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The greatest outcome of this Act would be if all of Europe rose up and led the rest of THE WEST—USA, Canada, Australia, NZ, etc—to retake Western civilization and all together make it better than ever before! There is strength in optimism and optimism in strength! ABN
UPDATE: This is the best short explanation of what Trump and his administration are doing. It’s a must view if you want to understand USA. You can read into ‘the British System’ what you want, meaning who controls that? Despite the many distractions in the world today, Trump appears to be resolutely pursuing revitalization of the American System. For this reason alone, he is worth supporting. Elites that profit most from the ‘British’ System will be the ones who complain the most and who spend the most money advertising their POVs. So beware of who is saying what and who is paying for it and what they really want. Go USA! ABN
I was a classroom teacher for 20 years.
99% of the time in the classroom is spent correcting kids, waiting for the class to calm down, and giving procedures.
And then when they finally get to the work, it’s is busy work and test prep.
None of it is real education.
Your kid can learn more in two focused hours at home than he learns in seven hours inside the government school machine.
And then he gets his childhood back.
That’s the part nobody tells you.
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Systems engineer and author Roger Cunningham explains how a cataclysmic event caused global oceanic displacement ~7,000 years ago, inundating the Pyramids of Giza, which are actually “warning indicators” for future civilizations that the cataclysm will happen again
Full video
Roger Cunningham is the Ethical Skeptic, who is often posted on ABN. He has done first-rate work on covid, the covid vaxxes, ECDO and more. I have only watched the short excerpt above but am certain the full video is well-worth viewing. ABN
UPDATE: Watched it and, yes, the full video is well worth viewing. ABN
The Opening Claim
The traditional case against immortality often assumes that life is meaningful largely due to its finitude. The fact that life will end. That our choices matter because time is scarce. I argue the opposite. If the universe and future remain open1 then immortality grants access to infinite novelty, growth, and participation in the ongoing creation of reality. The value of life is not derived from its ending, but from the possibility of more participation ahead.
While researching some of the previous philosophical questions here, I kept returning to the topic of immortality. I’m not talking about life extension itself, but how often I saw that the defense of mortality was being treated as self-evident. We encounter the assumption that finitude is a boon, and that death gives life meaning. I set out to examine that assumption, because I think it is less obvious than it may seem.…So I propose the following;
P1: A life is meaningful insofar as it contains novel opportunities for genuine participation in reality.
P2: Genuine participation requires the possibility of novelty, discovery, growth, or creation.
P3: An open universe continually generates those possibilities.
P4: If reality remains indefinitely open, those possibilities remain indefinitely available.
P5: Immortality preserves access to those possibilities.
C: Therefore, if reality remains indefinitely open, then immortality is compatible with an indefinitely meaningful life.
In short, immortality need not lead to boredom. Rather than death being the “horizon that gives life meaning,” immortality may give us access to the inexhaustible horizon of becoming.
Wittgenstein was very much taken by Schopenhauer in his youth, and we know he read him intensely. Particularly around the age when he was finishing school and beginning his later studies in Berlin. That feeling towards Schopenhauer changed over time, though. In Wittgenstein’s private notes, later published in Culture and Value:
“One could call Schopenhauer an altogether crude mind. I.e., he does have refinement, but at a certain level this suddenly comes to an end & he is as crude as the crudest. Where real depth starts, his finishes. One might say of Schopenhauer: he never takes stock of himself.”
So what happened? At 16, Wittgenstein read The World as Will and Representation and adopted Schopenhauer’s transcendental idealism (the idea that the world is fundamentally “my representation”). The entire concluding section of the Tractatus – where Wittgenstein talks about the “solipsistic I,” the world as a limited whole, and ethics/aesthetics being one – is essentially Schopenhauer translated into the language of mathematical logic.
We know, though from his notebooks and conversations with others that his view of Schopenhauer then shifts. He finds him too “glib”, too clean, things too clear and neat and, in some sense, easy. Schopenhauer, for example, solves the mystery of the universe by labelling the underlying force of reality “The Will.” To the (later) Wittgenstein, this felt like a cheap linguistic trick. It didn’t solve the philosophical knot in any way, it just gave the knot a mysterious, evocative name.
Also, compared particularly to Frege and Russell (who taught Wittgenstein in different contexts), Schopenhauer began to look like a sweeping, romantic prose-stylist rather than a rigorous thinker. Wittgenstein remarked that when he read Schopenhauer, he could “see to the bottom very easily” and to Wittgenstein, if a philosophical problem looks easy to solve, you probably haven’t actually understood its depth.
Wittgenstein was a choosy person, with his God-complex, and saw himself as unique figure.
Wittgenstein was certainly a choosy person, in many ways, but he was not someone with a God complex. Wittgenstein’s own journals abound with incredibly intense self-criticism, self-roasting, and self-recrimination. He held himself to incredibly high standards, which he generally thought he fell short of. He also held others to very high standards – particularly if they (claimed) they were engaging in philosophy. This was all because, for Wittgenstein, it mattered intensely. I think this is also key to Wittgenstein’s later dismissal of Schopenhauer. He may also have seen himself as something of a unique figure, but absolutely not in the sense of being marked out as exceptional, brilliant, or laudable – only in the sense of being deeply uncomfortable and highly distressed by things that didn’t seem to trouble others nearly so much.
Wittgenstein was notoriously brutal on himself. He was obsessed with purity, confession, and stripping away pretence – he often sought to try and confess or disclose his transgressions to those around him, for example. And it wasn’t just personal or psychological; he deeply believed that philosophy wasn’t just an intellectual exercise but a battle against one’s own vanity.
Wittgenstein later wrote that Schopenhauer “never searches his conscience.” I think he saw Schopenhauer as a hypocrite, really, who wrote brilliant things about the tragedy of human existence but didn’t actually suffer or work through them internally. Because Wittgenstein himself struggled constantly with his own ‘soul’ and feared being a “fraud” or a merely “reproductive” thinker rather than a truly original creator, he may well have applied that self-same scrutiny to Schopenhauer.
Let’s not forget that Schopenhauer lived a highly comfortable, bourgeois life, frequented fine restaurants, fought bitter legal battles over money with his mother, and was deeply vain about his own genius. It’s easy to then imagine that Wittgenstein came to look down on Schopenhauer for treating philosophy like a beautiful literary garment you could put on, rather than a painful, agonising restructuring of your soul.
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FIML completely fixes this problem! 100% guaranteed! The deep roots of philosophical emptiness (not the Buddhist kind) is people almost universally do not know how to talk to each other. Humans are blessed with complex minds and complex subjectivity, while at the same time being cursed with miserably inadequate speech habits. Habits which are so bad they all but force our complex minds to become evil, bored, selfish, greedy, scheming, depressed and suicidal. Anyone with a normal brain can learn FIML and benefit immensely. If you get only FIML from this website, you have gotten the best 99% of everything I have to offer. What’s even better is I do not advertise or charge a penny for it. Hmmm…. maybe that’s why FIML has not taken off as it should… If you know John Vervaeke, please convince him to do FIML. I am sure he will promote it better than I can. FIML should be taught in schools. The whole world will benefit from it. One day, when people have learned the technique, they will look back at history amazed at how stupid we have been. So easy to learn and do. So much good comes from it. Just do it! ABN
The entire Western world is ruled by a self-centered elite numbering but a few thousand. No one who is not either onboard with them or accepts being a servile toady to them (most politicians) ever gets anywhere near real political power, or honest social influence.
Historically, elites have always manufactured social and political ‘reality’. In today’s world many of their traditional tricks are not working as well as they did only ten years ago.
What’s changed today is social media, especially X, allows the honest voices of ordinary people to be heard.
Moreover, it is obvious to anyone paying attention that more voices and more information about anything actually results in better and truer information.
Crowds crowd-sourcing themselves have proved to be much more savvy than a few thousand elites, who all bow to a small handful of super-elites.
It is simply a fact that more information seen by more people who add yet more information yields better information. Bad info is quickly sifted out.
Elites fear open-ended information more than anything because it reveals how selfish, wrong, small-minded and crazy they are.
That said, not all elites are always bad.
The best of them understand what is happening with human information and information-sharing and what is feasible.
It seems clear to me right now that more than one battle is going on among them. ABN
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Both Baltic and Finnic symbols have what looks like a Dharma Wheel, the eight points of which signify the Noble Eightfold Path. Both regions have ancient Scythian roots. Scythian power was based on the war chariot, which in ancient times was sophisticated technology requiring many trained humans and horses. There is strong evidence the Buddha was Scythian1. His moniker Shakyamuni means ‘sage of the Scythians’. There is also evidence that Laozi2, the founder of Daoism in China, was either a disciple of Shakyamuni/ Gautama (Lao Dan) Buddha or a member of a group of Scythian philosophers who had great impact on the ancient world. ABN
—The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency in recent weeks issued the new counterintelligence threat assessment amid rising tensions between Israel and the U.S. over the way forward in the war with Iran, the officials said. They said the DIA posted an internal message, viewed by one of the current officials, that raised the level for Israel to “critical.”
The designation stems from concerns within the Pentagon that Israel is making a particular effort to surveil top U.S. officials to get information on the Trump administration’s internal deliberations and decision-making on the conflicts in the Middle East, the officials said.
The DIA assessment includes a seven-page document and features a chart, according to one of the current U.S. officials. The document says the assessment of Israel is that its ability to conduct human espionage and technical collection is at a “critical level,” according to the official.
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UPDATE: The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, an elite institution, is warning other parts of the American elite that the Israeli elite is spying on the Trump faction of the American elite. The warning is serious enough that the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency is allowing the American public to know about the compromise. At the same time Congress, the voice of the largely united front of the pro-Israel American elite, is trying to marry America’s military to Israel’s military. The adage that all politics is local has never been true. The adage should be all politics is elite factions competing with each other while toying with the public. There does appear to be a major battle going on involving Israel, the City of London ‘rules based order’, and some possibility that some factions of the Western elite do not want to entirely destroy USA and all of Western civilization. The public has close to zero say in anything elites do except when it is strongly united, a rare event which, should it occur, is always transient. I see a slim possibility that the Trump faction of the American elite may do something many of us will like. I am basically an American pragmatist strongly in favor of preserving Western civilization and American sovereignty ABN
Children raised by narcissists are characterized by an inner vacuum of unrequited instinctuality.
This happens due to the narcissistic parent or parents being incapable of requiting their child’s innate instincts to depend on them in almost every way.
Narcissistic parents are an extreme example of unrequited childhood instincts. My guess is all people have some version of unrequited childhood instincts with ramifications still present in the grown-up child, now an adult.
Since this condition is so common, all cultures deal with it one way or another, most commonly through some sort of authoritarian model for everyone, Confucianism, Catholicism, bougie values, woke, etc.
All cultures are lowest-common-denominator congregations with specific applications limited to specific situations.
One way to go beyond these limitations is use your vacuum of unrequited childhood (and beyond) instincts to leverage a deeper understanding of your mind.
To be clear, we are largely talking about wholesome instincts for communication, bonding, safety, affection, creativity, etc.
When these unrequited instincts leave a vacuum in you—a sense of deep emptiness—leverage it by resting in it completely.
No words, no images, just the vacuous state of pure emptiness you may remember from early childhood.
That is an important conscious state.
It too is you. It too is an instinct.
Stated negatively it is and was a child’s act of ‘all that’s left’, ‘nothing you can do’, ‘that’s how it was and still is’.
Stated positively, that state, all by its lonesome, is a samadhi state or right next door to one.
With a wholesome dispassionate mind, study that state.
Receive the reward life offers all of us — natural instinctual samadhi, the ‘one taste’ of all things.
For the average person, this tends to be true. But it is because we lack the self-awareness to know what makes us happy. Fantasies and desires always seem like they will make us happy from a distance.
For those who understand what gives them real joy and happiness, desire fades or becomes more focused.
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Very Buddhist exchange, perhaps unwittingly. ABN
Greco-Buddhism or Graeco-Buddhism was Buddhism within the Hellenistic period of South and Central Asia, resulting in Greek cultural syncretism developing between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD in Gandhara, which is located in present-day Pakistan and parts of north-east Afghanistan.
When Buddhism entered China from the Greco-Buddhist world of Gandhara, it carried Hellenistic wind-god imagery: the wild-haired airborne form associated with Boreas and the great wind bag motif linked to Aeolus.
These Greco-Buddhist forms later passed into Japan through Chinese Buddhism, where they were adapted into the wind god Fūjin. The Gods took new names, but the Hellenic image endured from Greece to Japan.
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