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@MyParentsSaidKnow
The big question now is will the Supreme Court move the case for ward, or sit on it until forever? One way to prevent a case from moving forward is to take it on and then sit on it. I have extremely low expectations regarding the current Court.
Nevertheless, it’s one thermonuclear planet buster of a case. Fire fine and jail the traitors in Congress? Sure sounds like a good idea to me.
I have agreed not to directly address “He who must not be named” (by prior arrangement) but it’s well within the ground rules to give hints. In this case hints probably aren’t really necessary but just in case there are any doubts the name begins with the Letter “B” and ends with the letters “egotistically jealous sore loser.”
“He who must not be named or spoken to directly” (by previous arrangement) seems to have lost his manners and marbles, along with his argument with Dr D.
Dr. D is right (as you all know as well). Ex veterinarian and present Pfizer CEO Bourla did indeed brag about being on track to reduce the world’s population by half. Strange claims indeed from a guy who makes medicine. I can’t imagine why he would view that as good news, but maybe one of his paymasters see it that way and he was just sucking up to his bosses.
As for the other nasty cracks, like casting aspersion on Dr D’s reputation around here, well that’s just ridiculous and sad. Doc’s cred is well earned solid gold, as you all know.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, including “he who must not be named or directly addressed”. That’s just fine and easy because who else would possibly want it?
An open letter to Professor Yuval Harari:
Dear Yuvie
I heard you say recently that, “We just don’t need the vast majority of the population in today’s world” .
That’s funny, because I was thinking pretty much the same thing about quaintly irrelevant haplessly dependent academics and overstaffed duplicative institutionalists such as yourself and your “drinking” buddies. Ah well, we don’t all have to agree. Live and let live is my motto.
Unless you and your “drinking” buddies (the ones referenced with the pronoun “we” without its antecedent noun) want to renege on that live and let live deal, in which case I’m sure that other arrangements can be made.
Sincerely,
The 99.9 %Homicide investigation (and by extension, GENOCIDE investigations) do NOT begin with the question of whether or not the capacity for deliberate premeditated taking of human life lurks in the human heart.
It starts with a dead body, and just ONE question: “How did this death come about?”, and works backward in time from there.
In all my life I have NEVER heard of a Homicide Detective decide to just skip it this time because people are just too nice and logically foreword thinking to have caused that death on purpose
Notice the dead bodies. Follow the evidence. Avoid ignoring or dismissing facts for prejudicial reasons prior to thorough inspection. Continue on back the causal chain of effects until reaching the only possible conclusion. Arthur Conan Doyle nailed it. Think like that.
About this Twitter thing.
Lance a boil and you will probably be disgusted by what comes out. But you shouldn’t be surprised.@oldandtired you write: “Their is no Cabal. Just SMI [severe mental illness] people who have coincidentally risen to power.”
That’s quite a coincidence. Like tossing a coin a few hundred times and having it land each time balanced on edge.
For example: Pick any one of the severe societal injuries recently experienced planet wide (covid 19, inflation, vaccine injuries, censorship, “Wokeness”, Ukraine war escalation, election irregularities, regulatory agency “capture”, opioid crisis, pervasive illegal surveillance, fertility collapse, etc. etc. etc.)
Track the actions which caused those injuries back up the chain of command to the highest decision point at which the orders to do those actions is both visible and documentable as to who is accountable for the order.Notice that the same small cast of characters are the source of those orders, and that they belong to the same exclusive organizations which meet and plan things together, agree to said plans and collaboratively implement those plans DOWN through their various chains of command (in other words, conspire).
Notice also that the same people are deeply interdependent upon each other financially, ideologically and socially. They even share ownership in each others enterprises. Indeed they ARE the tops of the institutions that implement the actions which are demonstrably killing people in large numbers.
For this arrangement (which is easily verified as true and actual) to be anything OTHER than a Cabalistic conspiracy is either the biggest coincidence in the known universe, or the word “conspiracy” has no meaning whatsoever and should just be dropped from the law books and dictionary.
No one (least of all me) is saying those birds aren’t seriously mentally ill. What I’m saying is that those seriously mentally ill bastards are a Cabal that knowingly and explicitly conspires to kill humankind.
That’s not conjecture. The documentation is overwhelming. It’s just so painful to look at that many people would rather die than look.I’ve got a bone to pick (yeah, again) with the always brilliant (and inexplicably hesitant) James Howard Kunstler.
I think that I understand the delicacy of his position. He’s like a coachman headed to a dangerous destination, and cautious not to spook the horses. Here’s another analogy. He’s like General Custer’s scout , understandably reluctant to give his notoriously volatile general the full and unambiguous report of how MANY Indians are on the other side of the hill.
Whatever the case, here’s my gripe:
James wraps up his latest missive [see: https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/hows-the-war-on-truth-going/ ] with the following line, “This is what the authorities are really afraid of: that the people will learn their government has carried out — by epic incompetence or true malice — something the looks like an attempted genocide.”
“Epic incompetence” ????????
“or” true malice” ???????? Really? “OR” ?!
That’s a bit understated.
It would be like a kid telling his Dad that there are some men at the front door here to see him . . . . as three dozen armed and armored SWAT team goons are charging across the front yard and through the door with guns blazing.
How can the fully aware and purposefully ‘deceit-driven’ crafting of consciously deliberate homicidal lies, and equally purposeful censorship and suppression of truth tellers. . . . . be chalked up to “incompetence”. . . . by any stretch of a languid imagination . . . . no matter how fucking “epic” it might be?
“Incompetence” ? Well, sure, there’s incompetence, and plenty of it, but so what? Malice can’t even EXIST without incompetence. Just don’t overlook the MAIN fact that the operative word here is malice. That means INTENT. Malice aforethought. Malice with historically enormous quantities of aforethinking. Monumentally unprecedented malice.
ENOUGH hyper coordinated and accomplished malice to be called ( dare I say it even here ? ) CONSPIRATORIAL malice.
That’s right. Conspiracy theory. Heavy on the conspiracy, light on the theory. The stack of facts is so huge it makes PROOF sound like equivocation.
The Cabal has gaslighted its victims so thoroughly that those poor darlings can’t even bring themselves to SAYING THE WORD that describes the crime being perpetrated against them with cataclysmic, civilization destroying, genocidal effect.
And just by the way. What’s with this use of the past tense as in “attempted” genocide. It ain’t the past. It’s not an “attempt”. It’s NOW. It is a flagrant crime in progress. It’s millions already dead, millions more stacking up like Auschwitz , and billions more on the way, with no end or slowing yet in sight.
Look, I know it’s hard to stand up and face one’s internalized programming. I have personally spent the past 7 decades doing it, and attest upon my oath that is frequently terrifying and painful as Hell itself.
Well poor me, so sad, but so what? When the lives of your loved ones depends on it (and they do) it is time to put fear of embarrassment, ridicule or ostracism aside and do what men are supposed to do when the enemy is at the gate. . . . they are supposed to face reality and commit their lives, wealth and sacred honor to the defense of those who depend on them.
To do less is cowardice and betrayal of trust.
I will say it again, and plainly. There is a Cabal explicitly dedicated to the erasure of humankind by any and all means at their disposal. They operate at the TOP of the institutions that comprise our so-called civilization. Their plans are explicit and detailed and frequently written down where anyone with a strong psyche, and stronger stomach, can read and understand them.
What’s happening right now is not WW3. It is Global Civil War LAST. It consists of relatively decent ordinary people on one side, and the Cabal with it’s degraded minions of Evil on the other. You ain’t got a penny candle’s prayer of a chance of winning this war if you can’t even acknowledge who the fuck you are up against. Hint : it’s NOT “incompetence”.
If we lose, so be it. The Great War will not end, but the next round will have to be fought by some other species because this one will be gone.
@TreeFrog
I view being proven wrong as an opportunity to correct an itsy bitsy tiny little temporary mistake and thereby restore the desired state of flawless perfection.
The key is to ‘fess up real quick and get the embarrassment behind me fast enough so that no one is motivated to look any further back to earlier itsy bitsy tiny little temporary mistakes.
About watering Dutch potatoes: the half gallon is probably used to wash the muddy spuds after harvest, because up until then the potatoes are getting all the water they can tolerate from the ground and the sky. Holland is WET in both directions
I suspect that an enormous proportion of people just can’t quite believe , or get over the fact, that the Elites could be as evil (or stupid) as they so publicly OBVIOUSLY are. Folks keep waiting for those self-destroying morons to come to their senses and stop behaving that way.
Well, let me clue you in to something about humans. They seldom want to change things when they’re getting everything that they want. That’s who the Elites are. They are the folks who either HAVE or are completely confident about GETTING, all of the things that they want. And preeminent above ALL of the things they want is that they want the unlimited power and capacity to get what THEY want.
So don’t hold your breath for any of them coming to their senses until reality itself knocks some sense into them.
Sam Bankman Freud can say anything he wants, or nothing at all ( “Yes”, “No”, or “Go piss up a rope”) with amused impunity, secure (he thinks) in the knowledge (he hopes) that nothing will come of it regardless of what he does or doesn’t say. When your team owns the referee (for the moment) there’s no need to worry about fouls.
Those who wait for justice to be enforced by the as-yet-unidentified-and-unseen powers of institutional Law & Order are waiting for Godot.
Freedom is not bestowed or granted. It is (and can only ever be) simply exercised. Just like its flip side, slavery. Either you comply with injustice or you don’t. Heroes can stand by your side or back your play, but they can’t actually take your place or BE you.
This is not advice. I’m just stating the obvious (which has to be re-stated fairly often to have much effect) . . . but eventually it does, and when it does then Katy bar the door.
@DrD
You’ll notice that in his meandering equivocations in nonresponsive reply to the simple yes or no question (of if he had laundered money for the Democrat Party) SBF never said “No”.
I’ll take that as a yes and give him a D- grade in the side-stepping liar snap quiz.
The journalist interviewer gets an “F” for not following up and pressing for a real answer.
@AutonomousUnit
The information you’re using to reach the conclusion that there are too many people comes from sources that are being discredited as we speak. Perhaps those sources are simply mistaken, or maybe they have dishonorable reasons for promoting such an agenda (such as wealth, power or mental illness).
Think carefully: is it true that there are too many people? How did you arrive at that conclusion? Has a species ever had too few members (i.e. ZERO population, extinction) ) because it had too many members? And if so, was that event good for the continuation of life on earth or bad for it.
Have you inspected very much of the planet, personally, to see whether or not we have run out of space for more humans to comfortably sustain ourselves? I have. There’s plenty of room. People who tell you otherwise are lying, and they’re lying for reasons that are not good for you.
When and if there are “too many people” the real world will let us all know in no uncertain terms. In the meantime I suggest people should stick to the business of doing the best they can with what they’ve got and leave that larger question to God, or Nature, or Reason (or whatever ya wanna call it. In any case, no human being or cobbled together A.I. could possibly have the knowledge, wisdom or judgement to arbitrarily decide ideal population size in a manner that would result in anything other than total fucking disaster. That is above our pay grade and always will be, which anyone who gives it more than a passing thought can figure out. Genius is not required. A modicum of common sense and a little arithmetic will do the trick.
@JohnDay “AFKTT had some useful insights up at comment #122272.”
Yes he did, and in many other of his posts as well, but what those postings all seem to lack is originality. He parrots other people’s literature, but the only ground he defends with much gusto is the agenda he espoused when he first appeared here less than 5 months ago and started posting voluminously. His hobby horses are all closely aligned with WEF crap, including 1) Anthropomorphic Climate Change (with WEF harmonizing anti-human solutions) , 2) Overpopulation (rhymes with Malthusian induced eugenics), and 3) How hopelessly inferior and in need of his wise supervision everyone else is (not exactly proof of full blown elitism, but certainly unduly arrogant and disrespectful of differing viewpoints).
It’s unclear to me whether he is a professionally assisted plant or just a garden variety jerk, but in either case I am seriously disinclined to let him get away with spreading seriously evil shit like so-called “population overshoot” which has been straight up Tavistock/MI6/CIA psychological Warfare from it’s inception, and aimed at the human race for the purpose of killing off the hoi polloi.
I only get in his face when he crosses that line.
Yup. And if this is going to be an exchange of insults then I hope you’re better at it than @Afewknowthetruth, whose profanatory skills are less than impressive.
@AFKTT
You’re on. Here’s my opening gambit:
Afewknowthetruth obviously isn’t one of them, which I suppose should be added to the list of what he doesn’t know.
The buzzword “triggered” has all sorts of negative connotations that don’t apply to this situation of eugenicists and genocidists plying their obscenely homicidal/suicidal intentions in public without challenge, and isn’t of much use descriptively either. Yeah, sure it’s possible for a population to run into dire straits in its capacity to feed itself, but no it is not possible to have too many people. Too little food, yes. Too many people, no.
Of course a population can fail to feed itself. Does that suggest a solution of murdering them so that they don’t starve?
Here’s the deal. Overshoot is not an “organically” evolved word. “Population Overshoot” is a nasty and false and KNOWINGLY illogical propaganda word invented and promulgated by deliberately homicidal eugenicists who think that killing others would serve themselves. Simple as that. . To even accept so-called overshoot as a thing is to inadvertently accept that underlying premise . . . without having to admit the premise out loud. It’s the same kind of maliciously deceptive trick as asking somebody if they have stopped molesting children. To even accept the question is to tacitly accept the presumption it implies.
There is only one defense against such pig shit. Publicly call out the offenders, describe the trick they’re trying to sneak by the guards, stomp the humiliating hell out of their shit, and expose them as the slime bags that they are.
I’ll say it again. The term “population overshoot” surreptitiously invites an unevaluated acceptance of the false and intrinsically evil idea that it is possible to have too much life. Same goes for terms like “overpopulation” and “population bomb”. Oddly, those who constitute the “too many” are always someone else.
The terms themselves are actually a form of gaslighting because they instill the literally insane idea that people in general (you, me, your kids and loved ones) have LESS than zero value. In other words, mere existence as a living human being is a bad thing. Not THEM, of course. Always others.
Of course they can’t just come out and openly say that they consider your children to be worse than sewer rats. So they try trick people into buying into it indirectly instead.
I repeat: There is no such thing as too many people, and for anyone insisting that there IS then, by all means, please feel free to go first.
Technology kills. Slowly at first, and then all at once.
It seduces victims into taking for granted that the benefits and advantages of technology abnegate responsibility for knowing how to stay alive when ( not if ) access to the technology is made impossible for an amazingly wide, factually inevitable and ultimately unavoidable “technical reasons”.
There is no such thing as population overshoot, but there is enough competence undershoot to keep gaslit theoreticians like @AFKTT in vapors forever.
It’s been asked recently (and fairly often) “Who can you trust?”
Well the the important ancillary (but unstated) question of ‘what information’ can you trust is a bit tricky, but as for the ‘who’ that’s an easy one. Trust those who trust you.
@AFKTT
Do you have a checklist of the logical fallacies and are going down the list checking them off one by one?
Asserting that I made statements which I most definitely did NOT make, and then proving the statements to be wrong, and thereby concluding that I am wrong about my actual statement (i.e. “population overshoot” is propaganda bullshit based on a logical fallacy) is the logical fallacy known as “the straw man argument”.
Furthermore, my declining to comply with your command to answer questions to the wrongly stated problem is not an error. Ask me properly framed questions about the CORRECTLY identified and stated problem and I would be happy to answer at length.
Let’s compare to a made-up analogous problem. A man jumps off a cliff and is on his way down raising all kinds of racket but still alive. State the problem. Is it: “cliffs are dangerous” (and must therefore be be fenced off?”) Or is it : “Crazy people jump off cliffs” (and must be prevented from doing so at all costs, like drugs, incarceration, physical restraints, etc.) Or perhaps the problem is : that man is about to die (therefore save by whatever means possible and failing that, protect anyone else in immediate risk from his fall.)
It’s all a matter of identifying the CORRECT problem, which so far you have not done. You are framing the problem of food in the UK as one of “too many people”, which cannot be the case because the whole notion of doing ANYTHING about it is premised on the belief that people are VALUABLE. Well, in that case, a solution that proposes LESS people is internally contradictory.
James Kunstler just bounced one off the centerfield scoreboard with the power and finesse we’ve come to expect. The week doesn’t really start until his Monday edition, and knowing that a second dose awaits me on Friday is a part of what gets me through the week.
Yeah, I know I rag on him from time to time, but that’s because we must hold our saints and heroes to a higher standard. That’s a price they have agreed to pay in order to go on earning our adoration.
You’re on the right track, James. Now go get ’em, we’re cowering right behind you.
@MyParentsSaidKnow
Why does it take me nine long paragraphs to say half as much as you get said in four short lines?
Must have something to do with how you are a poet.
Before this latest piss fight about “overshoot” and the nature of nature gets too much further out of hand I would first like to make a statement.
I believe that a good place to start any argument is to itemize, identify and clearly state (for all to see and consider) the assumptions/premises one is basing their argument on. Here are a few of mine.
I assume as given that the Universe is created by an omnipotent God, whose exact nature I can only dimly discern but which could be better discerned if I put a bit more time and effort into it. I assume that my self is essentially (and merely) a figment of God’s imagination . . . and that I’m bucking for a promotion by sucking up to the Boss. God’s stuff is good, and contrary positions are bad. That’s non negotiable.
I assume that since it is His universe, and that there is Life in it, that both the universe and the life that’s in it are, by definition, good. Therefore positions, actions, ideas, etc. which seek oblivion and death are bad. That’s non negotiable, too.
I also believe (indeed I know) that such conversations can get rowdy and that on rare occasion I could be wrong in my beliefs (joke, people, JOKE) and that such an event is an opportunity to lose a lie and gain a truth. That’s wonderful, and makes TAE the sort of joint I like to hang out in.
I also believe that there are a whole bunch of people out there (and even here on TAE (joke, people, JOKE !) who know stuff that I don’t, and that I might learn something by conversing with them. This is an environment rich in the “opportunity to be proven wrong, and thus learn something”.
Nota Bene : That does not mean I will simply roll over and let someone casually drop an egregious and destructive lie into the conversation like a turd into the punch bowl. In that event I shall comment with all of the “due respect” that such a misdeed deserves.]
I believe that the premise of “overshoot” of human population is just such an odious objective lie, and pretty damn evil be it’s very nature of oppositional disalignment with the universe and opposition to life. That’s God’s business, Bub. Above our pay grade.
If anyone wants to go all “ad hominem” on me for my beliefs then feel free to have at it because there’s no reason for “me” to take it personal. It ain’t me you’re looking for, Babe. I might get snarky with you if you try it (“might?” Ha !! You can count on it) but in point of fact I do NOT take it personal. I just assume that you are doing the best you can with what you’ve got, and that we’ll have to work things out from that point forward.
@AFKTT
Simple. Go back in time a dozen centuries and then come back forward making fewer mistakes.
Alternately, one could genocide half a dozen billion people and continue forward making the same mistakes all over again.
A third possibility, going forward from the way things actually are at the present moment (otherwise known as reality), is to learn from past mistakes such as atheistic materialism and its various forms of authoritarian monarchy and not make them quite so badly as the present and future unfold.Incidentally, which of my completely unfounded assertions do you object to? Was it that reality exists or that “overshoot” is a crock of propagandistic bull shit invented and asserted by moronic eugenicists?
Just because an academic authority (such as Catton) coins a clever (and fallaciously misleading) buzzword like “overshoot” does not magically set aside the rules of logic, nor does it make him right in his conclusions. Appeal to authority is not merely a fallacy of logic, it is avoidance of the issue (which will thereby continue to be unsolved). Most importantly, it does not justify democidal “solutions” to what is essentially the WRONG PROBLEM.
The problem is not too much life. The problem is too little knowledge, wisdom and competence.
Since the objective of life is more life how could there possibly be too much life? To even start down that road of mis-reasoning guarantees two things: failure and monstrous crimes against life.
The solution to suffering, bad life choices, ignorance and incompetence is NOT euthanasia in any of its cleverly (or lazily) promoted forms. The solution is to relieve suffering, make wiser choices, and to learn and practice competent action. This does not , of course, guarantee success, but to do otherwise certainly DOES guarantee failure.
Perhaps (for example) packing incompetent and unlearned people into megacities and supporting them by institutionalized lying, cheating, stealing and killing as a “Ideal Civilization Model” was not such a good solution. Maybe learning how to plant potatoes would work a little better.
“Direct observation of all current data” . . . . . . is a self contradictory muddle of nonsense. There is ‘data’, as an abstracted representation of what has been (hopefully) directly observed, and there is ‘direct observation’, which can (with skill) be represented abstractly in the form of data. In other words, they are DISTINCTLY different things.
It is common for spectacularly false conclusions to be drawn from equally spectacular vast heaps of data simply because the data was garbage. . . . which a modest amount of direct observation might have revealed if the student had extracted their nose from “the data” and pointed it at the real world for a little direct observation.
The entire “overshoot” notion of there being too many people can be shot to smithereens in no time by a ten year old kid sitting in an airliner over any continent in the world and just looking down.
“. . . you would have to be living in a Hopey hole not to be aware that we are in Overshoot…”
Let’s get the kill shot over and done with first. “Overshoot” is not a science word. It’s a buzzword, and a bad one at that. Using it in relation to populations is simply logical fallacy, on it’s face, because to accept the word is to prejudicially accept the unproved notion that there can be “too many” individuals in a population. Absurd. The equivalent mistake in astronomy (for example) would be to say that there are too many stars in a galaxy. Silliness. The logical fallacy is called “begging the question”. Go look it up.
Secondly, who gave ANYONE the authority to arbitrarily determine a “just right” size for the human population? Quite aside from the fact that such a determination is both impossible and unknowable, there is that other little thing about NO ONE has (nor could they be given) the right to impose arbitrary “solutions” based on that arbitrary number. Talk about over-the-top hubris. Don’t play God! I mean, give me a break! Just stop it. That sort of idiocy on TAE just embarrasses me.
@aspnaz asked : “Are the yanks in Arkansas and Harlem really that dumb?”
Yup, ‘fraid so, but where on earth is it any different?
@aspnaz You contemplated, “They must have some scam up their sleeves but I cannot see where it is going. Liars lie, MSM always lie, something is up.”
For the answer to this question we must turn to the world famous expert on the Art of Lying, Mark Twain. He advised that the thing to do when caught red handed in the commission of a crime was to immediately confess to a lesser crime.
The current cast of politicians and hacks are such incompetent liars that I almost yearn for the days of Tony Blair and Colin Powel, or even (dare I say it?) the inimitable Walter Cronkite. At least then we had the ephemeral serenity of believing , if only for a fleeting moment, that we knew what the fuck was going on.
I just noticed that a county by county level map of the 2022 election is pretty much a dead match with a county by county level map of the reported Bird Flu outbreaks that resulted in 50 million chickens being euthanized . . . based on PCR testing rather than birds actual dying from the disease. Basically, Blue counties were VERY unhealthy for chickens, while Red counties were disease free.
That’s remarkable. It had never occurred to me that chickens were Conservatives.
One of the fringe benefits of having a world human population of over 8 BILLION ( as in eight THOUSAND millions) is that it enables fast, and highly revelatory thumbnail probability calculations.
For example: after 3 years of mass murder perpetrated upon those 8 billion people, not even one person of that targeted population has opted to just get up off of their ass and go assassinate ANY of the known perpetrators as a justifiable act of self defense, or revenge or general disgruntlement. Bear in mind that this is in a world where wearing the wrong shoes in the wrong neighborhood can getcha killed six different ways from Sunday (happens every day).
I find that to be rather improbable, statistically speaking, and yet there it is. The probability APPEARS to be roughly 0.00000000000 % . Plain fact.
I wonder how that could even be, which in turn makes me wonder if there is some other, obscured, factor at play that I’m not seeing.
One possibility is that everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) subliminally ( instinctually ? spiritually ?) knows that it would be a monumental mistake, because it would put us on the same path of oblivious self destruction that the bad guys are on. We know it would be our ruin.
Maybe it is something along these lines: Do you suppose that Gates and Rothschild and the good folks at Pfizer consider themselves to be “winners” in the Great Game of getting ahead ? Of course they do. Otherwise they would change their lowdown ways and stop lying, cheating, stealing and killing with such wild abandon for fun and profit.
Alright then (given the reasonable assumption that they think they’re the smart ones and consider themselves to be very best of people) ask yourself whether ANY ordinary person even remotely close to being in their right mind would actually want to BE any of those guys like Bill Gates or Nathan Rothschild or Anthony Fauci. I don’t mean just having their wealth, status and power. I mean literally BEING them.
I don’t think any of the even semi-sane would actually want to swap places and BE any of those obliviously evil characters. The answer would not just be “no”, it would be “HELL no!”
So even though Gates and Rothschild think they are winning, they are in fact LOSING very very badly. They’re losing so bad that not even the most deplorable of the most downtrodden poorest of the poor would swap places with ’em if the swap required actually BEING Rothschild, or Gates, etc.
Basically, people know not to behave like that because it’s a one-way ticket to the same hell those monstrous morons are in. The inescapable hell of being being 100% dead wrong, and yet egotistically delighted with being the best and smartest guy in the room.
And they got no way out until they take their own medicine, or meet their maker . . . . or both.
Consider the irreducible paradox of government. It’s function and purpose is to force people who want to do something to NOT do it . . . ostensibly for the sake of the welfare of those who want the opposite. Or governance can be the reverse, that is, it can be the effort to force people to DO things that they don’t want to do, which is also ostensibly for the sake of other people (who in this case would consist of those who DO want the thing done.)
I either case, and utterly regardless of the form or nature of the government itself, there is going to be a cohort of persons who are expected to passively allow their own free will to be trampled.
Sure looks like a recipe for warfare to me.
Especially when the “you must” and “you must not” governmental mandates have to do with the quintessentially vital activities necessary to life itself.
Right now we have a formally “official” government of liars thieves and murderers who are mandating that we, the presumed subjects of that government, submit to death so that liars, thieves and murders can continue living large and prospering.
I other words, it APPEARS to be a paradox in which good must submit to evil, truth must submit to falsehood, and justice must submit to travesty.
That is an impossibility, isn’t it?
Government isn’t actually a paradox, then, is it?
It’s more like a trick, a con, or massive LIE . . . in service to liars, thieves and murderers. And the lie is that the personal sovereign choice between good and evil (right and wrong) can EVER be abdicated by yielding it to others. It cannot be. YOUR choice cannot be handed off. That sovereignty is God’s gift to you. That is the truth.
In other words, there are no paradoxes in this universe. When something LOOKS like a paradox it is merely a lie in truth’s clothing.
I read, enjoy and deeply appreciate the massively thorough “Line Item” approach of Dr. D, Red, and others in their heroically resolute work of refuting and ridiculing the fire hose of lies streaming at us from every orifice of the main stream media, PsyOp propaganda, Government outlets, and Big Tech social media. It really does help in the prevention and cure of death-by-bullshit with which those institutions are attempting to annihilate us.
But have you noticed the trend? The line-item list of refutations are getting longer and longer and longer. It’s certainly not the commentator’s fault. It’s that the stream of false and intentionally misleading and evasive bullshit from officialdom is gaining volume and intensity as the bad guys attempt to counter the increasingly visible inevitability of their own defeat.
That trend will not subside because as more lies are brought to light the freshly exposed facts will in turn dislodge new lies in a “nuclear chain reaction” kind of exponential increase that in its explosive nature is itself disconcerting to anyone attempting to keep up. Even the most prodigiously gifted intellects will eventually NOT be able to keep up with it. The word “overwhelming” comes to mind.
Don’t despair, and don’t quit. Hang in there no matter what and you will discover that as the apparent chaos crashes around you like Monster Wave storm surf that you will have learned how to ride the big stuff, a vital skill in this competitive stage of spiritual progress.
Stick with it. We’re almost there.
I think that God and religion are too often erroneously conflated. Not the same things. One of them is the creator of the Universe and the other is a big complicated basket of human endeavor within that Universe, in forms, languages and translations far too numerous to count. The best two thing one can say about religion is that it’s an attempt to connect with God, and that it’s the thought that counts
@DrD you lamented, “It is unfathomable how detached we have become from basic reality, and how deep into abstractions we are lost. I guess it’s a death sentence . . . ”
I share your angst, but in reality (and I use that particular word very advisably) it is completely and easily fathomable.
People detach from reality when they choose to, literally, detach themselves from what is real and true and instead choose an alternative attachment to something that is NOT reality. To lies, or fantasy, or hate, or materialism for examples.
Reality is pretty hard to miss. There it is, and be careful, because hot stoves and sharp edges can hurt incautious fingers. So far so good. Then, since reality does exist, let’s move on to the question of how best to operate within that reality. A sane and logical first step in such operation would be to conclude that things which are the same as reality are true (and are thus workable) and that things which are NOT the same as reality are thereby untrue, and thus NOT workable. Indeed, such error is certain to fail when engaging with reality. No exceptions.
Those who operate in the belief that reality itself (the Universe Entire) was caused by material energy is pretty damned detached from reality, because that belief is about as opposite to (different from) reality as it’s possible to get. It’s false. Transparently and obviously false. It is, in other words, “detached from reality,” and the behaviors which derive from such idiocy can be expected to be about as crazy as crazy can get.
Like the idea that for mankind to survive it is necessary to kill as many humans as possible and “trans” the survivors into various types of non-humans, all enslaved to a soulless “artificial intelligence” mechanism bereft of free will of any kind.
Yep. That’s who’s crazy. Maybe not as humorously entertaining as the reality-detached girl who expects milk from transgendered “cows”, but still the same kind of crazy.
Those who know there is God are not the quaint (humor their harmless delusion) lunatics. It’s the other way around. The materialists are the ones detached from reality. The implications of these REAL fact could hardly be bigger. They are not inconsequential. They are revolutionary.
