It became the world of opposites. Some folks really wanted covid to exist so badly, they blindly believed "we care" and volunteered for the shots. I am certain no nursing home patient was allowed to refuse. The folks who watched it from their living rooms will never understand.
The isolation allowed experimental tx and when death happened, it was Covid.
Thanks for sharing that personal struggle. Living can become drudgery. What they did to our seniors in long term care was murder during covid. Not heros. Not saviors. Many nurses in long term care retired quit because of what they saw or were fired for refusing the experimental injections. I cant change your situation but we care thats why many comment and expose stuff. Joy can seem so far away but a few words of encouragement can be positive. Take a photo that has memories attached and dream about the good ole days. If you can go outside to feel the sun on your body then do it and dream your on a beach in Florida or the Caribbean. If you have a room thats like a box think of ways to make that box colorful so it looks bigger. Changing our surroundings is so important for health so think of ways that you can do that. You might not be able to travel so can you visit local areas that you have never gone to. Can you try and make a dinner you enjoyed at a local restaurant at your place. Perhaps have family help. You could have a picnic on yoir floor or bed to liven up your current surroundings. Can you visit libraries and immerse yiurself in a good novel to pass the days? Living an existence isnt living. I know it can feel like not worth living but every life counts and yours does so if any of these suggestions can be of comfort I hope they could bring some happiness to you.
The propaganda was literally murder. You are correct. I read of an experience of an elderly resident in long term care who was going to Florida in Dec 2021 during scary fake omicron variant and because a delivery driver at the front door tested positive on a fake flimsey RAT test for covid they banned all residents from leaving including this elderly woman . If she left she would lose her space in the LTC. What a tragedy. Goimg to Florida so healthy for this senior. Despicable. Not about health. Lunatics running the asylum of life.
Yeah, Reminds me of a song title "Killing yourself to live" ? And the cartoon w' " two kids talking and one says: "You only live once"..and the others says " No, you only die once. We live every day". Or some such...Btw, Thank you!
it seems to me that both the good god and satan need our free will consent before they can act on us,,, we choose initially our direction , that seems to be the " deal " but now that the vaxxxed are no longer made in good gods image ... { " they are now " gm " } that deal might be changed or nullified or something else , already new vaxxes dont have to be tested on animals before they are administered to the already vaxxxed .... good god please help us and show us how to help ourselves and others deal with evil according to your devine good will
I didn't realize there was a like button for an article until you pointed it out! Now I will start liking articles I read as I go so that people can have stats to work with. My humblest apologies!
Thanks for the kind advice and offer. This morning when I looked for the first time, I think 3 people had looked at the written verson, but 6 out of 9 who visited the aural version had downloaded it, which is an encouraging hint.
Mine was no advice or offer; only fair feedback. :)
And don't worry; it will take time for your site to pick up speed!
The very first things you want to consider is how often can you publish, how work-intensive your articles are going to be, who your readership is, and why on Earth you are choosing to write here. :)
After that, developing your profile will provide grounds for establishing your audience.
Again, there is not much money here; poor people like me do it out of dedication. :) Once you make friends with that, you might even be able to start making some money as a result of your readers' gratitude.
Aug 26, 2022·edited Aug 26, 2022Liked by Ray Horvath, "The Source" :)
If you're not familiar with the work of Derrick Jensen, I highly recommend his books. He is an ecophilosopher and radical environmentalist who wrote the 2 volume book 'Endgame: Problem of Civilization/Endgame: Resistance'. His books will make you weep with grief for all that we lost by forcing people to live in cities, tearing them away from the land of their ancestors, dehumanizing both men and women to serve masters who dominate and control with violence. All of his books have reverence for life - ALL life, not just human life - as the theme. https://derrickjensen.org/https://derrickjensen.org/endgame/.
To give you an idea of how powerful his work is, after borrowing his book Endgame in December of 2010 and devoured the two volumes over the holidays,, I just HAD to order ALL of his other books in January 2011 and proceeded to read each one. I couldn't get enough. It was like someone who was starved of oxygen, finally breathing fresh air. These books felt as though they had restored my connection to myself and helped me finally realize - after 50 years of living - what it truly means to be fully human. They're so beautifully written and exhaustively researched that you come away feeling like you've just attended an university course in sociology, ecology, psychology, anthropology, archeology all at once.
Furthermore, he's very funny and approachable. We correspond regularly and he invites people to join his book club and receive daily updates on his life and his writing process. So, people get to see his books as they evolve.
Intelligent man, this Mr. Jensen, but as I started watching the lecture he pretty much opens with ~I won't be a Hitler and slide a premise by you, I'm that honest~ and lo and behold around 8 minute mark oil turns out to be a "non renewable resource"... it seems somebody slid a premise into Mr. Jensen real hard.
I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt if he's willing to inspect whose propaganda he took on with mother's milk.
my premise for this comment was a book by F. William Engdahl - A Century Of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order
Personally, I don't care for Jensen's using "we," because only those with power can make a difference. Other than that, there is no "we." You and I are lucky, if we can depart from this world on our own terms (definitely not meaning suicide).
To make it worse, he is also setting up his readers for unsubstantiated hope:
Apparently, he wrote a bunch of books out of stuff I managed to express in a few brief articles here on Substack. Each to their own. He is unnecessarily complicated, which can only be explained one way: his readers need HIM in order to "understand."
He is using terminologies from a large variety of backgrounds, which causes his arguments fragmented and compartmentalized. His objective remains emotional and unclarified without him specifying what the problem is.
I hate it, when someone insinuates that he speaks in my name, including me into his abstraction of "we." I consider the practice manipulative and intellectually dishonest...
All in all, it looks like he has no idea what he is talking about, but he manages to sell it, because it "feels good" to read it. That is the old mechanism of all best-sellers...
It's such a wonderful thing of you to recommend these links!
Regarding your announced public approach on Substack (it might be time to re-consider it):
You know me; I believe that setting up sexes against each other is part of the globalists' program, and when I first started teaching at UMASS in 1988, I used to say, "I'm a feminist, too; I prefer women over men." While that might qualify me as a "male-chauvinist bastard," I can assure you, I'm not anything like that. Just ask my wife, whom I frequently ask, "My darling, am I a husband, who always obeys his wife?" She will get a kick out of that! :)
As you must have noticed, I'm not buying into ANY ideolgies. This site is open for everyone to say what they want to say.
As for the endgame, I cannot see how anyone could add anything to what I have already published here, but out of respect for you, I'll check out the rest of the links.
I have always been 15-25 years ahead of the times. Here is how "civilizations" work:
You'd really like Chris Martenson. His excellent series Crash Course (https://peakprosperity.com/courses/crashcourse/) discusses at great length (4 hour version) the 3 key factors that are contributing to the collapse - economy, energy and environment. He hosts an excellent podcast on YouTube as well.
Thanks for your response. I don't see any of the issues you mention in his writing except perhaps for the observation that he sometimes makes things more complicated than they really are. He does have a degree in mineral engineering physics . He regularly apologizes for his 'non-linear' writing style. Perhaps if you knew his history and family history, you might understand him better? He is a very genuine, wry and intelligent guy.
Anyway, to each his own. I will definitely check out your links. I'm a lifelong learner and endlessly curious. I'm obsessed with seeing the big picture and discovering the bigger truths in order to develop a deeper sense of reverence for and understanding of my place in the world.
Schweitzer's work as a missionary in Gabon inspired me to take up the study of medicine at the age of 9 years. I had read his biography and was amazed at what he achieved and the passion he possessed:
"Who can describe the injustice and cruelties that in the course of centuries they [the coloured peoples] have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... If a record could be compiled of all that has happened between the white and the coloured races, it would make a book containing numbers of pages which the reader would have to turn over unread because their contents would be too horrible."
Schweitzer thought that Western civilization was decaying because it had abandoned affirmation of life as its ethical foundation.
My problem with Schweitzer is that he turns the values of his own religion upside down and he is probably the first "famous" person propagating the false narrative of "saving lives." After all, he had to do something to earn a Nobel Prize...
Necrophilia has been ingrained in modern western cultures for about half a century, but the attachment to death goes along very well with the "saving lives" discourse. The opposite of death is not life. A life lived well is the opposite of both life and death...
Schweitzer, however, its interesting to read. For one, he emphasizes that "the black African is subhuman. If you treat them as equals, they will devour you." That is definitely a sweeping generalization, but he represents only his experience. In my experience, the same is true for violent and simple-minded people, no matter what their skin colors are (growing up in a poor, crime-ridden neighborhood taught me that at an early age). I remember, when I was working in a steel factory at 19, I had to startle one of the bullies, because they thought that I was nice to them as a result of my being weak or stupid. Happily, I didn't have to hurt anyone; comfortably approaching him with a few fake blows and kicks did the trick. Nobody called me stupid or weak after that...
Africans were sold by their own black leaders for a barrel of rum or some trinkets to merchants from Porto and from Amsterdam with a particular cultural background. Schweitzer accusing all whites (many of them still in the position that equaled that of a slave during the time of the slave trade) is a blatant, racist lie... I guess, Schweitzer "deserved" his Nobel Prize...
There were various dominant interest groups in "Western civilization" that made the decisions and the average person had nothing to do with it.
Read Decay and Restoration of Civilization by Schweitzer. His compassion for Africans who needed medical help brought him to Africa before WW1. He raised the money by performing organ concerts in Europe. He trained himself in medicine. You must take the man in the round. .He wrote the West went into decline with the Peloponnesian War. As I recall he considered his work Missionary.
Of course, those who say they want to save lives don't mention the quality of life once it's saved. The cancer industry can keep peeps with cancer alive longer but at a cost. Actually, at two costs. The cost of the drugs which are insanely expensive and drain your savings if you have any and the cost of the quality of your life. With the advent of the monetization of everything, there will never be another cure. It will always be disease management, never disease abatement. Disease management versus abatement means endless revenue and profit streams. Fyi, I'm not advocating for any of it. There are too many people as it is living materialistically well beyond the carrying capacity of the planet.
The quality of life with cancer definitely depends on the patient's accepting traditional "treatments" that would kill even healthy people most of the time. For an average of an extra three months living in misery, many people are willing to lose their houses, too.
Also, in certain cases, traditional treatments might help.
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What bothers the heck out of me is that people want to live longer without having a sense of direction. To what end? It's like wishing to be in a boat without paddles or sails... As Eric Berne says in Games People Play (1964), most people are waiting for Santa Claus, waiting for death.
Insanity, indeed, can be defined as doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome...
The funny thing is, tragic humor albeit, they didn't save lives. A million of have perished thus far and despite all the jumping up and down and whining, America never really effectively managed the pandemic hence the massive death numbers compared to say, China.
Yup, by the time the time comes "to save lives," somehow, the original objective is forgotten. :) That has always been the case with crooks.
"America" doesn't exist in this sense; only people with power can accomplish important things and I'm afraid, that is EXACTLY what's been happening. Everything is progressing according to plan and the warmup time is nearly over.
Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil’s pawn. Alone among God’s primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother’s land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.
I wonder what came first in cars, radios or seat belts....I know both were contentious. I have friends who wont wear their seat belt, but most of them like the music in the car. Sometimes I drive without my seatbelt and the radio on at the same time, because I am such a rebel.
According to some cab drivers, it's better not to wear a seatbelt at low speed, while it is better at high speed. I prefer to avoid accidents, but some moron rams into my car about once every 10 years. :)
Tessa seems to have enjoyed our discussions, too. :)
In the meanwhile, for further discussion, I am reposting my previous comments here in chronological order:
1. The Rockefellows own about 160 central banks. The right to issue the USD as a loan to the taxpayer at an interest was awarded to the private bank, the Federal Reserve, on December 24, 1913, when a single senator showed up to betray the people.
Is that enough for etiology?
The current political and banking systems are indicators that the country has been hijacked by people who do not even live here.
Arguments are running in circles, instead of people admitting the actual cause of the current and the upcoming devastation: the ownership of the money supply and the money flow.
The power structure, however, is so established that without winning over the enforcers, people don't stand a chance. The enforcers (politicians, media people, entertainers, "doctors," "scientists," etc.) must realize that once they wear out their usefulness, they will be replaced with robots or simply eliminated as the new bunch of "useless eaters." Also, beauty or goodness will have no room in the computer-game "reality" of Full Functionality.
2. The Cabal seems to have started in 1688 with the Glorious Revolution, further expanded in 1815 and 1865, culminating in 1913, and starting its end game in 2020.
Thank you for expressing your appreciation; it's mutual.
I am also intrigued and interested in sharing more ideas. Which title on my substack should we use for further discussion? Alternatively, we can use e-mails, if you prefer that sort of thing.
I concur that the eternal drive to expand has always been around. Every civilization did it and after no further expansion was available (or another conqueror arrived), they evaporated. The problem is that it has now reached the global level; nobody is going to take over, only the final devastation is awaiting.
While academically speaking, a "people's currency" would take power out of the technocrats' hands, the stage of civilizational development still remains. Thank you for pointing that out...
Under the circumstances, it it feasible that the civilization eliminates itself, while there might be remnants of humanity, who can start over from the pre-industrial stage. Lots of killing and robber baron's fighting for domination first, but at the time of medieval plagues, even the rulers realized that they had to keep the peasants and the artisans alive, unless they wanted to do the work themselves, which they couldn't have done, anyway. Consequently, for the average person, the name of the ruler made little difference. This time, however, it does, unless one wants to become a cyborg slave or, with some "luck," a party dominating over the refuse of humanity...
Welcome to the club. I've never submitted to anyone, because I realized that they didn't care for me and, in many ways, I knew more than they did. Searching for the Truth is a solitary pastime. :)
We are the little ones, but even the smallest one of us has the potential of changing history or, at least, make a difference for the better.
One cannot serve two masters.
Crypto was a test run for the central banks' digital crap and their time is running out.
The ideal size of a human community is allegedly no more than 250-300 souls. I think, that is a generous estimate and includes the attempt to avoid inbreeding. :)
Corruption can be limited only by keeping communities small enough to make sure everyone knows everyone else and nobody becomes rich enough to take over. That, however, is a utopian ideal; power always becomes concentrated over time, and communes did not exactly do well, probably because nobody owned anything, so nobody cared. Term limits are still a good idea, but distribution of knowledge, skills, and power might be next-to-impossible even in small communities. However, making the decision-makers liable for their decisions and, when caught in corruption, exposing them to the risk of losing all their possessions, could possibly work. Anyway, it's only theory now.
In my time in higher ed, only about one in 300 of my students knew what a grassroot is or where the average citizen exercises the highest amount of power (jury duty)...
And yes, about 70% of my students were not "educated" enough to finish grade school... Still, I had to pass at least half of my students in order to make sure someone would pay my salary. Sometime around 2002, I had to lower the passing level to 33% even after allowing my students to use anything, including books and classroom notes, at the exams... The three out of ten worthy ones, curiously enough, amount to the same proportion that Aristotle considered worthy of freedom in Politics...
I always told my students that I don't teach; they teach themselves, but I provide the environment, the tools, and the materials that will enable them to do it efficiently.
I consider someone "educated" if they are willing and able to take responsibility for their own decisions and actions.
If people, including the future rulers, knew what technocracy will entail, I doubt that anyone would want it... The morons are simply thrilled by their computer games and can't wait for the games to become reality: gain two more points and you can pass to the next level...
"Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard..." is my favorite quote, because I cannot imagine myself living forever in my current mode of existence (that would be Hell), and the most relevant one is the one you also seem to like: "those, who endure until the end, will be saved." Yet I have always had this primeval fear that "at the end of times, many people's heart will grow cold," and I will be one of them. Growing up in a poor and crime-ridden neighborhood raises a person's thresholds for pain and sensitivity to beauty... "I can offer myself up as burning sacrifice, if I don't have Love in me, I achieve nothing." How could I know I have Love in me?
It became the world of opposites. Some folks really wanted covid to exist so badly, they blindly believed "we care" and volunteered for the shots. I am certain no nursing home patient was allowed to refuse. The folks who watched it from their living rooms will never understand.
The isolation allowed experimental tx and when death happened, it was Covid.
We were told no questions, just take the shot!
https://dee746.substack.com/p/observations-from-a-nurse-82e
Goodness that last bit describes me - living an existence that isn't worth living .
Thanks for sharing that personal struggle. Living can become drudgery. What they did to our seniors in long term care was murder during covid. Not heros. Not saviors. Many nurses in long term care retired quit because of what they saw or were fired for refusing the experimental injections. I cant change your situation but we care thats why many comment and expose stuff. Joy can seem so far away but a few words of encouragement can be positive. Take a photo that has memories attached and dream about the good ole days. If you can go outside to feel the sun on your body then do it and dream your on a beach in Florida or the Caribbean. If you have a room thats like a box think of ways to make that box colorful so it looks bigger. Changing our surroundings is so important for health so think of ways that you can do that. You might not be able to travel so can you visit local areas that you have never gone to. Can you try and make a dinner you enjoyed at a local restaurant at your place. Perhaps have family help. You could have a picnic on yoir floor or bed to liven up your current surroundings. Can you visit libraries and immerse yiurself in a good novel to pass the days? Living an existence isnt living. I know it can feel like not worth living but every life counts and yours does so if any of these suggestions can be of comfort I hope they could bring some happiness to you.
That's where the propaganda was literally murder...
The propaganda was literally murder. You are correct. I read of an experience of an elderly resident in long term care who was going to Florida in Dec 2021 during scary fake omicron variant and because a delivery driver at the front door tested positive on a fake flimsey RAT test for covid they banned all residents from leaving including this elderly woman . If she left she would lose her space in the LTC. What a tragedy. Goimg to Florida so healthy for this senior. Despicable. Not about health. Lunatics running the asylum of life.
Yeah, Reminds me of a song title "Killing yourself to live" ? And the cartoon w' " two kids talking and one says: "You only live once"..and the others says " No, you only die once. We live every day". Or some such...Btw, Thank you!
I love what the NT says, seek to do it. Do not judge. Judge =condemn, pass judgement on, thus hindering change.
But judge righteous judgement. To me, this seeks the best for
the person. Albert is one, and I then think of Ravi Zachariah(sp).
You are right. Reverence for God, the most important point, Salvation, which entails peace with God.
Thus, I feel Albert erred. Reverence for TRUTH, for Godly love.
I do not wish to sound callous, for I do have compassion for suffering (having suffered), but living 19 years, tortured and dying or
living 85 years, 'passing away', NET results= death.
I have Reverence for those struggling to do right, live right
under tough circumstances. But not point blank 'life'.
Because I do not judge, however, I'd help as needed, regardless.
it seems to me that both the good god and satan need our free will consent before they can act on us,,, we choose initially our direction , that seems to be the " deal " but now that the vaxxxed are no longer made in good gods image ... { " they are now " gm " } that deal might be changed or nullified or something else , already new vaxxes dont have to be tested on animals before they are administered to the already vaxxxed .... good god please help us and show us how to help ourselves and others deal with evil according to your devine good will
Ray - thanks for the link to this article, which makes the point very pithily.
Readers - I do more lengthy analysis in What's Wrong with "The Greater Good" at https://whatdoino.substack.com/
In my experience, my long articles are checked out, but only a few readers read them enough to "Like" them and even fewer to comment on them.
Thank you for placing your link here! Do not hesitate to do so, whenever your writing corresponds with mine!
I didn't realize there was a like button for an article until you pointed it out! Now I will start liking articles I read as I go so that people can have stats to work with. My humblest apologies!
Thanks for the kind advice and offer. This morning when I looked for the first time, I think 3 people had looked at the written verson, but 6 out of 9 who visited the aural version had downloaded it, which is an encouraging hint.
Mine was no advice or offer; only fair feedback. :)
And don't worry; it will take time for your site to pick up speed!
The very first things you want to consider is how often can you publish, how work-intensive your articles are going to be, who your readership is, and why on Earth you are choosing to write here. :)
After that, developing your profile will provide grounds for establishing your audience.
Again, there is not much money here; poor people like me do it out of dedication. :) Once you make friends with that, you might even be able to start making some money as a result of your readers' gratitude.
If you're not familiar with the work of Derrick Jensen, I highly recommend his books. He is an ecophilosopher and radical environmentalist who wrote the 2 volume book 'Endgame: Problem of Civilization/Endgame: Resistance'. His books will make you weep with grief for all that we lost by forcing people to live in cities, tearing them away from the land of their ancestors, dehumanizing both men and women to serve masters who dominate and control with violence. All of his books have reverence for life - ALL life, not just human life - as the theme. https://derrickjensen.org/ https://derrickjensen.org/endgame/.
To give you an idea of how powerful his work is, after borrowing his book Endgame in December of 2010 and devoured the two volumes over the holidays,, I just HAD to order ALL of his other books in January 2011 and proceeded to read each one. I couldn't get enough. It was like someone who was starved of oxygen, finally breathing fresh air. These books felt as though they had restored my connection to myself and helped me finally realize - after 50 years of living - what it truly means to be fully human. They're so beautifully written and exhaustively researched that you come away feeling like you've just attended an university course in sociology, ecology, psychology, anthropology, archeology all at once.
Furthermore, he's very funny and approachable. We correspond regularly and he invites people to join his book club and receive daily updates on his life and his writing process. So, people get to see his books as they evolve.
Here's his premises for the book Endgame listing how civilization has harmed humanity and the planet: https://derrickjensen.org/endgame/premises/
Here's an excellent video of him talking about his book Endgame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtuxHVD4Srw
Intelligent man, this Mr. Jensen, but as I started watching the lecture he pretty much opens with ~I won't be a Hitler and slide a premise by you, I'm that honest~ and lo and behold around 8 minute mark oil turns out to be a "non renewable resource"... it seems somebody slid a premise into Mr. Jensen real hard.
I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt if he's willing to inspect whose propaganda he took on with mother's milk.
my premise for this comment was a book by F. William Engdahl - A Century Of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order
Thank you for sharing. While I am glad reading Jensen worked for you, here are my reservations on his writing, based on his
https://derrickjensen.org/endgame/premises/
Personally, I don't care for Jensen's using "we," because only those with power can make a difference. Other than that, there is no "we." You and I are lucky, if we can depart from this world on our own terms (definitely not meaning suicide).
To make it worse, he is also setting up his readers for unsubstantiated hope:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/do-you-need-a-license-to-think
Apparently, he wrote a bunch of books out of stuff I managed to express in a few brief articles here on Substack. Each to their own. He is unnecessarily complicated, which can only be explained one way: his readers need HIM in order to "understand."
He is using terminologies from a large variety of backgrounds, which causes his arguments fragmented and compartmentalized. His objective remains emotional and unclarified without him specifying what the problem is.
I hate it, when someone insinuates that he speaks in my name, including me into his abstraction of "we." I consider the practice manipulative and intellectually dishonest...
All in all, it looks like he has no idea what he is talking about, but he manages to sell it, because it "feels good" to read it. That is the old mechanism of all best-sellers...
It's such a wonderful thing of you to recommend these links!
Regarding your announced public approach on Substack (it might be time to re-consider it):
You know me; I believe that setting up sexes against each other is part of the globalists' program, and when I first started teaching at UMASS in 1988, I used to say, "I'm a feminist, too; I prefer women over men." While that might qualify me as a "male-chauvinist bastard," I can assure you, I'm not anything like that. Just ask my wife, whom I frequently ask, "My darling, am I a husband, who always obeys his wife?" She will get a kick out of that! :)
As you must have noticed, I'm not buying into ANY ideolgies. This site is open for everyone to say what they want to say.
As for the endgame, I cannot see how anyone could add anything to what I have already published here, but out of respect for you, I'll check out the rest of the links.
I have always been 15-25 years ahead of the times. Here is how "civilizations" work:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/apocalypse-now
Not sure if "humans" are worth saving. They will always end up in the same dead end:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/why-should-humans-survive
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/can-humans-be-saved
You'd really like Chris Martenson. His excellent series Crash Course (https://peakprosperity.com/courses/crashcourse/) discusses at great length (4 hour version) the 3 key factors that are contributing to the collapse - economy, energy and environment. He hosts an excellent podcast on YouTube as well.
Looks promising! I usually read, because I don't have enough time to think during videos...
Thanks for your response. I don't see any of the issues you mention in his writing except perhaps for the observation that he sometimes makes things more complicated than they really are. He does have a degree in mineral engineering physics . He regularly apologizes for his 'non-linear' writing style. Perhaps if you knew his history and family history, you might understand him better? He is a very genuine, wry and intelligent guy.
Anyway, to each his own. I will definitely check out your links. I'm a lifelong learner and endlessly curious. I'm obsessed with seeing the big picture and discovering the bigger truths in order to develop a deeper sense of reverence for and understanding of my place in the world.
Please, don't take my current opinion as my final one; it was based on a single page. I'll keep discovering! :)
Schweitzer's work as a missionary in Gabon inspired me to take up the study of medicine at the age of 9 years. I had read his biography and was amazed at what he achieved and the passion he possessed:
"Who can describe the injustice and cruelties that in the course of centuries they [the coloured peoples] have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... If a record could be compiled of all that has happened between the white and the coloured races, it would make a book containing numbers of pages which the reader would have to turn over unread because their contents would be too horrible."
Schweitzer thought that Western civilization was decaying because it had abandoned affirmation of life as its ethical foundation.
My problem with Schweitzer is that he turns the values of his own religion upside down and he is probably the first "famous" person propagating the false narrative of "saving lives." After all, he had to do something to earn a Nobel Prize...
Necrophilia has been ingrained in modern western cultures for about half a century, but the attachment to death goes along very well with the "saving lives" discourse. The opposite of death is not life. A life lived well is the opposite of both life and death...
Schweitzer, however, its interesting to read. For one, he emphasizes that "the black African is subhuman. If you treat them as equals, they will devour you." That is definitely a sweeping generalization, but he represents only his experience. In my experience, the same is true for violent and simple-minded people, no matter what their skin colors are (growing up in a poor, crime-ridden neighborhood taught me that at an early age). I remember, when I was working in a steel factory at 19, I had to startle one of the bullies, because they thought that I was nice to them as a result of my being weak or stupid. Happily, I didn't have to hurt anyone; comfortably approaching him with a few fake blows and kicks did the trick. Nobody called me stupid or weak after that...
Africans were sold by their own black leaders for a barrel of rum or some trinkets to merchants from Porto and from Amsterdam with a particular cultural background. Schweitzer accusing all whites (many of them still in the position that equaled that of a slave during the time of the slave trade) is a blatant, racist lie... I guess, Schweitzer "deserved" his Nobel Prize...
There were various dominant interest groups in "Western civilization" that made the decisions and the average person had nothing to do with it.
This old film of Schweitzer has him actually starring in it...
https://vimeo.com/26478396
Read Decay and Restoration of Civilization by Schweitzer. His compassion for Africans who needed medical help brought him to Africa before WW1. He raised the money by performing organ concerts in Europe. He trained himself in medicine. You must take the man in the round. .He wrote the West went into decline with the Peloponnesian War. As I recall he considered his work Missionary.
Of course, those who say they want to save lives don't mention the quality of life once it's saved. The cancer industry can keep peeps with cancer alive longer but at a cost. Actually, at two costs. The cost of the drugs which are insanely expensive and drain your savings if you have any and the cost of the quality of your life. With the advent of the monetization of everything, there will never be another cure. It will always be disease management, never disease abatement. Disease management versus abatement means endless revenue and profit streams. Fyi, I'm not advocating for any of it. There are too many people as it is living materialistically well beyond the carrying capacity of the planet.
The quality of life with cancer definitely depends on the patient's accepting traditional "treatments" that would kill even healthy people most of the time. For an average of an extra three months living in misery, many people are willing to lose their houses, too.
Also, in certain cases, traditional treatments might help.
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What bothers the heck out of me is that people want to live longer without having a sense of direction. To what end? It's like wishing to be in a boat without paddles or sails... As Eric Berne says in Games People Play (1964), most people are waiting for Santa Claus, waiting for death.
Insanity, indeed, can be defined as doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome...
****C. S. Lewis observed that the most dangerous criminals are the ones who are oppressing you in order to save you.****
There is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
Human being to supply any given army on any given day
And the best at murder are those who preach against it
And the best at hate are those who preach love
And the best at war finally are those who preach peace
Those who preach god, need god
Those who preach peace do not have peace
Those who preach peace do not have love
Beware the preachers
Beware the knowers
Beware those who are always reading books
Beware those who either detest poverty
Or are proud of it
Beware those quick to praise
For they need praise in return
Beware those who are quick to censor
They are afraid of what they do not know
Beware those who seek constant crowds for
They are nothing alone
Beware the average man the average woman
Beware their love, their love is average
Seeks average
But there is genius in their hatred
There is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
To kill anybody
Not wanting solitude
Not understanding solitude
They will attempt to destroy anything
That differs from their own
Not being able to create art
They will not understand art
They will consider their failure as creators
Only as a failure of the world
Not being able to love fully
They will believe your love incomplete
And then they will hate you
And their hatred will be perfect
Like a shining diamond
Like a knife
Like a mountain
Like a tiger
Like hemlock
Their finest art
Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/the-genius-of-the-crowd-by-charles-bukowski
Bloody heck that is good!
Yes, it's always the most repulsive ones who need the most compassion.
And those, who expect gratitude, do not deserve it.
The funny thing is, tragic humor albeit, they didn't save lives. A million of have perished thus far and despite all the jumping up and down and whining, America never really effectively managed the pandemic hence the massive death numbers compared to say, China.
Just like UK
Yup, by the time the time comes "to save lives," somehow, the original objective is forgotten. :) That has always been the case with crooks.
"America" doesn't exist in this sense; only people with power can accomplish important things and I'm afraid, that is EXACTLY what's been happening. Everything is progressing according to plan and the warmup time is nearly over.
****During the plandemic, “saving grandma” was an essential slogan****
Not for Andrew Cuomo, it wasn't. He used the opportunity to murder as many grandmas as he could.
https://www.statnews.com/2021/02/26/cuomos-nursing-home-fiasco-ethical-perils-pandemic-policymaking/
The two didn't exclude each other. :) The unwashed peasant had to obey and, preferably, die.
Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil’s pawn. Alone among God’s primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother’s land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.
It's happening...
I wonder what came first in cars, radios or seat belts....I know both were contentious. I have friends who wont wear their seat belt, but most of them like the music in the car. Sometimes I drive without my seatbelt and the radio on at the same time, because I am such a rebel.
I can tell you that in 1981 most standard UK cars had the option of adding rear seatbelts for a fee just like metallic paint was an optional extra.
Radios existed in cars from the 1960s here, I believe.
According to some cab drivers, it's better not to wear a seatbelt at low speed, while it is better at high speed. I prefer to avoid accidents, but some moron rams into my car about once every 10 years. :)
I thought I did, but I can.
Tessa seems to have enjoyed our discussions, too. :)
In the meanwhile, for further discussion, I am reposting my previous comments here in chronological order:
1. The Rockefellows own about 160 central banks. The right to issue the USD as a loan to the taxpayer at an interest was awarded to the private bank, the Federal Reserve, on December 24, 1913, when a single senator showed up to betray the people.
Is that enough for etiology?
The current political and banking systems are indicators that the country has been hijacked by people who do not even live here.
Arguments are running in circles, instead of people admitting the actual cause of the current and the upcoming devastation: the ownership of the money supply and the money flow.
The power structure, however, is so established that without winning over the enforcers, people don't stand a chance. The enforcers (politicians, media people, entertainers, "doctors," "scientists," etc.) must realize that once they wear out their usefulness, they will be replaced with robots or simply eliminated as the new bunch of "useless eaters." Also, beauty or goodness will have no room in the computer-game "reality" of Full Functionality.
2. The Cabal seems to have started in 1688 with the Glorious Revolution, further expanded in 1815 and 1865, culminating in 1913, and starting its end game in 2020.
Thank you for expressing your appreciation; it's mutual.
I am also intrigued and interested in sharing more ideas. Which title on my substack should we use for further discussion? Alternatively, we can use e-mails, if you prefer that sort of thing.
I concur that the eternal drive to expand has always been around. Every civilization did it and after no further expansion was available (or another conqueror arrived), they evaporated. The problem is that it has now reached the global level; nobody is going to take over, only the final devastation is awaiting.
While academically speaking, a "people's currency" would take power out of the technocrats' hands, the stage of civilizational development still remains. Thank you for pointing that out...
Under the circumstances, it it feasible that the civilization eliminates itself, while there might be remnants of humanity, who can start over from the pre-industrial stage. Lots of killing and robber baron's fighting for domination first, but at the time of medieval plagues, even the rulers realized that they had to keep the peasants and the artisans alive, unless they wanted to do the work themselves, which they couldn't have done, anyway. Consequently, for the average person, the name of the ruler made little difference. This time, however, it does, unless one wants to become a cyborg slave or, with some "luck," a party dominating over the refuse of humanity...
Welcome to the club. I've never submitted to anyone, because I realized that they didn't care for me and, in many ways, I knew more than they did. Searching for the Truth is a solitary pastime. :)
We are the little ones, but even the smallest one of us has the potential of changing history or, at least, make a difference for the better.
One cannot serve two masters.
Crypto was a test run for the central banks' digital crap and their time is running out.
The ideal size of a human community is allegedly no more than 250-300 souls. I think, that is a generous estimate and includes the attempt to avoid inbreeding. :)
Corruption can be limited only by keeping communities small enough to make sure everyone knows everyone else and nobody becomes rich enough to take over. That, however, is a utopian ideal; power always becomes concentrated over time, and communes did not exactly do well, probably because nobody owned anything, so nobody cared. Term limits are still a good idea, but distribution of knowledge, skills, and power might be next-to-impossible even in small communities. However, making the decision-makers liable for their decisions and, when caught in corruption, exposing them to the risk of losing all their possessions, could possibly work. Anyway, it's only theory now.
In my time in higher ed, only about one in 300 of my students knew what a grassroot is or where the average citizen exercises the highest amount of power (jury duty)...
And yes, about 70% of my students were not "educated" enough to finish grade school... Still, I had to pass at least half of my students in order to make sure someone would pay my salary. Sometime around 2002, I had to lower the passing level to 33% even after allowing my students to use anything, including books and classroom notes, at the exams... The three out of ten worthy ones, curiously enough, amount to the same proportion that Aristotle considered worthy of freedom in Politics...
I always told my students that I don't teach; they teach themselves, but I provide the environment, the tools, and the materials that will enable them to do it efficiently.
I consider someone "educated" if they are willing and able to take responsibility for their own decisions and actions.
If people, including the future rulers, knew what technocracy will entail, I doubt that anyone would want it... The morons are simply thrilled by their computer games and can't wait for the games to become reality: gain two more points and you can pass to the next level...
"Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard..." is my favorite quote, because I cannot imagine myself living forever in my current mode of existence (that would be Hell), and the most relevant one is the one you also seem to like: "those, who endure until the end, will be saved." Yet I have always had this primeval fear that "at the end of times, many people's heart will grow cold," and I will be one of them. Growing up in a poor and crime-ridden neighborhood raises a person's thresholds for pain and sensitivity to beauty... "I can offer myself up as burning sacrifice, if I don't have Love in me, I achieve nothing." How could I know I have Love in me?
[How could I know I have Love in me]
unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and pharisees you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven
Mat 5.20