Today on MindMatters we dissect wokism using the lens of ponerology. Wokism isn't just a bad idea. It's a mask for something much worse, just as communism and fascism were in the twentieth century.
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Harrison Koehli co-hosts SOTT Radio Network's MindMatters, and is an editor for Red Pill Press. He has been interviewed on several North American radio shows about his writings on the study of ponerology. In addition to music and books, Harrison enjoys tobacco and bacon (often at the same time) and dislikes cell phones, vegetables, and fascists (commies too).
Born and raised in New York City, Elan has been an editor for SOTT.net since 2014 and is a co-host for MindMatters. He enjoys seeing and sharing what's true about our profoundly and rapidly changing world.
Adam joined the editorial team in 2014 and is a co-host of MindMatters. His particular interests include philosophy, history, exercise science, and technology. He particularly dislikes Critical Race Theory and people who're so afraid of death that they prevent others from living. He also knows kung fu.
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(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.
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!!!
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*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!
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Rowan Cocoan · 2 years agoI see my rust has at least not completely destroyed my poor brain's edge because my joke is there:Bezel BubJoe "Joe Bribem". EXCELLENT!
Rowan Cocoan · about a year ago Former US and Soviet Spies Chat at a Bar Two spies on the opposite side of the Cold War, Agents from the Soviet/KGB & American/CIA, were bemoaning howRC
hard they'd had it since the end of the Cold War and who was worse off now. This was then overheard:
KGB SPY TO CIA SPY: "We may have owned Pravda, but YOUR countrymen BELIEVED your propaganda!"
(Re how long we WERE fooled by the PTB.) I posted this then-remembered version here 9/5/2012. Can't find the link tho. I seem to recall having posted a better versiion... somewhere.
It is NOT original to me.
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
Dwoods44 Instead of treating wokism as an ideology what happens if you treat it as a methodology.Super astute! It (like communism, fascism, and other authoritarian control scams) IS a methodology!
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.
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As re this infra:
He was the opposite of an exemplary human being.You only say that because you're too nice to say he was a psychopathic asshole.
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hkoehli In undergrad I was a Political Science major. You?Nope. I had zero interest in polisci when I went to school.
I ask because your words could have come from my favorite undergrad professor. Praxis. I forgot that one.
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As re this infra:He was the opposite of an exemplary human being.You only say that because you're too nice to say he was a psychopathic asshole.
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(nowadsys it is ofc ok to HATE formar ideas bcz of presant WHIMS) .
hkoehli imo, engels, lenin, marx, etc made up their theories in respons to the current situation(s) they were living in.That applies to all theories. The good ones and the bad ones. Communism was a bad one.
(i would prb have reacted similar as they did, if i was living THERE at the same time).What makes you think you'd write schizoid philosophy?
but you are saying you see it different. bcz you would have though it was quite ok to be abused, or you would have known that "all of that" would have lead to "this and that"? being "the smarter guy" - or what?No. I'm just not paranoid, or a schizoid. For all I know I would have been a communist - that doesn't justify thinking communism was anything other than what it was: dumb. I wouldn't have come up with such a theory though. I'm not nearly prolific and hyperactive enough.
(nowadsys it is ofc ok to HATE formar ideas bcz of presant WHIMS) .Say the same thing about Hitlerism.
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?
From some wiki, Feudalism: "the dominant social system in medieval europe, in which the nobility held lands from the crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labour, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection."(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).
hkoehli about hitlerism; hitler was not unique. the tradition at the time/before him was to treate humans as slaves/firewood.What does that have to do with whether or not Hitler's ideas sucked because he was a deranged psychopath?
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).
hkoehli thanks for your kind suggestion. in return, also i will offer links to some reading; [Link] and [Link]We're talking about MARXISM. Recall what you wrote to begin this inane discussion: "imo, engels, lenin, marx, etc made up their theories in respons to the current situation(s) they were living in"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).My views on Marxism are influenced mostly by Marx.
it is you who brought up hitler and his doubious mental health.Yes, for a reason you seem not to have grokked.
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...smertzasmert Ridiculing and denigration are the tools of the power brokers to mislead and misdirect people away from truth. Please work with ideas not slander. Show us some truth of Marx.If anyone wants a short account with most of the relevant details, just read Thomas Sowell's chapter on Marx's bio in his book Marxism. He lived off his friends' charity, e.g. Engels, was terrible with managing whatever money was given to him, was objectively a terrible husband and father, emotionally detached. An example of his mentality: "When our turn comes, we shall not disguise our terrorism."
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.
Marx was a parasite and a low-life.That's a little unfair on parasites and low-lifes.
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.
Wokism is an emotional plague just as fascism and communism (see W.R. Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism).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.)
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Abstract: Wilhelm Reich’s "bion experiments," conducted in Norway from 1934-1939 represent an unusual intersection of many important developments and changes in life sciences research in the 1930s, and it is a case previously overlooked by professional historians of biology and medicine. The case merits historical research as an addition to the literature on biologists in the 1930s who explicitly used dialectical-materialist philosophy in their work, as a unique chapter of controversy in the development of origin of life ideas originating from psychoanalytic ideas, as a serious critique of the contemporary trend toward increasing reductionism in the life sciences (particularly under the influence of Rockefeller Foundation funding), and for other historiographic issues such as the inclusion of close study of laboratory notebooks. New narratives about Reich’s work are needed since historians of science have shown recently how problematic are such categories as "pseudoscience," to which Reich’s laboratory work has formerly been relegated.
"During this time Reich also pursued another line of logic. Following the logic of Berlin internist and cardiology pioneer Friedrich Kraus, he gathered and systematized knowledge about certain biochemical substances (such as potassium, lecithin, choline) that produce swelling and stimulation of the parasympathetic responses (pleasure, expansion) of the autonomic nervous system; contrasting these with other substances (such as calcium, cholesterin, adrenaline) that produce dehydration and shrinking of the tissues and simultaneously stimulate the sympathetic (anxiety, contraction) responses of the ANS. Thus, in parallel with his thinking about the movement of bioelectrical charge as central to life, he also wondered whether paired combinations of antagonistic biochemicals in a test tube could simulate the alternating expansion and contraction of simple living cells."
"In the second, parallel series of experiments, falling within the tradition of what were called "cell model experiments," combining paired antagonistic substances such as potassium and calcium, lecithin and cholesterin, or choline and adrenaline (or combinations of these pairs), Reich found these mixtures often produced active, motile bions. The bions pulsated, moved around from place to place, budded and divided to increase their numbers—Reich was eventually able to transfer them to sterile culture media and grow up a pure culture of a new generation of the same type of bions (a thing never seen in cell model experiments before). They often developed a measurable electrical charge (a strong charge and increased possibility of successful culturability was seen if the bion mixture remained colloidally turbid for hours or more."Wilhelm Reich’s Bion Experiments: an unusual origin of life research program....[Link]
Contempt of court While Reich was in Arizona in May 1956, one of his associates sent an accumulator part through the mail to another state, in violation of the injunction, after an FDA inspector posing as a customer requested it.[159] Reich and another associate, Dr. Michael Silvert, were charged with contempt of court; Silvert had been looking after the inventory in Reich's absence. Reich at first refused to attend court, and was arrested and held for two days until a supporter posted bail of $30,000.[160] [Link]which pisses my free speech soul to its core. Argh.(I didn't bother to finish even the wee wee . . . it was too . . . yellow? )
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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.
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Highland Fleet Lute G is on my Round Tuit list: when I get 'round to it.'How many times have you said that?
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.
"During this time Reich also pursued another line of logic. Following the logic of Berlin internist and cardiology pioneer Friedrich Kraus, he gathered and systematised knowledge about certain biochemical substances (such as potassium, lecithin, choline) that produce swelling and stimulation of the parasympathetic responses (pleasure, expansion) of the autonomic nervous system; contrasting these with other substances (such as calcium, cholesterin, adrenaline) that produce dehydration and shrinking of the tissues and simultaneously stimulate the sympathetic (anxiety, contraction) responses of the ANS.Note parallel concept to Cassiopaeans "STO and STS".
Highland Fleet Lute W.R. Reich met with an ignoble end...Yes, the FDA got him on ridiculous charges. He made the mistake of defending himself. Early deep state operation. Pity as he had great faith in American and had become rather a political conservative. I believe power of his work is demonstrated by the hatred it stirred in people.
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*It will help with those hot flashes.[Link]
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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.
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Highland Fleet Lute Never ! It's great to hear Eva tell it as she saw it and her looking back on it all in retrospect! Here's my favorite Kate Bush video, 'Cloudbursting' [Link]Some of her testimony is a bit shaky here and there, I think.
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.
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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
Dwoods44 is quite rightFrom Malik film, The Thin Red Line:
Bell here is quite right. From their knob there our little brown brothers can cover the whole of the ground in front of our position for a thousand yards.(Can't find it, but the scene is called 'Tall visits the line.") Great film - best with good surround sound.
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Lobogris You didn't have to be on Guadalcanal did you?Dwoods44 is quite rightFrom Malik film, The Thin Red Line:Bell here is quite right. From their knob there our little brown brothers can cover the whole of the ground in front of our position for a thousand yards.(Can't find it, but the scene is called 'Tall visits the line.") Great film - best with good surround sound.
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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.
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Genetic determinism: the belief that an individual’s 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 this…except 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. They’re dedicated to tinkering and experimenting, “until they get it right.”
Veteran journalist Celia Farber describes one such experiment: “Jesse 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 ‘corrective genes’ 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.”
Just another day at the office for the funders and researchers. They’re 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:
“Even if half the world’s 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 scene…”
You need to understand that behind all this “envisioning” and experimenting, there is the solid conviction that freedom and free will are illusions that don’t 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.
Huxley’s Brave New World wasn’t really a radical departure from the emerging genetic science of his time. It was a description of “better genetic programming,” 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.
I’m 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: we’re 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:
“Even 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.”
Really? That’s it?
Professor Nagel somehow KNOWS there is no such thing as free will?
Well, if that’s 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 “philosophy” of determinism is, when you scratch the surface, a philosophy of nihilism. Nothing means anything.
And its perpetrators aren’t bothered in the least. They’re quite content to stand on their absurd pretensions, while hard scientists inject populations with genes.
So much for academia as “the guardians of civilization.”
Most of them are weak sisters. I wouldn’t 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.
I’ll take the flaming poetry of Thomas Paine; December 23, 1776:
“THESE 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.”
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 now…
Has taught a year-long course, year after year…
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 can’t.
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 can’t find one.
“I see you’ve just founded a Space Travel Group. I’d 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...”
“Actually, 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 colony…”
“I see. So you’re quite insane.”
“No. We know exactly what we’re doing and why.”
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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.
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Nothing of the above comments which have been said can apply, even with the most distant disrespect, to the real character of Jesus Christ. He was a virtuous and an amiable man. The morality that he preached and practiced was of the most benevolent kind; and though similar systems of morality had been preached by Confucius, and by some of the Greek philosophers, many years before, by the Quakers since, and by many good men in all ages, it has not been exceeded by any.RC
Jesus Christ wrote no account of himself, of his birth, parentage, or anything else. Not a line of what is called the New Testament is of his writing. The history of him is altogether the work of other people; and as to the account given of his resurrection and ascension, it was the necessary counterpart to the story of his birth. His historians, having brought him into the world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the same manner, or the first part of the story must have fallen to the ground.
The wretched contrivance with which this latter part is told, exceeds everything that went before it. The first part, that of the miraculous conception, was not a thing that admitted of publicity; and therefore the tellers of this part of the story had this advantage, that though they might not be credited, they could not be detected. They could not be expected to prove it, because it was not one of those things that admitted of proof, and it was impossible that the person of whom it was told could prove it himself.
But the resurrection of a dead person from the grave, and his ascension through the air, is a thing very different, as to the evidence it admits of, to the invisible conception of a child in the womb. The resurrection and ascension, supposing them to have taken place, admitted of public and ocular demonstration, like that of the ascension of a balloon, or the sun at noon day, to all Jerusalem at least. A thing which everybody is required to believe, requires that the proof and evidence of it should be equal to all, and universal; and as the public visibility of this last related act was the only evidence that could give sanction to the former part, the whole of it falls to the ground, because that evidence never was given. Instead of this, a small number of persons, not more than eight or nine, are introduced as proxies for the whole world, to say they saw it, and all the rest of the world are called upon to believe it. But it appears that Thomas did not believe the resurrection; and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I; and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas.
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]
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(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.)
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God knows what it does to humans.
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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!
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 “Leap” toward Humanity’s Destruction ' By Whitney Webb "The world’s richest medical research foundation, the Wellcome Trust, has teamed up with a pair of former DARPA directors who built Silicon Valley’s 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.