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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle May 16 2021 #75388
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    Barbara van Beck
    Barbara van Beck (painter unknown)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle May 16 2021 #75387
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    Greek words/fog

    Like the subject of hypertrichosis discovering overnight he/she is now suffering from alopecia.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle May 16 2021 #75386
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    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?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle May 16 2021 #75385
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    Sharing the news
    Eugene de Blaas - Sharing the News

    in reply to: Where Did The Science Go? #75325
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    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.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle May 10 2021 #74979
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    My dream is to become proficient in Papiamento right there where that matters.

    ( @madamski
    Glad to be of service.)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle May 10 2021 #74978
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle May 10 2021 #74960
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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.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle May 4 2021 #74450
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    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.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle May 4 2021 #74441
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    “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.)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle May 3 2021 #74388
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    “- 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)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle May 1 2021 #74269
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    Hard to fathom which is harder:
    – To lose a friend; or
    – to find out one was wrong about them all along.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 30 2021 #74226
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    Greetings,

    Geoengineering: when TPTB allows it to become news one can rest assured they already have been toying with it for a while.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 26 2021 #73926
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    @madamski

    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™“.)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 26 2021 #73923
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    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, 1996

    Perhaps 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)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 26 2021 #73919
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    Things come together, and then fall apart;
    they grow tired of collapsing and will assimilate again.

    AnabolismCatabolism – 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”.)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 26 2021 #73918
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    @madamski

    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.

    Cheers

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 25 2021 #73872
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    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?]

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 24 2021 #73808
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    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.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 21 2021 #73578
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    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.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 19 2021 #73459
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    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.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 8 2021 #72773
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    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!

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 8 2021 #72771
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    @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.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 8 2021 #72708
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    • 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 reply to: Debt Rattle April 7 2021 #72611
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    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.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 7 2021 #72604
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    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.)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 6 2021 #72596
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    @V. Arnold

    Failed at my attempt to embed a video – this is what it was all about.

    Best regards.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 6 2021 #72591
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 6 2021 #72530
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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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    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 1 2021 #72242
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    The weak human male with a good mother will have his failure cushioned or, at least, delayed.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 1 2021 #72241
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    Men are what their mothers made them
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

    The 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.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 1 2021 #72212
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    “[…] So many people have grown unaccustomed to real suffering that even the slightest hint of it […]”

    My apologies.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 1 2021 #72211
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    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.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 30 2021 #72079
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    @madamski

    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…

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 30 2021 #72069
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    @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.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 30 2021 #72068
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    @madamski

    Dissatisfaction is the main sequel of the self-inflicted wounds using fear & hope, the ammo of choice for the original Russian Roulette gun: illusion.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 30 2021 #72052
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    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.)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 25 2021 #71732
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    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?

    (eschatology)

    @madamski

    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.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 24 2021 #71672
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    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)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 19 2021 #71451
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    @straightwalker

    Don’t let madamski wits fool you: she’s younger.

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