FIML is a dynamic fact gatherer, a dynamic gatherer of facts between two people.
As these facts increase into the dozens, then hundreds, partners will see in themselves and each other a very different picture of who they are, a unique mosaic of their actual psychologies as they actually function in real-time, real-world situations.
This gathering of many idiosyncratic facts, this creation of a mosaic of psychologically unique communicative facts, reshapes the mind, its self-awareness and its understanding of what mind and consciousness truly are.
FIML is a species of subjective science.
It works with objectively agreed upon micro communication data.
The advantages of working with micro-data are three:
1) micro-data are easy to identify, remember and agree upon with little ambiguity or confusion
2) micro-data once discovered are emotionally and psychologically easy to accept, to admit
3) micro-data are objective in that both partners agree on what they are
Acquiring a mosaic of micro-data facilitates beneficial extrapolation into meso and macro levels of the mind.1
And this allows for a profound reshaping of both partners’ minds and psychologies.
This dynamic fact-gathering and enhanced understanding of the mind forestalls solipsistic error and also the error of clinging to group norms.
For Buddhists2 and others who practice mindfulness, FIML can be understood as partnered mindfulness. ABN
For Buddhists, a FIML query arises in the second skandha, deepens in the third skandha and is initiated verbally in the fourth skandha, thus altering the fifth skandha or preventing its habitual recurrence. See The Five Skandhas for more. ↩︎
FOR BUDDHISTS: I hope readers of this site who are members of a Buddhist Sangha or close to one will encourage their Sangha to learn and practice FIML mindfulness.
FIML would work especially well within a monastic community. It would greatly enhance their mindfulness and raise their common awareness to new heights of clarity and harmoniousness.
Lay Buddhists who see each other often and already communicate well would also benefit greatly from FIML practice, both as a group and as individuals. ABN
Domestic terrorism and violence must be met with even greater law enforcement violence. Kill-or-be-Killed (KOBK) game theory rules demand it, nothing less. USA is already so deeply infested with traitors, those of us who want our country back must be mentally prepared for increased law enforcement violence countering increased leftist and terrorist violence. I do not like this but there is no other way to correct the violent military invasion deployed against USA under Biden. Recall, the Dalai Lama himself worked assiduously to save Tibet from CCP takeover and has also said Buddhists should defend themselves if faced with violence. Wisdom dictates vigorous self-defense when your civilization is being attacked, and especially when being attacked from within. If you do not respond vigorously and effectively now, either you lose your country forever or the violence in future will be much worse. These demonstrations against ICE are funded by Big Money and are professionally organized with help from politicians who encourage them to distract from their own very serious malfeasance. ABN
Barron Trump repeatedly rang and FaceTimed a London woman throughout the day and night, her jealous ex-boyfriend has claimed in court.
Matvei Rumiantsev, 22, is on trial in the UK for allegedly raping and beating the woman, who is friends with the president’s youngest son.
She previously told Snaresbrook Crown Court that Barron saved her life by contacting the emergency services after he allegedly witnessed her being attacked over FaceTime.
But he admitted it was ‘hard not to be jealous’ and the ongoing communication between them in late 2024 and early 2025 became a source of tension in their relationship.
Jealousy rules the mundane world. It’s one of our most powerful instincts, right up there with greed, anger, pride and ignorance. The Buddhist way to deal with it in ‘romance’ is do not cling, see the emptiness and let it go. Jealousy or envy for another’s status, wealth or good looks is best handled by a similar technique. Jealousy over someone’s talent is best replaced with admiration and wise sympathetic joy at their good fortune. We are all fortunate to be alive in the human realm. Best not to spoil it by generating bad karma, by entangling ourselves in deep error and ignorance. ABN
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi formally dissolved the House of Representatives on Friday, triggering a snap general election scheduled for Feb. 8 in a move aimed at securing a public mandate for her administration’s policy agenda just months after she took office.
The dissolution of the lower house came at the opening of the regular Diet session, a step not seen at the start of a session in roughly 60 years, according to news agency Kyodo.
In an official statement released by the Cabinet Secretariat, Takaichi argued that major policy shifts — including her administration’s economic measures to counter persistent inflation, structural fiscal reforms and national security initiatives — require direct public endorsement.
“Now that we have implemented immediate measures, we need to step up our efforts to realize a major policy shift,” Takaichi said in the statement. “If we do not begin implementing bold policies and reforms now, it will be too late.”
Filing this one under ‘humor’ because the J6 fraud is a joke and this interview is hilarious. In this light, remember state-level corruption is but a fraction of national-level federal corruption. ABN
Mass migration is widely-recognized to be an act of war. Corrupt and fraudulent funding of this invasion is an act of treason, no matter how you define the word. Our so-called Western civilizational ‘suicide’ is and has been a treasonous act of covert war; covert because those who knew about it hid it while also profiting from it. ABN
Translation from Latin: In this sign you will win. As a semiotician I like the use of Latin and the word sign. As a Buddhist I can support this ethos if it is reasonable and wholesomely unites the traditional West against those who are destroying it. As an American of Baltic extraction, gotta admit I cringe at knights in armor bearing crosses. Even still, I support Christian unity and wise resistance against the enemies of the West, many of whom are recent invaders and many of whom are ancient infiltrators. I believe a good many Eastern Europeans think the way I do. Both recent and ancient experience has taught us you have to be practical and work every angle to defeat a powerful pathocracy. ABN
This level of incompetence mixed with deliberate corruption is rife throughout USA. Most of it appears to be in Dem states which have drifted into woke emotionalism and concomitant corruption. The buck should have stopped at the governor’s office. At the national level, corruption is much the same, though much worse and more entrenched. All large organizations are susceptible to corruption and weak employees who dare not do the right thing. Many organizations can live a long time while burdened with parasites, but in the end, entire civilizations fall for these reasons. ABN
The Natural Gas scenario would cost the least, while the Renewable scenario would be the highest-cost portfolio for meeting New England’s growing electricity needs. Contributed Graphic
A coalition of free-market think tanks, including Connecticut’s Yankee Institute, released a study Tuesday arguing that New England would save between $400 billion and $700 billion by 2050 if states replaced planned wind and solar projects with nuclear power plants and natural gas facilities.
The study, “Alternatives to New England’s Affordability Crisis,” estimated meeting the region’s 2050 energy needs with nuclear power would cost $415.3 billion and achieve 92% carbon-free power, while natural gas would cost $106.9 billion with a 24.5% emissions reduction.
A combination of nuclear and natural gas plants — called the “Happy Medium” scenario — would cost $195.8 billion and cut emissions by 50%, according to the analysis conducted by Always On Energy Research.
This has been one of my greatest geopolitical hopes — that Trump is ‘by deception doing war’ with Israeli Jewish Supremacy.
Gonna hang with this interpretation as long as I can because it feels so right, makes sense and is one of several such signals.
If Ritter is right, this is an example of real-world realism and why we don’t abandon Trump because he did not ban the covid vax, expose the Epstein blackmail op, or pay enough attention to Kirk’s assassination.
If Ritter is wrong about this, the basics are still the same:In the real world we have to take what we can get and work with it. ABN
All virtues must be wise or they are not virtues. What is wise or not can be discussed but never denied. Logos is wise. God is wise. Tathagata is wise. ABN
A regime is not upheld by abstractions, but by men—by their capacities, their instincts, and their loyalties. Every political order is biopolitical. It rests on who is born, who holds power, and who is cast out.
Hierarchy is the principle by which men are arranged according to their natural differences. Order is the cohesion and stability that arise when those differences are rightly understood and affirmed. Both emerge from the unequal distribution of traits among men: differences in character, in foresight, and in the will to lead or the willingness to follow.
Institutions do not endure through ideals alone. They endure through the strength, discipline, and continuity of a people—through the cooperation of the living and the faithful transmission of order across generations. Each man fulfills the station assigned to him. As the Roman poet Horace observed, “Content with his own place, he does not strive to rise above his rank.” This is the foundation of every stable order.
When these biological foundations are subverted—when the weak and unfit are gathered into a collective and their infirmity is transmuted into political force—politics does not vanish. It degenerates. It no longer serves truth, justice, or excellence, but becomes a mechanism of control. The regime still demands obedience, but not from men of worth. It secures it through dependence, and sustains it by elevating the weak over the strong, the base over the noble.
This is the logic of Bioleninism.
Coined by the writer “Spandrell,” Bioleninism describes a strategy of rule that emerges in times of civilizational decline. Unable to sustain themselves through the loyalty of the competent and independent, regimes in decay assemble a new ruling coalition from the biologically—and therefore, often socially—unfit. These are not men who ascend through merit, but men whose status, and in many cases their very existence, depends entirely on the system. Their loyalty is secured through dependency. Their resentment is weaponized against those more capable.
This is not a new phenomenon. Lenin perfected it in revolutionary Russia. He recruited from the embittered margins—what Dr. Edward Dutton calls the “spiteful mutants”: ethnic outsiders, failed intellectuals, radical ideologues, and social deviants. These were not men with a stake in the old order, nor any place in a just or natural hierarchy. But for a regime built upon destruction, they were the perfect instruments. Their failure bound them in loyalty. Their hatred made them merciless.
Bioleninism adapts this same logic to the postmodern West. It extends beyond socioeconomic class to encompass the full spectrum of biological dysfunction. Its favored instruments are the neurotic, the perverse, the embittered, and the malformed. The more broken the individual, the more easily he is controlled. The less capable he is of surviving on merit, the more tightly he clings to the regime that elevates him. In this perverse selection process, the ugliness of ineptitude and failure becomes power. Dependence is transfigured into virtue.
This is not a regime designed to elevate the noble or reward the capable. It exists to entrench itself through the destruction of those who might transcend it. What it cannot corrupt, it casts out. What it cannot cast out, it slanders or crushes. Its war on merit is not accidental but essential, for excellence threatens its command. Competence defies control. Beauty reveals the sublime indifference of nature, where nothing is owed and everything must be earned. Normalcy resists authoritarian domination, for it thrives on proportion and restraint. And so inversion becomes the law. The strong are treated as a threat, the virtuous as a danger, the noble as criminal. In their place rise the bitter, the weak, and the grotesque—men who could never have built a civilization, but who will burn one down to preserve their power.
The result is a system that no longer aspires to greatness, but to obedience. Its rulers do not seek honor, but control. They govern not through excellence, but through fear, distortion, and manufactured dependency. Their stability rests on the loyalty of those who would hold no place in any just or well-ordered world.
Bioleninism is not a temporary error, but the death knell of a collapsing system. It does not merely manage decline, as the familiar idiom suggests, but voraciously feeds upon it. And unless it is utterly annihilated—without hesitation and without mercy—all that is noble will be shattered and all that is beautiful will lie in ruin.
Victory does not demand cruelty, but it does demand resolve, the kind that does not turn away from necessity. It calls for fidelity to nature, the courage to name things as they are, and the unbending will to build again. Like all parasitic systems, Bioleninism is brittle. Its strength lies not in might, but in submission. As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn warned, “Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.” If enough men refuse to live by lies, the mask cracks, the spell breaks, and the whole decrepit order begins to fall.