So auties freaking out about MIT, didn't hear you outcrying when China purposely created autistic monkeys to inflict experimentation on. I've been saying for years that we're on the brink of the nastiest form of human genocide we've ever seen. I've stopped freaking out. Also, all you Trump haters so obsessed with the guy that you're saturating everyone around you with pix of his face- ever thought that you're part of the indoctrination process? Really tired of miles of his face in my feeds.
Here's the thing. When you obsess about something, anything, your brain works overtime on something you fear or loathe, and that prevents you from truly enjoying something else. It's one thing to be "concerned", it's another to be so obsessed that your feeds are crammed with whatever, or that you even create artwork around it. *wow*
I used to worry that I was the messed up one. I'm fine. Some of the rest of you probably need to look into psychoneuroimmunology and mindfulness.
Moving on. Reaching a level of relief as I'm nearing the original dose goal. The nasty withdrawal headaches seem to be lessening, I'm kind of starting to sleep again, and I actually held it together going into town yesterday for an equipment update and a lengthy grocery list.
"To me, neurodiversity is the idea that neurological differences like autism and ADHD are the result of normal, natural variation in the human genome. This represents new and fundamentally different way of looking at conditions that were traditionally pathologized; it’s a viewpoint that is not universally accepted though it is increasingly supported by science. That science suggests conditions like autism have a stable prevalence in human society as far back as we can measure. We are realizing that autism, ADHD, and other conditions emerge through a combination of genetic predisposition and environmental interaction; they are not the result of disease or injury."
This proponency started long before the autism witch hunt. I was shocked at the ADHD witch hunt decades ago. I couldn't believe how many parents could get so selfishly vicious over something so innocuous as children not being posable dolls, boiled down. I learned a long time ago in anthropology that 10% of ANY population is considered a normal part of distribution, and even necessary to the health of the whole.
There are people out there who want you to hate. They want you to fear and loathe. Why? Because they get money for it. The more freaking out and opinionating you do, the more monetizing someone else gets.
Zoom out and look at bigger pictures. Look at what is really going on. Fear and loathing is the most lucrative machinistic process on this planet, and every time you pass on your auto-fear and auto-loathe, you are doing their dirty work for them.
George Orwell didn't foresee how the proletarians would be used by social media.
Popping awake at 3 a.m. the morning of the clock change, like you do...
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So I finally reverted back to my minecraft realm worlds, which got me out of a few people's hair and off my twitter election depression musing (which got me over 1100 impressions, while other tweets before and after stayed pretty flat, so a handful of people actually read those), and played with new things. Here is what I have learned.
Just because a person knows how to use a fill command doesn't mean they won't waste an inordinate amount of time trying to blow up a field of TNT under ocean water. Intelligence, meet stupidity. However, I did get even more ideas for other things while I was at it.
I made my first portal, set up a base in the nether, and then went about learning about enchanting my armor and weapons. Yes, I actually avoided doing all these things for 9 months. Why? Because aspie ruts are pleasurable. Time to break out and learn to truly conquer.
Digging a depression to plant a bunch of oak trees is definitely worth a little time. I'm spoiled to the moc tree feller power chop, and I don't wanna have to load a mod just to chop trees faster when they grow 3-4 stories tall.
Now I need to learn potions and mining in the nether. I also need to learn how to plan how to build out a real establishment. I'm one of those on the fly people, and while some of my stuff turns out kinda cool, it's still very basic.
One idea I had for new moc once I get land is a pair of giant portal-looking Lady Gaga sunglasses with the weird TV screen stuff in them instead of portal mist. I have loads of ideas, and I'll need a LOT of land. If I disappear off the medias a lot, I'll be tunneling my way to wealth on the upgrade. I'm brushing up on golden shovel grief prevention so I'll know what I'm doing when the time comes.
Meanwhile, I'm ignoring @bonenado's advice on week 9 of #SnarkFF and keeping my lineup the way it is. It's killing him that I won't change my defense out. Since I get more joy out of his angsty fantasy writhings than I do actually winning, yeah. That. Sometimes I get lucky and it backfires into me getting super points on the thing he's angsty about. It could happen.
Ok, slaves, heads up. Very particular posts have been getting hit harder from other countries than from the U.S. of A., and it's not because they're bots. It's not always easy to see, but the patterns help, and then catching an hour here or there of singular hit repetition helps. I'm being passed around in facebook messaging by people who aren't even friended to me, and these people are VERY interested in the election. But you're (meaning Pinky) not even talking about the election, you say. And you are a silly brain trained sheep, I say. If you have been missing what I've been saying on Pinky blog, and particularly a particular image I shared particularly, you are so deep in the blue pill that you'll never be free. You cannot think for yourself, you already do what you're told even when you think you're making your own decisions, and you respond on cue to media triggers without even realizing it. Congratulations, rugged individualist. Your freedom rings. Hollow.
I know. I can plead 'crazy' any time I want, and you guys can blow me off for that.
We accept lies about lies because we don't love the truth, and we're even against the truth because we have been so trained to repel the truth that we can't even see other people fighting and hoping for us outside our country. We hate people who are on our side because we can't even see what side we're really on. We're so deep that, even drowning, we choose to stay in our places and fall for the last big lie- that our vote gives us power. And I say, Not if both sides are on the same side.
There is so much more than choosing a side. (Is Seagal a plant? A stoolie? A handler? My only interest is watching a chess board.) (Who is the real 'bad guy' here? *Is* there a bad guy? And if you found out what you think of as a bad guy is really a good guy, would you freeze in a logic loop?) (For those not watching, Putin purportedly loved Obama for awhile, Seagal has purportedly been against him, but that's super simplistic. The twisted path to this granted citizenship is really fun to follow, if you've been keeping track of these things over a long time.) (Jason Bourne is just a character, we watch too much TV, we let news reporting slide right by us with a little bit of snarking because we are so deep in entertainment.)
And I completely accept that this is where we are and where we've been going for decades. The dire warnings from popular prognosticators are late distractions, after the fact, part of the brain training into doublethink. It's all part of the show. Worry about something we didn't notice already happened. One of them even openly mapped out this whole path, warning to stay off the path while actually leading the sheep on it.
We are already here. The stage is set. The script is ready. At least for us in the U.S. Some parts of the world still resist. They will be summarily dealt with. No one else is our boss. Winning hand takes all. One hand to rule them all, which has already been cleverly planted into your heads.
One day this will all just be part of our entertainment culture and no one will believe it really happened like that.
OH, I finally saw Star Trek Beyond last night. The biggest thing I came away with was how close to original series Star Trek this movie felt. For those of you who never saw original series ST when it first aired, when the Beatles and Rolling Stones were still just pups and scifi on TV was brand new stuff and not the edgy huge screen monster it's grown into, it was actually pretty magical to have to use your own brain to fill in the gaps. Storytelling has evolved into spoon feeding and scientifically timed attention-getting effects, so even though this 3rd new Trek felt toned down from 2nd new Trek, it was still very watchable. There were many fails I could pick on, but the longer I watched, the more I laughed and thought Yes, this is like Original Trek. I thought This is the way I felt the first time I saw Star Trek.
You guys know Star Trek has always been leading edge for newthink, right? *wink* Go rewatch it and see what you think of the nebula, the bubble, and all those little drills eating everything. We've already seen these things happen in Stargate and Lexx. This image isn't new.
This is one of my rare (increasingly becoming semi-rare, sorry about that) political posts. If you're not in the mood, now is a good time to move along. If you are in the mood for some gristle to gnaw, here you go. Have fun.
Spoiler alert for a Game of Thrones reference. If you're not caught up, stop reading when you get to "Game of Thrones, guys."
I tend to steer clear of this stuff, but quick paragraph first thing. I'm not sure what's going on with cops in the media, but some of these boys in blue are reminding me of a few boys I went to school with who laughed about torturing cats. We have a very ugly true story around here of a young man who was heavily tased without provocation, and please note he's white. Police Taser boy with broken back 19 times police stun teenager 19 times
I live in a historically tense area.
Ozarkopathy- MO is the meth buckle of the bible belt. Historical hanging marker- Following the Civil War the Baldknobbers originated as a law and order group to combat lawlessness (movie info) Before Ferguson- (1906) The National Guard was eventually brought in to restore order and Springfield was placed under martial law
And that was just the very brief basics.
I live in a nice neighborhood that includes very patriotic people who've retired from good jobs in other states, and that didn't stop one of them from creating a meth house just up the street from me. The region I live in is famous for missing persons and disappearing from the law, along with one of the biggest 'military bunker' house projects in the United States (it's impressive), and we're central hub for underground fallout (see video mentioning ozarks- my dad has driven down there in a truck, it's real). Feast Your Eyes: Kraft's Massive Underground Cheese Cave in Springfield, Missouri Deep Underground Food Storage Facilities (read the comments, these aren't a big secret around here)
That was a mindset preparation. Now let's leap to bigger picture. Please keep in mind I'm skilled from youth (thanx, Dad) at playing devil's advocate and discussing end game. If you do not understand this very objective point of view, you're going to miss what I'm saying. Just a heads up there.
I've said a few times that the transition to world citizenship will be a bumpy ride. You want truly equal rights and human dignity? Protests are only going to fuel the flames to national military/martial law, and I suspect protests are being provoked, used, and even guided toward this purpose. Without nationally unified codification and supplementation, how can we expect nationally unified behavior from our law enforcement? If we cannot police ourselves properly, how can we expect to police the world? Because it's eventually going to boil down to who owns the world police. We're in a very serious race against time to establish what a world government will look like. Some of you don't like this idea, but I'm sorry, while sit outs and peace rallies might heal the world's soul (and I personally would love that more than anything), the hard truth is that people around the world are still out there dying for survival and beliefs and hopes because they don't have the first world problems some of us take for granted. I'm not a big Vlad fan, but Putin really does say it best- Putin LOSES IT, Warns Journalists of War: 'I Don't Know How to Get Through to You People'
Nations won't be able to remain autonomous for very much longer without plugging into the world economy, and they say who owns the food owns the world. International buyouts and restructuring have been keeping up with globalization because if they don't, they get bumped out of the game. It's not just about controlling populace, it's about distribution, livability, education, medical access. You guys want these things for the whole world? Some people don't, and they are working very hard to stop it. Those trying to stop the globalization process have been nuclear weapons testing big time over the last ten years, and you guys need to be aware that all it will take is one dirty nuke going off at a certain altitude to shut half the national grid down.
Keep one eye on the bigger picture. All the little wars are part of the big war that's been going on for a thousand years. Yes, this very much goes back to the crusades. What was that war about? World domination. Not even atheism is going to save us from the waves of escalation that keep happening. Putin knows why the U.S. is doing what it's doing, and he doesn't approve, but neither does he approve of anyone else with the same agenda. He wants nations to remain autonomous, and he's doing his best to keep globalization from taking over that autonomy. He's caught in the middle. Russia has historically tried to squelch the religious wars, to the point of renaming cities and giving people new surnames, so it's not all Vlad, is it? It's an ideology, the truest separation (or purest integration) of church and state, one that doesn't want to be on either side in the ongoing crusades, and they really have tried everything to stop it. Not saying I condone this, but neither do I condone the rest of the world. (I know this is a very simplistic way of visualizing it, but bear with me.)
Americans tend to forget (or not notice) that other countries have some very real problems in their own backyards. We take our nationalism for granted because we are such a big nation. We think our government is out to 'get us' while we don't see them playing the bigger game, which is winning the world. I'm not saying I'm for or against anyone running for office, that whole thing is just a charade. There are no sides. Anyone still believing there are sides are failing to notice they continually keep implementing and progressing each other's plans all along.
What is the point of exposing world players like Soros and the Rothchilds (and beyond) and then stooping to taking sides again? As if it mattered. What do you think is really going on?
Game of Thrones, guys. Apply what you are learning on TV to real time thinking. You may not be a political science buff, you may not know that much about human history or what the word sociology even means and why the words 'national security' are bantered around so prolifically in the entertainment world, and none of that may even matter as long as you keep your heads down living your lives. Just don't be stupid and be the people standing around in the Sept of Baelor when Cersei blows it up, right?
All that aside, I believe very strongly in right and wrong, and yes, there are sides. If you are a spouse or child abuser behind advocating for either right of left wing justice, you're an asshole. If you are causing problems in your neighborhood over lawns and pets and other people's kids behind advocating for right or left wing justice, you're an asshole. If you are selling drugs on the side, cheating on your significant other, or gambling away your family's expenses behind advocating for right or left wing justice, you're an asshole. If you are supporting the porn industry believing that paid sex is a life choice for drugged up underaged people behind advocating right or left wing justice, you are an asshole.
You get the picture. The side you're on is about YOU, not them. It won't matter who gains world control if we're all assholes. You want rape and murder and people being beaten up to stop? Someone's gotta make them stop, and sorry guys, it's not DC or Marvel. There is going to be corruption in every institution humans have ever made, from churches to courts of law. The world is headed toward international law now, and I'm personally pulling for the guys who promote human dignity and protection from harm, REGARDLESS. But in order for that to happen, we have to become world citizens, and we can't do that until someone wins the big game. Member states of the United Nations
What the U.S. is doing in the United Nations - "In the US, complaints about the UN surface regularly in the domestic mainstream media. Some critics who oppose international constraints on US foreign policy contend that the US should withdraw from the UN, claiming that the United States is better equipped to manage the global order unilaterally. More frequently, critics argue that the UN should be reformed to bring it more in line with US policy and leadership."
So... managing global order. I seriously doubt opinionating over internal left and right politics is going to change our world strategy at any given point either now or in the future. The people running the U.S. govt worked HARD to get here, you really think your votes are going to stop any of this from happening? North Korea thinks they can keep it at bay, but we all know how disastrous that would be.
It's here. All the stuff that we have feared for decades is already here. Nothing stopped it. Nothing has changed it from coming. It's on schedule, and it's got an agenda. This plan has been worked on by loads of people in high places for a very long time. The question now is- who is going to win global dominance? Because there are a few players out there who still think they can take it, and they're working very hard on it. It's not about blaming our neighbors for having different belief systems, it's about governments using belief systems to control people. It's about waking up and seeing the bigger picture. It's about a whole lot of people being paid in media to filter and feed what goes into our heads so we won't look at the bigger picture, or so we'll think we're looking at it but it's very skewed so we'll react certain ways and then demand certain things that we'd have been against if we'd never had our chains yanked. How badly do you want the violence to stop? Ferguson was a trial run. I live in a test state. We are the beaker of civilization undergoing the dichotomy of doublethink.
This is my brain on antibiotics. I've gone to plaid.
I suppose I might have lost a few people in that last post.
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I've talked about how I feel about Plato's allegory of the cave. I don't often talk about how I feel about current events in politics and religion, which I believe is nicely summed up in the book of Amos, on which I did a paper for an Old Testament class on prophets. In short, all organized structures become layered with corruption, God himself loathes and throws out the traditional feast and worship days, corrupt leaders are warned they'll be dragged over the walls on hooks like butchered carcasses, because the cattle of Bashan wreaked havoc on the populace with their demands.
People have been arguing about what and who the cattle of Bashan are for time out of mind. Years ago during the writing of my paper, I found a very rare document that described actual wild cattle that ran loose in the mountains of Bashan, with great long horns, untamable to the point where they would shred domesticated cattle to bits with their horns if they came across them. One hardly needs to go into lengthy allegory with that visual.
I have a fondness for a movie called Equilibrium, loosely based on the Orwellian novel 1984. (Funny, calling an Orwell work Orwellian, a mild faux pas kind of chuckle.) Without boring us all, it's pretty much about the literal opiate of the masses, as it were, layered with the purging of human expression. The whole point is government control.
We are living in a golden age of human expression, on the cusp of mass inebriation with entertainment being the drug, a delightful causal loop I hope philosophy students can appreciate. We are so addicted now to entertainment saturation that we don't know what to do with ourselves if we are not somehow involved in either experiencing it, fabricating it, interacting with it, or creating it. The industry pimps and pushers make money on it, no doubt, but behind the boardrooms and off the books are the unofficial content editors. One example that springs to mind is the rumored Stanley Kubrick debacle.
My problem with modern interpretation of any kind of truth is that our methods of revealing truth still keeps people's eyes shut, even when they think it's opening their eyes. Diversionary tactics include well-timed truth leaking so heads will turn and miss other truths right under their noses. No one wants to see what's really going on, and those who fall the hardest for 'truth' (even when it really is truth) often wind up becoming the very tools that help propel the diversions.
I stopped feeling shocked by anything years ago. Of course good people are really bad guys, or, to say it more correctly, bad guys wind up in good people jobs. It makes total sense that a judge is a secret pedophile, or that a cop is a rapist, or that a nurse contributes to an underground baby racket. Of course governments make quiet deals with drug and sex traffickers. The whole not negotiating with terrorists thing prompting homeland security to oversee and synchronize local police forces is only one of many necessary steps in a very long history of growing pains in this world. I said during a private discussion the other day that all governments arose from crime lords taking over and protecting their territories. We could go a step further and say we are all owned by one system lord or another, in pyramid schemes that go back at least a thousand years. The latest in fashionable 'truth' is that we have nearly reached that fabled balance of world powers that Orwell painted out for us. So... and then what? Some believe it must be congealed into a new world order so that we can stop all this silly continual war stuff, but the fight is over who will ultimately shape that final world order before we lock into an equilibrium state of world idealism, because idealism isn't the same thing from one part of the world to the next.
Good and bad are so layered and intricate and redefined from moment to moment that it's getting harder and harder to figure out what good and bad really are. At the lowest level, the person who praises someone rescuing ducklings or a kitten in heavy traffic might turn around and publicly mock, belittle, and treat another human so badly that a crowd rises up on facebook over one cat being abused or eaten, demanding the deaths of a person's family and even an entire country over something that doesn't warrant that kind of hatefulness at all. The frenzy of hate has become the new good, as long as hate is pointed in the right direction, whatever that is from moment to moment. Harnessed, that kind of energy drives powers far beyond our petty controls at the voting polls.
There is one truth behind all other truths- them vs us. As long as we keep falling for the them vs us thing, there is no hope for this world, no matter who you are or what you believe. Them vs us will always be the mechanism by which we are controlled. It's so simple to grasp, yet so difficult to accept. Every time we fall for the hate game, we propagate agendas we probably don't actually believe in going on at much higher levels.
"Researchers believe that the closest representation of the aurochs alive today is an Asian breed of cattle called Gaur... Photoshopped to be the size of an ancient aurochs."
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In the book of Amos, oppressors of the poor and crushers of the needy were called cattle of Bashan. This has been wildly misinterpreted so many times, so let's keep it simple. The untamable (above the law) do as they wish to those who are helpless to evade the abusery going on in institutionalized systems and programs. (Not that it actually matters, but if you believe in God at all here, pay attention that all the holy days and their traditions were roundly denounced by the end of Amos on the premise that they'd been so desecrated that they no longer had any meaning, ultimately highlighting that all days are holy, all grounds are sacred, and no one owns what God has made.) (Yes, ask why they're still being owned, why any religion or government would continue to lay claim to ownership of any kind. The Ancient Aliens guy said it best- religion was set up to regulate a slave system. It doesn't matter whether it was actual off-planet aliens. What matters is that control depends on a belief system.)
Let us consider that we are being conditioned to become dependent on daily crutches for our lives. One wild inconsistency I've wrestled with is an 'official' program telling me what is healthy for me to eat, insisting that I must eat like that in order to be a healthy person, but if I actually eat like that, I get very sick. In order to handle being very sick, I need medications to help me live with the problems that healthy eating causes me.
Did that make any sense? Whole grains being supported as a major food source in a diabetic guideline is a joke. Whole grains are a huge worldwide business. Coming from relatives who helped build the breadbasket of America, I've gotten to hear first-hand discussions on how tightly regulated the grain industry has become around genetically modified super seeds and the people who are getting wealthy off the monopoly over a food source (it's illegal to plant non-approved unpatented seed), squeezing out natural selection and creating legal battles over 'heirloom' planting. I see all kinds of political wrangling going on over food transport tariffs and labeling while people are starving to death in some parts of the world. Most of all, I'm watching a nation of diabetics keep shoveling breakfast cereals into their poor bodies while they can't understand why they can't seem to get some kind of control back over their lives. *I* did. Why can't they?
There are so many ways we are being lied to, taken in, used, scammed, controlled, and ultimately guided into lives of self-medicated panacea for depressions and sufferings that don't need to be happening in the first place. Is it because there is a dastardly plan to make us weak and die? I sincerely doubt it. I think it has more to do with big corporations and big pharma being able to manipulate ad and product placement and target sales. No one really wants to hurt anyone. They just want to make money, and somewhere at the top of heap, someone is enjoying being kinda powerful. Life is more fun when you're powerful.
I'm not an anti-vaxxer. I'm not a truther. I'm not a religious zealot. I'm not a political activist. I do think I live in a country that won a bidding war over the brain fallout after World War II and acquired some really nice intellectual property, and that said property is being used to experiment with pumping up the populace (healthy citizens make a country stronger), and that some of the experimentation has backfired a little (one example being rumor of peanut allergies springing up from peanut product use in vaccines, no idea if it's true, but peanut product use is so handy and cheap, it's just everywhere), and it's not really anyone's fault, but yes, it would be nice to have more full disclosure and informed citizens. In the meantime, there is a very real threat of world pandemic, nuclear war, and crop failures, so thank goodness there are teams all over the world studying this stuff. I just hope they don't use the withholding of knowledge and rescue to gain power while people suffer and/or die, right? While we have power skirmishes between countries, this is a real problem.
I'm a cynic. (That links to the philosophy of modern cynicism.) (Not to be confused with pessimism. To get technical, I'm a pessimistic opportunist, ready for fail recovery on a moment's notice, lol. If my glass is half empty, I get a smaller glass so it can run over. It's all about perspective.) Mostly that means I don't trust Machiavellian types (which is most of them), and if we're going to be herding human cattle through a pyramid power structure, let's at least do it respectfully on all levels. We're all human beings here.
I don't necessarily agree with the source this graphic clicks to
The last post I made before this one is an art form of a sort, intended to communicate layered content. Just as a street entertainer will go to great lengths portraying the human condition, my blog sometimes go to exaggerated extremes making subtle (or not so subtle) points. If you are not practiced at seeing literary commentary as art or aware of the history of modern arts springing forth from the strange dark hallways of baroque-en humanity (yes, rub your eyes, that was intentional), then you probably think I'm a nutty fan just splashing around on a silly little blog.
You couldn't be more mistaken. But that's ok. If you don't get it, it's all good. I love fans. I love human expression. And now I'll add that I especially love innocence. It's so refreshing to me when someone has no idea what I'm talking about most of the time in a world where bad things go on unnoticed all around us.
Incidentally, I do believe we need world citizenship, and that we have a whole lot of growing pains to go through before dignity is a birthright over the entire planet. It's ok if you don't get what I'm really saying there. What is important is that no matter what happens or what comes, we need to care about each other, because if we don't, there is no hope in this world. Constantly pulling apart into hate camps over this and that judgmental opinionating is what makes people easy to control. Chew on that.
If this music is a drag, it's ok to skip it and go back to the other layers of silliness I sprinkle around my blog. Silliness might just be what saves our souls.
