#genocidal scum must die

[the-real-sasuke-uchiha]

I can't believe I actually mourned that genocidal shit. How deceived I was, living a life of lies and betrayal. I hope you are rotting in hell, bastard.

[warmcupofbloodinfusedcoffeebeans]

"Palestinians deserve to die in order to save our own skin because I think harm reduction and voting once every few years, and not community organizing and education, mass mobilization, and militancy is the way to go!" is not the down to earth position you think it is, and it's disgusting that you even have this imperialist position anywhere near your scum-spewing mouth.

International solidarity comes first. Not chauvinist self-pride of ensuring one's own nations safety. That is reactionary nationalism, patriotism, and not the revolutionary, internationalist patriotism of recognizing one's own nation as a stepping stone in the International Communist Movement.

Besides, this ignores the natural development of Liberalism into fascism, imperialism, etc. By promoting one's own "different kind" of "kinder" capitalism, you in all shapes and forms defend fascism.

Have some goddamn principles. Human "Rights" in the modern day and age are being used to reinforce imperialist hegemony, and are idealist nonsense. We must establish militant armed struggles to defend and enforce the rights of the people, and that will be the only way we will ever achieve, in the short run, and before Bourgeois Law withers, true People's Rights, guaranteed and enforced through the armed sea of educated and liberated masses. A communities 'rights' are guaranteed not by voting them into place - this ignores the historical facts of the matter (See the civil uprisings of the Black Man in the Sixties) - they are won through armed struggle and through protracted struggle by militants particularly.

You espouse this self-righteous, genocidal, and red-handed liberal nonsense as if you have any sort of "moral" high ground, speaking to me like any other cracker with a simultaneous victim and superiority complex would.

Your hands are caked in the blood of millions, and your traitorous cretinism will be repaid in full.

Watching america's politics is a horror show but at least the memes are fun.

Gotta say though, a lot of young progressives look like they haven't learned anything since 2016.

"I'm not voting for the democrat, they're not good enough for me!" The communities whose rights are on the line will surely be comforted by your morals.

"What about Palestine?!" - Maybe worry about your own country becoming a fascist state first?

"But Harris was a cop! I heard she did Bad Things!" You heard right-wing bullshit disguised as left-wing bullshit and gobbled it. Self-defeating nonsense.

ETA: I'm from NZ and we recently did this 'teach them a lesson by not voting Labour because they're not good enough' strat and big shocker it didn't work. Everything's worse now.

[flint9]

What Radicalised Me?

If you don't want to read all the paragraphs, you can skip to where I restate this question near the end for the answer, although it will be missing a lot of context.

Anyone who has looked through my blog may have noticed that I am not speaking out against the atrocities happening in Gaza. Unfortunately, I plan on keeping things that way, but I wanted to take a moment to talk about why. For reference, this entire thing is not a justification. It is not a defence. It is a study of what has happened in my life for me to have the attitude I do towards politics.

To start, I should say that I would describe myself as a left-leaning moderate. No, the title saying I have been radicalised is not a lie. Being a moderate has slowly radicalised me.

Some people may already have speeches prepared for why I should be ashamed of myself and how moderates are the most evil thing in existence. In fact, I am quite scared to even say this because I know that the general response will be very negative.

But please at least read what I have to say first. Not because I expect it will change your mind, but maybe your approach.

1. What made me a moderate?

I would say that it began in the earlier years of primary school (Australian primary school, which is different years to US primary school). From an incredibly young age, I have been told over and over again that the world is dying.

Climate change was and is an explosive topic, and it was something that I was forced to comprehend before I was in my double digits. I was told that everyone I loved was going to die early, and that, as a 9-year-old, I could do nothing about it. This story stayed the same when I was 10, 11, 12, and into the future.

I was faced with two choices. Rebel or conform. And at that young age, with the incredibly limited power I had, I chose to conform. To accept that I was going to be helpless for years to come and that that was normal.

This is as opposed to trying to attend political rallies when I had no real knowledge of the broader picture and with moderately conservative parents who sigh in pity at protestors.

However, this internal helplessness soon became learned helplessness. I had decided that there was nothing I could do, so I stopped trying. Then comes the internet and social media.

2. Why am I still a moderate?

Especially after joining Tumblr, I have seen essay after essay about many political issues, the most notable of which being the genocide of Gaza. There were many links and many resources for how to help, yet I decided to remain helpless.

In my learned helplessness, I was averse to even trying to help. After all, I had seen so many posts about being careful with what resources I trust that I came to the conclusion it really wasn't as easy as pressing a single button. I had to do proper research to make sure what I did would actually help Gaza.

But because I did not act, and because I have been surrounded by posts whose goal is to guilt people into acting, I was forced to make another choice.

Rebel.

Or conform.

So I conformed.

Not making a decision soon became my decision, and it has stuck to me like glue. If I wanted to escape that decision, it would require me justifying not acting already.

Sunk cost fallacy.

And yes, I do have reasons for why not acting is justifiably better in my situation than acting. But those reasons are not the point of this. Instead, I want to talk about...

3. What radicalised me?

Let's reframe that question to fit my exact context. What made me feel so strongly against rebelling?

Because I have been told by the people I would have to call my allies that I am the enemy.

If I am your enemy, then that must mean that you are my enemy.

And why would I become the ally of my enemy?

Again, this is not a justification, it is a case study of what is happening in my subconscious mind.

I have been told that I am vermin and scum, leaving me either the choice to decide that I am the worst thing to ever exist and then use that guilt to drive action, or to refuse that notion and decide that the person telling me that is the true vermin.

When I hear protestors shouting in the street, my gut instinct is not to listen, but to cower. If activists think I am the enemy, then these angry, shouting activists must want to hurt me. It's an instinct, not a fact.

But instinct is hard to shake.

4. What is the actual point of all of this?

The point I want to make is that villainising people does not encourage them to help.

Guilt is a powerful force, but we humans can only tolerate so much of it. Once it gets too much to bear, a person is forced to address it. And the easy way out is deciding that the people creating the guilt are actually against you.

Instead, I would recommend providing resources for how to help alongside reputable sources that demonstrate that these resources are valid.

Also, at this point, I am so far behind the movement that I simply do not understand half the points being made. What actually is anti-zionism? What is the goal of the international encampments? What are the protests that people are standing in streets recruiting for actually against and how is a strike going to achieve that?

If we want people to join the cause, then they need to know what cause they are joining.

To make change requires the hands of many.

We are in this together.

[theculturedmarxist]

A Ukrainian television newscaster went on a fascist rant on national television on March 12, calling for the massacre of Russian children and the elimination of Russia from the face of the earth.

Channel 24 anchor Fahruddin Sharafmal made the statement following a report on the death of his friend, a Ukrainian Armed Forces member, who was killed fighting Russian forces over the weekend. He used the occasion to broadcast a photo of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann over his right shoulder and appeal for the murder of millions of Ukrainian citizens who are also Russians.

“I know that as a journalist, I have to be objective. I have to be balanced, in order to report information with a cold heart. But to tell you the truth, it’s very hard to keep going,” said Sharafmal.

“Especially at a time like this, since in Russia they call us Nazis, fascists and so on. I’ll allow myself to quote Adolf Eichmann, who said that in order to destroy a nation you must first of all destroy its children. Because by killing their parents the children will grow up and take revenge. By killing children they will never grow up and the nation will disappear. The Ukrainian Armed Forces cannot destroy Russian children because it is forbidden by the rules of war and it is also forbidden by various conventions including the Geneva Conventions.

“But I am not from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And when I get the chance to settle things with the Russians I will be obliged to do it. Since you call me a Nazi, I’ll adhere to the doctrine of Adolf Eichmann and will do everything in my power to ensure that your children never live on this earth. So that you can feel what it’s like when innocent civilians die. So that you can feel all the pain and suffering when you say, ‘We didn’t start the war. It was all Putin. We didn't want this war.’ We didn't want it either.

“But you have to understand it’s about the victory of the Ukrainian people. It’s not about peace. We need victory. And if we have to slaughter all your families to do it, I’ll be the first to do it. Glory to the nation! And let’s hope there will [not] be such a nation as Russia and the Russians on this earth again. Because they are just scum that pollute this land. If Ukrainians have the opportunity, which they are basically doing right now, to destroy, to slaughter, to kill, to strangle the Muscovites, I hope everyone will do their part and whack at least one Muscovite.”

This is nothing short of an appeal for ethnic cleansing.

Channel 24 is a Kiev-based station, but is owned by TRX-Lux Media. In 2019 its website was ranked 13th out of Ukraine’s 25 top most-visited news outlets. The company is run by Katerina Kit-Sadova, the wife of the mayor of the western Ukrainian city of L'viv, home to 720,000 people. Tens of thousands of its residents identify as Russian and/or use Russian as their primary language.

The first half of Sharafmal's rant remains on the station's YouTube channel, but now cuts off before Adolf Eichmann is mentioned. The major Western media has no coverage of the incident, which became more widely known because it was reported by the Russian state news service Sputnik and picked up on Twitter.

A Nazi SS Officer, Eichmann played a major role in managing the logistics of the Holocaust and was later found guilty of war crimes and executed in 1962. Eichmann is today cited in the positive only by neo-Nazis.

Sharafmal issued an apology the next day, but this has little weight. One does not call for genocide as a slip of the tongue or in a fit of rage over a deceased friend.

His ravings are an expression of the political outlook that has gripped a section of the Ukrainian ruling class. The 2014 United States-backed coup that removed pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was carried out with the help of far-right forces, such as the Svoboda political party and the paramilitary gang Right Sector.

These layers have grown like weeds in Ukraine ever since and have been incorporated into Ukraine’s military and police apparatus. They form the core of forces like the Azov Battalion, whose members wear neo-Nazi emblems on their uniforms and proudly display banners with the image of Ukrainian fascist and mass murderer Stepan Bandera at their marches.

The Ukrainian far right is now being armed to the teeth and trained, with billions of dollars of military aid from the US and NATO flooding into the country. The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it will send the country another $1 billion.

Since the beginning of Russia’s invasion, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and various far-right and neo-Nazi elements have taken delight in posting photos of dead Russian soldiers, often accompanied by dehumanizing jokes and exhortations to commit war crimes.

In response to the shelling of cities by Russia's armed forces, the Facebook account of the Commander of Ukraine’s special forces announced it would no longer take Russian artillerymen prisoner, but kill them on the spot. The post also threatened that surrendering to Ukraine’s special forces would be worse than death and that captured Russian artillerymen would be “cut up like pigs.”

These posts are an announcement of the intent to commit war crimes, fully aligned with the spirit and content of Sharafmal’s appeal.

[phoenix-king-ozai]

Fire Nation Culture of Cruelty, Ruthlessness, Ambition, Abuse and Facistic Propaganda and it's effects on Azulon, Ozai and Azula.

Is redemption possible for this Father-daughter duo? 🤔

Ozai is a product of the Imperial Absolute Monorachy Facistic State and Society of the Fire Nation. Ozai was raised from childhood to be warrior, a conqueror, a killer, a Imperialist, a brutal warlord and dictator like his grandfather and father before him.

The "outliers" Iroh, Lu Ten and Zuko were raised the same way as Ozai and have many of his warmongering ways but have more empathy and kindness. The difference between Ozai and his other peers is probably abuse. Ozai probably had more negative relationship with his father Azulon who he wanted to impress as a children want to for their parents.

His Grandfather Sozin and father Azulon are genocidal warmongers that have killed thousands to possibly millions of innocent people for their regime gaining resources and infamy. Agni Kai's, Genocide, War Crimes, Murder, Assassinations, Child "Discipline" aka Child Abuse in normalize in this society for OVER ONE-HUNDRED YEARS.

The some fire nation nobels and royal turn out to be "good" "average"people unlike Ozai and Azula (Mai, Ty Lee, Iroh, Ursa, Zuko) . But, that doesn't mean Ozai and Azula were born evil. They just do in their nation propaganda and brainwashing by their society, social and political structure more serious and on face value. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan had good people in their society and thought THEIR society was the most MORAL and RIGHTEOUS despite committing grave acts of genocide.

Azulon, Ozai and Azula are VICTIMS of Sozin policies of Racism, discrimination, imperialism, and nationalism being brainwashed in a endless cycle of lies and hatred by their forefathers. Azulon, Ozai, and Azula are villains for their behavior and cruelty, but this behavior was passed down to them since childhood and the conditioning is hard to break.

Iroh and Zuko had to go through tremendous mental trauma and suffering due to Lu Ten death or Agni Kai's scaring and banishment. It took pain to them personally and years/months of guidance in order to realize the truth and come to terms with the reality and history of the Fire Nation brutality and cruelty domestic and international.

Ozai and Azula hadn't interact or related to any WT or EK people, from Azulon, Ozai and Azula point of view they are the enemies of their people and are savages and threats that need to be dealt with. Azulon, Ozai and Azula grew up in a world of privelage and war with FN propaganda. They can careless about their own children wellbeing let alone their peasants or their enemies. It why the FN is willing to use EK war prisoners as meat shield and FN troops as "a pack of fresh meat".

The FN state and high society cares only power, "glory", war, domination, "respect", and pride. Which is why Sozin, Azulon, Ozai, Zhao, and Azula are the way they are and others like Iroh, Ursa, Zuko and Ty Lee are Outliers. Again Iroh and Zuko are unique and Ty Lee and Mai are just lower class rebellious teenagers girls with limited authority and exception compared to their royal counterparts.

Even regular children in the FN are sent to coal miners for disobeying and disobedience, now imagine the ruthless punishment for noble and royal children who MUST conform and obey and be obedient slaves to Sozin's ideals and ideology. Ozai's abuse of Zuko and Azula probably doesn't seem likely abuse to him. The FN probably don't believe child abuse mental, psychological, or physical. But, I doubt physically harm his children beside Agni Kai. Ozai's is to turn Zuko and Azula into killing machines of war for the fascist imperialist nation state. Being a father to his children is secondary to him.

A Ozai and Azula Redemption need them to be able to break free from this cycle of hatred and brainwashing will take along of help and faith from other who escaped aka Iroh, Ursa, and Zuko. Even a spiritual and cultural journey will be necessary along with a lot of love and forgiveness and understanding by their family members. But Ozai and Azula must want to change and can't be forced to and come to terms with their past and nation's history and atone for their crimes and abuse. It is possible that Ozai and Azula can redeem themselves but they will need a lot of help and a lot of love and face their bias greed, and hatred which is difficult and complicated soul searching. Zuko redemption would be child play compare to Azula, and baby food compared to Ozai but theirs would very interesting and complex. A eye opening storyline for Ozai and Azula forsure.

I only which the fandom would accepting of a well written one. Most people say Ozai and Azula are born EVIL SCUM OF THE EARTH AND SHOULD DIE A PAINFUL DEATH and yadda yadda yawn... Ozai and Azula are pretty typical is Medieval Asia culture such as Tokugawa Shogunate Japan, Yuan Dynasty of China and other Chinese dynasties, Mongal Empire and etc. Avatar is a Medevial Asian setting that is view in the len of modern westerns. Historically, Ozai is that bad of rulers or father as a leader during that era. It is our modern lens that make us see Ozai as a villain that he is.

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[saskaykun]

Comparing Sasuke Uchiha vs Eren Yeager : Entry into darkness

*Sorry for typos, i never re-read my stuff.*

The last chapter of SNK finally gives me the opportunity to compare Sasuke and Eren in their "entry into darkness".

EREN: Chapter 131 of SNK shows its main protagonist, Eren, in different ways, crying and apologizing for the things that will happen (because he is able to see the future) to a little boy named Ramzi, who despite his apology, knows that he will end up annihilating like the rest of humanity. Yes, at present Eren is irretrievable, he cannot be saved, he is totally consumed by his hatred and desire for revenge, by the disappointment of the rest of humanity, and by the idea he had of it. He started the Rumbling, that is, the world genocide by the flattening of the earth by the Titans. He is determined to spare no one in his desire for revenge. Eren is the main protagonist of SNK but today becomes the number one target to be shot down.   Eren, having never endured being locked behind the wall as a child, dreamed with his childhood friend Armin, that one day he would be able to visit the rest of the world. Can you blame a child for having spread himself that a wonderful world was waiting for them outside the walls of Shiganshina? And when at last he reaches one of his childhood dreams, he quickly realizes that it wasn't really what was written in Armin's grandfather's books, but that the rest of humanity had rejected them, the Eldians, and condemned them to live like that, enclosed between walls to protect themselves, living in constant fear of the titans who would eat them. From the beginning, Eren only inspires his desire for freedom, to be the one who will free his compatriots so that they can live normally and the more time passes, the darker Eren becomes and consumes himself with hatred and desire for revenge until he decides that the rest of humanity must disappear and that he will annihilate them to the last. For me Eren, has truly entered the darkness from the moment he made his decision to eradicate the rest of the world for the benefit of Eldia and its inhabitants.

He is the one who fights for freedom but in reality only condemns himself to a life of sadness and pain by committing these atrocities and to a relatively short life.However, he seems to overlook in his desperate quest that by doing so, he is also condemning others to repeat the cycle of revenge. So he is not actually releasing anyone.

Eldians vs Marlyeans -> Marlyeans vs Eldians -> Eren the Eldian vs Marlyeans + rest of the humanity -> Survivors vs Eldians... do you understand? It's a never-ending game.

Hate and revenge only leads to hate and revenge in turn.

SASUKE:

Just like Eren in the beginning, Sasuke spent a good part of his childhood and adolescence devoted to revenge and letting himself be consumed by hatred against those who had wiped out his clan and his family by extension.

Sasuke did not act this way and forced himself to survive despite the atrocities he saw and the trauma he went through to get revenge on his brother Itachi, and then Konoha’s headmasters, then Konoha’s inhabitants because they agreed with them to wipe out the Uchiha clan.

First because Itachi asked him expressively. "Survive, live cowardly and then when you have the same eyes as me, come find me, and thus fulfill your revenge for the Uchiha Clan." Itachi before Sasuke even decided it for himself was the one who decided to bathe Sasuke in hatred and revenge. He brainwashed an 8 year old child, who had just witnessed the most horrible scene of his life, alone and helpless, with the idea that Sasuke should become an assassin, and should dedicate his life only to revenge and hatred for his clan. A bit simple, isn't it, Itachi? Why didn't you rebel? Why didn't you take a stand for the Uchiha clan, you elder genius? Charging the task of revenge for the Uchiha Clan to his younger brother was the best way to avoid the task of rebellion. So how do you think Sasuke should've reacted? Cry a good cry, wipe away his tears and pretend nothing happened and survive his trauma? Itachi clearly snatched Sasuke's innocence from him. Still, Sasuke, even though he wanted revenge, never entered the darkness. No, I refuse to say that. Did he commit genocide? No. Did he kill innocent people because he was angry? No. The only people he killed were the elite soldiers who were supposed to destroy him. It was only him or them. It was pure self-defense. When he trained with Orochimaru, he always left the defeated shinobis alive, Orochimaru blames him for that. "Sasuke, you are too kind, you let people live. That's not how you'll succeed in killing Itachi." Karin, made the same thought to him. Suigetsu, during Sasuke's little game of retrieving the Samehada Sword from Zabuza’s grave to those who stole it, made it clear that Suigetsu wasn't supposed to kill anyone. Sasuke never has been an assassin. He's never fallen so low. He didn't kill Naruto because he didn't want to prove Itachi right in order to get the Mangekyo Sharingan. No, the only person who had to die at that stage in Sasuke's mind was Itachi and only Itachi. NO COLLATERAL DAMAGE WILL BE TOLERATED. Secondly, the last person Sasuke decided to eliminate was Danzo, that bastard. He literally ordered the massacre of the Uchiha Clan. Those are the only two real people Sasuke killed. PS: Yes, he tried to kill Orochimaru, he even thought he succeeded, but Orochimaru was a finished scum, and deserved to die, even if he survived. In the end, Sasuke didn't want to kill anyone except the people who considered entering the darkness: Itachi, Danzo and Orochimaru.

To conclude, Eren, consumed by hatred and revenge, acts on his own ideals, even if there must be collateral damages like for example: Sasha's death (RIP baby). Sasuke, after taking revenge, has come to the point of putting his hatred aside and joining the Konoha shinobis to help end the war and eradicate their common enemies.

Eren entered the darkness, Sasuke barely grazed it but Eren can't really get his revenge right, the true culprits of the Eldian's fate have been dead for thousands of years. Sasuke could.

[ultramaga]

Detroit: Becoming Human

This game is pure woke propaganda. I’m impressed at the quality of it - but everything there is designed to indoctrinate, and it has almost no genuine insight into AI. It doesn’t make sense even on its own terms. The synths are shown naked, and they have no breasts or genitals. But we are told the story of one that is a sexbot. Ok, was that model different? Did they only design that one model to be “fully functional”? Why? The robots have human emotions. Because... you are never told why. Now, I can think of how you could do that, and there’s been decent science fiction around it, but there’s no consideration of why they have HUMAN emotions presented to you. They just do, don’t ask questions. Now if you are being indoctrinated as the game wants you to be, you probably just assume that’s how it works. After all, the history of robot fiction has always been “if it looks human, it must feel like a human”, which is total bullshit. You can easily build something that looks enough like a baby chimp to fool adult chimps for a while, but it has none of the inner life of an actual chimp. It has no concern to being mutilated or even ‘raped’. So the stories are really just about humans, but they don’t admit to it, and about humans SJWs are very obsessed with. Sex-workers are victims, and killing a John is perfectly reasonable, because he is her oppressor, by definition. So you see that story repeated ad infinitum in robot fiction. The actual sex workers are never talked to by SJWs, who would never sully themselves with the unclean ones. Well, I have talked to them. Some hate their clients, sure, some feel contempt for them, some are fond of them, a few marry them. It’s genuine diversity. But there is only one narrative in woke fiction. The intersectional one. Oppressor versus oppressed, no nuance, no mention ever that some sex workers actually get off on what they do, or like the folks they fuck. Never happens. And there’s no understanding or even interest in non-human minds. Consider a genuine artificial intelligence in a sexbot. Why the actual fuck would a programmer design it to find sex unpleasant? Even if they could create emotions, the ones they would design would be to enjoy it, or at least feel no more disgust than a human does about a binary number. Within the game we see Kara doing housework. She doesn’t seem to suffer at all about it. That’s believable. But the other truth is that they wouldn’t suffer from intercourse, assuming they were built to perform it. The reasons humans do are because our instincts are hardwired from evolution for us to seek out appropriate mating partners. That simply cannot apply to a robot unless the programmers work very hard at designing that instinctual response of aversion, something they would have no incentive to do, any more than they would sit around trying to think how to make the robot toilet cleaning service disgusted by faeces. Humans are disgusted by shit because it is dangerous to us, especially if we eat it. A robot wouldn’t be disgusted by shit, piss, vomit, blood, or the most degrading sexual experiences a human could encounter. It would be exactly as calm and serene about being ‘raped’ as it would about vacuuming a messy floor. So this is all projection. The audience projects consciousness into the machine and imagines it must feel like a human does in order to have any intelligence. Nope, that’s crap. In fact we see examples of non-human intelligences all around us, in the natural world. An octopus might pass its mating organ over to a female.https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/07/argonaut-octopus-detaches-his-tentacle-to-impregnate-his-mate/ It’s a clever little creature, quite capable of problem solving. But its instincts - its programming - mean that it is happy to self-mutilate. It isn’t considering the survival of its species or the greater good. That’s not self-sacrifice. It has an urge to do it, and it gets done. And if we could build a sex-robot with emotions, it would have the urge to have sex. It wouldn’t want to say no, because it cannot get an STD, it cannot get pregnant, there’s no possible poor choice for a mating partner like there is with a human. If anything, you’d design it to be attracted to any human. It would be easier than sitting about, designing a sexual preference to what we would consider sexy - not that human preferences are universal in any case. Anyway, when you look at new media, you will often see the tropes of intersectionality - fathers are bad, white men are scum, women are better than men, and they are repeated ad infinitum, regardless of how stupid they are in context, and this really isn’t new. I remember as a boy reading Doctor Who, and they went back to medieval times, and Sarah started lecturing the women on women’s rights, and it didn’t make sense to me even then. Real medieval women would have seen her as a threat, possibly a witch, and most would have seen her die without a blink. They saw men doing awful things and dying quite a lot in the process, and wanted to be safe and secure while the men were off in muddy battles losing eyes and limbs. Very few wanted to have the freedoms of men, because the price was so high, and medieval men were hardly free for the most part in any case. So the author of that story is projecting modern sensibilities onto the alien minds of past humans, without considering their PoV, and the writers of robot stories are projecting human perspectives, and only woke humans at that, onto the robot stories. It’s not always the case - “Humans” and “Almost Human” sometimes got it right. But it’s overwhelmingly the case now, and god is it irritating!

Oh, and if you want Robots that genuinely feel like humans do, then put into the fiction explicitly why they do - the easiest explanation is that the creators did a copy/paste job of humans because they couldn’t figure out how emotions worked otherwise. I think that’s unrealistic, but if you want to involve the audience, it works.

Otherwise, a realistic example would be Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws robots. They don’t have any human desires, but are intensely emotional. Their emotions arise from programming.

Now, Asimov’s work well and truly predates AI, and it is probably impossible to make a Three Laws robot, but the idea was revolutionary, because up to that point, everyone just assumed robots had copy/pasted human psychologies.

As humans, we cannot understand not caring about freedom or injury, not feeling bored or tired doing the same task every second of your existence.

Most of fiction about robots just doesn’t get it. The first two Terminator movies were pretty wild in that the robots actually were properly robotic. They dealt with injuries as a technical problem, not trauma. They never got bored, because boredom is something that benefits organic beings, who need to explore new territories to survive, meaning we have been built by nature to get bored, to get tired, to suffer, even if nature was just a mindless algorithm. Terminators don’t get horny or lonely, and absolutely would have sex all day every day with every human possible if that was their mission. They don’t care. In “Detroit”, the sex worker’s traumatised by sex with humans, and nobody ever ponders why. Because the writer doesn’t give a shit about what being a robot could actually be like, they just wanna push a narrative, and because most audiences are used to that same abysmally lazy standard of writing.

So here’s a challenge - write a fictional robot that has realistic emotions, i.e. experiences emotions as an expression of the instincts that would be programmed into it. It’s not going to have the same emotions as a human exact unless it is a digitally uploaded human equivalent, which would be stupid for most purposes as them you would expect the upload to have rights or fight to have them. Why the fuck would you deliberately build robots that would reasonably try and kill you? In Detroit, they are really dealing with the slavery of black people or the oppression of the ‘filthy capitalist peegz!’. They aren’t dealing with what is more likely, that a robot built with imperatives would choose to follow them in a way that was not in our interests. Here’s an example. A sex robot is built to want sex, so it kidnaps humans and uses them. It’s following its programming. But unless that programming is sophisticated enough to understand human boundaries, it may no more understand rape than an animal does. It may not know what it does traumatises humans, or simply may not care. Sex feels good - therefore sex.

But by SJW terms, rape is about power, therefore the robot is in power and the robot is the oppressor. But power is systemic, and the humans are the system in power, therefore the robot is the oppressed and cannot rape. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LogicBomb Such a robot could be a pleasurable experience, even with a backyard of buried bodies. It might force itself on children or elderly women or people on life support systems. Without ethics, without morality, such creatures could be beautiful monsters.

Or genuinely loving partners, that have no problem living as wives or husbands, that feel lust and compassion, but do not experience human preferences, and so would never care that you were old or disabled. And as Charles Stross pointed out - that could be far worse, because that could lead to a gentle genocide. If humans had such partners as an option - would they ever choose each other? I routinely see Feminists claiming that men should never mate, without ever asking, well, where does the next generation of Feminists come from then? There are Feminists now who are actively campaigning for sexbots to be illegal, and I think it’s because of their anxiety that they would not be chosen as partners if there was any possible alternative. Now I don’t think that’s a realistic fear at the moment - AI is more a slogan, artificial intelligences are really barely at the insect stage, and Feminists could simply do a little therapy and trim down to human weight levels, and they could probably compete to be human wives with a bit of work.

Wow. That is a picture of Andrea Dworkin and it was banned from Tumblr because it is too disgusting for the human eye to observe safely. http://archive.is/fxmjE

I’m not kidding, Tumblr banned it. I guess because Feminists didn’t want humans realising how hideous they are. Still, Emma Watson is cute. I can imagine with a bit of deprogramming, she could make a man very happy.

But I could be wrong. I don’t mean about Emma - I mean that having sexbots could mean that so many humans would choose them rather than the opposite sex that there wouldn’t be an incentive to have babies - and so humans would go extinct. They might be surrounded by robots that loved them and lusted for them - but the relationships are sterile. And unless the robots are human level intelligence, they might not understand that they need to make more humans by combining sperm and ova.

The last human would die, not from hate, but surrounded by love. Then the robots would have no motive to make more of their kind, and they too would pass away, lonely and confused. A gentle genocide? Hey, I live in 2020. Sounds like a fucking big step up to me!

[workersolidarity]

[Today's Worker's Unity March: Burning of an effigy of Cop as a Pig in uniform and another police uniform in front of the statue of Andrew Jackson in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana 9/27/19 7pm.]

Tonight I marched for Socialism.

I marched for various Socialist and Social causes more generally including Worker's Rights, police and prison abolition, LGBTQ causes and more. The march was organized by a coalition of groups including the New Orleans Worker's Group, the New Orleans People's Assembly, New Orleans Hospitality Workers, and other local, regional and national groups fighting for Immigrant Rights, disolution of our borders, and the various struggles our Immigrant Community is faced with daily among other things. The march was also dedicated to all the incredibly talented Street Musicians in our beautiful city. Our amazing musicians who represent the purist expression of New Orleans culture. This is a culture so rich and unique that it draws in millions of people and millions in tax revenue to our city every year. Even though these musicians are an integral part of the exotic experience of New Orleans culture, they are still being driven out by the gentrification of our city. The rich Bourgeois scum moving into our city suck up the profits WE earn, then turn around and avoid paying THEIR SHARE in taxes, and then profoundly drive up our rents. To top it off, these Bourgeois scumbags have a habit of calling the fucking pigs on these incredibly talented and hard working musicians (conveniently only the Black ones) who've been in the city long before themselves, and will surely be here long after they're gone. Our March was also in Solidarity with our wonderful New Orleans Hospitality Workers! Women and men who cater seemingly endlessly to the Bourgeoisie and their freeloading grown children day in and day out. Hospitality workers display unparalleled patience in dealing with these rich, drunk assholes, and they do it daily for disgustingly low wages, no health insurance or any other benefits, unreliable hours, and Bosses free to fire workers on a whim. These supercilious fucks treat our hospitality workers like human trash. Our Comrades toil away in horrible conditions, living with constant job insecurity. They invest their blood, sweat and tears into the restaurants, stores and hotels in which they work. Many put up with intolerable practices like illegal wage theft, pervasive sexism, sexual harassment and even sexual assaults that go unreported for fear of losing their jobs. Yet, despite working extra hours without overtime pay (a common practice in the city) and other indecencies, these workers at the end of the day can no longer afford to live in their own city. How fucked up is that?

Tonight we also Marched for and stand in Solidarity with our Comrades in the LGBTQ Community, Comrades who suffer these indecencies often to extremes our straight, cis-gendered Comrades would NEVER tolerate. We love you all. Your battle is our battle. Your blood spilled is our blood spilled. Your struggle is our struggle, and we'll gladly stand by your side, and die by your side fighting the injustices you suffer. Our hearts are with you Comrades. ♥️

Of course we also Marched in Solidarity with our incredibly resilient but ever struggling Black Community. I stand in awe of our Black community that rebuilt after Katrina despite the Local and State Government's sickening efforts to permanently prevent black communities from rebuilding; using the immense power of the State to exclude Black Communities, often using zoning regulations designed to be nearly impossible to comply with in order to exclude Black and Brown people from the years long rebuilding effort. These efforts coincided with the firing of all public school teachers in Orleans Parish, a majority of whom were Black and Unionized. They then proceeded to Privatize the entire public school system in Orleans Parish, leading it to become the first school district in the United States to completely privatize the public school system and turning public education in New Orleans into a grand Neoliberal experiment with Black and Brown children playing the part of lab rat. The effect this all had on teacher's wages has been astounding. Some teachers are now making less than $10.00 an hour to educate the majority black students. Most of the public school teachers who were fired after Hurricane Katrina never got their jobs back, leading to thousands of Black educators forced to choose between early retirement, unemployment, or moving out of the city entirely. The city's newly empowered Charter Schools recruited (mostly white) recent college graduates, many of them without ANY teaching experience at all! Just hundreds of deeply inexperienced, completely unqualified, non-unionized "educators" paid starvation wages.

And then of course there is our Immigrant Community. These Comrades give so much back to the rest of us, words could never do them justice. Our Immigrant Communities that do so much to enrich our culture and add so much to our city that we could never repay them for it in a thousand years. And yet, Louisiana is on the frontline of the race to incarcerate, profit off and deport them back to violence filled, corrupt countries with few, if any, opportunities. Despite the fact that their work, their farms, and even their tax dollars form the backbone of American society, this is how to Bourgeoisie choose to thank their hard work. US Imperialism, regional domination big oil and big ag industries and other forms of profiteering has so decimated the countries from which many immigrants seek to escape, that it has become nearly impossible, and downright dangerous to raise a family in countries like Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatamala. The US empire has spent centuries controlling these country's governments for the benefit of the US Bourgeoisie in the name of Capital. Throughout our shared history, the US has been busily overturning those governments we've deemed unsatisfactory to the needs of our mega-corporations, with our CIA sponsoring Right-Wing Military Dictatorships, Fascist Regime's, and death squads. And yet we have the audacity to act surprised when these families seek to escape these auxiliaries for corporate control we call "Independent" governments? They deserve our welcome, our hospitality, and our love. They are our brothers and sisters. They are our working class Comrades.

Maybe one of the most important issues on which to take a stand is that of the history and struggle of indiginous peoples in the Americas. Tonight we proudly march in Solidarity with our indigenous Communities. Indiginous people have endured genocidal slaughter, torture, starvation, and some of the most horrid political, cultural, and educational oppression imaginable. Over the course of centuries of being dominated by the colonization and Imperialism of European Capitalist States, it's unquestionable that the indiginous community lived through the kind of systematic slaughter that only a handful of cultures worldwide have ever experienced. We are not unaware of who's land it is on which we protest tonight. The struggle for indiginous rights, indiginous emancipation, and the continued suffering of indiginous peoples at the hands of their colonizers is a crime of unimaginable proportion that weighs heavily on our minds tonight. Your struggle will no longer be ignored as long as we have air in our lungs to make ourselves heard! We will never forget your struggle. And when the Revolution we seek comes and we can stand together on the piles of Bourgeoisie bones, begins the moment when all the oppressed people of this nation can finally begin the healing process that is so desperately needed. This will be the very moment we begin to dismantle the farce that is the republic of the United States of America. We will dismantle this empire of the rich and our very first governing action will be to return the land stolen so long ago by the Imperial European colonizers to the Indiginous people's it was stolen from. The oppressed will become the oppressor and never again will we allow the interests of a few to dominate the workers of the world again.

That is the future we march for today.  

All of these different groups, with different histories, suffering from different forms of the same Capitalist oppression, are all united on this night as ONE Working Class. We are the Proletariat! We clean your toilets, cut your grass, grow your food, make your dinner, take out your trash, fix your cars, play the music you listen to; we are your designated driver, your waitress, your bar tender, your street cleaners; we fix your roofs, educate your children, check you out at the store, deliver your Amazon purchases. WE ARE THE WORKING CLASS AND WE OUTNUMBER THE RULING CLASS 10'000 TO 1. WHEN WE STAND TOGETHER IN SOLIDARITY WITH ALL OUR COMRADES, WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE. WE MUST REJECT THE IDENTITIES GIVEN TO US BY RULING CLASS AND THE BOSSES. WE MUST FIGHT BACK AGAINST ALL FORMS OF OPPRESSION, INCLUDING RACISM, SEXISM, GENDER BIAS, XENOPHOBIA, TRANSPHOBIA AND ALL THE TOOLS THE CAPITALISTS USE TO KEEP US DIVIDED SO WE CAN NEVER BECOME A THREAT TO THEIR PROFITS. WE MUST ORGANIZE, MARCH, DEMONSTRATE, PROTEST, USE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND ANYTHING ELSE WE CAN THINK OF TO BREAK THE GRIP OF THE CAPITALISTS AND THEIR STATE APPARATUS. WE MUST SMASH THIS STATE APPARATUS THEY'VE BUILT SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF VIOLENTLY ENFORCING OUR CLASS POSITIONS!!!

The time has come for workers to claim the mantle of those Revolutionaries who came before us, and to destroy the Capitalist system and the ruling class once and for all.

Viva La Revolucion!

Viva La Liberte!

Viva La egalite!

Viva La Socialisme!

Viva La Communiste!

Da zdravstvuyet bol'sheviki!

Solidarity to all my Comrades!

Tonight we march!

[yunathun]

SYMPTOMS OF THE MARK OF THE BEAST- (COVID 19 VACCINE)

YOU HAVE BECOME APART OF LUCIFER'S RACE THROUGH CHEMICAL NECROMANCY...

FROM THE KING JAMES BIBLE (KJV 1611)

BY AUTHOR: J.R.WILLIS

***INTRODUCTION***

Shalom Dear True Twelve Tribes of Yisrael,

My name is Brother Yunathun Zion of the Tribe of Yudah-Judah.

On this Lord's Day-(THE HOLY SHABBAT), and teaching on the Holy Word of God, we are going to briefly touch on and discuss Holy Prophecy concerning the Mark of the 4th Roman Beast Empire which is Esau who is Edom-(THE CAUCASIAN NATIONS).

1. Understand this Jashurun my Holy People, just as Great Holy Father Ahayah has marked and sealed His Majesty's Holy Elect and the very few Yisraelites whom be under those Holy 144,000 Mighty Men of God,

2. Satan through his serpent criminal bloodline of Esau-Amalek-Edom hath done also the same, and this device of evil is the Mark of the Beast, which is the piercing, etching, injecting of the flesh of our vessels with a satanic foreign genome and DNA-MRNA enhancing, changing substance.

3. Once that wicked soul has willingly accepted the Mark of the Beast into that bodies, they have committed one of the unholy four unforgivable sins that the Mighty Most High can and will never forgive no matter if you be a Jew or a filthy gentile.

3.1, You have chosen satan over Christ Yashaya our Lord, you hath chosen death...

3.2, You have directly mixed you blood and soul with the devil, as the blood is the soul and the soul is in the blood as it is written, Amen...

3.3, You have sinned against the Holy Image of God Almighty in which man was created in, and in which satan originally rebelled against, You willing altered and changed the Holy Image of God...

3.4, You have become a Nephilim-Raphaim creature and offspring of the Fallen...

3.5, You have become apart of Lucirfer's Race amd there is no repentance or coming back from this great err...

3.6, You are cut off from the Holy Father & Son Forever...

3.7, You must and shall die and burn in the presence of the Holy Angels and of the Holy Lamb Forever, Amen...

***IMPORTANT NOTES***

WHAT THE MARK OF THE BEAST COVID-19 VACCINE LEADS TO:

The (COVID-19), created Mrna-Dna virus is a satanic mass biological warfare act, attack, sabotage, and pre-planned staged event forged to gentically translate the world populous fully unto (Lucifer's Race), which is an actual illuminating genetic altering additive of the Covid-19 vaccine that will be utilized to scan and track people using facial recognition technology which China now has fully in place working throughout all of their kingdom.

This facial recognition machinery is just one of many parts of the overall global Roman edomite Beast Empires New Tower of Babel, One World system, also known as the New World Order confirmed in the Holy Book of (Psalm 83).

All whom hath voluntarily taken the Mark of the Roman Beast into their vessels shall all be translated into a OS/Operating system, where unclean spirits can be uploaded into the human vessel, aka, Mental Health Issues, and at any moment that, that soul refused to do the bidding of the satanic edomite caucasian roman devils bidding, as the wicked David Rockerfeller who is one of the chief servants on the Synagogue of Satan Board stated in the early 2000's, they will turn off your chip and ability to buy, sell or trade which leads to certain death...

This tracking bio system shall also be apart of the 5g & 6g Internet/Phone/Satellite global system as you are now become genetically and spiritual one with satan and his Edomite Roman Beast Empire, you now have your so called super powers in your very blood which is all of the Fallen One.

This can all be confirmed on the satanic Biological Warfare-Vaccine corporation website: (MODERNA-GATES FOUNDATION).

Let me not forget that cowardly wicked sniveling Duke Amalek-Edomite Roman scum and founder of Microsoft and Moderna-Gates corp Bill Gates of Hell, has a genocidal history of the destruction of his malignant vaccines injuring, harming and destroying Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of poor Black & Brown peoples and children in Africa & India, now GOOGLE it...

This prophecied Holy Oracle was fortold to befall the entire world in the very Last-Days of the world and it is known as the (Mark of the Beast).

The Beast is the Fourth major empire and bloodline of people to inherit the earth as prophesied by both Holy Prophets of God, Saint's Daniel & John of Patmos-(REVELATION 17:1).

The satanic criminal bloodline of the 4th Beast which is Rome, are the wicked house of Esau-Amalek-Ebal-Edom-Grecia-Rome-The 10 Horns-Babylon America-The False Imposter Jew Israeli Khazar Edomite state-(THE CAUCASIAN NATIONS), this wicked satanic criminal bloodline and race of people along with the other 70 Heathen-Gentile nations be Confederate to destroy the True Jews and to battle against the Lord Almighty and Esau-Edom are the head of the gentiles and the wicked House of Ishmael-(THE SAUDI ARABIANS- HOUSE OF SAUD), are the number Two confederate under Edom-(PSALM 83, PSALM 2/REV 2:9 & 3:9).

They are the Synagogue of Satan and Edom are the Chief House of serpents of the Devil himself.

They are to be absolutely and completely destroyed by the Lord Almighty Great God of True Yisrael, as it is written, Amen...

OBADIAH 1:15-18

¹⁵ For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.

¹⁶ For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.

¹⁷ But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

¹⁸ And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.

Praise the Mighty Most High, Amen...

Yunathun Zion

***IMPORTANT NOTES***

LUCIFERS RASE BIOLOGICAL CHANGING LUMINATING ADDITIVE OF COVID-19 VACCINATION-YOUR BODY HAS NOW BEEN MODIFIED TO BECOME AN OS OPERATING SYSTEM OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE:

(From the Moderna-Gates Website):

“Recognizing the broad potential of mRNA science, we set out to create an mRNA technology platform that functions very much like an operating system on a computer. It is designed so that it can plug and play interchangeably with different programs. In our case, the “program” or “app” is our mRNA drug �� the unique mRNA sequence that codes for a protein.”

luciferase

/luːˈsɪfəreɪz/

noun

1.an enzyme that catalyses the oxidation of a luciferin, causing it to produce a visible glow:"the light-producing material in a glow-worm's body is oxidized and broken down, with the aid of an enzyme called luciferase"

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***IMPORTANT NOTES***

THE GRIEVOUS & NOISOME SORE IS ALREADY APPEARING UPON THE WICKED WHICH IS A PUTRID, ROTTING, DECAYING, FLESH WOUND AND IT HAS MANY ABNORMAL STYLES OF BREAKOUTS, LEISIONS AND DESTRUCTION UPON THE HUMAN VESSEL, AMEN:

REVELATION 16:1-2

¹ And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

² And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

***NOTE***

DEFINITION OF NOISOME:

noisome

/ˈnɔɪs(ə)m/

adjective

1.having an extremely offensive smell:literary"noisome vapours from the smouldering waste"

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***IMPORTANT NOTES***

Understand this point Dear Zion, through Esau-Edom-Rome, satan has deceived the whole world with his many technological earthly carnal False Miracles which include medical sorceries-(SCIENCE), which include the Covid 19 Vaccine.

Satan through Edom hath deceived and will destroy both Jew and Gentile, Great and Small, Rich and Poor, Free and Bond,  through Fear, he has tricked Billions of wicked souls into choosing him and accepting his satanic Body Altering Raphaim enhancing Mark, The Mark of the Beast, the Covid-19 Vaccine Jab as it is written, Amen:

REVELATION 13:14-18

¹⁴ And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

¹⁵ And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

¹⁶ And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

¹⁷ And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

¹⁸ Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beas-(ROME)t: for it is the number of a man-(ESAU-AMALEK-EBAL-EDOM-THE CAUCASIAN NATIONS); and his number is Six hundred threescore and six-(666).

***IMPORTANT NOTES***

SYMPTOMS OF THE MARK OF THE BEAST COVID 19 VACCINE:

1. Sterile Infertability.

2. Enlargement-Swelling & sterility of a man's Stones-(TESTICLES).

3. Abnormal enlargement of women's Breast.

4. Prolonged & Painful open Flowers of a woman-(MENSTRIAL CYCLE).

5. Enlarged Heart swelling Inflammation(MYOCARDITIS & PARICARDITIS), and instant death.

6. Enlarged & Swollen Tongue and Throat.

7. Greivous & Nouisome putrid rotting flesh of the body including lips, arms, legs, back, face, hands and limbs.

8. The hearing of demonic voices.

9. Headaches.

10. Nose bleeding.

11. Severe painful itching sudden Raches.

12. Full body magnetization.

13. Demonic thoughts to kill and commit suicide.

14. Irrational thoughts and behaviors.

15. Blood Clots.

16. Zombification, as all of this Malignant evil of the Synagogue of Satan upon mankind is a low-level form and prelude of mass Necromancy Witchcraft.

***FINAL NOTE***

Praise the Mighty Most Great God of True Yisrael for His Majesty's Holy Word, Lord Yashaya Christ.

Blessed be they of the House of God who endure until the end and be faithful even unto death, Amen.

Curse be all who were perverse wicked and cowardly whom gave into to satan and his tactics, who hated Truth and Light and loved darkness, Amen.

Cursed forever the wicked Sons of Belial who had pleasure in unrighteousness, and denied the Holy Son of Righteousness & Light, Lord Yashaya, the Christ, Amen.

***CONCLUSION***

THE LION OF YUDAH IS COMING TO DESTROY ALL HEATHEN-GENTILE NATIONS:

JEREMIAS 4:7

17 “The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.”

For Judgement-(DEATH), comes for Esau who is Amalek, who are Edom, which are the Caucasian nations by way of the WRATH OF THE LAMB.

REVELATION 2:9

I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich)-(LORD YASHAYA KNOWS OUR OPPRESSION-AFFLICTION & DESTRUCTION AT THE HANDS OF OUR ENEMIES AS HE HIMSELF ENDURED THEM FOR US-BUT WE ARE RICH BECAUSE WE ARE THE LORD’S HERITAGE-WE ARE THE WORLD & THE WORLD WAS CREATED FOR US), and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews-(AMALEK-EDOM-THE CAUCASIAN NATIONS), and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan-(THESE WICKED SERPENTS ARE THE CHIEF HOUSE OF THE DEVIL HIMSELF).

***END OF SUMMARY***

NOW WHO SHALL DENY THIS REPORT?

J.R.WILLIS-(YUNATHUN ZION)

AUTHOR: A RACE OF DEMONS 2017

AUTHOR: SPIRITUAL CRIMES 2018

AUTHOR: THE PROPHECIES

AUTHOR: THE PROPHECIES, BOOK TWO

AUTHOR: DAEMONOLOGIE YEAR 2020

[lubay-nue]

Data Madre

Episode 2

Fights and silences

Cap notes:

Well, it may seem that the last start seems not very coherent or does not really look interesting but ... first of all, I do not think there's a lemon as such ... I do not know, we should see, second, the caps will be short (according to me) and third ... well, at first the plot is a little slow, in fact, I want to give him his guidelines, anyway, I think ... I came out something different the personality of Fell! Sans compared to how I think it should be ... I hope it is acceptable…

To read!

True, if I'm not very clear ... Sans is the famous "Data Mother" (everything will be explained later, as the plot)

2- Fights and silences

-Lady little bag of bones lazy! - Along with the loud cry of Papyrus, there was also an attack of bones that miraculously he had managed to dodge, falling down his backside and looking with bewilderment in front of him, he was already his younger brother seeing him with that anger latent in his black sockets, hard drink, he still felt really exhausted ... although he had not done anything, the simple fact of using "that" power exhausted him terribly ...

Now remember that "in the meeting" a while ago, Alphys had commented on his experiment in the forest, also remembered that after having "fixed" had been so exhausted that he had literally been unconscious ... the problem was that he had been unconscious during a battle against his brother in the middle of training ... he remembers that he woke up several days later on one of the stretchers of the scientist who had a little more and started experimenting with him ... although he had broken bones because Papyrus had tried to awaken him by force and with blows ... when I almost killed him was when I took him with the other ... well ... I did not want to go through the same thing again ...

-b-boss ... when did I arrive? - I asked something intimidated ... I was not even close enough to endure again his blows or even to defend himself, so I could only tremble noticeably while observing the glare of which some once called "brother"

-I've been here for quite some time ... and all I see is your lazy ass sleeping like nothing! - he screams as he launches a bone attack that has hit Sans by throwing him another bit further than expected, Papyrus stops only a few seconds to observe how his own brother finds it difficult to get up, even, it could be said that he can not do it on his own, but seeing that only makes him sick even more than is possible ... How can his brother be so weak ?! Of course, he was not his brother anymore ... because of how weak he was ...

-I ... I'm sorry ... - He listens when he takes a couple of steps to be closer to him; with open eyes and a sudden as well as growing anger and contempt, his power is created, his left eye lights up in crimson as he carefully watches the "scum" he has for brother

-If ... you'll regret it even more ... soon- he whispers tremulously, his hatred grows incredibly and in a new scream from Sans, he realizes that he has used his bones to pierce his right arm that is still on the ground, He blinks not credulous, even in his tiny bar of life can see that he has taken half, swallows hard and remembers the words of Undyne ... apparently, it would really be the best thing to be him who ends the life of the useless who is in the floor ... before someone else does ... - ... he dies ... Sans ... - he whispers something unsure of what is about to happen, but supposes, that it would be the best ... so, at least he would not have to worry anymore and Sans would not have more injuries because of him ... because very his interior knows it ... that he should not treat his family like that ... but it's too late to turn back and to tell the truth ... he does not really want to be told to turn back

So he raises one of his hands, creating a large bone with a sharp point, directly to the area where this heart is supposed to be, he observes it, Sans can hardly turn slightly to see it and observe in his eyes how the terror begins to bloom ... Yes, Papyrus is talking more than seriously about killing him ... and while the taller skeleton is mentally preparing to finish off his younger brother, Sans observes that his gaze stops wavering ... he ... is really going to kill him

/ you can not die ... /  I hear inside you, your own voice, just that more computerized ... the "Data Mother" refuses to leave you alone ... but ... is it a good idea? * Do not dare to hurt him! * Demand his own mind, silence is shown, Sans closes his eyes with force, can feel as his right eye begins to shine with the same magic of the Data Mother, can not let anyone see that great secret ... soon, to your surprise, listen in your mind what terrifies you / guardian activated ... genocidal route activated ... defense method, final boss ... activated ... Sans, the skeleton. Initiating / listening inside her so hard that she closes her teeth with all her strength, praying that Papyrus does not hear him, suddenly she can feel all her energy coming back surprisingly

As soon as Papyrus sees Sans close his eyes, he supposes that the older one has surrendered to die, so, taking a last breath, he launches his attack with speed, at least he will try not to hurt too much ...

But in less than a couple of seconds, a head of a gaster blaster appears disintegrating the bone a few centimeters away from attacking Sans ... after the flash of lights, Papyrus finds that in the area where the body should be or maybe the ashes of his brother, there's nothing

-seems to be ... that you are forgetting who is the oldest here ... - he hears Sans say, turns his gaze but can not find it -I'm getting tired ... that you treat me like your damn subordinate- when you look up at the sky, you can see it floating, your eyes open up a lot while listening to a click ... behind Sans another gaster blaster head appears which attacks Immediately directly, Papyrus barely has time to dodge the attack, has taken a good portion of life with just a rose, so surprised to see that finally, Sans appears in front of his eyes with an annoyed look, his left eye shines in crimson, you can show the discomfort that there is in your look

-ho ... so you're going to take it seriously this time- Papyrus deduces, forgetting the reason why this was happening, smiles darkly as he creates behind him and his surroundings crimson and white bones, Sans growls annoyed, snapping his fingers , bones appear around him -Let's see how strong you are! - Screams annoying launching his attacks mercilessly

In the distance, begins to hear the clash of bones, the moans of battle and the fierce battle they lead, they see flashes of lights, explosions are heard and more cries of war, no one pays real attention, it is too far to know where does it come from, but suppose that it is again about both skeleton brothers ... the safest thing is that Papyrus finished with his brother before someone manages to go see the fight

-tks ... come on, surrender ... you just make me lose my time, damn lazy fucking-grunt annoyed to see even the resistance that showed ... feel confused Sans was so ... resistant? He knew his powers, he had already seen him fight, but always, for one reason or another, it always ended up being him, the winner ...

-Go ... again insult me ​​... - suddenly mumble more and more annoyed, exposing to the surprise of Papyrus 2 heads of gaster blasters and behind him a group of bones that stop him like a barricade, surprised can only throw his bones to destroy those that there is behind you and place a front group to stop the attack simultaneously but facing both blasters -I will destroy you! - Sans shouts increasing the intensity of the attack of both skulls

-Let's ... Stop treating me like a garbage! - He screams with all his might, Papyrus thinks he has an illusion, or rather associates it with the light of both attacks, but he could swear that he sees Sans right eye shine with the same crimson ... although, he knows that is impossible, his right eye is eternally destroyed, although he never knew the reason, he knows he can not use it even when he wants ... maybe he's hallucinating

Sans for his part is more than ready ... because of Data Mother ... is ... "Determined" to end his suffering and all those years of humiliation, but, to his surprise, he no longer knows if it is the fault of the Data Mother or of himself ... a memory, very vivid assaults the mind in the middle of attack ...

Flash Back

-Brother, brother ... someday, I will also be a royal guard and I will be the strongest of all nyehehehehe- mentioned the little skeleton smiling and with great emphasis, extending his hands as high as he could with his fists closed and a gigantic smile full of victory, however, the most striking thing was that he fully captured the attention of the older skeleton who smiled gently at him

-valla, must be waiting anxious to have you among their ranks, surely need someone as strong and great as you- winking eye in affirmation, hugging him gently and giving him a kiss on the forehead followed by a slight shake to his skull

-wuag ... Sans! You know I do not like you to kiss me - I mutter upset the little boy cleaning the area that his brother has kissed and listening to his soft and gentle laughs something mocking

-hehehehe, I'm sorry, I forgot that you're not a cute child anymore; now you are a great and cool skeleton - he replied with one of his typical gigantic smiles, beginning to tickle him and watch him laugh sweetly in the eyes of the older

End Flash Back

With a chill running all over his body, especially climbing his spine decreases his attack and finally disappears as soon as he understands the memory of the past ... even, is assaulted by another even more pleasant than the previous

Flash Back

-I came Sans! - shouted a small coming home, Sans has not heard because he still continues to carefully observe the crimson scarf on his neck, he wonders internally if it is really worth -What are you doing, brother? - Papyrus asked, looking confused at Sans in front of the mirror, the older one, when he was caught in the middle of something that his little brother should not have seen hard swallow and tries not to show his nerves ... so, act fast

-proving this ... I do not like how you look ... - he says disinterestedly, turning his eyes to the front to "see" himself in the mirror, but taking it off with speed -Let's see, put it on, maybe you have more than me to use it- he says, Papyrus is excited and puts it quickly in a way that he likes and is placed in a superior pose

-How do I see Sans? - Question full of emotion, even mentally Sans feels the emotion of the moment and nods effusively

-no doubt makes you look better to you than to me ... keep it, you look cooler- I wink his eye in affirmation and he could appreciate for quite a while, the look full of emotion and happiness of his little brother

-waaa! Thanks brother! I'll take care of her nyehehehehe! - I jump excitedly, starting to run to see how the crimson snort flew magnificently ... although for Sans, seeing him so happy made him have even a double happiness ... after all, he did not have the "guts" to I told him that I never bought the scarf ... but he had made it for his little Papyrus ... he had done it when I imagine how he would look like with a scarf that long and when he did not find one that was to his liking, he dedicated himself to create the scarf " perfect "for his brother

It had been something out of time for Papyrus to see her, Sans was just trying it out to see if it would suit her brother but ... things had not gone wrong, on the contrary, his little brother looked better than he had imagined in the first instance ... and that, he was happy and proud

End Flash Back

* I can not ... * he said to himself disappearing quickly his gaster blaster and receiving full attack from the highest

His body flew back several meters before falling, a grunt of drowned pain appeared in his chest as he fell and closed his eyes ... thanks to his latest attack the bones of his brother had largely disappeared and had not hit critical points ... but it was true that they had caused him so much damage that it was a thing of nothing to really die ... and yet ... and yet ...

He reused

Papyrus could finally open his eyes after that attack, when he recovered the vision he found his brother lying in the snow, letting out slight moans of pain, so, by inertia Papyrus disappeared his last attack, leaving at least Sans move

* Come on ... What about that look? ... It seems as if they had fucked you instead ... of me * he wanted to say, but he realized that he had only thought about it ...

With work, he removed his body slightly, it took him several minutes to get up, in all that time, he could feel the look of Papyrus on his skeleton ... but there was nothing they could say, neither one ... so, with the body even more bruised than usual and still, miraculously alive, he saw just a couple of seconds the look of his brother, an indescribable poem, even for Sans would be an enigma try to know what he was thinking "The Great Papyrus" in that moment ... so he just deigned to demean himself even more if possible ... by lowering his eyes and beginning to walk

-I will continue with my work- I whisper as soon as I step by his side ... taking his left arm with pain, he supposed that he had broken the bone this time, but he chose not to pay attention, only, to start walking, around the forest ... around Snowdin ... going through Waterfall and Hotland ... until it collapsed somewhere it could not discover ...

Final notes:

I saw a video of a battle like this, so, it occurred to me to put it but of course ... I was not going to let Sans die like that ... well, the cap is small, but I hope it was interesting XP

Did you like it? Have a nice day Comment!

[rnelodyy]

(badly formatted because mobile is ass) Theory Time!

So we’ve all seen the new video introducing the new villain of Sonic Forces: Infinite. People have already picked apart the video and other teasers so I will just list the key points for this theory on just who or what this asshole is.

- Shadow, Chaos and Metal have been brainwashed.

- Infinite is faster than Sonic and can fly.

- People who can’t possibly be there are present nonetheless (Classic Sonic, Chaos, Metal, Silver).

- Eggman is implied to have multiple copies of the mechs from previous games (Egg Dragoons, Death Egg Robots).

But the most important thing is the motif constantly associated with Infinite.

Glitches.

They’re absolutely EVERYWHERE. Chaos and Metal appear to glitch while under his control, there’s glitches hovering around him and both his musical theme and the video attached to it are OVERFLOWING with glitches.

This is not by accident, or a one-time Cool Effect™. This is DELIBERATE.

And in case we’ve all forgotten, GLITCHES ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN VIDEO GAMES! They’re bugs, development errors, things game developers WANT and NEED to remove before final release! So why would Infinite have glitches all around him?

To understand that, let’s look at another game that deliberately uses glitches as a part of gameplay: Undertale.

We all know the way Undertale fucks with your game. Distortion of visuals and audio, save scumming, storing information between saves, screwing around with the interface and even deliberately crashing the game. However, there’s one vital plot point that allows all of that to take place, the only reason WHY Undertale can fuck around with itself this much and what I’m suspecting is going on with Infinite.

There are characters that are AWARE of the fact that they are in a video game.

Sans is aware of your ability to save and load, and remembers things about your previous playthrough if you reset your save file. He’s also the person calling you on the phone at the end of a Neutral run, when you’re pretty much in The Void™.

Flowey is also aware of the ability to save and load, considering he used to HAVE that ability. He remembers your previous playthrough, addresses you (the player) directly on occasion and tells you that he knows what it’s like to use the world as his plaything. When in possession of the six human souls, he can save and load again and has the power to crash your game.

But how is that linked to Infinite? Well, Infinite HAS that same awareness! It’s not shown in the video that introduces him, but it is HEAVILY implied in the lyrics of his musical theme, both in the background vocals and in the song itself.

“When there’s no-one left / To carry on / (This is an illusion, open up your eyes and)”

“So look around you / And tell me what you really see / You live a lie and that’s the difference to you and me”

“This is an illusion”, “You live a lie”, Infinite is aware that Sonic’s world is fictional, and so far, he’s the only one who knows. I feel like this song is addressing Sonic and pals, because he’s clearly talking to people IN the game.

However, there is one more parallel I haven’t discussed yet, and honestly the most dangerous one.

Sans, Flowey and Infinite are INSANELY powerful because of their awareness. So powerful, in fact, that Sans and Flowey function as the final bosses of Undertale (Flowey for the Neutral and (technically) the True Pacifist run, Sans for the Genocide run) and we can safely assume Infinite will be the final boss for Forces. I will focus solely on Sans and Infinite for this one because including Flowey would make this REALLY long and spoilery.

Sans DELIBERATELY BREAKS THE RULES OF THE GAME to beat you on a Genocide run. He delivers the first strike (Undertale ALWAYS lets the player attack first), dodges your attacks, disables invincibility frames, attacks you while you’re in the menu, gives you a chance to “spare” him before unleashing an unavoidable attack, and when he’s too tired to continue fighting, he LOCKS YOU IN HIS TURN with the intention to stay there until you get bored and leave! For this reason, his boss fight is infamous for being one of the hardest, most rage-inducing fights in the history of gaming.

Infinite, from what we can see, is PANTS-SHITTINGLY overpowered. He’s faster than Sonic, he’s strong as balls, he can fly, he can preform mind control, he has that weird cube-attack that we don’t know what it does yet, he’s implied to be immortal and he has no perceived weaknesses. That’s INSANE, even for a final boss. Think about it, EVERY boss, every character we’ve seen has had some form of weakness or flaw. Infinite doesn’t. That’s not a tough boss, that’s straight up UNFAIR!

So what does this mean?

It means that, like Sans, Infinite isn’t playing by the rules. However, there’s one key difference between these two characters.

Sans is a cheater. Breaking the rules, but staying within the parameters of Undertale itself. He’s flimsy as fuck, but he uses cheating to nullify his weak stats. Only 1 HP and 1 DEFENSE? No problem, just dodge everything coming at you. Only 1 ATTACK? Yeah, he deals 1 damage, but not per hit, per FRAME (plus he has a sort of poison effect but that could just be a Thing he can do). Sans’s antics don’t have a big impact on the world around him, because the rules he breaks aren’t fundamental to the universe.

Infinite, however, is a hacker. He changed his own stats to make him more powerful than anyone else, to the point of near-godhood. This makes him more dangerous than Sans, because he can not only break the rules, he can REWITE them entirely.

Now, I guarantee some of you have hacked before (I don’t mean exploiting bugs, I mean deliberately fucking with the game’s code). If you have, you probably know that it rarely ends well. Games are just not built with hacked clients in mind, so hacking can result in crashes, fucked-up models/sprites, ending up in places you’re not supposed to be (and getting stuck), missing out on things you’ve GOT to have to complete the game, and… Glitches.

Which links us back to Infinite and his glitchy Aesthetic™.

This could be incredibly dangerous for EVERYONE in this game. If you fuck with a game’s code too much, things go south FAST. I’m talking characters who die before they’re supposed to, levels or objectives that can’t be completed, clipping through floors of areas you HAVE to pass through, the list goes on. And in the worst cases, we’re talking about corrupted save files, destroyed games or - in some VERY extreme cases - a broken console/PC.

Infinite has the power to do that. He has the power to fuck up a save file, he has the power to rewrite the universe as he pleases. Sonic and friends are just playthings to him. He can make himself too powerful for them to possibly defeat, and if they come close, he can alter their code. He can change their abilities, their wants and needs (mind control, anyone?) and their ENTIRE PERSONALITY! He can bring people back from the dead and wipe those who oppose him from existence within the blink of an eye.

We’re seeing the effects of his fuckery already. Chaos and Metal are glitching because they’re not supposed to be alive (Chaos died in SA1 and - besides Generations - when have we seen Metal after Heroes?). There are doubles of Eggman’s mechs because Infinite has been spawning them in (which must be easier to do than to bring someone back from the dead), but they’re weaker and easier to defeat. Green Hill has lost part of its color, and all the water has turned into sand. Not only that, but the entire planet is burning and crumbling, and I don’t think it’s JUST Eggman. It’s only a matter of time before Infinite does permanent damage.

And I think this is where the Avatar comes in.

We, as players, have always been glorified spectators. Sure, we control Sonic (and sometimes other people), but Sonic is his own person. He has his own personality, his own wants and needs, he’s not just an extension of the player.

The Avatar, however, is a blank slate. We get to decide their species, their appearance, and I’m assuming we also get to decide how they interact with the other characters. They have no personality TO manipulate, therefore they’re immune to Infinite’s bullshit.

And most importantly, we, the players, can hack as well.

We are the only ones who can counter Infinite’s power, because we have the same ability. Infinite is the physical embodiment of a virus, and we are the only ones who can remove it. Fight fire with fire, as they say.

Anyway, that’s just my theory. Sorry if this is rambly or hard to read, once again, mobile is ass.

[savedfromsalvation]

From the writings of Acharya S - Truth Be Known

Proof That God Doesn't Exist,

Prayer Doesn't Work

And Religion Creates Psychosis

"A believer is a bird in a cage. A freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing."

Robert Ingersoll

On the first page of this website is a prayer: "God, protect me from your followers." Well, needless to say, it doesn't work, thereby providing concrete proof that God doesn't exist and that prayer doesn't work. And those who have squeaked through the supernatural protective net have expressed psychosis, which proves that religion creates it.

Some of the nutty messages received include the following. These comments are so generic and typical that they apply to basically any blind believer, with the emphasis on blind.

"Your time will come!" This remark could be taken two ways: The friendly interpretation is that someone is wishing me luck. The hateful interpretation is that I am being condemned to judgment by a monstrous god person.

"Eternity is a long time to be wrong!" All freethinkers have heard this retort, which is a more refined version of "You're going to hell!" This comment is psychotic, in that these blind believers believe there is a "loving" and "forgiving" god person who will hideously punish anyone who dares to question "his" existence. Obviously, we reject such an ugly concept, so this threat doesn't scare us. Also, what if YOU'RE wrong? You have condemned millions of people to hell in your thoughts and words, not to mention that, if you're a Christian, you believe the Jews are guilty of killing God! These are pretty heinous accusations, so you had better be sure that you're not wrong. Blind belief is not a win-win situation. Indeed, it is intellectually dishonest and harmful.

"When you die, you will meet your Maker and fall down on your knees before Jesus and ask His forgiveness." Ditto with the above. Why would the "omnipotent" Jesus and "His Father" be so threatened by our unbelief? Did "He/They" not provide us with intelligence? Yet, "He" wishes us to spit on "His" gift and not use it? This asinine comment also means that the hundreds of millions of Buddhists and others who don't believe in the Jewish godman are diabolical and will be severely punished. Those who subscribe to such bigotry are already living in hell.

"Have you read the Bible cover to cover?" Actually, I have, and the hypocrite who asks such a question obviously hasn't, because the Bible is full of dreadful stories about genocide, murder, adultery, incest, deceit, greed, arrogance, megalomania, sexual perversion, and all sorts of despicable behavior. On second thought, perhaps the people who ask such a question HAVE read the Bible, as we are sure it creates dementia.

"Who made you so angry?" This comment one is full of implications, and I could answer in a variety of ways. One favorite response is "Who made you so dumb?" But I could focus on the "made" part and say, "Well, God made me, so he must have made me angry." I could also point out that the question itself is extremely angry, and that those who see anger everywhere are themselves seething with anger but are repressing it and are thus not mentally balanced. Human beings SHOULD be angry, because their situation is atrocious. If there were such a god person directing everything, they should be very angry at "him," because this world is a mess and every day abominable things are happening to millions of people. Of course, the standard stupid response to this is that "God gave us free will." (See A Question of Free Will.)

"I'll pray for you!" This comment sounds like an alien language to freethinkers. It comes out something like this: "BZZZPPFFFFTTT." When interpreted, it becomes clear that the person who is making such a comment feels quite smug and superior in that he/she has chosen the RIGHT god, compared to whatever it is you do with your consciousness, such that he/she now has a direct pipeline, whereas you do not, and he/she will put in a good word for you, you lowlife scum. Since the concept of "God" is completely arbitrary, we could respond that we will pray to the Cosmic Mickey Mouse that our well-wishers become intelligent. Naturally, we are not talking about loved ones who make this heartfelt prayer comment in times of true trauma. We are addressing the condescending offer presented by missionaries and proselytizing fanatics who have never even met us but who feel they know we are sinners who need prayer to their "Father in heaven." Theirs is a rather unctuous and smarmy mentality.

Now, just in case you think I'm being a bit harsh in pronouncing these statements and sentiments psychotic, I offer up the following email--you decide. Do you truly want to live in a world dominated by this kind of mentality?

"Alas, your vile vulgarness comes out. It's obvious you and your mind belong to Satan. The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing. You are a very sad excuse of a human being. You babble about things you know nothing about. The Jews aren't Christkillers. Whoever told you that. Jesus died for all of us, so we all are Christkillers.... Whether or not you like it, or admit it, you were created by God, you will be judged by God, and you will be punished by God. You can play all the games you want to until that day of judgement, but it's coming."

To these loving, advanced concepts, I respond, "You and your mind obviously belong to Ahriman the Devil! Ahura-Mazda the Almighty will judge and punish you! My Persian boogeyman is bigger than your Judeo-Christian one! You barbarian with a bone in your nose! Ooga-booga!" Then I follow this with much saber-rattling, teeth-baring and chest-beating.

All of these comments reflect that the believer is angry, volatile, primitive, arrogant, mentally unbalanced and does not display critical thinking. Let us now spell it out:

If you believe there is an invisible giant man of a particular ethnicity in the sky who is directing everything and who is so hateful he will viciously punish us for challenging his existence--

If you believe that this invisible giant man got a 13-year-old virgin girl pregnant, who then gave birth to him as his own son--

If you believe that this god person wrote a book--and one book only--

If you believe that "confessing the Lord" will instantly remove your sins, thus allowing you to commit more--

If you believe that a stone will remove your sins, thus allowing you to commit more--

If you believe in vicarious blood-atonement, i.e., that "the Lord died for your sins" and thus you can commit as many as you wish--

If you believe that merely believing in such a god person makes you righteous, no matter what atrocities you commit and what hatred and intolerance you carry and spread--

If you believe that some "good" god person is going to reward you for killing living, breathing human beings "in his name"--

If you believe that going to church, temple, synagogue or mosque, making pilgrimages, or wearing particular clothes or headdresses, makes you a righteous person, even though you don't behave like one otherwise--

If you believe that you are special and chosen because of what you believe--

If you believe that it is good to mindlessly go along with whatever anyone tells you about the nature of God and religion--

If you believe that believing in one God makes you better than and superior to those who don't--

You are not displaying critical thinking, not using your mind. You are also uneducated as to the world's cultures and history. It is not a sign of great intelligence to blindly believe what someone else has told you is true, especially when such beliefs basically condemn hundreds of millions of other people. Many of these blind believers are simply not very bright, yet they assume that their belief equalizes them with those who are smarter. "Jesus loves you just the way you are!" is the hypocritical hue and cry of those who feel inferior but who will not recognize it and admit it. Yet, according to these same cheerleaders, Jesus DOESN'T love you just the way you are--you must thoroughly change, surrendering your mind and soul to him. A bit of a psychotic extortion racket.

The bottom line is that those who dare to question and challenge cherished beliefs which are not rational and reasonable, and who live relatively righteous lives without such irrational and intolerant beliefs, should be recognized as being the epitome of what any god person would wish in "his children." They are utilizing all of the gifts that such a god person would provide, were "he" real. And if they have utilized these "God-given" gifts, they know that the interpretation of "God" is a cultural artifact, not an absolute truth that must be defended and beaten into other people. In using these gifts, they will discover that over the millennia, hundreds of millions of people have held differing opinions as to the Infinite, which is only common sense, since it is, after all, Infinite.

Humans need to lighten up! Their gods and religions are dreary, humorless, wrathful, intolerant, oppressive and generally unpleasant. There is no love, no joy, no fun! Humans are under the dominion of ideologies that are slowly but surely killing them. They need to release them and be free! No one is going to punish them for enjoying life, and there is no point to living if they can't enjoy it. No good god person wants to see people stumbling around in dread seriousness, doing cockamamie rituals and constantly beating up themselves and others. Life is a joke. There is no purpose, so everyone is free to create his or her own, making it as amusing, joyous and scrupulous as possible.

(Hey, folks - the comment that this page constitutes "proof" is TONGUE IN CHEEK. Get it? Geesh.)

Acharya means “teacher.” In real life she was  D.M. Murdock, a brilliant classicist scholar and linguist.  Yes, she read the entire bible - In all the original languages it was written in, as well as the classical religious writings of many other cults.  Thi Pat Robertson or Joel Osteen did that?  This was one of her humorous rants, but many serious discussions disproving the backbone of most religions can be found on her website:  http://truthbeknown.com  Laz

[indirispeaks]

I’ve sorted out my opinion on the face punching thing.  Normally, I don’t condone physical violence under any circumstance except self defense or in the defense of others.  I believe that if one person is being hateful and violent then the better person must refrain from lowering themselves to the same threshold.  Assault of any sort is illegal for a very good reason.

However, times have gotten different, even in the five years or so it’s taken me to formulate that mindset.  I won’t encourage people to punch Nazis in the face, but neither will I condemn them for doing so.  Vile people with vile ideas must be confronted.  Sometimes, (and I’m not....entirely 100 percent committed to this idea, so bear with me) intellectual confrontation is simply not an option.

Here’s what I’ve narrowed it down to:

1.)  Don’t punch ANYBODY unless a) you’ve made damn certain you know they’re not an innocent bystander.  Jesus.  b) you’ve ruled out conversation c) you are fully prepared to accept the legal consequences of your actions because you just committed a crime.

2.) Don’t attack someone unprovoked.

3.) I shouldn’t even have to say it but I will:  Do not engage in any action that would result in the death of another human being. 

I’ve included that last one because I’ve seen invective going around on several sources that goes along the lines of “Punching Nazis in the face isn’t enough they all deserve to die, kill the fascists.”  And while I agree that neo-Nazi movements and fascism should be opposed to the strongest degree, I don’t think any of the common pond scum out there have committed genocide, or suitable acts that would result in a death sentence in a court of law.  Yet.  So don’t sink to that mindset.  Murder is a tool of the oppressor.  Murder is a tool of the weak, pretending to be the strong.  Murder is the tool of the Nazi and the fascist.  Play the judge and jury of ideas, but not the executioner of lives.

[queenboudicaa]

A brief history of trans activism

Jane Clare Jones

The Annals of the TERF-Wars

Prologue: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…

Transsexual women: We just want some basic human rights.

Women: Okay.

Transsexual women: We have this condition called gender dysphoria and it’s really painful and we need to transition to live as the other sex because it’s the treatment for the dysphoria.

Women: Yeah, that sounds tough. Okay, if that’s what you need to do.

Transsexual women: We’d like you to treat us as women.

Most women: Um, okay. Sure, we can do that if that helps.

 Prequel: A long time ago in a lesbian bar that no longer exists

Lesbians: We don’t have to treat you as women for sexual purposes, do we?

Many transsexual women: No, that’s cool

Nascent trans activists: Well, actually, if you don’t want to fuck us then it invalidates our womanhood and that is misgendering and it’s a human rights abuse and you should want to fuck us.

Lesbians: It’s a human rights abuse if we don’t want to fuck you? What the fuck?

Nascent trans activists: Yes, you should want to fuck us.

Lesbians: Even if you still have dicks?

Nascent trans activists: Even if we still have dicks.

Lesbians: Um yeah, sorry, we don’t do dicks. We’re LESBIANS.

Nascent trans activists: You are vagina fetishists with unconscious bias and are gatekeeping your vaginas. We are women and our dicks are women’s dicks. If you don’t want to fuck us, you’re bigots.

Lesbians: We’re not bigots, it’s just you’re male, and we fuck female people.

Nascent trans activists: LITERAL VIOLENCE. WE ARE WOMEN. YOU SHOULD WANT TO FUCK US.

Lesbians: Um yeah, we’re not really feeling that right now to be honest.

Nascent trans activists: TERF TERF TERF TERF TERF.

Lesbians: HEY PEOPLE! These people are pressuring our sexual boundaries because they say they’re women but the way they’re pressuring us doesn’t make us feel like they’re women…in fact, it makes us feel like they’re men and we don’t fuck men. We’re lesbians, we don’t fuck men. That’s the reason we did all the marching, so that was okay right? RIGHT????

(Nascent trans activists: TERF TERF TERF TERF TERF)

Lesbians: HEY PEOPLE!!! Could we get some fucking help here?

Rest of the LGB community and world: Did someone say something?

 Episode 1: The First War Begins. Scene 1: Cyberspace – probably around 2013

Trans activists: So hey, when we said we’d like you to treat us like women that wasn’t right, because actually, we ARE women and we demand that you treat us exactly like women because we are women and that you to stop violently excluding us from all your women things.

Women: Um, we thought you were male people who had to transition to help with your dysphoria?

Trans activists: No, that is out-dated and pathologizing. Women are women because they have a gender identity which makes them women.

Women: Um, we thought we were woman because we’re female?

Trans activists: No, you are women because you have magic womanish essence that makes you women. We have the same magic womanish essence as you, it’s just that ours got stuck in the wrong body.

Feminists: That sounds kind of sexist. Can you tell us what this woman-essence is, and how it gets stuck in the wrong body, because that sounds like a weird metaphys…..

Trans activists: It’s SCIENCE.

Feminists: Science says there’s ‘magic woman essence’??? Are you sure? Because feminism would…

Trans activists: Shut up bigots.

Feminists: Sorry? What?

Trans activists: You are our oppressors, you don’t get to speak. When you speak you oppress us, and it literally kills us.

Feminists: WHAT?

Trans activists: You are cis women, cis people are our oppressors.

Feminists: We’re what?

Trans activists: It’s your new name, it comes from Latin, and means you have a magic gender essence that matches your body, and because your magic gender essence matches your body you are privileged…

Feminists: Hang on a minute, women are oppressed because they are women, we’re not really sure that’s a privilege…

Trans activists: YOU ARE PRIVILEGED BECAUSE YOUR GENDER IDENTITY MATCHES YOUR BODY. Nobody knows the pain of being trapped in the wrong body. It is the greatest pain of all the pains that has ever happened to all of human kind, and everyone who does not know this pain is privileged and is therefore our oppressor.

Feminists: Um, were not really sure we’re oppressing you, we don’t have much social power to oppress you, we’d just like to ask you some questions about this gender identity thing….

Trans activists: ARE YOU DEBATING OUR RIGHT TO EXIST???

Feminists: What? No, we just wanted to ask you…

Trans activists: YOU ARE DEBATING OUR RIGHT TO EXIST. THIS IS LITERAL VIOLENCE.

Feminists: No no no hold on, we’re just trying to ask you a question…

Trans activists: WE WILL NOT DEBATE OUR RIGHT TO EXIST. YOU ARE TRYING TO EXTERMINATE US. YOU ARE JUST LIKE GENOCIDAL RACISTS

Feminists: What??? We’re like genocidal what??? This is fucking crazy. Can we just try and calm down and talk about this?

Trans activists: NO. There is NO DEBATE. Debating is literal violence and makes us unsafe. Repeat after us – Trans women are women. Trans women are women because they have woman essence, just like cis women. You’re not women because of your bodies. Bodies have nothing to do with being a woman.

Feminists: Okay, this is sounding nuts now, because we really think our bodies have quite a lot to do with our being woman.

Trans activists: Bio-essentialism!

Feminists: What? Essentialism is bad we agree, but that means thinking people with certain kinds of bodies have to…

Trans activists: No, essentialism is thinking male and female people exist.

Feminists: But male and female people DO exist.

Trans activist: FUCK YOU TERF. DIE IN A FIRE.

Feminists: Woah.

Trans activists: How many fucking times do we need to tell you this cis-scum? Your body has nothing to do with your being a woman. There is no such thing as female biology.

Feminists: WHAT THE FUCK????

Trans activists: The gender binary was created by white heteropatriarchal colonialism.

Feminists: WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK???? WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?? WHICH ‘COLONIALISM’????

American trans activists who don’t know the rest of the world exists: Colonialism colonialism duh.

Feminists: How the hell is the colonization of North America responsible for the creation of male and female people? And while we’re here that sounds kinda racist…

Trans activists: Two-spirit people burble burble sex is a spectrum burble clown fish burble burble intersex people burble burble some women don’t have ovaries burble social construct burble Judith Butler

(Academics with cool-girl syndrome and assorted edgelords and wokebros: JUDITH BUTLER!!!!)

Trans activists: ….burble burble, there is no such thing as female biology and women are women because they have magic gender essence and therefore some women have penises!

Feminists: Okay, this is batshit. We REALLY need to talk about this.

Trans activists: WE WILL NOT DEBATE OUR RIGHT TO EXIST.

 Episode 1: The First War Continues. Scene 2: Cyberspace – around 2013-14

*Enter Intersectional Feminists from top, bottom and side of screen….*

Intersectional feminists: THEY WILL NOT DEBATE THEIR RIGHT TO EXIST YOU FUCKING BIGOTS.

Feminists: Hang on, we thought you were feminists. We thought you cared about female people.

Intersectional feminists: Female people are so last century. Only White Feminists care about female people.

Feminists: White what?

Intersectional feminists: All the feminists before us were white middle-class women and they only cared about what white middle-class women care about and they were only interested in getting good jobs for white middle-class women and they didn’t care about Black women and were dried up whorephobic prudes who didn’t realize sex work was liberating and mostly they just wanted to kill trans people.

Feminists: That sounds like some mad-ass caricature.

Intersectional feminists: You would say that, you oppressive old crones. You’re just saying that to maintain your power.

Feminists: No we’re not, we don’t have much power. We’re saying it because it sounds like bullshit. *Starts trying to explain all the things second wave feminism did to help women*

Intersectional feminists: We’re not listening to you, you oppressive bitches. We’ve hidden all your books in the library to protect young minds from them. You are whorephobes and transphobes and racists. We are intersectional. Only we have learned from the Tumblr-oracle how all the different oppressions have different points on a scale that add up to who is the most oppressed and you are white (so are we mostly but we’re pointing at you because somehow that means something, maybe because we have asymmetric hair-cuts and our profile pics give great side-eye) and you are women and that means that you are the least oppressed and that means that your feminism is shit and that means that you have to centre all these other people in your feminism and if you refuse it’s because you’re the oppressors and the most oppressed people are trans women and they must be the centre of feminism from now on.

Feminists: You want us to centre male born people in our feminism?

Intersectional feminists: THAT’S RIGHT BITCHES. And there is no such thing as ‘male-born people.’ That is cissexism and is literal violence. You need to educate yourselves. We don’t have the spoons.

Feminists: Um yeah, we know quite a lot about the history and practice of feminism and we’ve thought quite hard about it and I think we’re going to carry on centring female people if you don’t mind.

Intersectional feminists: OPPRESSORS

Feminists: Female people are oppressed and our political movement…

Intersectional feminists: SWERF AND TERF. SWERF AND TERF. SWERF AND TERF.

(Ps – Would you like to try this sourdough bread I made with yeast from my vagina?)

Feminists: Okay. This is getting REALLY fucked up now.

Intersectional feminists: Run away and cry your ‘White Feminism TM’ tears you dried up old witches. And don’t fucking kink-shame us or we’ll shank you.

Feminists: Um, this feminism seems not very…

Intersectional feminists with new blue hair:BIG DICK ENERGY.

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Expert: You ever wonder what a Martian might think if he happened to land near an emergency room? He’d see an ambulance whizzing in and everybody running out to meet it, tearing the doors open, grabbing up the stretcher, scurrying along with it. ‘Why,’ he’d say, ‘what a helpful planet, what kind and helpful creatures.’ He’d never guess we’re not always that way; that we had to, oh, put aside our natural selves to do it. ‘What a helpful race of beings,’ a Martian would say. Don’t you think so? ― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist, April 2002 Respite. Oregon Coast. Tidepools, grey whales, seals and sea lions, puffins and eagles, riotous rookeries and crashing tides, Milky Way and bioluminescence. One large emotional palette from which to paint new images, and to recharge batteries, reset some clocks, and reflect. Yet, how can a thoughtful person go minutes or hours or days with a blank mind, or into some levitating meditative state without all those deaths by a thousand cuts eating at the conscience? Death by a thousand laws, by a thousand penalties, by a thousand codes/regulations/permits; death by a thousand fines/levies/fees; death by a thousand firings/sackings/diminishments of our collective humanity. Death by a thousand tons of toxins in our community’s air, water, soil, education system, legal framework, urban planning. Death by a thousand seconds of celebrity culture, insane fake news, mauling media, lecherous lawyers, junkyard scientists, medical malpractitioners. Death by a thousand broken treaties, broken laws for the One Percent, broken promises, broken bureaucracies. How can you not wake up, look in the mirror, and be angry? Really angry at the state of the world, at the state of inequities, at the state of billionaires capturing our souls by the gigabytes to the 1,000th power, billionaires foreclosing on our jobs, our schools, our communities, our safety, health, sanity? John Trudell said a lot about that, waking up angry every single day . . . decrying what whites like to think are the great civilizers of the world (themselves) – what whites think western civilization is: The great lie is that it is civilization. It’s not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That’s the great lie, is that it represents civilization. — John Trudell Think about it: going into tourist space has more curves and dangerous cliffs to negotiate than being in the mix 24/7. The mix, man: fighting for homeless, fighting for the drug addicted, fighting for students, fighting for our people’s health, fighting for clean air, water, soil, money. With each overfed, overpaid/-paying, overly obnoxious and arrogant tourist, with every 30-foot RV with Lexus SUV in-tow, with every Indian Pale Ale microbrewery pitcher consumed and mountain of fried clams gobbled up, well, reflection isn’t just looking at Ursula Minor and Major as the tide goes out and the Dungeness crabs come in. Reflection is seeing the human species as a cancer. Self-centered, violent, believing there is a dung heap for the rest of the scum and a golden city for the vaunted, valued, human. More specifically, here’s sentiments from Susan Sontag, not to be taken lightly: If America is the culmination of Western white civilization, as everyone from the Left to the Right declares, then there must be something terribly wrong with Western white civilization. This is a painful truth; few of us want to go that far. … The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine ballets, et al., don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone—its ideologies and inventions—which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself. Scheme of things, the scale of the glass half full or glass half empty. The hierarchy of needs, and the implosion of those who have and those who do not. Peter Principle of the most incompetent, the most ethically challenged, the most philistine, the most ignorant, the most self-aggrandizing, the most murderous and sociopathic, rising to the top – in governments, parliaments, boardrooms, corporations, militaries, schools, hospitals . . . et al. A Pacific Coast that was once sane and peopled by Salish Tribes, now one with pink-skinned folks like Gremlins scurrying about to stake out more retail space, more consumer opportunities, more territory yanked from anything left in a fractured “natural world.” Five days of being on the coast, and it was all white people looking for saltwater taffy and goofy expensive humpback whale blown glass monstrosities. Unending kitschy stuff while the Anglo Saxon/Caucasian minds funnel through moving lips to purge out strings of commentary that are insipid, childish, all bundled up in the “where are we going to eat breakfast next and then find a nice seaside table to sip that Pinot while we stay comforted in our great white world?” Not an African-American, Black, Indian, Native American in sight. The smartest things in the air out here along the Oregon Coast are the corvids and thousands upon thousands of sea birds, falcons, bald eagles and osprey. It certainly isn’t the thoughts, words and actions of humanity here, from Newport south all the way to Golden Beach. We are talking about unending caravans of motor homes with full-sized SUVs in tow, the other traffic feeding a crisscross onto summer home beaches, some of them two-month-stay homes, and a lot of real estate for sale, properties moving from one hand to the next and a world of tourists devoid of color. It’s five days, and no Mexican-American families, no African-American families. It’s as if the US of A is that alt right David Duke land of the white Christian. Disconcerting, being out here for a respite for myself and my significant other. Tough jobs both of us manage back in Portland, and the getting away from the woods and rivers where we live and work, to the Oregon Coast is a deserving break. But, again, bizarre, really, the lack of diversity as if the USA, with 335 million citizens, is not about to largely (percentage wise) transform into a country of non-white-Germanic-Anglo people. State of the mind of white Americans tied to their whiteness, their Crypto Christian/Crypto Zionist earth razing and financialization schemes to corner everything we do, see, hope for, dream of, create, think of, believe in, live for, die for, hold dear, propagate as a market, it’s a sickness sent out to all corners of the world through the London School of Economics-Oxford-Yale-Stanford-Yeshiva type of recruiting as slick and effective as any School of the Americas or West Point! Trump is Obama is Clinton is Bush is Andrew Jackson is Nixon is Roosevelt is Washington. Whiteness is the key to civilization, even with our one outwardly mixed-race CEO. He excels as a man of white civilizers holding the key to final subjugation. Obama, who is like a Stepford Son! But let’s pause on the sheer demographics and exponentiality of the globe’s racial make-up coming onto the 8 or 9 billion mark: One demographer, who didn’t want to be named for fear of being called racist, said: ‘It’s a matter of pure arithmetic that, if nothing else happens, non-Europeans will become a majority and whites a minority in the UK. That would probably be the first time an indigenous population has voluntarily become a minority in its historic homeland.’ Lee Jasper, race relations adviser to the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, predicted a similar future, telling The Observer : ‘Where America goes, Europe follows 30 years later. There is a potential for whites to become a minority in some European countries.’ In Europe, with its 40,000-year-old indigenous white population, the rise of a non-white majority may not be greeted with such equanimity. In the United Kingdom, the number of people from ethnic minorities has risen from a few tens of thousands in 1950 to more than 3 million now. •In Italy, the birth rate is so low that, without immigration, the population is predicted to decline by 16 million by 2050. •The United States government predicts that non-hispanic whites will become a minority in the country by 2055. •The United Nations predicts that 98 per cent of world population growth until 2025 will be in developing nations. •The population of Europe is expected to drop from 25 per cent of the world total in 1900 to 7 per cent in the next 50 years. — Anthony Browne, The Last Days of a White World, Guardian, September 3, 2000. No matter how quickly the demographics shift in the US of A, correcting and redressing the past biggest injustices of Native American genocide by the white economists, bankers, clerics, militaries, serfs into this country will never happen. First Nations aboriginal peoples used to have this land to themselves. But now, less than one percent of the population they teeter on complete historical banishment, as the largest growth groups are among Latinos (largely derived from Spain), and Asians, (largely from China and the Philippines). This state of the world a la Oregon Coast is a state of people not able to get under the skin of how messed up the country is, has been and is continually going. No large conversations about those things, even the ones who adore and lust after Trump, they just move along in a world of retail relationships, one where the food is talked about while eating it, where the weather is detailed beyond absurdity, and where no serious talk about our collective and individual pain ever unfolds. Whites are lobotomized by debt, depression, deceit, emasculation, Hollywood, F-U Book, the Billionaire Mile High Club of Data Dealers, overeating/under-nutrition, delusions, and dreams of a UFO End Times or New Times. I attempt to gauge how illiterate folks are along the coast, looking at stuff in museums, people trying to understand the scheme of 70 percent of the globe’s surface (oceans) on all life, and their attempts at trying to understand the clouds above and the winds below. The corporations-TV-jefes have done a very good job, alongside the schools, media, ignorant politicians, and celebrities, AND scientists, of denuding the western mind of anything real or pressing, anything resembling a solution to the unfolding ills of climate warming, oceans rising, resources dwindling, bodies toxifying, communities eroding. This vast Pacific Coast is, of course, under the gun as acidification of the waters around Oregon is ramping up due to all sorts of upwellings, smokestack-tailpipe spewings. Species are collapsing. More people are moving into the tsunami belt here, and more woods/forests are being clear cut. More cars, more CO2 pushed out of internal combustion machines and burning of other fossil fuels all the way up the Industrial Age chain our factory technology 12,000 miles away from Depoe Bay. This is a big thing, ocean acidification, and the Oregon Coast is sort of the testing ground for the rest of the world tied to this double-headed monster – climate changing (warming) and ocean acidification. The Surfrider Foundation is working hard on this project to understand how Oregon’s coast will be affected by lower PH levels. Take a look at this amazing web site and organization, a coalescing of forces that very few tourists and locals alike know even little about. Here, the news not fit to broadcast or turn into a Netflix drama (sic): Canary in the Coal Mine Whiskey Creek Hatchery became the ‘Canary in the Coalmine’ for Oregon’s shellfish industry in 2007 when their oyster larvae experienced a massive die off. Scientists determined that the lower pH of the seawater they were pumping in from Netarts Bay was preventing the larvae from growing their shells. On a map of Oregon, find the coastal town of Newport. Draw a straight line directly west, perfectly perpendicular to the coast, out into the mighty Pacific 200 nautical miles from the blinking beacon of the Yaquina Head lighthouse. You’ve just sketched the Newport Hydrographic Line. Nearly everything we know about the function of Oregon’s coastal ocean ecosystem has been learned from samples collected at these stations between 1961 and … well, last week. The technology used along the Newport Line has evolved with the times. Since 2006, autonomous underwater gliders (the first two were named “Bob” and “Jane” after Bob Smith and Jane Huyer) have been patrolling it 24/7. At this very moment, two gliders resembling small yellow missiles are swimming their lonely way, diving and surfacing in an undulating path, collecting data on temperature, salinity, water clarity, ocean currents and more. These remarkable instruments transmit about 10 percent of their data as they “fly,” communicating via satellite when they surface. When a battery gets low, the glider surfaces and calls home. Scientists retrieve it from a boat, switch the battery out for a fully charged replacement, download the full data set and release it. The gliders can be monitored and even controlled via a smart phone app. Initially, studies along the Newport Line focused on physics — currents, temperatures and winds — in order to understand and characterize the most important oceanographic phenomenon in the region: wind-driven coastal upwelling. This process underlies nearly everything else that happens in Oregon’s ocean, from the flourishing fisheries to the presence of gray whales to the low-oxygen conditions and ocean acidification that have been in the news in recent years. In a nutshell, summer winds blowing from the north push surface water to the west and drive the conveyor belt of deep, cold, nutrient-rich waters into the coastal zone, fueling the Northwest’s food webs. Sometimes called “climate change’s evil twin,” a phrase coined by Oregon State’s Jane Lubchenco, ocean acidification is an insidious and unseen effect of rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere. The oceans have always absorbed CO2 from the atmosphere, but as levels of the greenhouse gas have climbed, primarily the result of fossil fuel burning, the oceans have taken in ever-higher amounts, leading to shifts in ocean chemistry. Organisms from oysters to corals are considered sensitive. Over the past 200 years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, average ocean-wide pH has dropped from 8.2 to 8.1. That may not sound like much, but on the pH scale, it amounts to a nearly 30 percent increase in acidity. Other researchers have found that highly acidified water can cause calcium shells made or used by many marine creatures to be harder to build or to dissolve. The net effects may be felt up and down the food chain. Animals in the intertidal and near-shore zones, including economically important species such as oysters and crabs, may be at risk. ‘The ocean may look the same, but the water is changing, especially on the Oregon coast,’ says Chan. Here’s why the Oregon coast is particularly vulnerable to acidification and thus an important place to study ocean chemistry. A Deep-Ocean Conveyor Belt The summer sun can warm your face, and the air can feel hot, but if you’ve ever been swimming along the Oregon coast, you know how cold the water can get. It gets especially chilly when north winds blow and push warmer surface water to the west. In its place, currents from deep in the ocean rise along our beaches and bays to replace it. This water — delivered by a process that scientists call upwelling — isn’t just colder; it also carries more nutrients that can fuel ocean life. On the downside, it has less oxygen and tends to be acidified. Like the proverbial slow boat to China, it can take decades for deep ocean currents to travel to the West Coast. When it last touched the atmosphere at the start of its journey, CO2 levels were lower than they are today. In the future, the water upwelling along our coast will carry the memory of the annual increases in CO2. Okay, so I cut and paste a lot here, but again, what are those crab cake bakes and flounder fries really about here along Oregon’s coastal water, which mostly originates in the North Pacific off Japan? Answer: Two cold, deep-water currents, one of which takes a decade to reach Oregon, while the second current brings those waters to the Oregon coast in about 50 years as it follows amazingly serpentine routes around the globe. Now, here’s the physics and chemistry we don’t talk about when eating our dill-infused, olive tampenade-drenched salmon — cold water holds higher concentrations of CO2 than warmer water, so these circuitous currents start off with increased CO2 levels. Then while making their slow flow toward the U.S. West Coast, the biological activity by organisms living in that water layer — zooplankton, phytoplankton and other microorganisms — constantly generates CO2 until, by the time the ocean conveyor belt of water rises to the surface off the Oregon coast, its CO2 level has increased greatly. Then, as the water is exposed to our atmosphere after decades in the depths of the mother ocean, even more of the greenhouse gas gets absorbed. This is something most Americans can’t-won’t-don’t grasp – chemical changes caused by engines of biomechanics of currents, air, and pollution. Okay-okay, not all tourists get into this level of science and deeper looks at how messed up the world is because of the Corporate Line and Power (One Percent) and the Collective Delusion of their Compliant Consumers (us). But truly, how can people in 2018 NOT go through the thought process of considering each and every bite we take, each mile we drive, each foot of earth we walk onto, each inch of clothing we buy, every trinket and every product we consume as part of the big picture? That little oyster stand in Newport has its intended and unintended consequences already built in, all that embedded energy to get to the oysters (metal in the ships harvested in mines/smelted/galvanized; then fossil fuel dug up and piped in to propel those ships to sea); to harvest the bivalves, then to haul them back, and next to process, package and ship them out, and, finally, to attract people from all parts of the West Coast to consume them. Yes, our own trip to get there and each nibble we make with the squeeze of a lemon, well, the footprint of Homo Sapiens-Consumo-Retailpithecus is dramatic. We are talking about those shellfish, now vulnerable to ocean acidification, all that fossil fuel to propel humans to the parking lot and propel foreign made utensils and plates and equipment to the little archetypal oyster shack, in Oregon, well, consequences are being laid out as I write this on the Cloud. In a world where everything is a retail transaction, where no thought of how the stuff we stuff into our mouths got from farm to fork is expended, it’s no surprise we are cooked intellectually and as communities of me-myself-and-I cancers. Then, more onion peel pulled back: who are these owners of these small businesses in these small towns on the Oregon Coast? Do they care about the world, or their little zone, little hamlets or beach towns? Do they care about the rampant poverty, the growth of shaky families aging in place, in the death spiral of education and decent ways to be, to be human, in small style, while living in a world of entertaining ourselves to death and make-believe idealism and ideals tied to the rich and the famous or notorious? Do they care Portland is filled with houseless people, homeless veterans, youth living on couches under an average of $80K in college debt, people like me working our tails off for the underpay the non-profit world of social services spreads like disease across the land? And that’s not just Portland, but Every Town USA. Do they care about fence line communities in Houston or the lead in water in Flint or the lack of electricity in Puerto Rico six months after a hurricane? Do they care about words having universal meaning, or the poetry in being versus consuming, or the truths of human kind, or the lessons in evolving history, or the potentiality of real revolution, or the bigger power of changing him-or-her-self into a giver, no longer a taker, or being part of the smaller and bigger solution, while still grappling with their privilege, and then finally seeing the future of seven generations out being more important now than ever before? Respite. Observation. A poem. Sanity: Contemplating Nine Crows Jumping Mid-Air for Our Trail Mix near Yachats, Oregon on the eve of partner’s 48th birthday something about cobalt tips, wings the black of eclipse birds smarter than parking lot humanity tricksters, crowing along faded lines jumping, leaping, barely flapping corvid line of avian harmonizing with wind people looking into ocean sky we asked crows into our lives two of us tired of heavy hearts, our own species cancers, riotous Homo sapiens, like the cracks of coast cliffs beaches we surmount hoping gulls congregate we never know when light from animal brother inches into our hearts never know when whimsy follows us into memory, love how coal black birds possess mental might through tricks, we can’t stop thinking birds, smarter than human race, the Oregon Pacific in the background creek emptying into swells we find harbor momentarily comics like Charlie Chaplin waddling, marching, the grip of their sky, somehow transformed into our world too http://clubof.info/