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  • #228303
    D Benton Smith
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    @TAE_Summary

    “@DBS
    – I’m not an atheist but I am a skeptic
    – You call me an asshole; Guilty as charged
    – You’re comments on the Magi were ignorant and ridiculous and I mocked them; I admit I went too far and apologize
    – You assert the manly thing to do would be to just to come out and say what I mean, so here it is: Your comments on the Magi were ignorant and ridiculous; Defend them if you can.

    Challenge accepted, let the dust-up begin, but before we gate started I first want to apologize for my earlier accusations.

    I not only apologize for them, I formally retract them. Believing in the veracity of an idea strongly enough to take an unambiguous position is neither wrong nor cowardly. You have come out as a self declared skeptic, so I take it back. If you keep doing that long enough you’re likely to wind up with your skepticism starting to go away. Not absolutely certain, but pretty darned probable.

    Now, about those magi guys.

    My comments on the Magi were, in fact, quite eruditely knowledgeable (decades of study) , so for you to find them ridiculous is going to shine the lime-light on you for not knowing enough history, archaeology and sciency stuff to counter my statement with facts. You had to fall back on mere refutation and ridicule (the last defensive ditch for the ignorant.) Careful of the back foot that you’re resting your balance on, because you have run out of room to back up any further.

    Scoundrels (and I’m speaking of the magi) are adept at re-branding and swapping labels around to confuse the posse that is always chasing them as a consequence of their crime spree, but one of the hardest things to hide is linguistics.

    We humans drag our linguistically proven history around behind us like a smelly pedigree. How we communicate twixt each other is a testimony of what we believe and who told us so, and that lays a trail of what we think we want and how to get it. Better than DNA in other crucial ways, too, but the main point is that and individuals linguistic patterns are nearly impossible to conceal and even harder to change. Liars lie because they can’t help it. It’s the only thing they know how to do well enough to survive.

    Follow that phoneme … magi-… back through it’s historical arc and you will find the esoteric cults and priests of Babylon, Ur and Pre-Dynastic Egypt, and they were all “into” the same sorts of things, namely ways to trick and control anyone unwary enough to fall under their sway. I could regale you with tales (and documented scientific evidence) for days, but what would be the point? Magi are magi, no matter what they’re calling themselves this millennium, but they are the same dudes by any other name.

    CelticBiker likes to call them Jews! but we all know who he’s really talking about. He’s talking about a recognizable type of human being, and CelticBiker’s only problem is that he thinks Jews! have got a patent on the crime. That brand of Jews are far from the only ones out to get they want without contributing their own fair share.

    I’m describing about the bastards who use lies and deceit to steal things they could not themselves produce in a month of Sundays.

    They come in all shapes, sizes and colors, but you know something that ties most of the together? If you guessed “linquistics” and magi-related practices and career choices. You should know the type like the back of your hand because we all deal with them every day. They claim the right to control you, by lies and official bullshit preferably but with force if deemed necessary (deemed necessary by THEM, by the way). They’re the ones who try to know something that the other guy doesn’t know (making stuff secret is a fast and easy way to do that! and putting it into history and law books is another)….. and then use that “special knowledge” to control the other bloke. Very annoying.

    So, yeah. Let’s dive in. I would very much enjoy having you teach me that the things I say about religious history and the “magi-” class of human is ignorant and ridiculous. That experience would make a lot more than just ‘my day‘ !

    #228304
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #228309
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #228312
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    16:00

    Putin says NATO has to go back to the 1991 borders

    #228315
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Once it’s commonly understood the fake and gay theatrical jew media and jew alt media is a chute to the abbatoir, things will change, rapidly. We’re on the cusp of generational change. When no1 buys the bullshit, the bullshit dies.

    #228317
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @MichaelReid

    Putin telling NATO that it needs to return to 1991 borders reminds me of the famous “chickens scene” from Game Of Thrones.
    https://youtu.be/KtCsmSMRiC0?si=Hafu29B6h3Jk-LuL

    #228318
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    14:00
    If NATO collapses what you will get is impoverished countries…

    #228321
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    The CIA is running the show

    #228322
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #228332
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Micheal, why, in the name of Christ, do you believe what these ‘”expert” podcast shit for brains have to say? The jew $ behind television “programming”, just morphed and slithered into internet “programming”. Cucker Tarlson or any of these big $, fancy studio, 90% true, 10% complete bullshit artists are just mindfucking you and any other gullible motherfucker watching them. You were in the military, do you understand full spectrum informational war or not? The people who know what is going on are broke, mocked and ignored. That is how this matrix of delusion works.

    #228339
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #228340
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Putin New Demand As Kiev Collapses: NATO Expansion Must Be Reversed; EU In Panic; Argues Over Envoy

    #228341
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Celtic there is some truth to be found

    #228346

    There are folks who live among us who are not like me and you.
    They claim that they are born to tell the world just what to do.
    They’ve been with us forever; and they are not going away.
    We have to craft our governments to keep these wolves at bay.

    #228348

    I just watched Matt Ehret’s “Hidden Hand Behind UFOs”. Aside from the ghastly music, it is a wonderful series.
    This (bouncing off his interview with cryptorich) is my first encounter with Mr. Ehret- .
    : )
    The more I hear about him, the more I wish I could excise Allen Dulles (and his brother) from history.

    #228350
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Criminal operations

    #228362
    Maxwell Quest
    Participant

    MPSK,

    I followed your link to Matt Ehret’s The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs Ep. 4 (Roswell and the Birth of a New Legend) video and watched several minutes, then read the comments to get an overview of feedback. It’s getting late here, but I feel a response is needed. Here are my thoughts:

    First, I understand how difficult it is to make heads or tails out of current events and life in general. It’s no easy task, and by the time we start getting the lay of the land it’s time to check out. We don’t live long enough to gain much wisdom, unless life gives us a crash course. My best advice for anyone attempting to sort truth from error is to start by cleaning the instrument, which is you. Tear yourself apart from top to bottom, letting nothing hide. William Blake wrote, “the eye that alters, alters all.” He knew of what he spoke. The cleaner the instrument, the better the sight. The better the sight, the easier it is to sort fact from fiction, truth from error.

    That said, my impression of Matt is that he got his varsity letter in debate club. He’s a performer who is still wet behind the ears in life. He has his hands in multiple exotic disciplines from which he weaves stories to entertain his audience, but has no real depth of understanding or wisdom. To the untrained ear his explanations are fascinating and compelling, but he is just another of the many false prophets that lead people astray and dazzle the gullible.

    I was reminded of the self-help guru, Wayne Dyer, that did a lot of programs for PBS years ago. My mother used to adore him and loved to listen to his motivational lectures, but I could only handle about five minutes of his blather. He pulled interesting tidbits from various spiritual disciplines and wove them together into a lecture. It seemed like talk, talk, talk, without any personal realization. There was no connection to the heart. I was never moved. My soul untouched.

    It seems that there are so many today that don’t know what to believe anymore. I feel for them. And the information warfare is only growing more intense. The internet has become a hall of mirrors. Unless, one is well grounded and has clear sight you’ll get lost in the maze.

    Master, why are there so many false gurus that lead seekers down false paths? Because only those who are ready to be taught by a true master can find their way to his feet.

    Final thought, get info directly from the source if possible. Go right to the well yourself. Second-hand analysis can sometimes be useful, but personal experience is best.

    #228382
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Almost on 2 months, no Raul. No emergency contact list.

    Gold $60 raids daily, silver $6 raids daily. This was predicted along with a number $600.

    Missed Monero: $700? Doubled? Zcash also. These are the newbie privacy coins. Best deal is ETH right now. Extremely solid, held lower, and showing good strength to make up the BTC:ETH ratio.

    “Lindsey Graham Drowns Sorrows After Trump Refrained From Iran Attack On ‘No Guarantees’

    Same Fox experts were just saying Iran was a sure thing. And also it was super, super sad because we have all this riot and regime change there, but unless the protests work to get them on the edge, golly gee shucks fellas, the U.S. just can’t bomb. There’s just no point now. But better luck next time, I did everything I could! I even warned Iran ahead of time just to make this exact outcome happen.

    …Just like last time.

    Don’t worry, they’ll forget in a month and try the same thing all over again, same as since 1981. But for the next 3 years Trump can warn Iran again ahead of time and keep the balance of power. …Just as he does Putin.

    Golly, I can NOT understand why he can’t go on Fox news and just tell the American people that, can you? Can’t think of a single reason they’d misunderstand it and get mad n stuff.

    Ron Paul: Making Imperialism Great Again?
    To no one’ s surprise, Senator Lindsey Graham was delighted by the possibility…

    That aged badly. In about six hours.

    BTW again, Luongo-Krainer said/predicted all this. To Deisen. And Deisen just shrugged it off with Wilkerson, he has no idea what’s going on. Okay then. I’ll have to skip Wilkerson this time because it was like EVERY line needed to be refuted. Like good thing they don’t just have quick transcripts because I might to your sorrow, all 50 pages. And not just the usual, “I dunno, but Orange Man Retard.” Like “I Dunno, because I’m unaware that there’s a new national security approach letter everyone I know has been talking about for 4 weeks.” “I think the global army should be positioned to my liking” “Miller thinks we should have bases in Greenland, but we just pulled them out (decades back)” and “I love HW Bush for evah and evahs. He wuz the bestest most law-abiding President we’ve ever seen.” (And Reagan sucks).

    Whut. The hack.

    Just tired of it all. We’re here, it’s done, there’s no point, moving on.

    Proud Boys founder, outed as an ICE agent” – Youtube. “I always knew ICE was a White Supremacist group….” — Comments.

    !!!!. “That word don’t mean what you think it mean.” The Proud Boys may not have ALWAYS been FBI informants – they were actually a made-up joke group doing it Hipster Ironically, pledging allegiance to breakfast cereals IIRC (that is not a joke), but from the moment the Media pushed these practically no-member, nobody group, you knew something was up. So like ALMOST the beginning. Within a year or two. And their leader is an FBI asset – also known. Duh!!!

    Commenter has no insight on how a black man is the leader of America’s foremost “White Supremacist” group. I don’t bother, bc: Logic. They got none. But that’s how racist America is: there are ZERO actual groups doing this, so they not only have to make one up, but all the racist members – these are the most racist men they can find in America mind you — have no problem with a black man being their official leader. This ain’t your grandma’s racism! Heck FRANCE is more racist than that. They’d probably outlaw Italians from French club. And don’t start on Corsicans…

    “What to do if you’ve been exposed to measles” –CNN

    Nothing.? You’ve been f—king vaccinated? That’s what “vaccination” means? Wow, new modern world just continues on: you have to get vaccinated to stop the coof, which doesn’t stop the coof, so you need to mask and lock yourself in your car. Sigh. So done again.

    Trump Threatens To Invoke Insurrection Act As Left-Wing Chaos In Minneapolis Spreads
    “Rioters destroyed federal vehicles and stole firearms, ammunition…”

    Mrs. Good’s compatriots (socialists) got a riot, a pickup truck, and a rope to tear the armory off a Federal vehicle…on camera. With a black gentleman there explaining to them, on camera, and they were on camera committing this Harper’s Ferry crime of robbing the armory on camera. Which may not be a great idea. …And did it anyway of course.

    And it was empty. So yay them. And they immediately caught him, because: unique face tattoo? Of gangs and felons? Power of superior brainpower.

    This was being done throughout the city, robbing all law enforcement cars for their guns, papers, warrants, …names of officers, home addresses, informants?

    This is obviously awesome and anyone stopping them is evil. Not like we should, um, vote or file paperwork or something, but definitely go to the cartridge box instead.

    “US Eyes Private Security Contractors To Protect Oil Assets In Venezuela

    They’re Mad if Wagner or Blackwater is in there but ALSO mad if the U.S. Army is in there. Mad, always mad, Orange Man Bad, they should have NO safety or security, and no oil pumped and sold, that is good, good, good. Speaking of, Duran had on a Venezuelan expert and he was elated by the opportunities there, for good, and for prosperity of helping the Venezuelan people, and also that Maduro was disliked and a problem, while the present VP is a true Chavanista and an excellent choice. …So slipped on more banana peels, and everyone came up holding gold bars again, the people most of all.

    For Iran (Guess I posted that yesterday) “TRUMP BACKS DOWN IN IRAN!!!” — Haiphong.

    Golly gee, he’s awful disappointed we won’t have a war there now. As are all 20 Fox news experts. They pinky-promised, and if we don’t have a war, it’s Trump’s failure. TACO. And so for SECOND time in a row, Trump doesn’t attack Iran for Israel, doesn’t start a war, just as WE all predicted, and THEY were all dead wrong again, but no one notices and stamp their little feet and believe he still wants only war and works only for Bibi.

    Uh-huh. So another five banana peels he trips on, crushed the Derp State, slaps warhawks into last week, does it all on camera, and nobody has the slightest idea what’s going on, and are all elated and cheering they got mud-f—ed again. Okay man. I’ll watch. Trump sure is stoopid when the scoreboard has yet another 7 points on his side and you have zero. You may want to look into how scores are kept.

    No war = WIN?

    So the guy who didn’t do the war is option A) Winner? or B) Loser. They say if there’s no war, he’s a loser, and I disagree. With that outlook, they don’t realize they WANT war, and are declaring it their highest good, and if there’s no war, they’re mad, and sad, and ‘Merica loses for them. Crowing, crowing!

    “Iran Temporary Offramp” – Duran. Why should it be temporary? A: because They know with perfect certainty the ultimate future. Do we usually say “We temporarily withdrew from Afghanistan?” “Trump Temporarily takes Presidency? (Democrats will win again later)” That’s perfectly true, but what? No, we do NOT do that. The purpose of this is, “I/We Hate Trump and he’s an idiot. He will definitely do the wrong thing next time!” …Because I SAID so, that’s why.

    The Internet: “What I have been wondering lately is why the feds aren’t seizing the vehicles of these ICE protesters. If there’s any legitimate use of those forfeiture laws, it’s in seizing property used in the commission of crime.
    If you’re driving around and blocking law enforcement with your vehicle, law enforcement should seize the vehicle and auction it off to recoup costs on behalf of taxpayers.
    This would stop the protest ladies in their tracks. They’d think twice if they knew they’d have to hoof it to the store for the box wine.” Price

    Any consequences at all would do it, but esp this one.

    “Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Denies DOJ Bid To Access California Voter Registration Rolls
    …DOJ cannot use civil rights legislation “as a tool to forsake the privacy rights of millions of Americans,”

    Because then the government would have the government’s records? Same argument as DOGE: the government is not allowed to see what the government is doing. Tis not done, sir!

    If the government learned what the government is doing, it might stop itself! The whole thing could unravel!

    Walz speech: 5 min. Cool. Usual platitudes. We believe in law. Great! Then when people riot and use cables and crowbars to steal multiple AR15s you’ll go SWAT team them then! Glad to hear it, what a relief! Boy and here I thought we weren’t on the same team! Also law: Immigration. How about that. Also law: social services fraud to the tune of $9B dollars.

    Anyway, the usual verbal double-speak they’re famous for. That’s killed 150M people in the 20th century and looking to kill 100 million more now. BUT! What it means that he wants YOU to go out in the streets. Great! Cool! On it, man. We do indeed have a right to protest. So what are you going to do, owning every lever of government from Wisconsin to North Dakota? Tim? Tim? Earth to Tim, what are YOUR legal actions, and or military actions? Anything?

    Ohhhhh, you want US to all get killed. You sit in the French Laundry and count the dough. Got it.

    Like news articles: saying nothing means it’s a lie. No details = lie. He is taking NO actions. He named no actions, his action is “Go out in the street and die. We’ll be like sooper sad n stuff.” Point fingers. Orange Man Bad. Wow, what a MASTER Plan! How DID he come up with it? “We live: you die.” Sign me up, Colonel.

    “They’ve Totally Lost Control”; Trump Threatens ‘Agitators’ As Civil Unrest Soars In Minnesota

    He has to have the people of Minnesota ASK him to do this. By a strong margin. There is no other way.

    “Long Silence; Big Control: Putin” CIA is (still) running things. Yes. I have heard Poland screwed with the Yamar (?) pipeline (didn’t check, didn’t care). Russia, of course, shut it off when Poland stole that asset. Oh, shut it off AND CHOPPED IT INTO PIECES AND MELTED IT DOWN. As an indicator of the future for Poland. And they are correct in this. (Shrug)

    DBS very brittle and fed up. We all are, but that doesn’t help. Why I took the day off yesterday. What’s the point, all my stuff is sarcastic and criticism. I wanted to know for ME. Now that I have good lines, and the investments are equally positioned, the outside life is a better focus of attention.

    But how? Everyone outside there is insane and eager to take offense. Family, clubs, whatever.

    I disagree with the Magi thesis. Not because the underlying premise isn’t true, but the Magi are who? Not Babylonian, but from Persia. And not well-defined there either, I only just did a short project on this. (tis the season). So although Jews, and Babylonian Magic, Talmud, and Magi are all incredibly ill defined, then and now, but ALSO they are different groups. Would take a graduate thesis to make my case though, who knows what I would find. The Magi to me are practically to India, and more Zoroastrian, but not strictly, like colored by that area. And also not a group, but a run down tradition of magicians, like Kabbalahists are. But since it’s so long and complex it would take forever to even get that far. Babylon in closer, more direct, contained, and visible, particularly in Judaism. (you also have to add several levels of Rome, Mithras etc) And as the money or the Kabbalah. So the term sets me off, but I probably won’t mention it as I’d have to do too much research time.

    #228398

    Maxwell Quest- thanks for your reply. I thought it was refreshing to hear someone take the “aliens are a magic trick” point of view. The mind-porn-music cheapened it.
    If a reptilian stood in front of me, I’d look for the zipper.

    When everybody says it’s so,
    I look behind the curtain.
    Consensus is no way to know
    That something is for certain.

    #228400
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Maxwell and mpsk

    “….aliens are a magic trick” point of view.

    On the lighter note I never understood an appeal of a “Star Wars” either.
    I was amazed as how the actors could keep the straight face during the takes.

    Ah, yes. Wayne Dyer was a quite piece of work himself, unable to implement his “teachings” to straighten up his own train-wreck of a personal life.
    Smoother and polished version of a very loud Tommy Robins. Latter still amazingly active today based on YT commercial interruptions.

    #228401
    kultsommer
    Participant

    On the darker side….this:

    #228402
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Putin defined his agenda for 2026

    #228403
    Topcat
    Participant

    Trumptard put his foot in the poo yet again with his harebrained Colorflop© on Iran.

    David Ignatius, the Globohomo buttplug, writing in the Wapoo mediawhore rag was cheer-leading Trumptard’s secret girlieman campaign against Iran for weeks when all of a sudden, SHAZAM, the Starlink terminals that made the Fake&Gay ‘protests’ run by the Fake&Gay CIA, got exterminated by Iranian and Russian military.

    So sad

    Suddenly Ignatius flip-flops, like his Lord & Savior Trumptard routinely does, and mouths the ridiculous claim that instead of ‘hard power’ attacks on Iran we (the Trumptard Junta) needs to use ’soft power’.

    Hahaha

    Trumptard signed off on this Clusterfuck using the now dead smoking Starlink system of Elon the Musk, as the perfect Sneak Attack© against Iran.

    (All ‘sneak attacks’ by Trumptard are by divine nature girlie and effeminate, like Lady Linsey Graham=Cracker)

    Trumptard learned nothing from last June when the Iranians, after launching all their obsolete missiles at Israel, started launching the ‘Good Shit’ and annihilating critical infrastructure all over the Promised Land.

    That why Trumptard had to plead like a little bitch to stop the 12 day war to save his Israel First© Masters.

    Trump is so fucking stupid to still be thinking the Fake&Gay CIA can find it’s own ass looking for it with both hands, much less pull a regime change in Iran.

    Israel needs a Regime Change

    This latest Fake&Gay CIA ‘plan’ exposed all western assets in Iran for the Iranian government to finally round them all up for torture, interrogation and execution..

    A clean sweep

    Nice play Shakespeare.

    The next attack could actually be a preemptive attack by Iran on Israel and USSA military bases in the Gulf.

    Iran would be perfectly justified in World opinion to do this.

    The Russians and Chinese would back it.

    I sincerely wish the collapse and destruction of the Zionist State in Israel.

    The World is watching the Russians destroy Ukrainian infrastructure right now in live time.

    No heat, no water, no food distribution in their cities.

    Any Ukrainian in an apartment has to walk up 10 stories in the dark carrying everything they need for daily existence. No flush toilets, burst pipes, freezing windchill.

    Ukraine’s cities will shortly be uninhabitable.

    An Iranian hypersonic missile attack will destroy Israel’s much much smaller infrastructure in similar fashion, but in a hot climate.

    The heat will spoil food, the pumping stations for sewage and water will stop and the Negev Nuclear Research Center will be turned to Dust with radioactive contamination permanently making a large part of Israel uninhabitable for decades.

    Mission Accomplished.

    #228404
    Topcat
    Participant

    Even Bibi the Butcher has just said ‘we’ should ‘cool it’ as regards attacking Iran.

    When have you ever heard Bibi back down?

    That alone speaks volumes

    #228405
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #228406
    zerosum
    Participant

    How can I obtain and impart wisdom when all my wise men, motivators, and advisors are suddenly proven wrong, and ignorant.

    #228408
    zerosum
    Participant

    A civilization needs specialists/someone to do/coordinate, the following tasks.
    1. water
    2. food
    3. garbage/shit/waste
    4. transport
    5. build
    6. demolish
    7. health
    8. protect

    #228410
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #228414
    Topcat
    Participant

    The 40k Starlink terminals smuggled into were not only neutralized by Russian and Chinese electronic warfare but their Locations were pinpointed.

    The Russians also disabled USSA spy recon satellites.

    Stop, that made coffee go up my nose!

    Musk’s technology was publicly emasculated in front of the whole planet.

    Huge Loss,

    Now everyone globally knows they can blind the Globohomos in the Trump Regime and the USSA MIC Maggots.

    Like blind them

    The Mullah’s have Musk’s and Trump’s balls hanging like fizzy dices from their rear view mirrors.

    .

    #228416
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @topcat

    The Mullah’s have Musk’s and Trump’s balls hanging like fuzzy dice from their rear view mirrors.

    What imagery, you’ve got quite the way with words. Great shot, dude. I’m envious. That pic with that caption could easily go viral.

    #228425
    Maxwell Quest
    Participant

    “On the lighter note I never understood an appeal of a “Star Wars” either.
    I was amazed as how the actors could keep the straight face during the takes.”

    Yes, judged by today’s standards the original trilogy looks a bit cheesy, but back in 1977 when “A New Hope” was released, audiences were blown away. I myself walked out of the theater and got right back in line to see it again. With Lucasfilm, George Lucas provided a quantum leap in special effects. None of us had ever seen anything like it.

    But that was only half of it. The story of a powerful Imperial galactic government being resisted by a bunch of ragtag rebels spoke to all who love the underdog, we yokels. It was the age-old battle of good vs evil, light vs darkness, freedom vs slavery. Star Wars also introduced to western audiences the idea of the master/disciple relationship (similar to the TV series Kung Fu). That there could possibly be something more to life than what meets the eye. We could all identify with young and impetuous Luke Skywalker, desperate to get off the farm, looking for adventure, but being held back from his destiny. Jedi was in his blood, yet undeveloped and undisciplined. Enter the Jedi master, Yoda.

    These are archaic patterns buried deep in each of us. And when the strings are plucked, we resonate.

    #228428
    tboc
    Participant

    “….Because only those who are ready to be taught by a true master can find their way to his feet”
    the master comes to, finds, the student when his student is ready

    “Master, why are there so many false gurus that lead seekers down false paths?”
    there are so many filled with desire willing to be led astray
    there are so few prepared to accept loss willingly

    The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs Episode 4 – spare yourself, THEY are up to it as always
    did you ever wonder why Protestants abandoned The Litany of the Saints and repressed mysticism?
    perhaps empircal reduction isn’t the proper path for exploration. Do people really, on average, have so little understnding of religion? In the age of global communication and wifi why do so many cling to Bacon – Only that which can be touched and measured is real -?

    #228430
    zerosum
    Participant

    Dark Kiev

    January 17, 2026
    Dark Kiev
    The electricity and heat supply in Ukraine has stopped in large parts of the country. Kiev had already been on scheduled blackouts where groups of consumers received for example four hours of electricity to then be cutoff for eight hours. That scheduling has ended. The blackout has become permanent.

    #228433
    zerosum
    Participant

    Are basement shelters, Metro station etc. with electricity?
    (shit flows downhill)

    #228438
    zerosum
    Participant

    Double speak.
    🙂

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/israel-hamas-war/article/carney-to-accept-role-on-trumps-gaza-board-of-peace/

    Carney to accept Trump’s offer to join ‘Board of Peace’ in rebuild of Gaza
    By Annie Bergeron-Oliver
    Updated: January 16, 2026 at 10:56PM EST

    On Friday, the White House announced Trump would chair the Board of Peace, whose members will also include U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair.

    According to the White House statement, other appointed members include Apollo Global Management CEO Marc Rowan, World Bank president Ajay Banga, and Trump’s deputy national security adviser, Robert Gabriel.
    —————
    Read more ….
    https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/israel-hamas-war/article/israeli-strikes-kill-at-least-13-across-gaza-as-trump-is-expected-to-announce-board-of-peace/

    Israeli strikes kill at least 13 across Gaza, as Trump is expected to announce Board of Peace
    By The Associated Press
    Updated: January 09, 2026 at 7:09AM EST

    #228442
    Maxwell Quest
    Participant

    “the master comes to, finds, the student when his student is ready”

    Thanks, tboc. Like the old maxim, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear”.

    Yes, this is the typical case. Perhaps it would have been better if I took a different approach to the point I was attempting to make: that a true master is protected from the onslaught of unprepared seekers who would only waste his time, by the army of false teachers who peel off the seekers one by one.

    Like I’ve said before, no one is unnoticed or falls through the cracks. We are all carefully assessed along the way, and the master is aware of our approach long before we meet, often helping to prepare the student without his knowledge. That said, we must also recognize that the student exerts a magnetic pull upon the master too by his strong desire for enlightenment.

    Using Star Wars again as our example, while searching for Yoda on Dagobah, Luke dismissed the very master he was looking for because of preconceived notions (and a little trickery on Yoda’s part). When Yoda finally tipped his hand and revealed himself, we learn that he already knew Luke well and had been watching all his follies over the years. Therefore, he was hesitant to take him on as a student.

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