THE SCROLL: The Corrupt Version

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Big Brother Is Not Watching You. No One Is. You Are Boring.

I leave mine covered. I just give my NSA handler a shout out whenever I remember to do it....

I know my NSA handler was really looking forward to seeing all of this, so I figured I'd show all of you at the same time.

His name is Jimmy.

Everyone say, "HI JIMMY! WE LOVE YOU!!!!” 🤣🤣🤣

The Great Culling and the Nine Satanic Sins

“I am chewing on a licorice stick in a beautiful office with a cool desk with three monitors and I am chatting with fascinating people while answering multiple fascinating inquires about natural law and anarchocapitalism, all straight out of bed on six hours sleep. I am the most interesting motherfucker Big Brother has ever seen. Not a twizzler, either, but an actual licorice root.” - Christopher Cook

Jimmy loves me or he'd be stuck on some other detail. 🤣🤣🤣

HI JIMMY!!!! 😘

“Hi Jimmy! You’re on the wrong side, you fuckface.” - Christopher Cook

We love you, Jimmy! Come to the "dark side!" We've got cookies!!! ☺️

“And licorice roots!” - Christopher Cook

We've got low cortisol, Jimmy! It's enticing! 🤣

“Plus—oxytocin that you didn’t have to get off a prostitute from Logan Circle!” - Christopher Cook

Not unless she's got a nasal spray.

“There’s oxytocin nasal spray??” - Christopher Cook

YES! :)

“Here's the thing. This is so true, though more than the government. Just people in general. They have other shit to worry about. So don't sweat looking silly sometimes.” - Andrew | Dad Explains

Exactly. The majority of people are self-centered. Not in the negative connotation. Just chronically focused on the self. If whatever it is does not directly impact the self, it tends not to register at all.

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Binge Reading In The Digital Stacks

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The Corrupt Version….

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Cthulhaoke

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I Beg You For The Love Of Bananarama….

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Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife Drinking Cognac Before Breakfast?

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If You Are Looking For A Sign That Everything Will Be Okay, This Is It….

[In response to “This is something old and buried that is trying to bubble up from the depths so that you can heal it. Healing ancestral trauma and letting it go will remove a blockage that is keeping you from achieving sudden wealth. You are defending yourself at the end of a commitment,” from If You Are Looking For A Sign That Everything Will Be Okay, This Is It]

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Introducing RoboChad the Impaler….

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In Which Memelords Gonna Memelord….

[In response to Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (Part 40)]

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Life Is A Journey To Find The People Weird Like You….

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Life Isn't Actually All That Stressful….

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No Fucks Given Friday

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Nostalgia, Home, and the Resolution of Temporal Discrepancies

[In response to “Even as STL punches far above its weight in terms of universities, hospitals, museums et al, it’s still largely a blue-collar place where folks tend to like their beer, brats and baseball more than fine arts or progressive politics.” - The Ivy Exile, The Spirit of St. Louis]

I think I can understand. STL’s charm is retained and it’s home for you - it still feels like the character of what “home” is to you, even if it has changed a little with the passage of time each time you visit.

NYC is one of the two places I consider home.

Palm Beach is the other, and much like STL retains STLness, if I periodically leave and return to Palm Beach, it has the same energetic consistency of what Palm Beachness is, even though it may have changed a little bit due to the simple passage of time. The After Times have not un-Palm Beach-ified the essence of what Palm Beach is.

NYC feels like something else entirely - it feels nothing at all like it did when I last lived there.

I haven’t been back since early 2019. It was before everything happened, but I could still feel a palpable energetic difference at that time, or in retrospect, maybe, given who I am and what I do, the sense that that energy was on the way. It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve connected with the NYC as its own energetic entity in that manner.

The energy of the people walking past me one by one on the street had never felt like “zombie collective on a hamster wheel” before that time.

Before that, I could feel the distinct energy of each person. It was interesting, never overwhelming. It was just something I attributed to what Manhattan feels like as “home.”

This was more homogenous and creepy. Collectivized and blank feeling with a tinge of dread or sadness. I really hope I’m describing this well - energies are so difficult to put into words. It was a very strange feeling, like NYC had not retained its characteristic NYCness.

What a shame - I love old, beautiful architecture. And that futuristically hopeful mid-century feel has that whole Tomorrowland aspect to it… a certain brand of nostalgia for a future that never ended up being, one that we all felt we were promised because of the way it was pushed so hard in media and design. Monuments to our collective dreams. I’m happy to hear the core essence is still intact though. What an amazing place to grow up and to have as your connection to what home feels like - so great!! :)

Wow… it happened as far back as 2007? That was the year after I finished my masters and left for Los Angeles (which ended up being an entirely different can of worms).

I could never hate NYC. It still feels like home in a lot of ways.

But it feels like there’s a discrepancy there, and it fits exactly with what you’re describing here.

My home’s frequency was not the frequency of the place that exists in its wake. It’s like the feeling you get from a dead mall or a special place from childhood after time has passed that you go back to, and because the energy is that of such a dramatic temporal shift, you end up with your consciousness driven inward there, sitting in your memories, trying to reconcile the discrepancies, rectifying this energetic chasm instead of experiencing it as it is in the present. It almost feels like the mind is trying to allow for the lost time to pass symbolically as you sit there because it’s trying to at least split the difference. Maybe it’s some kind of processing ritual our minds do to make sense of it when it feels off.

I think you’re right to warn people who hadn’t experienced it before that they won’t be getting what they think they will. It would feel like false advertising. It used to be. It just no longer is.

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OnlyBans

Wikipedia. (2024). Darla (dog). Wikipedia.

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Pet Rapture Insurance

[In response to the following from After The Rapture Pet Care]

Most people treat their faith like a contest, like a virtue signaling cage match for who can clutch their pearls the hardest.

It's just like being an SJW. It's just a different flavor of Kool-Aid.

If people are going to talk about it, they should be about it themselves.

Hall monitors suck.

So, my first question here.... if you're not trusting that God would provide for your pet in the event of your “rapture,” are you really getting “raptured” anyway?

Also, when does it cross your mind, "I've left 'Petey' to a 'heathen'?" (I don't feel this way, obviously… but you know... what is someone who does feel this way actually thinking when they think this is OK?)

How much faith do they really have then?!?!

They’re SOOOO not getting “raptured.”

How disappointing to have shelled out for the insurance when you realize this was the final test of your faith, and you figure out you’re going to be stuck here with ‘Petey,’ watching everyone else float off the planet (or the firmament or whatever the hell else you believe) like a blow up doll full of helium….

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Submit To Your Overlords. It’ll Be Fine.

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Thirty Helens Agree That All Of These Are Daves….

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This Is Why Being Separated From Our Roots Is So Detrimental

Thank you so much, Blessed Warrior Reina!

I agree completely.

What most people aren’t realizing is that the reason we are being separated from our historical context deliberately is because, if we knew it, we would be able to reverse engineer the technologies our ancestors used.

We would then have available to us non-invasive healing technologies and the ability to extract and utilize energy from the aether without “fuel.”

These are game changing paradigm shifts that would put the majority of businesses based upon one version or another of what ultimately amounts to multibillion dollar snake oil sales industries out of business.

The energy tech that has been hidden from us does not require compounds around which false scarcity models have been developed.

We have developed our entire economic system around solving for energy logistics that supposedly impact time, resources, cost of production, etc., with cost projections that are driven up artificially by forcing us to use more expensive, controlled means for getting everything done.

Our entire system is artificially bloated around solving for energy problems that wouldn’t even exist if we hadn’t been sold lies about the way energy works in the first place.

(And that’s not even taking into account all of the bloat that comes from the government insisting that you buy permission in the form of licensing and permitting to do things you shouldn’t need anyone’s “permission” as a sovereign being to do.)

If we removed this artificial bloat that has been baked into the ways we perceive this realm to function, all of our ways of tallying value would change.

Which means our entire economy would necessarily change.

We would no longer have prices bloated by logistics (or permissions) because the way we derive value would change.

If we were to decouple our calculation of value from these false scarcity models, we would have prices that reflect the value of the goods and services themselves based upon merit, quality, and time, with aspects like energy cost for delivery method and cost of procurement of the resources themselves shifting shape dramatically.

Simpler, more efficient methods make for less costly work.

Whenever fear and urgency are put forward based upon scarcity models, beliefs with no basis in reality that people are falsely projecting could lead to our destruction, these constructs should be giant red flags to anyone who has been paying attention.

Creating a sense of urgency around a scarcity model is one of the oldest sales tricks in the book.

So whenever anyone hears people promoting messages of fear and urgency, especially in politics, health, or environmentalism, they should be thinking, “What are they trying to sell me?”

Often, you are being sold the idea that you are in danger so that you will buy into whatever “solution” is being sold to you.

Their business model is getting you to buy into their act of solving for a solution indefinitely - forever, if possible - for a problem which does not exist.

Our entire society is based upon duping you into buying snake oil. Or getting you to buy into researching ways to make snake oil more effective at curing unicorn farts.

More often than not, the danger, or even the source of that danger, does not even exist.

False danger is being manufactured so that you will believe you are in danger when you are not, which would then cause you to seek out a solution for that false danger based upon the false premises you have been sold.

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Today Is Such A Day

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Twerkle-Durkling

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Using Only A Gif, What’s It Like Inside Your Head?

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What Do You Do For A Living?

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When I Was Six, An Angel Appeared And Spoke To Me….

[In response to “I note P.M.H. Atwater’s studies on children experiencers of near death, and how there is a definite openness to such phenomena after, as well as an increase in lateral thinking skills and even IQ (thanks to The Starfire Codes for sending me down this rabbit hole in my research!)” - Michelle Dixon, Ph.D., When I Was Six, An Angel Appeared And Spoke To Me]

Our connection to source, access to expanded consciousness, is our human birthright. We’re told it doesn’t exist or to be skeptical of it. 80% of people trying remote viewing for the first time get a hit. It’s an intrinsic part of who we are.

To me, it’s like running. Barring some injury or disability, anyone can run. Is everyone going to be an Olympic runner? No. But everyone has the capacity to run and to learn to get better/more efficient at running.

People usually can’t learn to bang out Beethoven in a day - but you can absolutely get a lot further than Mary Had A Little Lamb. And the better the learning technique you use, and the more diligent you are about developing a practice, the faster personal skill acquisition becomes.

This is absolutely the same thing.

Not everyone is going to be stellar at it. Not everyone is going to care. Given our societal programming, some will deny it exists and others will fear it because they were taught it was wrong.

But it’s literally part of our inherent functioning. Like breathing.

And I hope that, in our lifetime, people will become reacquainted with who we really are and will begin to rebuild these skills. When we see that starting to happen, we will know everyone is truly on the path to waking up.

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Hajime Sertorius, and θεῖος for inspiring these responses and the subsequent posts and conversations.

And thank you to everyone else who contributed to these conversations over the past few days!

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