As you may notice, I am still growing teeth.
Due to your participation, on the 6th of May, 2023, this site celebrated its one-year anniversary.
Status report
First and foremost, I would like to thank you as my reader and a member of the community here. The members have one thing in common: they take responsibility for their decisions. That, of course, has its corollaries. They don’t “follow” anyone in order to make someone else responsible later. They are well-meaning and respectful to each other. They treasure life as a gift, only to be gifted and, in a way, to pay it forward, because they well know, everyone in this world is on borrowed time. They dare to be useless and admire a blade of grass or a sky full of stars, whenever chemtrails or city lights allow that sort of thing. They are able and willing to listen to the tunes in each other’s souls, and know that they are in the same Concert Hall, perhaps the entrance hall to Heaven.
At over 1,400 subscribers, I am receiving monetary support from 18, which brings up my daily revenue to nearly $10. Comparing it with Celia Farber’s $42k a year,
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/a-challenge-whoever-is-claiming-i
it looks like nothing, but I am proud to have the three percent of the three percent to be around, sharing essential pieces of information, making contact, and befriending each other.
Please, do NOT forget that I am never completely right, and I need your corrections.
I love you all.
Reading me
Reading me is not easy. It is indeed difficult to read my articles, if someone wants to access every link in them. Opening each in a new tab might help, because that way, the original document remains open, so it's easy to continue reading it. Many of my links are repetitive, because there are a lot of new readers and even the old ones might forget and still need some of the contents. I apply the links in different contexts; it works, because everything I write belongs together. Also, I usually introduce the links in a few words, and they are hardly ever indispensable. External links are usually examples, although they can sporadically contain a few external sources that I haven’t processed.
Rules of engagement
Finally, let me clarify the code of ethics that has become obvious after several EY1 attacks on my site, which actually belongs to YOU.
In order to keep the comment sections readable, I am obligated to enforce a few rules. If any of the following principles is repeatedly violated (I usually issue “cautions”), I have to ban the commenter, usually “forever,” because I want to make sure that the comment sections remain readable and useful for you, while maintaining the site is extremely time-consuming, anyway:
No cursing, cussing, or swearing that would offend others and harden the soul to make it callous. Sometimes it’s okay to use everyday phrases that are not exactly nice as long as they are directed to the appropriate subjects and not used against others in this community.
Long comments are fine as long as they address the topic. Still, they are not exactly efficient.
Copy-and-paste repetitive comments are okay, but only as long as they address the topic, but they must be limited to two after a single article and to two articles altogether.
Thoughtful exchanges are most welcome, but contention is not. Personal attacks on others will not be tolerated.
No false analogies, straw man arguments, psychoanalyzing me or any other commenter.
No categorizing each other (calling others “communists,” Marxists, fascists, and the like. Such labeling only prevents further communication and forces the remaining participants to engage in a field that is controlled by popular myths.
No playing God: do not tell people what they “should” do. I don’t do that to you, either.
No preaching out of the blue, but it is fine to share personal experiences and ideas as long as they are not directed against another commenter or me and pertain to the topic (quite often, the articles invoke apocalyptic decisions, when it’s actually desirable to come up with matching considerations).
If I missed something, please, let me know.
Help is needed
I would like to collect volunteers who alert me, when any of the above rules is broken, or there are typos in my text.
Finale
Here is another one-year-old, much prettier than I am:
Happy Birthday!
While it is true that the love of money is the root of all evil, we swim in the stuff. We sluice it through our life-gills as incessantly necessary holy water. So asketh and giveth awayeth, say eyeth. But how about with a good beat that's easy to dance to?
https://youtu.be/z8rQ575DWD8?t=122