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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.
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!
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.
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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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.
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?
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.
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."
Marx was a parasite and a low-life.That's a little unfair on parasites and low-lifes.
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.
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? )
Highland Fleet Lute G is on my Round Tuit list: when I get 'round to it.'How many times have you said that?
"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.
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.
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.
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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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.
