The great danger is that under the pressures of anxiety and fear, the alternation of crisis and relaxation and new crisis, the people of the world will come to accept gradually the idea of war, the idea of submission to total power, and the abdication of reason, spirit and individual conscience. The great peril of the...cold war is the progressive deadening of conscience.
Pretty wild storm. A sink hole open up two hundred fifty feet to three hundred feet from where I stayed last night. I was able to get a picture...
Far, far, far worst than that or those myopic optics. US = CIA/MOSSAD/MI6 EXPOSED: How Israeli Spies Control Your VPN [Link] ๐คก๐ฉ๐ช
Maybe instead of absorbing and shedding the absorbed energy the rubidium sheds the energy as it is absorbing it to maintain stasis, or...
ginkhoba While I understand your lack of sympathy. it may be that this is just what helps to wake the dozy sleepers on the internet, not just...
A major study involving 1.7 million children has found that heart damage only appeared in children who had received Covid mRNA vaccines. [Link]
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RC
(I am typing as I'm listening. I'll occasionally paraphrase your words and follow with a point re them.)
Here's an idea. I'll try to find, if opportunity presents, jokes from black folks about BLM BS. Also, I've gotta guess that Nada has some NYC jokes about that and, perhaps, Sharpton.
They see when what they looked forward to has instead run out of control and over them. . . The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Every new venture is justified by the apparatchiks via . . . Won't Get Fooled Again.
Marxism, in truth, can have no 'justification' - rather, all that is used (indeed, all that can only be used) is 'rationalization.'
As re the people who 'in good faith' supposedly believe in woke inanity . . they are the idiot followers. We are long past the point where responsibility should land on shoulders of those who should be "responsible" in the larger sense; indeed, the failure of such has placed us here. I know I'm not alone in getting fucking sick of these sorry idiots!
As re Marx being ASD, that's thoroughly beside the point. I surely am but I have a moral compass which is thoroughly separate from my idiosyncrasies / whatever. To me, we have three basic parts of ourselves, considering body and soul. (I don't know nor trust Freud, but I'd not be surprised if these are a better description of his id, ego, superego.)
First, one has intellect in the pure IQ fashion, then one has social IQ, the ability to present / intermingle with society. Finally, one has one's soul.
The malevolents' evil, comes, it seems to me from their soul. There are malevolents/psychopaths who are IQ smart and IQ not so smart. However, they surely have high social IQ scores of being able to read others, and falsely portray themselves in some STS fashion. Thus, it seems to me that the most likely largest place where that evil lies is in their souls. Of course, one can get pulled to the dark side. See Kurtz.
Gotta go. Good stuff so far, H!
R.C.
I bet that I commented there and I know the joke I would have said. (I'm sharp as a tack but getting rustier.) Do you have the SOTT link?
BTW, good job as far as I got.
RC
SOTT Focus:MindMatters: The Best Thing About Communism Was The Jokes
A judge walks out of his chambers laughing his head off. A colleague approaches him and asks why he is laughing. "I just heard the funniest joke in the world!" "Well, go ahead, tell me!" says the...Here's a better edit from TBL. [Link] Shows the scene's conclusion, "The old man told me. . ." and I find that whole scene with the Big Lebowski raising hell about communism and Korea (my father was there but wasn't like that - then again, he never got shot) rather apropos to any such Cold War I*
Thanks again!!!
RC
*As you know, WE are ramping up CWII; we ought to start describing it properly. When I read stuff from 1940-41 (until whenever) you see them consistently still refer to what in our lives has always been WWI as 'The Great War'.
I say we should be ahead of the curve on this. I grant that there's a chance that this is already CWIII, but I don't think so because Russia / Putin just keep ignoring all of our inanities and lame attempts to start fights. I LOVE IT!
RC
One of the elements of Political Ponerology, is they infiltrate and take over ideology snd its phrases, like freedom and equality. We all want to ve treated fairly. By using the phrase we agree with, but they change the meaning and context.
Instead of treating wokism as an ideology what happens if you treat it as a methodology. Then it has an intent or end-game. Then we can bring in what is the oversll agenda, and we can create our best theory based on leaders. Something like one world hovernment where thought, science, education, society structure, human development, government, morality, collectivism population, family, climate, are controlled through AI, transhumanism and genetic engineering by the power brokers. Then we could point out obstacles to this: family, schools, beliefs in freedom and equality, patriotism, individual over group thinking, church and religious beliefs, customs etc.
From this point of view wokism could be seen as affecting the movement towards this direction. It creates division within society, within the family, cresting confusion. Through education it indoctrinates younger generations in wokism and social activism which makes others who don't agree enemies who block change. It uses "equality" to evoke emotions of injustice. It is taught that violence for change is good. It uses "guilt" to attack the "white supremacists". It is a long range plan so prior generations have infiltrated education, business diversity, government, nonprofits to gain strength. It uses peer and collective pressure to ridicule and demonetize. It is a strategy
I've never thought about it from that angle. THANK YOU!
R.C.
I ask because your words could have come from my favorite undergrad professor. Praxis. I forgot that one.
RC
As re this infra: You only say that because you're too nice to say he was a psychopathic asshole.
rc
(nowadsys it is ofc ok to HATE formar ideas bcz of presant WHIMS) .
It's always okay to 'hate' on bad ideas, because they're bad. I don't care how old they are.
if you were living as a pessant at that time, would you prefere the presant system? (we now know that any form of power leads to corruption, hence that also communism was doomed to fail bcz of the structures of leadership it laid down. we can say/think what we like, but communism as an idea was inevitable at the time it emerged).
would you eg say that the utterly religious isabella/ferdinand, leopold or victoria was any better?
we are all standing on the shoulders of our predecessors, also the ones we dislike.
i suspect your view on communism is mostly influenced by american post wwii rethorics, (which offcource had nothing to do with what the original ideas behind communism was about).
it is you who brought up hitler and his doubious mental health.
"mr-grew-up-on-the-side-of-the-planet-where-none-of-what-you-are-expert-on-happened"
Climate change drove decline of mastodonts and elephants, new study suggests
Elephants and their forebears were pushed into wipeout by waves of extreme global environmental change, rather than overhunting by early humans, according to new research. The study, published...Ridicule and denigration aren't always bad, though. Just read some communism jokes. Like what Poles used to joke about Dzerzhinsky: He deserved a monument for being the Pole to kill the largest number of communists.
so yes, i agree that persons who have grown up far from those events are more likely not to have grokked much of it.
hmm. despite? or because of? - having spent years studying old farts?
Wokism is an emotional plague just as fascism and communism (see W.R. Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism). The hard core left and wokists are functionally fascists, brooking no opposition, no dissent, burning books, toppling statues, and beating people up in the street. I call them PINK FASCISTS. They are sick, and being sick they will not see the real psychopaths taking over their movement, and as in red and black fascism, the movement will devour its children.
There's a big difference between a parasite and a low-life with a small field of influence and a parasite and a low-life whose field of influence stretches across entire populations, continents, centuries, etc. Well, Reich was a commie (for a bit) and was almost directly responsible for a lot of nefariousnesses in terms of influence, too.
F'rinstance, where does "Smash the patriarchy" etc come from?
Although much of Reich's stuff was nae bad at all, the WR story is yet another lesson in "Be careful what you wish for, be careful what you manifest, be careful who you influence", etc.
Outlawed: "Important Medical Discovery" ... But Why?
Over many years, Dr. Wilhelm Reich's work and findings on the orgone energy, or life-energy, have been subjected to careful scientific scrutiny and evaluation. This video gives a short...On the other hand though, The Hegelian Dialectic is just a kind of 'version' of Gurdjieff's "Cosmic Law of Triamazikamno".
G is on my Round Tuit list: when I get 'round to it.' (NOT scuffing him. From all I've read here, he seems like he was a preSOTT SOTType.)
RC
RC
HFL: I see that after my above (in this text- which I still could delete but shall not) , where I confessed that I've not (OMG! ) , that you've since and infra? reverted to one of your innate FU type approaches to life. You come across better otherwise.
RC
You're hopeless.
Why don't you just face the fact you'll never get around to it and shut up?
Hopefully the Eva Reich interview I posted a link to above is not too "that's too much information!!!" for SOTT readers also.
LOL.
RC
RC
*It will help with those hot flashes.[Link]
rc
If you were really interested you would have watched the interview.
Obviously, you're not really interested.
Ultimately, you're just a great big huge turd blocking up the waterworks around here, and not much more.
Cheer up.
RC
F'rinstance, when she was talking about the appearance/disappearance of the UFO's in the desert. Her description more or less coincides with my own UFO experience, apart from one detail: the wobbling and blipping in and out of sight struck me as if there may have been a movement between a different dimension/density or whatever. How Eva Reich could be so adamant that was not the case is a mystery to me.
Was your experience near one of those places? The one UFO I've seen was 76 or 77 at Cape Hatteras.
RC
He comments on almost every single article on SOTT, and on almost every single comment on almost every single article on SOTT.
He's like a jammed car alarm.
despicable
RC
The TRL is, IMHO, the best war flick of all time. The scene where they call in the bunker / machine gun nest, I had a great surround sound setup and multiple people would say "OK, that's enough and have me stop it in the middle of the scene! You can literally hear the incoming artillery coming over your head.
My father was in Korea, Vietnam got scary for my generation - it was getting close and we were all scared about getting drafted to Vietnam. Fortunately, but we timed it perfectly (when we were born) because I never even had to register for the draft!
Never in the military even.
RC
RC
Genetic determinism: the belief that an individualโs character, thoughts, and actions are the result of his genes.
Freedom means: being free from, and outside of, ironclad cause and effect.
Which side of the argument will win? Nothing is riding on thisโฆexcept the future of the human race.
For the past 150 years, genetics has been emerging and taking center stage as the pre-eminent philosophy of life on planet Earth.
For most people, philosophy is of zero concern. They refuse to believe it can influence their lives in any way.
However, we currently have the RNA COVID genetic treatments called vaccines, targeting billions of people. According to the bought-off experts, these destructive treatments are working, in machine-like fashion, to protect us from a phantom virus.
The genetics on which the vaccines are based occupy a distinct philosophic position: our thoughts and actions are the effects of our genes; scientists can interfere with that structure and replace it with another genetic framework, which in turn will impose new all-consuming actions, thoughts, and biological alterations upon us.
One new machine taking over from an older machine.
But there has never been a genetic cure for any disease. All attempts to prove that a disease stems from genes have failed. In this sense, genetics is a long con, both scientifically and philosophically.
Of course, the scientists will never admit this. Theyโre dedicated to tinkering and experimenting, โuntil they get it right.โ
Veteran journalist Celia Farber describes one such experiment: โJesse Gelsinger was 18 years old when he volunteered for a clinical trial at Penn State to test the effect on GT [gene therapy] on a rare metabolic disorder called OTC Deficiency. Within hours of being infused with โcorrective genesโ encased in weakened adeno-virus, Jesse suffered multiple organ failure, and days later, his blood almost totally coagulated, swollen beyond recognition, and brain dead---he was taken off life support.โ
Just another day at the office for the funders and researchers. Theyโre working with billions of dollars and a vision of the future. Nothing must stand in their way.
Here is one of those visions, expressed by Gregory Stock, former director of the program in Medicine, Technology, and Society at the UCLA School of Medicine:
โEven if half the worldโs species were lost [during genetic experiments], enormous diversity would still remain. When those in the distant future look back on this period of history, they will likely see it not as the era when the natural environment was impoverished, but as the age when a plethora of new forms---some biological, some technological, some a combination of the two---burst onto the sceneโฆโ
You need to understand that behind all this โenvisioningโ and experimenting, there is the solid conviction that freedom and free will are illusions that donโt exist. Therefore, all experiments are permitted, since they simply substitute one determinism for another, one machine for another. Life itself is viewed as nothing more than a pattern, a structure.
Huxleyโs Brave New World wasnโt really a radical departure from the emerging genetic science of his time. It was a description of โbetter genetic programming,โ carried to a logical conclusion. Humans would be fully outfitted with a biology that made them content and satisfied with their designated positions in life.
There was the thunder AND the lightning. Humans genetically conditioned for specific roles; and also conditioned to accept those roles beyond the possibility of rebellion.
What about the centuries of struggle and war and blood to establish political freedom? What about the Magna Carta and the Declaration of independence and the Constitution and its Amendments?
For the genetic philosophers, all that history is waste and meaningless garbage, since freedom does not exist.
Iโm not talking about a small bunch of crazy philosophers closeted in a cellar and spinning fantasies. These people are carrying banners of the new world among the most elite Globalists.
The entire fake pandemic narrative, starting with the lie that researchers discovered a new virus, was launched in order to open a door for RNA genetic technology.
Yes, there were other reasons, but gene tech was central. Coming up, we will see new genetic treatments called vaccines. And drugs based on that tech.
Behind that---programs to make deeper and deeper genetic changes in humans.
The cover story for genetic research and experimentation is: weโre trying to cure disease.
The truth: machine minds are trying to convert other minds into machines.
What do contemporary philosophers have in their arsenal to combat this assault? Here is an example from Thomas Nagel, a professor at New York University:
โEven if determinism [the inevitable chain of cause and effect] isn't true for everything that happens -- even if some things just happen without being determined by causes that were there in advance -- it would still be very significant if everything we did were determined before we did it. However free you might feel when choosing between fruit and cake, or between two candidates in an election, you would really be able to make only one choice in those circumstances---though if the circumstances or your desires had been different, you would have chosen differently.โ
Really? Thatโs it?
Professor Nagel somehow KNOWS there is no such thing as free will?
Well, if thatโs the case, he wrote those words because he had to, because of the very determinism he describes; he had no choice; and people reading those words of his think about them in a way that is also predetermined. The whole business is a puppet show and means absolutely nothing.
The โphilosophyโ of determinism is, when you scratch the surface, a philosophy of nihilism. Nothing means anything.
And its perpetrators arenโt bothered in the least. Theyโre quite content to stand on their absurd pretensions, while hard scientists inject populations with genes.
So much for academia as โthe guardians of civilization.โ
Most of them are weak sisters. I wouldnโt give a nickel for a gaggle of them.
Each one us makes free choices every day of his life. Taking freedom into your mind implies working on a canvas as big and grand as you want to make it.
Iโll take the flaming poetry of Thomas Paine; December 23, 1776:
โTHESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.โ
Finally, for now---in America, a country founded on the idea of freedom, a country that fought a devastating Civil War over slavery, can you find one college or university that, between the ratification of the Constitution and nowโฆ
Has taught a year-long course, year after yearโฆ
Called INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM?
This would be a course in which the history of the struggle for freedom is covered; philosophic and scientific writings about freedom are covered; and, most importantly, the students actively participate, in order to shape their own concepts of freedom that will endure for the rest of their lives.
Can you point to one such course---INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM---regularly taught, at one college?
I canโt.
What does this tell you?
Since the beginning of America, powerful forces have been at work to deny, refute, reject, and collapse the very premise on which the nation was based.
Has any student in America ever been awarded a PhD in Individual Freedom? I canโt find one.
โI see youโve just founded a Space Travel Group. Iโd be very interested in joining. I assume you cover all aspects of space travel. Rockets, ships, navigation, elements of survival during long voyages, colonization on distant planets, the fantastic marvels of these adventures...โ
โActually, no. We study the habits and tasks of ants. Their nests, hierarchy, division of labor, the biology of communal sharing, the ant genome, the virtues of overall genetic programming in achieving day-to-day goals of the colonyโฆโ
โI see. So youโre quite insane.โ
โNo. We know exactly what weโre doing and why.โ
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During ny angst period I wrote "Freedom is such a pretty word, it blinds men's eyes". At the time I realized it was responsibility to think and choose based on reason.
Thanks
P.s. Paine's The Age Of Reason* which got Thomas Paine 'canceled' (and, played a role in him almost getting killed, as I recall. ) Free
Our lunatic PC cancelers would recancel him if they could. They have no humor and are our modern death worshipping puritans. Free at [Link]
rc
(I actually can do a damn good falsetto JJ on this one - same with Mercedes song.)
(Most folks don't realize that 'Bobbie' was originally a female, but I'd give good odds that you know that.)
I remember when she died (Hendrix, RFK, JFK, etc.)
RC
God knows what it does to humans.
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โWe can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.โ
Wokism is a mask alright... a mask of insanity ...
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PROGRAMMED: Invisible Chains: [Link]
I think it's essentially (ironically), that the woke stuff is entropy ''in action''. It is unconsciousness, it is sleep, it is death, it is a black hole sucking everything it can into non existence: History, psychology, science, literature, creativity, competence, freedom, intelligence, joy, comedy, irony, life, soul, art, music, culture, society, civilisation, education, philosophy, meaning, symbols, signs, prayers, pianos and poppadoms. I may have missed a few, like: entertainment, social life, human relations, facts, figures, fairies and families.
This ''thing'' has been around forever I reckon, it just masks itself under different ideologies, banners etc. I think as we move further into the ''transition'' as per the Cs, this stuff will become more,... hmm, can't quite think of the right word.
Maybe we have a front row seat in watching Lobaczewski's ponerization process manifest through the various stages into full blown pathocracy? Unpleasant as that may be!
I can't think of anything more anti-life than Janis Joplin.
The Woke aren't awake.
The "Black Lives Matter" battalion isn't mainly comprised of or run by blacks.
The vaccine isn't a vaccine.
The pandemic isn't a pandemic.
"The Science" isn't science.
When everything you see or hear is lie......
. First we are in a spiritual battle and we need to feed ourselves with whatever raises you up. Music, art, literature, the Bible, meditation, prayer, poetry. Otherwise the news of the day feeds lower parts of ourselves snd we feel emotions that drag us down: hopelessness, powerlessness, shame, fear, desperateness, anxiety etc.
Adam indicated we have free will. This means we can choose to face adversity or suffering with strength of will. The Greeks were great at this attested by the 300 Spartans as the story is told. As my favorite basketball coach John Wooden said, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." Certainly the DS appears to be Goliath, yet David will meet him with confidence and faith.
The other reason for Abydos is the relief carvings and painting are incredibly beautiful. However, many faces of Horus and Isis and other Egyptian spiritual beings had been hammered off. Later generations destroyed the beliefs and values of earlier generations. What this means is that values sustain civilizations. Our civilization to continue, must have a revitalization of values. Each one of us has free will and what we need is our own moral compass.
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' A โLeapโ toward Humanityโs Destruction ' By Whitney Webb "The worldโs richest medical research foundation, the Wellcome Trust, has teamed up with a pair of former DARPA directors who built Silicon Valleyโs skunkworks to usher in an age of nightmarish surveillance, including for babies as young as three months old. Their agenda can only advance if we allow it..." [Link]
Now we had horny toads (horned lizards) when we lived in the desert but that ain't no horny toad, that's a bullfrog.
RC
Also the powerful picture perfectly depicts the essence of the Boss of Wokism, The Father of Lies.