🌟 What I'm Reading: 1-14-2024 🌟

A Weekly Roundup Highlight Reel of What I Have Been Reading

Jan 14, 2024

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What I'm Reading: 1-14-2024

Alicen Grey

What does having "Ears to Hear" really mean?

A funny thing happens when you try to tell people humans can fly: They tend to assume you’re being metaphorical. “Ah, I get it!” they say. “When you say ‘humans can fly,’ what you actually mean is that people are free to be who they want to be and live the life of their dreams…

2 years ago · 8 likes · 2 comments · Alicen Grey

Arthur Firstenberg

Even the ticks are vanishing

This work and these newsletters are supported entirely by donations from individuals. We have no other source of funding. The Cellular Phone Task Force is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and donations by U.S. residents are tax-deductible. Our Tax ID Number is 11-3394550…

2 years ago · 63 likes · 37 comments · Arthur Firstenberg

Bet On It

Substack Versus the Slippery Slope

2 years ago · 210 likes · 60 comments · Bryan Caplan

Bros Krynn’s Newsletter

The Greatest Jedi Code: “Peace over anger. Honour over hate. Strength over fear.”

I know I should finish covering the official Jedi Code, which has appeared over the course of several decades, from video-games, books, to comics and so on. Such is the role of the code that it could almost be considered a character within its own right. The problem is that it may as well be a droid, or an iceberg of a character colder than the worst of…

2 years ago · 21 likes · 26 comments · The Brothers Krynn

The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon

The World of Stunt Illusions Part 2

“For me, when I am on the wire, I do not have a problem of eliminating or blocking fear. I do not really feel fear, although it is a fearful activity to walk in thin air, as I do without any safety device, but I am not fearful.” Philippe PetitThanks for reading The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon ! Subscribe for free to receive new p…

2 years ago · 58 likes · 54 comments · Charlotte Pendragon

Chas Holloway's Thinkopolis

A Beethoven Legend

Click to Play Audio A Beethoven Legend by Chas Holloway Why is the handwritten manuscript of Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata damaged? A Thinkopolis News Report…

2 years ago · 33 likes · 2 comments · Chas Holloway

Chas Holloway's Thinkopolis

The Cave Painters

Click to Play Audio The Cave Painters by Chas Holloway The first tangible expressions of human thought…

2 years ago · 34 likes · Chas Holloway

Chas Holloway's Thinkopolis

Count Von Zeppelin

Click to Play Audio Count Von Zeppelin by Chas Holloway How the magnificent airships got their name…

2 years ago · 30 likes · Chas Holloway

Chris’s Substack

Citizen Mao, Citizen Lenin, Citizen Pol Pot?

You hold the gun and I hold the wound And we stand looking in each other’s eyes Both think we know what’s right both know we know what’s wrong We tell ourselves so many many many lies It all looks fine, to the Naked Eye But it don’t really happen that way at all…

2 years ago · 7 likes · 1 comment · Chris Youngblood

Claudia’s Many-Worlds Vision

🗿The Gods You Feed, 🔓 Open Access Ascension, and 👩‍🎨 Not Your Mother’s Vision Board

I pulled out my old Gods from storage. I hadn’t turned them on in centuries. They took forever to reboot — only to find their software was no longer supported. All the new Gods are not backward compatible. This tells me I need a new spiritual system…

2 years ago · 7 likes · Claudia Dawson

Conspi-Rat

Chewsday Memes, Jan 9

Good time of day, humans! This is a small rat’s nest of memes I’ve snatched lately (mostly from Xwitterverse) – some serious, some not so much. Contains various animals (but no rats this time). Enjoy! The following one needs no captions…

2 years ago · 28 likes · 4 comments · Rat

A Convict's Perspective

Barbarians At The Gates

I imagined the detectives in their surveillance van down on street level watching their state of the art monitoring equipment closely. They had the payphones tapped and probably our pagers too. They were utilizing all of the latest and most advanced technology in this sting operation from video surveillance to sound amplifiers to wires so small they wer…

2 years ago · 132 likes · 79 comments · J. Coleman

A Convict's Perspective

The Convict King

“Did you know that Skinhead’s all make the same ‘Oop!’ noise when you run steel through them?” Moe said with his deep southern drawl to the young-blood kid sitting next to him with a calm smile, loudly enough for everyone to hear, in response to a group of Aryans on the prison yard demanding the bleachers where the two of them sat…

2 years ago · 78 likes · 47 comments · J. Coleman

A Convict's Perspective

The Convict King Continued

Looking at my reflection in the tarnished stainless steel mirror in my cell, I began applying far too much shaving cream to my face. I was only 18 and could barely grow rat whiskers at the time. However, I had big plans to grow a “badass” goatee once this stage of puberty allowed me to…

2 years ago · 62 likes · 21 comments · J. Coleman

Cross Current

All the Frogs

The first truly viral moment of 2024 is Katt Williams’s interview with Shannon Sharpe on Club Shay Shay (correct me if I’m wrong, but this may be the first two hour plus viral video in Internet history…

2 years ago · 5 likes · 3 comments · Mo_Diggs

Dad Explains

Confront Your Darkness and Live

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Jack LondonDad Explains is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber…

2 years ago · 11 likes · 4 comments · Andrew | Dad Explains

Dad Explains

Controversial Comedian, Profundity Purveyor, Katt Williams

I go where people are hurting. I stand on the stage, and I make people laugh for an hour and a half. Katt Williams Want to support “Dad Explains”? Share this! It helps, really. And it’s appreciated. Starve Your Monsters We're diving into a topic that, at first glance, might seem a bit off the beaten path. I recently found myself engrossed in an interview wi…

2 years ago · 7 likes · 6 comments · Andrew | Dad Explains

Dad Explains

Stop Letting Them Hurt You

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. Joan of ArcDad Explains is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber…

2 years ago · 16 likes · Andrew | Dad Explains

Dawn’s Writings

Are Doctors indispensable?

When we have concerns about our health, I would have thought that AI was the last resource that we should turn to for advice. Yet it seems that increasing numbers of people are using ChatGPT to help them ‘self-diagnose’. I know I usually trawl the BBC website for stories to comment on to expose the lies within their reports and thereby help to dispel fea…

2 years ago · 42 likes · 20 comments · Dawn Lester

Dawn’s Writings

Awakening to truth without fear and overwhelm.

It’s abundantly clear that, for the vast majority of us, our lives are going through changes - big changes! These changes are both important and necessary, but often scary! The past 4 years have certainly provided the impetus for accelerating changes within the field of health. What has happened since 2020 has also stimulated investigation into other fie…

2 years ago · 19 likes · 3 comments · Dawn Lester

The Deceneus Journal

Episode 0: Introductions

Welcome to Episode 0 of The Deceneus Review. In this preliminary episode I go over the sociological concept of The Third Place and outline my goal for the future of this podcast…

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2 years ago · 11 likes · 15 comments · Alexandru Constantin

The Deceneus Journal

Sacred Space

For the next couple of weeks, I wanted to discuss and interpret the mythoreligious ideas found in Mircea Eliade’s seminal text The Sacred and the Profane, an exploration of the religious impulse and the contrast between the sacred man and the profane man. Eliade shows us how the total human experience of the religious sacred man compares to that of the …

4 years ago · 13 likes · 2 comments · Alexandru Constantin

Dharmabuilt is Barry Fleming

Our Leadership Crisis is a Crisis of Duty, A Crisis of Service

Leadership in our society tends to be viewed through the lens of the organizational management definition - and in the materialistic / reductionist / consumerist idea or model of ‘success.’ We are most comfortable in defining leadership as the upper echelon of various organizations: corporate, government / political, military, a m…

2 years ago · 5 likes · Barry Fleming

Down the Wombat Hole

And The Lining Was Suddenly Silver

“Big radical ideas. Integrating faith with truth. Changing beliefs. Belief in freedom. Sudden journeys. Sudden strokes of luck.” Aspects in Astrology: Sue Tompkins These are some of the Key Word Combinations of the two Celestial Archetypes of Jupiter and Uranus: who will join each other around the Skyclock on April 20, directly adjacent to the Pleiades Co…

2 years ago · 10 likes · 1 comment · Isaac Middle

Elliot’s Substack

Argonaughts and Angels

I’ve had experiences in non physical reality that I remember, but I also have a sense there's so very many I’ve had that I don't remember. (What about you?) It is this one experience that strongly impressed itself upon me enough so that I can share, and it's one of the most clear experiences that I’ve had of multidimensional reality…

2 years ago · 9 likes · 8 comments · Elliot Murray

Epic Gonzo

MEANWHILE, BACK IN LIMA…

I came to Gamarra’s twenty-four square blocks of the hardest of hardcore swap meet for two things for my sensitive stomach. After a failed fling with the pills-and-diet approach of Western medicine, it was time to give folklore and superstition a crack at it. So, I’m off to the Mercado de Los Brujos…

2 years ago · 37 likes · 11 comments · EpicGonzo

Epic Gonzo

MEANWHILE, BACK IN LIMA…

When we walk under the Gamarra tram station, on Aviacion, Auntie M points to two large crocodile heads splayed on a plastic tote along with a gargantuan boa constrictor carcass. A tall, sturdy man in a colorful chullo sidles up to Merlina with a big jar of snake fat, claiming it’s a cure for arthritis. Yep. We’ve arrived…

2 years ago · 20 likes · EpicGonzo

The Farce Feed

Golden Globes Presents Heartfelt "Epstein Islanders" Commemoration

Hollyweird, CA - Last week's Golden Globe Awards took a moment during their prestigious awards ceremony to honor a group of totally fictional celebrities linked to disgraced sex trafficker Jeffrey Ep…

2 years ago · 7 likes · 2 comments · Kyle Kissinger (no relation)

The Farce Feed

Klaus Schwab's "Cooking with Crickets" Video Stirs Backlash

Klaus Schwab, the enigmatic founder of the World Economic Forum, recently decided to take his culinary skills to the internet. Known for his global influence and knack for totalitarianism, Schwab sur…

2 years ago · 8 likes · 7 comments · Kyle Kissinger (no relation)

The Freedom Scale

An Actual Fake MSM Interview of an Anarchist

Here is a categorical statement for you: Virtually all mainstream media throughout the West are heavily biased in favor of the left, the state, and all the other institutions of the Blue Church. They are the mouthpiece of the establishment and the (so-called) elites…

2 years ago · 21 likes · 34 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

The FBI Searched Me on LinkedIn

You may have read, and even commented on, my article on Thursday in which I posed the question When Is Violence Justified in Response to Totalitarianism? Well, apparently the FBI was interested in the question too, because within a couple hours of sharing the article to LinkedIn, I got this notice…

2 years ago · 46 likes · 76 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

Freedom Is What We Do with It

We’re going to do something a little different for this week’s #FreedomMusicFriday. The song below does not have any lyrics from which to divine freedom-oriented messages…but there are messages nonetheless. The Kiffness is a very talented and creative musician in South Africa who does online musical collaborations. He first became virally known for his…

2 years ago · 25 likes · 56 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

We Are Not Atomized Uncaring Curmudgeons.

Ever heard these stereotypes? Conservatives don’t care about people. Libertarians are autistic Rothbard-worshippers obsessed with their own rights. Anarchists want a world of atomized individuals with no social bonds. A longtime friend of the Freedom Scale brought this issue up yesterday in a comment, and it reminded me how much these tropes push my buttons…

2 years ago · 24 likes · 38 comments · Christopher Cook

Global Sovereignty Solutions - Stay Free & Build Wealth

What is Google prepping for?

Intro A notification from Google Ad services has recently surfaced, warning the following…

2 years ago · 9 likes · 6 comments · Global Sovereignty Solutions

Global Sovereignty Solutions - Stay Free & Build Wealth

You should move to Mexico

Intro Whether one wants beaches, mountains, desert, jungle, you name it – Mexico has it. As part of this varied geography comes with it a variety of lifestyles, and cost of living variations as well. Living a western life is quite possible in many parts of the country – even tier two cities have Costco’s and Starbucks available. Or if you want to reject th…

2 years ago · 11 likes · 2 comments · Global Sovereignty Solutions

The Good Citizen

Sacred Geometry, Energy, Origins & Life

What if ancient civilizations had some useful knowledge about our species, the planet, its energy, human consciousness, healing, or even awareness of and contact with non-terrestrial species? What if our history, our origin story was much different than what we’ve been told…

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2 years ago · 96 likes · 52 comments · Good Citizen

The Good Citizen

T I M E

We only have a finite amount of time to live our lives. Focus on the things you can control, and focus on the things you enjoy. The time you have is the only time you’re ever going to get. No matter how much money you have, or the connections you have, there’s nobody to talk to, there’s nobody to pay, you can’t get any more time…

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2 years ago · 133 likes · 48 comments · Good Citizen

Good Humor

Funny AF Woman #4

“I was told there was this one time I threw sushi at people in a restaurant and told them to ‘break out of the matrix.’ I swear I have no recollection of this.” 1. What were your life events that lead you to realize, “Hey, I’m pretty funny.” Definitely bullying. The kids were always pointing and laughing at me for being weird and autistic i…

2 years ago · 28 likes · 4 comments · Good Humor by CK Steefel

Hal Johnson Books

Profiles in "Courage" III

Before King Rarek the Blind was known as King Rarek the blind he was known as King Rarek…the Wily or something. But that was before Olaf the Saint became king of all Norway. In the early eleventh century Olaf made himself sole king through the coup of capturing five other local kings of the Norwegian lands in one morning. (Sweden still claimed ownership …

2 years ago · 2 likes · Hal Johnson

How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov

How To Repeat History (Part 6) - Statues and Monuments

Comrades: Orwell tried to warn us. During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Mao’s Red Guards destroyed countless cultural artifacts. They were indoctrinated to attack anything that represented the “Four Olds”: Old Ideas, Old Culture, Old Customs, and Old Habits. The Red Guards wrecked museums, renamed streets, and chanted Mao quotes while hanging up agitp…

2 years ago · 183 likes · 107 comments · Yuri Bezmenov

Humanity United Now - Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD, PhD

Measles, Mumps, Rubella And Varicella Vaccine For Children Shows Nanobot Swarms, Quantum Dots And Self Assembly Hydrogel

The childhood MMR vaccine is loaded with nanobots. They are so small that on my highest magnification you can barely see them, but they are clearly there. I tried to go up to 4000x with my Oil objective but could not visualize them. I took many videos and if you look at the entirety of the documentation it is clearly stunning. The MMRV vax is supposed t…

2 years ago · 347 likes · 220 comments · Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD, PhD

Kaya’s Substack

Multidimensional Miasms

I was thinking recently about how there are large swaths of memories from childhood just blank for me. It’s mostly one vivid, intense, usually humiliating, chaotic or scary memory strung to the next, with vast stretches of empty space missing in between. Of course, it wasn’t all traumatic and terrible, there were good times too. I have some very clear positive memories, like my mom singing Christmas carols with my sister and me, or riding our bikes down to the creek…

2 years ago · 3 likes · Kaya Marie

Kimbra’s Substack

Sparks : Friends for the No Longer Astonished Emotions

Spark #1 Grayson Gilmour is a friend of mine from New Zealand. He played in a raucous band called So So Modern that I used to go see play live when I was a teenager. They were wild, unhinged and full of riffs, scrappy shouting and video game synthesizers. Their…

2 years ago · 35 likes · 5 comments · Kimbra

Kindness Magnet

Meet The Trench Coat Guy

The Kinda Kind Series is about talking. And not talking. About gestures. And expressions. And sounds. And silence. It’s about all the curious ways we communicate. And sometimes it’s about just being Kinda Kind…

2 years ago · 25 likes · 18 comments · Heather Brebaugh

Kingsley L. Dennis's All-in-One

In Thy Body Do I Dwell

The body is coming back into sight as a site for experimentation and as a target for a type of quasi-transcendence. Within the inverted world of the lesser reality, the physical body has always been recognized as the vehicle through which life is experienced. In other words, it is our…

2 years ago · 6 likes · 4 comments · Kingsley L. Dennis

L5 News

Making Technology Anti-fragile

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humanity, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire - both s…

2 years ago · 6 likes · 4 comments · Jim Davidson

L5 News

Slavery Industrial

“We have predators on our streets that society has in fact, in part because of its neglect, created. They are beyond the pale many of those people, beyond the pale. And it’s a sad commentary on society. We have no choice but to take them out of society…

2 years ago · 8 likes · 9 comments · Jim Davidson

The Library of Celaeno

The Eternal Return of Mircea Eliade

[Do also check out Alexandru Constantin ’s work on Eliade; he goes far more into the concept of the sacred and the profane than I do]Thank you for reading The Library of Celaeno. This post is public so feel free to share it.The Library of Celaeno is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber…

2 years ago · 93 likes · 17 comments · Librarian of Celaeno

The Library of Celaeno

Our Lord the Sick

I’ve spent no small amount of time in hospitals of late, both near and far from my home. It’s not me who’s sick, but rather, an elderly relative whose time is approaching. I keep her company when others cannot, which usually means at night, often until very late and occasionally until dawn. In my time here I have had much occasion to think about a gre…

2 years ago · 41 likes · 18 comments · Librarian of Celaeno

The Library of Celaeno

The Revolt of the Asses

Thank you for reading The Library of Celaeno. This post is public so feel free to share it.The Library of Celaeno is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I was moved to write this piece in part by a YouTube video by Dave Cullen. Watch for yourself- he’s speaking about the …

2 years ago · 110 likes · 45 comments · Librarian of Celaeno

The Library of Celaeno

Vaporworld: A Ghost Story

The Library of Celaeno is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. To this person of a certain age the mall had always been there, part of the world like the rivers and the mountains, though of course the mall obscured the view of such things, jealous of attention as it was. H…

2 years ago · 45 likes · 28 comments · Librarian of Celaeno

A Lily Bit

How to Expertly Redistribute Global Wealth Under the Guise of Climate Policy

The global economy is undergoing a significant transformation, influenced by a powerful group of technocrats, particularly those associated with the Davos World Economic Forum and related to the Great Reset or UN Agenda 2030. This shift isn't just a theoretical plan for the future; it's already in motion, coinciding with the extended lockdowns due to th…

2 years ago · 43 likes · 19 comments · Lily

A Lily Bit

How to Prepare for Davos 2024

Davos 2024 is almost here, and what better time of the year could you imagine than this weekend to brush up on your knowledge about our friends at the World Economic Forum? Right before they overload you with their risk assessments and analyses about how much society embraces "the security of a centralized authority" and all that other gibberish they've…

2 years ago · 35 likes · 7 comments · Lily

Low Fidelity

💎 Friday Gems #41 (Nine Razors, Be Prolific, Your Diet)

Hi, Low Fidelity friends, Here are the Friday Gems that have caught my eye this week. 💎 Leslie’s Razors…

2 years ago · 2 likes

LucTalks

How to Fight the Censorship Mindset

There’s currently lots of hoopla about some crybabies who want daddy to keep Substack clean and safe. They talk about “Nazis” on the platform, conveniently forgetting to define what they even mean, which, of course, is a feature, not a bug. Seriously, I doubt those who scream “Nazi” the loudest have ever read a serious book about the…

2 years ago · 29 likes · 12 comments · L.P. Koch

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Maximum Disclosure

eDiscovery's "Unitization" Discourse and the Covid Vaccine

On January 3, 2023, the Freedom Coalition of Doctors for Choice submitted a FOIA request to the CDC seeking: All data obtained from v-safe users/registrants from the free text fields within the v-safe program for COVID-19 vaccines and the registrant code associated with each free text field/entry. (Note that all records from pre-populated fields, other t…

2 years ago · 6 likes · 5 comments · Max Eichelberger

Maximum Disclosure

I Requested Agencies' Ten Oldest Open FOIA Requests

I will preface the newsletter by saying that as a metric the ten oldest outstanding open requests are not useful. However, I also acknowledge that they are routinely used as a metric to evaluate the health of agencies’ FOIA Programs. Years ago I worked to support the FAA’s Air Safety’s FOIA Program. Since I do not have their oldest requests in front of m…

2 years ago · 10 likes · 4 comments · Max Eichelberger

Memento Mori Alchemy

One person every five minutes

“190 people overdose and die every single day in the United States of America. That is about a 737 plane, thats what a 737 aircraft can carry. Could you imagine the national media attention it would get if they were reporting a plane was crashing every single day and killing 190 people? But because it’s 190 drug addicts, we don’t feel that way…

2 years ago · 36 likes · 24 comments · Tesstamona

Memento Mori Alchemy

Pirates of the Sacred Void

I bid you goodbye With a blank stare I dive Into the Bliss Void Indivisible This is not death It is the upgrade of life Releasing what I foolishly thought "should have been" In this surrender, all manifestations begin... You tried to destroy me You tried to kill me You only succeeded in one When you thought yourself victor You were defeate…

2 years ago · 39 likes · 48 comments · Tesstamona

Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan

The Not-So-Magnificent Six

As you may recall from our last episode, Substack has been battling a “Nazi” problem. Or so we are told by Substackers Against Nazis, a band of intrepid warriors against the scourge of White Supremacism which threatens to take over Substack and from there the world…

2 years ago · 28 likes · 14 comments · Kenaz Filan

Our inner supernova

New moon in Capricorn

Hello! I hope this horoscope finds you well and that you are happy and safe where you are. This new moon is a pretty pivotal marker and for that reason I am making this its own horoscope where normally I may include something like this in the weekly…

2 years ago · 4 likes · 1 comment · Meredith

Our inner supernova

Weekly horoscope 1.9 - 1.14

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for taking the time to read this newsletter/horoscope. I hope you are happy and safe where you are. Today (Tuesday) Mercury is phasing out of a square to Neptune. There is this foggy, sleepy feeling that has been very strong for me in the last few days and it’s been really good for creativity and my spiritual practice but…

2 years ago · 4 likes · Meredith

The Partisan

On Caution Regarding Recent Substack News

Hello everyone! As many of you will soon discover Platformer has an article out regarding the removal of accounts on this platform. They quoted Substack as saying this: If and when we become aware of other content that violates our guidelines, we will take appropriate action…

2 years ago · 105 likes · 39 comments · Phisto Sobanii

Project Lazarus

The Fall of the Star Wars Franchise

Han solo. Hates the government, smuggler, free trade advocate, always carries a gun, and he's a charming bastard. What's not to love about him. The quintessential dissenter in times of Marxist oppres…

2 years ago · 3 likes · Project Lazarus

Reinette Senum's Foghorn Express

United Nations Showing Its Achilles Heel?

Hot damn! Is it 2025 yet? Skyrocketing energy prices (ironically, due to U.S. meddling in the E.U.) and lack of payment from United Nations’ member state dues put the U.N. in peril and inadvertently exposed its Achilles heel. The United Nations Palais des Nations in Geneva…

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2 years ago · 79 likes · 41 comments · Reinette Senum

The Ruffian

Leslie's Razors

Catch-up service: The Ruffian’s Greatest Hits 2023 Lessons In How Not To Lead Movies as Discourse Generators In philosophy, a “razor” is a rule of thumb or heuristic - a rough and ready way to cut through a problem and choose between competing hypotheses. A razor isn’t an infallible rule, but a principle which gets you to the right answer more often than not. William of Ockham, a fourteenth century English monk and philosopher, is credited with…

2 years ago · 115 likes · 9 comments · Ian Leslie

Screaming into the Void

Major Musical Maxwell Mindwipe Monday

After sitting here most of the day trying to psyche myself up to get into a positive mood to write a Monday post, it finally hit me: What we need is some feel-good music. I’ll start…

2 years ago · 78 likes · 178 comments · SimulationCommander

The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

From Satire to Covid, from Psychology to Poetry

The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber…

2 years ago · 9 likes · 8 comments · Michael Newberry

Solarah Speaks

DELETE THE FAULTY PROGRAMMING

Your soul will fight against narratives that put you in states of powerlessness. This is because your soul knows your true potential and your intrinsic power, and is insulted by the stories you believe - and then create - that put you in a disparate, or alternative, reality from who and what you actually are…

2 years ago · 38 likes · 27 comments · Solarah

Solarah Speaks

FINDING A CLEAR PATH OUT: Soul Lessons From "The Hermit" Card

Do you know that there is no situation, circumstance or obstacle that you don’t already hold the answer for, and solution to? That’s how powerful you actually are. Do you know that there is no external block that you can’t find your way out of internally? That’s how powerful you actually are…

2 years ago · 29 likes · Solarah

Solarah Speaks

FRIDAY: DAY OF VENUS

Each day of the week is connected to a planet, and Fridays belong to Venus. There is power in connecting with the planets by way of their collective transits, the personal transits within our own charts, as well as their planetary rulership over days, and the planetary hours within a day…

2 years ago · 17 likes · 3 comments · Solarah

Solarah Speaks

On Beauty

Next month will make it eight years since my ex tried to take my life. For some reason, today has been taking me back to what I’ve overcome to bring me deeper into my truth and power. It has been one of those journeys down “memory lane” that I did not purposely initiate, but I see why my soul desired the detour…

2 years ago · 48 likes · 42 comments · Solarah

Solarah Speaks

THE WORLD IS A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE YOU'RE IN IT

NOTE: This piece touches on the topic of suicide. If this is a trigger for you, please read with discernment. Thank you for being here. If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please seek out the help you deserve. Sometimes we just need to talk, and be heard, witnessed, and validated to remember the true beauty in our lives that is greater than the…

2 years ago · 43 likes · 30 comments · Solarah

Sol Luckman Uncensored Updates & Uploads

🫣 What Do You Have to Show for Your Life?

Sol Luckman Are you one of those people who crave to drink so deeply of life, to suck its marrow out, to use Henry David Thoreau’s phrasing, that you run around like a headless chicken dying of thirst in a spiritual desert? Are you aware of the nature, the energy of what you choose to experience—how it impacts you and, daily, directs the course of your li…

2 years ago · 9 likes · 7 comments · Sol Luckman

Spiral Leaf

The Earth Has A Soul

Hi, I’m Sue and I write about the beauty and ingenuity of Nature, and how we can deepen our connection for our optimum health and wellbeing. Discover more Nature-inspired content on Spiral Leaf, Twitter and my video Nature Channel. Growing up at the end of the nineteenth century, Carl Jung came to realise that the union of Nature and Spirit might offer to heal the disenchantment of the age. It was a time when philosophic connections were being broken apart by the new Darwinian science as…

2 years ago · 6 likes · 2 comments · Sue Cartwright

Startle Magazine w/ Ratio Bradbornius

Do You Declare?

Greetings Earth Frens on the Earth Plane, Ratio thinking liquid water to frozen rain. Like a holiday hangover puking up these thoughts from out my brain. Better out than in do not despair There are but a few things we must declare. Do you declare Independence from the demon named, I can't…

2 years ago · 77 likes · 27 comments · Ratio Bradbornius

Startle Magazine w/ Ratio Bradbornius

Reverse Black Pill MEMEs

Greetings Earth Frens! Ratio here… Welcome to all new subscribers! Come on in. Make yourself at home. It’s feather ruffling time! How’s your trip through 2024 treating you so far? We’re not even two weeks in and already the psyops and weird anomalous events are starting to stack up. Get your psyop scorecards out…

2 years ago · 85 likes · 69 comments · Ratio Bradbornius

Still in the Storm

Ever Heard of the Reproducibility Crisis?

Imagine you get a prescription for a new medicine from your doctor. Or you go to the store to purchase an over-the-counter drug. We’ve all been there at some point in our lives. We trust that those drugs are safe because they are backed by years of scientific research and have been through a rigorous regulator…

2 years ago · 61 likes · 20 comments · Mike Donio, MS

The Stone Age

Soul Food

If you have read any of the previous drops of ‘Pages’ from my forthcoming book, you may have noticed my use of the word ‘Koa.’ This word, one which I stumbled upon during the creative process, has usually been followed by the explanatory ‘(soul),’ with the intention of giving context what I mean by it…

2 years ago · 29 likes · 14 comments · Stone Bryson

The Stone Age

What's In A Name?

Throughout my life I have been fascinated by the concept of 'names,' and why we are so obsessed with them. The recent doxxing of the individual behind the 'Libs of TikTok' [LoT] Twitter / X account, however, really got me thinking about the power these designations of ours hold, and how said-power manifests…

2 years ago · 7 likes · 5 comments · Stone Bryson

Truthiverse by Brendan Murphy

Medical Nemesis 2023

Welcome to Truthiverse, you rebellious critical thinker! 🧐 This is an audience-supported publication AND a powerful podcast, producing uncommon insight. If you find value in this piece, please LIKE and subscribe! Ways you can support: Share with your networks ♻️…

2 years ago · 14 likes · 1 comment · Brendan D. Murphy Official

The Villager

HOW JULIAN COPE LICKED MY ENTIRE FACE AND HYPNOTISED ME INTO AN OCCULT LIFE ON THE MARGINS OF SOCIETY

A lot of people ask me why I am the way I am, so, after many years of holding back, I thought it was time to come clean. The truth is, it all dates back to the day in summer 1994 in the Nottingham branch of Virgin Megastore when the musician Julian Cope, who, it transpired, had been stalking me all over the city from a furtive distance on his hands and …

2 years ago · 117 likes · 25 comments · Tom Cox

The Villager

(Probably) The Most Unsettling Walk I've Ever Been On

A photo essay, now free for everyone to read, about a walk I’m still thinking about, over six months later… What is more remarkable: our capacity to forget suffering and darkness, or our capacity to remember it? I’m frequently equally struck by both. But I do know that my memory has a special knack of editing out troubling experiences: a process it does …

2 years ago · 142 likes · 32 comments · Tom Cox

ViroLIEgy Newsletter

The Germ Duel

In the early 1900s, there was a Canadian doctor who experimented with millions of the so-called deadly pathogenic bacteria of diphtheria, typhoid, pneumonia, meningitis, and tuberculosis. Anywhere from 50,000 to several millions of these bacteria were contained within the cultures that were ultimately swallowed by the volunteers. However, not a single one of them ever came down with disease over the course of the five years of experimentation. Having satisfied himself of the fraud of the germ “theory” of disease, the Canadian doctor set out a challenge to the rest of the scientific community to prove that microbes can cause disease through similar experiments. While his challenge was largely ignored, a doctor from Minnesota eventually responded by issuing a challenge of his own to the Canadian doctor, wanting him to subject himself to further experiments. Thus, a germ duel was set where the person with the positive claim regarding the existence of so-called deadly pathogenic microbes wanted the one who challenged this belief to prove it wrong by experimenting directly on himself…

2 years ago · 55 likes · 5 comments · Mike Stone

Von’s Substack

The Female of the Species, by Rudyard Kipling

When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male…

2 years ago · 3 likes · Von

Von’s Substack

On Quitting, BY EDGAR ALBERT GUEST

How much grit do you think you’ve got? Can you quit a thing that you like a lot? You may talk of pluck; it’s an easy word, And where’er you go it is often heard; But can you tell to a jot or guess Just how much courage you now possess? You may stand to trouble and keep your grin…

2 years ago · 3 likes · Von

Words and Pictures by Pamela Leavey

Musings: The Golden Light Shining Through the Trees

Hello Readers, Today, I am re-publishing a post from early May when I had all of four subscribers, other than myself! There are so many more subscribers here now, and I thought today was a good day to re-run this post about my love of nature, golden light and walking in the woods…

2 years ago · 39 likes · 25 comments · Pamela Leavey

Words and Pictures by Pamela Leavey

Reflections: The Dark Nights Of The Soul

Twelve years ago January I took a tumble in my driveway and ended up with a terrible sprained ankle that put me in a cast for 11 weeks. This piece was originally posted on my personal blog, PamelaLeavey.com on February, 2012. I’ve made a few minor edits and changed the photos from the original post on my blog to three photos I took of the Wolf Moon in 2…

2 years ago · 32 likes · 20 comments · Pamela Leavey

Zen and the Art of Retirement

If a Tree Falls . . .

We had quite the storm on Monday night, Tuesday morning here in the South. Curtains of rain, wind ( I hope my atonal wind chimes didn’t drive my neighbor crazy!) and thunder. I finally gave up on sleep and schlepped out to my leather chair in the front room to read a book. About 5:30 I heard a really weird rustling crumping noise, then thunder five s…

2 years ago · 1 like · 3 comments · Fraulein Zen

Kyle Kissinger (no relation)

Honored to be included and in such great company 🙏 Can't wait to dig in! Our next satire article will cover affirmative action in the aviation industry, so strap yourself in 😂

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Sending you love and gratitude Demi! I appreciate you including me among all these wonderful writers and some who I’ve not read. On Sunday this post is my go to post for reading material. I hope you enjoy a very magical weekend!🪄✨✨💖✨☺️ Blessings to you! 🤗

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