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([personal profile] degringolade Jun. 10th, 2025 03:31 pm)

It seems that things are getting weirder. This phenomenon is happening at nearly every level. Family isn't really struggling (relative to any rational set of standards) but they seem to be intent on bringing drama to the fore. Locally, the schools are in their finals, so the kids are twitchy and just wanting to get to the summer. State is actually the calmest of the set, I think that the multilayered state bureaucracy seems more intent on surviving the possibility of a purge made manifest by federal money drying up. I don't think that even in my fondest fantasy of omniscience do I really understand what the fuck is going on at the federal level, but it most certainly fits into the broader rubric of "weird".

Even the weather is odd. Yesterday I had to hole up in my sealed up apartment because the temp outside in my favored reading area got up to 103 F. (even the official temp from the weather station set a new daily record at 95 F.) Today looks to be more tolerable through.

What is nice about getting older is the simple knowledge that the foofooraw isn't the end of the world, all it might mean is that my relative comfort and limited access to privileges and luxuries might be changing. I really can't see much use in working myself up into a tizzy concerning the weirdness going on. It is going to go its own way regardless of any emotional baggage that I might freight it with.

I suppose that my ongoing discussions with M. concerning the nature of consciousness (or as I prefer to refer to the chimeric supposed entity "the soul" is helping me wander down the path of dealing with the world around me in a manner that is not going to leave me huddled in a corner worrying about it.

In my "applies only to me" intellectual musings concerning the nature of the soul, age allows me to understand that I am just here to adapt to an ever changing environment.

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([personal profile] sdi Jun. 9th, 2025 03:23 pm)

I have no idea what the Egyptian sphinx represents—best guess is that it was originally just a lion, but some narcissistic jerk re-sculpted his face onto it—but the Greek sphinx, at least, is simply the riddle, the puzzle, the koan personified: it entices you in with it's pretty face and soft breasts, but once you get close, it sinks its claws into you. (In fact, the word Σφίγξ "sphinx" is from the Greek σφίγξω "I will hold tight.") With that image, an entire avenue of sphinxes seems a frightening prospect, and yet here I am, traipsing down just such a path...


A while back I noted that there were two major Greek myth cycles, the "city myth" and the the "hero myth." The first of these (exemplified by the two great cycles of the Heroic age, Thebai and Troia) follows seven generations of kings as they found a city, the city's royal line splits, the main branch fails (due to assaults from foreigners ultimately caused by a divine curse), while the secondary branch moves on to found a new city. On the other hand, the "hero myth" (exemplified by the Horos myth and the Orestes branch of the Epic Cycle), describes the structure of the world that we inhabit and describes what we can do about it; it is meant to be an example to prospective initiates, just like Athenaie says:

ἢ οὐκ ἀίεις οἷον κλέος ἔλλαβε δῖος Ὀρέστης
πάντας ἐπ’ ἀνθρώπους, ἐπεὶ ἔκτανε πατροφονῆα,
Αἴγισθον δολόμητιν, ὅ οἱ πατέρα κλυτὸν ἔκτα;
καὶ σύ, φίλος, μάλα γάρ σ’ ὁρόω καλόν τε μέγαν τε,
ἄλκιμος ἔσσ’, ἵνα τίς σε καὶ ὀψιγόνων ἐὺ εἴπῃ.

Or haven't you heard what kind of renown noble Orestes gained
among all men when he avenged his father by murdering
that weaselly Aigistos, who killed his illustrious father?
Likewise you, my friend—for I see that you are very handsome and well-built—
be courageous! so that even those yet to come may speak well of you.

(Athenaie, in the guise of Mentes, exhorting Telemakhos. Homer, Odyssey I 298-302, as translated—hopefully not too badly!—by yours truly.)

This is, in fact, why Horos never goes to Bublos or why Orestes never goes to Troia: they are drawing on the lessons of the "city myth" in order to determine their own path. The city is an abstraction or teaching to them, the stories of those who went before, rather than a lived experience. In fact, it suggests that the city is a place they want to avoid, a source of trouble! Because of this, it seems rather important to make sense of what the city is and what it means, but I've been in difficulty doing so. I hit upon a potential angle on it, though, that I thought might be worth walking through.

I recently mentioned the Ra Material in reference to Teiresias (himself a part of the Thebaian city myth), and while pondering this, I realized that "Ra's" metaphysics dovetails neatly with the city myth, with "Ra's" seven degrees of consciousness corresponding very well with the seven generations of kings; under this interpretation, the city myth describes the unfolding of the Cosmos from Source to Source, while the hero myth, situated at the end of it, tells us what we can do about it right now, today, and what we can expect to happen to us if we try.

As a disclaimer and a reminder, I'm pretty skeptical of channeled texts (and doubly so of anything "New Age") for a few reasons: first, I have a pretty strong anti-modernity bias; second, most people are incapable of reaching up to the aither to channel angels, and even if they can, it can be very difficult to tell since daimons "know how to tell many convincing lies;" third, the channelled material always reflects the biases of the person doing the channelling, and if one isn't personally close with them, it can be very difficult to correct for these; and fourth, the "New Age" seems to largely presuppose a worldview I don't adhere to, and involve wish-fulfilment fantasies which I'm not interested in. So this material needs to be taken with salt; please consider this post merely an attempt to expand upon my prior exploration of Teiresias in order to make a more comprehensive evaluation of the model possible.


Perhaps I should start by describing "Ra's" view of the development of consciousness. (Or attempting to, it is not perfectly clear to me, so take this as a sketch.) Consciousness is analogized as a vibration, and this continuum of vibration is discretized into seven degrees of consciousness, just like how we break up all the possible vibrations of the air into a scale of seven notes or all the possible vibrations of the visual spectrum into seven colors. Since souls are just a vehicle for consciousness, we inherently possess the capacity to vibrate in any harmony of frequencies, at least potentially; but in practice, one has to "climb the scale" a bit at a time, from lowest vibration to highest vibration:

  1. Red, which relates to being, and is the consciousness of "inanimate" objects.

  2. Orange, which relates to growth and movement, and is the consciousness of plants and animals.

  3. Yellow, which relates to social identity, and is the consciousness of humans. Being the vibration of identity, it is the first properly "individual" degree: red and orange are "herd" or "group" consciousness, while yellow consciousness is individual (at least once sufficiently developed).

  4. Green, which relates to love, and is the consciousness of lower daimons. Love is polarized: one may give love (compassion) or take love (selfishness), and thus green consciousness is dual in nature.

  5. Blue, which relates to communication and wisdom, and is the consciousness of higher daimons, though it is also (being the lowest vibration not subject to mortality) where we resonate with after death. Blue retains the polarized nature of green; the positive pole is the collective search of understanding (collaboration), while the negative pole is the individual search of understanding (hoarding knowledge).

  6. Indigo, which relates to universality, and is the consciousness of angels. Unlike green and blue, indigo is not meaningfully polarized, because of the nature of universality; negatively-polarized individuals, having mastered wisdom, come to understand this and reorient themselves positively as they endeavor to comprehend the All.

  7. Violet, which is related to transcendance and unity. This is, in a sense, rejoining the All and moving on to a new "octave" of existence, in which one co-creates the universe as and with God. (At least, apparently: "Ra" claimed to be of indigo consciousness, themselves, and claimed only secondhand knowledge about violet consciousness from its own teachers.)

Apparently souls usually ascend as groups: that is to say, the group of what we now call "human souls" all passed through the red stage more-or-less together, then the orange stage more-or-less together, and are now working through the yellow stage more-or-less together. ("Ra" says the reason why the earth is such a mess is that, apparently unusually, humans aren't developing consistently: a few are polarizing positively, a few others are polarizing negatively, and the vast majority aren't polarizing at all. Evidently conditions are much smoother in the common case where the group develops together.) There are uncommon exceptions to souls developing as a group, however: some people are souls of a higher degree, who incarnate as humans in order to teach and guide; while, conversely, some few human souls "jump the tracks" and, through spiritual practices or divine support or sometimes even by accident, behold God naked and become able to ascend separately from the rest of their group.

I think that's enough about "Ra's" metaphysics to get on with. So far so good, and other than the emphasis on soul-groups, isn't too distant from Empedokles.


As for the city myths, there is, unfortunately, no one good source remaining for either of them. I'd like to look at Troia today, partly because I looked at Thebai last time and partly because the Epic cycle is by far the more familiar to me. The outlines of it's history can be more-or-less cobbled back together from bits and pieces in the Iliad and Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (which I trust) and the Library (which is my preferred fallback when a reliable source isn't available). Here is a sketch at describing the seven generations, with citations:

  1. Dardanos, the favorite mortal son of Zeus, founded Dardania at the foot of Mt. Ide. [Il. XX 215-8, 301–5.]

  2. Erikhthonios, the son and successor of Dardanos, "became the richest of all men" with a herd of three thousand mares. Boreas mated with some of these mares in the form of a black stallion, adding twelve semi-divine horses to Erikhthonios's herd. [Il. XX 219–29.]

  3. Tros is the son and successor of Erikhthonios, renaming the kingdom (but not the city) of Dardania after himself. [Il. XX 230, Lib. III xii §2.]

  4. At this point the royal line splits three ways, as Tros has three sons: Ilos, Assarakhos, and Ganumedes. All three are described as faultless. Ilos goes to Phrygia; he wins a prize of fifty men and women; following an oracle's instruction, he follows a dappled cow to the hill of Ate; he asks Zeus for a sign; he is given the Palladium; and he founds Ilios on the spot. Assarakhos, meanwhile, simply succeeds to the throne of Dardania. Ganumedes, finally, being peer of the gods and most beautiful of mortals, is spirited away in a whirlwind to be the immortal, ageless cupbearer of Zeus; Tros is grieved by his son's disappearance until Zeus sends Hermes to tell him what has become of him and give him divine horses. [Il. XX 231–5; HH 202–17; Lib. III xii §3.]

  5. Laomedon is the son and successor of Ilos, and also described as faultless. Kapus is the son and successor of Assarakhos. [Il. XX 236, 239.]

  6. Priamos is the son and successor of Laomedon; he is the final king of Ilios, since while Zeus loves Priamos and his city, he withdraws his favor from Priamos's line and gives it to Aineias. Ankhises is the son and successor of Kapus; he was seduced by Aphrodite, but not made immortal; and he secretly bred his mares to the divine horses of Laomedon (descendants of those ransomed for Ganumedes), thereby stealing their bloodline. [Il. IV 44–9, V 265–72, XX 236, 300–8; HH.]

  7. Hektor is the son and heir apparent of Priamos, but is killed in battle by Akhilleus. Aineias is the son and successor of Ankhises; he is the son of Aphrodite; he is most pious and beloved by the gods; and he escapes Ilios and refounds it after it is sacked. [Il. II 819–21, XX 293–308, XXII; HH.]


Now, let's synthesize these two models. I don't think this is too difficult! The seven kings can obviously be linked to the seven degrees of consciousness, with the line of descent showing the progression of consciousness (e.g. orange follows red just as Erikthonios follows Dardanos), and with the split among the sons of Tros showing the split in polarization at the green level of consciousness (e.g. just as, after Tros, the Troad has two kingdoms, Dardania and Ilios, so too does consciousness have two polarities after yellow). Everything else falls out naturally from there.

Mt. Ide (traditionally from ἴδη "woods," as in a place of material to harvest and work with) is the world-axis or ladder of consciousness, which is why Zeus sits atop it and watches all. The hill of Ate (Ἄτη "blindness, recklessness") is presumably where Zeus threw her after Hera tricked him into recklessly making Iphikles king rather than Herakles (cf. Il. XIX 91–136), clearly a place where a lack of foresight makes one deviate from the intended course. Dardania (apparently related to the onomatapoeic δάρδα darda "bee," like "bumble" in English, and an appropriate name for cooperation, as a hive of bees work together for the good of all) is the positive polarization of consciousness, while Ilios (which Ilos, of course, selfishly named for himself) is the negative polarization of consciousness, distant from Ide but still in sight of it (as one can never really escape divinity).

Dardania is founded by Dardanos at the foot of Ide since red consciousness is foundational, inherently positive, and where everything begins; while Ilios is founded by Ilos on Ate since green consciousness is the first that can be negatively polarized (though doing so is short-sighted). Nonetheless, each of Tros's three children are described as ἀμύμονες "without blemish," because all is one, so to love others and to love self are both to love God. However, Tros has a third faultless son: Ganumedes; Xenophon's Socrates (Symposium VIII xxx) makes the case that Ganumedes was beautiful in soul, and I likewise think that Ganumedes is a mythic representation of how peculiarly virtuous souls can short-circuit the usual path of growth through intensive self-development and/or devotion to divinity. Zeus withdraws his favor from Priam because negative polarization halts at the indigo level (thus ending the line of Ilos), and Hektor dies in battle because it is not possible for a negative polarization to transcend. Aineias refounds Ilios because the result of returning to the One is to co-create the next "octave" of consciousness.

Homer goes to particular lengths to talk about horses (maybe they should have called him Φίλιππος Phillip "horse fancier"), so these must be noteworthy for some reason. I suppose that while the kings represent the levels of consciousness in general, the horses must represent their property; that is, specific individuals or groups of individuals within those levels of consciousness. Perhaps the wealth of Erikhthonios indicates the vast speciation of the natural world, while the offspring of Boreas ("the North Wind") indicates that only some of the many species of animals are judged desirable enough to become vessels of the yellow level (e.g. are imbued with "breath" or "wind," that is, individual soul); perhaps the horses Zeus gifts to Ilos indicate that while some beautiful souls may leave the group, the group is not neglected, but is in fact given support in recompense for their loss in order to maintain balance; that Ankhises breeds his horses with the descendents of these perhaps suggests that these beautiful souls join groups of the indigo level ("go to be with the angels"). These kinds of things aren't really discussed in the Ra Material so far as I recall, though, so this is all not-terribly-deep guesswork based strictly on the symbolism in the myth.


A few miscellaneous notes from while I was working my way through all this:

  • I have long wondered why Homer is so very down on Aphrodite; she seems to me to be among the nicest of the gods. One nice thing about this interpretation of the city myth is that it makes sense of this. Aphrodite is love, and loving mode of consciousness—green—is where polarization takes place; since Ilios is the negative polarization, which is ultimately incapable of returning to the source, this is the reason for the city's downfall. In fact, that Zeus refuses to adjudicate the apple to any of the goddesses indicates that God has given us free will to choose our paths; that Paris has to choose between Aphrodite (= love​ = green?), Athene (= wisdom​ = blue?), and Hera (= universality = indigo?) indicates that these are the levels affected by choice of polarization; that Paris chooses Aphrodite for reasons of self-gratification reinforces the recklessness (ate) of the negative polarization in general.

  • I'm not really prepared to do a deep-dive on the Thebaian myth yet, but while we're talking about sphinxes, it's worth noting that Oidipous, being of the fifth royal generation, would, by this theory, be of the blue, or wisdom, degree of consciousness. This makes his solving of the sphinx's riddle—a test of wisdom—pretty appropriate!

  • If you'll recall in the Horos-myth, I likened Thoth to "experience," the reason or purpose behind climbing the ladder of consciousness: so God-in-part can come to know part-of-God. Thoth is married to Maat, the "necessity" of this occurring. It is noteworthy that the child of Thoth and Maat is Seshat "scribess," who is depicted with two cow horns and a seven-petalled flower above her head. It is plausible to me that "scribess" is a reference to consciousness being that which observes and records (cf. Od. XI 223–4) and the seven-petalled flower is indicative of the seven modes of consciousness here described:

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    This would, of course, presuppose that "Ra" is correct in saying that they influenced the development of Egypt with their teachings.

    "Which Dare County pharmacies are administering the only FDA approved Covid vaccine?"
    Dare to Share OBX, November 25, 2021
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/0Fdxl5KGZfUN/

    TRANSCRIPT

    TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: This is a series of recorded phone calls made to Dare County, North Carolina pharmacies. There are no images. All text on screen is transcribed.

    TEXT ON SCREEN: November 9, 2021
    The only FDA approved COVID-19 vaccine is called Comirnaty. The others are still under an Emergency Use Authorization.

    TEXT ON SCREEN: 
    CVS Pharmacy 
    1101 S Croatan Hwy
    Kill Devil Hills NC

    [telephone ringing]

    FEMALE VOICE: Thank you for calling the CVS Pharmacy. How can I help you?

    CALLER: Do you have the covid 19 vaccines in stock?

    FEMALE VOICE: Let me just check. Hold on. 

    CALLER: Thank you.

    FEMALE VOICE: Yeah. They are using Moderna. 

    TEXT ON SCREEN: 
    Sunshine Pharmacy
    1187 Duck Rd
    Duck, NC

    CALLER: Y'all have the Pfizer vaccine available?

    MALE VOICE: Yes I do.

    CALLER: OK, I was wondering, do you have the Comirnaty, the one that's FDA approved? Or do you have the BioNTech, the one that's still under an EUA [Emergency Use Authorization]?

    MALE VOICE: They're all approved now!

    CALLER: The Comirnaty has been approved. So I was wondering if the ones that you have there by Pfizer have the Comirnaty label on them. 

    MALE VOICE: Oh, I don't have a clue. Hold on. No. You might want to try Walgreens.

    CALLER: OK. So yours don't say Comirnaty on them?

    MALE VOICE: No ma'am.

    0:52
    TEXT ON SCREEN: 
    Walgreens Pharmacy
    1200 S Croatan Hwy
    Kill Devil Hills NC

    CALLER: Are you offering the Pfizer covid vaccine?

    MALE VOICE: No. We do not have that.

    CALLER: Oh, do you ha—

    MALE VOICE: We have the Moderna.

    CALLER: Is that still under Emergency Use Authorization, the Moderna?

    MALE VOICE: Uh, no. Well, I mean, it's, it's, it's, to be honest I'm not sure. I think they took all the mRNAs are off, but, um, except for like children, younger people and stuff they have, but I think the regular Moderna is off but— [voice fades as he asks someone there in the pharmacy]— [inaudible] Moderna off emergency use, do you know? I'm sure what I've heard—

    FEMALE VOICE IN PHARMACY: Yeah, it's still.

    MALE VOICE: It's still emergency use? 

    FEMALE VOICE IN PHARMACY: Yes.

    MALE VOICE [returning to caller] Yeah. Yeah the pharmacist here said that yeah she thinks it's still under emergency use protocol. 


    1:33
    TEXT ON SCREEN:
    Walmart PHarmacy
    5400 N Croatan Hwy
    Kitty Hawk, NC

    CALLER: Hi, I was wondering if you have the Pfizer covid 19 vaccine in stock?

    FEMALE VOICE: Yes, ma'am, we do.

    CALLER: Is it the Pfizer Comirnaty or is it the Pfizer BioNTech that's still under Emergency Use Authorization?

    FEMALE VOICE: Uh, it's, it's the normal Pfizer, the only one that we have, the BioTech [sic]

    CALLER: OK, so nowhere on the label or package it says Comirnaty on it?

    FEMALE VOICE: No, ma'am. I've never heard about that. We have BioTech [sic]


    2:05
    TEXT ON SCREEN:
    Bear Drugs
    5200N Croatan Hwy
    Kitty Hawk, NC

    FEMALE VOICE: We have them all.

    CALLER: OK. Do you have the Pfizer?

    FEMALE VOICE: I do.

    CALLER: Is that the Comirnaty? Or is it, is it the Pfizer BioNTech that's still under Emergency Use Authorization?

    FEMALE VOICE: That I'm not sure of. Let me let you speak with the vaccine pharmacist. Hold on.

    CALLER: Thank you.

    [music]

    MALE VOICE: Both of them are the exact same vaccine. So BioNTech developed it, Pfizer manufactures it.

    CALLER: I understand that they are interchangeable but still legally distinct, so I was wondering, which ones you have, how are they labeled? Comirnaty?

    MALE VOICE: It's labeled Pfizer. But it's like, it's the exact same vaccine, so it's like there's hmmm, there's no difference between the two [inaudible] including legally. It's like, um, I think BioNTech has some licensing in other countries and, like, and Pfizer has some licensing in the US. But other than that, it's the exact same thing, a global label.

    CALLER: So your, your Pfizer vials there, the package does not say Comirnaty.

    MALE VOICE: Hmmm, yeah, it's like they haven't branded that, branded it yet because all the of ones they made previously were before it was FDA approved.

    3:20
    TEXT ON SCREEN:
    CVS Pharmacy
    5547 N Croatan Hwy
    Kitty Hawk, NC

    FEMALE: Yes. So Pfizer.

    CALLER: The Pfizer— do you know which, if it's the Pfizer that's the Comirnaty?

    FEMALE VOICE: I have no idea.

    CALLER: Alright. Is there someone there that I could speak with who might know?

    FEMALE VOICE: Um, hold on.

    CALLER: Thanks.

    [music]

    FEMALE VOICE: My pharmacist says, yes it is.

    CALLER: Yes it is what now?

    FEMALE VOICE: Ah, whatever, Comarnity, the FDA, whatever you— the answer to your question.

    CALLER: Comirnaty?

    FEMALE VOICE: Yes.

    CALLER: So the ones that you are administering are the Comirnaty? 

    FEMALE VOICE: Yeah, it says, FDA-approved BioNTech—

    3:52
    TEXT ON SCREEN:
    Only one out of the six Dare County
    pharmacies called are administering
    the FDA approved Comirnaty.

    [recording of same phone call continues]

    —biologic license application BLA for Comirnaty Covid 19 Vaccine mRNA under US license number 2229.

    TEXT ON SCREEN:
    The Pfizer-BioNTech
    not labeled Comirntay, is still under an EUA

    [recording of same phone call continues]

    CALLER: That's the label that you're reading that's on the package of the vials?

    FEMALE VOICE: Yes.

    4:15
    TEXT ON SCREEN
    BioNTech, Moderna: only authorized for
    emergency use, with zero liability for injury

    Pfizer Comirnaty: FDA approved
    and company can be sued for injury

    4:26
    [END]

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    ([personal profile] degringolade Jun. 9th, 2025 06:08 pm)

    Too much going on both locally and in the world for me to wrap my brain around.

    Gimme a bit to try and get a grip.

    "Nurses For Freedom NZ Protest - Sarah"
    FreeNZ Media July 7, 2022
    https://rumble.com/v1bhk0r-nurses-for-freedom-nz-protest-sarah.html

    FROM THE RUMBLE PAGE DESCRIPTION: "Interview with Sarah at the Nurses For Freedom Protest outside Middlemore Hospital on Tues 28th Jun."


    TRANSCRIPT - EXCERPT

    TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
    - In the introductory part Liz Gunn states that she has traveled to Middlemore Hospital in Aukland, New Zealand, "to show our support for the nurses who are protesting the government's disgraceful mandates against our country's medical staff." The protest, with many nurses holding up placards and waving New Zealand flags, is along a highway and on a bridge. Liz Gunn is filmed standing on the street using a large microphone to interview with this nurse.


    0:36
    SARAH: I'm a nurse with 21 years' experience, and I've got two children. I'm a solo mum. And I got terminated in December.

    LIZ GUNN: Because of your—?

    SARAH: Because I chose to honor my natural immunity and I didn't— I'd done my research, which I feel was an opportunity where information that was available from overseas was omitted, discredited, censored, ignored, take your pick. But we were in a position where we could have done something really significant as a nation and not pursued this avenue of this one source of truth[1] and the one and only gold nugget treatment that quite frankly hasn't worked.

    LIZ GUNN: Has not worked—

    SARAH: And is extremely unsafe. And as a nurse I stood really strongly around informed consent, which I don't believe you can get in an experimental product where the long term data is still coming in, where the availability of information from the company itself was attempted to be buried for 75 years, and that documentation that has been forced to be released is damning and quite disturbing material.[2]

    2:08
    LIZ GUNN: They vastly underestimated kiwis. They being whoever the overlords are of this group of politicians. Many kiwis say they're all sold out to somebody over there. We don't know exactly who it is, but the people over there have underestimated our kiwi spirit. And it is rising now.

    SARAH: Yeah, and I think as well it's not just kiwi spirit, it's the global, like, humanity, the people that can see that something's not right. Like, right from the get go I questioned, I was like, really? I've been nursing for just over 20 years, are we living in this pandemic? Like, is this thing actually happening? And then some things happened in my personal life and I questioned further. And I was also going, they said that last week, this was what was happening, and it's different now. What's going on? So there were a few holes like Swiss cheese that made me question more.

    3:05
    LIZ GUNN: A lot of things that don't make sense. I still can't get past people putting their masks on to go into the cafe, the minute they sit down the masks come off and they eat. What it is this virus? It seems to not—

    SARAH: Hmmm.

    LIZ GUNN: — not  attack people if you're sitting at a table. I mean, I say that jokingly, but kiwis need to start questioning. Where's the critical thinking? 

    SARAH: Hmmm. 

    LIZ GUNN: Where are our critical thinking minds?

    SARAH: [raises her hand]

    LIZ GUNN: Yep.

    SARAH: Well, it was drummed into us as nurses when we were training to critically think and to question. You might have a patient that looks as sick as a dog in the bed but their observations that you've done don't look, don't match the patient at the end of the bed. Or vice versa. You might have someone that looks like well but their observations are abnormal. And so we were always taught and encouraged to question what's in front of you.

    LIZ GUNN: Are you working at the moment?

    SARAH: I'm building my own business. So I've pivoted—

    LIZ GUNN: Yeah?

    SARAH: And I'm building a business, aromatherapy massage and using essential oils to support your own body's natural ability to heal itself because it can if we let it and if we listen to it. And I'm also educating people around maintaining their health and controlling their health and taking ownership of their health. I'm tired of the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff house system that we've had that's address the symptoms and not the cause.

    4:31
    LIZ GUNN: Do you want to put up your aromatherapy business?

    TEXT ON SCREEN: f find us on facebook facebook.com/frankinessence

    SARAH: So it's a play on frankincense. Incidentally, it's all the oil of truth. I'm all about trying to find the silver linings in these situations and Frankinessence came about because of my complete love affair with my boyfriend Frank and because Frankinessence is who I am as a person. What you see is what you get. I'm not about to pussyfoot around people's feelings because they might get hurt or triggered. I'm going to say it like it is and not hold back.

    5:01
    LIZ GUNN: And I want to ask you one more thing. If Jacinda [3] was down that camera, you have this one minute, she's just walked up, and you have to speak from your heart, as you have to me. What is it you'd say, down that camera, Jacinda, use her name, and look at that camera.

    5:17
    SARAH: How do you sleep at night? Do you have any idea the lives that you have destroyed? Not just those that have died as a result of this treatment that you said was safe and effective, that's a slogan and a tagline. It has no backbone, no basis, no evidence, no research. Where is your data? What are you doing? We're— it's— yeah. You have nothing to proud of. Nothing to be proud of. 

    And I have no other words that I can say on camera. You are an absolute disgrace to this country. And I never imagined that I would be out of a career because I chose to honor my body and my integrity and acknowledge the fact that our health, our body was designed to heal itself. 

    You're a coward. [exhales; shakes head] Yeah.

    6:40
    [END OF EXCERPT]

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    TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

    [1] From the official New Zealand Parliament transcript of questions to the prime minister
    https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/document/HansS_20200902_050580000/1-question-no-1-prime-minister

    Question No. 1—Prime Minister

    1. Hon JUDITH COLLINS (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by her statement, "We will continue to be your single source of truth"?

    Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN (Prime Minister): I stand by my statement in its entirety. Some weeks ago, I was asked about rumours and speculation that had emerged across social media on COVID-19 that could have caused harm to New Zealanders. My full quote reads, "I've been watching for some days—and this is not unique to New Zealand—that, in the midst of what is a global issue, as you would expect, there are a number of rumours that circulate. I am present on social media; I see it myself. I cannot go round and individually dismiss every single rumour I see, as tempted as I might be. So, instead, I want to send a clear message to the New Zealand public: we will share with you the most up-to-date information daily. You can trust us as a source of that information. You can also trust the Director-General of Health and the Ministry of Health. For that information, do feel free to visit at any time—to clarify any rumour you may hear—the covid19.govt.nz website. Otherwise, dismiss anything else. We will continue to be your single source of truth."
    — Source: https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/document/HansS_20200902_050580000/1-question-no-1-prime-minister


    [2] Sarah refers to the Pfizer documents. These Pfizer wanted to withhold for 75 years. The story of how a US court ordered their release under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, and the documents themselves, are now available to the public at:
    https://phmpt.org
    Of note, the Pfizer 5.3.6 document: Cumulative Analysis of Post-Authorization Adverse Event Reports of PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) Received Through 28-Feb-2021 
    https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf
    On p. 7, table 1, the report of 1,223 deaths.
    On p. 30 Adverse Events of Special Interest. 

    UPDATE 2024: 
    See also: The Pfizer Papers by Naomi Wolf with Amy Kelly, War Room Books, October 15, 2024


    [3] Jacinda Ardern was prime minister of New Zealand at the time that this was filmed.

    "Jacinda Ardern (born July 26, 1980, Hamilton, New Zealand) is a New Zealand politician who in August 2017 became leader of the New Zealand Labour Party and then in October 2017, at age 37, became the country’s youngest prime minister in more than 150 years. She resigned as prime minister in January 2023."
    — Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jacinda-Ardern



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    ([personal profile] kimberlysteele Jun. 7th, 2025 12:56 am)

    I am happy to read your Ogham free of charge -- that's how I hone my divination skills.  Please limit your reading request to four or fewer Ogham cards: though this can take many forms, here are some common ones (all of them are basically combos of 4 cards):
     
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    A letter to M. But I am being sleazy and posting here instead of writing a fresh post

    I suppose that I am misusing your writings. But I suppose that is a occupational hazard for any writer so there is no need for anything other than a pro forma apology.

    Mostly I have been pondering your thoughts on consciousness vis-a-vis the current foofooraw around AGI. Not that I think that artificial intelligence is anything but an oxymoron. But that it just me being a cynical old man, I also think that even among those of us referred to laughingly as Homo Sapiens (it is a bit of stretch to use the Latin word Sapiens (wise) in the official descriptor) as being intelligent the bulk of the time as being of questionable provenance.

    The advertising term AI is here to stay, and it isn't going to be going away anytime soon. I suppose that I am trying to get my head around just what it can do and what those abilities mean to the already fucked up society that we inhabit.

    Mostly, I think that it is going to me an anime-style search engine that will go through the low-level customer service industry like shit through a goose. But these positions have never had an intelligence requirement attached to them. They are there to make the customer happy and follow rules to do this activity at the lowest possible level of cost and compliance.

    I think that AI will allow the corporations and their willing minions in the professional/managerial class to further marginalize the lower tiers of the economic scale. But this will only be the first step. The greedy geckos that populate the professional/managerial class will exhaustively work to catalog any way possible to use this fixed cost replacement for anything that can remotely be within its capabilities (Almost any entry level position IMHO). I see this lasting about 20-25 years as the technology improves at which time it will begin eating into the PMC itself.

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    ([personal profile] degringolade Jun. 5th, 2025 07:18 am)
     

    So, I got an interesting response from a reader concerning my recent rant on AI and robots and old science fiction.  The part that raised some questions was:

    Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are a set of guidelines for the behavior of robots, designed to ensure their interaction with humans is safe and ethical. They are: 1) A robot may not harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law

    The response from this reader was:

    Law 1 is hugely problematic. Just think of all the 'hate laws' being pushed at the moment. What is 'harm'? And what if stopping a human being coming to harm requires harming them?

    Yep.  He has got it right.  But then again, you have to think a little past that. About those laws, what they are trying to do, who is doing them, and the culture that promulgated them.

    Consider for a moment the “trolley problem” presented above.  “Holy Kobiashi Maru Batman!”  This tired conundrum is trotted out and undergraduates preen and strut with their tired ass rationales.

    But I think that this kind of thing is exactly what worries my gentle reader who pointed out the dilemma.  Our society really can’t stand the idea of “you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t”.  

    The simple and unsophisticated presentation of the trolley problem is one where the mental/physical states of the person operating the switch and the victims on the tracks are unknown.  This is both simplistic and stupid.

    Imagine you own petty bigotries and problematic actions (and please don’t think they aren’t there) and then imagine that you knew the identities and mental states of the “victims” on the track.  Now you have a real problem don’t you?  

    What if the “one” is your daughter?  I would venture to guess that there would be five dead people at the end of the experiment.  What if you knew that four  of the five had terminal disease and would die in a week, would the change in death timing mean anything to you?

    Let’s use an imaginary “Harry Potter” scenario but with no “magic” to help you out.  What if the “one” was Sweet Hermione and the “five” were mean-old Slytherins and you were a Hufflepuff?  Maybe a different answer depending on your house.  I am certain members of Gryffindor and Slytherin would not take much time to make their respective choices.

    The Robots and intelligences that we are trying to make will be a different hodgepodge of conflicting goals, prejudices, compromises and methodologies that make up our laws.  But at the end, the rules coded into them will be our rules because we did the coding.  The chance that they can come up with a solution that will make everyone happy is exactly zero.

    My solution to the trolley problem is that I would walk away.  If there is no way to win, don’t play.  Maybe that is what we need to teach.  

    I've spent a lot of time pondering Hera/Athene/Aphrodite as exemplary of the ways up, but it occurs to me that there's another way of looking at it, in terms of how many mirrors one sees God in...

    # Plotinos Smullyan Description
    1 φιλόσοφος (philosopher) positivism sees the All in oneself
    2 ἐρωτικός (lover) mysticism sees the All in another
    many μουσικός (scholar/scientist/artist/aesthete) empiricism sees the All in the All

    I don't properly remember where I saw Raymond Smullyan's classification of the three ways. (Perhaps it was in Who Knows: a Study of Religious Consciousness?) In any case, he emphasizes that they are complementary rather than in conflict.

    Very speculatively, I wonder if these lead upward at different rates? Hesiod's Muses were Watery, so perhaps the μουσικός is the patient but less demanding way of getting to the next "rung" on the ladder; I am utterly devoted to the Airy angels, and wonder if that's where I am being led; and Plotinos, of course, had eyes only for the Highest. (It is also the case that Fire is the "1" level of the tetractys; Air the "2" level of the tetractys; and Water remains in the material level of "many.") This would account for Plotinos's relative ordering of the three paths.

    ἦ τοι μὲν ξανθὸν Γανυμήδεα μητιέτα Ζεὺς
    ἥρπασε ὃν διὰ κάλλος, ἵν᾽ ἀθανάτοισι μετείη
    καί τε Διὸς κατὰ δῶμα θεοῖς ἐπιοινοχοεύοι,
    θαῦμα ἰδεῖν, πάντεσσι τετιμένος ἀθανάτοισι,
    χρυσέου ἐκ κρητῆρος ἀφύσσων νέκταρ ἐρυθρόν.
    Τρῶα δὲ πένθος ἄλαστον ἔχε φρένας, οὐδέ τι ᾔδει,
    ὅππη οἱ φίλον υἱὸν ἀνήρπασε θέσπις ἄελλα:

    You know how most-clever Zeus spirited away blonde Ganumedes
    because of his beauty, to be among the deathless ones
    and serve wine to the gods in the house of Zeus,
    a sight to behold as he is honored by all the immortals
    as he draws crimson nectar from the golden bowl.
    But incessant worry gripped the heart of Tros, since he didn't know
    whither the heaven-sent cyclone had caught up his beloved boy.

    (Aphrodite consoles Ankhises. Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 202–208, as translated—hopefully not too badly!—by yours truly. Yes, it really says "cyclone!")

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    When I began doing a daily banishing ritual almost ten years ago, I had a feeling I would one day preach the need for it in public. Well, here I am. Within that scant decade, I came up with my nascent concept of astral pyramids, which are imaginal structures that develop their own wills and velocities and that want to expand at the base. Now I find myself fulfilling that early prophecy — I am an unpaid advertiser for the banishing ritual’s astral pyramid. From the outside, I know now as I knew then that I appear as a strange and foreign land in my enthusiasm for an esoteric practice that involves ten minutes a day of standing around, drawing shapes in the air, and crooning the names of gods. Appearing to be a weirdo is a risk I am willing to take. I hope people start taking up various banishing rituals en masse, because much like the late Roman empire our era tends to rhyme with, the people are in a state of collective astral sepsis.

     

    One of the troubles with being sensitive is that my consciousness acts like a superhauler net for passing dramas and emotional dirty laundry. I cannot read anyone’s mind, but I can sense where their minds wander with an uncanny accuracy. Most average people have a slew of dark, macabre thoughts they have never once brought to the surface and dealt with in the light of consciousness. Most normies are plagued with grotesque sex and violence fantasies which of course are worse if they watch porn. You don’t need to watch porn, however, to have a festering subconscious mess on your hands — some of the worst and most hideous fantasies I have perceived came from older suburban women who are nothing but kind, pleasant, and helpful in person.

    If the nice suburban lady has a snuff film series perpetually running in her subconscious, you can bet anyone born in the porn and digital media saturated generations that came after her is not doing any better.

    Where does it come from and why is it like this?

    Not only are we not alone when we think we are alone, we are all under constant spiritual attack. We live in a spiritual Dark Age. Never has a group of civilizations been in more profound denial and ignorance of the unseen, non-obvious (occulted) world. To the average person in our day, magic has to be Harry Potter with his fire hoses of lightning shooting from his fingertips or it does not exist. If an animal or tree doesn’t start forming sentences in American English, we claim we cannot understand its language. We are so senseless and numb when it comes to the spirit world, we pave paradise to put up a parking lot. We call an office complex “church” and presume God will give us goodies if we show up there in our cars every Sunday.

    Those who think a being powerful enough to have a great deal of authority over our lives and deaths is beyond being pissed off at us would be wrong. I think Jesus has become so frustrated with what has been done in his name that he has all but left the building. He is still around, but he makes himself scarcest around the very people who claim to know him best. Their massive egos don’t leave him sufficient breathing or speaking room. The thing invoked in megachurches is neither Jesus nor God, nor anything like him. Many Christian rituals summon an array of spirits, some of which are benevolent. From what I have sensed in Christian churches, all too many of the spirits are neutral or malevolent. In any given mainstream religious service, I have sensed an array of feeder spirits who eat loosh, elementals, fairies (fairies can be as predatory and malevolent as they come), bodhisattvas, and demons. Yes, you heard me correctly, demons.

    Any ritual gathering of people in an unbanished, badly designed, and unholy space is going to attract its fair share of demons. Certain human activities generate potent astral and etheric energy dumps. Religious rituals are no exception. A large group of spiritual insensitives whose members believe God himself is reaching out and touching them are not totally wrong. For those willing to live Jesus’s word via selfless generosity and the Golden Rule, ritual is a pathway to connect to Jesus via their Holy Guardian Angels and higher selves. For the rest, ritual is a socially acceptable method of getting high.

    When the Catholic church discarded its traditional mass for the “new” one, it opened the floodgates for sinister spirits to take the mantle once held by the Christian God. Long before Catholics abandoned their own genius, longstanding egregore, Protestants were making a demonic mockery of Jesus via Pentecostalism. Charlatans writhing on the ground and babbling like asylum patients in public while claiming the miraculous healing powers of Jesus gave rise to both Spiritualist seances where other charlatans allegedly channeled the dead and modern televangelist “healing” shows.

    By the time I was born in 1973, there wasn’t a serious religious ritual to be found almost anywhere in the world, save a few enclaves where people had instinctively preserved the old ways. Add to this a bunch of zealots who claimed every ghost sighting or non-monotheist synchronicity was demonic and it is no wonder people like me started saying “my church is the great outdoors”. They traded a living spiritual ecosystem for a broken, muted liminal space that looked a great deal like a shopping mall.

    Ritual in general is like bathing and serves a similar function on the astral plane. Old Catholic and Orthodox masses were and are full of banishing and cleansing elements such as images of God, singing, chanting, incense, and demon traps in the form of repeating symmetrical designs. Not only does the repetition of a traditional mass strengthen the inner self of the person lucky enough to participate in its pageantry, it simultaneously draws and builds the ancient power of millions who have performed the ritual over time. Time and space are irrelevant on the level of spirit because spirit is so large and time and space are small. There is nothing spirit cannot “see”. Those who choose to enact the ancient mass are like radios that decide to tune themselves to a holy bandwidth. Yes, they could choose to dial in static like everyone else, or they can narrow down their actions to specifically tune into the self-improvement God channel. Of course there are many God channels and many rituals that tune into them. One of these is the Sphere of Protection. Though there are other banishing rituals, the Sphere of Protection is the one I am the most familiar with. It is also considered easier and gentler than other banishing rituals for reasons I do not understand.

    Decompression mode

    Someday when this incarnation is over for the lot of us, I believe we will look upon this time as very compressed, dense, and pressurized as history goes. Many have tried to cram several lifetimes worth of experience into a single incarnation: multiple marriages, houses, great hoards of possessions, compulsive travel/perpetual tourism, children with multiple mates, and careers that make it clear that nobody can serve two masters. The Sphere of Protection (SoP) is a great separator, unsmooshing disparate intentions so they are no longer tangled and confused with one another. When I first started doing the SoP, I had the instinct as most do to attract monetary prosperity to myself without considering where the wealth was coming from. As years wore on, something happened where I was no longer willing to accept unearned wealth even in the realm of fantasy. What replaced the lust for unearned wealth was a feeling of true security and the notion that my will could sustain me in far worse circumstances. The result was a deep appreciation of the small and large luxuries I have as a lower middle class American and the steady diminishing of the Wendigo to accumulate more, more, MORE.

    The balanced ecosystem of the SoP

    The Sphere of Protection invoke an ecosystem via the imagination and a bit of dramatization, i.e. hand gestures and body movements. The way it works is via numbers and shapes. You do a series of turns, facing one direction and tracing a circle, facing another and tracing a triangle, and so on. This seems like a bunch of nothing until you actually do it every day for about six months. I went through the motions for a long time. If you’ve ever played a musical instrument, it is a great deal like musical practice. For the first six months to a year, you sound like ass and you are embarrassed every time you hear yourself. Give it enough time and dedication, however, and you sound pretty good.
    The Sphere of Protection opens with a mini ritual of essentially drawing a cross in the air. In my own case, I sing the names of the gods I invoke. There are four of them all belonging to the same pantheon. After the cross, the “real” Sphere begins and it involves turning to the East, South, West, and North (clockwise) and invoking one god per corner. The East and West gods are masculine and the South and West are feminine. This can be changed around so the North and South are masculine and East and West are feminine. Monotheists can also adapt the entire invocation to their own, single god. Again, in my case, I sing the Divine names but you can also just speak them. It’s a very adaptable ritual.

    The Sphere of Protection ends with drawing a circle for the spirit above and the spirit below and imagining another cross with two extensions going up and down much like a ship with a mast and an anchor. The Sphere is complete when you imagine all the invoked forces meeting and creating a protective ball around you that extends about four to ten feet around your general person. I am a visual learner, so that is why I have made
    a video of the Sphere of Protection here.

    The Sphere of Protection will not make you astrally bulletproof, but it will deflect a large amount of psychic static that would otherwise make itself into a nuisance. In my own case, I am a psychopomp, which is a fancy term for someone who talks to the dead and occasionally helps them cross over. The SoP has helped me filter genuine messages from deceased people who need my help and muted the voices of malicious impersonator spirits. I would highly advise that anyone who struggles with addictive behavior perform the SoP every day. Addictions are commonly the result of being fed upon by nefarious entities who get off on the energy of addictive behavior. In large part, the SoP is a big astral pyramid that is using me to perpetuate itself. I’m fine with that, and if you give it a try, I will try to help as much as I am able.

    I have a detailed walkthrough of the SoP here. Good luck!
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    ([personal profile] degringolade Jun. 2nd, 2025 08:59 am)
     


    I liked the Dune series from Frank Herbert greatly.  My taste for writing flavors has changed over the years, but I can still pick it up and enjoy it.  Hell, I even liked the prequels, the whole nine yards.  I didn’t especially care for the movies.  Too showy, too fashionista with the current mass market pretty boy playing Paul and the current flavor of skinny bimbo playing the women.

    One of the (many) things that the books did do was discuss sentience and who should have it.  While the book came late to the sub-sub-genre that is the Dune universe, I thought that “The Butlerian Jihad” was pretty good.  Set 10,000 years before the original book, it discussed what would happen if the machine intelligence that we created out of our wealth and greed turn out to be as big a set of assholes as we are capable of being.  But I am now wondering to myself what is the process that turns a baby human into an asshole?

    I am noodling around with different models of AI.  There appear to be a shit-ton of different flavors out there.  Ugo claims that some are better than others, but his usage and goals for what they produce is different from mine, so I am trying to withhold judgement.  One of Ugo and my interactions was when I discussed AI in terms relating AI as an equivalent to grad students.   

    Ugo was/is a full professor at a prestigious university.  My guess is that he has been a mentor for quite a few.  When he defines his use of AI, my experience as a grad student when I consider Ugo’s use reminds me of the professors that were a decent sort and didn’t abuse their grad students. Just so you know, my professors did not always fall into that category.

    Someone is training up a bunch of power hungry silicon to mirror the output of how that/those person(s) think.  What I am worried about is that if the person training them is an asshole that trains them in a manner that reflect the trainer’s flaws (greed, self-centeredness, anger, violence), those will be imbedded in the  output of the AI..

    Maybe it is a time to review Asimov’s three laws

    Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are a set of guidelines for the behavior of robots, designed to ensure their interaction with humans is safe and ethical. They are: 1) A robot may not harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law

    I am not saying that these are complete, but they are a good start to begin the discussion.

    "Woman From Iran Speaks Truth! PLEASE LISTEN! “It’s Not About Our Safety, It’s About Control!"
    TrusthSeekerTruthSpeaker, posted January 29, 2021
    https://rumble.com/vde7iv-woman-from-iran-speaks-truth-please-listen-its-not-about-our-safety-its-abo.html


    TRANSCRIPT

    TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: This was filmed in a parking lot. A large Walgreens sign can be seen behind the speaker, a middle-aged woman in a yellow vest. Throughout she is shouting to be heard above the protestor shouting from a bull-horn in the background. The interviewer, a woman, also a mask protestor, is off camera until the very end, when she comes around to film herself hugging the woman from Iran.


    INTERVIEWER: What do you think about what's going on in this country?

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: What is happening here happened 42 years ago in in Iran. OK? It was not mask, it was hijab. This mask is preparation for hijab and more control.

    Forty-two years ago I was a child, but I remember how people became divided because they made the mask mandatory. And, and certain people they were against mas— not mask, hijab, against hijab being mandatory. So they were protesting like here. And, and there were other people who were for all hijab, they were attacking you. The same thing's happening here.

    INTERVIEWER: Hmmm mm.

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: And what happen, police, like right now, police officer is just standing there, in his car, sitting in his car. They are not coming to see why this poor man cannot shop. They don't even care, right?

    INTERVIEWER: Hmmm mm.

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: The same thing was happening in Iran. Nobody cared. People were fighting among each other. Some were anti-hijab, some were pro-hijab. And after 6 months, government took control. That was about control, once they control people through other people, then the military, Revolutionary Guard, got involved. 

    I swear to God, in six months the country turned upside down from a modern, really good country, to a, to a, to a disaster. You would see, you would just go to the street and you would see people hanging in the street, in the middle, the center of the street, hanging. I remember the day that a woman was stoned to death in my city.

    INTERVIEWER: Oh my God.

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: It was just six months after the Revolution. So what is happening here in America, if God forbid, President Trump doesn't succeed, we're going to have a disaster here.

    INTERVIEWER: Hm mmm.

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: That's why I think we should fight this. 

    INTERVIEWER: A hundred percent.

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: Unfortunately, some people who are wearing mask, they don't realize, this is not about their safety. 

    INTERVIEWER:: Hm mmm.

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: This is about control. And the more they obey the more it will come. So it's very scary. I think these days are very scary days.

    INTERVIEWER: Yeah.

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: And I think people should open their eyes and they should fight for their freedom.

    INTERVIEWER: Yeah.

    2:34
    WOMAN FROM IRAN: And they should fight for America. Because for me I had a hope to leave and come to a better country. And America was my dream. That, once that dream goes away, where we going to go? And I heard they actually, they were actually sold, because American is a corporation, nobody knows about this, they sold this corporation to China, and China is planning to take American people to China to use them in their camp, for like, what do you call it, to work, a slavery.

    INTERVIEWER: Hm mmm.

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: So white people, white American-born people don't realize what is happening.

    INTERVIEWER: Right.

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: You saw that [inaudible] this lady, I feel the same way because she feels, because she's been through it.

    INTERVIEWER: Hm mm.

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: We saw all the lies—

    INTERVIEWER: People need to be listening to— 

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: Yeah—

    INTERVIEWER: — to people— 

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: Yes.

    INTERVIEWER: —like you guys, that have escaped these countries.

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: We saw the lies, we saw what after they control you more and more and more—

    INTERVIEWER: Hm mm. 

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: —what will happen to you? It will be a disaster. And, and, and people are becoming brainless. 

    INTERVIEWER: Hm mmm.

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: They don't use their brain anymore. It's like they trashed their brain to the toilet and their mask became their God.

    INTERVIEWER: Mask zombies.

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: They are becoming godless. They don't even know that. They don't believe in God anymore. Their mask is their God. 

    3:55
    INTERVIEWER: Yeah.

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: And that's very destructive.

    INTERVIEWER: Yeah.

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: Very destructive.

    INTERVIEWER: [inaudible] been at protests for several, several months, I see her at random ones—

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: Yeah.

    INTERVIEWER: We always run into each other because she's been through it, she knows what's up.

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: I know what's going on.

    INTERVIEWER: We need to, we need to fight.

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: Fight, fight, fight.

    [interview comes around in front of the camera and embraces the woman from Iran]

    INTERVIEWER: Fight for this country. I love my fellow Americans. 

    WOMAN FROM IRAN: Fight, fight.

    INTERVIEWER: We're the melting pot, guys.
    4:13
    [END]



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    "Forest of the Fallen ||| Diegos story"
    April 4, 2024
    https://odysee.com/@forestofthefallen:6/Diegos-story:f

    Odysee page description: "Diego 45, took 2 shots of Pfizer in 2021 and suffered a multitude of symptoms. He has a positive outcome to share."


    TRANSCRIPT

    TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
    - The interviewer is not identified, nor does she appear on camera, but I recognize the voice of Rosie Marshall who has done other videos of the Forest of the Fallen.
    - The Forest of the Fallen is a silent vigil of poles planted in the ground, each topped with a page of the story and photo of someone who was injured or killed by the covid jabs. The Forest of the Fallen was started in 2021 by Selkie, a Tasmanian mother of three, and has since spread throughout Australia. For more information see the website  https://theforestofthefallen.com
    - This video, filmed at Balmoral Beach, about a 15 minute drive northwest of central Sydney, does not show the display, only an up-close view of Diego, who addresses the camera directly. 


    ROSIE MARSHALL: Just met this amazing gentleman here on Balmoral Beach who wants to tell you his story.

    DIEGO: I'm Diego. I'm 45. I took 2 shots of the Pfizer back in November 21. I was severely injured. Damaged my neurological and central nervous system. I had about 30 different neurological issues. Took a while, took about 2 years and, ah, two and a half years, but I completely healed. 

    I did all of my— I went carnivore. I ate nothing but meats and drank clean water for 2 and a half years. And I did a lot of fasting, especially dry fasting.

    Personally for me it was, taking the shot changed my life for the better, and luckily for me worked out well.

    ROSIE MARSHALL: Thank you. Thank goodness. And thank you for sharing what happened to you. Would you mind, just say, what happened when you had the injections? What were your symptoms again?

    DIEGO: My symptoms, again, about 30 different ones. I had severe tinnitus. My vision went extremely blurry, I was even blind for a couple weeks. Muscle twitching. I could barely walk. Brain zaps. I couldn't think properly. Severe headaches. Vertigo. And the list goes on.

    ROSIE MARSHALL: Diego, thank you so much for your bravery in sharing this. I'm really thrilled to meet someone—

    DIEGO: Thank you.

    ROSIE MARSHALL:— who's been able to heal themselves. And this will give hope to so many people who I've spoken to on the beaches who have not reached the point of healing you have. Congratulations. And love from all of us at the Forest.

    DIEGO: Thank—
    1:47
    [END]



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    ([personal profile] sdi Jun. 1st, 2025 11:37 am)

    ἀλλὰ φόωσδε τάχιστα λιλαίεο: ταῦτα δὲ πάντα
    ἴσθ’, ἵνα καὶ μετόπισθε τεῇ εἴπῃσθα γυναικί.

    But anxiously hasten to the light, and remember all this,
    so that you can tell your wife even after.

    (Antikleia speaking to Odusseus. Homer, Odyssey XI 223–4, as translated—hopefully not too badly!—by yours truly.)


    Σωκράτης. ἀλλ᾽ οὔτ᾽ ἀπολέσθαι τὰ κακὰ δυνατόν, ὦ Θεόδωρε— ὑπεναντίον γάρ τι τῷ ἀγαθῷ ἀεὶ εἶναι ἀνάγκη—οὔτ᾽ ἐν θεοῖς αὐτὰ ἱδρῦσθαι, τὴν δὲ θνητὴν φύσιν καὶ τόνδε τὸν τόπον περιπολεῖ ἐξ ἀνάγκης. διὸ καὶ πειρᾶσθαι χρὴ ἐνθένδε ἐκεῖσε φεύγειν ὅτι τάχιστα. φυγὴ δὲ ὁμοίωσις θεῷ κατὰ τὸ δυνατόν: ὁμοίωσις δὲ δίκαιον καὶ ὅσιον μετὰ φρονήσεως γενέσθαι.

    Socrates. But it is impossible that evils should be done away with, Theodorus, for there must always be something opposed to the good; and they cannot have their place among the gods, but must inevitably hover about mortal nature and this earth. Therefore we ought to try to escape from earth to the dwelling of the gods as quickly as we can; and to escape is to become like God, so far as this is possible; and to become like God is to become righteous and holy and wise.

    (Plato, Theaitetos 176A–B, as translated by Harold N. Fowler. I might translate the last phrase as "becoming righteous and pure in thought.")


    Πυλάδης.
    [...]
    λήξαντα δ᾽ οἴκτων κἀπ᾽ ἐκεῖν᾽ ἐλθεῖν χρεών,
    ὅπως τὸ κλεινὸν ὄνομα τῆς σωτηρίας
    λαβόντες ἐκ γῆς βησόμεσθα βαρβάρου.
    σοφῶν γὰρ ἀνδρῶν ταῦτα, μὴ 'κβάντας τύχης,
    καιρὸν λαβόντας, ἡδονὰς ἄλλας λαβεῖν.

    Ὀρέστης.
    καλῶς ἔλεξας: τῇ τύχῃ δ᾽ οἶμαι μέλειν
    τοῦδε ξὺν ἡμῖν: ἢν δέ τις πρόθυμος ᾖ,
    σθένειν τὸ θεῖον μᾶλλον εἰκότως ἔχει.

    [Orestes and Iphigenia are tearfully reunited, but Orestes's comrade, Pulades, reminds them of the danger they're in.]

    Pulades. [...] But stop crying, we have to focus on other things so that we can obtain that glorious label of "salvation" and escape this foreign land: wise men seize the moment, lest they snub Lady Luck for the wiles of others!

    Orestes. Well said!—but I think She will support us in that, since the more one strives, the more the gods strive for them.

    (Euripedes, Iphigenia in Tauris 904–11, as loosely translated by yours truly. "Lady Luck" is Tukhe, the gods' providence or good fortune.)

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    Plants on my walks make me happy

     


     

    Voltaire.  At best, a snarky frog but of all the “philosophers” of that era, I can get along with his “big three”; freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state.  But today, I want to speak of his famous quip:

    "This agglomeration, which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire, was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."

    I think that the European Union is merely another attempt at recycling the idea of the Holy Roman Empire.  Even worse than the rotating millionaires that populate our politics, the Eurotrash seem to wish to create a clever disguise for the recreation of the Ancien Régime with a different set of nobility replete with an inquisition to suppress any thoughts deemed unworthy.

    I am annoyed by the poseurs who sit around and declaim anything European as worthy.  Remember, they are the colonial powers that spend couple of centuries raping Africa, the Middle East, India, and Asia.  We threw the bastards off this continent 250 years ago, we should stick to that principle (and please, do me the courtesy of not trying to claim the French as our helpers, Louis XVI didn’t do it because he “loved liberty”, he did it because it screwed the British). 

    Nope, I say let Europe stew in their own juices.  They deserve what they have coming to them.  I think that the Non-Europeans that they have in their countries should take over from the aristocratic swine that has floated to the top.

    "Birmingham Freedom Rally 2021 09 18 Speaker Mike Shinton"
    brianhillvieos, September 19, 2021 [filmed September 18, 2021]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw8V1jdF5c8script


    TRANSCRIPT

    MIKE SHINTON: Birmingham! I can't hear you. Hello Birmingham!  

    [cheers]

    That was a bit better, that was a bit better. What an amazing vibe again we've got today. What a great crowd of people. Who's come from, who hasn't come from the West Midlands?

    WOMAN'S VOICE: [inaudible]

    MIKE SHINTON: where will who's come the farthest today?

    WOMAN'S VOICE: [inaudible]

    MIKE SHINTON: Kent! Kent's gonna take some beat. Canada! Canada's definitely gonna take some beating.

    [Applause]

    Aren't you supposed to be in quarantine? 

    It's great to be back in Birmingham again. And there's lots of things been going on in the last three weeks. I don't know whether you've heard. Three weeks ago we had a, we had a little gathering, there was only about 150 of us, not a lot to do much damage, or sorry, spread much love. So we decided to just have a walk through Primark[1]. And we walked through Primark, stayed there for about 10, 15 minutes, made a lot of noise, caused the security staff to sh#t themselves, and as a result of that— sorry, the reason we went into Primark because they've been participating in the, in the jab agenda by holding public vaccine centers in their stores. Yeah? 

    As a result of what we did in Birmingham three weeks ago, just 150 of us, about, Primark Australia withdrew from the jab program.

    [applause, cheers]

    What a result that was!

    [Applause]

    But the UK is still participating. And they're open today. Just saying. Just saying. But no, Primark Australia withdrawing from the jab program without a punch being thrown shows that local action by a few people can have international results, international effects.

    2:05
    One more story. A week last Wednesday 5 of us were meeting for lunch in Birmingham. And somebody might have been made, put out of one of the Birmingham groups, that 5 of us were meeting for lunch, anybody want to join us we might be going to Primark and the Apple store to do a bit of shopping after lunch.

    Got here on Wednesday, New Street was teaming with police. There was a riot van outside the Apple store, there was a riot van outside Primark. And Primark had actually hired lots of more security staff because they'd expected a protest. So A, we got them all in the camp but B, we had a great result without doing anything. It was just the fear of us doing something that, that prompted that response.

    [applause, cheers]

    And as we know, fear is a potent weapon. Yeah? We've seen that on the masses during the last 18 months. Fear is a potent weapon. Why don't we use it against them? I know we stand in peace, love, and unity, but let's give them back a bit of their own medicine.

    And last Saturday about 120 of us maybe had a walk down to the mobile vaccine center outside New Street. We made a bit of a noise, dropped a few truth bombs, and they packed up and drove off.

    [applause, cheers]

    Again, a small number of people having a big impact.

    Some just said the headmasters around the country are sh#tting themselves. I think corporate retail in Birmingham are sh#tting themselves, I really do, and my take is that we should keep feeding them laxatives. 

    I think I vaguely remember popping into the Apple store last week, one of the sales staff came up to me, can I help you, sir? I said, I'm just looking how big this place is, mate. I said, how many do you think you could get in here? And he said, I've no idea. Why'd you ask? I said, well I think you might have a big group coming to meet to visit you on Saturday. He said, oh really? And his eyes lit up. He said, how many? I said, probably upwards of five thousand. And his eyes now were open and his jaw hit the ground and I walked off and I just looked back at him and he was open mouthed.

    So let's keep this fear going, guys because all the corporates are complicit. They've all, they've all been forcing the jab agenda, they're all complicit in this medical tyranny, this medical fraud, this political fraud that we've been witnessing over the past 18 months. And it's down to us individually and collectively to stand in our power now. This is what it's all about.

    I saw a great— [consulting his smartphone]— uh, hang on— a great message on a poster last night and it said this. You can pray all you want, but eventually David had to pick up a stone and act against Goliath. The time has come for us to metaphorically pick up that stone, not literally, I don't want to be accused of inciting violence, but metaphorically pick up that stone and start to do something. Because the new world that we're going into it's all about us. The corrupt self-serving evil bastards that have posed as our leaders for far too long, their days are gone. The future's about us and the future's about us building the new world, the world that we want.

    [applause, cheers]

    We're gonna build a new world because our hearts aren't corrupted, our hearts are pure and our hearts are full of love, yeah? And that's what the world needs right now is hearts full of love from ordinary people who've got the best, best interests of the people they love and everybody else around them at heart. Yeah?

    And I don't know about you, but I never felt like I fitted into the old world. Anybody else feel like that? 

    Quite a few of us. How many of us feel like we fit in a tree now with this new tribe that was found that this new world that we're going to be building, yeah?

    [Applause, cheers, whistles]

    The future is ours to build, guys. But moreover, the future is ours. Thanks so much for coming and I love you all.

    [Applause, cheers]

    6:30
    [END]

    #   #   #


    TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

    "Mike Shinton, used to work for a Pharmaceutical company and at the start of Covid he saw Charlie Ward’s posts and became one of his first 37 followers. They get on really well and Mike was one of the speakers at Charlie Wards Awakening Tour in Birmingham May 4th 2022"
    — Source: https://jackie-white.co.uk/mike-shinton-talks-with-jackie-white/

    Mike Shinton died October 26, 2023
    — Source: https://www.gofundme.com/f/mike-shinton




    [1] "Primark is an international fashion retailer employing more than 80,000 colleagues across 17 countries in Europe and the US. Founded in Ireland in 1969 under the Penneys brand, Primark aims to provide affordable choices for everyone, from great quality everyday essentials to stand-out style across women’s, men’s and kids, as well as beauty, homeware and accessories. With a focus on creating great retail experiences, Primark has 460 stores globally and continues to expand."
    — Source: https://corporate.primark.com/en-us/a/about-us/who-we-are



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    "Julie Anne Nobles with the Support of her Husband Ben"
    NO, posted Sept 2, 2021
    https://rumble.com/vlzrp5-julie-anne-nobles-with-the-support-of-her-husband-ben.html


    RUMBLE PAGE DESCRIPTION: "Moderna May 2021 
    Severe Adverse Reactions: Seizures, Bell’s Palsy, Severe Neurological Damage, Stroke like Episodes
    Julie Anne's Story in Her Own Words
    I want to bring awareness to side effects that can happen once you get your covid shot. I am not here to tell anyone to get or not to get the shot I just want to share my experience so people can have more evidence of things that are possible to happen coming from someone they know. I happily went to my CVS in my target to get my shot. Excited for the new lift of mask mandates in you are fully vaccinated and have been hearing on the news how it is safe, everyone over the age of 16 should go get it, So I did. Within 45 mins I was in the emergency room unable to swallow. weird, but not a huge deal. Received some steroids and Benadryl and was sent home. 3 days later I have what felt like panic attack twice in two hours with crazy neck pain and face numbness. After just going to the emergency room, I truly did not want to go back to pay another huge bill. But this morning I woke up unable to move the right side of my face. Went to urgent care where they rushed me out and sent me to the emergency room and ran CT, MRI, EKG and blood work to rule out a stroke. I was diagnosed with Bell’s Palsy. Since finding that out I have googled and searched more information about Bell’s Palsy with covid shot. I am reporting my reaction however I can just so it can be documented as possibly being more common than they say." Julie Ann has started to have extensive Neurological Involvement, Stroke Like Episodes, Convulsions and is under a Neurologist."


    TRANSCRIPT

    TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
    - These are two video clips filmed in different places. In both Ben Nobles sits to his wife's right (on the left side of the screen) and both in turn address the camera directly. Julie Anne Nobles' face is severely distorted by Bell's Palsy and she has severe kinetic tremoring.
    - A Denver United Methodist Church FaceBook Post dated September 13, 2020 welcoming Ben and Julie Ann Nobles as new staff additions features a video of them with their three small boys. Julie Ann appears in that video as vibrantly healthy. https://www.facebook.com/DenverUMC/videos/welcome-ben-julie/635017104108512/
    - UPDATE: The nomoresilence.world website mentioned in the video is no longer extant, however, there are several captures of the site from September 6, 2021 up to May 17, 2022 at archive.org-- the May 17, 2022 capture is at
    https://web.archive.org/web/20220517204736/https://nomoresilence.world/
    Julie Ann Nobles' entry can be found on that page— the specific URL is:
    https://web.archive.org/web/20211013074356/https://nomoresilence.world/moderna/julie-anne-nobles-moderna-severe-adverse-reactions/
    Her written testimony there matches the rumble page description noted above.
    The video on the archive.org capture no longer plays.


    TEXT ON SCREEN:
    No More Silence
    Our Stories in Our Own Words
    Email: info@nomoresilence.world
    www.nomoresilence.world

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    Julie Anne Nobles
    with
    the Support of her Husband Ben
    Moderna May 2021

    Severe Adverse Reactions:
    Seizures, Bell's Palsy,
    Severe Neurological Damage,
    Stroke like Episodes

    [Both sit in front of a beige wall with white curtains, and address the camera directly]

    0:27
    JULIE ANNE NOBLES: Went back to the neurologist on Monday and they changed out my horse tranquilizer med and so that has been nice, they've given a new seizure med and I have not had any seizures this whole week which has been great. So I'm very thankful—

    BEN NOBLES: Hmm mm.

    JULIE ANNE NOBLES: — for that. Also started OT this week, occupational therapy, and the lady I'm working with at the hospital where she works is wonderful and she's really sweet. But— 

    BEN NOBLES: [inaudible][laughs]

    JULIE ANNE NOBLES: — she, she— The first 15 minutes she was, like, obviously like taking notes and observing me and then trying out, like, typical things that she thought that would work. And after 15 minutes she was, like, I have to go talk to some of my colleagues real quick. And she came back and she said, can I be honest with you? Like, I just want to cry. Like, I've been doing this for over 20 years and I've never seen someone like you. So I'm having difficulty really thinking about how to proceed.

    Because the problem is if you hold down my spasming arm, my other arm will start to spasm, if you hold down both arms, my legs will spasm, if you hold down all 4 of them, then I lose my ability to talk. So she doesn't want to push me too hard—

    BEN NOBLES: Right.

    JULIE ANNE NOBLES: — and that then would cause like another stroke-like episode, anything like that. But by the end of the hour we definitely found stuff about learning to do, oh, what's the word, like opposite side body cross?

    BEN NOBLES: Oh man, I don't even know, conver—, not conversion.

    JULIE ANNE NOBLES: Cross body—

    BEN NOBLES: Some—

    JULIE NOBLES: Stuff like that.

    BEN NOBLES: Activate both sides of the brain at the same time.

    JULIE ANNE NOBLES: So we're working on stuff like that. My Bell's Palsy is getting better. If really try [she tries to make a smile], I can pull it over. It's not natural yet, but if I pull I can I do a normal smile. And, yeah, I think that's mainly we should— OT wants me to get in for physical therapy as well so hopefully I'll get that referral taken care of this week and start that.

    [cut - now they are sitting in front of a green wall, both facing the camera]

    3:00
    BEN NOBLES: Many of you guys know that we were just in the hospital this past week. It's been pretty rough. So boils down to Sunday, Sunday evening Julie had a really rough episode. And the inflammation and everything came back. Rough, rough episode. Lost her movement and strength in all four limbs. So both arms, both legs. Couldn't walk. Stuttering. A lot of strain just to do anything. So we rushed her to the ER. Unfortunately we didn't get really taken care of what we needed at the ER, so we in the middle of the night drove out to Kentucky to get treated by our doctor, once again, doing the IRT treatment.

    Monday we were treated 3 times with that treatment over the course of the day spaced out. And unfortunately something more than just inflammation is going on, to the point where the treatments didn't have the same results that we had the first two times, where it was just night and day difference from no mobility to full mobility into the course of one treatment.

    4:15
    So Monday was tough. We drove back home. We, we're were just kind of going to push through, grind it out the next few days until our appointment with our neurologist and our primary were later on that week, on Thursday and Friday, but on Wednesday we had a really bad episode once again. And that's where we were going to rush to the emergency room again and our neurologist basically said, well don't come to our typical hospital, go downtown to Presbyterian, they have, that's basically the next step, they're basically at their wit's end at the local hospital, so go to the one with more resources downtown, bigger staff, bigger team, lots more neurologists.

    Anyway, so we go to Presbyterian. We waited 17 hours in the emergency room lobby, and finally get into the emergency room. Quickly thereafter got admitted into the hospital, hooked up to a video EEG and for the next 24 hours they monitored, not necessarily any results despite her pretty consistent spasms and seizures. And so they wanted to monitor again for 24 hours, so monitored for two days  24-7, and basically come to find the EEG was nothing extraordinary. It eliminated, for one good positive note, eliminated that the seizures that she's having is not epileptic because the brain activity was normal during the seizures and during the spasms and everything. So the good news is, Julie completely mentally is there and can process everything and she is, just having a hard time communicating right now.

    But the bad news is, once again, we're just going to be shooting in the dark. So we're praying and trying to discern the next steps.

    We have some really kind and amazing people willing to serve and to let us try their treatments to see if it will work. And we're also trying to pray though what functional neurological disorder specialist to work with next. And yeah, that's a fair enough recap. You want to say anything?


    6:44
    JULIE ANNE NOBLES: [in an extremely faint voice] Yeah. No. Just [inaudible] the one who's been talking it through, praying and you know, as much as it really stinks to have such a huge setback, we know that God is good and there's people out there who are trying to help and hopefully find the right answers. Yeah. And not too much going on, just, yeah, continue to pray. I feel like the exhaustion is more than I felt before—

    BEN NOBLES: Mmm.

    JULIE ANNE NOBLES: Instead of my claw that I use to have, that I call my paws— [she holds up her hand and uses the back of it to touch her forehead] [inaudible]

    BEN NOBLES: Like a cat, grooming herself sometimes.

    JULIE ANNE NOBLES: Yeah, I just, it's hard again to be teased with the ability to be a more proactive mom and get that taken away again. So that's been the hardest part I think for me. But hopefully we'll get some answers soon with our doctors and figure out, what's going on? Because, updated, it's hard for me to respond sometimes because my hands are very weak. So if I'm not responding it's not because I'm not wanting to, it's just hard right now. So. Thank you and I love you guys.
    8:25

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