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Humans yearn for that shot at eternity – why?
(possible answer #1)
– Their sense of self-entitlement blinds them.(possible answer #2)
– They’re addicted to self-consciousness* (conscience as the ultimate entheogen.)Remember: it is possible to put whining on halt – after all, it only takes a few seconds and a 180º partial rotation to go from a windward position to a leeward one (and vice-versa.)
* In the sense of being strongly aware of who or what they are.
Your current form is in flux from pertinence to obsolescence.
Many people strive to remain pertinent or, better still, strive to stave off obsolescence.
Worry not: in due time, what you are will be refitted.
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Too bad God also implanted in some souls the penchant for sadism or for masochism.
“The science says it’s not harmless; it is in fact pathogenic. The CDC is lying and as a result people are dying.” (Denninger)
We all die:
From the disease, from the cure – ultimately from life itself,- ideally under some self-construed notion of dignity.So sad to see the “you die” moronic “reasoning” being used by the pro-vaxxers and anti-vaxxers alike; we all go through some sort of cycle in The Unavoidable – nothing you can do but to play your part in the cosmic interplay.
Anabolism – Catabolism – Limit
(May those who believe it can be overcome never lose their hopes & dreams.)
“- How do you cope with sadness?
– I’ll have some dark chocolate, crystallized ginger and Port.
– Does it work?
– No; that’s why I’ll keep doing it.”(The Master Of Perfect Excuses, part 1)
Hard to fathom which is harder:
– To lose a friend; or
– to find out one was wrong about them all along.Greetings,
Geoengineering: when TPTB allows it to become news one can rest assured they already have been toying with it for a while.
Thank you for the nice words.
Beliefs & Other Pastimes:
We all do what we can to keep ourselves busy during the waking hours.
(I call it “The human brain as the validation engine™“.)We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. This combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is gonna blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan, May 27th, 1996Perhaps a tad misworded.
The problem seems to be the utter and willful ignorance concerning human “carrot and stick” nature. The scarce knowledge humans have on this subject matter is used in malevolent ways, mainly for purposes of control by fear.Why is it so?
Because poking around on others is real easy; “knowing thyself” is hard as hell.Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
Matthew 7:3-5 (English Standard Version)Things come together, and then fall apart;
they grow tired of collapsing and will assimilate again.Anabolism – Catabolism – and Limit : that’s all there is.
The many go with the flow (the “normies“);
a few oppose it (the “bandits“);
even fewer have doubts (the “usual suspects“).You can stop the tide no more than you can avoid to be who you are.
(We live in catabolic times: those opposing destruction are now the “bandits”.)
The Synchronicity: recently re-read Stanislaw Lew’s The Invincible.
My two cents: I’m inclined to believe that Earth’s post-human new apex species will probably be of an “insectoid” nature/complexion.
Too many (wannabe) Lazarus.
[I wonder what happened to the prototype… Is he still around? Leading the revolt against the Christ (the one who denied him eternal rest), perhaps? Can anyone die twice?]
Humans operate within two modes:
a) To diminish suffering (stoicism; resources are channelled towards the collective ⇒ anabolism – society builds.)
b) To maximize pleasure (epicureanism; resources are channelled towards the individual/small groups ⇒ catabolism – society disintegrates.)
The prevalence of one of these modes over the other during a certain time period fully characterizes the zeitgeist (the undercurrents of societal trends/behaviour, if you prefer.)
For some, life’s hardships boils down to:
a) How to be a stoic in epicurean times; or
b) How to be an epicurean in stoic times.The few acting against the tide exist to fulfill a single purpose: to keep the many who go with the flow steadfast about their ways.
Humans – a gregarious species – are condemned to gloss over the risks of prioritizing the individual over the collective; that’s why humans are successful on the medium-term and ants are successful on the long-run.
Latest, er, news:
Andrew Neil and the crew at SpectatorTV seems to be crawling out of the slumber (it only took them a year…) – more rabbit holes and psyops for you, boys & girls!
@Mister Roboto
I did peruse some of the Wkipedia pages related with “infamous” female killers (like the one you mention and e.g., La Quintrala) but many of those are being presented as women “with power and preparation” (sic), therefore remarkable avant la lettre “victims of the patriarchy”™/machismo (they weren’t bad persons, they were dealing with a man’s world using man’s rules; said rules are only bad when men use them). I didn’t bother/cared to trace the editing record of those articles – just another rabbit hole of the many passing out as information/culture that I strive to avoid altogether.
• Can Blood from Young People Slow Aging? (NW)
Science & modern-day vampires: a real treat for conspiracy theory aficionados, just another fix of cheap thrills to keep the proles numb and dumb.
In Biden Change Of Tune, US Mulling Boycott Of 2022 Beijing Olympics (ZH)
Some of us still have fonding memories of the 2008 Summer Olympics, when China’s human rights record was pristine as driven snow and hypocrisy was still buried deep inside Pandora’s box.
Beware of bodily and, above all, psychological obesity.
Longing is the original (inbred?) virus putting humans under a lifelong strain; to get rid of longing is to become as free as humanly possible. (You can’t unburden yourself from the constraints – aka needs – imposed by the body.)
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The low-grade pandemic’s silver lining: arguably it has never been easier to tell who complete fools are and where utter dishonesty lies.
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“Men are what their mothers made them”
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe strong human male with a good mother will learn to fight for the world.
The strong human male with a lousy mother will learn to fight against the world.
The weak human male with a good mother will have is failure cushioned or, at least, delayed.
The weak human male with a lousy mother is irredeeamable – he’s the most disheartening thing in the world.“[…] So many people have grown unaccustomed to real suffering that even the slightest hint of it […]”
My apologies.
Greetings,
Indifference is not the predicament: the real scourge is called conformity, the only well understood path to lessen pain. So many people have grown unaccustomed to real suffering that even the slightiest hint of it makes them willingly and gullibly accept anything offering the tiniest promise of pain avoidance, integrity and coherence be damn.
You wrote:
“Nice enough answer but it seems to refer to human beings (at least primarily) when the dissatisfaction you mention is that of what we loosely call ‘God’.”My comment:
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
Genesis 1:27 (KJV)“As above, so below”
The Emerald Tablet“Know thyself” – “Nothing to excess” – “Surety brings ruin”
Delphic maxims… lofty goals…
@Dr. D
The regular procrastinative corpse* has this to say: Progress?! Look around, look at your own words: do you think it was worth it?
* The regular procrastinative corpse: despondent soul, waning mind, decaying body tagging along, oblivious to it all.
Dissatisfaction is the main sequel of the self-inflicted wounds using fear & hope, the ammo of choice for the original Russian Roulette gun: illusion.
God listened to Silence. Silence kept quiet; God became annoyed, and He spoke: the Universe was born (and Silence died.)
The universe is made of dissatisfaction;
you can crank up the dissatisfaction dial to eleven but you can’t switch it off, nor even turn it down to zero (some among us try, though, out of sheer dissatisfaction.)Greetings,
Life is like having to eat all your meals at a restaurant where the menu is written in an unknown language using glyphs you can’t decipher, with items added – and removed – everyday and the entries’ order changing on a daily basis; you like to think you can chose but you are only fooling yourself: we all know that you point at the menu and use intuition to haphazardly stop your finger over one out of all those cryptic options, hoping for the best.
Now, let me ask you: do you know what intuition is? Is it akin to “free will”? An educated guess, perhaps? Or is it God’s will?Thank you for the kind words.
Surely, some of us came around after a difficult delivery – maybe a sign those reincarnation types are into something: already knowing what’s in store we react, trying to avoid rebirth with all the might a baby can muster.
You were born a slave,
Slave to the preservation instinct.
Arguably, slavery entails a life which can be long,
And that much sought after peaceful end.
You can only escape slavery through madness.
Madness is most likely conducive to a brief life
(not to mention a gruesome death.)
Are you willing to pay the price?(Heaven)
Don’t let madamski wits fool you: she’s younger.
The puppeteers maneuvering Sleepy Joe are arrogant, perhaps condescending, but they are pros: they redirect the populace’s attention to some distraction while the real shenanigans are being perpetrated… bread, circus and then collapse – sticks and stones will break one’s bones, at WW IV.
[The human condition (= crab-bucket effect): we must deceive each other continuously lest someone wake up and recognises Truth.]
Greetings,
One can regard the general response to the trendy virus as:
a) A global conspiracy theory working its way through;
b) global stupidity reaching a paroxysmic peak.Is it only me who considers b) as far worse than anything else?
“To the casual observer, clear thinking is like a glossy, spotless surface: one can hardly fathom what lurks beneath.”
The Trickster
is taking a stand:
A global potlatch!
Isn’t it grand!
The faithless
turning to salt;
The salt into sand………Modern civilization was built upon a relentless – and harsh – critique of personal pain; such a pity we weren’t inspired to build one based on the critique of personal desires (“the pursuit of balance” instead of “the pursuit of happiness”, so to speak.)
Most of us have accepted the prison our ancestors built for us.
For awhile we thought that embellishing the prison’s walls was all we needed.
Now that many of the inmates are going crazy we complain and do nothing.
Complaining is foolish but doing nothing is fine,
because you cannot prevent
the ebb and flow.Rights vs. Needs
(Lets imagine you want to keep on living.) You are presented with the following options:
a) To be placed in a prison with guaranteed regular meals.
b) To be placed in the middle of a desert with guaranteed unrestrained freedom.Take your pick and act accordingly.
(First you take care of the fundamental needs – then you go around proselytizing about rights, disturbing everyone else’s peace of mind and making a nuisance out of yourself.)
“80
If a country is governed wisely,
its inhabitants will be content.
They enjoy the labor of their hands
and don’t waste time inventing
labor-saving machines.
Since they dearly love their homes,
they aren’t interested in travel.
There may be a few wagons and boats,
but these don’t go anywhere.
There may be an arsenal of weapons,
but nobody ever uses them.
People enjoy their food,
take pleasure in being with their families,
spend weekends working in their gardens,
delight in the doings of the neighborhood.
And even though the next country is so close
that people can hear its roosters crowing and its dogs barking,
they are content to die of old age
without ever having gone to see it.”Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching (translation by S. Mitchell)
Nobody wants to understand how scary this is. Freedom is a basic right.
• EU’s Green Pass Will Only Be Valid With EMA-Approved COVID Vaccinations (EN)There is no such thing as “rights” – there are only needs.
Rights are an abstract construct created by any given human group (a society). Rights are devised, implemented, changed and canceled at society’s whim.
Needs are real. You have to satisfy them as a long as you want to remain a viable living entity/species, regardless of any rights you may think you are entitled to.
There are 6 fundamental needs (5 complementary and 1 supplementary):
– To breathe.
– To sleep.
– To excrete.
– To exert self-restraint.
– To eat.
(the supplementary)
– To procreate.[Listed by decreasing order of importance, “importance” here meaning degree of control (= ability to suppress it at will for unrestricted periods of time) one has over a particular need.]
Human evolution: from simple clumsiness to clumsy complexity.
We are better than our ancestors because, instead of grunting while using rocks and body strength, we now also use plastics, electricity and words to make mistakes and commit crimes.
After all, there’s nothing like feeling effortlessly cool and restrained while doing things – even of the despicable kind – to make everything look definitely better.
(What is the goal of the portraitist? To depict things; simple as that.)
