Tag: thought
Vaccine debate among professionals
I have only watched a short segment but it’s very good. This is how real science actually works. ABN
Humanity must learn to think in terms of complex systems, not ‘define problem, calculate answer’ zombies any longer
I highly recommend his linked essay: The Climate Change Alternative We Ignore (to Our Peril). The many problems in government reasoning during covid—including gross overemphasis on computer models—should be enough for discerning minds to see that much of the “reasoning” supporting climate change policy is every bit as bad. ABN
Girl, 17, who transitioned back from a boy reveals how puberty blockers and surgery have ‘irreversibly and painfully’ ruined her body as she backs Florida law blocking medical interventions
2016: Chloe said that she became exposed to transgender activism at age 11 on Instagram and Tumblr which influenced her thinking on her own gender.
2018: At age 14, Chloe began taking puberty blockers and testosterone injections, that were administered by her mother. That same year she begins going by the name Leo.
June 2020: Chloe goes under the knife for the first time at 15 when she has a double mastectomy
Almost immediately, she regrets the surgery as she was confined to her bed for that summer as she healed from her surgery
May 2021: Following a biology class during which she came to the realization that she would never be able to feed her baby, Chloe said that she stopped taking testosterone injection
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Pretty much any hard-held identity is delusional in Buddhism. I do not see any way a Buddhist can honestly support surgical or hormonal transgender treatments on children, who obviously are too young to make these decisions for themselves. Not sure I see any reason to support treatments like these for adults either. Clinging to any mundane identity is the core delusion of the Second Noble Truth, the truth of the cause of suffering. Sexual orientation alone is not important enough to base an identity on. Surgically or chemically changing your body just to conform to some notion of what your “real” gender identity is is clearly excessive, not the Middle Way. As Buddhists, we do not reject people who do this just as we do not reject out of hand anyone who makes even very serious mistakes. But not rejecting is not the same a condoning or encouraging behavior that furthers delusion and suffering and does not lead toward greater wisdom. ABN
Gay Parenting? Jordan Peterson Weighs In | Doug Wilson
I found this video mildly interesting. It is a big area—among many other big areas—that modern societies need to reckon with and talk about more. A core problem in this area, as I see it, is morality and ideals are too often used as weapons to denigrate other kinds of morality and ideals. I do not believe it is impossible to sort that out but in the real world, discussions like this tend to become messy and offer few conclusions. Social (and moral) dissolution in the past has always led to order imposed by an autocrat. ABN
The immuno-epidemiological consequences of the mass vaccination experiment – summary – Geert Vanden Bossche
For the past two weeks I have been working on a document summarizing my conclusions on the immuno-epidemiological consequences of the mass vaccination experiment.
The result of this is even more frightening than I had predicted. I’ve, therefore, appended a summary of my manuscript by way of ‘tsunami warning’.
In a nutshell, here is what I am 100% certain of:
The current SC-2 pandemic is still expanding as it is a pandemic of ‘more infectious’ variants and is thus enhancing the susceptibility of vaccinees to infection (infection-enhancing antibodies) while diminishing the susceptibility of the unvaccinated (infection-mediated training of innate cell-mediated immunity).
In the pre-Omicron era, we saw more infectious variants becoming dominant; however, thanks to the neutralizing antibodies, vaccinees were still protected against disease. However, with the advent of Omicron and its growing resistance to neutralizing antibodies, vaccinees became more susceptible to infection; what we are now seeing is more virulent variants becoming dominant (Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5[1]). however, thanks to the virulence-neutralizing antibodies (which are the same as those enhancing infection at the upper respiratory tract!), vaccinees were still protected against severe disease (e.g., in case of BA.1 and BA.2). I’ve no doubt, however, that with the growing resistance of BA.4 and BA.5 to the virulence-neutralizing Abs, vaccinees will now rapidly become more susceptible to virulence.
…When the ratio of the vaccinated to unvaccinated people in the age group 10-60 years old, who are hospitalized because of Covid-19, starts to rapidly increase, we will know that the super C-19 pandemic has begun. That’s the most sensitive criterion!
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Interview with ARCHBISHOP CARLO MARIA VIGANÒ APOSTOLIC NUNCIO
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò was the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States from 2011 to 2016. He also previously served as Secretary-General of the Governorate of the Vatican City State from 2009 to 2011. He is notable for his role in bringing to light scandals and corruption within the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and in the world, especially in revealing the wide-spread cover-up of the abuses of Theodore McCarrick.
INTERVIEW WITH STEVE BANNON
BY ARCHBISHOP CARLO MARIA VIGANÒ APOSTOLIC NUNCIO
YOUR EXCELLENCY, after the psycho-pandemic, we now have the Russian- Ukrainian crisis. Are we in “phase two” of one single project, or can we now consider the Covid farce to be over and concern ourselves with the increase in energy prices?
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A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics
Physicists have discovered a jewel-like geometric object that dramatically simplifies calculations of particle interactions and challenges the notion that space and time are fundamental components of reality.
“This is completely new and very much simpler than anything that has been done before,” said Andrew Hodges, a mathematical physicist at Oxford University who has been following the work.
The revelation that particle interactions, the most basic events in nature, may be consequences of geometry significantly advances a decades-long effort to reformulate quantum field theory, the body of laws describing elementary particles and their interactions. Interactions that were previously calculated with mathematical formulas thousands of terms long can now be described by computing the volume of the corresponding jewel-like “amplituhedron,” which yields an equivalent one-term expression.
“The degree of efficiency is mind-boggling,” said Jacob Bourjaily, a theoretical physicist at Harvard University and one of the researchers who developed the new idea. “You can easily do, on paper, computations that were infeasible even with a computer before.”
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Donald Hoffman: Reality is an Illusion – How Evolution Hid the Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #293
This is a good video for Buddhists to watch. See this for an explanation of amplituhedron. ABN
A Tale of COVID Trade-Offs: Vaccines vs Innate and Natural Immunity with Dr Geert Vanden Bossche
If you are interested in more detailed descriptions of the immunology and vaccinology of covid, plus some evolution, this is a terrific video, well-worth viewing. Vanden Bossche answers many questions I am sure many of us have had about how and why the vaccines have been a huge failure. As moderator, Bret Weinstein does a very good job of bringing out the best in Vanden Bossche. ABN
CEO of crypto firm Kraken offers woke workers four months severance pay to QUIT after warning staff ‘being offended doesn’t make you harmed’ – and 30 take up his offer
link to article with video of CEO Powell explaining policy
More of this, please. Much more of this. Diversity of thought and the freedom to speak our minds is our American cultural and legal heritage. There is no better way to run a society. We should all be proud of our heritage and strive to fully understand the value of it. Also, enjoy it! It is wonderful to be open-minded and unabashedly converse with others who are similarly not afraid to speak their minds. ABN
According to ancient Jewish law if a panel of the Sanhedrin (23 Jewish judges) unanimously find a defendant guilty of murder then they must acquit.
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According to ancient Jewish law if a panel of the Sanhedrin (23 Jewish judges) unanimously find a defendant guilty of murder then they must acquit.
The CDC ACIP voted 14-0 without discussion or having read the evidence.
The underlying assumption behind the "Sanhedrin rule" is that, in this situation, the Sanhedrin’s judgement may be systematically biased, and hence the judgements may be dependant, one on another, rather than each judgement produced independently.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/live-mtg-2021-08-30.html
Hence a 14-0 judgement should, logically, using Bayesian analysis, increase your belief that the CDC ACIP decision was systematically biased.
Too good to be true: when overwhelming evidence fails to convince | Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (http://royalsocietypublishing.org)
Originally tweeted by Prof Martin Neil (@MartinNeil9) on September 4, 2021.
Plato and The Big Picture: Robert Malone
“…one thing that we have become acutely and very personally aware of is that there seems to be a movement in modern society to avoid information, theories or opinions which trigger cognitive dissonance and the associated psychological pain. Often associated with terms such as “cancel culture”, “virtue signaling” and “woke-ism”, this movement appears to have manifested as a belief system which holds that the individuals as well as the collective body politic have a fundamental right to intellectual protection, to not encounter unpleasant thoughts, information or ideas which are inconsistent with their internal model of reality. These are the intellectual roots which nurture censorship, denialism, and the weaponized gaslighting, defamation and slander, as well as the idea that anything which causes individuals to lose faith in their government constitutes domestic terrorism and should be treated as such. There is a long and rich human history of punishment by death for such dissident thoughtcrimes. I suggest that these behaviors and actions are among the ugliest manifestations of the tribal human tendency to reject those who are willing to speak inconvenient truths, and that this tendency has always been a dark reactionary aspect of the processes by which scientific and medical knowledge advance.”
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Uvalde police failure to act
Was a result of decades of anti-male, anti-savior complex, anti-real-heroism training. It came and is still coming from many directions, many voices. What some pathologize as “the savior complex” is at its base an instinct to protect, to save, to risk your life for others, especially women and children if you are a man. Train it out of people and that’s what you get.
All instincts can be moderated through training, even one as basic as that.


