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Hand-rolled Ciggie…
…of course…and probably rolled with one hand while riding her horse…
…side-saddle, her golden soft flowing layered-gathered blouse, dense tapestry woven skirt intentionally cinched and bow-tied at the waist, beaded braids and bangles snapping in the wind….
The worship of violence is discussed in detail in this piece by John Whitehead. It’s about time we own the impact that glorifying violence has had on all of us (with emphasis on children). It has been 50+ years long grind for US consumers as the war “games” have been an all-consuming aspect of our culture. Violence expressed/experienced through toys, videos, movies, video games, in clothes and in sports is directed at young men, so it makes sense that the shooters are males.
Jim Kunstler shoots at the wrong target. His well-written piece puts the blame on The Party of Chaos, which makes me go full Gustave Courbet crazy. US Inc. – The Party of Hate and Lies should be your focus! Please use your to leverage make a case against the root source of evil. The D/R parties both = chaos and are only the enablers.
Self-portraits are markers of moments in time. These expressions are personal, very revealing. Today’s Gustave Courbet The Desperate Man (self-portrait) 1852 is dramatic, the Artist chose to capture a “moment” of significance through extreme “in your face” facial expressions, contrast of light/dark, and through the use of a cold white color. Perhaps this is how V. Arnold is feeling today?
Two earlier Courbet self-portraits are even more beautiful. The 1844 version with a black dog and the 1848/9 with pipe, take you deeper into his world. See for yourself.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Courbet_Autoportrait.jpg
LOVE to All.
@citizenx: Neil Young lost me (in 2016) when he dumped Pegi, his wife of 36 years. His tantrum on the vaxx was pathetic. I still appreciate his music. The MOMENT IN TIME captured on many of the albums I reference is what matters to me…they are notches/milestones on the timeline of life.
Bodhidharma sat in meditation for 9 years to?
@ Dr D: “But the point is you can stretch only so far with them, and they WILL die – and kill – and kill your kids — to protect the idea of “Us”, whatever that may be. For them that is cars, malls, and the Myth Progress – “Back to Normal”, so no, they will simply die of obstinate thinking…The powers have this problem as well as they say “There’s no going back”…“New Normal” as they attempt to unmoor human psychology entirely and replace it with a new vision of Fascist NeoFeudalism. The unmooring they’ve been at for 50 years is causing deep harm, insanity, and often violence.”
You clarified it perfectly (again). Those who are mindlessly “fighting” for a goal called Back to Normal at any/every cost will not be stopped, convinced, or changed. In their minds, Back to Normal is THE most worthy cause! Simultaneously, TPTBe implement the label/tool called New Normal to legitimize the aspects that they know are not coming back. Notice how the idea of NORMAL creates leverage and empowers the myth keepers/makers in both instances.
So here we are, standing up against the myth called NORMAL. Most at TAE UNDERSTAND and accept that there is no going back to something called NORMAL, and that things called new NORMAL are NOT NORMAL at all – they are abnormal abstractions imposed/forced upon us.
Yesterday’s NORMAL is a dream, it is bondage.
In closing there are two perfect recommendations on the table:
1.”Try to think positively.” Since the only thing we can control is how we respond to the world, the act of choosing to BE positive is a radical act. In this choice we will find the strength and courage to carry on.
2.“Be still.” You will improve your discernment – to see/know what is TRUTH.
LOVE to All.
RE: Giovanni Bellini Pietà 1474 (including the other three offerings this week)
They provide an opportunity to consider/contemplate the act of giving one’s life for something greater than oneself. You don’t have to believe in Jesus as Christ to get to the essence of the moment these works of art are depicting. The gift is in where a “response” may take you.
The Artist’s choice to take on the painting/sculpting of that moment is to be recognized. It is one thing to paint/create from real life – and another to do it from the Heart.
Ilargi indicated awhile back that these are random art selections, and not to draw conclusions as to how he’s seeing/feeling/the world. What we can do is view them as if they are messages, like turning up Tarot cards. Translate as YOU see fit or not.
LOVE to All.
Thanks for this ONE Ilargi:
“But we advocates of Impossibility Theory assert that not only can living things not have evolved, but also that they can’t function. Too many little gear wheels. Therefore life doesn’t exist..
…No way exists of explaining how this purportedly evolved—or how it works for many years without the layers of intricacy, biochemical through mechanical, collapsing. The intricacy of life is layered…
…We start with a zygote which, being a cell, is bogglingly complex. This little time bomb develops into a baby, which is impossible. Impossible, at least, unless we can come up with an auxiliary explanation. Magic seems a good candidate.”
Or GOD.
All GOD or no GOD. We choose or not. When viewed through the GOD choice, everything – all issues discussed above, crumble to the sea.
UNDERSTAND your place. Your hand in mine, we walk the miles.
Thanks to you, THY WILL BE DONE.
LOVE to All.
RE: formula. There is opportunity in REALITY – adapting/adjusting, building new support/information networks, and in producing homemade formula = self-reliance. Power comes back to you/is reclaimed through the effort.
Google “homemade baby formula” today and nearly every result is a red-alert DANGER warning screaming “don’t do it!”. See how the industry-monopoly wants to keep moms addicted to their product at any cost.
NOTE: I have never made formula in my kitchen at home. However, the recipes posted here caught my attention.The only change I would make to them is to eliminate the Karo syrup. Why get baby hooked on sugar? A substitute (used in moderation) might be coconut nectar (dissolved in warm water, then add) or figs puree (dissolved in warm water, strained, then add). My usual go-to sweeteners including honey and maple syrup are not recommended for infants.
LOVE to All.
Having trouble wrapping my mind around the numbers: 25-40 million Russian lives lost. Even at the low end, 25 million is an astounding number. One country paid a mighty price; how must that “event” continue to LIVE in the Hearts, minds, and DNA of those who remember?
WWII – By far the most costly war in terms of human life, in which the total number of fatalities, including battle deaths and civilians of all countries, is estimated to have been 60 million. US count is 405,000 (military).
One more thought on the Degas painting. His use of thin black lines adds something special to this piece. By lining the decanter, table edges, the lady’s hat and shoulders – he adds sublime definition. The technique lifts the piece.
I wonder IF they are still there?
Today’s selection, Edgar Degas L’absinthe (In a café) 1875-76 puts me in a mood, immediately. I am drawn to the woman. The lack of facial expression and the rounded shoulders tell me she is present in physical form only. Are we seeing defeat, resignation, and or apathy? Am intrigued by the Artist who chose to capture an unnamed mood as a feature subject. The limited color palette is dominated by the color grey (look closely it is everywhere). Notice how many shades of grey/yellow/white exist in this piece. The brown and black provide interesting contrast/counter weight support. The man is there, maybe even showing us contentment. Looks like a long night ahead…I wonder of they are still there?
@Oroboros – thank you for finding the beautiful tiger. Remembering that these powerful beasts are in the same precious stream of CREATION.@Armenio
@John Day
@boilingfrogThank you for pointing to mantra. It is a tool like a good chainsaw or a stocked pantry.
Mantra is powerful, and will protect by taking you to The PEACE/TRUTH beyond words. Discover for yourself how words are sounds and sounds/vibrations are the access key to opening the BEYOND. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Om (Aum).
Prep and Pray and Play!
Why not? This deLIGHTful Trinity could be YOUR Mantra.
Find fun in the sun – or the rain – or the clouds. All works just fine.
Work is Faith in motion/action.
Work with (activate) Gratitude, Joy, and or LOVE…the Way to/through will BEcome you.
LOVE to All (is a mantra).
Om. Tat. Sat.
@Oroboros: I don’t know how these pictures manage to find you…today’s edition is very funny!
The entire article “When the Government Plays God: The Slippery Slope from Abortions to Executions” By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead – linked above, is excellent. The wide-angle view is helpful. Here are a few closing points:
“Like clockwork, we find ourselves smack dab in the middle of yet another political circus that could get scary, ugly and overwhelming really fast.
Before you get too distracted by this conveniently timed diversion that has everyone forgetting about spiking gas prices, inflation, housing shortages, and warring empires, remind yourself that no matter how the Supreme Court rules in Dobbs, it will not resolve the problem of a culture that values life based on a sliding scale. Nor will it help us navigate the moral, ethical and scientific minefields that await us as technology and humanity move ever closer to a point of singularity.
Humanity is being propelled at warp speed into a whole new frontier when it comes to privacy, bodily autonomy, and what it means to be a human being. As such, we haven’t even begun to wrap our heads around how present-day legal debates over bodily autonomy, privacy, vaccine mandates, the death penalty, and abortion play into future discussions about singularity, artificial intelligence, cloning, and the privacy rights of the individual in the face of increasingly invasive, intrusive and unavoidable government technologies.
Yet here is what I know.
Life is an inalienable right.
By allowing the government to decide who or what is deserving of rights, it shifts the entire discussion from one in which we are “endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights” (that of life, liberty property and the pursuit of happiness) to one in which only those favored by the government get to enjoy such rights.
If all people are created equal, then all lives should be equally worthy of protection.”
In response to the message (man on the space highway pic) above: Nearly everyday I wonder what I am doing here on this planet, inquire about my purpose, evaluate my progress, and then do something. My guess is that many of you do the same?
@oxy who expressed this yesterday: “There is a light that never goes out and I intend to find that light and share it.” Please do!
LOVE to All.
Our conversations regarding abortion need to be updated as conditions CHANGE. Like everything else, we are bombarded by extreme stories from the folks on the extremes. There is middle ground – if we would agree that reducing/eliminating the need for abortion is a worthy goal while making it safe, accessible, and private for the very few who need it. It’s not one or the other it can be both.
The facts: abortion rates in the US are steadily declining. The article linked here provides good perspective. Note: Emergency contraception appears to be the game changer. It is now readily available over the counter (most retail locations, box stores), no questions asked, priced from $10 to $49 per dose. Emergency contraception is 87% effective if taken within 5 days or less. Since 2016, availability, accessibility, and price have aligned to make this option very relevant. The impact is starting to register in the numbers – so you should expect to see even more decline in abortion rates. Traditional contraception (the pill) seems to be in the dark ages (my opinion) as there should be more choices on this front. Notice how the most effective options for preventing pregnancy place the burden of responsibility on women?
There will always be exceptions, abortion should be available as an option of last resort. Do not underestimate the mighty weight of an unplanned pregnancy – and the agony of choosing.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/14/upshot/who-gets-abortions-in-america.html
@RIM on “the whole issue”
The leak = distraction, courtesy of TPTB. The left is getting hammer-blamed, but their involvement seems way too obvious to have been considered a good strategic choice for them. The right might have done it to further prove how insane the left really is (as the left’s response is very predictable), but few are looking in that direction. With such a small pool of potential leakers, how might anyone think they could get away with it? My guess is that no leaker will be found!
If Roe is overturned, abortion rights/access will be determined by the States (and not completely eliminated). If that is what the USSC decides, then so be it. Roe in original form is flawed. Glenn Greenwald has a good piece up today that gives important detail:
I support a women’s right to choose. Personally, I would like to see zero abortions. It seems reasonable that birth control – including morning after options (they work up to 5 days/best within 72 hours), would have risen to a level of sophistication, effectiveness, and availability so as to prevent pregnancy. As for pregnancy testing, it should be advanced enough to offer a highly accurate result – reducing the need for abortions after 3 (or less) weeks. Since there are plenty of couples unable to conceive, what about creating a private system for supporting a “Life” – pregnancy to adoption pipeline? Taking every possible action up-front to reduce and or eliminate abortions makes sense. Abortion should always be a last-resort option, exercised in extreme situations, with defined parameters – a private matter.
@boilingfrog. I agree: Where I struggle is with the “selective pro-life” folks, abortion of babies is evil, especially white babies (let’s be honest), but killing children far away gets nary a mention. You’re either for all life or you’re not, not a lot of gray.RE: Giuseppe Sanmartino The veiled Christ (Christo velato) 1753 – there are no words to describe it.
The choice to veil Christ was monumental for so many reasons.
Where have all the Masters gone?
LOVE to Ilargi for keeping the doors open and great art in the halls.
Today’s selection, Dante Gabriel Rossetti Monna Vanna 1866 is masterfully implemented.
The hands are some of the most beautiful ever painted. Delicate and graceful. The scale, the proportions. The skin tone is perfection. Add a lovely face and eyes, and an interesting neck. Portraiture is a very high art.
The hair detail is amazing, creating a flowing and fluffy wild mane – tamed by perfectly placed, silver-pearled spiral adornments.
I won’t stop reminding you how difficult is it to paint fabrics with emphasis on prints, here it is done with great perfection.
Her accessories are stunning. How about the detail in that hawk-tail and breast down feather fan!? The green rosettes and the green stone ring are well-placed accents. The choker necklace is a mystical piece while the weighty, red coral beaded strands coil and fall effortlessly around her; they are soothing to hold and to roll around in your fingers. Abundant feminine implements and energy move in a circular motion swirling around her – consuming this viewer.
The Roses. I love their casual, painterly look. With so much going on here….why were they added to the scene?
Art is an experience. LOVE for the Heart and Soul. Thank you Ilargi.
@Dr. D: Powerful posting. You relentlessly make the case for UNDERSTANDING the central role that HATE has in everything wrong. Hate is the rocket fuel for lies, without hate – there can’t be a lie.
Now we see how hate is a sick response, a rejection and or the unnatural resistance to acceptance. To accepting what is. Hate is the diversion, a lethal weapon wielded (at self or the other) in total destruction of what is TRUE. The energy required to maintain the hate/lie is enormous, and the absurdity that comes from it even more obscene. Thank you for the framing.
This one is the root truth (saving for my Dr. D folder):
“Because the one thing they’re lacking, they won’t let in, is “life”. Is spirit. Is not-me. Is God. And they can be “redeemed” and healed, but only if they “repent” and get back in alignment with nature, with the truth of what is. God is restlessly waiting for them. ”Amen. AUM. Om.
Thanks for the ride with this beautiful thought:
“I might go on a spaceship that we would make an ark for transferring a redwood forest. Any ship going that far would have to be big enough, the size of a minor state, and therefore for the entire biome and every animal, vegetable, and mineral in it.” It makes the Noah’s Ark story more real for me. Yes, for the LOVE of a redwood forest ONE might give all.The René Magritte The Conquerer 1926: gives new meaning to the term “empty suits”. Agree with V.Arnold on a connection between the wood plank with black root tattoo and eerie green tree. It’s the blood red sky that has me worried….
@Oroboros: oh those nasty photos (Hunter Biden). How do they find you? And the Lucky Strike ad aimed at women consumers is purely evil in so many ways. Yes, do “avoid that future shadow” Missey! Guess advertising hasn’t changed much in intention – it’s the new delivery systems that have taken us to extreme levels of TOASTINESS!! Curious, what percentage of the population were smoking in 1950 and what percentage were women?@mpsknow: “The squirrel hides when the hawk flies overhead, but when the hawk is out of sight, it is out of the squirrel’s mind.The human who is being targeted can obsess about it endlessly.” May the pondering begin. Now enabling my hawk eye to throw the unnecessary acorns out of my mind.
@Sam Birch: appreciated the excerpt from Dhiravamsa – The Middle Path of Life.
Compelling and thoughtful discussion around existence (includes late comments from yesterday).
The students Kassandra is describing appear to have hit the wall, no longer able to justify/rectify the differences between what they see/experience in daily (real) life vs. what they are being told/what the power structure has built for them. Giving up, failing is a start and not the solution. Next they will likely point fingers and blame someone else “out there”. When that doesn’t provide relief, they may arrive at the point (“the crescendo of all separation”) where they ask – what’s the f-ing point? Am assuming that the mostly-woke TPTB infrastructure surrounding them will be of zero help as they are suffering the same fate – overwhelming illusion/delusion.
At some point, they will become aware of their ROLE in the process of living; and come to SEE and to UNDERSTAND that they have the POWER to implement, to create change – in their name. The shift, the move towards doing inner work and looking within for answers becomes the task at hand.
I sometimes get lost in Dharma talks like the good one referenced above from Dhiravamsa – The Middle Path of Life – due to misunderstanding the meaning of certain words. I respectfully made a few insertions using [ ].
“So if we would like to have radical change we must look into ourselves, into all the conditions connected with us. In that way, we have to criticise [be objective, be truthful with] ourselves and we have to be in constant revolt against ourselves [constantly holding ourselves accountable]. You may say you do not like to do that, but life is war and peace at the same time, and by being in revolt against oneself [constantly holding ourselves accountable], one knows where one is going. One is wrong [in illusion/delusion] , not because of conventions or traditions, not because of religious teachings, but because we do not see clearly. When there is such seeing [clarity] you don’t make war against yourself, but you make peace with yourself. You have more peace when your see where you are wrong [see where your illusions/delusions are hiding] and why. Without seeing where you are wrong [seeing your illusions/delusions] you can never come to the right [truth].”
Excellent clarity from Dr D: “Here in the materium, as it were, we have the nameless Void giving birth to the One, which births the duality, which gives rise to the ten-thousand manifestations, but Yin and Yang, Light and Dark, are indeed opposites. But neither is evil. Like tools, they exist. That is all. ”
And this GEM from DBS (who is surfing within) from late yesterday: “I will tell you what I found. The world (meaning the Universe itself) does not merely contain the phenomenon of consciousness of awareness. It literally IS awareness, and the consequence of that most fundamental of all truths is manifested in such extremely dependable patterns that to call the patterns “laws” would not be far from the mark”.
Exciting. LOVE to All.
The Rolling Boners
No explanation needed.
Fun fact: Warhol did the album cover for “Sticky Fingers”. You can see his signature fingerprints all over it.
@Oroboros: RE: “Is Old White Joe Thelma and Kamkam Khameleon Louise? ”No. Joe/Kami are ignorant and in denial, completely unaware of/unaccountable for their role in driving us off a cliff. In their minds, they are not even in the car.
Notice how Thelma and Louise take a pause before driving on? It is a moment of reflection for karmic accountability and alignment. Realization leads them in only one direction – forward.
Choose to fulfill your destiny or your destiny will choose for you.
Important to REMEMBER: Arjuna has Krishna as Teacher/Guru.
LOVE to All.
@D Benton Smith: Ilargi is a true hero. We all owe him a debt that can only be repaid by keeping the forum a lively and truthful place to share ideas and information.”
The forum is a patchwork quilt of interesting people whose ideas and insights provide valuable perspective; it is easy to find comfort in coming here. The desire to leave something meaningful – a contribution, something of yourself (in the form of comments) as an offering in return for benefits received is a natural expression/extension of what Ilargi has built. Thoughtful comments take time and effort to construct. Your need to redirect efforts into other productive endeavors in the real (tangible) world, away from the screen/computer, is understood. You are being called away. What is holding you back?
As UpstateNYer so directly expressed: “Yes, there are other related and pertinent topics to attend to. They’re called real life – that life we used to live before the internet got in the way.”
The forum will benefit from hearing stories and views from your new endeavors in the real world. Your squares on the original quilt are sewn into the fabric of this story. (Bosco’s are there too).
@Archie: “Raul is one of the greatest humanitarians I have come to know in my life and I have never met him. I come to TAE because of Raul and his sincerity.”Yes. Authentic sincerity has quite a ripple effect. Do add the daily art + Dr D as a major attractions. What kind of Heart manages to run a soup kitchen and construct/arrange/produce TAE on a daily basis? That’s one powerful expression of tangible action in the real world!
LOVE to All.
The Malone interview linked above provides clarity on the spike front. It confirms that natural CoV infection acts differently, it generates spikes that are not staying in the body because they are being cleared by the immune system. Unlike the vax, which is resulting in “excess and prolonged spike protein production” that remains in the body and accumulates in the organs. Especially bad news for those who booster up. The other key note: just because everyone isn’t getting “X” (insert something from the long list of impacts), doesn’t mean it is not happening!
Am appreciating the Warhol multi-image pieces much more than the single image of Marilyn (which turned me off). The Queens (yesterday) and today’s Andy Warhol Mick Jagger 1975 are more interesting as they are studies in motion. You can experience/see the emotional moods and mental blockages/changes around the subjects. The color pallet around paint it black Mick vs. the girls is telling; all though it is more likely a reflection of Warhol’s state-of-mind. These are not done live in studio, which would have added a human dimension vs. projecting a purely commercial/commodity/product feel.
Dr D – please take care of yourself!
LOVE to All.
War is Over! If YOU want it.
Yes. Only IF……
“YOU can take actions and not be a victim. Collectively all the individuals taking actions, filling pantries, growing gardens, and keeping their heads add up to the whole country and society. So we don’t need them if our own houses are in order. And if we are each in order, we flood them out.” – Dr D.
Taking meaningful action makes LIFE tangible and REAL; it provides a roadmap. Every act of LOVE and KINDNESS (in growing a garden, in filling pantries, in tending to a dying friend) is a tool of instruction/construction in the world of fear, hate, and lies.
The act of being/giving LOVE and kindness transforms. In that transformation, YOU come to appreciate, to discern, to know what is TRUTH. Kunstler laments the impact of being being completely “marinated in falsehood” (= the war) which is utterly destructive and disabling.
The remedy is in creating meaning, value, and purpose – being in the world with LOVE, in the present; this will take YOU back to the the Source, the true power in this Creation.
LOVE to All.
Ilargi,
Appreciate your incredible efforts every day. So you say it has come to this: “It’s up to YOU after all”. I agree. But what does that mean?
Choosing Lennon/Ono’s statement “War Is Over If YOU Want It” as a rallying cry brings back memories of undone business. Perhaps another crack at fulfillment is at hand? For whom?
As Vietnam Vet and Dr D remind us above, “WE do not want peace”.
WE are the problem: Our leaders – Gov Inc., politicians, war profiteers, are all in. The rest of the people are brainwashed, locked in a death cult and not available to resist.
Who is up to what task?
Your statement “It’s up to YOU after all” feels like that moment at the very end of the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy is told she had the power to get home the whole time. She is told HOW – she activates that power – and goes HOME. Or the moment we hear the news that Mr. Roberts has been killed in his first battle (in the real war he desperately ached for). A life lived – for what? In response, one of his fellow officers gets off his behind and activates a hidden internal power – he resists and commits and act of courage.
Am not sure HOW to unlock the potential that lives in those of us who are not asleep.
Dr D: ” If Christ would be the message of life, healing, peace, and forgiveness, to the point of personal sacrifice even, then they are the spirit of #AntiChrist.” True. Therefore, the “answer” to undo the damage of extremes must be in the opposite = #Christ?
Easter weekend is the perfect time to reflect on what this means….the whole thing ends/begins in RESURRECTION. In our times this could be the resurrection of values, faith, LOVE.
BEing with Christ. With GOD, the Source means being with faith and LOVE in the face of any,all diversity. The potential/power is there. Have we not had it all along? Can we not BE that in this moment? This may be the only Way through.
LOVE to All. Om Shanti (Peace).
The only Way we…”can replace the universal lies and failure of man is spirituality, God. Faith”. LOVE.
Amen.
The Tytler Cycle is informative. Note: Bondage is the starting and ending point. Guess we gotta go there in order to reset? Or do we?
What would happen if 20% of us skipped/refused/renounced Selfishness through Bondage and went straight to Spiritual Faith God LOVE. Could we flip it (rearrange our destiny)?
This overlays with my other favorite cycle Birth/Growth/Decay/Death. No skipping steps on this cycle when it comes to the physical body/physical universe. However, ideas and beliefs are a different matter (ha ha not matter!) and what happens if we apply this cycle in order to re-order and destroy our manifestations?
Am getting lost in the cycles here….help. Somebody re-cycle me.
Marilyn was beautiful. Loved her in “Some Like it Hot” (her dresses were stunning and sexy…Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon are hysterical). I personally don’t care for the Warhol color treatment seen above, the photo itself is remarkable.
@oxymoron: from yesterday.
Appreciate the opportunity to look at things from another point of view.
“These people are not actually evil – they simply live in a childish fantasy where effects and cause are kept apart…You see it is ‘they’ who do bad (Putin, Trump, Anti-Vaxxers) – ‘me’ don’t look at me I’m an effect. I am just a dream. I am innocent because the effects and evidence of my life are causeless. If there are bad things happening it can have nothing to do with me as I have no agency and do what I am told. Therefore I must be innocent…Me I am stuck between heaven and hell. Knowing I have chosen ego but I am more than effect. But still a dreamer of the dream.”
The connection you make between not-evil and childish fantasy rings true. By choosing fantasy, a world of effects with no cause, evil is created (and defended) – unintentionally.
The herd’s one-sided embrace of effects without cause, is the ultimate corruptor and destroyer in the “play of life”.
Many here would agree that the herd’s inability to function in the world has hit epic proportions (lacking sanity), while producing a strange kind of insanity.
Since it is impossible to live in this world without generating consequences – taking responsibility and being accountable becomes a radical act. Unacknowledged consequence(s) and the inability to admit mistakes and failures is the rocket fuel for The Empire of Hate and Lies.
When/how did we develop such an aversion to life? A lack of tolerance of everything painful. Zero resiliency in the FACE of daily living of life in the world.
Somehow we have mistakenly interpreted pain with loss/death = bad. Fear of losing/dying overrides, and drives us. It is a misinterpretation of Nature, of what is natural and right – the cycle of life, the TRUTH; undeniable, in constant motion: birth, growth, decay, death.
We’re living in a world of our own creation. Daily living is Guru (Teacher). Are we not given the opport=unity to create, to be accountable and responsible for each and every choice?
Where is the harvest, the sweet fruit of this LIFE? It is wherever you are.
To clarify: I am unVaxed and stand by that decision. My Heart would not allow me to give up my life for an unproved injection that was being FORCED on the innocent and fearful (that is how I perceived it). I took my chances. I got Covid. One day we may find the truth – in my mind that means that the virus was a man-made creation.
@Kassandra: I have the same questions.
For those of us who are unVaxed and got Covid (I had Delta), finding data on the ongoing/long-term impact(s) of the spike protein from natural infection seems to be impossible; it is understudied/unavailable.
We shouldn’t be surprised that there is little or no data available – as TPTB are not seeking evidence in support of natural immunity.
@Mr. House: RE: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy article you linked – really ties it all together. Thanks for sharing.
@Dr D: RE: “So who votes for the WHO? How do we impeach them? Expose them? Remove them? Hold them accountable? I thought they wanted “democracy”.”
Interesting just how often the WHO shows up in the piece that Mr. House link above. If they succeed with their current agenda, we are doomed in ways that will be difficult to undo. How are WHO “mandates” enforced/who enforces them?
@oxy: great pondering in #105954. Am inspired to reply. Heading out the door now, so it will be much later today. Curious Minds can build on what you have started.
LOVE to All.
@upstateNYer: would love to meet you over at Edward Hopper’s Le Bistro / The Wine Shop for a glass of red. Nothing like the PRESENT (and wine) for clearing a bad cattitude!
Agree with Red: “just look at Germs link in comment above. #105889…Brace for impact!”
Germ – appreciate the steady stream of mind-blowing, data-driven insight. (Give me a bad cattitude any day!) … I want to know what’s REAL.
My understanding is that there is a difference on the impact of the spike from a natural infection vs. the jab. The jab spike was altered, it has been found to inhibit production of the body’s ability to repair the damage. The unjabbed, with unaltered immune defenses in tact have the ability to recover/repair. People with autoimmune issues, diabetes, and obesity will struggle more than others regardless of the source of the spike. Those of you who know more – PLEASE correct me if I have this wrong. The spike is bad regardless of the source.
Ilargi – thank you for finding Walter M Chestnut (months ago)…today’s new WMC musings are kinda like my daily beef liver and cod liver oil supplements (copper!) – an essential but difficult to swallow dose of reality.
RE: Edward Hopper Le Bistro or The Wine Shop 1909 – the wide open sky spaces are really inviting and captivating. The trees make an excellent anchor, pulling you to the bridge and river below. The very wide road and soft shadows draw you into the center. But not for long, as the dark wall/light sky contrast drops you into the final destination – a table-side conversation. Very nice!
Welcome to the wind, rain, and snow dropping into NoCA for a visit.
@Dr D
@NorietteYour contributions keep me REAL. Benefits seen and unseen in KNOWING. Appreciate the effort.
@VP/Gary
Yes. We all have a ROLE to “play”. The process of developing/refining it happens in daily living. Like oxy, your translation is valuable. PEACE is an inside job.
Sharing is essential. Guess this make a case for solo vs. duo/trio/moreo. Appreciate all that is shared here.
In the meantime I’m observing macro geopolitical events to prepare to be helpful & loving to the best of my ability, for the innocent & transcendent.
@oxy: you are on The Path. We SEE how you use your gifts/tools of compassion and LOVE to translate the experiences of daily living into tangible, practical potentiality. Your musings/our musings are valuable in Ways seen and unseen; our experiences will be called upon for the future use.
Everyone’s contribution is unique and valuable. Grateful for a place to post love-notes.
“I’ve never felt more wise, intelligent and at the same time disheartened and lost as I do the last few months and I say this with humility although it appears not.”
Swinging from side to side (from hopelessness to hopefulness, heartened to dis-heartened) is the process. We can’t LIVE in the extremes on either side; we LIVE in AWARENESS. The center is ours to own.
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RE: Pablo Picasso Femme nue couchée (Marie-Thérèse Walter) 1932
@my parents said know – you think different. Happy, yes!
When you adjust your view, and see that she is laying on her side/back…then everything changes.
LOVE is here, there, everywhere.
@teri: as John Day would say – AMEN SISTER!
it’s alarming to see one country after another voting in these neo-nazi authoritarian assholes instead of doing the work of building new parties to counter the neolibs and the neocons who currently run these governments.
