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Free Energy ⟹ Energy delivery > Energy consumption

This cannot be, because in the Universe (as we perceive it)

Energy delivered = Energy consumed

… (conservation . flux . dissipation)
… (eating . The OroborO . eats)

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(throughout time)
Accessories change;
Human nature?
Not that much.

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Human life is the lifelong process of building a resilient confirmation bias.

Cheers

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Tucker Carlson in sheepdog mode.

Tucker Carlson on Meeting Klaus Schwab & What Motivates the Ruling Class

“He’s like an elderly idiot who seems a little senile, doesn’t have any idea what he’s talking about…The closer you get, the more you realize the people running things are mediocre. Like buffoons.”

No, Mr. Carlson: the puppets under the limelight are buffoons – the puppet masters know what they’re doing (out of sight, out of mind.)

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Centuries upon centuries of conditioning…
all Pavlov’s dogs, infatuated with words, inflated with pride.
What are we looking for?
The next shot of pleasure?
The next fix of hope?
Overwrought hearts obfuscated by quarreling minds.

Have a pleasant week.

[a kullervo]

When youthful dreams become old age nightmares, or
the perils of once powerful figures aging without grace.

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Conservatives stemmed out of the idea that good times can be frozen forever. Progressives arose from the concept that man’s destiny is to overcome bad times,,,
… how naïve and ignorant can we be?

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How many bad deeds, all for goodness sake?
“The ends justify the means.”
Is there an end? A discernible goal? An effective purpose?

Truth is elusive – Lies are real.

Can the janitor at the landmines factory ever have a good night sleep, knowing innocents will get killed/maimed as the result of his doings?
“Weapons are tools, it’s upon us to use them wisely.”

Wisdom is subtle, foolishness concrete.

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The chronicle of words of wisdom falling on deaf ears: in a nutshell, that’s what human history is all about. Still we persist, relentlessly flogged by our brains’ grueling addiction to words.

Chaos follows Order
Order ensues Chaos
From a human psyche’s point of view, inflection points are the most taxing.

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No victory/failure is permanent.
No defeat/success is definitive.

Change doesn’t happen – Change Is

Change is everywhere – yet you can’t see It, only Its doings.

Always act as if the Sacred can see you, ’cause even if you can’t see It, It surely sees you.

Have a nice weekend.

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There are no infinite ways of rearranging a finite set of building blocks, hence repetition is woven into the fabric of the Universe; homo sapiens sapiens was bestowed with limited data storage capabilities: that’s why “old ways” always return as “new ways” when, in fact, there are neither old ways nor new ways – only forget’n’recall.

Wisdom (=deep awareness of patterns and its implications) is incompatible with a shallow memory pool.

Wisdom is always a memento of the past and/or a feature of the faraway future, therefore not really a practical thing suitable for modern society’s everyday use.

Wisdom gets in the way of the “forever growth” mindset. So, instead of excising the tumor, we ban the medicine.

Have a pleasant week.

[a kullervo]

Where are all the good men?
All good men are guilty of not stopping evil actors dead in their tracks.
There are no good men: only a whole bunch of average Joes doing what they must to kill time right before time takes them down for good.

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Missed chances that won’t be regretted; forgotten faces that won’t be missed: unburdened by joy, unfazed by sorrow – unblemished amnesia ushers in perfection.

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How to tell apart wisdom/sainthood from a quiet madness?

Have a nice day.

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An observation concerning Mr. Bryan Johnson:
– Maybe AI is the human-created god, but god won´t remain under the human thumb forever…
(… and AI-made sentient beings will be kicked out from Eden, once again.)

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Canada’s Deputy PM:
– Just another alien, feeling uneasy with their “human” apparel.

Here’s another example:

Earth: The Club Med for all the high-achieving intergalactic sociopaths.

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(philosophia perennis / urreligion)

Not all philosophers are poets, still
all poets are philosophers.
Not all philosophy is poetry, still
all poems are philosophy.
Philosophers and poets perish,
Poetry/Philisophy won’t:
Man is the supreme poet,
God as The Supreme Poem.

Consciousness is a time bomb which we have no plans from and which we must learn to defuse.

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Whenever praising, or condemning, human “achievements”, please remember today’s “old” was yesterday’s “new”, and that today’s “new” will be tomorrow’s “old”: it will help give you some perspective (it will help you accept The Everlasting Dissatisfaction.)

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The Universe: recycling, or refining?

[With any luck, the future will be Amish (but armed to the teeth). May the actual Amish be prepared to defend themselves, otherwise their future will be grim, probably as some warlord’s slaves.]

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@D Benton Smith

Thank you for your kind words.
I’m not the one deserving the encomium, though: all praise goes to The Eternal , which provided me with the means to observe and ponder.

Kind regards.

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(against the contingent)

Good things are only good,
bad things are only bad,
if they remain good,
if they stay bad,
standing the test of time.

(You better be God, or, at least, Methuselah, if you want to impose your ‘good & bad’ as the de facto ‘good & bad’.)

How to identify the ‘good authorities’?
Very simple: if the deeds of said autorithies benefit a discernible majority. (If you believe you’re part of the minority, be patient, be clever, learn how to prepare lemonade.)

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(against ‘wrongthink’)

Thoughts, what are they good for?
– To keep private; or,
– to disseminate? (like in ‘semen‘, like in ‘seed‘.)

Thoughts are like mushrooms: some edible, some poisonous.
The relevant question is:
‘Why both?’
(Tentative answer: to tell apart the cautious from the hasty.)

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(disparaging love & hate; against hope)

Love is becoming the other
without losing the self;
hate is losing the other
without losing the self.
Love & hate are just a matter
of self-preservation.

Hope is the belief that, someday,
‘the self’ and ‘the other’ become a diluted,
somehow palatable mess.

[Yes, hope is a mess, a psychotropic easily accessible, free as a D.I.Y. kit or on sale ready to use. (Indeed, as far-fetched as it may seem, some willingly pay to “hope makers”.)
Now, I’m not sure if there aren’t any not dying of hope deprivation, but I’m quite certain some are dying with – and even of – hope OD.]

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@oxymoron

Thank you for your kind words.

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Every citizen is a surveillance camera
(and they love it.)

Would you die* whithout the internet?
Would you die* without food?
* Of an untimely death.

The need to pose these questions explains why the current civilization has reached a demented phase; like all other insanities, it either won’t be remembered or it will be disparaged because very few things will stand and, from those, most will be dangerous sites: toxic swamps/lagoons where cities once stood; radioactive deserts where nuclear power plants existed.

What is civilization?
– Civilization is the natural stockpiling of artifacts, between the limits of the commensurable scale available to humans at any given time (when humans only counted by the fingers, we had tribes; counting supported by papyrus/parchment/paper and ink, we had regional empires; using computers to count gave us global corporations.)
This stockpiling is natural because it represents the corollary of the human brain imperative to amass as many artifacts as it can, either or both internal/immaterial artifacts (“ideas”) and external/material artifacts (“goods”).
(We are also very keen on stockpiling “ideas” under a material guise; e.g., books, libraries, data farms.)

Is civilization desirable?
– From a rational standpoint, natural things can’t be desirable or undesirable, good or bad: they are unavoidable.
Oswald Spengler is right: cultures (civilizations) are akin to organisms. They follow Nature’s imperatives: birth, growth, stability/production, decay, death. Current civilization is on its death throes: trying to stop or revert it is like going on a quest for fool’s gold (or any kind of gold, for that matter). Perhaps the wisest choice would be to elevate yourself to the position of the interested, compassionate observer.
Savitri Devi is also right: three kind of men – Men In Time; Men Against Time; Men Above Time. If, by natural disposition, you don’t feel inclined to be a man above time then, in these crazy times of ours, IMHO, it is preferable to be a man against time.
Vladimir Putin is a man against time (though having my sympathies, his fate is sealed); western and “westernized” leaderships are people (I should say ‘freaks’) in time: they are insane – they will go down in shame.

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Here’s a little song she wrote
“I’m a hapless f*ck because I don’t know we all die.”

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Mr. Putin*, with whom I sympathize, is doing what he must; Mr. Zelensky*, who I strongly dislike, is doing what he must.
Ultimately, The Eternal simply doesn’t give a damn about what we humans consider to be “right & wrong” (not more than It cares about “left & right” or “good & evil”.)
Peace is not an Universal value, merely a personal human bias.

And us humans, all of us, what are we doing, here and elsewhere?
We are adding our little grain of salt to the “Us vs. Them” imperative, to the thing I call The Dualistic Engine, The Eternal, The Everlasting Dissatisfaction.

Some will agree with me;
that’s the way it should be.
Some will disagree;
that’s the way it has to be.

(The Universe:
Is it worth it, or is it trash?)

* and his enablers/supporters

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@V. Arnold

Thank you.

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(Conversations with grandchildren, part one)

You can’t have a talk with children because there’s the mother, and nowadays the main role of the mother is not to raise children but to confront the father.

(Who’s to blame? We, men, not only allowed but have encouraged women to stray that way. We decay; that’s the Law. So, don’t blame Putin, don’t blame Biden: blame yourself, blame your father. And after coming to grips with it, make peace with yourself – make peace with your Maker.)

(Conversations with grandchildren, part two)

Hard times make you strong;
gentle things make you glad.
Be grateful for both,
fall in love with neither.

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A simple rule:
– If living alone is hard, people who live together must do what they can to help each other.

A rule so simple, so basic, that it has been forgotten.
Of course, this is a rule which can only by applied to small groups: in small groups, the individual is the main component, and the individual can compromise without being annihilated; in large groups (e.g., nations), the main component is the subgroup, and a subgroup cannot compromise without risking annihilation.
Thus, a question arises: how can a large group be kept in a functional status?
– By dramatically curtailing the subgroups number; and/or
– by forcingly diluting the core traits of all subgroups.

How to achieve this?
– Organized (state) religion is the least violent way to do it.

(Some nations have tried to replace organized religion with organized sports; naturally, it failed: not only organized sports cannot dilute subgroups, but it multiplies them and reinforces their core traits.)

Anyhow, if mankind’s top priority is to overextend human presence on the planet, three requisites are to be met (the first two human dependent, the last human independent):
– Eugenics;
– World population strict control;
– The Eternal’s will.

Are you willing to bet against the third?

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(Sobornost)

Finally, some good news:

Carbon is no longer an issue.

All it took was to cancel Mendeleev’s periodic table of elements.
There you have it: carbon’s (and all other elements) gone.
[Those pesky Russians and their dumb ideas – just gotta cancel them all (here looking at you, Mr. Solzhenitsyn.)]

As required, Mr. Putin and his enablers (tip of the hat to Zerosum) are converting the Russian people into the epoch’s real martyrs. The intriguing part is the promotion(?) of the Ukrainians to the status of XXI century’s New Jews (are they one of the lost tribes?). Meanwhile – and by the way – Israel has adopted a conspicuous low-profile regarding the current events… the plot thickens.

Burning petroleum as a fuel “would be akin to firing up a kitchen stove with bank notes“.
(A remark credited to) Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

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The difference between the past:
– Strong minds. With strong thoughts. Building things to last. (Few & stronger);

and the present:
– Feeble minds. Considering feeble thoughts. Building fleeting things. (Many & weaker).

[From strong to weak. God’s will or human plan: we devolve (; we waive; we defer; we decline.)
That’s why some of us peevishly long for the past, while others cluelessly hope for the future.
‘Longing & Hope’: our favorite resolve softener brand (longing and hope: mere mind softener agents.)]

(Trading the dubious for the certain.)

Learning to tell apart mind’s wants from heart’s needs.

What does the mind want? God only knows.

What does the heart need? To contract & expand within a certain limit. (The Limit is there to prevent the heart from both blowing up and collapsing.)

Can you understand this?
Above all, can you accept it?

(… and since I’m forced into wanting)
All I want is to want not.

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According to a new poll, all poll results are misleading.

(Tip of the hat to Scott Adams)

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(How does one express gratitude?)

Every newborn child is just another nail in the human fate.

What is the human fate?
– To colonize the Universe;
– to straighten things out;
– to rectify the bad, bringing good about;
– to put an end to randomness, bringing order to a chaotic world, you say?

(If you do, please come closer: see that bridge over there? It’s a bargain; it will be yours by a very reasonable price: your sanity.)

Human beings are nothing more than state-of-the-art havoc spreaders; they do it using three main vectors: tourism, factories and bombs (alone or in combination, the choice being mainly geography/profits dependent.) And aviation is just the quickest way to spread havoc around.

Why did Nature came up with such a destructive species?
Because Nature wallows/basks in change.
And one simply cannot stop Nature (even when one is somehow able to stop him/herself.)

(How does one express gratitude?
By not thinking too much about anything.
By being as carefree as one possibly can.)

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@willem

If energy depletion is the mainspring behind the current machinations (as I believe it is the case, although sheer turpitude cannot be ruled out), whoever is left standing after the decimation is over, be they shitheads (the same or refurbished) or decent folks, it is undeniable that those human beings will eventually benefit from a less stressful situation energy-wise and thus enjoy an extended period of peace. Moreover, assuming that TPTB belong to the homo sapiens sapiens taxon, they die, therefore a replacement by a less pernicious strain of shitheads is a strong statistical possibility.

(I still believe that the Georgia Guidestones seem to have been way too expensive – and way too deliberate – to be considered as a mere prank or dark humor display.)

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The thing that (almost) never ceases to amaze me is how people fail to realize that all TPTB are doing is trying to extend mankind’s shelf life via a dramatic catharsis.

That TPTB are doing it using the most vile and despicable methods is another discussion altogether. On the other hand, if you had real power (i.e., power of life and death over others), how would you deal with the (hypothetical? real?) issue of having to curtail the humans number? Would you go to the media and openly and clearly present the fact?

Is extending the human race presence on the planet a noble end?

If so, which means are justifiable and which aren’t?

The only worthwhile pursuit is to sober up from the most potent psychedelic currently available: the future.

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@Raúl Ilargi Meijer

Best wishes (and a whole lot of ouzo.)

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A requiem for free will (part three)

The whole human mental frame is build around two single premises:
1) How to delay personal demise; and
2) how to postpone human extinction.

For the most part, we can’t stray away from this trodden path; the few who do fall under a single moniker: the insane.

Human mind was designed to handle gradual change fairly well; it was never meant to deal with abrupt change.
Yet, abrupt change (e.g., earthquakes, stellar flares, death) is part and parcel of the universe.
We are going through abrupt change times; those who’ve truly enjoyed ridding roller-coasters won’t have it as badly as those who’ve hated it.

There’s no way to resist the allure of progress.
There’s no way of stopping catabolism.
Low functioning minds bring forth a minimal maintenance mode world.
James Howard Kunstler is (partially) right: we live in a world that was made by hand, using manual tools; it will become undone by hand, using power tools.
Manual tools will eventually return, possibly handled by another species’ hands, working to develop power tools.

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Wise men grow complacent
(sunken wisdom bellow
event horizon.)
Fools’ boldness grows
(towering hindrance
besieging us all.)

Once again,
Wisdom rises
Twilight follows:
Babel duly falls.

Ignorance is the safest haven, but very few among us are wise enough to fully grasp the meaning of this (the author of these humble lines included.)
“A man bound to ignorance agonizes like Prometheus bound to the mountain“
Naive as we always have been, we swallowed this lie, hook, line and sinker and are frantically choking on it to this day.

“65
Taoist rulers of old
Did not enlighten people
But left them dull.
People are difficult to govern
Because they are very clever.
Therefore,
Ruling through cleverness leads to rebellion. Not leading through cleverness
Brings good fortune.
Know these two things
And understanding the enduring pattern. Understand the enduring pattern: This is called original Te.
Original Te goes deep and far. All things reverse
Return and reach the great headwaters.”
Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu (translation by Stephen Addiss & Stanley Lombardo, 1993)

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