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Lest people forget.
While we, the members of the sanctimonious crowd, kept ourselves intoxicated on our self-righteousness, we left the crooks and other scum of the Earth take over the positions of power, and now we complain… Why? Are we going cold turkey?
Time perhaps to reassess where to place the blame on and also to reassess the meaning we ascribe to certain concepts, such as coherence.Have a pleasant weekend.
Is the universe the need to refill an empty stomach? (… maybe it is)
My Universe – the Oroboro* – is made of a single component: (unquenchable) desire; it has a single moral imperative: radical acceptance.
* Ouroboros styled in order to become a palindrome.
In the Universe there are no such things as “problems”.
A “problem” is nothing more than a human mind construct. Therefore, humans cannot solve problems, they can only imagine problems and pretend to find solutions.Thus, the only “reasonable” questions are:
Does the Universe exist outside your mind?
If so, is the Universe a work-in-progress?
If so, does the Universe have a goal?
If so, what is it?Now go, and try to improve yourself… pretty hard, uh? (If only because you are already perfect and all others are irredeemably flawed.)
To chastise others is way better, way simpler.We have returned to human sacrifices, fostered not by any religion but by science, and in the name not of any god, but in the name of a fiction: Endless Painless Human Life.
Science scare people out of their wits more than religion.
Scientists help to terrorize people more than priests ever dreamt of.A hypothetical scenario
Assumptions:
a) As for today, the way renewable energies are being explored is insuficient to keep current civilizational arrangements running.
b) With the technology currently available, the extant fossil fuel cannot be extracted without spending more energy than the one said fuel would provide.
The ERoEI resulting from the extraction of the yet to be extracted fossil fuel is below the threshold required to keep current civilizational arrangements running.How the mentioned scenario would pan out?
In case of an adverse outcome, what would be your solution?@John Day
Good point – thank you.
Due to my own confirmation biases* I tend to forget humans are a gregarious species.
* e.g., lemmings vs. anchorites.
People read some stuff and get enraged, then read some other stuff and feel at ease, all due to that pervasive human automatism: confirmation bias.
Q. But why mere symbols on a screen/piece of paper can so easily stir such emotions?
A. Because too many people, for the sake of those elusive feelings of security and belonging, have forfeited a very basic survival skill: to think for themselves.
Nice and timely comment.
Whatever folklore one can peg on TPTB, there seems to be some (a lot of?) signals that some sort of plan is going through the motions; as usual, one can look at it from very different POVs:
– Are they ripping off mankind? (Or,)
– Are they trying to extend homo sapiens sapiens shelf life by trying to decrease its numbers? (Thus assuring that some humans can more or less preserve the current standards of living with the remaining fossil fuels that can be extracted above the EROEI threshold required to sustain said standards.)The human paradox: fighting upstream’s planned obsolescence* while promoting it downstream**.
Progress = Intolerance to discomfort (the question is: by default or by design?)
* death
** senseless consumerism of ever increasingly disposable goods/services; disregard for others’ life<b>The human paradox</b>: fighting upstream’s planned obsolescence<b>*</b> while promoting it downstream<b>**</b>.
<b>Progress = Intolerance to discomfort/pain</b> (the question is: by default or by design?)
<b>*</b> death
<b>**</b> senseless consumerism of ever increasingly disposable goods/services; disregard for others’ lifeLife’s end goal is to die; everything would be so different if our main concern whilst we live was to learn how to die with poise.
“But the benefits still outweigh the risks, says the Irish health body. Who are these people?”
The sentence may still be correct, though.
The question then would be: the benefits to whom?Greetings,
We humans, we all make choices: the aggressive ones staunchly believe they’ve made the right decisions, the more restrained ones hope they’ve made the less wrong ones; in the end, it’s just a matter of perspective (a matter of where you currently stand at the scales balancing pleasure and pain), all in service of the tyranny of duality.
Have a jolly weekend (happy 4th of July to the Americans out there who cherish it.)
Even God can’t exempt Himself from serving the duality tyranny.
Radical acceptance : at some point, you will be replaced.
Not much one can do but to blame the Golgafrinchans [2]!
Greetings,
An analogy:
– Modern civilization is the Titanic, and the proverbial iceberg is an EROI which dropped below the threshold required to keep civilization’s engine chugging along. World’s population at large didn’t saw that coming, like a thief in the night.If everyone was listening, you know
There’d be a chance that we could save the show
Who’ll be the last clown
To bring the house down?Nice, prophetic words…
Why worry, there should be laughter after pain
There should be sunshine after rain
These things have always been the same
So why worry now?
Why worry now?There’s no need to transmogrify Pleasure & Pain into Good & Evil, but we just can’t help ourselves. (Pleasure & Pain are interwoven into the fabric of the Universe and have no moral significance whatsoever.)
Georgia Guidestones, here we go!
Mass inoculation of the world’s population with a sterilizing agent (plus a bonus of sundry harming side-effects) seems like a rational way for extending homo sapiens sapiens shelf life, while concurrently avoiding most of the costs of a full-blown, global war (small-scale local wars will still be unavoidable, though.)
All else is blowin’ in the wind.
Hello , @madamski,
Glad to hear from you again.
• Vladimir Putin Quotes Tolstoy As He Reveals His Dark Philosophy On Life (DM)
To the childlike people at dailymail.co.uk, being clear-headed equates with being a fictional/cartoonish villain. They also enjoy fantasizing about Mr. Putin as a fictional villain. That they don’t mind sharing this mindset with the readers surely is a blatant proof of the infantilization of the Western “intelligentsia“.
Greetings,
There is no “science” (nor “scientism”, for that matter), only human beings, some of whom like to refer to themselves (and to be addressed) as scientists.
The problem isn’t the scientists who are being cancelled, the major problem (one out of a handful of them) is the existence of scientists who want – and have the power – to cancel dissent voices.
‘Why should man live a hundred years? This is how it happened. Allah gave all the animals fifty years each, and that was enough. But man came last, and Allah had only twenty-five left.’
[…]
‘[…] And man started complaining it wasn’t enough. Allah said, “It’s enough!” And man said, “No, it isn’t.” So Allah said, “All right, go out and ask, maybe someone has some over and will give you some.” Man went off and met a horse. “Listen,” he said, “my life’s too short. Give me some of yours.”
“All right,” said the horse, “take twenty-five years.” Man went a bit further and met a dog. “Listen, dog, let me have some of your life.”
“All right, have twenty-five years.” On he went. He met a monkey, and he got twenty-five years out of him, too. Then he went back to Allah, and Allah said, “As you wish, it’s up to you. The first twenty-five years you will live like a man. The second twenty-five you’ll work like a horse. The third you’ll yap like a dog. And for the last twenty-five people will laugh at you like they laugh at a monkey…”‘Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward (excerpt; translator unknown.)
Keeping the ego under a frugal regime is a lost practice, so lost as knowing how to naturally select proper from poisonous food; yet other animals have it – why did humans lost it? Did they ever had it?
Human beings were created/(d)evolved from whatever (take your pick) to fulfill a purpose: to redecorate the planet.
(… let that sink in and then get over it.)Love – Hate – Business
… and among them, Business reigns supreme, as it has the power to unite foes and make friends become estranged from one another.
Blessed is the one who can steer away from all of the above as farther as he/she cans, for he/she will come to know peace.
• Scientists Backtrack After Quashing Covid-19 Lab-leak Theory (RT)
Scientists as helpless buffoons, just another silver lining.
Q: Two eternal sworn enemies, who already know none of them can definitely overcome the other, what can they do?
A: They divide the loot evenly between them and unite to ensure there will never be a third contender.
God created Pleasure & Pain (the primeval siamese) and they immediately seized Him. Now God dreams of God, the One who will come to exterminate Pleasure & Pain forever.
The universe as the proverbial draft animal, nice things as the carrot, lousy ones as the stick.
The wise person always performs at suboptimal level because the unwise – the natural recipients of his/her gifts – always have a hard time dealing with wisdom.
@Germ
An almost perfect cadence of 2mn between comments. Chapeau! That’s a well-oiled operation.Redefining the alpha male (and female mating strategies too!):
– Meet Matthias Buchinger.
“[…] Buchinger was married four times and had at least 14 children (by eight women). He also is rumored to have had children by as many as 70 mistresses. […]”
(There’s life – and even some merriment – outside the monotheme.)
• How To Cure Type 2 Diabetes – Without Medication (G.)
Greetings,
Recently “suicided”(?) Frank Suarez, a Puerto Rican educator and a social communicator on topics related to health, explained metabolism’s crucial role in human health for years (if you understand Spanish, some of his Youtube videos are quite interesting.)
“I use words and hypotheses because I want to try to understand what is happening […]”
Any success lately?“[…] and my brain doesn’t receive […] directions from God.”
Are you 100% sure?Best regards.
Greek words/fog
Like the subject of hypertrichosis discovering overnight he/she is now suffering from alopecia.
We have a lot of words – why?
Because we have a lot of hypothesis – why?
Because we can’t grasp truth.Words are like fog.
Some can use fog in very enticing ways – will they go blind when the fog subsides?Greetings,
As far as I can remember – I’m almost sixty – medicine gave up its ties with science in order to become a racket with the sole purpose of turning every single human being (let’s not forget to also include pets and livestock) into a long-term client, either by diagnosing or by convincing people that life is nothing but an endless array of diseases.
My point is that this has been going on for a very long time: physicians were very successful in turning large swaths of the world’s population into hypochondriacs and now TPTB are reaping the – political, economical, authoritarian? – benefits.
Human history: a long-term sadomasochistic interplay.
