth. Depth, in the sense that I can put a color in my box - first - then put a sentence on that. So the color is behind the sentence: depth. OK, gotta go, it's late, see you soon....Doug
OK, where were we? One thing I've got to say about the Linux platform: If we make a mistake and delete something; it's gone. There is no trash or recycle bin like on your computer at home. So you'll want to get an FTP program, I use ftpgenius-xp . I use it because it's free, it's easy and it works well. So now we can make copies of everything we do on line and save it to our home computer.
Once we have a domain name and we've paid for a web-hosting service we can get started building a name for ourselves. A website not only looks like a newspaper or a magazine but it works on the same principles. We will succeed or fail for the same reasons. So - what is our website going to say? Is it going to say "Buy This", "Look At This", "Read This", "Listen To This", "Watch This". Whatever we decide we have to get people to drop by and look. What are we going to need? We have a domain name and we have a host who has provided us with online storage for our files. First lets get a landing page, or home page. We'll need a template. What make a newspaper look like a newspaper is a template. I have a template that I designed and you can look at one here BackgroundDivs.html. This page is actually a page with a problem I was working on (with those boxes I mentioned) so I'll look for some other examples (maybe) later. The point I want to make is that if we have a page we have a website.
Working With Files
Out host files will have a name just like the files on your home computer. We'll want to create a file system at home with the same name as our file system on the web host server. These files systems are referred to as "Local host" and "Remote Host". We can think of a host in the common terms used when we say someone is hosting a banquet. People go to the banquet and they are served by the host. So I create a folder named "public_html", same as the name on my remote host. I keep these as identical as possible. These things are of the upmost importance. Knowing the file system will save us time and possibly our mental health later on. A lot of the trouble people have with computers is they don't know where their files are. This is because most people don't save there files themselves. They click save. What does that do? Sure it saves the file - but where? We'll want to start making our own folders and getting real familiar with twin file systems. Use names that are intuitive. Want to save videos? Make a folder and name it "videos". Text should be named text and so on. Whenever we see a menu on a web page we can understand that these are folders in a file system.
We can view the source (code) of the page (BackgroundDivs.html) via the view tab in Firefox, or (I think) it's the view, or tools tab, in Internet Explorer. We could copy that source code and paste it in an editor (I usually write in "Edit Pad Lite" but I should probably use something like "Komodo Edit"). From there we could save it as "index.html" in the "public_html" folder on our desktop (local host) file system. We could go to our remote host, open public_html and upload the file. Then we would have a website - with one page. Our domain name, typed into the title bar of any browser, will bring up this page. For all our other pages we'll make different folders. If we type in "marysdresses.com" this file - "public_html/index.html" - is the home page and that's what we'll be served by the remote host. If mary wants to show us different designs she might create another folder in public_html and name it design. All of the designs for different dresses would go there. example: "marysdresses.com/designs/bluedress.html". There might be a seperate page for each dress. Or there could be one page showing all the dresses. We're back to that magazine idea.
Before we get into building a page why don't we get the website working for us. What do I mean by - working for us? Every website has one common goal - traffic. How to get traffic is the main topic among website owners. One thing that is indisputable is that it takes time. So we want to get up and running and allow search to access the site as soon as possible. The best way I know to do this is with the wordpress.org blog on our site. By on our site I mean - it is part of us, as opposed to we being a part of it. Here is an example - this is my blog at wordpress.com - http://dgswilson.wordpress.com/ - this is my wordpress.org blog at dgswilson.com - http://www.dgswilson.com/wp/ - wp is a folder in the file system at dgswilson.com. This forum that we are on right now is not on my site. Why am I writing this here? Two reasons - one - I think it might be helpful and that's what I decided to do with my life - two - since this forum isn't on my site all those links you see over to the right are external links that point to pages on my site. Incoming links, are another indisputable component of getting traffic. Search engines look at incoming links like a vote for your site. The goal is to get a lot of them and from the right people. The right people for marysdresses.com would be international dress sales unlimited or something like that. Similar sites that get a lot of traffic are best.
External Links and Internal Links (I'll cover the structure a little later)
If I was an expert website builder (which I'm not), who started a website today, wanting to sell my template designs, I'd write something similar to what you're reading now and publish it on my wordpress blog. So the same goes for anyone wanting to build a website. Mary would write an article about herself and her designs then publish that article on her blog with a link pointing to her designs pages. I don't write articles like this on my site because it's not my niche. Another accepted idea about website success is "Content is King". My site is aimed at people who want to work through and out of their problems. Putting a bunch of content about how to build a website wouldn't be good for my overall content. So I get this little forum, for free, and I write stuff that doesn't have anything to do with dgswilson.com.
Building Pages
If we use the same template we used for the home page we could put one dress or three dresses on it. Same as a newspaper can have one story or several stories. If we want more than one story we'll have to have a way of dividing the page into sections. We might as well get used to calling these sections "divs" and thinking of them as boxes.
What do we see on a newspaper? A name for the paper accross the top - headlines and text (content) below. The really important stuff , as far as the buiding goes, is the stuff you don't see. Like the spaces between all that content....Gotta go, lunch time.
Lunch has lasted over a week now. I'm having a hard time getting back here. If interested in doing something you can always email me through the Main Site
"A brief look at the Constitution"
July 1, 2009 by wilson
I'm a little confused. As far as I can gather, from looking at the constitutional outline for free speech and therefore "The Press", government is not supposed to get involved. (?) Then I read that "http://www.freepress.net/node/56765" is pushing to get a bill passed that will allow smaller radio broadcasters to enter the market? So, I gather there is legislation that is keeping them out? The more I look, the more I read, it seems to me that we, as the public, would be better served to push for more more "undoing" than to suggest that government "do something" - more.
Overall I see government "doing" too much. It also seems that anything they "do" has more to do with representing their own interests than anybody out here. Isn't it against the law for an agency like the FCC to even exist? Isn't that what the Ist Amendment was written for? To ensure this: - (http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=900) - Our Constitution, through the First Amendment, forbids government interference with the press; it entrusts regulation of the press to the marketplace and allows the people to determine their own interest. As Thomas Jefferson explained, in the area of information exchange, it is "better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate...And hitherto the public has performed that office with wonderful correctness."
What am I missing? Why are "we" encouraging greater government
intrusion and control over our daily lives? I think that what "The
Public" is missing is that whenever it is offered a "special government
benefit" it should decline. This is because there are always strings
attached. It allows for more government control. More centralized
power. It would be easier to decline if we all realized that the
government has nothing, of it's own, to make these offers with.
Everything it offers it gets from us. So actually when Shirley is
offered a subsidy or a special consideration it is always paid for by
Toni. What is really happening is government is seeking permission to
pass legislation. In this it will increase it's control over the
public. Basically it will gain a greater ability to define rights and
liberties. We should not only start saying no - to everything offered
-, we should attempt to dismantle everything that has been done. Then -
start over.
"Torture"
July 1, 2009 by wilson
Historic Broadcast of "9/11 Press For Truth
July 1, 2009 by wilson
Architects and Engineers Seek 9/11 Truth
June 3, 2009, KGO Radio (San Francisco's top talk-radio station)
http://snardfarker.ning.com/profiles/blogs/architects-and-engineers-seek
"Architects know that you can't have 400 structural steel connections failing per second in a fire-induced gravitational collapse," says architect Richard Gage about the collapse of World Trade Center 7, a building not struck by a plane, on September 11, 2001. Richard is with Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, a group of professionals who have factual reservations about conclusions reached in the 9/11 Report.
Note: To listen to this path-breaking 7-minute broadcast, click on the link above. For lots more reliable information showing the official story of 9/11 cannot be true, see our 9/11 Information Center.
Historic Broadcast of "9/11 Press For Truth"
June 6, 2009, KBDI-TV (Colorado Public Television station)
http://www.kbdi.org/tv_schedule/program_details.cfm?id=120090606210000
Following the attacks of September 11th, a small group of grieving families waged a tenacious battle against those who sought to bury the truth about the event. In this documentary, six of them, including three of the famous 9/11 widows known as the "Jersey Girls" , tell the powerful story of how they took on the greatest powers in Washington, compelling lawmakers to launch an investigation that ultimately failed to answer most of their questions. The filmmakers collaborated with the media group GlobalVision to stitch together overlooked news clips, buried stories, and government press conferences, revealing a pattern of official lies, deception, and spin. As a result, a very different picture of 9/11 emerges, one that raises new, and more pressing, questions. To mark the film's U.S. broadcast premiere, Executive Producer Kyle Hence, Director Ray Nowosielski, and family member Bob McIlvaine, who lost his son Bobby in the attacks on New York, will be in the KBDI studios to discuss the film throughout the evening. Additionally, volunteers from Colorado 911 Visibility will be on hand to answer phones.
"Finally, a Forum"
July 1, 2009 by wilson
What I thought I would do about comments for this "blog type page" is attach a forum. Click on the comments link, go to the forum where you can do and say what you want. Seemed simple. I tried a couple. First thing was they were as big as the rest of the site. It took a lot of configuring. There were some parts I couldn't find to make the changes I wanted to make. Maybe I could have if I wanted to spend the time. That's the whole point. I don't want to work at it like that. I did have a forum set up and it worked OK. It took longer to load than any other page and had about an acre of code to keep it functioning, but, it was there. Until last week.
I changed web hosts because I was having my Band With throttled. I have 7.5 Gb's in my sites files. That's a lot? I signed up because it said unlimited. Make sure you find out what unlimited means when dealing with hosting services. So back to the forum issue. It quit. Needed to be reconfigured. I guess that's what it needed. I didn't ask. I just started looking for a different route. I found it.
I came across lefora.com. They give it away. They host it, so it doesn't tax your bandwidth. They hand you the style sheet. You still have to spend the time finding that one little link_button to change it, but at least its on your desk top. Another plus with not having the files on your host server is that you don't have to keep telling spiders not to crawl the 195 meaningless pages and throwing them on to the Serp's for your domain. Now, instead of spending two or three days tweaking something I don't understand or can't find, I'm signing off to go see the new Terminator Movie. If you need a Forum you may want to stop looking and go get one from lefora.com.
Re: Social-Bookmarking/Back Link Creation Co-op
June 24, 2009 by wilson
For now ...we're the co-op. I put this on here yesterday. Don't know what will eventually develop. I've looked at what you're doing and have no problem doing a little promotion for you. I guess that's it...for now. I did put a page up today about this idea - if any body goes to it they will be directed here. I don't expect anything for at least a week. But thanks for following up. We'll just watch and see.
Re: Social-Bookmarking/Back Link Creation Co-op
June 23, 2009 by wilson
OK, so this is the rough brainstorm plan. We all want back links. We all want - one way votes from other sites.
We create something that might be called a "social bookmarking back link
co-op". (Then we think of a better name) Maybe we set it up like a directory.
To get in you just sign up under a category. You could join the "I make
websites" category. You would then be in that co-op. You could look at the
others in your category and peruse some articles, ideas or designs. If you
found something you liked - you'd do what you wanted for them. I guess the
best thing you could do is write a review and put it on your blog or
something like that. Or you could tweet them or linkedin them and so on.
The directory would be a place to find people in your niche willing to help each
other. This would be better than reciprocal linking and way better than
paying for links - I don't know if anybody does that, but I haven't heard one thing
good about it. Anyway, the idea is just hours old. We could test something and see what happened. You probably have, or will have, some ideas of how to best get people to the
co-ops. For now I'm going to put the idea here. Maybe start the first little coop right here...we'll see.
OK - tell me what you think.
Re: Welcome
June 23, 2009 by wilson
Hey Donald, It's nice to hear from you. So what's the business? I was looking at a site the other day that had 140,000 pages indexed. I thought - how is that possible? It's a personal website. What did he do write about breakfast and make a page out of it? This morning I used real butter...? I looked and saw about 100 pages and after that there were thousands of forum entries. Each one counted as a page, So I was wondering - would you mind making a few thousand forum comments? Just kidding. Seriously though - I have always considered a forum for this site as a kind of service for visitors. An easy way to comment on stuff, ask questions and hopefully tell me when something is spelled wrong or needs clarification. My thinking now is a little different.
Tell me what your business is and I'll promote you through the site. In a lot of ways this site is a great success. Considering that it is under a year old and I'm still learning how to "make" a web site. Anyway, thanks for joining and tell me how I can help.
Social-Bookmarking/Back Link Creation Co-op
June 23, 2009 by wilson
Backlink creation Co_op agreement:
An association of Webmasters and Website Owners
Human reviewed
Individually Bookmarked or other wise recommended
For the purpose of helping those within the association gain exposure and Page Rank
Non-Monetary (free)
No Compulsory dictates (easy)
Free Service for free thinking people
I'll keep updating...just watch the Forum...
