Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Styxhexenhammer666"
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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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Any cogent, coherent system of self-discipline will "WORK", no thanks to anything special or unique in the system itself. Eastern systems are best suited to easterners, as western systems are best suited to westerners. "Meditation", being the basic stuff you can do with your mind, falls into three basic categories: observation, concentration, and vacancy; observation brings detachment, concentration brings focus, and vacancy brings awareness. Different systems have different emphases, which may mean, deficiencies, or short-comings. Any system whose "baggage" is not off-putting to the individual practitioner will yield some benefit. Then, there's the...original approach, vaguely, or maybe not so vaguely, mystical, whereby you develop your own "system". That's, really, the "royal path"...some people just don't easily tolerate being lashed to a guru...It's helpful to remember that everyone you meet, everything you see and hear, everything you read builds into you by the experience of it! It becomes a part of you going forward; every moment shapes you into the next moment. Guard the gates of experience, as you would guard your soul!
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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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