Debt Rattle October 7 2022
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle October 7 2022]I couldn’t sleep
A button pushing maniac from the peanut gallery
Ukraine’s Zelensky calls on NATO to launch “preemptive strikes” against Russia to “eliminate the possibility” of a Russian nuclear strike.
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USA war vs Russia
Multi polar vs unipolar (do as I say or else)a worldwide battle in which Russia plays a leading role against the Deep State that ultimately runs the West and which uses all available tools – including military, economic, cultural, and social – in its attempt to preserve unipolar world domination.
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It’s better to Winter Hibernation
Turkey then Haiti is coming
“..in a matter of a few weeks Europeans civilians will engage in an HUGE internal brand NEW civilian war amongst, ( the have and the have not),
scrambling for ´whatever´(food, fuel, heat, etc.)..”
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Selective hearing and short term amnesiaThe protocols, brokered by Germany and France, were first signed in 2014. Former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko has since admitted that Kiev’s main goal was to use the ceasefire to buy time and “create powerful armed forces.”
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Short supply.
It’s common sense. – Clare Daly
Opposing the horror of war is not “anti-European,” “anti-Ukrainian” or “pro-Russian.”
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It’s coming a pardon from the BIG GUY
Biden offers pardons for pot possession, signals deeper reform for U.S. cannabis lawsMSNBC squirms as they’re forced to admit LIVE on-air Hunter Biden is about to go to JAIL for MULTIPLE felonies, according to new BOMBSHELL reports
————No conflict of interest here.
“Bill Gates admits he was “Personally Involved” in the Inflation Reduction Act Climate Change Funding.
This Act will funnel US$737 billion into Bill Gates funded projects including wind, solar, hydrogen, carbon capture and storage.”
It seems like we’re coming closer to the time when Tomorrowland / Wakanda materializes out of the air and offers people a hand at creating zero-point modules for clean, limitless energy provided by splitting and recombining water; time-traveling individual cells and organs to restore their functioning and vitality; anti-grav struts to create vehicles and quake-resistant troposcrapers; an end to the capitalist financial speculations destroying the planet through strangling its energy and creativity; and all for the low-low price of being incorporated into a hivemind collective older than our neighborhood of stars.
Or so it will appear. When the Man on the Mount mentioned the coming vast orchestrated suffering, the wars and rumors of wars, the distress of pregnancy and suckling newborns, the quakes and sudden vanishing of people, he also mentioned the miracles and signs but did not say they’d be fake.
I like the progression from seeing earlier ads to now retro versions of today’s media tech. Speaking of Tomorrowland, it’s fascinating how so much tech evolution focused on “social networking” and churning people onto proprietary platforms. I remember having to learn how to use USENET and gopher and memorizing IP addresses just to get to library websites over a Prodigy dial-up connection, then having to learn html to create my own webspace for my own thoughts and ideas, then forgetting all of that because of work, life, and the ease in Internet designs. All the fascinating engineering solutions to material problems became military and intelligence sequestered while us numbskulls left on our own fell in love with cats and cartoon memes.
All the small critters look so beautiful up close, but they spend so much time sniffing and licking and tasting their world. I can’t imagine what it’s like to listen to the world through my tiniest hairs, but all those arthropods do. What must the world “look like” when you sense it via vector smell and taste and subtle shudder of earth or leaf! How does a human look when the ant blogger “zooms out” their smell and taste and vibration to see one whole?
Time for the USA to activate the black op assassins
Zelensky aide attempts to walk back call for ‘preemptive strike’
The Ukrainian president didn’t urge NATO to attack Russia with nuclear weapons,Money out of nothing; money out of debt.
Money out of money- this is what you get:
Everything is worthless. Everything is leased.
Everybody’s starving- to feed the money beast.On MSNBC, a medical contributor. Dr Kvita Patel, “We’re going to have a public health system that’s overwhelmed with we don’t know what. All the more reason to get a booster.”
That makes perfect sense. Good on that, you!! 😉
I’m constantly flabbergasted that Zelensky “makes demands” on nations around the world and people not only listen to, but write about these demands and [at times] take action. Who would actually care what Zelensky, a questionable leader of a corrupt country, demands?
When there’s a reason to stop and consider something that is happening …. stop and consider it.
I drove down from Austin to Yoakum early yesterday, got some oak flooring installed in the time a carpenter was able to do teamwork with me, he with nailgun.
At noon I had a video interview with Meryl Nass MD, Children’s Health Defense TV “Morning Show”
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/shows/good-morning-chd
That should “air” next Thursday October 13, and be archived. There is some view of the flooring and construction of our house, since I recorded there. It seemed to go well after we just did it on Zoom. There ws not enough (rural) bandwidth for their pro-software.PLASTIC PEOPLE
In the UK recycling centres often bale up plastic [using plastic] and ship it to Sweden where it is burnt in incinerators to produce electricity. As one person commented ‘Why can’t we do that here?’. Burning plastic produces toxic fumes so the incinerator must have efficient scrubbers to remove them.
Burning plastic removes it from the environment, produces electricity and remove the toxins they can produce. It is more energy efficient to burn plastic bags and make new ones but activists have insisted they must be recycled which is why they are shipped thousands of miles away. A TV program about this showed that some of this plastic waste can be commercially recycled but some is not and is just dumped in the open. One shot showed most of one pile were shopping bags from the UK.
I think all domestic waste should be incinerated rather than go to landfill. Even the ash may be able to be recycled in breeze blocks or added to tarmac for road surfacing. Existing landfill sites could also be used as fuel.
When it comes to plastic waste in the ocean there was an article on TAE some time ago which claimed that 80% originated from Chinese rivers and 10% from the Nile [If I remember correctly]. It should be easy to prevent this waste entering the oceans.
Another area of concern is food waste. It could be fed to pigs but that is banned because there is a remote chance it could contain foot and mouth disease. It would need heat treating first, but it may be possible to do this using waste heat from the incinerators. This waste heat could also be used for district heating to further maximise energy efficiency, depending on the siting of the incinerator. The pig manure could be used in biodigesters to produce methane and the leftovers used as fertiliser.
The technology exists to deal with waste, and an integrated approach could increase the benefits.
Winter is coming.
Wet wood thin split so it drys ASAP.
For deworming 100 kg work horse
Initial dose 40 mg then
Weekly dose 20 mg until wellOn Meloni. Top post, at Ugo Bardi. site. https://bit.ly/3rKv6Pj
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Fascism is an aberration, a radicalisation, not of the left / the right (using some standard definitions of these), but of the Center.
It is characterised by the melding of Corporate (big biz ..) power with the Governing power (in pseudo-democracies, heh, whatever that means, e.g. Italy, France), crafting policies based on agreements that are, towards the ppl, repressive and authoritarian, often vicious (see for ex. Covid..)
As well as seemingly supporting the ppl, and condescending towards them .. > the ppl deserve more child care facilities, or cheaper health care, and also, yes, cheaters and illegal foreignors and dopes and dodgy ppl should not be allowed to occupy fancy homes or …whatever…
So is Meloni bringing back fascim?
No. She is simultaneously presenting a Populist ‘sovereign’ stance, coupled with staunch submission to the occupier of Italy, the USA, a difficult position to uphold.
Ed Dowd looks at the deaths and then, more importantly, lays out the consequences of the losses that happen when the workforce is disabled or dead. https://rumble.com/v1mny36-ed-dowd-covid-and-the-global-financial-collapse-a-tale-of-catastrophes-and-.html
Nice picture of firewood split and stacked, Michael Reid!
I hope your work-horse fares well.
What kind of de-wormer is that?For years, the U.S.- run NATO has moved military forces and bases into countries encircling Russia. This includes weapons that can very quickly be converted to nuclear use. This, as I’ve pointed out before, is tantamount to Russia doing the same in Mexico and Canada, and let’s add Cuba as well. We know what the U.S. response would be, but when President Putin and his government objected and said this is a betrayal of previous agreements, he was dismissed as if he were a child making things up.
In 2014, when the U.S. engineered a coup in Ukraine, bringing into power neo-Nazi elements, and Russia protested this coup on its western border, Washington mocked such concerns. Every time Russia has complained about such provocative moves, the U.S. has dismissed them as inconsequential.
For years the U.S. has supported the Ukrainian killing of the Russian-speaking peoples of eastern Ukraine, and finally, when Ukraine had amassed forces to invade the Donbas region, the Russian government had had enough and sent troops into the region to defend this area. Thus the hypocritical West played at the outrage that what they had created was finally backfiring. Russia was cast as the guilty party for invading Ukraine. And now a full-fledged U.S. war against Russia is out in the open and it will become more dangerous as it continues. Nuclear annihilation becomes a very real possibility as the Biden administration continues to push the envelope.
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2022/10/05/only-adult-children-still-believe-u-s-propaganda/
Thanks for the Meloni article, Noirette. It is musings from Italy, but not really any new substance.
I’m going to meditate on compassion for murderers on my bike ride.
Extreme times call for extreme actions!Italian activists sent me the signed November 2020 Advance Purchase Agreement (APA) between the EU member states and Pfizer/BioNTech. This appears to be genuine, but has not been independently verified.
The 59 page contract and the 45 pages of attachments can be found here.
Due to the vast amount of information in this document, I am not going to try to analyze it all today. In fact, I am hoping that my readers, other reporters, attorneys and analysts will help with this task. I do ask (not required in any way) that if you write up your results and want to link the document, that you link back to the Malone Institute landing page and the PDF documents found there.
Incredible stack Michael. The tangible result of hours of focused work. It is art.
Beautiful dog too.
LOVE to All.
P. S. Gotta love Clare Daly. She has abundant courage. Her words are always delivered with fierce intent. Powerful!
Only here at TAE do we see Clare in action.
In appreciation, Ilargi.
LOVE to Clare and Julian.
They still make war.
The USA and their allies know all that and more than us.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/10/bidens-fearmonges-about-a-russian-nuclear-threat-that-no-one-has-made/comments/page/2/#comments
Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 7 2022 18:17 utc | 150
Today Lavrov addressed Biden’s bullshit at the Fourth Meeting of the United Russia General Council Commission on International Cooperation and Support for Compatriots Abroad. What follows is the portion of Lavrov’s remarks that relate to the topic at issue, machine translated from the Russian transcript:https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1832930/https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1832930/
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the Fourth Meeting of the United Russia General Council Commission on International Cooperation and Support for Compatriots Abroad, Moscow, October 7, 2022During the special military operation, alarming facts were revealed, including the presence of illegal military biological programs in laboratories created by the Pentagon, as well as experiments on the creation of prohibited chemicals. The most dangerous incessant strikes on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant continue.
Yesterday, Zelensky called on his Western masters to launch a preemptive nuclear strike against Russia. This “figure” presented the whole world with further evidence of threats emanating from the Kiev regime and for the neutralization of which a special military operation was launched. The attempts of Various Secretaries of Vladimir Zelensky to claim that he meant something else are ridiculous. We all remember how back in February of this year he spoke about Ukraine’s desire to possess nuclear weapons. Therefore, this thought has long and deeply settled in him.
The other day, his Polish “brothers in mind” confirmed that they also have the same “dreams” – to acquire nuclear weapons. So far, at this stage, Warsaw wants to join nato’s practice of conducting “joint nuclear missions” that grossly violate the requirements of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
What about NATO? In addition to lies and threats against us, the alliance, together with the EU, continues to repeat its full support for V.A. Zelensky, who “leads Ukraine’s struggle for European values, freedom and democracy.” The Ukrainian President in this situation, like his entire regime, enters the taste and begins to dictate its conditions to the North Atlantic bloc and the EU. This summer, Vladimir Zelensky said that it was NATO that should give Ukraine a place in the common security space. But appetites are growing. Following him, the head of his Office, A.B. Yermak, said that Ukraine should become an axis around which a new security system in Europe will be built. Last month, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that it was NATO that should join Ukraine, not the other way around. Such slogans and ambitions fall on fertile ground.
Yesterday, at the initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron, a summit of the European Political Community was convened, following which the head of EU diplomacy Jean-Pierre Borrell proudly stated that the process of forming a security structure begins without Russia’s participation. They “dance to the tune” of Kiev and encourage the insane fantasies of those who are still in power there. The United States and its allies assume enormous responsibility for the dangerous growth of international tensions, pumping weapons on Vladimir Zelensky, despite his openly proclaimed nuclear ambitions.
At one time, French President Emmanuel Macron, as you remember, diagnosed “brain death” in the North Atlantic Alliance. Judging by the way NATO nurtures the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev, this “disease” has gone too far.
Once again, we warn the United States and other sponsors of the Kiev regime against deeper involvement in the situation as parties to the conflict.
As has been repeatedly explained, the Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation and the Fundamentals of State Policy in the Field of Nuclear Deterrence remain unchanged. The attempts of Washington and its vassals to distort this reality and our position are aimed at intimidating the international community, forcing its sensible part to follow the failed course of reckless support for Kiev in all its adventures.
Global Planned Financial Tsunami Has Just Begun
Since the creation of the US Federal Reserve over a century ago, every major financial market collapse has been deliberately triggered for political motives by the central bank. The situation is no different today, as clearly the US Fed is acting with its interest rate weapon to crash what is the greatest speculative financial bubble in human history, a bubble it created. Global crash events always begin on the periphery, such as with the 1931 Austrian Creditanstalt or the Lehman Bros. failure in September 2008. The June 15 decision by the Fed to impose the largest single rate hike in almost 30 years as financial markets are already in a meltdown, now guarantees a global depression and worse.
The extent of the “cheap credit” bubble that the Fed, the ECB and Bank of Japan have engineered with buying up of bonds and maintaining unprecedented near-zero or even negative interest rates for now 14 years, is beyond imagination. Financial media cover it over with daily nonsense reporting , while the world economy is being readied, not for so-called “stagflation” or recession. What is coming now in the coming months, barring a dramatic policy reversal, is the worst economic depression in history to date. Thank you, globalization and Davos.
Michael Reid:
Great pile of split wood! You have been extra busy being Paul Bunyan!
Hopefully this will allow you to get a head of the curve so that the some of the wood you cut this year isn’t burned until the following winter.
Not sure if you have been able to source some horse dewormer but if not let me know and I will try to get some in Brockville for you. Lots of horse lovers around here!
On my end I have just finished building a new 8′ x 20′ floating dock with 10 plastic barrels. Now it is onto other waiting cottage projects. More projects than energy!
We cannot say we were not warned, almost 50 years ago.
“Plastic man got no brain.”
“No one ever gets the truth from plastic man,”
‘Quiet Quitting’ Isn’t Just About Jobs; It’s About a Crumbling Economy
October 7, 2022The unraveling of hyper-Globalization and hyper-Financialization will generate consequences few conventional analysts and pundits anticipate.
TikTok videos on ‘Quiet Quitting’–doing the minimum at work, giving nothing extra to the employer– have gone viral, and The Wall Street Journal quickly picked up the thread:
If Your Co-Workers Are ‘Quiet Quitting,’ Here’s What That Means Some Gen Z professionals are saying no to hustle culture; ‘I’m not going to go extra.’
The movement away from putting career first and sacrificing to get ahead financially is global: From the Great Resignation to Lying Flat, Workers Are Opting Out In China, the U.S., Japan, and Germany, younger generations are rethinking the pursuit of wealth.
Here are a few excerpts from the WSJ article:
“It isn’t about getting off the company payroll, these employees say. In fact, the idea is to stay on it– but focus your time on the things you do outside of the office.
Paige West, 24, said she stopped overextending herself at a former position as a transportation analyst in Washington, D.C., less than a year into the job. Work stress had gotten so intense that, she said, her hair was falling out and she couldn’t sleep. While looking for a new role, she no longer worked beyond 40 hours each week, didn’t sign up for extra training and stopped trying to socialize with colleagues.
Mr. Khan explained the concept this way: “You’re quitting the idea of going above and beyond.”
“You’re no longer subscribing to the hustle-culture mentality that work has to be your life,” he said.
Mr. Khan says he and many of his peers reject the idea that productivity trumps all; they don’t see the payoff.
“One factor Gallup uses to measure engagement is whether people feel their work has purpose. Younger employees report that they don’t feel that way, the data show.”
Josh Bittinger, a 32-year-old market-research director at a management-consulting company, said people who stumble on the phrase “quiet quitting” may assume it encourages people to be lazy, when it actually reminds them to not work to the point of burnout.”
There’s a lot to unpack here.
The powerful scenes that are enacted by the students are immediately deconstructed by the follow-up questions posed by Périot. A student quotes Chairman Mao with deadly conviction, preaching to us that “a revolution is not a dinner party… A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.” However, he falters and hesitates when he is asked about his own opinions regarding capitalism and the revolution that has been indefinitely deferred.
This becomes a recurring theme, with many students voicing their disapproval of police brutality and societal oppression but not being able to appropriately address questions about the subjective definitions of abstract topics like politics in general as well as objective descriptions of important things like trade unions. As a result of the restrictive curriculum of the Ideological State Apparatus that is the school, we are confronted with the brutal reality. The people in power systematically and silently quashed the revolution before it ever began by not providing proper education to the next generation.The greatest achievement of Our Defeatsis that Périot does not pass his judgement. As a documentarian, his job is to chronicle the condition and that’s exactly what he does. The outcome is stiflingly tragic, a harrowing analysis of young school students whose vocabularies are being stripped off ideas like communism and workers’ rights. Périot starts a dialogue between the past and the present by confronting the future of the revolution that has been laid to rest by youthful cynicism, censorship and the bourgeois constructs of modernity.
‘Our Defeats’ Review: A striking Post-Mortem of the Revolutionary Dream
I know “preaching to the choir” just the same:
A few years back, I was working on a writing and interview project for a national nonprofit in which I spent time with professionals who focused on climate change and sustainability. I wasn’t hanging out with Julia “Butterfly” Hill or the descendants of Edward Abbey. These were people who were firmly part of the professional class and operating inside the system to varying degrees. Not everyone’s a radical and I found many of my interview subjects to be fascinating individuals who had accomplished worthwhile things.
However, one issue threw me for a minor loop. During a discussion with a guy who was involved in the financial end of foundation work on climate change and ecosystems, he termed the natural processes occurring in ecosystems as “ecosystem services” that need to be quantified monetarily. “That’s weird”, I thought, so I probed and he enthusiastically explained how financializing the functioning of ecosystems would help the foundation he worked for create “deals” to structure the ways in which they would agree to use their resources to help preserve or restore ecosystems in various parts of the world.
Half-a-century of unsupported money-printing and debt creation finally comes to an end some time over the next year or two:
MIchael Reid:
I can tell that you and the canine have a deep understanding. It’s tough to be an animal in a human world. Dog is lucky to have a human like you, I’m sure.
As for the pile: man, you roll your spliffs BIG. 😉
So now we’re going to rehab Meloni. Shape-shift her into a different creature cleaving more to our desires than to her own. Sigh. We are so hopelessly hopeful and shit.
I’m just a poor wayfaring stranger, and not much on organized religion, but there is one Bible verse that I try to keep at the front of my mind any time a politician opens his (or her) mouth:
“Ye saw I was a stranger and ye took me in.” – Matthew 25:35.
[It’s a double entendre. You may need to think about it for a minute.]
When Biden spoke today, he fumbled for his back pocket to draw out a handkerchief and dab at his nose with what I would call a flourish. The cloth was bright white and wasn’t in his kerchief pocket.
Was this a signal?It seems to me that Russia has put too much time and money into It’s nuclear weapons , banking on using their superior capability to bluff against losing a ground war like Ukraine. MAD is still thing so it might have been better to have spent that time and money on the conventional weapons that they now desperately need. Videos of Russian troops being dumped at the front with nothing but a hand gun must be really bad for moral. If those vids are not faked that is but it seems that some at least are real.
Another day on TAE, another day of pseudo-soothsayers addicted to fantastical efforts of interpreting global insanity, thus appeasing the EG0’s insatiable demands to appear pridefully superior 😐
Meanwhile, in Amerika the blitzkrieg of Collective EG0ic Madness (aka Mass Formation Psychosis) is formulated into sound-bytes for mass entertainment (fka bread & circuses):
Armed robberies on the street, in broad daylight, are so numerous they no longer are reported on crime blotters, as they become part & parcel of the CULTure…
And internationally, a horrific mass murder shatters the idyllic naivete of the Thai illusion:
Love & kisses to all!
Oh, there was a discussion of Time recently, which of course is one of the known 4 physical dimensions of space (length, width, depth and time) ~ Which without discussion of the spiritual energy implicit, renders the discussion of the Infinite’s reality (which according to the string theory of laymen, operates with 10 dimensions) an impossibly ridiculous endeavor…
There is so much unknown for those trapped within the EG0ic illusion of 4 dimensional “reality”, that “clean” energy sources surely abound within humanity’s grasp, but mankind is alas eons away from realization due to it’s utter inability/refusal to “evolve”.
John Day:
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Hi VP.
Would you kindly sketch out a roadmap of the steps involved in the evolve process you highlight above?
Hat tip Darya Sinusoid: According to Eckhart Tolle (in his book “A New Earth”, humanity’s current state of consciousness has reached a threshold. This is because our destructive ability (caused by our ego) is intensifying at an unsustainable rate due to advances in technology. If we’re unable to evolve out of the mindless ego-driven state of consciousness that causes this destruction, we’ll end up killing our species and destroying the planet.
Tolle explains that when we connect with our inner self and live in a state of mindfulness, we will live in a state of non-attachment, nonjudgment, and nonresistance, which will allow us to break free from the ego’s control.
When we no longer form attachments to material, thought, and emotional elements, we’ll no longer generate greed, consumerism, and pollution caused by the endless cycle of wanting.
When we no longer judge things as “right and wrong” or “good and bad,” we’ll no longer have unrealistic expectations that cause disappointment, anger, resentment, and other forms of suffering.
Consequently, we’ll cease resisting what simply is and cannot be changed. Tolle notes that nothing in the world is inherently good or bad, it’s only our judgments of them that make them so. We’ll no longer feel the stress, greed, envy, and negativity supplied by the ego because we no longer crave external validation. We will only feel peace.
If the bulk of humanity dedicates itself to achieving this state of mindfulness, Tolle asserts that the violence and destruction caused by the collective human ego will cease.”
Good stuff.
It’s all in your mind. EGO included. Mindfulness is timeless.
Oh Nevermind….
Would you kindly sketch out a roadmap of the steps involved in the evolve process you highlight above?
I arrived at spiritual awakening after a period of EG0 deflation at depth, following a period of inescapable, self-inflicted pain…
I imagine that’s the same path for most of humanity, albeit there are exceptions, perhaps during this self-imposed destruction that “civilization” has brought upon itself there will be many that abandon EG0 as their reality & embrace the Infinite reality within.
But, I’m afraid that due to the ubiquitousness of mass CULTure indoctrination(s), most will have to die before arriving at The Destination (If that is even allowed?)…
At this point it is clear that an extinction level event(s) are unfolding, the unmitigated suffering caused daily by Collective EG0ic Madness challenges my serenity due to the incomprehensible depths of selfish animosity unfurling daily on a seeming exponential basis 😐
Tolle is just one of many spiritually enlightened teachers I’ve studied, well after my own spiritual “awakening”, who at times is a bit too verbose (I suppose one must wax poetic to fill a book?), but is surely a candidate for the Elijah of our age…
God knows that his children are afflicted with hordes of Ahab and Jezebels in the Now, with “good men” crucified the minute they publicly defy the Mass Formation Psychosis etiquette of pop CULTure.
I’m afraid the Infinite’s solutions are FAR too simple for “advanced” smart-phone addicted zombies, who were insanely brain-washed into a didactical illusion that God was dead 😐
Hello, Michael Reid. All along i liked your comments. Now I’ve seen you with your dog, I know I had the right inclination about you. 🙂
Nice stack of wood. Lots of hard work. Good job.
Susmarie: “Tolle explains that when we connect with our inner self and live in a state of mindfulness, we will live in a state of non-attachment, nonjudgment, and nonresistance, which will allow us to break free from the ego’s control.”
I’ve been wondering about this for quite awhile. What is this state of ‘non-attachment’? We don’t attach to … what? All emotional feelings? Only the feelings we’ve deemed ‘negative’?
I’ve had a number of people who are trained in Qigong and other belief systems tell me to ‘detach’ from emotions. “Just detach from the emotions and everything will be fine. It’s all good.” is what I hear from them.
My question is, when I ‘detach’ from negative emotions, should I also ‘detach’ from what we define as positive emotions (ie, love) as well? And how do I determine which is which? And how do I determine up from down if I’m also detaching from something I’ve [I guess] determined is detrimental and holding onto [I guess] something I deem positive? Who am I to determine that?
I keep hearing “detach” and you’ll be fine, but no one defines what I’m detaching from. And how does detaching from one thing impact the other things in my life and my perspective and feelings on those things?
There is not up without down. There is not light without dark. There is not love without hate (or similar word). Both of these things must exist. Full stop.
Btw, Tolle is correct., if we could set aside ego, greed, the lust for power, etc., things would be better in this world. But the bottom line is, we are spiritual beings in a physical body. We are what we are, ego and all, and we are not going to ‘evolve’ into esoteric beings inhabiting physical bodies that somehow transcend the limitations of our physical bodies and egos (in keeping with AFKTT’s comments that acknowledge the frustration with this) to become “god like” creatures.
Idk. I’m just tossing out random thoughts about the “detach from the negative and all will be right in the world” philosophy. I find it lacking.
‘Burning plastic removes it from the environment,’
There’s an interesting thought.
Burning PVC (polyvinyl chloride) releases the chlorine into the atmosphere as hydrochloric acid or complex chlorinated olefinic substances, depending on the temperature of combustion. Chlorine in the atmosphere is linked to destruction of ozone, the stuff that makes this planet habitable.
Burning polystyrene releases styrene and a potent mix of carcinogens, plus plenty of smoke and soot. Great. Let’s recreate the filthy cities of the industrial age, in which white moths were never found in cities.
Burning nylon releases nitriles and other nasties. Slightly better than burning damp woolen carpets.
I suppose ‘removes from the environment’ means not visible in my back yard or at the beach I visit, or some other form of NIMBY.
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