Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Styxhexenhammer666"
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The spiritual hierarchy is vast and diverse. Energy can be focused, stored, aggregated by the usual means, intention. If your character is weak your instantaneous psychic state will be correspondingly loosely organized, which is to say, not under your absolute control. This allows your intentionality to be hijacked, by a host of resonant associations. Once that ball gets rolling, you have a choice: roll along with it as it increases to an unmanageable point, or resist it to reclaim ownership of all intent. You can work yourself into a variety of tizzies if you let it go.
Hierarchically, there will be natural divisions of "labor", so to speak. So the idea of the "demonic head" comes into play. Everything in reality is accomplished through the operation of hierarchy. At the lowest level you have the most minor entities doing the grunt work (i.e. "pull that quark over here, push that gluon up there...viola!"); these entities' boss serves to aggregate and focus his underlings' efforts, even to end they don't understand. These minor supervisors may come under a single head such as you might be urged by a grimoire to contact for favors.
In the final analysis, "demonic forms", are vehicles of apperception...you create them, and you ride in them, using them as vehicles of expression. When you get "mad as hell", for instance, you sow the seed of a demon, at the urging of other such created demons--an urging that flows through the One Mind as a resonant response to YOU!
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Facebook's algorithmic censorship IS election meddling! Why isn't that fact obvious to everyone? I'm so sorry, but everything keeps coming back to IQ: the ability to operate one's mentality effectively and logically, to make sound decisions and accurate observations. A low enough IQ precludes all high-level reasoning. Some people just can never "get it". And I have to think this is a significant proportion of the population...the fly in the ointment, as it were; the ruinous influence that cannot be eradicated. Traditionally, the low-IQ element has been naturally "contained" by forces of competition: stupid people don't win, don't accumulate wealth and power, so have little influence. However, the message of the past few decades has been, "You smart people won the competition, so now be nice, and pay attention to what stupid people say." It's time to get back to a little natural economic selection...
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Hmm...Styx implies a sort of "scientific superstition" as an evolution of "superstition". But, I'd suggest an alternative take: popular perception of "science" is largely superstitious. Without a basic understanding of "science", most people have to take scientific pronouncements as a sort of "gospel"--believing in the absence of understanding. Yeah, most people appear to be scientifically superstitious, believing in a vague "science" they imbue with mysterious, secret POWERS by their lack of understanding and propensity for sensationalism. "Scientifically speaking, the earth has only 12 more years left." hahaha...if you say, "science", well, it MUST be true! I'm sorry to say, technology has empowered the stupid, and "nothing...can ever be...the same".
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Ahh, yess, the placebo effect! Touted by scientists in the medical industry to help explain why their shit don't work, it stands as an admission that "belief" can DIRECTLY affect reality! The mechanism of operation of the "placebo effect" is still unknown, of course, because no reputable scientist will actually say, "belief can directly affect reality". But that is, in essence, what they are telling everyone when they invoke the "placebo effect". And it's not from lack of trying--there's been many studies of this phenomenon, and they make fascinating reading. The wider acceptance of the matter in scientific circles is inhibited politically, of course. I think it is the inherent illogic of the scientific communtity's political stance (i.e. using something whose reality is denied without explanation) that they'd like to conceal from public awareness. After all, reputation is everything.
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I've never heard a justification of teaching "crt", only bald assertions of vague benefit, regardless of harm. But, then, again, I wouldn't expect to, since teachers, as a group, apparently, believe THEY, themselves, have the sole authority to determine, not only, how "teaching" proceeds, but, also, WHAT is taught! At the primary and secondary levels this is inappropriate. But, it's their taunting arrogance that proves them to be incompetent in their chosen profession!
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I've heard Styx's argument for keeping 230--sounded like chicken shit, to me. Half-measures seem safe in their caution, but, in this case, they would simply fail to achieve the desired result. It's time for the internet to GROW UP! You wanna play, be ready to pay! Then you'll watch your mouth and your manners! "Something similar with teeth", he says, oblivious to the fact those "teeth" are simply the threat of prosecution, which, itself, is corruptible. Keep It Simple Stupid! Let people assume their own responsibility--goof off time is over!
Oh, and, yeah, that means, NO CHILD USERS!
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No, the "curtains" were actually a "curtain system", involving, undoubtedly, motorized programmable control. So 50k isn't all that bad a price. I've never heard the term, "lies by structure"; I don't think it's useful. It may be a direct description of what's happening, but it doesn't elicit a well-connected understanding. Illuminating a lack of structural integrity by referencing relevant logical fallacies leaves you in the realm of logical thinking, whereas subjective/general descriptive terms leave you scrambling for a procedural basis (i.e. "ok, now what?"). In the realm of logic there's lots of options for accurate, constructive rebuttal. "Lies by structure" elicits, "So, you don't like my structures, eh?". You've identified "structure" as an important issue; the logical fallacies can break that out into a couple dozen more specific issues.
This reminds me how difficult it can be to use language in communicating with others. Errors of translation compound: a simple sentence of five words may easily contain two words defined differently by two people in a conversation, introducing errors of translation that multiply against each other (not just a simple additive stacking, but a multiplicative stacking). So, it is safer, socially-speaking, to use general terminology because the effect of error stacking is to produce a MORE general meaning, which is likely to be less...unexpected than the effect of error stacking in the case of more specific terminology, which has the potential to be more personally offensive due to its exaggerated specificity. So, when you move from using general terminology to more specific terminology, you go from "safer" to more "dangerous". Unfortunately for many people, this move is absolutely necessary in order for communication to be useful. You have to be able to drop the "hey, look at me" small-talk mentality in favor of "perfect the structure of the communication". If a translation error is capable of disturbing your intellectual equilibrium, this isn't the game for you.
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Oh, yeah! I've used self-hypnosis to avoid the expense of a couple of novacaine shots. It was a very interesting and illuminating experience! But, the short of it is that, through relaxation, the sensation is present ABSENT "pain"; something about muscular tension translates sensation into pain. I could feel the drill doing its thing on my eye teeth, and saw the most interesting colored lightning show behind my closed eyes, but "pain" would only begin to rise with an increase in muscular tension. Really, self-hypnosis is just the state you're left in after complete relaxation. The relaxation process is a bit involved/lengthy, though. Interestingly also: certain emotions, like "fear", tend to involve muscle tension. So, the fear of muscle tension, which would elicit pain, is tension-inducing in itself! After being distracted by the pretty light show in my head, I had to return to the background task of maintaining complete relaxation, or suffer immense painfulness with a compete breakdown of concentration. The young pretty dental assistance sat at my feet. I didn't let myself be too distracted, but it seemed her look was almost "thrilled". I imagined she wanted to fuck me...but I was, like, 19, so I thought every girl wanted to fuck me. hahahahehe...aahhh...19...hehe
Hypnosis and acupuncture are mainstream medicine in China...
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I'm seeing Russia as more internationally responsible than the US. Russia's interjections always seem eminently reasonable, both in nature and in presentation. They look patient, level-headed, and even-handed in their dealings; the US tends to appear equivocal, petulant, and impulsive in its responses--and positively demanding in its dealings. The difference is, in a word, "maturity". How long is your county's history? Russia is 1157 years old this year; the US is 243. In people terms, if Russia is 28 years old, US is 6. And this six-year-old is armed to the teeth and used to getting what it wants, when it wants it!
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Without the unspoken "nazi" connection, (white) nationalism would not be a serviceable boogeyman. So, allusions to nazism persist, as a political expedient. Is the caucasian nationalist a "white nationalist"?! hahaha...Curiously, I'm noticing youtube's spell checker flagging with a red underline the correctly spelled words, "nazi" and "caucasian"! WTF, is this an attempt to confuse the linguistic sensibilities of the general populace (i.e. propaganda)?! Or just a deficient spellcheck program? I doubt the latter, since "nazi" gets a lot of use on utube, and should, therefore, be present in whatever deficient list of words is being used to check spelling against. Computer power being what it is today, there's really no reason for the spell checker NOT to be referencing a real dictionary! Except the social engineering reason, that is...
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@brianosterman456 <--Did you know most of your, above, comment is missing?! My email notification has the full text. Anyway...I understand all that you explained in your reply. Let me quote the part that's missing, above:
"by bombarding them at every turn with whatever view google could potentially want. Now because part of this is driven by algorithms you will get recommendations based on what you consume, but even I have noticed that I routinely get Vox and vice articles pushed to my phone and their videos recommended on youtube. To say their power (or potential for power) isnt dangerous is just ignoring what they do to make money. Not saying you are ignoring it, I am just saying that their power is a very real thing that should concern every american if not every nation. Especially since they only really answer to themselves."
That's a cogent sentiment, but a turn of mind, a shift of perspective, can render the "information" into different "impressions". People are becoming painfully aware of the significance of what they've been ignoring for a long time: the long term fallout of social media behavior (both companies and customers). The internet was a "cool tool" for a long time; that impression is changing! It can now be seen more obviously that it is a cesspool of deception and exploitation. This is the kind of learning experience that is necessary for the "information age" to mature. We're still on the bubble between the Industrial and Information, or Digital, Ages; transitions are by nature disruptive...the more destructive the longer we wait to engage them (i.e. the transitions). People need to have their skepticism honed by real life experience, so, here we are...
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Everything that manifests does so by virtue of Akasha, the Fifth Element, "the aether", which is the source of the other four Elements. In keeping with Nature's hierarchical proclivities, there are four planes of existence: spiritual, mental, astral, and physical. The so-called "etheric plane" is a transitional matrix between astral and physical. Of course, there's a transitional matrix between the spiritual and mental, and the mental and astral, planes, but they are less problematic than the etheric, which latter bears a special internal relationship to Akasha. The etheric plane is the seat of the habit nature, and the font of vitality, so, I say, problematic. You can't operate in the astral safely without mastery of your habit nature.
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Hmm...now Styx is debunking occultism! Conceptions of the term, "incorruptible" run the gamut from "enduring" to "everlasting"--a huge difference! Styx obviously has "everlasting" in mind, as opposed to "enduring". The full range of potential incorruptibility starts, at the low end, in life, when you "practice" well, and your body becomes more robust, healthy, strong...etc--it endures better than a sick body. This is the inherent satanist bent that Styx will find hard to shake: there are no miracles in magic--even when they look like miracles, they're just the interposition of as-yet-undiscovered natural law that gives the appearance of the miraculous. "A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for!"--Robert Browning
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Opportunities missed...Consider: what better way to convey "American values" than via the internet! The US could intelligently force values of freedom on the world through its control of the internet, especially via the social networks. By encouraging an ethic, an atmosphere, of free speech, perfect tolerance, and adult behavior, the whole world could be ENTRAINED to its eternal prosperity! But, no, american values are not well represented in cyber behavior, as evidenced by rampant, seemingly unfettered, banning, de-personing, de-platforming, and de-fecating all over everybody. Where's this "US leadership" I hear so much aboutish?! I why does it never appear in example form!
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"Epstein is intelligence, leave it alone..." That's the advice I heard was given to Acosta. But grape vines can yield sour as well as sweet grapes...who can know anymore where this shit is coming from! It sure makes sense, though: a posh resort getaway, regularly attended by celebrities, would be an attractive prospect to self-absorbed, superficial big wigs from government, industry, technology, and finance. Offer them vices, collect evidence of their indulgences, and use that evidence to exert influence. I can see intelligence coming up with that recipe.
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"Existence itself should never have started"?...the limitations of logic apply, here, in objection. I've developed a paradigmatic notion of "the beginning":
We are frozen in a cosmic moment of recognition/realization belonging to the Primordial Void, that chaos of all-potential that provides the backdrop of existence. In the beginning--literally--, It recognized the impossible : repetition in the state of the Void. Being utterly chaotic, only random organizational states should be possible. But the impossible happened: all tied up in this instantaneous recognition are principles of "reflection", then "memory", then "multiplicity/unity", then BANG, God (consciousness) is "born", from an error in cosmic nature, a mistake that explained itself in terms of "time". WE and our entire existence IS the process of experiencing to resolution this frozen stare-down of the Void and God, as they grapple with the incongruous state of recognition precipitated by the error. Time was, both, the manifestation of the error, and the mechanism of its solution; it had to be...contained. Existence is how Time contains the Error. We are an integral part of the resolution of this cosmic error. As loci of consciousness, we are agents, witting or unwitting, of the universe as it evolves to contain, and then absorb the Error. This cosmic maturation process is the purpose of ours and all existence--but NOT selfishly, not for our own benefit, but for the benefit of the Void. "Correction" of the Error is by the integration of consciousness, which is essentially the nature of the Error. But there's still no going back; no going back to an insensible Void comprising the totality of existence. In some form or manner or other, we're "here" to stay: "Time" is going to have to be incorporated into the style of the ongoing unfolding. No physical universe of time run amok, but gradated dimensionality, to serve the purpose better. Time is the primary prerequisite for Existence.
All experience is of the One Mind. There is only ONE MIND, an infinite field of resonant associativity. "Association" is the operational process; the objects of association are the resonances created by EXPERIENCE (whether real or imagined, the body can't tell). Upon birth, the snake begins to eat its tail, the resonances attending the birth experience start the association ball rolling, and it's off to the races. The process is continuous at all levels. An example: the experience of the parent is naturally INTERNALIZED (memory, reflection, etc.). These internalized personages act as "authorities" which, when resonantly stimulated, pipe up characteristically, offering their peculiar viewpoints. Parents, playmates, teachers...everyone we've ever met we've internalized. Even those we've IMAGINED meeting have been internalized as experience dictated. We don't "have thoughts", or "think"; we associate resonances deliberately, and characteristically--it's the very expression of the individual's being, and at the same time its self-revelation. They say follow your thoughts to discover yourself--to me, be aware of your associations. Association is the currency of awareness, it's what we do in every waking moment. What something means to you is determined by your experiential resonances...no wonder people are challenged to have a productive civil discussion--always they assume the intended meaning is the same as the perceived meaning. Contradictions are insufficiently realized resonance patterns/sequences. "Insufficiently realized"? Resonate your question (i.e. ping the mind field); observe the resultant associations' patterns and sequences. You will characteristically (i.e. automatically) choose the resonances to include in the pattern/sequence which represents the "answer". This is where you develop your character, by considering/weighing your predilection against your evolving EXPERIENCE. As you EXPERIENCE this resonant conflict, it is resolved. It is resolved in the experience of the conflicting resonances. You don't have to DO anything; just maintain awareness of the resonant associations in play, with an unwavering INTENT to articulate what is "true".
Put another way:
You are one of a group of dedicated cosmos designers whose purpose it is to incubate viable cosmoses. You seed your cosmos with a Chaotic Void, a seething churning amalgam of potential--and wait. Wait for the statistically improbable: the repetition of a random state. The characteristic response of a Chaotic Void to state replication is ejection of the state (it's the basis of your pursuit, after all), to restore the integrity of the Chaos. The Chaotic Void, a sort of "bubble", herniated, essentially, ejecting the entirety of the state of Chaos that repeated. The nature of the ejection is quintessentially temporal--Time is born! Through the first and primary principle of reality/manifestation, association/sympathy, the ejected state adheres to the "bubble". The barrier region between the surface of the bubble and the ejected state is where All Existence Is, and it is called, the One Mind. The universe, as we know it, IS mental. There is only the one Mind. You operate it as well as you can! Mind operates by association of resonant nodes. Resonant nodes are the direct result of EXPERIENCE. Order is your daddy; the Chaotic Void is your granddaddy! Our job is to make peace in the Family!@@ hahaha...Because...the desire of Order is to return, to the Chaotic Void of Its origin; the desire of Chaos is, likewise, reunion, though, in conflict with an awareness that that union would destroy both, Order and Chaos. So, Chaos is conflicted/suicidal...hehehe...And the movements of this cosmic dance play out in our own lower order existence...as "sympathy and antipathy"...etc. As a cosmos designer, you will be fascinated to observe how your successful cosmos EVOLVES.
I wrote this a while back, in a youtube comment area, probably at Styx's channel--never a nibble. Nobody considered it at all remarkable, which I found curious, given the scope of it. In the context of this video, it may finally be relevant! hahaha...probably not...
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"Learn to Code!" is a meme? Huh...hadn't stumbled across it before. It makes sense to me IF: LearnToCode == ThinkLogically; otherwise, I'd appreciate a brief clue...We need an NPC sporting a T-shirt that says, "!Right", hahaha, well, I think it would be funny. Since NPCs don't code, they wouldn't recognize the translation that would jump out at a C-coder: literally, "not right" (it strikes me as somehow appropriate that NPCs would label themselves as wrong). They'd only see the obvious, "(we are) correct", with the exclamation point placed (ironically incorrectly) before, rather than after, the word, because...NPCs. There's also an opportunity for interplay between political ideas of Right and Left to be hinted at. Then, as an aside, there's the reference to a colloquialism from my (mid-western) childhood. Someone who behaved very oddly/stupidly was widely termed an "ain't right", which would interest no one but other old mid-westerners.
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Most of the "rigged ballots" will end up invalidated, at least, in those locations where the validation is fair and competent. That doesn't concern me nearly as much as election day, itself. Traditionally, communists like to attempt intimidation at the polls. I've heard of localities prohibiting unconcealed firearms within 100 ft of the polls...Bad idea! It denies/limits voters' ability to defend themselves, so they'll feel vulnerable, and, therefore, more susceptible to intimidation tactics. They know they can't rig the vote count, because it'll be too over the top to touch as much as they'd have to; so, they'll have to try to rig the "casting" of the votes. I'm confident the concealed carry people will be...ready.
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This "election influence" BS got started with government fake news: the Rushans are "interfering" in our elections (presumably in the same way the US interferes in theirs and everyone else's) by "hacking"; but they take out facebook ads, too, adding to their interfering influence. The implication is the fake news, that twitter posts and facebook ads amount to an ILLIGITIMATE effort to affect the election outcome. Everyone is legally, ethically, and morally entitled to express his opinion. Whether his expression is persuasive or not is irrelevant. "Hacking", though, would be criminal, genuinely illegitimate effort, according to current laws. The spurious association of "hacking" and "interference" IS the fake news that sent us down this screwy path. Influence is NOT interference, it is participation.
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I'm not familiar with aforementioned "spurning", but the term, "Judeochristian", is nonsensical, as it juxtaposes contradictory terms. I understand the reference, but its use is pointless in most contexts, and derisive, otherwise. Technically, Christianity is a Jewish cult, the fact rankling Christians and Jews, alike.
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I suspect the "multiple cities" thing is accidental propaganda for the left: the higher profile lieutenants have been arrested, so command and control duties have fallen to lower level leadership located, elsewhere, different geographical locations. Now THEY have the attention of law enforcement. When THEY are arrested, command and control duties would fall further, if possible; if not, that would end it. They are trying to make it appear their numbers haven't dwindled, but it doesn't work...If there is another CC level, it's numbers would be even smaller. You always have to remember that this stuff is not happening spontaneously; it is organized, by a handful of people. This is not "civil unrest"; it is organized insurrection, by a hostile ideology...
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I've seen a bit of video by expats in mainland china, and I'd say your perception of china is skewed by a poor understanding. I'm not saying you're fundamentally wrong, just misled by an oversimplified concept of china that does little to illuminate the broader picture. For instance, because of china's geographical and population sizes, it is extremely challenging to govern. That's why, it is said, you can do anything you want, as long as it's not against the government. For the average street person there seems to be a great sense of freedom. In interpersonal disputes the cops are like, "Solve the problem, now, or we'll take you to jail." Sure, if you get mucked up with the government, you're pretty screwed; but if you stay below the radar, it's the wild west!
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Dude, I don't know about "better", exactly, as I expect, since they were pretty badly psychologically damaged in 2016, suicides, as damage upon damage might suggest. If TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome, was a neurotic response, 2020 may precipitate a psychotic response! Have you ever seen someone you thought was "stark raving mad", as the expression goes? Now, imagine leftist streets FILLED with such people, and the damage they're likely to do! I mean, it would still be GREAT, though just a tad grim. hehehe
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The "laws" of physics represent the behavior of nature--to scientists. But the mode of execution of these laws is never addressed ("it's just the way it works"). "Mode of execution"? What's that? How does a law know to be enforced? Such response is ingrained in the structure of reality itself, just part and parcel--but that just BEGS explanation. The action of physical law is mitigated by intelligence; even more, the action of physical law is PERFORMED by intelligences of low/limited order, because ALL IS MIND, the universe is mental. Intelligence enacts/enforces/executes law. All this grimoire magick is about is navigating the hierarchy of intelligence that animates existence. That's why you may undertake to contact an underling to get something trivial done immediately, as opposed to going through its superior(s) in the hierarchy. But underlings are relatively stupid, and requiring one to do something outside its limited purview is a perilous pursuit, as the results would be unpredictable, possibly damaging or injurious. But persuading its superior could be a different problem: dealing with a greater intelligence requires at least comparable intelligence; otherwise, you may be spiritually captured/enslaved--essentially spiritually downgraded to the level of underling (until you manage, hopefully, to fully recapture yourself--it could go the other way, though, where you continue to degenerate until you've become a denizen of whatever sphere you've been serving in, losing your soul, so to speak). So, hey, a couple thousand years in the service of a "demon" can be valuable experience, I guess. But on a risk/reward basis, I'll pass, at least until my character is mature enough to resist the character of these spiritual intelligences. Amongst the various dimensional spheres, if I am not MASTER, I am slave--there are no tourists here.
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@Ethereal_dot_exe <--Yeah, theoretically...everything's relative. "Pain" refers to a degree of intensity of sensation that you're not prepared to "eat" upon contact. The moment you shrink from the pain, it HURTS! Until then, it's a very interesting experience of intense sensation--and if you can eat it, it gets even more interesting! But, it IS REAL, if the word "real" is to have practical meaning! In one form or another, pain has anchored every physical experience you're ever had to the sea bed of your evolving BEING, allowing you to FEEL that you EXIST. Without sensation, you have the classic "sensory deprivation" experience, which is surreal. Pain keys you into the reality you occupy. It provides perpetual feedback on your state and position in time and space. It's been said that the intensity of pain can be great enough to cause death by (medical) shock. So, "illusion" is a description of pain I have to disagree with...
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@mokenetgumshoe1064 <--Ah! The reason for existence! The "evolution" of the universe is merely the outward appearance of the resolution of the Cosmic Error. The short of it goes something like this:
We are frozen in a cosmic moment of recognition/realization belonging to the Primordial Void, that chaos of all-potential that provides the backdrop of existence. In the beginning--literally--, It recognized the impossible: repetition in the state of the Void. Being utterly chaotic, only random organizational states should be possible. But the impossible happened: all tied up in this instantaneous recognition are principles of "reflection", then "memory", then "multiplicity/unity", then BANG, God (consciousness) is "born", from an error in cosmic nature, a mistake that explained itself in terms of "time". WE and our entire existence IS the process of experiencing to resolution this frozen stare-down of the Void and God, as they grapple with the incongruous state of recognition precipitated by the error. Time was, both, the manifestation of the error, and the mechanism of its solution; it had to be...contained. Existence is how Time contains the Error. We are an integral part of the resolution of this cosmic error. As loci of consciousness, we are agents, witting or unwitting, of the universe as it evolves to contain, and then absorb the Error. This cosmic maturation process is the purpose of ours and all existence--but NOT selfishly, not for our own benefit, but for the benefit of the Void. "Correction" of the Error is by the integration of consciousness, which is essentially the nature of the Error. But there's still no going back; no going back to an insensible Void comprising the totality of existence. In some form or manner or other, we're "here" to stay: "Time" is going to have to be incorporated into the style of the ongoing unfolding. No physical universe of time run amok, but gradated dimensionality, to serve the purpose better. Time is the primary prerequisite for Existence.
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"Physical satan"?! Isn't that an oxymoron! We suffer perpetually: sensation, joy, sorrow, etc. You choose your comfort range, and fight to maintain its perimeter; with any luck you get around to expanding that perimeter. The eastern notion of "hell" is educative: you expect to come back after learning to be better. The Chinese conception is rather sophisticated, with many clearly defined levels and zones. It's similar in the western conception: hell is where you "burn out" your evil desires by experiencing the desire without any experience of satisfaction. It's all about character development in the face of mastery...think about it...However, the utility of such an approach to life depends on a sense of post-lifetime continuance. And no materialist, whether styled, "satanist", or just "atheist", has this sense. I think I remember Styx's sentiments: "Worm food...that's all we are in the end". I find atheist types shallow...there's an important level of nuance simply unavailable to them...they'll never imagine that they can fold the sides of the box they're in...they feel there exists restraint from which they cannot free themselves...there's a box they can't think outside of...
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@douglascramer1501 <--I assumed the "origin" is just that, a beginning state surpassed by the "destination". Your statement denoted a return to the origin, as if to restart the cycle anew with no qualification (i.e. "higher arc"). My assumption, as you stated it, is essentially correct, since "the past" is generally considered to be unchangeable, "incapable of growth or regression". I can allow for the possibility of changing the past...but that's irrelevant to the current point. That is, I had good reason to "assume that this origin...point is a place that is incapable, etc." Won't you agree? Spiritual maturation through cycles of physical experience is a stage in the process of spiritual progression. When you're done with that development, there's further work to do elsewhere...But the point about spiritual development is irrelevant to the matter of my "mistake in reasoning". What I cited as "nihilistic" was the notion that developmental cycles simply repeat, from their original beginnings. That's how the materialist's universe behaves...
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Schrodinger's Snuffleupagus <--My considered opinion: Originally, there was only the Primordial Void, perfectly fecund with every potential, seething infinitely. Then the statistically impossible happened (the goal of every cosmos architect): a repeated Void state! This repetition, being incompatible with the nature of Chaos, was instantly ejected, in a sort of herniation, the complete repeated Void state. This one state is the source pattern of Primordial Order. And it wants to return to the chaotic void that birthed it, but is incompatible, being a oneness, as it is now. The lesson of the ejection from the Void was its process: first the repetition of state is realized by reflection, which is the mechanism of memory, and the impetus to awareness; at ejection there is the experience of "otherness", which engenders "ORDER". So, an interface was "jointly" devised: the One Mind. The universe is, indeed, mental. The operative principle of the One Mind is association, by resonant interaction. The One Mind, born of its parents, CHAOS and ORDER, serves to relate them in their misguided quest to reunite. Should they ever succeed, all of manifestation would simply cease, as if obliterated in a moment. But they can't succeed...they have a CHILD, now! hehehe...There's no going back, even for the cosmos. Forward, ho!
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Personally, I'd hesitate to call four people a "party"--but that's just me. Not ALL the founding fathers were deists, but I take your meaning. I don't see cause to worry that our system will be overtaken by spurious accusations taken seriously--it's too stupid. All you have to do to fix the confirmation process, at least enough to free the log jam, is make it so if no action is taken on a nomination within, say, three weeks, the nominee will be automatically confirmed. You'll get some action!
The real show stopper for me is the fact that Kavanaugh was a minor at the time of the allegations. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but a minor is not considered legally responsible for his actions. In important ways, the minor Kavanaugh is not the same person as the major Kavanaugh. So, conceptually, they are trying to hold one person responsible for the actions of another (which is the essential "logic" of the radical leftist); I don't believe this is considered sound legal principle. We make parents responsible for their children because minors are not legal persons; they are property, under the law.
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It's not "globalism" that wants worldwide serfdom, rich people do. All words are encapsulations of ideas and relationships between/among ideas. "Globalism" is the latest in a long line of terms used to indicate the relationship between the rich and powerful, the "elite", on the one side and everybody else on the other. One man's "slavery" might be another's "security"...the matter of DEGREE is crucial to the terminological choice. "Globalism" is fundamentally the idea that technology has enabled the dissolution of the "border" mentality and its hold on a people's economic viability. "Dissolve the borders and free people to be more productive" is the sentiment. "Dissolve the borders" is the rub, and this is where "globalism" receives its "taint", for, doing so is necessarily coercive. There's too much nationalist water gone over the dam to allow such coercion. People won't sit still for it. Witness, BREXIT. The direction of evolution is toward globalism, but forcing the schedule is counterproductive to that end, and produces an aberration of conception of the meaning of "globalism", imbuing the term with the emotional charge that is the hallmark of the "buzzword".
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All your news is third-hand: three news producers, one of which is Reuter's, create ALL the news you hear/see. FOX packages it one way, CNN another, etc. These three operate practically anonymously, their ownership, associations, and procedures obscure. Knowing, as we do, the proclivities of the various intelligence agencies to "embed" themselves, I suspect lots of influence from that element operating through these three news founts.
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The political atmosphere is generated predominantly by the MSM; we "stew" in it. Those who can, or must, resist, do, and, in the process "pollute" the MSM's carefully crafted atmosphere, engendering a backlash from the MSM, who is mesmerized by the vision of its impending demise, and, so, is motivated to the most vicious response, despite that response's seeming irrationality. "Curiouser and curiouser..."...
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The source of the "problem" is the marginal intelligence of the majority of human beings, endemic and intractable. This is the central, though, unspoken, problem of governance; and it's fundamentally a communication issue: how do you communicate with someone who doesn't understand?! You can make a law, display it, and find, after it's violated, that the violator wasn't duly impressed by it. Self-regulation, self-control, is a function of intelligence. Finding these features lacking, you'll find intelligence lacking, too. What's more, there's nothing that can be done about it! I mean, short of genetic reengineering...
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Yeah, Coulter always rubbed me the wrong way, too. She's too vain: short skirts, long straight hair, jewelry, and the eye makeup, all saying to me, "I wanna look pretty." But, she's NOT! She's a horse-face. Her social status, I think, is her overriding concern.
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I'm not worried the "Venezuelan agriculture", which stands for "controlling superstructure". When possible, people will cultivate food, whether with govt supervision, or, more successfully, without. That's the basis of "agriculture"...people grow shit, 'cause they can, and it's damn useful! "Agriculture" isn't going away just because the controlling superstructure collapses. Transitional stages are always more painful than static stages--people will suffer and die, in relatively elevated numbers, just like they have for hundreds of thousands of years. I'm not gonna tear my heart out over it. Try to push my buttons?! Fuck, you can't FIND my buttons! HAHAHA
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Ah, c'mon, Styx. If you work under a flawed theory of disease, your results will be limited, ipso facto. Expecting otherwise is irrational. Why hasn't a 200-yr old theory been replaced? Either because it is simply comprehensively correct, or it would be politically untenable for the scientific community (above politics--BS!). The former is what they want you to believe; the latter is the fact of the matter. Alternative research results are routinely and viciously suppressed. You seem to be buying into the "god complex" that the medical industry tries to implant in everyone's perception. It's politics as usual, but, in this particular application, that fact flies under your radar, Styx. A lot of people see doctors as "gods"; I only see con artists. The corruption at all levels of the medical industry is too vast for easy conceptualization. And, yes, I believe the con is deliberate; otherwise, it would have revealed itself long ago, by its relentlessly incompetent results. Cover-up is the policy industry-wide...or is that knowledge occult to you.?
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Soon enough, I think, "GoFundMe" will be synonymous with "BS" in the average person's casual awareness. Iow, suspicion and disrespect. Somehow, Americans, taking the wrong path, get to the right destination. I mean, there's a logical way to get to the conclusion that GoFundMe=BS, that most Americans don't use. Instead, they use more irrational means to arrive at this conclusion: like catchy anecdotes of GoFundMe absurdities that eventually amount to disrespectful impressions, that linger; like negative opinions of GoFundMe clients that naturally "rub off" on GoFundMe itself. They may not think too rigorously as a group, but Americans have a nose for BS...the mystique of self-reliance, and all that.
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Perhaps an illustrative example re "misinformation": there is a technique in data acquisition that uses NOISE injection to aid in assisting noise rejection! "Misinformation" is, essentially, NOISE; and there is a natural limit to any ability to reject, or filter, NOISE--a limit which may be extended by the intelligent utilization of NOISE. The lesson of digital technology is you can get rid of all the noise if you CHANGE THE DATA, translate it into a different form. Destroying the old form of the data destroys information we are presumed to not care about, while preserving the information we DO care about. In digital technology it's a useful lie to eliminate "useless" data; in the real, analog, world, you don't know ahead of time what information is useless! So, to filter it would be potentially dangerous. Eh...just thinking...
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Idk...invert three or four factors, and, maybe, as the election cycle comes to fruition, many people are especially, well, "excited"--"user error" ensues with enhanced frequency. Styx's problems sound, "personal", with utube. Then, again, "there are no 'coincidences'"...
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I just saw Trump talking about this. He's devising a "code of conduct" set of rules and regulations for the press corp, as he says, at the request of the court. Perfect! Once it's in writing you can legally and rightfully nail their asses to the wall, so to speak. Because of jerks like Acosta, the informal policy of decorum that worked so well for so long is no longer viable. Fine. Now, Acosta's got NO wiggle room, no pushing the envelope. Now it can be, "sit, or leave, now", with real action that follows arrogant disobedience of agreed-upon rules of behavior. I'd like to see all receivers of press passes to have to sign off on the rules of behavior, as a sort of contract to which they can be held. Only good finally results from hashing out this nonsense to its logical conclusion! It's been a political style for a long time to ignore the small things that crop up inconveniently. Few realize how integral these small things are to the fabric of political reality. Maybe Trump doesn't even see it this way; maybe he just sees trash laying all over the place and wants to clean it up...
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Is Trump the "head", actual leader, of the republican party? I've heard, "yes", but I don't see how/why. What kind of clout does the party head have? Can Trump tell McConnel, "hey, I'll prohibit you from running as a republican in the future if you don't start helping me more."? Otherwise, it's obviously meaningless for the president to be the "head" of his party--it's not true. At most, he's the party's symbolic head, impotent in internal party matters, wielding no power. Why aren't the repubs on board with Trump? Because they are political animals, concerned only for the persistence of their jobs; they don't care about the work they do, or the country they supposedly do it for. That's why, ultimately, representative government cannot work without corruption; then, even at its best, it doesn't work WELL--only well enough.
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Cannabis, and tobacco, are psychedelics, yielding stimulation. Alcohol is a central nervous system depressant, yielding numbness. Ya picks yer poison..."Tastes shitty..."...matter of opinion, now, isn't it! I despise the taste of beer--almost as much as I despise the SMELL of it! But I will, on occasion, indulge in it...as if for the first time...WGAF! Shit, the bulk penny candy stores are packed with shitty tasting stuff that's, somehow, fun to eat! Styx's psychic tenor is shifting European, that is to say, like, stuck-up, self-assuming, condescending pricks! A lot of entertainment personalities destroy their own brand simply by growing personally/spiritually. One of Nature's ticklish ironies...
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Virtual experience tends to distort a child's exploration of reality, a critical function of that stage of maturation. It is a major problem of proper development that has come on over the past hundred years. Beginning with the first photograph and voice recording, virtual reality tantalized. Movies and radio increased the saturation of the populace in reality simulation, seeding a bifurcation of awareness--"is it real, or simulated?". You can watch and listen to people who are not physically present with you--something unheard of in all of man's evolution. It's a good development in that it tempts people to, first, discipline, and, then, control, their imaginations. In the meantime, though, there's a lot of confusion and disconnection to navigate. It's a legitimate evolutionary challenge, and, therefore, also a human developmental problem. It's no "myth" that virtualization technologies introduce contradictory experience! The unprepared, immature mind obviously suffers most from the resultant confusion. Suffering experience to no effect is not an option! Everything remains, no experience is ever "lost". Experience is the material with which we construct ourselves, even from moment to moment. Everything STICKS! 😆...no pun intended...
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The other reason "things don't make sense" is lack of sufficient relevant information: leave out a couple of trivial facts and you've got a completely different story. I always expect that the "picture" presentation is not thorough-going and that's why it doesn't make sense. I think this guy was in desperate straights and wanted the bounty for the "hit", that was already out on the judge. But, the guy lacks professional assassin chops, so he freaked, shot quickly, got scared and ran. As he went for his payday, his "benefactors" saw the contract was not complete--or they just didn't wanna pay--so they offed him...he was gonna be a flaky loose end, anyway...But, then, again, I've seen A LOT of TV! hahahahahaha
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So, what does the downside of China and Russia in Venezuela LOOK like? Theoretically, it SOUNDS bad, but what would actually happen that would BE bad? Why not let China and Russia sink their sweat and lucre in the country (hell, all of them) in an effort to rescue its legitimacy? What's the plausible fear? That Russia will post nukes there? Really? You gotta be really old to think that's a special problem, like, "they gotta be close to make sure they have a chance to hit their targets". No, not anymore, grandpa. Hypersonics have a bigger upside, anyway. The US has largely ignored the advanced welfare of central and south america. AND it would be the best justification for military intervention: "The chinese and russians have taken over south america, threatening world peace. They must be forcibly ejected from the hemisphere!" 4-D, baby!
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"The Hound of Hell", eh! Mythology, demonology are powerful contributors to narrative formation! Using them at all, though, takes you ever deeper into the rabbit hole of spiritual apperception narrative. Stories, which is what "narratives" are, transmit cultural values from one generation to the next. Mythological figures epitomize, illustrate...embody human characteristics which, for various reasons, must be socially addressed. Instantiation in cultural norms follows straightaway. Everyone sees the truth of the myth in terms of his own nature: he recognizes, in the viciousness of Cerberus, his own viciousness. It's how society, the collective, comes to grips with its membership, the individual...sometimes the "grip" is a stranglehold...to which the individual may respond, uh, VICIOUSLY...hahaha..."Today, in myth class, we learned how to be vicious!"
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Hmm...Styx thinks you can't blame a person for being influenced by propaganda. This seems uncharacteristic of him. So, looking to the broader context of the statement, it's clear he should have said: You can't blame a stupid person for being influenced by propaganda. And, with that, I can agree. But, that means stupid people are a destructive influence on society (I'm not showing my work...hehe), limiting, even derailing, its development. I'm tellin' y'all, the farting elephant in the room is IQ...the fly in every ointment, and the bee in every bonnet...mark my words...
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home dreams<--Curiously, I received an email citing your response to my comment. However, the link in the email did not take me to your reply, as is usual. And I can't find your reply in this message forum?! Weird. Your reply was, "Does it come easy to ya?", to which I'd like to comment. "Easy" is what habit does for you: it frees your attention for more deliberate focus. But, "easy", as an internalized authority, leads only to "lazy". I figure if it's easy to accomplish deliberately, it's probably useless. Without the challenge, there's not opportunity for growth/development (like gym workouts instantiate a 48-hour biochemical switch-over that amps the whole system for efficient utilization of effort in the development of musculature). I look for maximum difficulty by searching for the BEGINNING of my knowledge--which points DIRECTLY to my ignorance. That's the guy that's gotta grow, as it does, out of ignorance, into knowledge! It's like peering into the darkness, looking to find the barest glimmer of light. So, like anything else, I suppose, the difficult becomes easy with practice, revealing a potential further level of difficulty. The trick is a psychic turn of mind/emotion where you EMBRACE the challenge, instead of shrink from it. Can you DESIRE the difficulty of the challenge, realizing the great value of engagement in it, or must you HATE it, in an emotional rejection of the prospect of "pain" that it promises?!
I've come a long way on this path for over 50 years, now. I'm aware of the fact that I cannot say what I do from my own perspective, because the perspective, as it's developed, would be necessarily unrelatable. So, I try to...translate into colloquial speech...but that doesn't work too well, either. I find the best way is with questions designed to elicit pertinent natural responses in the listener...responses which lead directly to the listener figuring it out himself. After all this practice, I'm left in a place where I cannot speak without being misunderstood...hehehe...and I LOVE IT!
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No, no, no...there's no conspiracy. Media producers want to make money; consumers want to connect with their roots. "Infantilize"? "Popularize" seems more like it. There's value in the images even if they're neutered for popular consumption. "Occult" values are likely to be uncomfortable for many people to entertain. The dumbed down version provides positive exposure to what would, otherwise, be "negative" ideas. Especially for children...In the late 50s, early 60s, there was a cartoon I enjoyed very much called, "Hercules", with a really engaging theme song which still, regularly, rattles around inside my head, so to speak. It made me...wonder...and that's a good thing!
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The idea of salvation is peculiar to religious thought, deist thought; and it depends from that origin as a proper aspect of the deist worldview, which, itself, is broadly structured according to the paradigm of "family": Father, Mother, Child in hierarchical relationship, which underpins "Society", precipitating "Crime" and "Punishment" eventualities, the details of which involve "Hell/Heaven", "Pain/Pleasure"...all manner of unresolved binary dynamics codified as behavioral rule systems. "Justice" is an attempt to resolve the "Mercy/Severity" binary...an attempt to "save" ourselves from the doom that awaits every life at its end. If we didn't ALL believe in "salvation", we'd just lay down and die, now, wouldn't we?!
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"Libertarianism is a collection of political philosophies and movements that uphold liberty as a core principle. Libertarians seek to maximize political freedom and autonomy, emphasizing freedom of choice, voluntary association, and individual judgment"--Wikipedia. Seriously?! WTF! It's a BASTARD philosophy?! There's no way for this definition to be more vague and general! There is nothing in the definition of libertarianism which would brand it unique, or even DISTINGUISHABLE! But its adherents, tending to intellectual elitism, fully embody the milk toast aphorisms produced by libertarian mindsets. They're most like religionists: they are convinced they have THE answer, and, by their insufferable condescension, will lead you into correct thinking. I put it to you: any philosophy whose uniqueness is wrought from a collection of unique philosophies is derivative, and can not be wholly self-consistent, as a rule of logic. Libertarianism is a CONCOCTION! Not unlike the green new deal...
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Perhaps, "sanity", is not all it's cracked up to be! You think because you don't have a recognized psychiatric "disorder" you're sane? I'd ask that you think again. Psychiatry is a scam, logically speaking; it's "black-box analysis" run amok! Another population "control mechanism". The dictionary has it that "sanity" is "rationality". Fine. "Rationality" is based, linguistically, in "ratiocination", a comparison process; the dictionary equates it with "reason; a process of logical judgement". Socially, "sanity", means acting and thinking like everyone else, which is a crack-pot definition of "sanity"; not rational, or reasonable. But, it's the attitude of psychiatry: there's only a problem if there's a problem. If you can live your life comfortably in your own skin, then there's no problem. The "problems" psychiatry recognizes are descriptions of symptom sets; there is no medical test for any psychiatric disorder. Of course, a common descriptor of every disorder is its problematic expression. No problem? Then, no problem! So, "mental health" is simply the overt lack of debilitating invisible motivations. Out of sight, out of (their) mind(s)...
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The etheric bond between the astral body and the physical body is loosed in sleep, so that the repair of the physical body can proceed most efficiently, as the astral casually expresses certain ideas inimical to repair processes on a very basic level. The astral body experiences this slight detachment from the physical as intensely liberating, learning to expresses capabilities not arising from physical being, but relevant to it, like, "what did that look my boss shot me MEAN?"...you dream around it, check out a few possibilities...make monsters...profit! (Eh, the Underwear Gnomes always slay me a little bit!) What's always struck me is the brief period, upon just awakening, wherein I can't follow a train of thought...it just...evaporates. I am now a master at recovering thought trains. :)
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So goes the superficial political argumentation. The subterranean dynamics, however, disallow the possibility of free/cheap energy to make it to market. The energy economy is too huge, too central to survival norms, too profitable to allow its demise. No? In my efforts to imagine society in a free energy world, I've only failed. The majority of people are simply ill-suited to a high degree of freedom. They need their psyches routinized, according to the pain of survival pressures, as a means of becoming inured to the discomfort of participation in being-ness. Otherwise, indolence, in the service of a dissolute life, results.
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Oh, ok, so maybe Kim was baiting Trump: if Trump says it's over 'cause you launched a missile, Kim can say that shows Trump is lying since that wasn't the deal, and, therefore, Trump is scuttling the deal, and all bets are off. But Trump isn't like every other politician Kim's dealt with. Trump is working the "honor" angle, 'cause it's powerful. Trump is sticking to the deal, and Kim sees an honorable man, and, so, is encouraged to be honorable in return, keeping his word. Brilliant. The politician style is to sound like a know-it-all, so that the extent of their knowledge usually goes unquestioned; Trump's style is to put what he knows into ACTION. Different worlds...
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"Free speech" is an American norm, not appreciated in most of the world. The "American" internet is a threat to the rest of the world--at least in the minds of world leadership. They may give lipservice to "free speech", but, the internet-related litigation that has arisen globally points to the real internet "ring-pass-not": they have nothing in their "constitutions" that respects "freedom of speech" to the same fanatical degree as the US Constitution. Even in the US there seems to be a growing segment of the population that has lost this philosophical certitude. Face it! If people acted like Americans in any country other than US, they'd be arrested! The American Ideal threatens the grip of power that formed, and still forms, the "old world". Trying to use the internet to spread and enforce "Americanism" was a bad idea, as it has engendered RESISTANCE. Tides of change are, eventually, IRRESISTABLE...sorry Styx, "change" is the rule...
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This bit me. I tried troubleshooting it with the usual measures to little effect. I have a Killer E2500 net controller, which I had been using for the last year, and an intel port as well. When I ran the Killer utility, it showed the expected stuff--for about 2 seconds! Then it would say no device found, for about 2 seconds, then show me the expected stuff for...well, you get the idea. Thinking there was something wrong with the port, I plugged into the intel port, and had not the slightest problem! In fact, a speed test showed an increase in upload speed of about 50%. I don't KNOW that youtube fixed its stuff at precisely the time I changed ports, but I DOUBT it. I'm still working on a conspiracy theory for this one...maybe something having to do with the E2500 chip...
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For all of history before the internet, expression has been throttled/channeled/suppressed by social norms (good girls don't show their knees), community organizations (Kawanis, churches, YMCA), and law enforcement interpreting the law according to their perceptions of community standards (it wouldn't do to take the mayor's son to jail for...). The internet has forced openness on its users, and most people find it uncomfortable. Information they would have been protected from in the past is in their faces now. So, ouch! Now I'm responsible for protecting myself from the disturbing effects of harsh notions that I encounter. That's good, and progress in the right direction, even though a few people will have an impossibly difficult time "protecting" themselves, and so express their frustrations in a more or less disruptive way. This is problematic.
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The philosophy of individualism is anti-social. The cohesiveness of society is threatened by individualism, especially its expression as individually mediated behavior. This is not hard to understand, given that society is an expression of collectivism, and collectivism stands diametrically opposed to individualism. But when an individual is threatened there are certain measures the individual may employ in self-defense that amplify the individual's capacity for defense, though always short of the collective's capacity for defense/offense--far, far short! The powers of "the mob" are irresistible; it's pervasiveness is sinister, it's soldiers everywhere, like flesh shells for Agent Smiths to jump into. "I am individual" is the only response I can live with, even though I do feel the "pull" of the collective. We learned at an early age that compliance with social norms brought acceptance; later, we realized there are additional benefits that flow from membership in "society". However, the price, we discover too late, is a certain vitality that comes from self-possession, the lack of which induces a decided restlessness prone to all manner of misinterpretation. One of the more insidious effects of this restlessness is poor concentration/focus/attention...like you always have to be doing something ELSE. The individuality lies buried beneath inattention. In some quarters, that's a positive benefit.
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Rank has usefulness with an order. While I may not be a member, I can appreciate the human value of the accomplishment indicated by rank, and respect the individual accordingly. But, yeah, general terms are interchangeable, as they are only crude indicators of a reality completely foreign to most people. If your purpose is to make distinctions amongst the terms, you can just go ahead and do so. As long as you define your terms clearly ahead of time, nobody's got any room to bitch. In the literature where such terminology goes undefined relative to other similar terminology, a "magician" is a master of occult means, a master of the natural forces not commonly understood. A "sorcerer" in this vein is like a magician wannabe who doesn't possess the "key" and so believes that by reciting certain word-sounds in a certain order he is exerting his will over nature, for instance. He's like a baby magician, learning by imitation and error, without awareness. "Witch" is "witch" in witchcraft/wicca; "warlock" probably arose as a misguided effort to introduce a modest ranking system. But witchcraft is so pagan that it wouldn't easily accommodate ranking systems. "Mage"/"magi" are very wise men. "Wizard" shouldn't be considered "occult" terminology, since it's a "regular" word meaning, "philosopher, sage, wise man". That's one of the reasons for its common usage: a word that is not "occult" (a lot of people are afraid of...that).
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It's not fair, Styx, to say repeating the words of the prayer is useless--you "fake it 'till you make it"; the fuller understanding dawns later. Indeed, every form of training involves learning the motions to go through, "the ropes". That learned familiarity is what makes advancement possible, the shoulders of the giants we stand on. And "advancement", "progress", is not a "one and done" thing. It's a process, arguably, never-ending. In fact, "the smaller the steps, the easier the climb"!
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Unquantifiable damages are a headache for the legal system to manage, especially when the damaged party is "society"...know what I mean? He should get probation; the media who exploited his fraud should, more properly, PAY! If not for the widespread exposure of the incident, there would be no "societal" damage to qualify as such. The bulk of the responsibility for damage falls to the media that proliferated the story for profit. This is the core problem: the media cannot be held responsible for its incompetence; their is no mechanism to do so, since legislation has removed it. This allows one, or both, of two conclusions: this lovely quagmire of incompetent opinion (i.e. "news", social media) is by design, for profit, because they can; and/or they are stupid and incompetent to recognize their own stupidity.
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Tsar Bomba, 50 Megatons! Idk, I see a lot of stupid entitled people arrogantly assuming an odd manel of invincibility: like, "Hey, I say and do whatever I want and you have no RIGHT to stop me!" Idiots! Guns and bombs don't recognize your "rights"!!! Physical force knows only ONE right: Might! "Might makes right" may be the barbarian's outlook, but it IS a preeminently operative principle. Is it practical to stubbornly profess your "rights" as you lay dying? Pragmatism commands respect for natural law--an infinitely hard lesson for the stupid to learn well, when they've never been appropriately advised to shut up and sit down. While the old adage is true that, "Opinions are like assholes: everyone's got one and they all stink", most opinions are logically deficient, if not invalid. The point of most opinions seems to be just to EXPRESS one, because you have a RIGHT to your opinion--and so does everyone else who has the SAME opinion. Like fascists calling other people fascists, stupid people don't know what they're doing when they call other people "stupid". Stupid people are the turd in the punchbowl. #resiststupid, eh?
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Ok, try this on for size: My website, being a collection of text characters (HTML code) created or assembled by me that is not protected from public/anonymous access, is my property; to access my website you must agree to my TOS, as it were; you must explicitly agree to hold me blameless and harmless for any and all aspects of your experience upon accessing my website. This means you agree not to sue me or otherwise seek monies from me for any experience related to my website (including, but not limited to, personal offense at terminology, subject matter, or attitudinal approach). Should you violate this agreement, you agree to be liable for any and all damages amounting to less than $100,000,000.00 US. Am I not allowed to set the requirements for access to MY PROPERTY?!
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Been thinkin': Impeachment of Congress: it's only by convention that Congress has been immune from impeachment. But from the constitutional perspective, they have to be considered, "civil officials", to be susceptible to impeachment. That's not a high bar; the rationale for them to consider themselves other than "civil officials" is WEAK! But it occurs to me that that immunity is the source of profitable corruption in Congress: insider trading is legal for them. The idea that they have to know what Trump's financial motives are, while, Congress members' own investments are IGNORED, is a direct result of Congress's immunity from impeachment. If they, themselves, stood to be similarly "impeached", they would act quite differently! Guaranteed! Congress critters should be forced to divest upon entering office, just like Trump was--and impeachment should be on the table for Congress people, just like it is for Executive people.
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Things ARE always exactly as they are supposed to be! The natural order has arisen from the operation of natural law, and, therefore, can only be "correct", and not in any regard "mistaken". If you disagree, you're applying an arbitrary and unnatural standard, and so deserve the full measure of your confusion. However, the rest of us don't really deserve to be put upon by the disruptive results of your confused behavior. This is really the beginning of all social animosity. If you think nature can make mistakes, then you can think you can fix nature's mistakes. Genetic engineering is emerging as a DIY industry, with the advent of cheap, capable gene editing equipment. Today, the guy in his basement engineering his own DNA is a rarity; tomorrow? It's already known that the editing procedure precipitates considerable collateral damage, some of which may border on the disastrous. Not wanting to experiment on themselves, some people might play with the DNA of insects...sounds like fun, until something unintended gets into the wild.
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Self-distraction is a crutch. Save time and energy and just grapple with your issues straight up! Pain?! The brain EATS pain! I can feel as deeply as I choose to allow. You think it some kind of badge of honor to suffer long and hard?! Get over yourself! That's just self-pity, a curious perversion of pleasure. If you're not suffering, whether pain or pleasure, you're dead. But you don't have to give a fuck! And you can control the degree of immersion. Tease your limits, don't force them. You'll be dead soon enough. Find a vice you enjoy and probe its depths. No? Why not?! What are you saving yourself for!? The end of your teensy-weensy life?! Do what you want! You don't have much choice in that regard, anyway: you gotta do what you gotta do. You discover who you are by watching what you do (think, say, feel, etc...it's all "doing"). What you enjoy shows you the direction you must pursue to have the experiences necessary to fuel the "doing" you will observe as you discover yourself. Everything comes down to whether or not you believe that spiritual hierarchy exists: if "yes", then "you" reincarnate, and this present life is not the only life; if "no", then your life is pointless, purposeless, with no greater value than..."grist for the mill"; everything you discover about your "self" is mere delusion, a fancy of aberration, a floundering animality. "Everything comes down to...this."--Gary Numan.
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Ah, yesss, -isms and the label game provide endless opportunities for distraction of the featureless sort. It's..."old tech" in ceaseless regurgitation. If you group a bunch of examples of government and label it "monarchism", does that mean all those examples are "the same"? Maybe some examples serve to illustrate other labels as well. Labels are handy handles by which to manipulate large ideas easily--but you lose detail/resolution in the process of generalization. Rules of thumb are useful, until they're not, when the inherent assumptions comprising the rule of thumb are violated. You can bandy about all manner of -isms in an attempt to organize the history of thought about the subject. But, once you've done that, you don't know anything you didn't know before, despite the subject being bandied about for the last two hundred years. At what point do you say: "This isn't getting us anywhere; maybe there's a different way to look at it." It's just possible that, while the labels of old you are working with do comprise a functional interpretive framework, there is a different framework that does a better, more accurate job of organizing the subject matter. The variously-shaded definitions of these -isms make subject-matter discussion unwieldy--like performing brain surgery with a hammer. Sure, compare and contrast to get the lay of the land, but be aware there's a limit the value of such an exercise.
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"Vetting" is a JOKE! Sounds real good, but what is it? It's a few people looking around for information! What will they find! When will they stop looking? When they have "confidence"! A damn poor measure, if you ask me! What do YOU think when you see a government functionary say he has "concerns" that dictate his pronouncements? Do you think, "Well, he's really smart, since he's a politician and knows extra stuff, so there must be good reason for his concerns, and his pronouncements are, therefore, worthy of obedience"? That's what he's counting on when he doesn't explain his "concerns" sensibly, if at all. There's no important difference between anybody in government and the guy next door--same drives, same weaknesses, same biases. Don't allot them a greater respect than they deserve, 'cause they will use it to their personal advantage, as most would, given the opportunity.
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Regarding the hindu/buddist cosmology shortcomings: check out Max Heindel's "Rosicrucian Cosmo-conception" for an attractive compromise. I have a curious notion of time: we are frozen in a cosmic moment of recognition/realization belonging to the Primordial Void, that chaos of all-potential that provides the backdrop of existence. It recognized the impossible: repetition in the state of the Void. Being utterly chaotic, only random organizational states should be possible. But the impossible happened: all tied up in this instantaneous recognition are principles of "reflection", then "memory", then "multiplicity/unity", then BANG, God is born, from an error in cosmic nature, a mistake that explained itself in terms of "time". WE and our entire existence IS the process of experiencing to resolution this frozen stare-down of the Void and God, as they grapple with the incongruous state of recognition precipitated by the error. Time was the invader; it had to be...contained. Existence IS its container. We are an integral part of the resolution of this cosmic error. Energy pre-exists; matter is a highly persistent state of energy. The persistence arises as temporality affects energy, trapping it in molasses, as it were, damping its dynamics. The solution would seem to be something along the lines of redeeming/educating the immature energy that is most susceptible to capture by time. In the moment that all energy is unaffected by time, the physical universe will cease to exist, and the cosmic error will stand corrected. This cosmic maturation process is the purpose of ours and all existence--but NOT selfishly, not for our own benefit, but for the benefit of the Void. But with the cosmic error corrected, there's still no going back; no going back to an insensible Void comprising the totality of existence. In some form or manner or other, we're "here" to stay: "Time" is going to have to be incorporated into the style of the ongoing unfolding. No physical universe of time run amok, but gradated dimensionality, to serve the purpose better.
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I suspect there's been a strong undercurrent of sentiment in the underground tech community developing in these recent years as the insane left has become problematic. Those heavily steeped in a "hacker ethos" possess a sense of ultra-agency..."I have a peculiar set of skills..."..."Mess with the best, die like the rest." You think an armed population is a threat to those in power, and you're right. But guns are old tech. Now, consider a population armed with the modern digital equivalent of the hydrogen bomb! THAT'S what government everywhere is worried about!!! And THAT'S what they're trying to outpace, to get ahead of, before they are at an impossible disadvantage.
Who, in this world, can communicate/organize SECRETLY? This is precisely the capability government is driven to control: government secrecy = good; popular secrecy = evil, danger, uncertainty, loss of control. The people who clearly understand technology are in the best position to circumvent it. Motivation to action is the critical factor...think, "tipping points"... I'd bet, though, there is important communication/organization going on in a community ostensibly so dedicated to freedom...secretly.
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The good thing about the old style politics: you started at the bottom (local govt) and gradually advanced to the top, along the way becoming "properly" corrupt, that is, seeking money. In the new politics, you jump from bartender to US Congress, in a single leap, and, in the process, not learning to be properly corrupt. Instead, the new corruptions can run the gamut from the financial to the terroristic. The new corruption is unpredictable, where the old corruption was comfortable. Secular corruption unites!
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100,000 out of 5,000,000,000 (since twitter has global reach) amounts to 0.002%...and Styx says 100k twitter followers is significant?! If you say so! I'M not much impressed with the proportion; I'd consider it insignificant, in the aggregate. I'm sure it's an impressive figure in a small enough context, or "bubble". 100,000 out of 200,000,000 twitter users amounts to 0.05%, so I assume that's the proportion Styx is referencing. 0.04% of the world's population uses twitter (i.e. 200 million/5 billion). I find the 0.05 <=> 0.04 comparison provocative: about the same proportion of the twitteratti followed as the global population that uses twitter...always on the lookout for patterns...
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Do we, indeed, "get what we deserve"?! Many are unhappy with what they've gotten, imagining, of course, that they deserve more. If you believe you get what you deserve, you are naturally happy; otherwise, not. So, yes, I'm suggesting that even the lowliest stations in life are deserved: if you're poverty-stricken, you deserve it. Maybe you're too lazy to work; or maybe you're too stupid to understand how to work. In any case, it is the determination of Nature that you suffer accordingly. Cry if you want to, or have to, but "that's how the cookie crumbles"...and that's exactly how it SHOULD be!
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Poor Styx, trapped in the inherent deficiencies of logic upon which Satanism relies for validation! Yeah, either you solve it, or say, "Oh, well..."...The rank materialist (i.e. modern satanist) cannot accept the inherent deficiencies of logic as existent, and, so, cannot accept the fundamental precepts of "occult science". Styx's INTEREST in occultism indicates his purpose is to transcend materialism, even if obliquely through simple erudition. Good luck, Styx! Nothing worth accomplishing is easy...
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I prefer the "children as personal property" perspective, until some "age of majority" is reached. The parent has a social responsibility, enforced in law, to maintain and care for his property as an investment in community/society. That can be easily engineered to take care of concerns for child welfare. I object to the blind unreasoning attitude that "each and every life is precious and sacred" FUCKING BULL SHIT! I, personally, can't conceive of forcing a defective being to persist in "living". If you think life is the greatest good, you are an atheist. Those who profess other than atheism are usually hypocrites, or liars, as evidenced by the same life-is-sacred attitude they portray. Make up your fucking minds!!! If the universe is rational, we reincarnate repeatedly, so get over all the "dying" shit! Quit PRETENDING that your currently-incarnated life is the greatest good. Or come clean, and admit you only want to live as long as possible NOW; and you don't really care about anything else. Your awareness and perception is purely animalistic; so, you can be only dangerous, and nothing else. If the universe is NOT rational, then nothing ever actually ends up mattering, does it? No? Explain. Explain how anything can matter in any way if we're all "one and done"! But it's hard to be serious, and it feels like "not fun"...
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@kaziklubey7098 <--I disagree: It can ALWAYS be worse. Satanism and Christianity are both religions, and religionists by definition are narrow-minded/exclusive--and emotional. They are not equipped to penetrate the mystery of existence in an original, direct fashion; they, instead, must symbolize that effort in ritual and dogma, the purpose being the restraint of the very same hedonistic--read, "anti-social"--behavior that Satanism would unleash. The result, whether desired/intended, in either case is political power--an ultimate temptation to all of the "worse" that you mentioned. Satanism would just be a different flavor/direction of "worse". No "religion" expounds upon the properties of conscious awareness, as such; everything is cloaked in emotional symbolism and directed to mystical experience--understanding cut off at the knees. This is suitable for the relatively unintelligent (make the common man afraid to behave "incorrectly"); but for the sufficiently intelligent, this approach lacks sincerity (what does this mindless niceness get me in the spiritual end?): what is the truth? Why do we have to "believe"; why can't we actually "know" by direct perception?! Genuine "occultism" (i.e. esoteric philosophy) is about wielding/clarifying/perfecting the means of perception--not about escaping the sensational world.
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"Be afraid! Be very afraid!" Really, Styx? Sounds to me more like "plausible deniability" on steroids! The one thing you CAN'T do is make it illegal, don't you see? The deep fake effect can be applied to such a subtle degree that it wouldn't be detectable even by computer, while still being an effective falsification, arguably. Leave the tech alone, and attack its illegal usage (i.e. defamation, etc.). But, of course, leaving people alone is too much work for government, so I half expect the death penalty for anyone caught with deep fake tech, because...deterrent, and lazy. That's too easy to fly well, so I anticipate years of fevered congressional activity (damn, that's a long oxymoron) to effectively manage this new technological MENACE! Maybe...a thousand pages of legislation...yeah, that should lock down the deep fake business...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...haaaaaaa...
The first thing to happen, should be to the legal system, relying as it does on "visual/video/audio" evidence. If deep fake could be proven legally to be undetectable, ALL digital media evidence has to be discarded! It cannot be used because its authenticity is uncertain--always and forever after now! CAN YOU DIIIG IT! The shit's hitting the fan, like a cownado in a wind farm...I'm just glad to see something HAPPENING in the world for a change...
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I really don't know why more people aren't doing just this very thing, analyzing "connections"! Not just connections, but "vocabulary", could be mapped to good effect. This is the kind of thing computers are really good at, at people not so much so. The meta-value of mapping is in pattern recognition: you can't understand what data MEANS until you relate it to other data; and that relational process is necessarily and purposefully biased. Data is neutral; meaning is biased, because in order to be something instead of everything somethings else have to be disregarded. You might say data and meaning are co-locational, as in, different things occupying the same space, but in different dimensions. Any time something is not everything, which is all the time, that particular something is incomplete; indeed, this incompleteness itself IS the negative image of that particular something. Limitation induces Error; without Error, nothing functions--Error is what makes thing work! A zero-tolerance car engine won't run. It's the slop that gives room for things to move around...otherwise...we're "larks tongues in aspic"...a variation on the "gospel of slack"? hehehe
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A "ritual" associates a behavior with an intention, repeatedly, to create a psychic tension that is, then, after sufficient "charging" by repetition, available as a source of energy to do the peculiar work it, the particular ritual, was designed for. The most "authentic" are the individual personal rituals, because power lies in the potency of personal connections--something unavailable when attempting to use someone else's rituals. However, mass ritual behavior, while obeying the same principles, can generate a lot more power, because every individual in the mass of adherents contributes a portion to a mass-charging activity. That energy can be tapped by performing the relevant ritual. But, because of the lack of inherent connection, the ritual must be performed to exacting standards...to achieve "tap"...hehehe...and, even then, the lack of inherent connection prevents an efficient power transfer operation. So, maybe you only get a little bit of what you were after...
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"Divinity" is too lofty to dabble in; it's too hard to touch because of its distance from the sensible realms. And, it's not necessary! Specify the difference between "the feminine" and "the divine feminine"! You can't! If you CAN, you know exactly what I'm trying to say. The "feminine" covers everything most people can handle, or use. The modifier, "divine", is pretentious, arrogant...HUBRIS! Also, there's a tendency to postulate a "non-divine feminine", which would be, in our context, an absurdity...so it's misleading, as well. Is there anything which is not "divine"?
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Trump doesn't care, he's running a little interference for Barr, who's busting a nut shielding Trump from a slough of vicious nonsense. They're both good men doing what they can to direct the flow of energy and attention in a constructive direction. I just hope they stay on it until we can find out what's been behind this nonsense. They have to identify the crazies and verify they've been removed from "service" before confidence in congress can recover. That's not an issue for me, since I can't possibly seriously entertain such confidence. But, I've heard, it's important for the majority (?) of people to have this mystical confidence in the competence of congress. I don't really get it, myself. It seems to me it's important for the majority of people to be able to be lazy, to not have to pay attention to stuff they don't want to pay attention to, when they don't want to pay attention to it. It's kind of always been a little like that, but, these days, distraction is practically a new religion. I get the odd sense sometimes that if one of those smart phone addicts every has to set quietly by himself, he's just gonna explode in a burst of nervous energy!
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I agree with Styx's identification of the MSM as the primary bad actor in this conflagration. The MSM always has the initial high-ground, but lose it to their own fanaticism-driven incompetence. Nothing will communicate to the corporate MSM EXCEPT MONEY: how much is a child's future WORTH?! We'll find out in court. The court should choose to place a very high value on the FUTURE of American children--something high enough to dissuade even the most rabid in the MSM. I think it would be helpful if, say, six Covington kids pull down, collectively, about 2 Billion dollars...yeah, that should about do it. Then you'd find out what "bending over backwards" REALLY means, as the MSM would eagerly police themselves for PERFECT BALANCE...yeah, you're right, maybe 4 Billion, eh?
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The idea that "Trump is not a popular incumbent" is...weak: the press bias certainly limits his penetration into public acceptance; but, where his popularity is manifest, it is INTENSE, dedicated. It's a trickier value-judgement than Styx's sweeping generalization implies: what's more desirable, a larger number of people who appreciate you a little bit, or a smaller number of people who are dedicated to you?! I think, regardless of the actual numbers, the dedicated group would possess greater AGENCY, and be, therefore, more desirable.
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You know, in the male world, it's common knowledge that women become even MORE irrational 'round period time--even violent. In my youth, the relevant colloquialism, "on the rag", could be used dismissively, as in, "I don't even waste my time listening to her when she's on the rag." So, I can see utility in this emoji: female makes stupid comment, and gets the perfect response, "<emoji>?". HAHAHA...Doesn't that sound like fun to do?!
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When Buttigieg says, "My husband will be an amazing father", the implication is he, Buttigieg, will be an amazing wife/mother. So, I'm thinkin', "He could be the first president who is ALSO his own first lady!". I don't give a shit if somebody's gay, but I don't want a gay president. Gaydom is aberrant, defective, which indicates general organizational disarray relative to motivational understanding. So a gay could not be on the same footing as (most) world leaders--there would be a subtle disconnect. The result would be inefficiency, yielding misunderstanding. Not good.
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I've noticed the odd emphasis in the MSM to compete for "rightness", as well. A lot of people crave credit for being right "first". hehehe...ok, you got it! Now, take it to the bank, moron! I'd welcome a shift of that focus toward "correctness", which has less of a moral connotation. But, it ain't happenin'. Check Bell curve, Dunning-Kruger, Edward Bernays, etc. You don't stop trying just because you're stupid! Most people are left to their intuition, or, more likely, the opinions of others whom they respect. IOW, most people just don't have a clue what to do. And THAT'S the problem with democracy...and the glory of top-down control.
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I'm always embarrassed for any reporter who asks anything like, "Are all options on the table?" What's the anticipated answer? "No, I prefer to negotiate with one hand tied behind my back"? Or, the damning, "All options are on the table; there are no limits to the actions we can perform". How ominous in tone! Approaching headline material! Everyone watching CNN: "I feel comfortable with them because everybody there is as stupid as I am. They make stuff I don't care about seem important, which is fun."
If Trump were to say, "All options are open", then, technically, the headline could read, "Trump says he might nuke Venezuela!" Right? That's why it's unwise to give a straight answer to a crooked question.
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That was an illuminating exposition...I haven't seen much on this angle...So, how does the archive site break the pay walls (legally, right?)?! I'm not too keen on the "retribution" scent, though..."Accountability" is a bugaboo--it's all in your head, and different for everyone. I laugh every time I hear someone ask, "Will you take responsibility..."! Yeah? What does that LOOK LIKE, dumbass?! "Hold them accountable" means, these days, get 'em to apologize, so they can be hounded out of public life. We'll see if the definition of, "accountability", has been revitalized, as Barr pursues his "clean up" strategy. We'll see if the idea of accountability should include JUSTICE...
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Consider: successful business people are likely to be conservatives, so how does the MSM, run by successful businessmen, end up liberal? This is the first layer of govt-corp "cooperation", as in "one hand washes the other": the govt needs a clueless, disturbed populace, so it can, basically, "ride to the rescue". The corps don't care about politics so they are willing to adopt any political stance if they are sufficiently "compensated", favored, given special treatment, overtly or covertly ("we'll listen even more attentively to the lobbyists you send us"). Second level: Operation Mockingbird, eh?
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Initially, the phrase, "the occult ilk of your self-identification", above, had been simply, "Satanists". But, when posted, the section containing that phrase and the immediately following phrase, "are nothing if not imaginative", appeared LINED OUT! I've never seen that happen! You could still read it, though, of course, so the question suggests itself: why?
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Trump wants a senate trial, because there's a bigger can of worms to open there! A full trial sees big Biden trouble, Clinton trouble, Intelligence Community trouble...and general trouble for House dems. hahaha...How many election cycles before dems shake this trouble! But, maybe more likely, Trump will let them off the hook...'cause, deep down, he's an old softy...Traditional political wisdom is if you care too much for too long, it kills ya; so politicians cultivate aloofness as a protective measure. But, as we see with Trump, such aloofness may impede productivity. Trump gets a lot done because he cares too much NOT to; politicians don't get anything done because they don't care very much, in order to preserve themselves.
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Yeah, add five supremes, but split into two parallel 7-justice courts, and GET SOME FUCKING WORK DONE, for a change! Also, you could then setup special supreme courts for special purposes, like one of, say, five justices that would specialize in "technology" matters, and, through such expertise, deliver exceedingly competent decisions. Why the hell not? At this point, what could it HURT?! The supreme has recently demonstrated its incompetence to function constitutionally, so it is decrepit, and deserves reformation. It is too important to allow to be fickle.
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"Social Media" is just the digital grape vine--small talk and BS. It's what you would say to the person if they were standing next to you, in real space. Expanding the range of small talk to the entire PLANET has done us NO GOOD! It's made the trivial serious, and the serious ridiculous! Social media is the dumbing-down of popular discourse. MSM used to be "the big voice" to which all the small voices could look as authoritative, a backdrop for the expression of their own opinion, always considered to be relatively inferior to the big voice...there was order. Now, the MSM is a megaphone for all the small voices (are they trying to compete with social media?!)! There's no superior reference to dispute! You either agree, or disagree. Ok, THEN what?! You either agree to disagree, or fight. And, if you're particularly stupid, agreeing to disagree feels like giving up...it feels like being "chicken". hahaha...and stupid people are LONG on courage. GOD! We're so FUCKED!
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As a child, I grew up rather fearlessly, something of a hellion, I suppose. I liked horror/monster movies; I found them thrilling but not frightening. I've probed the nature of ugliness relentlessly, being a connoisseur of beauty. You can't know the sacred without first experiencing the profane! I've known fear momentarily, but I've never dreaded anything in particular as fearsome. Animals are dangerous; so is deep water. Being a poor swimmer, I suppose I feared drowning--it was the one way I particularly wanted NOT to die! But, I regularly entertained a variety of "death" scenarios, since I was raised a religionist. Imagining landscapes of hell was a frequent pastime activity, the more ugly and gruesome, the better! But, I NEVER WENT INTO IT! I didn't subjectify, or identify viscerally with, such conceptualizations. "Spiritual sovereignty" came naturally...There is no power in heaven or earth that can defeat the perfected Man! I KNOW that now, but, I FELT it then...
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"Pagan contentment"? Isn't that an oxymoron? "Peace, joy, and contentment to you." "Landru!" Contentment is only the final stage of Effort. Let it go when you've integrated a proper appreciation of your accomplishment (whatever it was). That's contentment's purpose and value. As a goal, contentment is PERVERSE! And I've always thought pagans were inordinately concerned with this "contentment". It's a "state", that's all. In and of itself, it is useless, an unworthy and perverse goal. In its proper function contentment provides the most conducive background for appreciation, but, unfortunately, also rumination, woolgathering, etc. Logically, the only way to know the greatest contentment is to know its extreme opposite--agitation, distress, disturbance, upset. discomfort, restlessness, uneasiness. THESE are the things that are USEFUL!!! You can't know the light AS LIGHT without also knowing THE DARK...there ARE limits, you know. Limitation defines Existence; the latter is a product of the former. Love your limits (and your limits will love you back)--that's the natural happiness.
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In the short term, it is IRRELEVANT what "people want". What matters is what the prevailing "powers" want. The politicians, police, activists, the media hold ALL near-term power! Maybe, down the road, the "will of people" surfaces, perhaps, importantly...probably not. The intended damage will have been done. The system is SCRAMBLING to hold the lid down on a boiling pot of KNOWLEDGE of how the people are routinely SCREWED by entrenched authority in the modern era! If the pot blows, their game is over. And without their illicit advantage they are ill-equipped to survive in the real world...For them, it's DO OR DIE! So, it is for us, too!
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Styx is hardly the first to suggest that the intelligentsia should rule. Unfortunately, silicon valley tech companies circumscribe the modern-day intelligentsia! And the idea, itself, has a big hole: intelligence tends to produce detachment, and detachment reduces responsiveness, necessarily. So, you end up with smart people, who don't work, telling everybody else, who DOES work, HOW to work! Kinda like your boss's boss telling YOU how to do your job--there's gonna be trouble no matter whose instructions you take...
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Yeah, there's gotta be a way to cut out the middlemen, like farcebook, and still have the same desired functionality re social networking. I've been thinking about it for a while and here's what I've come up with. I'm not going to capitalize on this idea, so I hereby relinquish any intellectual property claim.
I'm not a social network user, so I'm fuzzy on details, but the problem I don't think requires this experience for its solution. And there should be a variation of this idea suitable for peer-to-peer implementation. I think of it as a "directory" solution. A specialized app would run on a person's website to provide the desired functionality: "staying in touch with friends" (whatever that means). The backside of the app would keep the app's data up to date by notification of available data update from friends' apps: "Hey, friend, I changed something; come and see." The backside of the app handles this update mechanism automatically. Similar to a domain name server, I could see a cross-indexed directory of app users and their various "locations" in the digital world, so that a "super-ID" could be used as a universal moniker, if desired. So, let's say Jimmy has ten "identities" online: he's got farcebook, bootube, etc. accounts. You can contact him through his moniker (more likely to keep the moniker secret and use pseudo-monikers, or tags that the directory links to the moniker...just for obscurity's sake) NO MATTER HOW HIS IDENTITIES CHANGE. Yeah, a domain name server for identities! Now...make it so! hehehe
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No, it's not a problem, it's the plan. Now that they've been exposed, they can reveal their perfidy in all it's ingloriousness, then it serves as a focus for all the "anti-" activity. Then, when the CRT has, apparently, been eliminated from the schools, the public is lulled to sleep, and they can continue to indoctrinate the TEACHERS, who then pass it on to the students osmotically, as it were. Their plan is to win by losing!
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Sounds like boxing strategy: come out fast and hard to get the judges on your side. "Debate" is not the term I would use for the stage show that's offered as the fulfillment of the fourth estate's constitutional "duty". We have to deal with the fundamental reality that EVERYBODY is incompetent and disingenuous! Socially, everybody "rises to the level of their incompetence", the Peter Principle, except I've cast it in a "social" light, while the original research was on "corporate hierarchy". I'm willing to dispute that the same principles are NOT functional and directive in both contexts. The "Debate" side show spectacle is incompetent because the people running the show are; but, it's always been that way, and will always be that way in a capitalist/free environment. Only the State has the resources to ensure competence. As long a people have the freedom to attempt to perform beyond their proven capacity, there will be the "over/under-stepping errors" gumming up the works. The only alternative is state control/prescription. So, you, literally, gotta love it, because the alternative is really unhappy.
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Preserve the void...bestow on all the peace of the void...BE the VOID RESPONSE...Forget yourself, and the "pain" can't find you! It may pass through you as it searches for you. But when you...discount yourself, there's no locus to which the pain can attach. You may see the pain, or feel it after a fashion, but not AS painfulness, but as pure, though, perhaps, intense, sensation. You exist, can experience the sensation, AND it doesn't matter to you. Take the liberty to be more than "human".
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"Comments on youtube are terrible and toxic"...fuck, PEOPLE are terrible and toxic! STFW!!! What next, you wanna ban PEOPLE, too! Well, I guess you are doing that. Styx has the right take on it...Especially, "make it adult-only"! Make the whole internet X-Rated! But advertisers WANT, desperately, to reach CHILDREN, so, yeah, ain't happenin'...
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One occult aphorism has it that the way is: To Dare, to Know, to Will, to be SILENT. "Solitude" is about this last part, silence. Others just knowing what you do creates psychic "connections" that can only distract from and interfere with your intent...counter-productive, shoot-yourself-in-the-foot type stuff. Then there's the basic occult principle of the "return blow"; that's why we're advised to follow activities of "ritual intent" with perfect forgetfulness, so that the bounce-back fails to find/neutralize its source. It's like, you "put it out into the universe", but recall it with every recollection of it, thereby draining/neutralizing the original force of intent. You must completely forget about it, at least in the time frame following. But you guys know about this shit, right? It's a different thing than "peace and quiet", the opposite of which is simply a huge system stressor and focus disperser. Noise and movement COMMAND a level of attention that is stressful to maintain...and annoying to experience. So, I see a distinction between "solitude" and "occult silence", though an inordinate amount of "solitude" is necessary for the focus required for structured psychic efforts to be effective.
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Offered for your consideration: Biden takes the nomination, later drops dead, Hillary rides to the rescue (because, what's a party to do?), by popular, clamoring demand. "Please save us (from the obscurity of perpetual political embarrassment)!" <"Twilight Zone" music> Now, if it was, "One Step Beyond", we'd get an addendum: "After Hillary was elected, she died, and her vice-president assumed the presidency. HER name? Kamala Harris." <"One Step Beyond" music>
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Their vision of education seems tailored to inoffensiveness: who does "extracurricular" and band and sport, eh? Why, it's those "different" people; the ones who, just by existing at a higher performance level, are a living put-down to normal, regular people who are hopelessly delicate snowflakes, or are otherwise unambitious/untalented. They feel rightfully embarrassed by their own incompetence and disinterest when the "others" show what can really be done with a life. That makes 'em mad, which makes it impossible for them to think clearly--that's just what strong emotion does. Then they want special laws so they don't have to SEE the "others" excel, to their own embarrassment ('cause they haven't even TRIED!)...then they riot...I cannot, in good conscience, respect such lives.
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"You have to be insane to think these corporations care about your voting rights" is a sentiment I'd have agreed with five years ago. Now, though, we have a new breed of corporatist, younger, techier. If they had a mind solely intent on "profit", money, I wouldn't worry about it. Such a corporation's activities, while indirectly influential in society, are respectable and predictable. Consider what happens when those corps go woke. Then, they would care LESS about profit than about power in society. They want power in society to leverage their money-making potential. The big corps lobby congress continuously, forming personal relationships to help grease the skids.
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If it wasn't for corruption these govts would be unworkable: "one hand washing the other", corruption, creates SOLID bonds, oddly, of TRUST, which engenders cooperation--just what govt needs internally. Otherwise, govt would be full to the brim with independent, even principled, agents, who will insist on doing everything right, and, as visions of rightness vary, well...loggerheads. Some associations invariably form, creating cliques--govt by clique--while the rest of the principled chime in as lone voices, being unassociated/powerless.
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Uh..."Secular Occultism"?? Uh, idk if that groks. If, as it's been suggested, occultism has two sides: magic, and mysticism, Styx is a MYSTIC, the tarot Fool, treading a path of his choosing, without regard for purpose, goal, destination. While certainly respectable, the mystic course culminates in "slaying the mind", which will be Styx's particular challenge, the obstacle in the path, 'cause I see Styx as very mental. hehehe
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Ah, the corporate life cycle...doesn't tell the whole story: each and every corporation is required by law to serve the interest of it's investors, iow, profit (usually). That means, usually, the corporation must GROW...all the time. 10% profit forever would not be good enough. No, the profit RATE must increase--which is insane, from the human point of view, because unlimited growth is impossible to sustain. But from the business point of view, anything less than maximum growth rate would be a betrayal of their purpose for existing (i.e. investors' profit). So, they are driven by real greed to slit their own throats...but, later, not now. hehehe
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It all looks good to me: the de-sensitization of terminology is long overdue, and to a degree forced this delay. Pressurized terminology (words forced to contain more/different significance than they can properly accommodate) arises euphemistically: "since you don't like to hear, 'Negro', because it makes you 'feel bad', we will allow you to misappropriate the term, 'black', to assuage your apparently-important discomfort." Now after some time managing "black"'s addition nuance baggage, it's natural for resentment to begin to set in at having to continually manage this nuance, as well as its inverse manifested in the term, "Negro". It's a perfectly scientific term, but try using it!
The pressurized term of the day is, "racist". The more it is used/abused/heard the more pressurized it becomes, until...it "explodes", divesting itself of any and all meaning; it loses it's emotional charge AND its baggage; it returns, purified, to normal English usage.
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Quite right! Why Sargon?! They want him off because he's a rising voice of alt-reason, a threat to the viability of the "narrative", the "order", THE LEFT. When you think of it, there really aren't all that many voices out there. I know of a dozen; maybe there's a grand total of 12000 people out there on the net making quality alt-content. That's, what, 0.01% of internet users? Squelching alt-voices may be a daunting task, but doable--and they're trying to do it. This will drive alt underground/darkweb/deepweb, prompting development in that area, which includes crypto-. The result could be a people's internet resistant to technological harassment. But for the present, all is not yet lost.
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We're living in the dawn of the Information Age; so, there are special circumstances stemming from its NOVELTY. We're pioneering a sensible basis for managing life in an age of information predominance. In the previous age, we survived by trusting, because nothing changed VERY FAST--at the time we discovered our trust was misplaced we still had time to correct or recover our course. We could afford to trust. Now, we don't have that luxury, as digital damage may be virtually instantaneous, and intractable/incurable. This eventuality necessitates a NEW RESPONSE to personal authority--one suited to the Information Age. The penetration of information has to be...modulated...buffered...impeded...Transaction speed is how cyber killed the industrial age--the impact of "scale" has changed how we, not only think, but, also, apprehend. I see a greater proportion of people giving up in the face of the intimidation of mounting complexity...retreating into simplicity as a refuge.
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Correlation is not causation. "Critics say digital blackface is wrong because it is a modern-day repackaging of minstrel shows...". So, critics, whoever they are, say digital blackface, a term devised by the critics, offering description instead of definition, specifically to evoke "minstrel shows", is "wrong" without qualification, so defaulting to "morally", BECAUSE it is a repackaging of minstrel shows. It is wrong because it is a repackaging! Prepositional phrases being inconsequential to grammatical sense, the trailing "of minstrel shows" can be eliminated, leaving us to wonder, "What the hell is wrong with repackaging?"
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People are under the mistaken impression that the epithets, "democrat" and "republican", are essentially meaningful: you cannot identify someone as rep/dem and on that basis KNOW what he thinks. You can make certain reasonable assumptions based on a person's self-identification. But "knowledge"? No, not possible. This is important because the currency of the argument is "confidence, especially approaching certainty". Because you can't "know", you must chose to "believe", or not. Many intellectual types are unwilling to embrace "belief", so they inflate/falsify the value of what knowledge they do have, making improper assertions of "fact". So they may appear thoughtful, even while their reasoning is faulty. Participating in a two-party system forces the choice of "side"; so each party has to accommodate a wide variety of perspectives, has to appeal widely. When neither party is willing to accommodate a given perspective, a new party is needed. Since that ain't gonna fly, the parties end up compromised from within, distorting the party's image/behavior, through snarky in-fighting and contradictory messaging. This quality of corruption is endemic to the system.
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Watch her make her request! She didn't say, "I think Trump should be banned from Twitter"; she said, "Hey, c'mon, Jack, it's time to get rid of this guy." The difference: in the latter, she's playing on their mutual familiarity (whether it actually exists or not, she wants everybody to THINK it does..."Yeah, me and Jack are buds") to, essentially, ASK FOR A FAVOR! This is what corruption looks like, when it doesn't think you're watching...
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The lash is widely used to direct herd animals, because of its relative harmlessness and great effectiveness. This is just the latest skirmish in the war on logic. Make no mistake! That's what's afoot! Sometimes, differences of opinion ARE philosophical, but not usually! Usually, one opinion is demonstrably incorrect, LOGICALLY. Enter, intersectionality et al..."Snow is racist"...No, not logically! Poetically, perhaps, but poetry is universally irrelevant. hehehe...Logic grounds all this high-flying bullshit, so, logic has got to go, to preserve a veneer of viability for their irrational values and positions. Who gets to orchestrate sense-making?! That's the PRIZE!
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You KNOW the CIA's down there, covertly steering the course of events. You just never know how tricky they're going to try to be about. The more indirect and clever their interference, the less easy it is to track their influence. They may be persuading the military to a particular course of action.
Let's see...the Brotherhood/Cult of Military Service spans the globe. Consider that, at some point, this Brotherhood could be more integrated than the countries of the globe. Sure, each country's military serves it--until "the word" goes out to all militaries: Take over your governments NOW! Then there WILL be global order. This can only happen when the Brotherhood has become more important than any country. Interestingly, it's low IQ to the rescue, as most soldiers are only moderately intelligent, and, for that reason, blindly loyal to their respective countries. Should the world's countries become much more similar, this rescue becomes more problematic.
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I've had a very unusual, for me, reaction to Trump's efforts with Korea: a teary upwelling of happiness for the Korean people, and the world. The north Koreans, especially, have suffered from these decades of isolation from their brethren, and the world. I sympathize with Kim's dilemma: the cult of personality can't work so well, anymore, but how to back out of a backward-looking worldview that stifles his people. He has to do it to join the world productively; but, the resultant upheaval of society (like plopping someone from the middle ages into modern-day NY city) threatens to be ruinous. Yeah, between a rock and a hard place...
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People are starting to realize that, if they want different, more responsive and responsible, government, they have to up their involvement level: Populism! This is the natural source of populist sentiment, "involvement". Having left the matter of government largely to the "professionals" for so many decades, this professional class has become obnoxious, self-serving and manipulative. The potential glory of technology is its ability to facilitate involvement, since, I'd argue, we've left government to the pros for so long because we got important shit to do that doesn't leave the needed time! Tech can change that equation...if it's control should ever escape into the wild...
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Actual damages, small; punitive damages, large. The purpose of large punitive damages is to discourage the offender from re-offending, for everyone's benefit. As case law goes, this promises to be a huge decision, as it affects the casually irresponsible behavior of the MSM going forward, protecting everyone's future.
I just wondered, for no good reason: if socmeds are not publishers, does that mean the content they deliver cannot be considered "published"/"posted"? I mean, if I comment on farcebook, but farcebook can't be considered to have published the comment, how can I be held responsible for any sort of publishing or posting to public, technically? Doesn't everything published require a publisher to have performed publication? I am not responsible for what I have not published/posted.
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Corruption is what makes govt work (to the degree govt can be said to "work"). A good analogy would be a car engine: without wide enough tolerances, which is to say, great enough error, built into the system, the engine can not run (when the tolerances are too tight), or runs very badly, inefficiently and unreliably (when the tolerances are too loose). Keeping corruption at a minimum, you'd have a govt corresponding to a high performance engine, with plenty of torque and horsepower available reliably; and it'll run a little hot. The problem is throwing the baby out with bathwater, so to speak: how do you ferret out the "good" corruption from the "bad" corruption, with an eye to eliminating only the bad? The answer: well, you can't. The distinction should be largely contextual...and mechanisms have a hard time grokking context. The same "corrupt" activity might be "good corruption" (in that it furthers the goals of "good govt") in a different context.
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Well, he is attractive, with an easy, confident vocal style, so, electable on his face (hehehe). He SOUNDS like a democrat, a lot; so I don't him as a threat to Trump, unless he makes it to the actual election, and, even then, still not. Trump was the perennially low-energy republican establishment's wake-up call! He's illustrating what can work against the dems and for the country. If they don't bump up their game, they'll be second party to the dems forever.
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Some of the weird computer shit that goes on is just because bug-free software is a virtual impossibility! And as software complexity increases, so does its potential for buggy behavior--exponentially! People don't realize how error-prone computers are: bit errors happen infrequently, in computer time. If it happens 0.01% of the time, in human terms, because of the computing speeds involved, and considering computers routinely perform millions of operations in a single second, that amounts to more frequent errors in human terms. Usually, bit errors are corrected in software; or, they just don't matter. It's hard to find RAM memory these days that is ECC, error-correcting in hardware. From the user perspective, it's a huge blind spot; you ignore the error issue and blithely accept computer behavior as "correct". Some might say non-ECC memory renders you PC a toy...I wonder if banks insist on ECC memory...
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It might be time to check out Walter Burien, Styx...since the libertarian party now supports blm...Have you ever wondered why, come the new budget year, there's no reckoning of the previous budget year?!? No accounting of income from the massive investments of government at all levels? Collectively, across the 50000, or so, governmental corporate entities, US government owns 90% of the stock market. What's that...a few trillion?! That's where your pension fund invests. Do you know who is doing that investment work?! Do you realize how flush with value these government entities are?! As long as the stock market does reasonably well, the town that's always complaining about short-falls and needing to increase taxes is actually very well off, if not "rich". Walter's idea is to use interest income from investments to offset/reduce taxes, even altogether!
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Styx starts out saying Kamala's plan is better than Bernie's; gradually, he ends up with "Bernie's plan is less bad"! hahaha...well, that's progress anyway. But, you know, when I visited Europe, I felt rather disoriented in an odd way...so I'll cut Styx some slack, until he gets back on home ground. Yeah...you can HAVE Europe! Everything about it is just...wrong. The sights, sounds, smells, and tastes are all wrong. Maybe I'm like a vampire and can only rest on the dirt of my home land, but I was curiously ill at ease--"anxious" is probably the word--at levels I wasn't used to caring about. So, when is the clankmeister set to return?
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I'm still waiting for somebody, anybody, to explain to me where congress gets off line-item micromanaging the executive function. Common sense says the exec puts in for money for various categories of functional expenditure, but that within those categories the exec manages the details of implementation. Congress micromanaging these details is BS, and dysfunctional. "Border barrier" is NOT a category, it's a detail. If the exec decides to buffer the entire border with chinchilla farms, tough shit! Take him to court; but that's just what they don't want--hell, they could lose. No, they want to pre-empt that necessity. It's the same thing they're up to with the socmeds, trying to get the likes of Suckerberg to exercise the draconian policing powers they themselves would like but can't have because...unconstitutional. Congress? "Grimy" is the word that comes to mind...yeah, "untrustworthy, doing wrong to others to gain something, selfish", about covers it.
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Traditionally, might made right, and military might was the currency of population control; but this is only efficient when the people are unarmed and weak from poverty. As the people began more and more to prosper, they became stronger, and by their cleverness and diligence could weaponize their strength. Military technology had not developed to the point of being able to efficiently control a more resourceful people by threat of force. So the controllers shifted means: impose "democracy" as a means to get people to control themselves. It's a lot more efficient to manipulate a few people than a great mass of people. How much could it really cost to buy a hundred senators? How many senators could turn down, say, a billion dollars (and a promise not to kill everyone they care about)? What entities exist that are capable of directing a 100 billion dollar dispersal?
That's where we are. The next major flip-back will see the likes of physical nanobots, smaller than most bacteria, being "consumed" by people, after which, the nanobots are capable of self-assembly into more complex machines. Oh, and the nanobots are under the direct control of those who deployed them. At that point, all people on the planet could be immediately killed at the press of a switch. How lovely...look up "smart dust". Can anything short of catastrophe turn back this technological rampage?!
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People define themselves by the groups they belong to. And it's nicer to belong to a more/most powerful group. Organized religion is a powerful political force, not unlike a "nation". That's a huge reason to join organized religion...participate in the flow of power...fun...feels good. But, then there's a few, always a few, for whom that's just not good enough. hehehe If you are compelled to tread your OWN path...god have mercy on your soul...uh, no, just kidding...eh..., you either go ahead and DO THAT WORK, or, failing, fall back to the defensive position: Atheism. I have a hint: the work is finding a way for everything to be TRUE. Falsity, itself, is a Lie, a Distortion of Awareness, a Self-Deception...if you see the "false", you're missing the "truth"...From the viewpoint of physical nature, only the TRUE is able to be manifested; the FALSE is simply not included in REALITY (except as a phenomenal distortion of the TRUE). Reality isn't illusive; it's the perception of reality that generates Illusion. The process of perception/apperception is the ever-present battleground of the psyche...find the decision-maker...
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What's "unconstitutional" about enforcing existing law?! Jeez...you're over-thinking it...Focus on enforcing the law, to the greatest benefit of the citizenry. Let the chips fall where they may, or must! A mayor complains of a "chilling effect" if she should be charged!? Tough shit! Corrupt local government SHOULD BE CHILLED! It's her fault she's chargeable! Her complaint just makes her sound more guilty...There's a little of the flip side of "too big to fail": it's a "black eye" on the national image, an embarrassment to the American people! So, therefore, it's wrong and probably racist, etc., to destroy criminal corruption. Typical, woke style bullshit...C'mon, man! Rot never just goes away. If you don't get it out, it'll eat 'till there's nothing left for it to eat...Duh.
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The world is watching and waiting...If Biden wins there will be global despair...despair that elections can't work reliably! And if elections are a farce democratic processes are a sham...and there can be no hope remaining for "self-rule". AND, alternatives are sketchy, at best! What happens in America when everybody knows elections are a scam, pointless, predetermined, a lie, and a joke on the people?! I think, in America, the only choice will be anarchy, instituted as a viable form of "government"; the people, fully immersed in a "fortress mentality", become the government...because they can't trust elections to be fair...anywhere...ever...(except in a venue small enough so that all can observe the casting AND tabulation of votes cast)--a massive switch back to local autonomy. But, eventually, the bad people will get together to form armies, etc., ushering an era of warlords and peasants...Oh, well...
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Audience size imposes NO particular DUTY, except, perhaps, to change nothing: what you did got you here, so there's no logic to changing what you do--are you going to argue with success?. Duh. It could only be self-destructive. Why is this mysterious to the victims of activist commentators? Why do they seem so, idk, afraid of activist vocalizations? It's almost a given that, if you're an activist, you don't have money, so who care's what they think/say; if they act, prosecute vigorously. They're just trolls with microphones.
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"Informed"? In my conception, "information" is simply "data". So everything informs, according to your perceptual abilities. Data quality is always an issue, though. Hmm...at what age is a person perceptually able to "smell a rat", as it were, detect inconsistency in data? Or is this ability the culmination of an inherent skill, practiced to sufficient perfection?
The unacknowledged reality is that knowledge cannot be transferred; it has to be inculcated. If you haven't done the work of collecting information, analyzing it, and then realizing the extent of its validity and applicability, you can't "know"--you can only remember...voices of authority...making pronouncements of "fact"...Believe It, Or Not...is your only choice.
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I think Gowdy would be willing to come out of retirement for the AG job. It'd be a great fit! Trump appointed Sessions out of loyalty for his long support, thinking probably he could fire him easily, which is true, but managing the fallout, I think he's found, can be tricky. Managing appearances is what politics is about: if he appears to spat with Sessions, does that appearance have, uh, secondary implications? In the minds of the Washington establishment, even the slightest appearance is important, because they are uncomfortable with leaving appearances to be interpreted worldwide. The uncertainty over how an appearance will be interpreted drives them to "sterilize" appearances; look like every other mealy-mouthed politician issuing the same mindless patter composed of vague generalizations and implications and denials, so inherently inoffensive, and, therefore, safe from "misinterpretation".
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@toolegittoquit_001 <--Ok...we've got "migration", "immigration", and "emigration": "Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanently move to a country). Hence one might emigrate from one's native country to immigrate to another country. Both are acts of migration across national or other geographical boundaries." In constrast, we have the thankfully uncomplicated, "refugee": "a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. This implies that ALL refugees are necessarily political refugees. And "economic refugee" is attempted redefinition of "refugee", and, so, linguistically illegitimate, as the phrase is self-contradictory, since the definition of "refugee" does not allow economic reasons. So, when I hear any form of the term, "migrate", my propaganda defenses shoot up!
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I'm right handed but kick most naturally left-footed. It's too dangerous to trust scallops anywhere. I hate sweet pickles! I've lately tracked down a problem with RAW onions that seems to be a thing shared by others. You said, "Berenstein", not, "Berenstain"...hmmm...I was only bored with the "language" classes: English in junior high I read "Dracula" during class time; that really pissed off teacher. German class in high school I read Shirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" during class time; that really pissed off teacher, since I didn't know German and wasn't learning German (I tried initially, but the effort just didn't make sense to me). The secret of riding a bike: the wheels function as gyroscopes. The faster the wheels spin, the more stable the bike. Let the bike do the work, and ride the gyros. To turn successfully, you must change the axis of gyroscopic motion: you have to TILT the bike to the side, left/right, that you intend to turn to. And there's always the sense of balance in play. How much to tilt is a matter feeling, and depends on the speed and the amount of turn. At high speed a sharp turn would require a drastic tilt, running the risk of losing traction. You can practice doing the tilt even if you're not turning by creating different degrees of tilt by changing the balance of you and the bike. There's a natural tendency to do that when you stand up on the pedals and pedal hard. It's just something you feel as you search for efficiency.
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You're clearly a smart guy, hexen. That's why I don't understand your purpose in describing what does and doesn't "make sense", and prescribing particular sensible solutions, as if the way things are is...accidental, people don't know any better, because they're not smart enough. I figure because you're a smart guy that you've long ago considered the possibility that what you think doesn't make sense actually does make (a different order of) sense. The current "nonsensical" could be a designed smoke screen/distraction to cloak the usual treasury-fleecing schemes.
And since you're a smart guy, you're familiar with Walter Burien's work, and apparently completely unimpressed, as evidenced by your proposed tax solution. I wonder if your obvious facility with language was flexible enough to allow you to easily understand Burien's peculiar linguistic mannerisms (I had difficulties, but, then, I've never been to New Jersey); but I could also see you just saying fuckit, this guy's a conspiracy nut. I'd be very interested in your assessment of his work, since I haven't been able to find the flaw that you must have; otherwise, you'd be talking very differently.
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The reason "kicking the can down the road" is a thing is because it WORKS! The green new deal asks me to suffer NOW for an imagined future of lesser suffering! Guess who's imagination we're talking about? The real problem with the whole idea is the ignorance of trend dynamics, as in, NOTHING continues unchanged permanently. The GND ASSUMES NOTHING WILL CHANGE! That current projections will hold beyond ten years! That, in itself, is a tall order! But to assume no new tech, no inventions, no common sense social approaches, is...stupid...just plain stupid. Ooorrr, crazy like a fox: whip the the populace into a frenzy of fear for their lives and they will surrender their money and their minds to the instigators of the fear. The left thinks, "If we can get all the power, we can make everything perfect"; the right thinks (or should, or used to), "if the people are liberated from government constraint, they will be happy and productive with little need for government intervention". The severity of the difference between these attitudes may not be apparent at first glance...
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"Moral panic" does more to obscure the clear view of the current situation than it does to elucidate it. It's a dismissive phrase, not useful, except to historically pigeon-hole events. To me, all these "moral panics" are actually the responses from those in society less able to accommodate sudden realizations of the nature of their reality, brought to the fore by a suggestive confluence of events. "Panic" is the point of it: a lot of people take the blue pill, fearful of the change that new knowledge commands. Ignorance simplifies choice-making; difficulty looks more painful than promising.
It's not helpful, beyond a point, to identify "moral panic" dismissively. It's the usual tendency: identify conceptually, create label, apply label liberally, then forget the conceptual identification. Panic seems to me more a heightened state of indecision than of fear/anxiety. It's time to drill down past the umbrella terms (i.e. "fear", "love"...non-utilitarian terminology better saved for poetry) in order to get a sturdy handle on meaning. Real meaning gets lost in the cracks between such large/vague terms as "fear" and "love" and, especially these days, "hate". You can use such bloated terminology to communicate sufficiently (usually) in the case of basic directive interactions (i.e. "Go there", "Do that", etc.), but it is utterly useless in penetrating the nuances of meaning that confuse more contemplative/involved interactive investigative discussions. So, this means, if you don't know/use any other words for "hate" (besides "hate"), you won't be able to talk about it very well. And if you can't talk about it, you can't understand it well enough to handle it effectively. You wanna know how to stop hating? Learn and use more/other/different words for your "hate", until your (subconscious) word choices begin to reveal to you the true nature of your "hate"! When that happens, the lack of understanding that underlies the "hate" is transformed to a sufficiency of understanding, in the face of which the "hate" simply cannot exist.
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"Most people understand he was pure evil..."...BWWAAHAAAAHAA...yeah, most people understand the unfuckingknowable! "Hey, look at me, I figured it out! I'm smart! I called a guy who killed millions of people 'evil'". Bullshit! "Evil" is a word occultists should use with a little awareness, don't you think?! SO THE FUCK WHAT! People are an infinitely renewable resource; cheap, easy, and fun to make, requiring no specialized tools! "Oh, millions of people died! Freak out over the humanity! Ahhhhh!" Button-pushing, string-pulling bullshit! How many people have died since...the beginning of...people? Freak out!!! HAHAHAHAHA The illogic is stupendous! Decide now, people! Do "you" die when your body dies? DECIDE! If yes, the value of your life experience is virtually nill, so the value of your life is virtually nill. You're a flesh-bag commodity; your fate is pointless--it can't MATTER what happens to you. Your little flash-in-the-pan existence only lubricates the machine reality which bore you. If no, the value of your life experience is inestimable! It forms the basis of your on-going, never-ending career of development, the grandest personal adventure imaginable!!! And your lives and deaths matter to others, as everyone supports one another in their efforts to pursue their own, self-determined, course of development. In either case, though, "death" is...unimportant... So, quit wailing about the gigantic mass of deceased human flesh, in the cherry-picked context of your choice! It's stupid...
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Do these people ever consider exactly where/how the "popular vote" is tallied?! And that it is not VERIFIED?! The popular vote, I believe, is, currently, uncertified at the federal level. The state and local certifications are simply accepted as valid, with no verification. And guess who conducts this tabulation activity? A consortium of news and media companies, that's who!!! Ultimately, obviously, the "popular" presidential vote count is under the direct and sole control of this cabal of private corporations, a number of which undoubtedly supply the voting hardware universally used. The "popular vote" is slush, a very simple aggregate value with no traceable provenance, and, hence, a sort of fantasy.
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Go for the cremation: legend has it that, after you die, you have to "supervise" the decomposition of your body. Organic decomposition is kind of nasty, ya know...but, what the hell--unless, your body never decomposes, becoming an immortal spiritual relic. Then there may be a persistent connection that you'd just as soon wasn't there. If the persistence is strong enough, you may begin to "feed" the relic with your energy, preserving its material existence even further, at your energetic expense. Just seems unnecessary...when you're done with it, BE DONE with it...let it go...
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We're getting to the point where it COULD work! The entitlement of citizenship would include a government stipend/service sufficient for reasonably comfortable survival. This is a guaranteed base level...and veeerrry expensive. However, that expense could be offset technologically: every citizen is chipped, two-way, so all activity, speech, sound is detected and recorded. Most will be employed as monitors, providing the new "police" function: the chip is capable of exerting a variety of influences, mechanical and chemical, upon command from the monitor. The only prohibition is against non-consensual potentially-injurious physical contact. This is rendered impossible by the chip/monitor system. With everyone's basic needs taken care of, most of what we recognize today as "society" just doesn't happen. No police force, or other enforcement structure is needed, which preserves a lot of resources. Utopia! My ASS! Looks more like "bored and lazy" to me! It's just MORE INTERESTING to suffer...
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Whether tea leaves or entrails or whathaveyou, they're all symbol systems serving to focus intent. An interesting philosophical exercise, perhaps, but valueless for the evolving soul. Imagine the future you intend to make, rather than adopt the future from someone else's vision. "The stars impel; they do not compel." At every point in time, a vista of infinite choice is presented everyone. If "predestination" obtains, it is counterproductive to know it. Your body knows that when it dies it dies forever, but it's unwise to identify with your body too closely, lest you begin to believe you, too, will die forever with your body. Take life more seriously than death. That's my gripe with the "professional" psychics: they willingly serve, for money, as the cum buckets of astral detritus...that's disgusting...and they invariably suffer psychic disturbances as a result. No self-respect...and only the spottiest of results at best. Yes, cum one, cum all...
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I predict popular polling, as a viable, respectable industry is going straight to hell! As people realize they have nothing to gain and plenty to lose by being free with their opinions, surveys will be the first to suffer. I don't take surveys; never have; on principle. But I CAN participate in surveys fictitiously! You want to know what my opinion is? Dream on! You'll get the opinion I want you to have, and it's guaranteed NOT to represent my reality. HAHAHA You lame fucks never know what you're getting! You're like religionists: you believe what you're told. What if I told you that 80% of the people who take your surveys are quite deliberately JERKING YOU AROUND?! Yeah, I'm sure, your fancy ass statistical methods "account for duplicity"...Bullshit! In your "mind" you can convince yourself that most duplicitous responses must be "outliers", odd-ball opinions that are easily discernible, and so, discountable! So, yeah, keep that dream alive, it's the only thing putting money in your pockets. If this shit goes on much longer, it's going to turn us all into casual liars--a new survival trait for the digital age. "Welcome, to the Machine!"
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Trump's position is strong because he's got a proven track record; a positively superior candidate would be needed to displace Trump, and the dems don't have any. The average person doesn't think the president, or any other govt actor, is all that important; it's the position that has power, not the person administering in that position--ideally, absent corruption. And our system of checks and balances prevents bad actors from seriously perverting their positions, they believe. So, they don't vote; barely half the eligible population votes! Most people trust the machine to continue running regardless the particular functionaries managing the process. People don't give much credence to the reality of corruption in politics. They KNOW about from things they've heard, but don't SEE it in their worlds, so it has a large imaginary quality, a certain "untrueness" about it that prevents it from figuring into the usual calculations that people make about the world they SEE...it's kind of "not real". My casual perception of politics makes it practically impossible for me to talk to anyone about politics. Not only are we not on the same page, or even the same BOOK, but I'm in a different library...probably on another planet...hehehe Most people just haven't taken the trouble to realize HOW POLITICAL CORRUPTION WORKS. If they did, they'd realize it's EVERYWHERE, ALL THE FUCKING TIME!
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The lesson of "black lives matter" is "context matters"! "Mattering" is relative...x matters HOW? To whom? When and why figure in, too. Ultimately, nothing matters, logically, since it's impossible to identify lost value without perspective! Who does "existence" matter to?! In other words, if existence ended, who would (be left to) care--it wouldn't make any difference. You can't say, "Now that I don't exist, I realize how much fun existence was"! Something "matters" when its loss/absence is important TO SOMETHING OR SOMEBODY! Words take much of their meaning from their contexts. In its absence, context will be embellished into existence by the listener--we hate shit that doesn't make sense. Sloganeering is offensive, intellectually--but, emotionally titillating...
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No, wait, this is good! You'll have an "official" story to debunk, or otherwise comment on, point-by-point. That automatically raises the profile of your article, because of the "official", direct, link. This also exposes the official position AS official; and makes Google (or YouTube?), as representative of the official position, the battleground for information verification. Now you say, "I said this, and <official position> said this particularly in response". BOOM! With the evidence of the transaction, the two positions are revealed in high contrast, and the truth stands relatively more decloaked. This won't be the redemption of the authoritative, but rather it's final gasp.
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Biden entered the senate in '72, which is 48 years ago...if you lose the lower left corner of the "4" it looks like a "1". So, looking at "48" he might have seen "18"--he knew that was wrong, so he tacked on a zero...he's got a thing about zeros...hehehe...likely residue of a "math trick" to associate "000" with the appropriate word, like, thousand...3 more zeros, a million...3 more zeros, billion...3 more, trillion...which is about the point at which he, these days, forgets how many groups of 3 zeros he's supposed to be working with. Does he wear contact lenses? Any visual field issues, such as from diabetes? He has that..."diabetic stiffness" to his gait...
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Nothing new here...except that you can SEE it while it's happening. It's been a long haul from "blissful ignorance" to "eyes open", at least 100 years...and "blissful ignorance" is mounting a strong come-back push! "Weaponizing" sounds newly evil, but, in politics, the outside never matches the inside; internal operations have always been, how shall we say, "familiar", relying on personal relationships, and the antipathies that result. The system has always been corruptible, and almost always corrupted. It's just that the appearance of this truth has never been so obvious! So, you tend to think it's something new...it's not; it's endemic to the system. Any system design that depends on human operators will fail--guaranteed. "Fail-safe" requires massive redundancy, which human beings strive to eliminate as inefficient. It's a little like a "death wish"...isn't it...oh, well...
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Hmm...preparing for attack?! Personally, I deal with everything as "attack" in nature, though not necessarily in intent. As an independent being, Nature's purpose is to "delineate" me, to "define" me resistively, by opposing my existence. I take no offense, simply exercising the true meaning of "kung fu": good working, or, in my terms, "practice makes perfect". I conduct myself in accordance, to maximize my performance. However, in the presence of malicious intent, I BECOME NATURE!!! I am LAW!!! There is no other AUTHORITY than ME!!! Following such instinctual conviction, I am either invincible or non-existent--and, in the moment, I can't afford to care, one way or the other which. So, I very often practice grokking the intent of others, extending my awareness to very small things, to gather clues. So, being in public is very strenuous for me, especially as quarters become more cramped (I'm a little claustrophobic, too). I'm extremely polite and quiet--to start; but, my back gets up with alarming alacrity. I don't fly off the handle, but I get...peaked/ready when my personal space is compressed. I pick anatomical targets well in advance of dangerously closed distance to target. That's what I call "preparing for attack". I'm continuously assessing my "situation"; and running over everything I know (or think I know) for accuracy, validity, and applicability. I AM perpetually occupied--but I wouldn't say, "busy". I feel ready.
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"I think! I don't opine!" "Belief" is "conviction"; the more emotional it is, the more problematic it is in the real world. If you have to "believe" something, shut up about it! Your ideas about "certainty" are not extensible, but a meaningless waste of my the time of my life! If you can't shut up about it, you are, ipso facto, out of control, insane, as it were, and a general threat to life and limb--get away from me! Your willingness to show respect is a mark of sanity and civilization, just as the unwillingness to be respectful denotes the opposite.
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The media smoke screen is up! Obfuscation is the word of every day, as their proper service to their billionaire masters, who are, foremost, opportunists who have decided together that NOW is their opportunity to maximize their investment in a sophisticated control scheme designed to subjugate the planet to their will. They've finagled their way into every existing control scheme, financial, industrial, technological, political, and scientific, allowing them a fine degree of coordination of their disparate efforts in usurping these systems. This ROT is intractable--any successful operation against it would "kill the patient"! There's no way for the people to get traction in such a corruptly compromised system. The only point of popular access is the bottom, the most local levels, and they will not remain uncontrolled for long.
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"[T]he only way to prevent extremism"? Ok, I guess I'm supposed to accept uncritically the implicit assumption that the prevention of "extremism" is, in itself, and, always, desirable, important, or necessary in some unspecified way. Why? "Extremism" is not a real world value, it's an IDEA, in your head...poetry. It can have only indirect agency in the real world. "Extreme" is what you call reality with great potential for immediate action. Is THAT really what you want to PREVENT?!...that's chicken shit...Are you going to LIVE your life, or piss it away avoiding the prospect of dynamic activity--and trying to make everyone else do the same?!...like an old dried up Karen...
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"Police reform"? I don't know what "they" mean by that, but I'm thinking more like "policing" reform: 4 tiers, increasingly less...accommodating...hehehe. Beat cops, robot assisted, act as monitor nodes, wired to the hilt, surveillance-coordinated, servicing the people directly, absolutely non-threateningly; the area immediately surrounding becomes a safe zone, in effect. Next level, drone support, elevated monitoring, and response readiness...to deploy third tier professional police, armed and armored to the hilt; any attack on this level elicits lethal force immediately. Fourth tier...you don't wanna know...It's about time we take policing SERIOUSLY. Right now, cops are badged dummies being ordered around for the convenience of city politicians. It should be a worthy profession, given the advancements of the modern age. My third tier pros would be highly trained and highly paid...upwards of 300k to start.
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"Inefficiency"? Hmm...Every government, at every level, in the US, including the top level, the federal government, is a LEGAL CORPORATION. However, government corporations get to pull a little trick that other corporations do not: they begin each budget year at "0". Carry-over from the previous year is not considered as the starting point. Government is extremely profitable! It's just, those profits don't accrue to you in any way--except, maybe, in the case of a big tip from Pelosi to her hairdresser. All corporate entities are required by law to file Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports, CAFRs, which account for everything. The study of this subject is forbidden.
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The matter is one of "attachment", or emotional recognition. Declining attachment, the mind is freed. However, "superiority" is not the right way to look at it: emotion can be very useful. "Hate", for instance, is indistinguishable from "anger", in its expression, anyway. I've found that anger tends to mitigate fear and pain. I'll routinely invoke angriness in the dentist's chair prior to the annoying pain of anesthetic injection, and to good effect. Do you not deliberately generate emotional states? Do you think it's POSSIBLE to control an emotional state that you are incapable of generating?? I think most people make the mistake of thinking of their "emotions" as "them", their identity, and therefore, to consider generating them purposefully would be a gross self-manipulation--a transgression of their personal identity. To them, all I have to say is, "have fun!". Actually, that's what I would say to anyone. hehehe When you become more familiar with how the psyche machine works, though, that objection evaporates. My other pet peeve is people think they "have minds", like, their own minds, different/separate from all other minds! hahaha "Mind" is one of those special terms which is used confidently, frequently, but is never defined. It's a fill-in concept for something not understood--the classic "black box". Most of occult lore is ham-fisted black box analysis: supply input, monitor output, then (wildly) deduce the black box function; because, in occultism, "mind" is the black box. What we usually hear is, ";mind is what understands', so the mind can never understand itself"--only everything else, of course! (Keep in mind we haven't defined "understand", either). Mind is the resonant field underlying universal legality (i.e. the laws of nature); participating in reality means you enter the field and interact with it, resonantly. You think you "have an idea"? hahaha, like a house has mice! No, the ideas available to you resonate because it's who you are; change who you are, and other ideas become available. The radio receiver analogy is apt.
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@joeampolo42 <--Cherishing anger/hatred would be a "grudge". My reference to "have fun" was for those who don't learn to generate emotional states, 'cause it'll be a rollercoaster ride when you are tossed around by your own transient emotional states. And that tossing is experienced mentally, too. At that point fun is your only choice, until you accidentally discover the glories of self-control, and have to change your style. (That's the general "you"--I'm not speaking of you, Joe.) According to my notion, it is very clear that you don't CONTROL "your" mind; you operate, or "tune", the local mind-field. You tune by choosing/instantiating your resonant state (intentionally, or not), by your thoughts, feelings, and actions, and Mind, the universal resonant field, responds accordingly. You don't control the mind-field; you interact with it. This is the universal prescription for self-discovery. This is a spiritual feed-back system that helps you tune your consciousness. Your main tool in navigating this process is "awareness". All kinds of experimentation are possible: generate an emotional state and watch the thoughts rise in response; ponder a thought and feel the emotions stir. OBSERVE! And you can see reality WORK! Are your preconceptions valid? Are your hidden fears discoverable? Why do you DESIRE? Whatever occurs to your awareness is your guiding light in the moment. Be bold, and watch the fear rise...it's all here...Your being is the true alchemical athanor. Many people are suddenly surprised at an emotion they experience, as if it came out of nowhere. But, with practice, you can detect it rising just as it begins, when it is easiest to squelch, or otherwise control; when the reason for its rising is most directly ascertainable--before it morphs into this excuse or the other. The result is...personal peace.
I prefer to be harmless, mostly for reasons of karmic incursion. But "hurt"/pain is something I've learned to casually disrespect, both in myself and in others. It's another distraction, as it commands attention/awareness; but like any other emotional value, it tends to snowball if you let it. If you feed it validation, it will grow; starve it of legitimacy, and it wanes. Psychological "tricks"? Yeah, maybe--but what is a "trick"? The term usually indicates a method that functions mysteriously; a rule-of-thumb. When you know how it works, it's not a trick anymore.
You were so kind to sub, Joe--you're the first. It's just, I don't do content, at least not yet. I'm not familiar at all with "channel management": when you sub to my channel, do you get notifications of my COMMENTS? The only "content" I create is a handful of music playlists, for my convenience.
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I'm not seeing it..."Creator Group"? What does it DO?! I mean, how does it WORK? It's just kicking the can down the road: nothing's been fixed; you just want to leave the sinking ship. Wouldn't you have the same payment processor problems? I understand the urge to avoid confrontation. But, in this case, you gotta fight that urge! If payment processing is the problem, in focus at the moment, then you must either create a new payment processor, or try your luck in the courts to force existing payment processors to behave neutrally. Then, you have to become a new "UtUbe", to get rid of THAT problem. Then you're set...unless ISPs are a perceived threat issue re censorship; if so, you'd, again, have to build a new one, or take the old one to court to try to force neutral behavior. So far, Styx's take, I think, is to build a creator-oriented website, which doesn't seem, really, to address the core concerns.
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You have to have a special "bent" to pursue symbolism, especially by allegory. I recently came upon a very curious little old book, "The God-Man: The Word Made Flesh", from 1920, so you can find it online. It interpreted the Biblical Nativity story very interestingly: every month when your natal moon enters Aries, the pineal and pituitary glands secrete a fluid, one the "milk", the other, the "honey" that then descends the spinal column to its base (where it is usually squandered in riotous living) and ascends again to be magnified 1000x by the thymus gland. A sort of "elixir of life", similar to process of the Tibetan alchemy of immortality, that posits the human body as an alchemical laboratory. Fascinating stuff!
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"Making the point" is a fine art, in severe decline! I always bitch at the likes of Jim Jordan: "C'mon, Jim, tie it together IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS!" But...no...he seems to think what is self-evident to him is as clear to others. He'll list a string of facts, that, unfortunately, take a lot of words and dissipate listener focus; then, he just stops, like he's waiting for his listeners to...understand, I guess. All he has to do is put a bow on it: "These facts MEAN...this...", where, "this", is a place-holder for a short, single sentence, STATEMENT of conclusion.
Occult authors suffer as much as anyone from this "blind side bias", though some do seem to pay attention to the value of organizational schemas in presentation. But, as a group, editors suffer too...hahaha...
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Styx's dictated solution is communistic; he's not using the language of business. You can't just say, "Do this..."; in a capitalist system, it's the business of business to utilize commercial resources as efficiently as possible. Sometimes that means abandoning property interests. And government likes to provide business incentives as inducements to do what the government wants done. But the mechanism of actual accomplishment is business: people who make a living building and selling things...aka "business". The external control of business activity is NOT capitalistic. But it might be libertarian, eh?! Libertarians are the ultimate political fence-sitters. From what I've read, they seem to combine part of democrat with part of republican with a liberal admixture of anarchy...jack of all political trades, master of none? That's the secret of their impotence, politically: they've spread themselves so ideologically thin, as it were, that their identity is vague. Libertarians are "a pig in a poke" as far as voters are concerned. My latter point being only that Styx, as a libertarian, would not balk at the idea of dictating commercial behavior...like, "Capitalism works up to a point, and then LIBERTARIANS have to step in and dictate the remaining course"...
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Styx, saying voter fraud couldn't "flip" a presidential election betrays a tacit agreement with the position that there is no (significant?) voter fraud issue, since "flip" denotes "sudden reversal". It is this "suddenness" that implies an unusual increase/decrease (of voter fraud), when, IMO, voter fraud due to illegal immigrants has been going on for decades, always on a gradual increase--too gradual to show on the radars of most analysts. It seems all the dems have to do is take the coastal states where the vast majority of people live, and they'll have the electoral votes necessary. The number of electoral votes (=the number of Congressional representatives) allotted to a given state is determined directly from that state's population: the more people you have, the more electoral votes you have. It's a state-wide total vote enumeration for president that determines the vote of (traditionally) ALL that state's electors. So, it's true that the influence of one group in one small area of the state would be diminished somewhat by being included in the group of all voters in that state. I don't think this influence should be dismissed as negligible--it spreads by contact between elections, engendering curious "sympathies", a sort of cloud of political contagion.
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The "tuning mechanism" analogy is apt, but my take is a little different: Mind is one, there is only one Mind; we lay claim to "segments" of the "mind field" by virtue of our vibrational rate, which effectively "tunes" us into the segments of the mind field that resonate with "us", whatever vibrational state we've chosen for the moment. We, therefore, tune into Mind by setting up a resonance by thinking/feeling something; the mind field resonates sympathetically, forming a connection/awareness. When you pass a stranger on the street, your local mind fields are synced by your colocation: you can feel the other person, intimate his thoughts, due to your proximal colocation--you may even swap psychic parasites.
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jigga jaw <--I like Max Heindel's "THE ROSICRUCIAN COSMO-CONCEPTION". Even though it's alternatively titled, "Mystic Christianity", there isn't much in it identifiable as "Christian", otherwise I wouldn't have bothered reading it. "Souls" incarnate repeatedly in order to master a basic level of reality: they practice building better and better bodies. "Mastery" is the watchword. The spiritual hierarchy that informs reality is vast enough to support the spiritual career ambitions of each and every extant entity. There are "orders" of evolution: human entities likely will not cross over into other orders of evolution, like that of the cosmic bodies (i.e. planetary and solar intelligences evolve via cosmic bodies, and the path of such evolution is difficult for humans to conceive). Everything, everywhere, is spiritually informed. The deities of the religionists are exemplars of the spiritual "teacher" collectives that operate in an illuminative function--for all manner of beings. Anybody can always make a mistake should they fail to pay sufficient attention to what they're doing. And mistake potential is critical for the learning process. I don't care for the "simulation" idea, for all it's messiness, as you indicated. I prefer the notion of a "construct" because it dispenses with any intimations of "fakery". A simulation is always a model of something that already exists; a construct is always an original production (yes, even if it's a copy). I have found that ideas carry their own baggage (i.e. associations, biases, etc.) that can complicate thinking unnecessarily. So I try to use ideas whose baggage is least inimical to the idea's extensibility. We're pretty much at the point in physics where the quantum reality is indistinguishable from consciousness.
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"Cosmic shit!"...hehehe...ok...Knowledge is naturally limited by one's scope of experience, because only what is experienced can be said to be "KNOWN". All else is necessarily "BELIEVED". But we spend most of our lives trying to escape basic logic, don't we? The truth is experience creates resonant nodes that relate directly, through the one universal mindal presence, to ALL other nodes (think quantum entanglement from the moment of the birth of existence). All is association by resonance. You think you have a personal mind? Arrogant lout! You think you create "thoughts"? Dolt! You think you have a "memory"? No. What you DO is activate/energize resonances by INTENT. How you manage the rebound/resonant response is your FIRST nibble of your snake's tail. Your experience of this response initiates another resonance, culminating in another association, followed by another rebound, and so on, and so on, until you slow your ass down enough to watch the response BEGIN TO RISE and catch yourself BEFORE you respond...then, everything...deepens...In fact, you may find that you can direct the response as it rises, changing it, molding it. This is not control of self; this is determination of self...a moment's second-guessing and you've failed to focus sufficiently intently to succeed. Eh, better luck next time...lapse of focus precipitates loss of awareness, loss of self. You are like a fine estate, which, when not paid attention to, becomes dilapidated, losing functionality...and beauty. There's really nothing better to do than watch yourself...everything is there...if you don't shrink from the effort...
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Uh, try closing the drapes. Lighting is ONE thing you CAN control completely, if you wish. So, yeah, excuse denied. And the hockey face is returning, though this is the first time I've found myself wondering about "eyebrow toupes"...could be the, uh, lighting. hehehe...I KNOW eyebrow hair is too short to curl. And I discount the possibility you used makeup to fatten those brows (even libertarian vanity has its limits). Maybe they just puffed up on their own. Sometimes, I swear, I'll get a single eyebrow hair that grows, like, two inches OVERNIGHT! Eyebrows are weird...
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Cowards? For not taking the dims freak-out bait? Most people understand (though they will not say) that the Republicans in Congress are being careful to not create impressions that might impact negatively their prospects for reelection. They are coddling the protestors now, but, clearly, finally, they will ignore them (as they should be ignored because they are a purposely disruptive influence with a miniscule membership, their voice exaggerated all out of proportion to its legitimacy) and confirm Kavanaugh.
The Republican party is in a major transition; Trump is the model. The "old guard" is always a stabilizer AND an impediment. With the turnover of a handful of high-profile old guard republicans, the party will have effectively shed its old skin, allowing a somewhat different, more responsive and less cynical, character to come to the fore. The Dem party, as you'd expect naturally, is experiencing the same thing: as the old guard's character fades, its younger members fill in the vacations. But in the case of dims, the younger members are socialist/communist leaning. All of our Constitutions guarantee a representative republic form of government. If you're not on board with that guarantee, I don't see how you should be allowed to participate in such a high level of government (I mean, what?, all trojan horses welcome?!), since you must necessarily work to subvert the government!!!
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So...you're saying both parties are corporate-owned. But the nature of ALL "ownership" is corporate, so this is a largely irrelevant observation, and expected. Nor is it unconscionable to be biased: my self-interest is not eradicable. It is the imperative of the life force, and the bedrock of my purpose. My life is colored meaningfully by my self-interest, and vitalized by that coloration.
The problem at play is that of private identity, and the capricious conception of it as "real". As Jordan Peterson might opine, "identity" is not something you own, or determine for yourself, but something conferred on you by others. The ideas of "privacy" and "identity" have to, somehow, be decoupled before we as a society can come completely to grips with the reality of instantaneous communications at our fingertips. The "digital age" will require us to, again, somehow, shed the idea of "privacy" as "secret information". We are moving inexorably in the direction of everything being "logged"/recorded, though not necessarily "known", until the recorded data is analyzed. No more "secret information" will be allowed to be possible (national security, terrorism, etc.). But this will have to be balanced by a commensurate development of "self-interest" safe-guards: everybody needs to be armed, and skilled with arms in order to be able to protect their self-interest, which includes, of course, one's life and liberty. IOW, people have to learn to respect each other--even if it's "the hard way". And the hard way might be the only way left after virtually everything about everyone is knowable, leading to an upwelling of disdain, one person for another. You have to leave me alone out of your own self-interest, since MY self-interest may justify me killing you if you don't.
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I saw a headline I haven't gotten around to yet about the judge throwing out the gun charges. Earlier, I heard the doctored video was allowed into evidence. If Kyle is convicted, the uproar will only exacerbate the "split" in the country, anyway, so there's not so much to lose, maybe, in acquitting him. Going forward, the "split" will be erupting all over the place for whatever is the latest reason, anyway, so, might just as well confront it now.
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A lot of people take their survival for granted; it's a side-effect of participation in modern society, not requiring individual directed effort to the specific end, "survival". The challenges to survival have been abstracted by civilization into unrelated forms. Used to be, if you were hungry you foraged or hunted for food. Now, if you want to eat, you get a job, so you have money with which to PAY for food, and most of everything else...housing, transportation, clothing...The resulting sense of detachment from reality gradually deforms psyches...Over time, the deformations become critical enough to precipitate problematic psychological derangement. Sounds familiar...
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The scattershot, guesswork approach to cosmology strikes me as goofy. Better to ponder the matter WITHOUT allowing conclusions to form. Furthermore, the implementation of logic runs afoul of logic's fatal flaw: the philosophical clumsiness of its principle of negation. As I like to put it, "Nothing cannot exist". The concept of "nothingness" is philosophically untenable. Even if you could demonstrate that "nothingness" is "real", how could it possibly be said to "exist", especially when we don't know yet what "substance" is?! "Phenomenally unreal existence", though, is a concept favored by religions; existence without substance. This is the paradox, how can something exist without being a thing. But it's so unnecessary, if you just accept the limits of logic and realize that everything exists! Perhaps, it's your "realization" that CAUSES the "existence"!@@
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@douglascramer1501 <-The additional exposition was helpful..."Different domains can be in the same place..." is a very difficult concept, given that "place" is a "space", and physical manifestation is the only "place" where there is "space". Now, "domains" is a different story, being a more general, or inclusive term. A "domain" would be any set you specify. In that regard, I see physical manifestation as a time and space-bound domain, the spiritual domain as timeless and spaceless, and the in-between domain (call it the astral, if you like) as time-bound, but spaceless. The domain of matter spans all of manifestation as a density-degree, matter being most dense and spirit being least dense, in a continuum. Boundary regions naturally arise within the density gradient (as a function of "turbulence"), creating "division" of the density domain into regions that can, then, interact characteristically to create "bodies" of "things".
Another curious statement you made, "As each new life is created, a spirit has to enter it", seems simplistic in not differentiating between "spirit" and "a spirit". "Spirit" is the organizing principle of matter, in one sense. It is present in all things, including egg and sperm. I think what you refer to as "a spirit" I would refer to as "soul". The life force operates quasi-independently of spirit--it is cooperative, allowing soul to supervise fetal development and, at the individually appropriate time, occupy the body.
"Planes of existence" are just regions of the spirit/matter gradient, and, indeed, all these "planes" interpenetrate each other--they are in the same "space", as we usually conceive of "space". The traversal of these "planes" is a matter of tuning the perceptual mechanism (i.e. "you") to the "frequency" corresponding to the plane being traversed--you have to "be(long)" there to travel there.
Interesting ideas...though difficult to talk about. I appreciate the conversation, Douglass.
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"Fallen prey to the propaganda..."? Cute, but too glib for my taste, given the pervasiveness of this anti-intelligent behavior. How does a well-educated professional completely lose his noodle?!? And repeatedly over a protracted time period! A better, though, no less glib, expression would be "mass hysteria", which is, again, not elucidative (look it up, youtube!). It seems to me often that such nebulous explanations are meant to obscure the traces that might lead to the unacceptable truth: conspiracy. It's probably the most popular human activity: the activity of illegally, or unethically, maximizing the advantage of a collaboration. You can't doubt that and still maintain a firm grip on reality! No? Ok, amuse me...
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Seems obvious what's happening: MSM is saying, "See! We're fair; we slapped Piker's wrist." They like having that to push back against the well-founded criticism of their evident bias, though it doesn't fly gracefully, considering the penalties meted out to conservatives are more severe than those incurred by liberals for the same content. I saw Piker say these things and recognize its off-handed origin. He should have recognized it, too, and immediately recanted, like, "Whoa, where'd that come from?! Not appropriate..." Improvisation can be dangerous when you don't recognize the mechanism and instead imagine you're producing comic genius because you ARE a comic genius! The value of politeness is in producing an atmosphere of congeniality, a most productive environment for human interaction. The lack of politeness SIGNALS CONFLICT, and, in suck an environment, some sort of "fight" WILL ensue! Politeness is the sole social responsibility of EVERYONE. Without it, you don't have a "society"...
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Image has been an integral component of politics especially since TV hit the scene. It's a competence con, to shut you up before you even speak: "you can see how special we are by our appearance and manner; we use words you don't know, and make sentences too long to follow, so you can see how much smarter we are than you". Then Trump comes along and upsets their applecart, showing people politicians are just people, too--not gods, not even great humans, but, more likely, sociopaths trying to look, at one and the same time, like a "regular joe" AND a lot more special than you'll EVER be! So much of politics is about maintaining this con. That's why most people have no idea how government functions internally. The political clergy tends its flock...
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Unions are inappropriate in government employment! They don't belong, according to their avowed purpose, since government workers are organized, by default, as government employees, with wages/compensation properly set by Congress. The idea that government workers are entitled to negotiate with the government for their compensation is ludicrous! Unions in government represent subversive interests since the efficiency of government is critical to its crucial function. Government inefficiency kills innocent people...the direct example of which is the illegal immigrant detained, released, then detained again after he murders. Technically, inefficient, and technically, deadly.
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I'm seeing about 3% vegans in our population. That's what I call, "negligible", as in, "who cares" and "doesn't matter". Vegans are just vegetarians turned activist. Strict vegetarianism is irrational, and elitist; so, yeah, that's Booker. But I don't see how very many people will listen to Booker speak and say to themselves, "Yeah, ok, that's right, and your passion is not creepy." The Fringe is not Friendly.
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"Soy supplements..." is hilarious! hahaha...like, "Exotic zucchini"...There are "supplements", and, then, there are "staples"; soy would be a staple. Well, it's actually more like a deadly poison, but it's used as cattle feed, so it must not be too bad, right?...hehehe...Soy is a hormone disrupter...Hell, I guess, "hilarious", was the wrong word...
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I think there's a devious rationale to existence. How did "existence" come into existence?! I've had that question in my heart for the last 50 years, and here's what I've come up with so far---I posted here about it a little bit in OCT18...but that was for a single cosmos. Let's try it from a different angle...Imagine...
You are one of a group of dedicated cosmos designers whose purpose it is to incubate viable cosmoses. You seed your cosmos with a Chaotic Void, a seething churning amalgam of potential--and wait. Wait for the statistically improbable: the repetition of a random state. The characteristic response of a Chaotic Void to state replication is ejection of the state (it's the basis of your pursuit, after all), to restore the integrity of the Chaos. The Chaotic Void, a sort of "bubble", herniated, essentially, ejecting the entirety of the state of Chaos that repeated. The nature of the ejection is quintessentially temporal--Time is born! Through the first and primary principle of reality/manifestation, association/sympathy, the ejected state adheres to the "bubble". The barrier region between the surface of the bubble and the ejected state is where All Existence Is, and it is called, the one Mind. The universe, as we know it, IS mental. There is only the one Mind. You operate it as well as you can! Mind operates by association of resonant nodes. Resonant nodes are the direct result of EXPERIENCE. Order is your daddy; the Chaotic Void is your granddaddy! Our job is to make peace in the Family!@@ hahaha...Because...the desire of Order is to return, to the Chaotic Void of Its origin; the desire of Chaos is, likewise, reunion, though, in conflict with an awareness that that union would destroy both, Order and Chaos. So, Chaos is conflicted/suicidal...hehehe...And the movements of this cosmic dance play out in our own lower order existence...as "attraction", and "confliction"...etc. As a cosmos designer, you will be fascinated to observe how your successful cosmos EVOLVES.
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