THE SCROLL: Resting The Pendulum

Notes On Catharsis Through Art, Yacht or Nyacht, Vlad the Impaler, Principles of Discourse, Asking For Help, Barriers To Entry, Tommy The Tunnel Chicken, Gina The Donkey, Peak EV-tardia, and more...

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Apollo's Lyre’s Principles Of Discourse

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Ask For Help If You Need It. It’s Ok.

[In response to The Greater The Storm, The Brighter The Rainbow.]

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Ask You Doctor If Abrain Is Right For You….

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Barriers To Entry

The greatest barrier to entry with information online is that you have to already know what you’re looking for in order to find it.

This has been true of the way we access any sort of research - we can’t find anything if we do not already know what we’re looking for and have some idea on how to find/access it.

It’s rare that anyone picks up a random physical book or magazine and peruses it anymore. So, discovery is limited to recommendation and search.

Finding anything completely new to us becomes challenging due to the limitations built into the tools. You bring only your own mind, and what you have already been exposed to, to the table.

You might have some concept that the information you are missing, by nature of that limited exposure, is vast, but you cannot know how vast or have any real capacity for discerning what it might entail.

While discovery engines are built into just about every platform, the predominant way people had been receiving information was by word of mouth from the people they follow and trust - friends, family, colleagues, creators, curators, influencers, pundits, and gurus.

The discovery engines are limiting the range of discovery to the confines of the manufactured Overton window, and word of mouth is being curtailed by keyword algorithmically.

So the barrier to entry problem has become our biggest hurdle to informational access with the deliberate compounding of our largest eternal blind spot: We are never able to know what we don’t know.

This was always the case, but the issue has become more important as censorship technology becomes more robust and more stifling.

It’s a conundrum even our greatest thinkers in the online and information science spaces have always had trouble solving, let alone now with the pendulum attempting to swing so much further away from unilateral access.

It’s not something anyone should be taking for granted. We’ve seen what happens when what you don’t know you don’t know could kill you.

How do we improve, retain, and maintain information accessibility moving forward?

Always. Anything we say on there... you didn't do a groupthink! You said a naughty keyword!!! Bad bad bad monkeys!!! Cancelled!!!

But demographics based advertising is basically socioeconomic pigeonholing and if you are not served ads for things that could elevate you, there's a barrier to entry to even knowing that those products and services, let alone concepts, even exist.

They would argue that the majority of a demographic would not be particularly interested in the ads served to another demographic. And targeting is in the advertisers' best interests. But targeting is also in the controllers' best interests because different demographics are having different controlled informational experiences according to their tastes and so the discovery engines are keeping them sequestered because they can't search for things they have never been exposed to.

If the concept doesn't exist in your head, and you need it but you don't know that you need it, how do you go looking for it? You don't. You can't. Because you are unaware of its existence.

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Catharsis Through Art

[In response to “I listened to the song, and watched the video, Oh Father, so many times. Whatever your thoughts about her, the song and video are real art. Musically and visually, childhood whimsy and magic blends with darkness that can’t be spoken about directly. It feels like my childhood world felt.” - Josh Slocum, Oh, Father]

I absolutely love that Josh Slocum covered this song, and I remember we were discussing how moved we both were by it, and the video, when he wrote his piece on Live To Tell.

The music video for Oh Father, one of my all time favorites, was directed by David Fincher.

You can find a link to it inside Josh’s article.

The opening is an homage to Citizen Kane.

It’s completely done in black and white, in light and shadow and texture and memory and nostalgia and the transcendence of pain.

I am not exaggerating when I say that the entire piece - both the music and the visuals - are what transmutation of pain into art aspires to be.

And when you have echoes of inner pain like this and you feel like some unspoken part of yourself is expressed through the words and the images that other artists were using to exorcise similar familiar pain demons, you can get addicted to using their work as a method by which to tear open the wounds with nostalgia, looking for some kind of catharsis, some kind of release.

It’s one of the few times in life where, if utilized correctly, this type of compulsion might actually be a good thing.

These artists are giving of themselves to provide us with that, and if you ask them, I’m sure they have had similar pieces that they have turned back to over the years in order to embody the feeling of a specific pain emotion they needed to find a way to reach into themselves in order to periodically release.

We seek out nostalgia in order to exorcise grief and loss, to release the pain of what used to be, what could have been, and what simply isn’t.

We process cyclically, and never all at once.

We are never done healing. We just keep healing more.

We revisit art that we know is cathartic for us from a new perspective, from a new vantage point, and we see things we never saw the first time around each time we review these pieces, using them as mirrors to look deeper within ourselves.

For some of us, utilizing art as a gateway to access those emotions might be the only way we can get there, the only way we can be vulnerable enough to allow ourselves to feel, process, discuss, express, release, and incrementally heal.

And this process is entirely and necessarily subjective - we know instinctively which ones WORK for us and which ones don’t.

There are certain songs, stories, movies, works of art, that many of us know will reliably connect to a deep, specific well of emotion.

They serve as access points, portals to get in there and coax out whatever needs healing by getting it to bubble up to the surface for release.

Some of these pieces become reliable scalpels for reopening wounds and helping us to feel and express again in ways that allow for release of pressure in waves, in cycles and rhythms.

Those of you who know me well know that I absolutely will not talk about my feels on a surface level. I’ll just tell you my face is leaking and leave it at that.

For people who feel everything very deeply, to exist in the world without carrying around everyone else’s pain, we need to create healthy energetic barriers for what we allow in.

Strong psychic boundaries.

When we choose to bypass them, we know it’s go deep or go home. All in or nothing at all.

Access is granted when it is safe and appropriate.

We are each entrusted with our own little fragment of source consciousness - and we are each responsible for healing the fragment with which we have been entrusted.

We should understand and revere our access points for the catharsis they provide. And we should strive to create opportunities for others to utilize our creations to find catharsis within themselves.

We were put here to do this, to heal ourselves and each other. Creating beautiful, cathartic pieces to help yourselves to release while helping each other to heal is one of the noblest acts you could possibly undertake.

Thank you for inspiring me to talk about this, Josh. I appreciate you! 🙏🏻💜💫

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The Ever Expanding Lexicon

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Further Down The Rabbit Hole And What Cthulhu Club Found There….

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Go Out And Get Yourself A “Conspiracy Theorist”

I'm sorry, sir.

You'll need to upgrade to volume 8.8 of the Tin Foil Codex in order to understand that.

Yes....

No, that's right... you're missing the Hegelian dialectic and the Cabal Compendium.

The Advanced Argot is the one that comes with the Truthsaurus.

No.

No, that's the Half-Truthsaurus.

Well, I'm sorry, sir, but you shouldn't have purchased the Plot Primer.

That edition is unauthorized.

Now your copy contains the Balderdash Brochure and you will need to unlearn that so that you can relearn the Secret Plan Sourcebook.

Right.

You'll need to downgrade back to Conspiracy Concordance 1.2 before I can upgrade you to the Lingua Franca Lexicon 9 to get the Truthsaurus to work on your machine because it's infected with the Horseshit Handbook.

Yes, that's the one about infections and it is not compatible with the Machination Manifest or the Subterfuge Scrolls.

Correct.

Sir, will you hold please?

Thank you.

This is Rosetta Stone... how may I help you?

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Expectation IV

[Continued from Expectation I and II and Expectation III.]

The really “hard lesson” is that you get whatever you expect to get.

The research shows that everyone is right.

When you experience an NDE, you will see in the afterlife exactly what you expect according to your own belief system, and when you come back, it will validate for you what you already believed….

Think there’s a hell? There will be one.

Think you’re going to heaven? You’ll see it when you die.

Think there’s a tunnel of light? You’ll see it.

Think there’s nothingness? You can expect that too.

You get what you expect to see.

Knowing that, better make it something good!

If this is what you want to see, fantastic! You’re in alignment.

If it’s not, it’s time to make some changes so you won’t be disappointed! :)

Monroe Institute UK. (2024). States of Consciousness and Focus™ Levels. Monroe Institute UK.

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I’m A Pancake

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In Your Darkest Hour, The Squirrel Arrives….

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Making Heart Hands

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The Mind Control Rabbit Hole

[In response to “Other people know far more about the subject of mind control than I. The Starfire Codes has written about it here on Substack, as have many others. So many rabbit holes to go down.” - Christopher Cook, Are Conspiracy-Theory Rabbit Holes a Form of Mind Control?]

I was going to grab a few pieces on it, but it’s one of the central topics to the majority of my work, so if anyone is looking to immerse in this kind of content, go to the Articles, The Scroll, or What I’m Watching sections, and you will find the bulk of it there:

To address the solution of opting out - that is the end goal, absolutely.

Unfortunately, most people do not know that this is happening to them at all.

So, step one would be, if you’re savvy to it, to speak up.

Let the ideas permeate conversation in a nonthreatening, matter-of-fact way, and when people develop questions on their own, meet them with responses in terms of the direction their minds naturally want to go.

If you are trying to push thoughts on them that they have never had, you might as well be another brick in the wall for all the good it would do as far as their hearing what you have to say.

You will be met with an absolute brick wall of CogDis opposition unless you’re meeting them at a thought they have already self-selected.

Follow their lead. You’re spelunking with them through the safe places in their minds and then touching upon the spaces that aren’t so safe.

Make it safe for them to touch the mind borders, recoil, and have some spring there.

It took us YEARS to understand what we do.

We can’t expect others to get it in mere seconds.

It’s just not fair to them.

Once they have a basis for recognizing the techniques, they are going to think they see it everywhere.

Some examples will be real and some not.

They may become paranoid for a while.

They might get angry or sad that what they thought was true wasn’t.

The rule of thumb: The more rigidly held the belief system, the harder it is to accept new information, even if that information is true.

The core self has been built around concepts in this case and will get aggressive or go catatonic when faced with a change of ideas that threatens those core concepts, and with them, everything they think they know to be true.

All of these are valid emotional responses and I catalogued my experiences in helping others deal with this in this piece, along with a conversation I had with Nathalie Martinek PhD on the topic as we discussed a piece she had written on a similar topic. That’s here:

Once they understand this and cease to feel threatened by it, you can get more pragmatic in terms of discussing ways to opt out and how to do it.

But it takes time to get here, and we’re all going through it at various levels of understanding simultaneously.

I know this is a strange thought… but, tactically, it’s crucial that we don’t all wake up at once because it would cause massive upheaval, so I think that’s why this information seems to be permeating the zeitgeist in sort of a slow drip campaign.

If everyone went through this “awakening” concurrently, if we all felt like we were losing our minds simultaneously and did not have each other to lean on, this would result in utter chaos.

For the sake of preserving civility and rebuilding the world from a place of merit and mastery once we get to a place where that is feasible, we want to avoid rampant chaos, if at all possible.

If we’re too busy simply surviving, we won’t be able to think straight. We will just end up triggered, traumatized, and hypervigilant. We need to be thriving to move from survival into creation.

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People Only Understand From Their Level Of Perception

I feel like writing puts us on a perpetual hamster wheel of relearning this lesson every day of our lives…going to sleep, waking up, and doing it all over again.

Doubly so if you happen to write about uncovering lies that no one wants to believe are lies….

“I tried to explain thing. I feel like I was not fully heard or understood when I explained thing. Maybe I can explain thing over again betterer this time despite the fact others are unready and unwilling to hear or understand thing. Here is thing, reexplained. No?! How about this? No?! How about this? No?! How about this?” 🤣🤣🤣

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Resting The Pendulum

[In response to “If I had to choose a time period to go back to, it would not be a return to 50s or early 60s Cold War-era vapid consumerism and rampant repression. It would be a return to the more relaxed early 90s, for sure. We were finding equilibrium then, instead of this incessant, insipid hard pendulum swinging that keeps being instigated in both directions to intentionally make everything worse by deliberately knocking everyone off-balance and putting everyone at each other’s throats,” from the Humor Is Both A Form Of Wisdom And A Means Of Survival section of THE SCROLL: This Is A Test Of The Shenanigator Broadcast System….]

I agree.

We valued authenticity, we and called out bullshit - but we did it in all directions.

This was right before the slippery slope into the modernity you’re describing occurred.

People were, as they say, open-minded but not so open-minded that their brains were falling out of their heads.

It was the closest we ever came to ceasing the pendulum swing, to getting the pendulum to come to rest in a sane place in which we could all just be ourselves.

We still knew how to agree to disagree and it wasn’t the end of the world.

We entered into the internet age from that vantage point, and because this was life, we approached it wide-eyed and thought of how utopian it could be.

And then it was subverted. And so was everything else.

Enter the ceaseless arguing about a bunch of fabricated bullshit that ultimately means nothing.

I feel like we almost had it right back then. It’s the closest we’ve come, anyway.

Thank you so much. That’s very kind of you!

It’s absolutely manufactured fear.

Spot on.

And it’s usually involving the use of false scarcity models (or a fear of the unknown in general, usually applied to social scenarios) to corral behavior in a desired direction.

The fighting is only instigated because it is useful as a tool of distraction, keeping people so focused on what doesn’t matter that they miss the plot entirely.

And if you’re too drained and exhausted by having fought meaningless battles of zero consequence with strangers you’ll never see again, all day long, day in and day out, there’s nothing left in the tank with which to do anything meaningful.

So, at the end of the day, what gets accomplished?

Absolutely nothing. Entirely by design.

XYZ Films. (2024). Megan Fox stars as Alice, an AI android bought to help with housework. But when she becomes self-aware, she craves her owner’s affection at any cost—even killing to get it. Don’t miss Megan Fox and Michele Morrone in #Subservience. X.

The majority of the “punks” I knew growing up sided with the establishment.

In 2016, this was extremely confusing to watch unfold.

Even worse by 2020.

I love that Johnny Rotten has been calling them out on this at every turn. Seeing that he saw through it and kept his integrity made me feel a lot more grounded. It helps sometimes when you know someone else is seeing it too.

My viewpoints have remained pretty much intact from the 90s. I was never taken under by the slippery slope.

It likely helped that, right after learning television’s secret sauce, I refused to consume it.

I was having really automatic visceral reactions to taking in any “news programming.”

Without that kind of continuous prompting from television at the subconscious level, I stayed put while everyone else slid away from me over the years.

Given what you’ve written about in the past, I imagine much of this might have been similar to your own experience over time?

My friends would often go into the dorm cafeteria ahead of me to switch the channels on the TVs away from the news so I could eat with them without feeling sick.

This was just after “hanging chads” and right before 9/11. I was having horrible incessant nightmares about buildings falling, couldn’t sleep, thought I was losing my mind, and started seeing a pretty much useless shrink that the school’s health center assigned to me. I graduated and immediately left New York. And then the buildings fell.

First thought on the trailer, “Wow… this is playing like it could have been a side story of one of the other bots in Spielberg’s A.I. but heavier on the horror/suspense aspect.”

Second thought, “Wait… she’s playing herself?!” (Joking. This is very believable. She’s giving Jenna Ortega and Aubrey Plaza’s deadpans a run for their money.)

Half of the story I’m hearing is that they have no fire left. Maybe it’s screen time, disconnection, hormones, toxins… the perfect storm of weaponized environment, engineered for depletion.

The other half is that they’re all fired out from fighting and fighting not to get swept away. No wins, no hope of a win… just how long can you tread water until you drown. I think they gave up.

There’s something to the general fatigue and malaise of all of this. A feeling of having your energy sapped that really cannot be attributed to aging. (And when you see there are many old people who still have their spunk because they knew how to keep their minds right, you begin to realize there’s not much that CAN be attributed to aging.) It’s something else entirely.

Gen X did the reverse - most of our ire was always focused on meaningless pop cultural shit. We still had ire - we just found other crap to funnel it into when we were unable to make progress on the things that mattered. That was our way of checking out - we fed it back into getting incensed about the new Star Wars movies damaging our childhood or why a band’s second album wasn’t anywhere near as good as the first and whether our perceived heroes sold out. Our generation used our fire to generate hipster street cred as a form of currency.

These are all coping mechanisms for feeling an overall lack of agency. It fits across the board. So, I would make that the first attack. What restores a sense of agency?

Purpose. And then, given purpose, feeling like there is a pathway forward to make incremental wins.

Hope, but not in a destructive way. Hope defined by realism.

We lack realism. Everything feels like living in a waking dream. Everything is nonsense right now. There’s not much stability to grab onto.

So we make our own.

And I don’t mean going back to equally oppressive paradigms from yesteryear in a pendulum swing that will harm us in the reverse all over again.

I mean finally getting the pendulum to rest and to build stability around a centered focal point - the need for stability itself according to the needs of the world we actually inhabit, and not these retro pipe dreams which are really just a nostalgic manifestation of a deep societal depression. And then, beyond stability, smart, applied innovation when it makes sense. Meritocracy.

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Rhizomatic Cthulhu Shenanigans With A Side Of Peak EV-tardia

Gray, A. (2023). Guy puts gas generator in his Tesla to avoid plugging it in during road trip. SupercarBlondie.

Bell, S. (2023). Tesla Gets 1,600-Mile Range With Turbo Diesel Range Extender, But At What Cost? Carscoops.

Brownell, B. (2024). Tesla Cybertruck No Match For Car Wash. Jalopnik.

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Terrifying Clots

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That Is Good To Me As Well As That

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Tommy the Tunnel-Hunting Chicken

I think of “Tartaria” as more of a codename for the conflation of lost information about a few different incarnations of worldwide civilizations that were here and lost well before we arrived here, repopulated, confused, and full of muck. It’s a wonder we’ve been able to get this far piecing it all back together. The lies are absolutely ridiculous.

I don’t think of this as some tip that some researcher has been on. And Praveen himself does great work. But the picture begins to emerge when you start to take in the research of thousands of different people who have been looking into lost architecture and technology. You’ll find different narratives with common overall threads. It’s the common overall threads that need to be pulled up and examined.

I don’t believe we will ever know our true history. Too much of it has been destroyed. My interest in it is more pragmatic than ideological. If we understand what we’ve lost, what it was, and how it works, we can revitalize and restore our understanding of the world around us and start to make great strides again without being beholden to the control narratives.

Understanding and implementing the design and function ideas behind the antiquitech is one of the keys to getting there.

Sick of lies. Field trip to MU!!!!

EDIT: I just thought of something. The run on luxury bunker building in New Zealand - this was why. The underground bunkers there could be connected into the Pacific tunnel system without calling anyone’s attention to it. I was wondering why New Zealand all this time. Now it makes sense. It also makes sense why NZ was on 100% strict lockdown with no one coming in or going out. The tunnel systems are worldwide and ancient and we were told NEVER to go into them because they are dark, occupied, and dangerous. It’s dangerous even if you’re with a trained team with the correct gear. We were told do not go there under any circumstances and avoid areas with lots of cave entrances because this is where most disappearances occur.

Blocking it off is to hide what is still in there. There are treaties in place. And we’re not supposed to go down there. If we do, we’re not protected. And if we hurt anything protected, accidentally or otherwise, we are not protected.

The poultry disappear because they are being captured and eaten.

He’s correct about Iraq also. These were antiquitech raids.

Old research from 2020….

“Requesting documents pertaining to the resurrection chamber of Gilgamesh, the location of his body and the location of the buried Nephilim.” (A “resurrection chamber” is the tech they use to make med beds.)

Follow this link to the FOIA site, click the first file “Department of State FOIA log 2018.” The email is found on page 470, number F-2019-02110.

Steele, L. (2020). Hillary Clinton Summoning Gilgamesh and Buried Nephilim. America Uncensored.

[In response to “While I was composing this message I received from author Matt Taibbi of Racket News this essay on the related topic of “Meet the New Lies, Same as the Old Lies.” So I wanted to include the link because the topic is on the minds of many of us. It is what our friend Demi Pietchell calls a “rhizomatic” connexion - ideas are in play and people are talking and writing about them. We are, after all, each connected to God through our souls.” - Jim Davidson, They Lie]

Jim Davidson, it’s funny - right as you were tagging me with this and referencing Matt Taibbi’s similarly themed article here, there was another rhizomatic connection occurring alongside the paragraph two up from the one I’ve quoted here. Apollo's Lyre just sent a new My Lunch Break video to Jessica J, leithian, and me which contained, toward the end, speculation behind why Iraq was targeted which matches my own thoughts to a large degree.

I linked to documentation of a FOIA request regarding Nephilim and Gilgamesh, specifically resurrection chamber technology which would be the ancient or old civilization precursor to our idea of “med beds.”

In my opinion, the area was likely targeted to get rid of the Old World buildings (further destruction of proof of history so that history can be fabricated at will without undue repercussions) and to scoop up as much antiquitech as could be looted and hidden while destroying anything that couldn’t be relocated.

Given what I’ve seen, that’s my best guess. Whenever I look through the lens of lost, hidden, or suppressed technology and subverted history, suddenly the picture comes into crystal clear focus. There’s no more feeling like I’m taking shots in the dark, no more attempts to retrofit pieces of the puzzle. When it clicks like this, I know I’ve arrived at the best possible answer given my current understanding.

As for the political piece, it will never make sense because the entire story we’re being fed is a lie. We’ve been living inside a giant ruse for the past 3.5 years (not counting the other ruses we live inside concurrently), one that I’m not entirely upset about because the lie may have mitigated so much more damage than it caused. It’s rare that I would ever say that because I hate all of this lying, but as a strategy, it seems like it may have been the most sound given the consequences of allowing the events to have played out naturally. We’ll see.

There are still old buildings there and a lot of amassed antiquitech. It’s also why Dresden got hit so hard during the war. It’s why Baghdad, Beirut, and Aleppo were hit so hard later on.

All of these wars have been excuses to wipe out our roots so that we are unable to reverse engineer the tech we’ve lost.

Those buildings are tech.

Why else would so many people be so concerned about the preservation of secret knowledge of building practices?

The old buildings serve a greater purpose, one that is deliberately withheld from us.

The bombings are excuses for the destruction of history and infiltration for the looting of any antiquitech that is not nailed down.

The looted antiquitech is then classified and studied if it’s something novel. If it’s not novel, it’s just locked away.

Over time, that same technology is declassified and doled back out to us. (You know this already. This is why all of the AI images lean toward the expression of six fingers instead of five.)

This tech is old. It was hidden from us and then re-released in its current incarnation out of the OTT office of the DoE.

No one engineers the tech at the starting points of these roll outs. It arrives prepackaged from the past with a narrative that supports our current idea of physics, a dumbed down version that keeps us from fully understanding the world or innovating it freely.

Some are entrusted with tech that is old (but is new to our own civilization) as custodians of this tech and then additional work begins from there through whichever corporations have been awarded the “transfer of declassified technology.”

“Novel” tech comes from the OTT office at the DoE. Why the DoE? Because this office was created to classify and secure energy technology that “threatens national security,” which really means “empowers the citizens far beyond our ability to control them effectively.”

We already had free energy. If we know how to use it, we cannot be controlled via fear-based scarcity models that serve to keep us ignorant and imprisoned by our own ways of thinking. We would surpass the control narratives if we understood the tech. So the tech is withheld.

[In response to Make Olympics Greek Again! by Apollo's Lyre.]

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The Trap Has Been Set… And Now We Wait… And See….

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This Is My Favorite Spell….

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Vlad The Impaler

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What We See As A Bug Might Be Perceived As A Feature To Certain Factions Of The Controllers

[In response to “This is not an exhaustive list but writing this list is exhausting. It’s exhausting because it reflects binary thinking about a world that is nuanced and complex. As I was going through this list it seemed like I was reading a cult’s manifesto: if you do what is expected of you, you will be saved and attain enlightenment. You’re either with us or against us.” - Nathalie Martinek PhD, Some mental models won't save the world (including the one that the world needs saving)]

I think the majority of people are not even aware that they have cultural biases and see the world through a certain lens, let alone have the ability to switch out lenses and analyze according to what someone else’s lens might have been, given the culture they came from, the ideas they were exposed to, whether they agreed with those ideas or not, and whether or not they have cultivated the ability to switch among lenses themselves.

I think that people who do think this way also lose sight of the facts that not everyone does and not everyone is aware of it conceptually.

Teaching this to people makes them harder to control, so only some are taught this and not others.

The educational experience is by no means uniform - it absolutely varies by sociopolitical demographics and over again by sequestering students into separate classrooms according to their test scores.

At a certain point, we need to consider that teaching critical thinking skills to the populace might be euphemized from the perspective of those attempting to retain power as “a threat to national security.”

They no longer have an army of followers.

They have a army of people taught to follow who they are now having trouble corralling.

From the perspective of their objectives, that’s a really big oops.

But it’s also a bridge shy of chaos as they all start to figure it out little by little.

We’re kind of blessed that they’re not all figuring it out in unison.

It might be the one silver lining to awakening being a bit slow going.

If they did all figure it out at once, mass existential crisis would bring about mass destruction.

Maybe it’s optimal that we are all confused in waves and working through it at our own paces, helping to further each other according to our grasp of each particular topic.

Can you imagine the chaos we would have if everyone were really confused all at once?

We couldn’t sustain. Game over.

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White Ketchup, Cocaine Orcas, and Dildo Dick Police? What Rabbit Hole Is This, Alice?

[In response to THE SCROLL: This Is A Test Of The Shenanigator Broadcast System….]

She's making the sound for coughing up a loogie. Which was so unnecessary. But I think we've been locked into an unnatural decorum for so long because of the threat of censorship and cancel culture that some people are getting whiplash from the pendulum swinging in the other direction.

I pretty much feel the same way as that girl probably does. Fuck political correctness, fuck people trying to reel in my words, and fuck anyone who wants to keep me from making jokes and exploring our world through humor so that we can actually find context and process and transmute some of this madness.

She's not my particular favorite brand of humor. But it was funny and raw and real. And most of us miss that on some level. So I can see how people were enthralled by it.

I wouldn't want to be the person whose 15 minutes came from making the loogie noise she makes before she spits to suck a dick, but she seems to be embracing it just fine. Which doesn't surprise me - it was authentically her. And I think that's what people are craving when we break it down - authenticity.

She even moved to LA to start a podcast. LOL! More power to her! I hope she continues to be her most authentic self and maybe it will inspire others to do the same.

I agree. I also think we need to take back our own humor, our own words, our own ways of being, and instead take on a certain fearlessness about what we say and how we say it, one that doesn't cater to others or bow down to them. Ideas need air to breathe. Not all of them are going to be good. But we need space and time to talk them through and laugh about them and workshop them and just simply exist and be... without having to police everything that comes out.

So we say something wrong and we get corrected? Who cares? That's how we grow. We need to embrace life as a sandbox again where we can create and modify and make mistakes and PLAY and see what emerges.

We're being boxed in - deliberately. Our inclination shouldn't be to box ourselves in from some different angle. The inclination should be to break free of the box, look at it from the outside, and see what we want to keep and what makes no freaking sense. It's an opportunity to change for the better in every possible way.

When I think about it, my mind keeps settling on the 1990s. We were so much more relaxed and open. We actually talked to each other. We laughed. We had fun. Disagreements were not the end of the world. Civil discourse was encouraged. It was live and let live, but not to the extent that our brains were falling out of our heads. We knew right from wrong and we knew where the natural lines were drawn without getting them moved on us or having had to be told. And it was great. I'm all for going back to some version of that.

I figure if that's what I want, the fastest way I can manifest it is by embodying it fully. If that's the environment and the energy I am cultivating around myself, that's exactly what I will draw in. And that's how we find the others! :)

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Why I Would Choose The Bear Over The Woman

[In response to I Want To Talk About Women by William Hunter Duncan.]

This is great, William Hunter Duncan.

You know, everyone keeps hanging on women choosing the bear over the man.

Well, I would choose the bear over the woman.

I would choose the man over the woman as well.

I would feel safer with the man or the bear than with the woman.

And when I hear guys counter with, “Who would you rather tell your feelings to? A woman or a tree?” I understand the inclination to prefer to tell the tree.

The tree isn’t going to store it up and use it as ammo later.

The tree isn’t going to get catty or back channel gossip about you or be your frenemy or try to ruin your life over petty bullshit.

The tree knows how to listen without taking things personally.

The tree isn’t going to make your feelings about itself.

And the tree isn’t going to call you a big baby for opening up after encouraging you to share.

So, I’d rather hang with the guys and the bear and the tree. (And my few women friends who also understand this disinclination and go out of their way not to make life suck.)

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Wink, Wink… Nudge, Nudge….

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Yacht Or Nyacht

[Continuation of WTAF Is Yacht Rock….?! and Mr. Chicken Freebases Yacht Rock Lobsterman Peterson…]

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You Don’t Need To Consume That….

[In response to “If the powder is derived from a rare fruit or something that sounds like a Dr. Seuss character, or only grows in remote parts of the world you have never been to, your body absolutely does not need to consume it.” - TPWSYL, Why is Wellness So Fucking Annoying?]

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