SATURDAY 29th AUGUST 2015 08:05 BST

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (29th August 1945)
Germany...
Goering, Ribbentrop, and other German leaders are indicted as war criminals

USA...
The final report of the official inquiry into the attack on Pearl Harbor is released
Still recovering from medical treatment, Chinese first lady Madam Chiang meets with Truman before flying back to China at the beginning of September

East Indies...
Central National Committee of Indonesia declares Sukarno president

Japan...
Carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38 conduct patrols and recon flights
USN battleships Missouri and South Dakota, RN battleship Duke of York, two cruisers, and accompanying destroyers enter Tokyo Bay and Admiral Nimitz arrives by seaplane
USN Task Group 30.6 arrives to begin evacuation of Allied POWs, including USMC Major Gregory Boyington
IJN aircraft-carrying submarine I-401 surrenders to USN submarine Segundo off Tokyo Bay

China...
General Wainwright, freed from a Japanese POW camp, arrives at Chungking

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Shift 2 of the Weekend Job
TV Footie

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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION

On one hand, I would much prefer to have a mind that's easier to control than this one, but the paradox is that it's the very nature of it that has driven me to the Higher Consciousness I've subsequently experienced, enabling me to fulfil my primary purpose of passing on what I've learned and making a difference.

Unlike most folks with a spiritual dimension, I do not believe that love is the underpinning power behind the universe, but rather consciousness manifesting as a wave, with a positive peak and a negative trough. Consciousness is both creation and destruction in balance. For this reason I have no belief in some ultimate victory of love, but rather in an eternal dynamic of positive and negative. 

I do not find this bleak at all - whilst light and dark remain in balance, the universe gets to know itself better, and so knows a peace that is beyond the light/dark dynamic - a peace that has no opposite, that comes from understanding. 

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Have you chosen a purpose for yourself?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry, mild and cloudy throughout
A moderate south-westerly wind will peter out overnight
Max Temp = 17 degC at 2pm
Min Temp = 12 degC at 7am
Sunrise at 06:09
Sunset at 20:05
Moon: 

Weathertrack: A depression south of Iceland will drive weather troughs across northern Scotland but the rest of Britain will keep mainly dry

Air Pressure: 1017 millibars and static

6. TODAY'S ONELINER

If I make you breakfast in bed. A simple 'Thank you.' is all I need! Not all this 'How did you get in my house?' business! :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!

Monty Python - International Chinese Communist Conspiracy

8. TRIVIA

In 1969, St.Valentine’s Day was removed from the Roman Calendar of Saints by Pope Paul VI, though its religious observance is still allowed.

9. ZEN WISDOM

Human revolution cannot be pinned down to one specific thing. It is any action that leads to positive change or improvement in the inner realm of a person’s life. It is an ongoing process. The important question to ask yourself is whether you are on a path of continuous personal growth.