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#it’s crazy how you can tell just how much propaganda a person consumes by how they view arabs
jujusjunk · 4 months
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bootleg-b0i · 5 months
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I hate the a college course rabbit hole has my Swiftie-posting, but honestly, my feelings about her so ugh...conflicting.
On the one hand, she's the poster girl for white millennial cishetnormativity, I have little in common with this woman demographically. And yet I've listened to her music for as long as my conscious memory goes back. I don't consider myself a fan but I know all the words to 75% of her songs.
But mainly, my feelings recently are just like, what role creatives and public figures have in shaping the people who parasocially connect with them. Her dating that racist is so vile, but also fans sending her that tantrum letter about how she has to break up with him to be a good role model for the fans is WEIRD. And I think she has every right to read something like that and think y'all are being WHACK.
But its not like those fans didn't have a point? Idk, it's like, maybe we wouldn't care that she was dating a racist weirdo if she hadn't tried to frame herself as the paragon of allyship back in Lover era. I watched Miss Americana doc recently and like, seriously the whole thing devolves into morality propaganda. Propaganda I agree with mind you!! But girl, why was that necessary?
Alternatively, she wouldn't feel so much responsibility to voice her opinions if she wasn't always forced to be aware of the millions of media-uncritical teens who lap her every word right up. Like, we don't hold men to that kind of standard, that's why Matty Healy is even still relevant!! He can say all this heinous shit to HIS OWN teen fans and everybody lets that slide, but suddenly its Taylor's fault for dating him that the teens are gonna think its okay to being a racial fetishist? The math is kinda missing me on that one.
At one point, early on in her career, she had to dodge down allegations that she was convincing teen girls to break up with their good boyfriends by constantly writing break-up songs. Some of the discourse really feels like that kind of ridiculousness. Nobody is gonna go out and date a racist cuz Mommy Tay told us it was okay. Literally nobody is doing that unless they already wanted to.
It's hard really. I think she has every right to be angry and feel like she's going crazy under that kind of scrutiny that just gets worse all the time. I think there should be, and probably is, an onus on fans to be media-critical and decide for themselves "hey this is kind of fucked up and I think that's wrong, even if I look up to this person". And believe it or not! Most people not on the internet are able to do that!
But all that said, no matter what documentaries she makes, we need to impose a belief that girly is not a paragon of anything, but especially not:
Good Decisions
Allyship
Mental Health
Or Moral Credibility!
She's right to say that its literally her life, no one else's. Be a responsible consumer and don't listen to people who you think aren't worthy of support, and if you don't want to stop listening to her music even then, then you have to sort out that moral conundrum for yourself. It's not her job to be a moral figurehead for you, even if she wants to be and tells you she is.
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hanzi83 · 1 year
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Read It or Don’t BUT It’s Very Long
I know I have spent a lot of time on this already but when I feel like there is an overall danger being normalized and a lot of shit is being amplified and in the wrong direction, so much so that you will have people who claim to be progressive or gate keep the left, that them starting sensationalist fear mongering under the guise of being “reasonable” while taking the the far right wing side, and just because people don’t admit that they are taking a right wing position, it shows me more that these people who want to sell out for a bigger gig or to make more money, they are not content with just selling out, they are content with making their side seem like the real progressive ones, because they spar with delegation members in the system to hype up a sensationalist issue with trans people in sports, and like I have stated before on here and on my podcast, I don’t really give 2 shits about sports and I am not familiar with the official science in any capacity, I take “experts” word on it because they are around sports and athletes etc, but out of all the issues that is concerning in sports, trans people partaking in them would be on the bottom of my list. You mean to tell me in a world where there are systemic abuses and coverups and problems with the leagues not giving the right information when it comes to concussions, plus if you walk down my path of the conspiratorial thinking, that these people on top literally help organize and initiate people into the system to do the sports entertainment and getting in trouble and scandal because it is a mafia system in my personal opinion, and we have to prop up the entertainment dollar so those issues to me would be more concerning that we think there is integrity in sports in general, like the games are not rigged and organized, like most people are not cheating already, and your main concern is that trans people might want to play sports. The excuse is that it is a losing issue with polling but other people on the left have pointed out that these have been losing issues with people for elections. I am relieved to hear that, but what is so concerning about it, that these shitty sore losers on the right, once they try to normalize and manufacture consent for an overall hatred to marginalized communities, they will not stop until they can force their way and their ideology on the population, but it does make me feel happy that a lot of the population has not gone that super crazy where they think this is the main thing to be scared about because bad faith actors are normalizing Nazi like propaganda. So that is why I don’t give a shit about this argument, but because people consume sports and the news cycle around it, even if you are someone who doesn’t follow politics, the politics will seep into whatever fandom there is now, that is where the cults are going now anyways, so I don’t even know how rare this shit is or how prevalent it is, but people who are not paying attention to other normalized propaganda in the MSM will think the shit they are getting from their fav celebs and alt media outlets, they think they will get 100 percent of the truth. The thing that might help the right, all the boogeymen type of sensationalist shit they will put out, there might be examples of them being right, and I bring it up because they will bring up an organized sensationalist example to make it the be all and end all. I am gonna try and organize my thoughts as best I can, I know the aesthetic of being on Tumblr is already hurting my image, but also I am not buying into the online narratives as 100 percent accurate because they waste too much time on how the MSM is shit as their main personality trait, so they can then propagandize and pretend that people who are trans and are pushing back at the normalized and sophisticated right wing propaganda, as much as you want to disguise it, it is a new form of right wing propaganda, these people who go “This is why I left the left” will act like that is the very radical issue that won’t do any fucking favors while believing the right wing narrative, doing free promo for politicians who happen to be in fighting and listen there are people who are on the left who i will have agreement on with the morally correct position, but one thing I disagree with is that people with platforms and people who are internet personalities will dumb down their villains and buy into the sports entertainment, because I am mentioning that because all the shots Cenk/Ana want to take at other leftists, and you just judged it off those videos without knowing what they did to start a shirt storm and then pretend they don’t like in fighting and focusing on important issues is one of the sickest things they can do, and now it is clear they are doubling down, there is a reason why it is not in their best interest to admit that they are starting a right wing grift, is because they rather do this new form of propaganda under the guise of being progressive and whatever progressives are genuinely left watching their network they will think these people are reasonable, because this is how much even the supposed progressive of all progressives have lied while screaming about MSM being all liars, they have dumbed down their villains, but they will now double down on fighting for marginalized communities even though you are giving carte blanche to right wing framing in an era where they are literally normalizing laws to start fascist shit, and they use the entertainment as a way to manufacture consent, these are important issues and yes we shouldn’t waste our breathe on Ana Kasparian and Cenk but they have an audience and they are looked at as authorities on certain topics, they can pretend they are being peaceful and they are entertaining debate and disagreement, but if you limit disagreement and yell over people when your employees, some of who had to quit because they can see the pivot, that says more about your way of “debating” and you can watch their snide comments and their videos on this matter and if you didn’t know what was going on you would think they are being the reasonable ones, this all started because Ana Kasparian out of nowhere went on an unhinged rant about not wanting to be called a birthing person, and even then people gave her the benefit of the doubt and gave her valid critique and wanted discussion, TYT went as far as to say they don’t want to collaborate with any leftist anymore, and yet you talk about people on the left doing in fighting. And I know it is sucks because you will be making a bunch of money from a brand new audience but deep down they are fucking angry at themselves because they gotta function off a fucking script that they can’t break. They are doing Howard Stern and Vince McMahon level shit of discrediting their employees who left and maybe that is also part of the sports entertainment as well where this heel turn is all planned out, thing is normally people who leave TYT end up becoming worse so as much as I support Bennie, part of me has it in my head, will she turn heel down the line because I support the video she did and she did a good job but it was like it was limited and designed for ammo for people to counter her when she uses a tinder date she matched with as an example of not being in a bubble, and I am sure she could’ve used better examples. But I even notice on the show of TYT, they have been getting into spirited debates lately and since there is an issue with others speaking their mind, I personally believe TYT has been doing that to have evidence on the show of them disagreeing. Truthfully we shouldn’t waste time on this, because people who know better will be like “SO DID CALLING OUT CENK AND ANA SOLVE TRANSPHOBIA OR NO” like no it didn’t but their actions are normalizing more hatred for that community and even this issue being the reason it blew up on them is also designed to have more hatred for the trans community in that other post left types are trying to minimally get in on the action of this controversy but use their right leaning positions of why they were right about TYT and will make fun of the left for being mad about this but not other shit, but people have been pointing out Ana and Cenk’s problematic shit for the last several years now over a fucking bunch of issues, this is not new but this has felt very abrupt and it feels like one of the most forced heel turns in recent fucking time. You can keep denying the pivot all you want, but it is there and because they give you a caricature like image of what the right wing is, you won’t notice the subtle shit that people do that leads into a more far right wing leaning element. Maybe I have been consumed by propaganda most of my life, that I can recognize it and I am getting good at it, not that I can be acknowledged, and this must be getting at people at high levels, because I barely get any reaction or interaction on social media, I am not relevant but when right wingers show up in my mentions to defend TYT, it is like they are organizing that shit against detractors, Ana is such a fucking coward, she doesn’t want debate with the left but she goes on right wing shows to basically expose these audiences to certain names of people who have called her out where now she is kind of in a way directing hatred to someone like Olay or other members of the show the “Leftist mafia” and now the trolls who approached me pretend that they are being reasonable, you can always tell they are working with a script, and they tweet like they are overdosing on fentanyl, you go to their entire timeline, and it is a fucking shrine to right wing politics plus their bios are suspect, they will keep saying my political biases while they only argued with me because it was a call out of a right wing action. I didn’t want to talk about TYT because there are more pressing issues of where the world is going but they are really gonna throw on their NWO shirts. Even now posting a podcast, their trolls who mix with my trolls, will make fun of no one interacting wit my post of putting out my podcast, I just kind of promote it, and I realize not the most people will listen to me or I may not be required to be listened to but I am putting in effort to try and explain my mental process and how irrational shit can affect you and everyone around you, but I have people showing up in my mentions talking about how no one listens, it is crickets, it doesn’t matter because a lot of “important” people behind the scenes have to pay attention to a fat chubby loser like me. Like yeah you can reduce my podcast being “he just yammers into a phone in his mommy’s basement” but you are still paying attention to it, and yeah anyone who looks at it on the surface and can say I just speak into a phone and then just post it, but I put in hours to speak and I like to think I come from a different perspective and angle when going through it, it is not for everyone, and that is fine. I rather do the show I want to do, and I might not be the smartest, but people know I come from a genuine place, people have seen my progress over the last 15 years and there were definitely really dark times, and when I look at the discourse now and how amplified all of this is, it makes me realize that 10-13 years ago diving into these conspiracies online, I would’ve probably been in a bad place if this established shit online was really popular in the MSM and yes the MSM includes all your favorite podcasters and the alt media who give establishment like vibes, while claiming you are anti establishment. TYT knew what they were doing and they will keep doing it. You will put people in danger with your rhetoric and even then you limit narratives, pretending you won’t capitulate to the mob but you are bowing down to the right wing by this issue with trans people in sports by buying into the sensationalism, they will chastise how activists organize but will give the benefit of the doubt for cute little right wingers who go viral when these people are probably funded to be in front of camera, you are taking the extreme position and then comparing people on the left to the right wing, listen are there sports entertainers online on all sides, probably and there are delegation members from different communities who have squabbles behind the scenes and it spills out on social media etc, but that shit would not exist if there weren’t a lot of right wing funded accounts and personas who will constantly lie about shit, like if this were 10-15 years ago and this movie Sound of Freedom came out, I would’ve bought into the online hype about them not wanting you to see this, and if you know right wing fundamentalists are behind it and judge off that narrative, but if the movie itself doesn’t officially have any politics involved with it then people will use that as a way to call anyone who doesn’t like this movie or doesn’t trust who is behind it, a pedo. You are stepping into the convo and keeping politics out of the movie but automatically you will call people pedo for not liking and buying into this astroturf, I would trust the right wing people who say they are concerned about the kids, if they didn’t support 100 other fucking things that harms kids, but if you know that and want to state it, it is like you have to go 10 rounds online with these shit heads who are gonna regurgitate what is being spewed from their side of the road. It is one of the most forced things on the planet. A bunch of smart people on all sides have denied the internet having more to it than they want to admit, we have to pretend everyone online is 100 percent genuine, it is like they are all playing characters and the sad shit is the sports entertainment the right wing are doing is dominating and getting traction. 
So when I look at the grand view of the system and how a lot of stuff on the surface is designed to happen the way it happens, because there is now faction warfare and all of this shit about policy, which is really important by the way, can be used as a way to divert attention, like if someone in the alt media space is making a right wing pivot because they fucking talk about how ballsy the MTG’s and the Freedom Caucus are, because the progressives capitulate to the democrats all the fucking time, on the surface there is nothing wrong with pointing it out but here is where my hypothetical comes into play since whatever is happening on the surface is sports entertainment, it is like wrestling when people get tired of the good guys not being able to be good babyfaces, because the Vince McMahon’s of the world are still booking it, and everyone always get into the heels a lot more because they might show more guts than the good guys or talk about some nugget of truth, and it applies to me in this situation where the right wing trajectory system will always book the heels a lot better and also come back a bit more reasonable, and people knowing that and know where the world is going defend it and take advantage of the right wing trajectory, where they can make it seem like there is nothing to look forward to with the Biden types etc, if you judge on the surface, sure there is kayfabed shit that people will point to, but it is like even the democrats know where the world is heading so even if they do good gestures, the people behind the scenes know that it will undone, but in kayfabe it gives ammo for people who want to be anti right wing etc, and the right wing don’t care about the corruption because they support the most corrupt in the fucking world, so even if you point out what is happening under Biden’s watch, you will still advocate for another puppet who will be the face of fascism because if the goal is to go more right, they can take advantage of what is happening currently and that is why I stopped using the talking point of what happened under each president, because my beef would not be with the booked sports entertainers who get to be world champions, it would be the WWE booking committee. We are at a point where people who are democrat who will shame you not for voting for a status quo mother fucker, knowing it will push people another way and the people who think they are morally right to make grand gestures to prove the dems are fucked up don’t seem concerned with the other problematic shit they are normalizing. Again this is how I process it, sure I can go and regurgitate shit and not think for myself and a lot of people do that, but it is too embarrassing for them to admit it, because no one wants to admit they don’t understand shit, this is why people can be swayed into alternate history and science. I say this as someone with experience with consuming problematic shit via entertainment and seeing how you could be manipulated without realizing shit. Like not everyone who had an issue with TYT was an activist, and some of the people they claim are not forgiving etc, could be sensationalist accounts that do exist since people are becoming sports entertainers and social climbers, that shit exists but there are also others with platforms who were trying to tell you why this is not a good idea and were open to having a conversation about it. Being trans is not a political ideology and not all of them are gonna be aligned 100 percent on issues, there are plenty of people from all communities to have self hatred for their own community at large and will proudly be this new token for the system. After TYT profited off those videos featuring different Karens, they have the gall to fucking chastise people using it. Listen I know these kinds of people exist and it is very real but I also have felt that a lot of viral shit that goes on is funded to happen and then you define it by the community or the political shit so people think they are covering something organic, and it feels like it causes more trouble in a sea of problematic shit that already exists, so now I notice it was cool to profit off those videos but then now you are making money walking back the term Karen, it is always white guys in the system who run shit, so they throw white women under the bus, not that these women don’t enable it but it is a lot more complex but pretending like being called Karen is the most racist shit ever is the stupidest argument coming from a cookie cutter personality and listen I don’t want to generalize all white people, like when it comes to the bad faith actors who have to appease their right wing audience by promoting false double standards to make it seem like on a systemic level white people are being maligned and generalized, so anytime people bring up racism existing it now serves to do a pushback, even the people in the system who can talk about race will have to limit what they say so if you are a regular white person and you are not familiar with the systemic shit and you only view racism as tit for tat like if someone of color says anti white shit in an ignorant way you think you can say something horrible back because it is tit for tat and I am talking about regular white people, not bad faith actors funded for their speech, so then if these people hear public figures generalize white people and they don’t know the grander view of what is being talked about, they will think they are getting dumped on as well, and then you have the problematic people lure them in by telling them they will never be accepted by these minorities so they have no choice but to align with people who they think is making sense while they have no idea they are invested into fundamentalism, so if you listen to Ana’s message of her simplifying her message of saying that they shouldn’t generalize all white people, then yeah I will agree, the system is so racist though that when minorities talk about it, they have to generalize it to white people solely and the generalization helps no one and for us minorities, if the system is a right wing trajectory and a white supremacist system, when you see regular white people or other members of marginalized communities buying into the system’s narrative, it is a white washing going on so I don’t think every white person etc who often can be ignorant, I don’t think they are purposefully doing that, society is the one that puts out different art forms and sensationalist figures that help manufacture the consent for that. But Ana didn’t just simply say “ERMA GURD GENERALIZING WHITE PEOPLE BAD” she defended Kyle Rittenhouse, she lied about what she did to start this argument and goes on right wing show where her new audience will target that woman Olay and other people part of the leftist mafia show, she praised an obsessive transphobe, and her catering to the right wing comes off like she is coming to the light, but she did make points about some people who will cater to people who are left and they might not believe in it, so she is putting that out there so they officially go on that side and don’t worry I didn’t forget what Ana etc have said where they never forget when someone goes after them, even if it is under good intention, they are cowards who will hide behind a fucking cult and they have protection to talk all that shit, because they are simply an elitist bunch. She sophisticated her rhetoric to a newer audience to act more reasonable while she is getting fucking boosted up by right wingers and act like this is a room for disagreement, there are a lot of cowards who will talk a big game about not capitulating to the right wing and we shouldn’t give an inch to let fascism rise, but then they take extreme positions and act like people shitting on them are unhinged. They can’t even do a fucking story without flailing their arms in the air and keeping themselves in check, they have turned the world into politics into armchair quarterback shit and mislead their fucking audience with this sports entertainment. Get mad I don’t give a shit, I wish I didn’t have to talk about it but it has been dominating the algorithm and it is important because there are people who genuinely look to them for their opinions if they are not as educated on the issue and guess what all you have is another segment of “MSM IS BAD. WE TELL YOU WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU” this isn’t 2010 anymore, everyone is for sale and everyone caters to propaganda on some level. They will claim they are hesitant to believe stories of racism, because it might more nuance to it and this is why I have been pointing out the notion of the viral videos being used for this shit, like they have obvious ones like the Jussie Smolliet shit happening which was staged and that one was supposed to be the “one time” example because everything else has to be genuine, it could not be organized and funded to happen since our world is turning into entertainment with life and death. So the reason why I bring this up, when these viral moments become the go to, there will always be something that will help facilitate the narrative of why the people claiming racism are the ones who lied, so now it is like they are manufacturing consent not to believe when real shit goes down. This is why I keep pointing out when people make their political motives the backdrop because they are always trying to be entertainers non fucking stop. But they will believe right wing narratives, do stories where they have generalized all Trump people and I am not talking about regular people but now they are doing stories where in a time where facism in a very far right wing way, where they present Trump people in a more positive light and if anything negative is talked about on the right wing with something shitty they did, they have to always mention the left does it too, that is boring and predictable and they and others like them are whores for the big payday. And I know people who say they hate them will dumb down that they are not important, but they have enough of an audience that is helping the right wing framing. She even misgendered on purpose while making it look like an accident so if people called her out on that, that she could use that she made a simple mistake and they wanted her canceled. I think they pull Howard Stern tactics with how they discredit their ex employee and by the way when I would see Bennie on the panel, I saw the name Bennie so I was unsure if she was trans and if she was, I thought it was a female transitioning into a male, but I never really investigated further about someone’s gender etc, but I made the mistake accidentally but I don’t work with her and I just found out she was actually trans, Ana has been working with her and she knows better but will probably cry about how people are getting at her for this when it is also other shit she has done and said, but she will cry on the next right wing show she goes on to misrepresent shit, and her and Cenk act like the left can’t have reasonable conversations all because you don’t want to admit you sold your fucking soul and you know that with whatever big payday you are aiming for, you won’t be happy at all, you will feel miserable because even if you partake and enjoy the spoils of the system, you know that in your head you are not giving a genuine take and it is getting less and less everytime. All of this to me has been preemptive for people who want to turn heel. In my opinion the way Cenk and Ana positioned this shit with how Bennie gave into the twitter critics is a very Chappelle like thing to do because Chappelle had a trans woman that he let do standup and she committed suicide and then Chappelle blamed the pro trans people for pushing her into that, not that it wasn’t a bunch of his cultic base that were sending anti trans stuff that gets ingored by the way, and acting like that wasn’t part of the reason it happened, and now doing the same thing by making it seem like Bennie is the wrong one for giving into twitter for having disagreements, if the disagreements involve having to fucking stand by while shithead sellouts normalize far right wing shit then yeah call me a fucking purist. I think the entire controversy though is also part of an overall storyline and a gimmicked way for people to just become the villains. And you can tell by her tweet about the civil rights never having any violence etc, and then she deletes it and then she retweets another guy who advocated for mowing down BLM protestors in 2020, and he claimed there was no violence in the Civil rights movement and if you have stupid takes like that, I am supposed to feel sorry for you because you are saying you don’t want to speak to someone outside her race because she might say the wrong thing which says more about you, yeah I am sure black people are not gonna be happy that some shit head is talking about the civil rights movement as it was some very peaceful march that didn’t see any violence. She will say that shit, she will say she is done with leftists, and then act like no one wants to have an actual debate, and I have seen enough shitty shock jocks in the comedy world use this kind of rhetoric and these 2 and other grifters don’t have the charisma to pull it off. They will claim everyone is focusing on the wrong things but we are dedicating hours upon hours to react to you guys because you want to be sports entertainers so fucking badly. There will probably be a reunion with Jimmy Dore and other shit heads who left there and got worse, if you call it out, you will have trolls showing up who will demand they are owed the convo and they can dictate how you reply, these are the type of people they have got behind this “progressive” news network. It isn’t really fucking news, it is just horrible takes and limited shit, like if I believe public figures especially in media who have dipped their hand in getting people elected and since these younger politicians and a lot other ones in general are booked to do certain shit, all the disappointing shit that they do that makes the left mad, how do I know Cenk hasn’t given incentive for them to do regressive shit, maybe because we are not supposed to go more left, we are supposed to be tired with the democrats and the left so we embrace more right wing shit that will get worse for people, again that is just my theory and I know if you follow the official rules of who has power, it is just the politicians, not that sports entertainers and billionaires are playing in the same fucking script and to me like I have said, it is all filler until we get to the inevitable that will transpire in the future, whether it is a full fascist takeover or people fighting back and there actually being a revolution in this world, either way more and more chaos is there and these people who pretend to tell the truth by the official narratives, and yes even these alternate theories that frequent on alt media or planted online are also part of the official narrative, they just make it look like people are suppressing it. The last decade plus has shown me that none of the rules people advertise just exist for kayfabe purposes and when you have people thinking limited by the “official rules” it won’t allow them to further their think and see a bigger picture, I can look at the overall vibe and patterns seen in our fiction that I can see where they are leading us to think the world is going, they use gimmicks in the movies by creatures etc to put it out there, but the elements of what is being put there could be true, just look at that show the Boys, do I think there are superheroes that exist, but if I exchange different shit to replace it with, that would make me think celebs etc are military tools and they get away with horrible shit and they hold some kind of power in society, I could look at Sopranos and even though not every click is exactly like that, the elements of an institutional boss could be represented with what Tony Soprano is.
But this situation with a lot of the public figures and especially with sports entertainment personalities is that they want the spoils of being a heel but they don’t want to commit to it, so they play the anti hero where they are too cowardly to admit they want to be cheered for being a new piece of shit, they still want to portray themselves as someone who is standing up for the right in this world while not disclosing they are helping other people who are horrible, I get aggressive with this shit because I know that the only way for me to make any real money is to embrace problematic shit and problematic people, I have been out of the loop and in my own world and I don’t know what shady shit people I know have been up to and if I don’t know, is that the system’s way of aligning me with people who are answering to far right wing shit, that is why for me the only solution is not to be here because I really don’t want to become someone who advocates for sophisticated right wing shit. Like it is easy to get on the trend of the system exposing a problem with sexual assault and harassment within the celebrity and political world and make it relate to regular people, when there have been initiations and abuse that has been systemic, some people won’t get vindication and will just be another number and some will be initiated to be one of the people who gets chosen to be the sports entertainer despite suffering real abuse etc, to be judged by people who are now pushing back against any type of fucked up shit going on and because they make it relatable to regular situations, there have been wrongful accusations that regular people have faced, so now you think someone like Jonah Hill is being shit on, and because I don’t think celeb storylines are going the way they say it goes, because it is more mafia and arranged marriage or relationship kind of a thing in that world, I noticed that they have now done more of these stories that play out as sports entertainment where they are making it seem like women being problematic and being shitty are the real enemies and the celebs they are picking on are completely innocent, they are both cogs chosen to play a fucking role and now that it was going in one direction even if it came off gimmicked, and the media is to blame because they will act like “Well they didn’t want to come out with abuse claims because the victim didn’t want to come out” and if I take it at face value, that is understandable, but I sometimes think the media that is complicit in shit, will not report on it until it becomes a convenient story to now cancel Jonah Hill, so now we start the storyline with stuff that happened but I feel organized to happen, where the victim is going to talk about this boundaries list that sounds so fucking whack to everyone who is just a regular citizen, but to me this is exposing what all these people with any kind of power do with their business relationships, like if they are going to be their “relationship partner” they have certain rules that need to be abided by, but they release this to show you what is common in that world, but they are presenting it like Jonah Hill is the only one that has these rules, it was designed to be one of those debatable things where people are advocating for relationships to be more conservative because these women are running wild, even if these ones associated with celebs were, they would be told to go act wild, whatever their on surface character is, that is what is supposed to be seen, so now the online establishment will automatically start siding with the guy because they are viewing it as double standards issue, then they let another storyline come out where Jonah Hill may have sexually assaulted an actress when she was 16 etc, if this turns out not to be true, it will make Jonah look like someone being framed, so he wants to turn heel which is why all of this shit is coming out, and they know when shit is coming out, in my personal opinion, and they know when they gotta turn heel, it is not gonna affect him, people will think this stuff being in the news is gonna affect him, if it does, it is because he is a cog in the system playing a fucking role, but he is gonna still have his career, if the world worked with shit as simple as “Why didn’t you call the police” if the police are given orders not to do shit by billionaires who fund these kind of initiaitons and storylines, they are not gonna fucking touch it, this is why I hate applying regular rules to celeb shit because it won’t make any fucking sense, but between this and the storyline of Usher playing the role of an RNB singer who has sang about taking your girl away, now serenading other celebs in front of their arranged relationship partner to then have this wild break up on social media, why do people who analyze this shit also become marks, we are judging this shit like this is a real thing so you can live vicariously through, don’t you see how dangerous this entertainment dollar shit is, we have to dumb down the convo and basically we are putting “real” analysis for shit that is a sports entertainment storyline. And they are using these celeb storylines for people who are online sports entertainers and social climbers start advocating for more conservative control in a relationship, because being “liberated” is this faux pas, by the way even the showbiz people who act “liberated” that shit is designed for them to be forced to play that role as well because it helps facilitate the notion of a more conservative way to have these relationships, and that is what is being advocated on a sophisticated level. That is why suddenly every bad faith actor is taking the side of the guy because even in this release of the texts, people are focusing on the part where he is saying these are his boundaries, the guy sounds insecure but fine that is what he wants out of a relationship, if this was a real relationship I would be like “it is best for both these people to move on” and just because this woman is also a cog in the system who was told to do this shit, they are putting more heat on her to be this villain because it played out in the court of public opinion, they are gonna keep manifesting this shit until everything being done will be by the court of public opinion while advocating for more conservative fundamentalist thinking. Same thing with Britney Spears, people reflected on how society would treat her and shame the platformed people for how they fucked with her mental ability because she was being propped up and you can only think it was her dad and family who were controlling and not that they were the gimmicked cogs who were the reason this was happening and now you think she got her vindication and she is free, but I believe she has other handlers having her do antics where people then have no choice but to say “You know what Britney, maybe she should be controlled” because we are leaning in an overall way to advocate for the worst shit while making it seem like liberation and freedom has people acting so out of control, even the people who don’t want to have nuance about sex in television shows or movies, some people will be strong in their belief it doesn’t need to be there, but people who strongly advocate for it come off creepy as well, while pretending the other side is creepy and the reason I say this because since the Metoo movement, even though these stories come out and presented in gimmick ways even if the abuse did happen, I figured we were on our way to actually expose how much more controlling it is instead of it being presented like a simple mishap in a workplace that we think is like a mom and pop shop rules, but the reason I kind of question shit is because then years later both men and women talk about how they were kind of forced or pressured into doing scenes and now knowing that, I do tend to think and ask myself if this person wanted to really do it, if they wanted to that is fine, I am fine with sex scenes in movies, I might not get laid often I might as well see some sex in my life, I don’t mind the scenes at all, but the fact that people who just strongly advocate and completely don’t see the nuanced view of it, it makes me think they want to be people who are pressuring women especially to do shit they don’t want to do or they won’t get cosigned by people online and you need people online to prop up your status because people want to be talked about. But you can’t have this nuance with people because they won’t admit that these kinds of things happen, and people who pretended to be feminists in the 2010s already got their rewards for it and now they have probably done some shady shit, who will use their feminist status as credible to now start advocating that puts pressures on other cogs in the system, it is the same coin because the other side of the extremist shit will be shaming these women and giving the powerful men the benefit of the doubt which is hilarious because these guys shame women that do sex work for prostituting their bodies but these people have no problems prostituting their mental state to bow down to their billionaire or celeb hero. Do I want to stick around this planet so I am put in this position to be that kind of cog? But when I see TYT analyze celeb shit, I know I am gonna get shit analysis, and the way they are defending Jonah Hill and doubting the woman’s story is to amplify this fake story to have this vitriol of anyone who is allowed to speak out about shit, because if I were to bet money on it just like Cenk bets money on sports, I would say there is a good chance that they don’t play by regular rules and they are their own institution like a WWE, maybe on a smaller level, but most of these institutions have their own fraternity initiations and abuse that they probably partake in and Cenk looks like he is worried that it could come out about him, again my personal assessment, not saying I am right, but since they are making the right wing pivot, now them covering these celeb stories in favor of shaming the victim in this sports entertainment storyline shows me the trajectory they are going, and even the people calling for Jonah Hill’s blood etc, are not telling you the truth about how this entire operation with celebs is run. You are not gonna get honest takes from anyone who claims to be in the media, especially with stuff that is run by a fucking mafia. Every story that has the right wing in a bad light, TYT will then start going off on the left, like their new masters told them if they are gonna cover right wing shit, they have to shame the left and equate them to radicals on the right wing who are probably funded, the best they can tell you is that these people are mentally unhinged influenced, but they wouldn’t want to tell you that these kinds of unhinged people are funded to be that way, this guy was used as a cog who stalked Obama, now people who hate the powerful are not gonna give a shit about Obama’s house being stalked, but those same shitheads who have become more right and less left, will always talk about if you take away freedom of speech from Trump, then it is dangerous for all of us, but they never think that if this could be funded to happen to Obama, it represents that Trump or his ilk can put addresses of many people out there and put regular people in danger. This isn’t some random shit, this guy was at the Insurrection, the feds knew who this guy is and he would be under watch so he couldn’t do that again, and people think the feds are on the left’s side, just because some people on the left sheepishly pretend Trump is gonna get in trouble and they are just rooting for him to go away but you know that isn’t the case, if maybe some of you got a bit conspiratorial and maybe think that it could make it look like they are going after him but actually letting him still prosper and look like he is dodging the system setting him up, maybe people would see the danger, but anyone who thinks Trump and his motives are a big concern, you will have people think you are sounding like a MSM DEMOCRAT. The MSM and Dems making fun of things or advocating for things is designed for the “genuine online shit heads” who are totally not given incentive online to push back, will push back and we are supposed to think the only narrative that is shit is the democrat MSM bullshit, while they make it seem like the online shit is where it is at, and just look how MSM like the online shit is with this sound of freedom movie which gets the “crowd surfed funded” or whatever they call it but they won’t tell you who is secretly putting money against it. It is one of the biggest ops in the world, and these people and this ilk will pretend they are better than the MSM personalities, and that isn’t saying much and you are not that far off from these personalities, it is actually fucked up that the MSM has probably a better grasp of what the alt media types were gonna be like, and not because they are moral and good people, but they love to self preserve their truths while they also do phony fucking behavior and antics.  People who feuded with TYT when they were actually right in the issue that they were feuding with will now come out and chastise people for now calling out TYT so that to me signals there will be a reunion with them and the other contributors who ended up going right wing themselves but they still can’t admit it. I don’t know much but I know that people are not talking about Latin X, when this originally became a discourse topic, it kind of faded away rather quick, but for some reason this has been Cenk’s go to for polling to own people on, and I didn’t realize this was becoming a big deal again, many other educated content creators who pushed back against them even brought up how this is not even an issue, but Cenk needs anything he can to make it seem he is smart. I didn’t see whatever polls Cenk has been using but I did see the polling for him when he ran for office and people decided he was not the guy so what makes him think his opinion should matter the most, it is insecurity because he knows better people are analyzing shit in a less reactionary way and they are nervous because they used to be kind of credible and they are losing it where they want to pivot right wing but they also want the progressive audience, it is fucking calculated and sick and he can deny it all he wants, this is just an opinion thing, but clearly they read my blogs or listen to my podcast, because when I see trolls make their way back to harass me, it is like they have been given incentive to be online mercenaries to throw me off my mental game. Again I am just a mentally ill person with an opinion who is in his mother’s basement at the age of almost being 40, why would anyone think I am anyone to listen to. They seem to be taking a page out of Howard Stern’s book in discrediting people in their own workplace for not liking the direction their place is going but they just kind of express it as “disagreement” and if the disagreement is helping right wing fascists normalize more hatred while they are the ones doing the real shady shit, then sorry it goes beyond disagreement and anyone who wants to be associated with me, realize that as well, that if you cosign horrible shit and you want to present it as a disagreement, because people who want to sell out and advocate for horrible shit know what they are doing is wrong but they think they can present as a disagreement and I don’t view it that, sure with regular people who might not know better or don’t have power, you can disagree with them and maybe have a rational conversation about it because maybe they are buying into the wrong propaganda, but people who are in the system and know better, either tell us what is going on exactly behind the scenes with delegations or you are just helping out the right wing win while pretending to be some fucking progressive. And naming all the trans people and minorities you have had on your network isn’t going to cut it, it is like you are using every right wing trope to make yourself look like a bigger idiot. 
I disagree with the left on shit, like not on moral issues etc, but like I hate how even they have also bought into sports entertainment with who is the better billionaire, I know it is just fun but these people are involved with doing shady shit that is gonna affect the rest of us, and we are really gonna sit here and analyze a potential dick measuring content between Zuckerberg and fucking Elon Musk, we are entertaining the possibility of these people fighting in a fucking cage. I hate how we just dumb down the villains because everything has to be levitated by comedy and just more WWE level bullshit, that doesn’t mean everyone on the left does it but everyone from all political sides are gonna have to sports entertain regardless and dumb shit down a little bit, it doesn’t mean all sides are fighting for the same thing but the same elements go into everyone who becomes a personality, we apply logic when the logic doesn’t apply, like Rudy G has done horrible shit, he is being investigated yet he somehow is allowed to sports entertain in the media about it and then suddenly after years of this nonsense, the DC Bar disciplinary or whatever want Rudy disbarred, like yeah that isn’t happening because these guys are operating on sports entertainment rules, so giving logical takes for situations that don’t revolve around that is not gonna work. Anytime someone breaks a rule and they are free, they will come up with another shitty excuse for why that shitty person is allowed to do something even though for regular people, they would be fucking locked up in a fucking hearbeat. Nothing on this planet makes any fucking sense, like if this were 10 years ago, I would’ve bought into the obvious conspiracy grift online, like with how the MSM media is advertising for this Sound of Freedom movie, because it seems like they don’t want people to see it even though they are advertising it and when the MSM does shit, where they will denounce this film but give someone like Tom Cruise good feedback on his character in real life, even though he is a Scientologist, so it makes the base advertising for this movie go “SEE MSM WILL GIVE PROPS TO HOLLYWOOD ELITE BUT THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE THIS MOVIE”  if they didn’t want you to, they wouldn’t advertise it, the MSM is like the enemy the right wing grifters need because if they are not saying the opposite of what they are saying, they have no Vince McMahon to rebel against, they want to see themselves as Steve Austin or CM Punk. This is why censoring the Q anon shit was bad because now people can’t investigate what their motives are and what they are planning but now they can put out their propaganda and if you say it is Q Anon level shit, they will then deny it because we don’t know what they are up to anyways, it is actually helped guys like Alex Jones and Q Anon etc, because you give people the news of what will be dangerous because Alex and his ilk will probably be round for some fucked up shit, but banning him completely has stopped from investigating some of the movements being made, only time we hear about him is when someone who is famous is on the show saying something crazy. I am all over the map, but I have shit I listed that I wanted to give thoughts on, like white house cocaine shit, people are so stupid to think that we weren’t supposed to know about it, meaning if there was this big cover up about it, don’t you think they would’ve gotten people not to report on it at all, but they have to pretend because maybe the MSM didn’t talk about it first, that they randomly found out, is that crazy to think out of all the years the white house has been around that there hasn’t been coke anywhere near the fucking premises, but in the midst of real shit going down, and other shady shit, they have turned both Trump’s kids and Biden’s kids as these sports entertainment cogs who are probably up to shady shit, but they are playing the role of being drug addicted sports entertainers for the online fodder of it, because the scandals and shadiness might not be enough, so we have to reduce it into some R Rated movie where spies and coked out hooker are involved to be promoted so people pay attention to this and they act like we are not supposed to know about it all, when this shit is playing out in front of us on purpose, nothing is being censored, they might say it is, but we still know about the censorship. And it feels the outcome of where shit is going is gonna go in the same place, but it is like the Biden administration by design are cosigning horrible things or horrible people, so people who want to lean more right can have valid arguments for why it is going to shit on the surface, when that is basically the design, what did they think bringing back an old villain in Elliot Abrams back into the discourse was gonna do, it is like this shit is helping the alt media people who are bad faith actors themselves to then convince their audience nothing's gonna change and this is why you now have to embrace the supposed victims of oppression in MTG or Donald Trump, like they gave people shit for voting for the lesser of 2 evils but now are doing that with the right wing. On the surface AOC advocating for Biden is gonna blow back in her face, but her decisions as a sports entertainer politician is supposed to be designed that way, I don’t know if they are making it seem like they want Biden to run, knowing that maybe he ends up not running because something unplanned happens where the decision is made he won’t run, it is like WWE shit, anything god that might happen has to happen because they didn’t plan it, or does Biden still run and the same shit will happen on the surface? Because what makes people think advocating for a new person to run is gonna do in the sense of that all these people who become world champion are still going to be booked by Vince McMahon when the system itself is moving in a more right wing direction? Like when people use the support of Ukraine as a way to discredit AOC etc, because people who claim they were anti war knew where the world was going and spent 10 years pretending that Putin is innocent in all of this, while just simply pretending you are anti war but not naming the awful shit Putin has done, it makes me question their motives, I don’t view this shit as country vs country because even the people who call out Russia, they will advocate for other problematic shit which makes them suspect, and it just feels the neoliberal/far right wing elements of all countries are organizing their way, and the far right wing people who pose as anti war will seem they are opposing the US imperialism, while siding with far right wing people in the US, so why would I think you are anti war when you are pro war on marginalized communities with sophisticated rhetoric? I can’t explain the day to day shit, but when the rules they advertise are not what applies under the table, how can I really have a full grasp of what is happening when I can barely trust the narratives, the only way for my dumbed down self to be able to see through the online narratives is looking at what people are aligned with, like to amplify your anti vaccine rhetoric, you will spread that a state of emergency has happened in Peru because of sudden cases of GBS, and then not disclose this was the case in 2017 and 2018 as well, I am gonna assume that the volcano shit that happened over there recently may have helped with the respiratory problems with some people, again I am not too smart, but if if I was falling for the same online shit that I was 10 years ago, I would be what it has become today with taking advantage of the MSM lies, and propping up other lies because it is just being talked about online. I would’ve been falling for all these viral videos of passengers freaking out because they think other passengers are not real human beings, I know these ones are staged, but is that symbolism of how we find out there are other people on this planet that are not human, or that people are actually AI, I have believed that a lot of people we have been seeing are AI or clones because I believe our society has been advanced, and since we are manifesting all our entertainment into real life, it is like stuff from the movies is gonna be coming true on some level, but even this craze is kind of staged to happen in my personal opinion. The world is ending and going into a shit place and I am on another social media platform giving billionaires my information, this is not gonna end good for me, I really shouldn’t be alive anymore. I know I will always give into shit eventually and I don’t know how many people are actually on the good side. I will say that I am enjoying threads so far because I am at my most irrelevant and no one on this app has messaged me yet, I mean the only replies I have got from Threads are from 2 beautiful women I know from IG, so if that is all my interactions then I can rest happy on that app, I feel like it is the AEW of social media apps compared to Twitter’s WWE. I have different gimmick names, I am Hanzi and Scott Halal on Twitter but I couldn’t take that name to Threads so I have to go by Dusty Loads and Imran Khan, but it would be like Dolph Ziggler joining AEW in 2023, and you can barely get a Dark or Elevation match, because you’re not important enough to even be an upper midcarder, and like AEW it will all go to shit once CM Punk joins it officially and causes problems. But before I go, if you are reading this and have good intention just remember that these celeb shit that is happening is designed for manufacturing consent, and the system promotes this for other social climbers online to pretend they are concerned when they know these storylines are going down, like anything with the rapper Blueface, it is clear his entire real life social media character is to be in very toxic and problematic relationships and situations and we judge them like this is what their actual regular life is like, so when Blueface and baby mother Jaidyn are having strippers at the house and then calling his son gay for not being into the strippers, so people then react how dangerous and grooming like that is, but to me it is all forced sports entertainment with real effects of mental illness and abuse going on and we will condemn it, but you think anything is happening, it is like they will keep gaslighting your mental with some of these horrible stories happening but nothing really will be done about it, because these people are not operating as just regular people and making that connection with public figures has been one of the more dangerous things on the planet, because it has helped manufacture consent for us to go back into being regressives and if you don’t see that, then I don’t know, maybe a lot of you want to be mentally sucked back into being this regressive conservative edge lord who is pretending to use “logic” with these celeb examples. Engaging this shit like it is a culture war is not gonna get us the answers, but again you guys are smarter than me and I am lowly ex whack packer who somehow hasn’t died just yet, but don’t believe what I say because I am just full of imaginative conspiracy theories, but you hate that you can’t put me into the right wing category which is the easiest thing you can do when someone is a “conspiratorial thinking” type of person, I just use it to weaponize against the propagandists on the far right wing side and those who aspire to be on the side with fascists, but again I can’t prove shit. I am no one special, you guys decided to make that the narrative. No one interacts with my shit, so why would I be worried about blowback from what I am writing since no one officially listens to me or knows I exist right, that is your version of history, not mine.
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hopeididntscareyou · 2 years
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Even though Liz would talk shit about me, I dont agree with everything she says. I'm not going to let other people get in the way of my relationships anymore. Listening to other peoples opinions just making me feel hateful and also making me a terrible person for being always on defensive mode. Deep down, i'm a very loyal and genuine person. I believe in true love even in this day and age where people are either manipulators and too traumatized to trust others. I am someone who would go lengths to show how i care about someone without losing myself. I dont care about all these labels and games that people play. As long as I stay healthy mentally, emotionally and physically, then nothing can destroy me. I only follow my own philosophy.
I find it saddening how people would believe whatever bullshit they see on tiktok/youtube rather than learning things from real life experience. People need to understand that these content creators are mainly trying to make money. They have that goal thats why they stir drama from reddit or 4chan extremists. Their ideas dont reflect the entire population IRL. They make money by grabbing your attention, brainwashing you and being their followers. Don't you see how out of touch with reality that looks like? if that doesn't sound crazy and cult-like to you, then i don't know what to tell you. I admit though, I was also a victim of this for awhile, but in my entire life I realized, the only times I have really learned about life was from my own experiences, and going outside and engaging with people who are passionate about their work that they dont even have time for the internet- usually older people from all walks of life. Thats where I got real wisdom. Its never really been from the internet. The thing is you could spend your precious time consuming self improvement material from youtube or reddit and even a book but it wouldn't actually improve your life whatsoever because you spent your time being a follower of someone else's ideas than having your own path. To be honest, all self improvement books/videos I've seen are just mostly common sense that I already knew and had been doing because I came up with these ideas on my own. It's really not that hard to give yourself a quiet time to sit and think solutions for your own problems. I believe it is more important to create more than to consume. Nowadays, internet is full of retarded and braindead people wired by quick dopamine. Its not the same as early 2000s and mid 2010s where internet stuff was obscure. Its been decades since the invention of the internet. It is not the age of the internet anymore but the age of algorithm. I stopped consuming internet as much as possible because of two things; one - the internet is full of fake news, misinformation and propagandas. Two - it is the source of distraction with its unlimited entertainment. I only use internet as an online tool for conveniency to keep up with the digital world; mainly using google maps, QR codes, storage, work or legit educational priorities.
And honestly, i can tell a lot about person based on their internet activities that its probably my main criteria now when judging a person as first impression. If you're a person who doom scrolls on short videos/reels regardless of the content, then I would assume you spend your spare time as a consumer than a creator and that alone would tell me what kind of person you are.
In an unrelated note, I'm still coming into terms about my sexuality because I can't quite figure out if i am really indeed an asexual or not. I feel extremely grossed out with the idea of sex with people I have a romantic relationship with. It just feels so wrong, like it makes me feel like i'm engaging in incest kind of wrong to me. I do however like sharing intimate moments and romance like hugging touching cuddling and kissing but sex is just repulsive and disgusting to me. I think its partly because of my trauma from watching depraved and disturbing porn for sickfucks, that definitely is a fact. But i also should admit that I have been sexually attracted before and I would consider myself as sexually active because I masturbate an average of 3x a week to 5x in just one day. The problem arise whenever I'm dating/seeing someone because i completely lose my interest in anything sexual all of a sudden and I would even stop masturbating. I don't know, its fucking weird. I cant count how many times i forced myself to be in the mood while someone is kissing me and touching me, but it just doesn't work, and I hate that when that happens because it makes me hate sex entirely and apathetic with someone. Like i don't even care if my partner would do it with other women just because he cant have sex with me. I literally don't care. Honestly, I am not really a jealous person and I can handle things well as long as I'm not bored. Sex is not a massive issue to me entirely at all. Fortunately i never had a problem about this with most guys except one time. But in general, the guys i chose to date were good natured individuals that i shared the same values with. So contrary to the popular belief, no I am not a raging feminazi who hates men. Thats incorrect and its funny how my friends would say i hate men just because i don't put up with trashy behaviors. You'd think people who are close to me would know me better, but surprise surprise. Sometimes its just not really easy to get to know someone on a deeper level. You could know someone for years without knowing anything about them. Not all people are open books, and honestly I dont care enough to change how people perceive me. You can think whatever you want about me and I'm still going to live my reality
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write a post about vegans that are pro sex work but think the dairy industry rapes cows
oh you know what I really could write a lot about veganism because everyone is wrong and right about it all the time, and it drives me crazy. but I’ll deliver what I promised, which is off the cuff fast takes that I don’t proofread: *Feminism is for women, it’s not for animals.  *You can be part of a political movement for women, and still care about animals?? like you can be part of MANY groups....duh??? *The treatment of animals in the mean and dairy industry absolutely relate to misogyny. you’re foolish to think there’s nothing related there (see...cat post) *that doesn’t mean milking cows is rape. that’s insulting. *the destruction caused by the meat, dairy, fishing industry etc. is not the responsibility of women. women do not have to fundamentally change their diets on an individual level at the whims of a political movement. vegan arguments arguing the responsibility of the individual are often lobbied at women.  *That being said, you are responsible for understanding and knowing what you consume! if you have the privileged to make choices about your food purchases, why not...try?? like if you actual listen to a lot of vegans, their arguments are sound. can you (you personally! you reading this!) make a valid argument against why humans have a right to use animals as livestock? what right do we have, and can you articulate it? *Vegan diets are not AUTOMATICALLY healthy. If you eat a poor vegan diet, then it’s a poor vegan diet. *It’s absolutely a lie that humans are “not omnivores.” Yes we are. We can eat animal meat, and we gain nutrition from it. If you make a deer eat meat it will shit itself for days and maybe die. If the argument is that there’s some ~mythical ancient humans that never ever ate animals products, therefore we had to “learn” to eat animal products, that’s not an argument that we’re not omnivores. evolving to eat meat is the thing that makes us omnivores. If the argument is that we need to cook meat to eat it, that’s 1. not even true for all meat, and 2. true of some vegetables, so like...it’s just not scientific.  *It’s more important to me that children and women are able to access nutritious meals. education about the ease and health benefits of vegan options are important. access to vegan options are important. It is most important that children and women eat.  *if you froth at the mouth at any post about veganism, you’ve eaten up the propaganda the meat and dairy industry is constantly producing. You are probably eating waaaaay more meat and dairy than you need to if you’re in a western country. Our diets are being controlled by corporations and the government, this is not actually conspiracy. While you can meet vegans who are racist, misogynist, egotistic, and entitled, that’s true of all groups in every part of the world. Having one argument online with an obtuse idiot about how your pussy would taste better if you ate only fruits and vegetables shouldn’t frame your view on veganism, which is above all a diet choice. Do you get literally mad at people who make good arguments about cutting caffeine from their diets? Do you get literally angry at people who are trying keto?  *veganism is above all a diet choice, but it’s also often politically motivated. This is why vegans feel the need to explain their choices. Kinda like if you don’t shave your legs, you don’t really have to tell people why, but it’s a political choice, so maybe you feel it’s helpful to let some women know that you don’t and why? anyway *I’ve seen the argument that changing your diet is easy, that anyone who is arguing it’s difficult, can take time, takes effort is just using that as an excuse and doesn’t care about animal welfare. I’ve even seen one (1) person argument many moons ago that it’s exactly like pornography, that once they realized that pornography was exploitation of women and rape, they cut it out of their habits and it was easy because their was an ethical motivation for it. This is ridiculous, rude, and honestly bonkers. Our diets are not pornography. We literally need to eat. We have been eating every single day (god willing) since birth. What’s more, is that we have to be taught how to eat, how to cook, how to store food, how to balance nutrition, and we often have to rely on our parents - but more specifically our mothers!!! - to learn these things. Eating is actually a wealth of knowledge we inherit, and is often extremely linked to cultural importance. it’s also linked to POVERTY. The ways people learn to eat and cook and food manage is directly linked to their available resource (again...fucking duh). People don’t just need to be “educated” on their choices to become vegan, they may need to completely unlearn things. And what’s more they need the resources to do it. And for every meal you try something new, you are risking eating something you just don’t like. It takes time to learn all the things you like to eat and don’t. And food should be nutritious AND pleasurable!! I’m getting heated next point: *I very very very very very much encourage feminisms to read into veganism, both the dietary arguments and political arguments. I encourage women to explore vegan options. You do not have to go full monty on the first go. If you meet a vegan who claims you do, just ignore them. There are plenty of vegans who know it takes time. Try a vegan day of the week, or try some substitutions for a while. You might learn you really love tofu, or a new cooking technique, and you will learn that that American’s love of milk, cheese, and beef is subsidized, yes for real, and that can only help you when you’re walking down the grocery aisle, right? *I’ve loved every vegan I’ve ever met. They’ve all been women, I’ve never met a male vegan. I admire your commitment and gumption!!! What hard work and what delicious food :)  *Hummus is oooooover rated 
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What’s this Pizzagate in the heart of nature?
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The big tech story in Australia last month was Facebook’s decision to restrict people and organisations in Australia from sharing or viewing news content on Facebook. This was in response to the Morrison government’s proposed Media Bargaining legislation which is basically a Murdoch-serving law to try to get tech companies to pay media organisations for news content hosted/linked/displayed on their sites and, most galling of all, share details of their algorithms with Australian media orgs. The idea that Facebook would have to notify NewsCorp every time they want to tweak their algorithm is patently insane. So I admire Facebook’s petty, dramatic manoeuvre: “if the way we share news on the site is such a problem then fine, no more news for you”. After all the fuss, the Australian government agreed to amend the Media Bargaining legislation - evidently with terms more agreeable to Facebook, meaning news has been restored to Facebook down under. 
One of the key responses I saw expressed in relation to Facebook’s initial news eradication was concern that disinformation would be able to spread more easily on the site - and that people wouldn’t be able to rebut disinformation with factual news articles.
So far as I can tell, the proliferation of disinformation online wouldn’t matter if people didn’t believe it. And most especially, if people didn’t want to believe it. After all, the web is full of persuasive writing and people who want to convince you of things - for whatever reason, conspiracy theories just seem to be very alluring. So rather than trying to protect people from their own stupidity by hiding disinformation... maybe we could look at why people are so credulous in the first place. Deep state? Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams? CIA Contra cocaine trafficking? The great replacement? Pizzagate? 
I’m going to class conspiracy theorists into three categories of my own making:
I believe: well meaning, uninformed people who have been fooled or duped. The fraudulent 1998 Lancet paper by Andrew Wakefield which started the vaccines cause autism conspiracy was actually written to support a class action lawsuit. Wakefield knew the results in his paper were not true: in addition to his conflicts of interest, he had falsified data. The paper was eventually debunked and retracted but the conspiracy had its roots and has continued to grow. I think a lot of the people who believe that vaccines are dangerous are parents who are just worried about their kids - and also want to protect other kids from a threat they believe to be real. Why is one debunked article more persuasive to people than a million proving the efficacy of vaccines? It is literally beyond reason.
It suits me to believe: people motivated by self-interest who adopt a conspiracy theory to support their larger world view. Their self-interest could be anything from their own ego to gun rights. The conspiracies around the Sandy Hook Primary School shooting are interesting because you can see a clear motivation for people to subscribe to that theory rather than the truth. If you’re a keen gun-owner, arguining that the shooting was a hoax to generate anti-gun sentiment and thereby allow the Democrats to pass harsher gun restrictions is neat and comforting. No one could argue that the events of Sandy Hook weren’t inhumanly terrible  - so the only option is to argue that they didn’t happen at all. Plus, in this worldview, no kids are getting hurt so you can sleep easy knowing you have seven semi-automatic weapons in the house.
I need to believe: the world is disorganised, scary, unknowable. Ocean deep, sky vast, dark impenetrable - and meanwhile our skin is so thin and delicate. So. Wouldn’t it be comforting to think that there’s a race of reptilian overlords that control the planet by whipping their tails against a complicated system of levers and pullies? That would explain a lot of the chaos in our world. Or maybe the problem is an elite coterie of Satan-worshipping cannibalistic pedophiles? If only we could defeat those accursed pedophiles then life would be peaceful. Luckily, Q and a septuagenarian reality TV host are here to save us. 
Across these categories, there are two unifying features: 
Rejection of widely accepted truth 
Investment in the conspiracy
As a comparison with the conspiracists above, here’s my take on a conspiracy: I think it’s quite probable that Epstein didn’t kill himself. I think that some powerful, shadowy entity took him out to protect itself. But I’m not obsessed by this idea. It would not surprise or upset me if this was officially confirmed - similarly crazy shit happens all the time. I haven’t devoted my life to revealing this truth. I guess I fit into the “I Believe” category: all official information says that Epstein took his own life but my scepticism of the unusual circumstances around his death and Epstein’s powerful connections leads me to doubt the official information. The difference is I don’t do anything about it. I don’t really care if I’m right or not - I’m not that invested in the conspiracy.
And that’s why it seems ludicrous to me that Facebook should be tasked with combatting the conspiracy theories spiralling across our culture. Simply being exposed to bad information does not radicalise you, does not conjure an investment in the conspiracy. If a normal person reads something creatively wrong or misleading they discard it from their mind. If it hits a chord with them, they may adopt that opinion themselves - see: astrology, Armie Hammer as cannibal, tarot cards, essential oils as serious medical treatment, etc. But the evolution from agreeing with a thought to militaristically insisting that the rest of society also agree with it is an abnormal progression. That strange impulse runs deeper in people than their Facebook timeline.
Most people have fears for the planet or believe there are major issues plaguing humanity - and we never do anything about it because it would be mildly inconvenient or because it’s too hard to care about every issue under late capitalism: 
"But sorting my recycling is boring”
“Yeah yeah fast fashion is problematic but H&M is just so affordable" 
"Of course I hate R.Kelly! But ‘Ignition (Remix)’ is my jam” 
“At least they have suicide nets in the Foxconn factories now”
“I only buy free range chicken thighs because I care about animal welfare”
“I retweeted that thing about anti-Black racism. Yay racism solved!”
There are probably lots of people who believe in conspiracy theories but are ultimately apathetic about doing anything: they can’t be bothered talking about vaccines and politics all the time, can’t be bothered going to a protest, can’t summon the interest to care much. So what’s interesting then is that across the three categories of conspiracy theory belief (I believe > It suits me to believe > I need to believe), what a person believes in, and perhaps even the reason for the belief, doesn’t create any impetus to enact real world change. On both the left and the right, the impulse to do something about an issue is rare. Do you think conspiracy theorists, like the left, have a problem with performative activism? 
Imagine that you agree that Sandy Hook was a false flag, that ‘they’ hired crisis actors to publicly grieve as if their pretend children had been murdered... do you then get in your car and drive overnight to Sandy Hook and start harassing those crisis actors at the pretend funerals? What do you call someone like that? The hero of their own story.
Just wait!
In their worldview, QAnon are unironically trying to save us from pedophile cannibals. Given what conspiracists believe to be true, they are acting in good faith and doing the right thing. If you believed this shit, you’d be upset too. The fact that they’re doing something about it is kind of admirable: they don’t want our babies to get autism from the measles vaccine, they don’t want a deep state to manipulate our democratic governments. It’s existential for all of us - we just don’t agree on the threat. 
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Can you imagine how electric the riot at the Capitol Building must have felt for the people who led it. Brave, romantic, a grand gesture: it was like their Storming of Tuileries. Remember this day forever! 
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Modern conspiracists are actually similar to the sans-culottes in terms of being avid consumers of propaganda and inflammatory reporting. Disinformation and stirring rhetoric are not new - but shouldn’t people today be less clueless than 18th century peasants?
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Why are there are so many people who believe things which are untrue? They exist on this planet with us but interpret it so differently. These questions really are existential: an ancient, echoing maw pointing to the heart of human nature. The struggle for a more perfect world, whispers about where the danger comes from at night, arguments about how to protect ourselves. 
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Has there ever been a society where people didn’t have differing views on how best to shape the world? It’s the central conflict of human existence: epic, older than language - and now we want Facebook to fix it?
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haha it’s US politics hours
listen, this tumblr has always been a fandom place since its inception and I’ve not really designated it as a space for political discussion because 1) I have several other avenues for that arena of discussion and 2) escapism was the theme here; but I’ve finally watched The Comey Rule and I have some THOUGHTS 
and I’m not really sure how active anyone is here anymore anyway, because I’ve not really been around as regularly as I was before the nsfw-ban shitstorm, so. Diving right in.
Probably my favorite thing was how it painted the American right wing as this faux-centrist bastion of impartiality at first, the whole circus with HiLLaRy’S EmAiLs being about how they legitimately believed they could play the angle that the emails were a threat to national security all while they knew damn well it was a huge big nothingburger (with a side of hatred of women) while doing that thing that right wingers have done since the Reagan administration where they malign anything left of fascism as communism (including basic human rights) and then, predictably, you have all these very furrowed-browed old white men sitting around a conference table being VERY CONCERNED that precisely the thing they wanted to happen came true and they are completely unprepared to do damage control on the mess they engineered because WHITE MEN ARE INCAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT OF CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR OWN ACTIONS. 🤣😂🤣😂
In all seriousness. I wasn’t crazy about Hillary either. I don’t like dynasties of any kind, royal or political. I don’t like establishment dems who are really just center-right in the real world while masquerading as left in backwards-ass bizarro-world USA. But I’m an old motherfucker now, I’m well into my 30s, I’m boring and watch CSPAN for leisure and shit. I read the reports coming out of the DOJ. One of my degrees is in political science, though admittedly, that’s the least thing that matters, in the scope of everything else these days. But it’s safe to say Hillary was unfairly maligned while republicans committing atrocities exponentially worse have been treated with kid gloves for decades. A very distinct double standard has been applied here for....longer than I’ve been alive, that even the most educated people on the left have refused to acknowledge for far too long. I watched that entire BeNgHaZi hearing (which is easily accessible on youtube, so there’s literally no excuse not to know the facts on this), and everyone knew -- everyone knew it was a bullshit smear campaign. 
So, this post isn’t so much a review of the miniseries more than it’s an indictment of the corruption of American politics. The most damning aspect being that, on principle, US politics has always had a problem with embracing progressive policy, and basic civil rights in general. That’s not news; people have known this for some time. But the thing that this miniseries really illustrated in a very cartoonish, yet succinct, way is that there are experienced professionals who hold the highest, most powerful seats of authority in this country who won’t bat an eye at dedicating their entire careers to denigrating common decency, basic human rights, and even constitutional law, while being absolutely incapable of conceiving the long-term consequences of these actions, who will then turn around and concern troll over the ashes of the empire they enthusiastically helped to burn down. It’s nauseating. It’s infuriating. It shows a pathological disregard for personal responsibility.
Everyone was so preoccupied with their massive turgid erection for hating the Clintons (and women) that no one saw they were enthusiastically living in a henhouse built by fucking foxes. No one saw the genuine threat. 
And, by extension, no one had the balls to acknowledge that age-old instinct of white men willing to engage in a scorched earth campaign simply to satisfy their worst impulses and entitlement complexes. 
Can you fit “Who cares if we’re screwing over several generations with corrupt court-packing and a flagrant disregard for checks-and-balances predicated entirely on the honor system; we just don’t feel like doing domestic labor or respecting women and minorities so we’ll continue expediting reprehensible policies that exploit the most vulnerable people in this country because we can’t compete in an authentic meritocracy" onto a campaign slogan banner? 
I sounded the alarms on this trend 20 years ago, meanwhile. My parents and I had just gotten US citizenship, luckily months before 9/11 and the patriot act; and as an outsider looking in, as someone who had risked their life escaping a dangerous regime at an incredibly young age, I saw the warning signs in the republican party even back then. Naturally, I was denigrated as an alarmist and a butthurt liberal. 
You know, I’ll acknowledge that as a white person, I’m not the average American’s image of what an “immigrant” looks like. My experiences here over the past couple of decades have thrown into sharp relief how “immigrant” is just a dogwhistle for racist bullshit, because people who concern troll about us don’t seem to have many problems with us white ones. But I came out of a communist country. I’m straight outta the eastern bloc. And I don’t think there are any words in any spoken language that can do justice to how insulting it is when americans try to americasplain communism to me. Bitch. Y’all don’t fucking know. You just don’t.
The point is, even back then, I could see the slippery slope republicans were tumbling down, and I can't say I derive any pleasure from being vindicated in such an extreme fashion. Like. I told y’all motherfuckers. TWO DECADES AGO.
People who aren’t familiar with US politics, and even long-term US citizens who for some reason feel like it’s a waste to pay attention to your own shit, seem to spend a lot of time trying to unpack what precisely went wrong. My observations came up with 1) the manipulative aspect of US history in public schools glossing over, and even omitting, the most gruesome aspects of the revolutionary war, the holocaust, and the cold war (and oftentimes, the cold war is NEVER EVEN COVERED, which is especially insulting to me, for obvious reasons); 2) the manipulative aspect of US history in public schools teaching kids that the Declaration of independence and the Constitution are unassailable doctrines of freedom and liberty, and, as such, after independence was won, no further activism to maintain democracy was needed so we can all just smoke a bowl and be complacent because all those authoritarian third world regimes we constantly ridicule and criticize can NeVeR HaPPeN hErE 😒; and 3) how limpdick both-sidesism replaced civil, comprehensive political discussion because the right spent so long abusing, denigrating, and bullying the left that it was just easier to play it safe and take the milquetoast ~centrist~ stance, which always, always, always capitulates to the lowest common denominator, which is always the oppressor. 
And generally just this age-old trend of holding the victims of systematic oppression to a higher moral and behavioral standard than the perpetrators of systematic oppression. 
Guys, I’m tired. I’m so tired. 
I’ve gotten a few questions over the years about why my writing is so angsty, why it always seems to follow the same themes; war crimes, PTSD, gore, torture. 
I already escaped one authoritarian regime. The USA promised us one thing, and then once we got here, it started emulating the very tyrants we worked so hard to get away from. A lot of people have no idea what that feels like. How much of a betrayal that is. Especially considering all the financial and legal landmines one has to navigate just to do it, and then we’re punished for that, too.
I write about PTSD because I fucking have it. I write about war crimes because I’ve experienced them firsthand - just as a victim and not the perpetrator. I so often write about soldiers committing them because I want to roleplay what it’s like to not be a victim for once. 
tbh writing a fucking Hamilton fanfiction is one of the most cathartic things I’ve ever done, but the extensive research I’ve had to do to be able to write this thing has been low-key traumatic. There’s a lot of historical material I’ve consumed that should have been covered at the most basic level of compulsory education, but conspicuously isn’t. And I know that’s a feature, not a bug. It’s by design. 
Democracy - and independence, freedom, liberty, justice, civil rights in general - isn’t just some final xbox achievement that you unlock and then just shelve the game and forget about it for the rest of your life. You have to keep grinding to maintain it, because there will always be selfish, malicious people out there who will dedicate their entire lives playing a long con to ensure you don’t get the same opportunities as them. For the love of god, stop playing the both-sidesism game. From someone coming out of the eastern bloc, I can tell you with great confidence that that was part of the propaganda campaign you were fed to keep you from engaging so they could install a dictatorship under your nose. Do some self-guided historical research, guys. It can be very illuminating.
Anyway. I’ve gone on long enough here, but damn, don’t screw this up again, guys. Today is the first day of early voting in Texas, and I’m going to do my duty. When I first came to this country, after experiencing the rigorous vetting process and labyrinthine legal requirements of US citizenship, I was led to believe that in exchange for that privilege, I was personally responsible for my own civic self-education. It’s so much more important than you've been led to believe. 
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the witcher: four marks
I think it’s interesting that we meet Yennefer and Jaskier in the same episode
What is Istred doing here? Is he really trying to protect her from Tissaia? Cause if so, it’s not super effective, and I would think he would know that? Also, I feel like Istred would think it was best for Yennefer to study magic? 
“That woman’s a witch, you know what she will do.” What is that supposed to mean? They certainly can’t suspect what she actually does to young girls that don’t make the cut.
It’s really cruel that Tissaia haggled like that. She could easily afford 10 marks for Yennefer, but she wants to make a point that Yennefer is worth less than a pig in the eyes of her father, and that is really messed up psychological manipulation.
Clever Ciri, hiding her hair! And she looks so cold, poor baby. 
Dara is excellent. He’s so patient with Ciri while she gets over being casually rude and dismissive. But he’s also never like a dishrag, doesn’t endorse her bad behavior. And she shares her gloves :)
“You think you're safe” of Jaskier’s song overlaps with Ciri entering the encampment where she thinks she will be safe!!! AAAAAAAAH!!! Also, what is up with Posada? That tavern is in an absolute batshit location that doesn’t really match with where they end up going looking for the devil.
All the tavern patrons just looking at Jaskier, lol. He’s also clearly dressed better than anyone else there. He can (or could until recently) afford really nice clothing but it 
“They don’t exist” what was Jaskier playing before the “abortion” song cause I’m sure Geralt knows that people having ill advised sex exist. 
So, I’ve seen people make fun of this (Jaskier stating the obvious that Geralt is a Witcher), but Jaskier knows who Geralt is, specifically, by name. And the kid that gives Geralt the job, even though he is clearly desperate, doesn’t approach him until after Jaskier has identified Geralt as a witcher. 
“I could be your barker, spreading the tails of Geralt of Rivia, the Butcher of Blavikin.” Jaskier is not stupid. Does he possibly really think that Geralt is not upset about that story? Depending on how it is told, he probably comes across as competent and ruthless and efficient, and “taking no prisoners”, which would be good things for a witcher to trade in on for work. It does make a certain amount of sense to assume that a Witcher (especially as they are known not to have feelings) wouldn’t mind being associated with that story.
Tissaia’s outfits are all great, but I particularly like this pin-strippy one. The silhouette and the sleeves!
“You should have let me die, at least I had control over it” --that’s a big thing for Yennefer.  
I like that they don’t try to hide how short the actress that plays Tissaia is. It makes her presence that much more impressive when she is so small. 
The face Tissaia makes when Yennefer eats the flower, like she puts together where that came from that quickly. 
“Doing my part to avenge the lives lost in Filavendral’s uprising” which WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED IF THE ELVES HAD STAYED WHERE THEY WERE OUTSIDE OF POSADA!!! Actions having far reaching and unintended consequences is a witcher theme. What is Jaskier doing all the way out there?
(Since I paused to look at the map, Arteuza is really close to Oxenfurt, huh.)
“Oh child your shoes, let’s get you a fresh pair.” this is so uncomfortable. Like this woman is so cruel and racist (speciest?) but she’s kind to Ciri--possibly only because she can identify her as someone of high class. There’s a lot going on. (“Don’t worry, he’s one of the clean ones” eeeeeh!)
Jaskier clutching his lute case strap when Geralt moves past him too quickly. He has some amount of self preservation instinct after being sucker punched. But then he is also like “ACT TWO BEGINS!” 
You have to admire Yennefer’s nerve just lying to Tissaia like that. That’s crazy. 
“Even if you were a beauty, still no one will love you.” --this colors so much of Yennefer’s behavior.
Istred is so kind to her. Maybe he’s the first person to do so. “Are these the things you love? These are the things I thought you would love.” That is such a subtle poetic difference, I love it. 
Shouldn’t someone know who Geralt is and be able to tell Ciri? There are a bunch of points where he seems like almost a household name. 
“That’s impossible, No, it’s magic” it seems like Tissaia has taught them nothing. 
“There are mages like Sabrina who ignore their emotions, then there are mages like us who are consumed by them” You have to wonder what Tissaia is like when she lets her emotions out.
Jaskier seems to speak Elder pretty well. And goes from delighted to concerned about Geralt headbutting elf lady so quickly!
Jaskier’s education on elves at least started as part of a deliberate misinformation campaign, though that was probably generations ago. It’s interesting that he seems to be fairly unquestioning about it while he clearly has his own highly developed skills in the area. But he does take being wrong in stride, so he must be well versed in propaganda, just hadn’t questioned that specifically?
Filevandral is “not a king, not by choice”
“One human, and you can let him go”
“The lesser evil, no matter what you choose, you’ll come out bloody and hating yourself.” --someone is speaking from experience :(
“They’ll make slaves of us, pharias of half blood children” — I doubt Yennefer’s deformity actually has anything to do with being part elf, sounds like racist fear mongering.
“Show the humans that you are more than what they fear you to be”
Oh, Yennefer is lying about being sent home. But i think most of this is her using her real feelings to manipulate Istred rather than actually lying. 
“Rewriting history with the stories we tell, the songs we sing about our own triumphs, it’s what we do.” the “plot arc” in this episode is questionable at best, but all of the different threads tie together so nicely! They all build on one another despite taking place decades apart. 
Stregobor!!! In this moment, he’s not doing anything worse than Tissaia, but he still makes me angry just by being there. 
I don’t even know what to say about that bit with the mother and how the dwarf stabs her. I don’t blame him?
Dara rescuing Ciri!
So there’s a bunch of points earlier in the episode where Yennefer asks questions and is ignored. It feels important. 
When are mages supposed to learn that Aretuza is powered by eel-girls?
So how did Jaskier end up with Filavandrel’s lute? Was he just like, you broke my lute give me a new one?
“That’s not how it happened, where’s your new found respect?”
“Respect doesn’t make history.”
The face Geralt makes is pretty close to “oh no what have I unleashed on the world? Should I do something to stop this?” he’s underestimated how clever and ruthless Jaskier is. And it’s also too late, this is Jaskier’s thing and Geralt does not have the skills to counter it if he wanted to. 
“He wiped out your pest” also lines up with Yennefer sweeping the eels into the lake. (And of course, as the writer of the episode mentioned on that podcast, Yennefer is on screen with the line “a friend of humanity”)
Yennefer and Tissaia smiling at each other in that last moment. This is probably the one singular moment where Yennefer is taken in on the whole being a mage thing. It gets more complicated for her again very quickly.
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Mad Titan, Or Last Man
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Please note that this is an incomplete assessment of motivations simply because comic book characters will never have an end to their story. I am also not informed on Thanos’ current exploits in the comics since I have not read Marvel, or any comics for a number of years. The focus will be on an older iteration of Thanos and his fascination with death that I believe derived from him growing up in a utopia of immortals essentially. Also, this is not an explanation of the Hollywood version of Thanos since his motivations make no sense and is clearly just political propaganda from writers that don’t know anything about population trends. This is not a super in-depth analysis either, I’ve merely looked at his motivations through the lens of the Nietzschean last man, as well as the underground man from Dostoevsky's works.
I had difficulty understanding it at first, mostly because I personalized concepts too much that I shouldn’t have, namely Lady Death. Which in turn, made Thanos’ motivations look like an outburst of an angsty teenage boy. You can’t fully personalize a concept in a story otherwise you miss the point, Lady Death is still death itself, the only real reason it was given form is because that’s seems to be the easiest way to relate to values expressed in stories; it makes it easier to embody them through secondary personalization, which is a term coined by the psychologist Eric Neumann. Secondary personalization is an act from which the more something is understood, the more it is refined in the consciousness until it’s anthropomorphised completely, creating almost a god image within the individual. It’s essentially the same as the image of Helen of Troy discovered by Faust when he travels to the realm of the mothers, she was the spirit of unbridled creative generation and freedom that he longed for. Lady Death is the anthropomorphised value of what Thanos desires most, and he expresses it as female because he is male, because it’s that which he lacks, the other part of his reality. That is partly a Jungian notion from which the male takes an inward journey to discover the Anima within, or his inner feminine that is tied to his highest value, making the attaining of that value an almost sexual act of union between being and image, something like that.
“But wait” you may say, “then why is Death a woman to all within the Marvel universe?” Good question, that is because the concept of death has always been a feminine one throughout history; it is the consumptive element of nature that consumes the life that came before so that successive generations may come into being. The easiest picture to express this in is the Ouroboros, the serpent that eats its tail. It is the sphere that contains existence from which death, or consumption is the precursor to new life. Other faces of death are the Babylonian Tiamat, the Malekusian Le-Hev-Hev which translates to “she who draws us in with a smile so she may consume us.” There is also Nut from Egyptian myth, the mother sky who embraces all in death, which you can see her image placed on sarcophagi, and Ta-Urt who is the bestial guardian of the underworld. Death is Feminine because it is part of nature, or the great mother earth, so it’s not surprising that we will portray it as a woman... Most of the time.
For this assessment though, I want to focus on Lady Death as a very singular expression of his “highest art” so to speak, which arised from the stagnancy of Utopianism. So, let’s begin.
What would a man(or eternal) strive for when perfection was already attained? I really needed to think about that for a second because when you think about utopia, the interesting bits are always the struggle to achieve it. That’s where the meat is in such a value system, that’s where all the action is, and that’s when I had an idea. So, what would a man(eternal) strive for when perfection was already attained? Perhaps he would strive for struggle itself. Perhaps when given eternity, what then would be more desirable than the finite? What could you desire more after you are given the universe through society, than to have it all taken away? It sounds crazy doesn’t it, who would ever destroy perfection merely to struggle? Well, a human would... Even in the face of eternal happiness and comfort, simply to achieve one semblance (if even for a moment) of the meaning that comes only from the finite and imperfect, a person would dash it all away.
That is the purpose of Thanos, he craves the one thing that was taken from him by his parents, and the society that believed it knew better, namely death. Honestly, what meaning could you ever possibly find in a world where people have already conquered the most meaningful aspect of it? Things have to die, things have to wear down, they need to decay because the universe isn’t a structured space of rules and laws. It bends, it curves, it’s constantly changing, it’s a flow of perpetual becoming. The speed of light itself is constantly changing, and that is the speed of causality itself, which is the frame from which events can even happen in reality. Laws, structures, immortality are all societal concepts born from consciousness, more precisely the consciousness of the left hemisphere; especially the concept of immortality. Things are always changing, we just cant perceive most of it, and you, are not really you. Everything you are now is the current complexity of a a cosmic lineage that dates back to the very beginning of existence. All the material that makes up your being came from the death of something before you. Whether it be the nutrients you ingest from animals and plants, or the elements of you refined in the cores of long dead stars. You are a process, not an end, and to extricate yourself from that process is to produce a fate far worse than death could ever be, an immortal Utopia.
I had to ask myself, is that really the goal of life, just to transcend it? If like the eternals that happens, what other outcome could you have but a utopia of eternal happiness and complacency? Why would you even want that when what is taken is so much? What other options could you ever have than sacrificing everything that made you human; to place it all at the alter of godhood, so that you could simply keep existing and going through the motions like a machine. There’s a reason why vampires are portrayed as impulsive nihilists most of the time, because what the hell else can you do with eternity once you have it. Of course there is a universe full of possibility within the universe, but it will never be achieved by the eternals because they are no longer part of that process and the only kind progress they can achieve is scientific analytical processes which is very indicative of western culture now, because that’s all they value. Which in turn will probably only lead to them becoming like Celestials, ethereal nothings that don’t exist in reality, that don’t understand the underlying complexity and importance of emotion, and merely act like computers.
That entire society and Thanos himself is a microcosm, most likely of the projected anxiety of a post-industrialized society that puts far too much (to an almost pathological degree) value in a singular system of linear analytical cognitive progress. My god ladies and gentlemen, if eternity was sitting in a lab continually making it easier for people to live for the eternity they have anyway, where all that’s left are mere intellectual and habitual procreative pursuits, I would also think death and destruction would be a far more preferable option, it could even become an ideal. Jesus, just try it for a hundred years and get back to me on how you feel about it. I don’t blame Thanos for pining after it, lusting after it, making it his muse, his companion, the Galatea to his Pygmalion, his reason for being. It’s meaning that matters, not more life, not happiness, not perfection, It’s the meaning in the struggle for more life, it’s the meaning you derive from struggling for happiness, it’s the meaning in life that you derive from struggling for perfection that gives depth to existence. It’s not the result, it’s the process. Death matters because it makes everything beautiful, everything meaningful, everything is something you will never see again, something that will never be again. Struggle matters because it makes you more than what you were, it allows you to change. Now let me talk about struggle more.
To struggle is to be human, to suffer is to truly live. Humans are the only beings that can say life is suffering and have a smile on their face. And humans are the only beings in the known universe that will willfully suffer in full understanding of it. Each person has a vast ocean of dormant potential in them just waiting to be realized. I don’t say that in a metaphorical way, though that’s the best way to describe it. You have a plethora of dormant genes in you that wait for the right environmental factors to be activated and embodied as new modes of being, because humans are action oriented, not cognitive oriented. It’s the notion of wishing upon the stars, each one represents a potentiality of what you could be, and you have a choice, you can pick a star and struggle for it. But if you don’t have to struggle anymore, if you have forever and everything provided for you, you won’t do it, you won’t experience it, because you don’t have to. I say this because Thanos is human, strikingly human, perhaps even the greatest of what humanity could be, essentially he is the underground man in a world of last men.
“I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. Alas! There comes a time when man will no longer give birth to a star. Alas! There comes a time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself. Behold! I show you the last man, ‘What is love? What is longing? What is a star?’ So asks the last man and he blinks. The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man who makes everything small.”
“His species is ineradicable like that of a flea; the last man lives the longest. ‘We have invented happiness’ says the last man, and blink. They have left the regions where it was hard to live for one needs warmth. Becoming sick and being suspicious are sinful to them: One proceeds carefully. He is a fool who still stumbles over stones or human beings!”-Thus Spoke Zarathustra p.13
Of course, it would be very rational to want such an existence, and everyone on his world is very rational, but rational isn’t reasonable, and reasonable isn’t meaningful. People are contradictions unto themselves. They almost never want what they need, or need what they want, or even want what they want. The easy paradisaical life is a beautiful dream full of splendor and joy... Only so long as it stays a dream. If man were to make his dream a reality I believe, well, I know that the moment after he would spit on the very ground he toiled so arduously to build and content himself with its absolute destruction,  just so something interesting could happen in his utopia. That is the folly of it, and that’s what I believe Thanos saw, even if he didn’t understand it himself. That is essentially Dostoevsky's notion of utopia and the values of enlightenment which is basically the society the eternals had made. 
“There are continually turning up in life moral and rational persons, sages and lovers of humanity to make it their object to live all their lives as morally and rationally as possible, to be, so to speak, a light to their neighbors simply in order to show them that it is possible to live morally and rationally in this world. And yet we all know that sooner or later those people have been false to themselves, playing some queer trick, often a most unseemly one. Now I ask you? What can be expected of man since he is being endowed with such strange qualities? Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bubbles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperity, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and then out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man will play you some nasty trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all of this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element. It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself(as though it were so necessary) that men are still men and not keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar. And that is not all: even if man were nothing but a piano key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even then he would not become reasonable, but would purposely do something perverse out of simple ingratitude, simply to gain his point. And if he does not find means he will contrive destruction and chaos, will contrive suffering of all sorts, only to gain his point! He will launch a curse upon the world, and as only man can curse (it is his privilege, the primary distinction between him and other animals), may be by this curse alone he will attain his object- that is, convince himself he is a man and not a piano key! If you say that all this, too, can be calculated and tabulated chaos darkness and curses, so that the mere possibility of calculating it all beforehand would stop it all, and reason would reassert itself, then man would purposely go mad in order to be rid of reason and gain his point!” -Notes From Underground p.230-231
The point I’m expressing is that people are inherently chaotic, and that they love it too, it’s the source of our greatest freedom, the dancing star. We would also destroy all that was good for us merely to keep it. That chaos is lethal to utopianism and eternity. Thanos killed his people and worshiped death because perfection had a flaw, it was meaningless. They sacrificed everything for it, and in turn missed the sole notion powerful enough even to propel one to remake the whole universe and succeed... death. But, that’s just some guys opinion. 
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I think that without the anti-apostasy laws in Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia and stigma Islam would be a far smaller religion. I know quite a few “Muslims” that are functionally atheist, even saying that they hate Islam, it’s the worst religion ever, etc. but don’t want to risk the family drama of being open. Can only imagine that it’s even worse in countries where they’ll execute you for leaving Islam.
Believe it or not I don’t think so. Also countries don’t execute you for leaving Islam. That’s not a thing. You can pretty easily leave the country to leave Islam for example in Jordan as a Muslim Jordanian I can’t legally become a Christian in Jordan but what I can do is go to Lebanon, convert, come here, and state that I am now a Christian, no execution no nothing🤷🏻‍♀️. Now if your Kuwaiti and you do this the passport will be taken from you and you will no longer be Kuwaiti because the Kuwaiti citizenship is only for Muslims. Now in Saudi, you can do the same outside the country but if you do it inside the country it is punishable by death (but they don’t really carry out the death penalty anymore) the last execution was on march 12,2022 because of terrorism related charges and for holding deviant beliefs (meaning they worship the devil and or dabble in black magic)
Now I don’t think a Muslim (for example me) given the chance I wouldn’t convert tbh. I love Islam as a religion, for it is perfect. The people practicing are not. The way Islam is portrayed in the media is the opposite of what Islam is. Now if I were to ask an American for example about Islam the first thing to come to mind is ISIS, but isis is an American funded terrorist group. That has literally nothing to do with Islam.
Also the Muslims who say they hate Islam probably have bad experiences with family, because again it is the people practicing that are not perfect. For example my family isn’t perfect, they use Islam as an excuse for this imperfection. That doesn’t mean I blame Islam for the what’s happening, I blame the people. It is what it is yknow. There’s a lot more to talk about but I think my point is through, I don’t think Islam would dwindle in size if the governments made a change🤷🏻‍♀️.
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Glimpses from Nithya Satsang with HDH Nithyananda Paramashivam 20 JULY 2020 - 07:49 PM, MONDAY (IST), NITHYANANDA SATSANG - ENGLISH GIST *PARAMASHIVA’S MESSAGE DIRECTLY FROM KAILASA: *CHEMISTRY OF THIS PRALAYA HAPPENING RIGHT NOW: *WHEN I USE THE WORD “CHEMISTRY OF THIS PRALAYA”, WHAT IS THE CHEMISTRY HAPPENING IN THE COSMOS FOR THIS PRALAYA TO START, GET INITIATED AND WHAT IS THE CHEMISTRY IT IS MANIFESTING IN ALL OF US AND WHAT IS THE ALCHEMY PROCESS TO SAVE OURSELVES FROM THIS PRALAYA, DELUGE, PANDEMIC, PANDEMIC FATIGUE AND ALL AFTER EFFECTS OF THIS PANDEMIC. *KNOWING THE CHEMISTRY OF THIS PRALAYA, YOU CAN PROTECT YOURSELF FROM THIS PRALAYA. *YESTERDAY I WAS EXPLAINING THIS DELUGE - PRALAYA - IS DELUSION. WHAT USUALLY DELUSION DOES TO YOUR SYSTEM IS THE CHEMISTRY. *WHAT IS THE IMPACT ON YOUR INNER CHEMISTRY OF THIS DELUSION? HOW THIS DELUSION IMPACTS YOUR INNER CHEMISTRY? IT CAUSES DIS-CONTINUOUS SUICIDAL ARROGANCE, LIFE-NEGATIVE EXTREME MOOD SWINGS. *THE FIRST IMPACT OF BHAVA SAMADHI WILL BE EXTREME ECSTASY, ABSOLUTE JOY, AND BRAIN FILLED WITH NECTAR! THE DELUSION’S FIRST IMPACT WILL BE EXTREME MOOD SWINGS AND FEELING DISCONNECTED EVEN WITH THE PURPOSE OF EXISTENCE OF YOUR LIFE. THAT IS WHY I AM INSISTING THAT TILL DECEMBER 14TH, BRING MORE AND MORE LOVE, JOY, COMPLETION, UNCLUTCHING. *TAKE MY WORDS VERY SERIOUSLY. EVERY WORD I AM UTTERING IS REALLY REALLY REALLY UTTERED WITH EXTREME SINCERITY. *UNCLUTCHING, COMPLETION NOT SLEEPING MORE THAN 6 HOURS, ALL THESE ARE TOO IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO KEEP YOURSELF TOGETHER AT LEAST TILL DECEMBER 14TH. *EXTREME VIOLENCE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE, MURDEROUS, SUICIDAL TENDENCY WILL BE THE NORMAL FLOW DUE TO THIS PRALAYA. *PEOPLE WHO USUALLY ACT DURING THE MOOD SWINGS, KEEP YOUR KNIFE, POISONOUS CHEMICALS, EVERYTHING AWAY FROM YOUR REACH LIKE HOW WE SAY: KEEP ALL THIS AWAY FROM CHILDREN’S REACH! I MEAN IT! *EVERY WORD I AM UTTERING IS CAREFULLY THOUGHT THROUGH AND UTTERED WITH RESPONSIBILITY. EVEN HOW I SIT AND HOW I PRESENT MYSELF IS VERY CONSCIOUSLY DONE. *JATA, BHASMA, RUDRAKSHA - ALL THESE REPRESENT MY INTEGRITY TO CHARYA PADA - LIFESTYLE. *THE ATMALINGA I AM ALWAYS WEARING WHICH I DO NITHYA PUJA TO EVERYDAY REPRESENTS MY INTEGRITY TO KRIYA PADA OF PARAMASHIVA’S WORDS. *I USED TO TELL EVERYONE: EVEN IF YOU MISS FOOD, DON'T MISS PUJA. EVEN DURING MY PARIVRAJAKA YATRA, SOMETIMES IF I WAS NOT ABLE TO CARRY MY DEITY WITH ME, LIKE SOMETIMES I WILL THINK I WILL GO TO THE NEARBY VILLAGE AND COME BACK IN THE EVENING BUT I WILL BE STUCK AND NOT ABLE TO COME BACK DUE TO SOME NATURAL CALAMITY, EVEN DURING THOSE DAYS, I WILL KEEP A DROP OF WATER CALLED JALA LINGA OR KEEP RUDRAKSHA AND OFFER PUJA. *PADMASANA AND SITTING STRAIGHT SHOWS MY INTEGRITY TO YOGA PADA TO PARAMASHIVA. *THE GREAT TRUTHS I AM DOWNLOADING AND SHARING WITH YOU ALL IS DEMONSTRATION OF MY INTEGRITY TO PARAMASHIVA’S JNANA PADA. SO EVERYTHING I UTTER OR DO IS ABSOLUTELY IN INTEGRITY WITH PARAMASHIVA AND HIS TEACHINGS. *NOW WITH THAT INTEGRITY, I AM SHARING THIS TRUTH WITH YOU. DUE TO THIS PRALAYA, DELUGE, YOUR PAST VIOLENCE, KARMAS, EVERYTHING WILL BE TRIGGERED FROM THE SOURCE. IT IS ALSO GOOD NEWS THAT YOU CAN USE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO COMPLETE ALL UNKNOWN INCOMPLETIONS WHICH WILL NOW BE SMOKED OUT DUE TO THIS DELUGE. *WHEN THERE IS A COLLECTIVE DELUGE, PRALAYA, EVEN THE DEEPEST LAYERS OF YOUR PATTERNS, INCOMPLETIONS WILL ALL OOZE OUT. SO IF YOU PRACTISE ABSOLUTE COMPLETION, NONVIOLENCE AND NO REACTION OR RESPONSE INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY FOR ALL THE INCOMPLETION, PATTERNS COMING OUT, ERUPTING, GUSHING AND OOZING OUT, IF YOU GO FOR UNCLUTCHING, THIS PRALAYA, PANDEMIC TIME, WILL GIVE YOU SUPERCONSCIOUS BREAKTHROUGH, ENLIGHTENMENT POWERS AND NOT ONLY YOU WILL SAIL THROUGH THIS, YOU WILL GIVE A SUPERCONSCIOUS BREAKTHROUGH TO OTHERS BY SETTING A TREND, MODEL. *TOO MANY THINGS WHICH YOU LOVED, WHICH YOU THOUGHT AS PART OF YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE, TOO MANY PEOPLE WHOM YOU LOVED, WHO WERE PART OF YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE, WILL NOT BE THERE ANYMORE AS THEY USED TO BE. THERE WILL BE SOME DEATHS, SOME PEOPLE WILL BE LOSING THEIR QUALITIES OF WHAT YOU CALL AS THEM. *IF THERE ARE TWO PEOPLE WHO HATE NITHYANANDA, THERE ARE 2 MILLION PEOPLE WHO HATE WHAT THEY FALSELY THINK AS NITHYANANDA DUE TO FALSE PROPAGANDA. THAT IS WHAT I CALLED DELUSION BASED HATRED. ALL THAT WILL MELT DOWN. *THE CELEBRITIES WHO ARE PROMOTED BY THE BRAND BUILDING EXERCISES ARE LOVED FOR THAT WHICH IS REALLY NOT THEIR QUALITY. DELUSION BASED LOVE AND DELUSION BASED HATRED, BOTH WILL MELT DOWN. *THE FALSE IDEA-PROPELLED LOVE AND FALSE IDEA-PROPELLED HATRED WILL MELT DOWN IN THIS DELUGE. FOR MANY PEOPLE, FOR WHOM I WAS NOT PART OF THEIR LIFE, WILL SUDDENLY DISCOVER ME AS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT IN THEIR LIFE TO KEEP THEMSELVES TOGETHER. *MANY CELEBRITIES WHOM YOU THOUGHT AS PART OF YOUR LIFE WILL SUDDENLY LOSE THEIR INFLUENCE OVER YOUR LIFE. *THIS PRALAYA, PANDEMIC, PROVIDES OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO GO THROUGH THE ALCHEMY OF ENLIGHTENMENT. MANY THINGS YOU NEED TO UNCLUTCH FROM WILL BE FORCIBLY UNCLUTCHED FROM YOU. YOU SHOULD NOT BE VIOLENT, ANGRY, DEPRESSED ABOUT IT. *EVERYDAY, JUST LIKE YOU BREATHE WHAT IS AVAILABLE IN THE FORM OF AIR, EAT WHAT IS AVAILABLE IN THE FORM OF FOOD, CONSUME THE ECOSYSTEM WHAT IS AVAILABLE IN THE FORM OF THOUGHTS, YOU CANNOT STOP ITS INFLUENCE OVER YOU. HOW MUCH EVER YOU THINK YOU ARE INTELLIGENT, YOU CAN'T STOP THE INFLUENCE OF NEGATIVE NEWS OVER YOU. ONLY THING YOU CAN DO IS, YOUR INNER SPACE CAN BE PURIFIED WITH UNCLUTCHING. *YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU THROUGH THE NEWS. YOU NEED TO KNOW THE RULES AND REGULATIONS...WHAT IS HAPPENING...WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM THIS PANDEMIC, ALL THESE NEEDS TO REACH YOU FROM THE OUTER WORLD. SO YOU CAN'T COMPLETELY DISCONNECT YOURSELF. SO NATURALLY WHEN YOU ALLOW THE NEWS TO REACH YOU, ALL THE OTHER THINGS ASSOCIATED WITH IT, REACHES YOU BUT YOUR REACTION IS IN YOUR CONTROL. IT IS NOT IN SOMEONE ELSE'S CONTROL. NO ONE ELSE IS SITTING INSIDE AND THINKING FOR YOU. *EXAMPLE STATEMENTS: THE BODY WHICH DOES NOT HAVE CRAVINGS, ADDICTIONS, IS BILLION DOLLARS’ WORTH. THE BODY WHICH SALIVATES TO TASTE AND REJOICE FASTING, IS TRILLION DOLLAR WORTH; I SHOULD SAY MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR WORTH! THE BODY WHICH CAN SIT IN PADMASANA AND UNCLUTCH AND HAVE HIGH POWERFUL COGNITIONS INSIDE YOU, IS TRILLIONS TRILLIONS TRILLIONS WORTH! *IF GOD GIVES ME THE OPTION: THE BODY THAT SITS IN PADMASANA, UNCLUTCHES, HAVING HIGH CONSCIOUSNESS, AND THE OTHER SIDE, TRILLION DOLLARS, I WILL ABSOLUTELY 120% FULLY, CONSCIOUSLY, CHOOSE THE BODY THAT CAN SIT IN PADMASANA AND UNCLUTCH AND HAVE POWERFUL COGNITION, BECAUSE THAT CAN MANIFEST MUCH MUCH MUCH HIGHER THINGS THAN ANY TRILLION DOLLARS! *SAME WAY, THE MIND WHICH HAS LESS REACTIONS IS LIKE MILLIONAIRE’S MIND AND WHICH IS UNCLUTCHED IS BILLION DOLLAR MIND. MIND WHICH IS UNCLUTCHED BUT INTENSELY ACTIVE IN THAT STATE IN PARAMASHANTA SWARUPA AND FORM THAT ABSOLUTE PEACEFUL STATE, INTENSELY ACTIVE IS BEYOND TRILLIONAIRE’S MIND. IT IS BEYOND VIOLENCE, NONVIOLENCE. IT KNOWS TO BE ABSOLUTELY EST IN VN AND DO WHAT IS RIGHT LIKE KRISHNA TELLING ARJUNA: NONVIOLENCE IS THE ULTIMATE. “AHIMSA PARAMO DHARMAHA”. NOW KILL ALL THESE PEOPLE WHO NEED TO BE ELIMINATED TO KEEP SRISHTI ON PLANET EARTH ALIVE. APPARENTLY VIOLENT BUT ABS NV! THAT IS BEYOND ORDINARILY WHAT YOU UNDERSTAND AS VIOLENCE. THAT IS THE COSMIC LEVEL NON VIOLENCE. KRISHNA LEADING THE MAHABHARAT WAR IS THE ABSOLUTE COSMIC LEVEL NON VIOLENCE. AHIMSA IN THE SCALE OF UNIVERSE! BECAUSE TOO MUCH WEAPON WERE PILED UP AND TOO MANY HAD KNOWLEDGE OF TOO MUCH WEAPON. TOO MANY KNEW THE SCIENCE OF BRAHMASTRA, KNEW THE SCIENCE OF TOO MANY ASTRAS, SO ANY ONE WEAPON LEFT IN THE HANDS OF THE GUY WHO CAN DO VIOLENT REACTION DUE TO HIS ASSUMPTIONS, WHO CAN GO CRAZY AND GET INTO PANDEMIC FATIGUE THAT EMBOLDENS PEOPLE: “COME WHAT MAY ANYWAY I AM GOING TO DOWN THE DRAIN THEN LET ME PULL EVERYONE ALONG WITH ME” *THESE THOUGHT CURRENTS COME WHEN YOU FEEL YOU HAVE ONLY ONE LIFE. WHEN YOU KNOW YOU ARE GOING TO COME BACK YOU WILL LEAVE THIS PLANET EARTH HAPPY AND RICH MORE THAN WHAT IT WAS WHEN YOU ENTERED BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING TO COME BACK! LOSING THIS BALANCE AND DESTROYING WHOLE PLANET EARTH, IT IS LIKE NOBODY KNOWS WHEN SRISHTI WILL BE DESTROYED ...DRONACHARYA, ASHWATHAMA...TOO MANY PEOPLE KNOW THE SCIENCE OF BRAHMASTRA. ASHWATTHAMA CAN ONLY RELEASE BUT CAN'T RECALL THE BRAHMASTRA…! *NARROW MINDED PEOPLE START BELIEVING IN ONE LIFE. LARGE BROAD VISIONARIES REALISE TRUTH OF MULTIPLE. BELIEVING IN ONE LIFE IS SUPERSTITIOUS. MANY POEPLE WHO KNOW THE TRUTH OF MULTIPLE LIVES DUE TO DELUSION STARTED FOLLOWIN ONE LIFE SUPERSTITUOS MENTAL SETUP IF YOU HAVE THE VISION OF A LARGR LIFE, YOU WILL NEVER DO SILLY, STUPID SUICIDAL, PANDEMIC ARROGANT CHEMISTRY BASED DECISIONS. *KRISHNA HAS NO OTHER WAY BUT TO DESTROY ALL WEAPONS IN CONTROLLED CONDITIONS SO HE COLLECTED ALL WEAPONS IN KURUKSHETRA AND ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HAD THE KNOWLEDGE OF DESTROYING THE WHOLE SRISHTI. HE FINISHED OFF IN CONTROLLED CONDITION. THAT IS WHY I SAY, KRISHNA LEADING THE MAHABHARAT WAR PERSONALLY SITTING THERE FOR 18 DAYS...ACTUALLY KRISHNA WAS IN QUARANTINE AT THAT TIME. HE WAS JUST THERE BURNING HEALING RELEASING CLEANING EVERYTHING WITHOUT TOUCHING ANY WEAPON. HE WAS ONLY AS A CATALYST FOR THIS WHOLE CLEANSING TO HAPPEN. *THAT IS THE GREATEST AHIMSA, NONVIOLENCE KRISHNA IS DEMONSTRATING HIS RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT THE SRISHTI, RESP AS PARANDAMA VISHNU OF MAINTAINING EHWORLD BY CONDUCTING THE MHB PERSONALLY AND ELIMINATING ALL THE DESTRUCTIVE ENERGY AND TAKING ALL THE BLAME ON HIMSELF FOR THE WAR STUPID ARE THOS EWHO LAME K FOR H BWAR. EVEN IF IT WAS ONE DAY FOR THE MHB WAR TO HAPPEN, THE SRISHTI WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST, SOMEONE FOOL WOULD HAVE DESTROYED THE WHOLE WORLD. LIKE IN HINDI SERIALS DEVON KI DEV: SRISTI NASHT JO JAYEGA! ONLY THEN PRM WILL WAKE UP. USUALLY NARADA ONLY WILL GO THERE AND SAY SRISHTI NASHT HOJAYE...THENMAHADEVA WILL OPEN HIS EYES AND … THAT IS COSMIC LEVEL NONVIOLENCE RESPONSIBLE NONVIOLENCE. FOOLS ARE THOSE WHO BLAME KRISHAN FOR MAHABHARATA WAR. FOOLS ARE THOSE WHO EVEN THINK MAHABHARAT WAR WAS VIOLENCE AND WHO DO NOT KNOW THE LARGER PICTURE OF MAHABHARAT WAR. FOOLS ARE THOSE WHO ACCUSE KRISHAN FOR RASA LEELA. NEITHER THEY KNOW LUST NOR VIOLENCE. WAR THROUGH RASLEELA HE ABSOLUTELY DEMONSTRATED ABSOLUTE BRAHMACHARYA SATYA HAVING THE BEST THINGS OF THE WORLD AROUND HIM OF THE WORLD KRISHNA DEMONSTRATED ABS APARAIGRAHA. TAKING AWAY NOT ONLY THINGS EVEN GIRLS...FROM EVERYONE HE DEMONSTRATED ABSOLUTE ASTEYA. HE IS PEAK OF ABSOLUTE PURITY WHICH CAN NEVER BE GRASPED BY MIDDLE CLASS MENTALITY. HE IS AN INCARNATION OF PURITY. HE STOLE THE BUTTER FROM SO MANY HOUSES, NOBODY COMPLAINED. HE WENT TO NANDAS HOUSE BUT NOBODY COMPLAINED HE CAME TO HIS HOUSE TO GET ONE MORE GLIMPSE OF KRISHNA ...WHEN K WENT AGAIN TO HIS HOUSE TO TEAK BUTET THEY CATCH HIM NOT TO PUNISH HIM BUT OLD HIM ONE MORE TIME IN THEIR HOME BY RUNNING AWAY WITH JARASANDHA AND RANCHOR DEMONSTRATED BRILLIANCE. IF HE DID NOT RUN AWAY AND CONTINUED TO FIGHT WITH JARASANDHA, IT WOULD BE HAVE BEEN PANDEMIC FATIGUE EMBOLDENED SUICIDAL ARROGANCE. HE KNOWS WHO CAN KILL JARASANDHA, WHO HAS TO KILL JARASANDHA AND WITH VIVEKA HE STRATEGIZED. *PEOPLE WHO ACCUSE KRISHNA BECAUSE HE RAN AWAY FROM WAR WITH JARASANDHA ARE FOOLS. THE SAME FOOLISHNESS IS MANIFESTING AS MODERN DAY TROLLS WHO THINK I RAN AWAY. *PEOPLE ACCUSING KRISHAN FOR HIS RAS LEELA ARE FOOLS. I HAVE ALWAYS SEEN: PPEOPLE WHO ACCUE KRISHAN OF WIAMNISISND DUE TO HIS RASALEELA SOON ALL THEIR STORIES OF ALL THEIR PERVERSIONS COME OUT! KRISHNA IS ABSOLUTE BRAHMACHARI. ALL THOSE WHO ACCUSE, THEIR STORIES WILL COME OUT SOON AND COMING OUT SOON! PEOPLE WHO BLAME KRISHNA OR MAHABHARATA ARE FOOLS! *PEOPLE WHO ACCUSE K FOR KILLING SISHUPALA FOR VERBALLY INSULTING K….SISHU WAS DESTROYING KRISHNA BHAKTI WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN ENLIGHTENED...EACH DISCIPLE IS LITERALLY JNANA GARBHA I AM HOLDING. SO DESTRYOIGN THEI BHAKTI IS LIEK AN ABORTION. SISHUOALA IS DOING TOO MANY SPIRITUAL ABORTIONS. THAT IS WHEN K HAS NO OTHER WAY. SO THE COSMIC NON VIOLENCE NEEDS TO DO ITS JOB. THIS PRALAYA,PANDEMIC IS A GREAT COSMIC AHIMSA MANIFESTATION. *BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO STAND WITH KRISHNA. SWALPA - EVEN PRACTISING LITTLE BIT OF NONVIOLENCE DURING THIS PRALAY WILL DO A LOT OF GOOD. PRACTICE NONVIOLENCE, UNCLUTCHING, FEELING CONNECTION, AJAPA JAPA OF MAHAVAKYA, ONENESS...START PRACTISING ALL THESE SIX, WHENEVER YOU LIKE. AFTER SOME TIME THE MIND SUDDENLY DOESN'T SETTLE DOWN THEN YOU CAN DO UNCLUTCHING AFTER SOME TIME IF IT DOESN'T SEEM TO SETTLE, PRACTICE ONENESS AND WATCH ONENESS CAPSULE...SOMETIME DO AJAPA JAPA ….DO WHAT WORKS. ALL THIS S ONE AND THE SAME- YOU WILL FALL IN NIRVIKALPA SAMADHI. SOMETIME YOU ENJOY COFFEE, SOMETIME HOT CHOCOLATE, SOMETIME TEACH...LIKE THIS YOU CAN ENJOY ANYTHING! ALL THESE SIX LEAD TO THE SAME SPACE! ENJOY! *BY PERSONALLY GUIDING AND MANAGING THE MHB WAR K DEMONSTRATED ABSOLUTE EXTREME COMMITMENT TO THE SRISHTI, CREATION AND DEMONSTRATED HIS COSMIC NONVIOLENCE! A DOCTOR REMOVING THE YOUR WITH THE KNIFE IS NOT VIOLENCE THAT IS THE ABSOLUTE NONVIOLENCE FOR YOUR LIFE. HE DID THE BEST TO YOUR LIFE. SAME WAY KRISHAN CONDUCTING THE MAHABHARATA WAR PERSONALLY IS THE GREATEST DEMONSTRATION OF NV AND LOVE COSMICALLY. K MANIFESTED 100 TIMES MORE LOVE DURING THE MB WAR THAN WHEN HE DIDI RASA LEELA. HIS INTENSE LOVE RENERGY AND COMPASSION AND AURA WAS RESPONSIBILITY FOR DESTROYING ALL WEAPONS AND NEG KNOWLEDGE IN CONTROLLED CONDITIONS PROTECTING THE WHOLE SRISHTI. JUST IN HIS BREATHING SPACE IN KURUKSHETRA. HE CREATED A CHAMBER IN WHICH ALL THIS BRAMASTRAS AND KNOWLEDGE OF VARIOUS DESTRUCTIVE WEAPONS CAN BE BURNT AWAY MHB WAR NONVIOLENCE BRAHMACHARYA IF YOU READ MAHABHARATA, HE MADE DHARMA RAJA UTTER SO CALLED LIE WHICH IS NOT LIE. EEN FACTUALLY IT IS NOT LIE. AND THIS WHOLE TRICK HE DEMONSTRATED COSMIC SATYA, HIS COMMITMENT TO THE SATYA OF THE COSMOS. BY RUNNING AWAY FROM JARASANHDA WAR HE DEMONSTRATED ABS LIFE POSITIVE COURAGE COMMITTING SUIICDE IS COURAGE? IT IS CALLED PANDEMIC. LIFE ITSELF IS A PANDEMIC . WHEN YOU FEEL FATIGUE WITH THIS LIFE PANDEMIC YOU GET EMBOLDENED AND IT IS CALLED SUICIDAL ARROGANCE .IT IS LIKE KIDS ATTENDING COVID PARTIES TO SEE WHO IS GETTING AFFECTED. IT IS SUICIDAL ARROGANCE,NOT COURAGE. TALKING TO THE GURU ABUSING GANG AND ATTENDING COVID 19 PARTIES ARE ONE AND THE SAME. BOTH ARE SUICIDAL ARROGANCE, NOT COURAGE. *THAT IS WHY I INSIST ON DON'T TALK TO GURU DROHIS AND ABUSERS BECAUSE IT IS LIKE A VIRUS THEY CAN PUT INSIDE YOU WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT YOUR ABILITY TO SAFEGUARD YOU. *KRISHAN DEMONSTRATED VISIONARY COURAGE BY WITHDRAWING FROM BATTLE WITH JARASANDHA. THAT IS WHY RANCHOD SHUD NOT BE USED AS DEFAMING WAY TO KRISHAN IT SHOULD BE USED AS GLORY OF HIS VISIONARY COURAGE DEMONSTRATION. FOOLS WHO TROLL ME AS RANCHOD WILL UNDERSTAND LATER ON. I TOOK THIS DECISION OF WITHDRAWAL BCOS I KNOW WHAT I SCOMING PEOPLE STANDING ON ROAD CAN SE 10 VEHICLES COMING BOTH SIDE - 100 FEET BOTH SIDE. BUT PERSON STANDING IN 25 FLOOR CAN SEE 25 KM ON BOTH SIDES AND 1100 VEHICLES. I CAN SEE LARGER LIFE THAN YOU BECAUSE I AM UCNUTCHED BAND BASED ON THAT I MAKE DECISIONS! *WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A LARGER VISION YOU ACCUSE ME OF RUNNING AWAY. NOW UNDERSTAND IT IS NOT RUNNING AWAY IT IS SPIRITUAL SELF QUARANTINE! *LET THIS PRALAY MANIFEST AND SETTLE DOWN, THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND EVERY WORD I UTTERED EVERY ACTION I DID WAS TO PREPARE MY SELF AND ALL OF YOU TO SUCCESSFULLY SAIL THROUGH THIS PRALAYA AND GIVE SUPERCONSCIOUS BREAKTHROUGH TO THE POST PRALAYA WORLD. *BY STEALING BUTTER FORM GOPIKAS EVEN AS KID SO MANY STORIES ABOUT KRISHNA STEALING IS THERE INCLUDING WOMEN WITH ALL THIS HE DEMONSTRATED COMSI ASTEYA. PEOPLE WHO ACCUSE KRISHNA AS A THIEF ARE FOOLS! YOU CAN NEVER UNDERSTAND THE COSMIC SCALE ACTIONS AND REACTIONS MANIFESTATIONS OF KRISHNA *LISTEN TO KRISHAN. ENJOY KRISHAN, CELEBRATE KRISHNA WORSHIP KRISHNA. DONT TRY TO MEASURE HIM WITH YOUR STUPID PERVERTED INCOMLETIONS. PEOPLE ACCUSE K FROM STEALING 16,000 WOMEN FORM . BUT THOSE WOMEN WORSHIPPED HIM FOR RESCUING THEM FROM NARAKASURA AND FOR GIVING THEM STATUS OF HIS OWN WIFE. THEY DID NOT HAVE SEXUAL REL WITH K. HE WANTS TO GIVE THEM THE STATUS OF HIS OWN PATNIS - ARDANGINIS. TI IS THE GREATEST TYAGA KRISHAN HAS DONE. *BECAUSE HE RESCUED THEM FROM N ,NO MAN WANTS TO MARRY THEM BECAUSE THEY THINK THESE WOMEN ARE KEEPERS OF N AND WHY SHOULD THEY MARRY THEM. THOSE WOMEN DID NOT HAVE LIFE HOPE FUTURE. HE DECLARED ALL OF THEM AS HIS OWN WISEVES AND GAVE THEM THAT STATUS. WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED THAN TO BE CALLED AS KRISHNA PATNI. *WHAT A SACRIFICE KNOWING THAT WHOLE WORLD WILL ACCUSE AND ABUSE HIM HE DOESN'T CARE. HE CARES ONLY ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO SURRENDERED TO HIM. THOSE WOMEN PRAYED TO KRISHNA TO REDUCE THEM. HE RESCUED THEM AND GAVE THEM THE STATUS. WHAT A PERSONALITY! APATH PANDAVA ANAADA RAKSHAKA - ONLY K FITS THAT WORD. WHAT A TYAGA. HE KNOWS FOREVER IN STORY HE IS GOING TO CARRY BAD NAME AS WOMANISER BUT HE DOESN'T BOTHER. PROTECTING THEM AND GIVING THEM STATUS IS MORE IMPORTANT FOR ME THAN STATUS. SACRIFICING YOUR FOOD WITH CLOTHES AND WEALTH IS TOO SMALL TYAGA THAN THIS TYAGE. PERSONALITY LIKE KRISHNA HOW HE IS GOING TO GO DOWN IN HISTORY IS VERY IMP THING BUT HE IS READY TO SACRIFICE EVEN THAT. PRANAMAMI MUHURMUHU. KRISHNAM VANDE JAGAD GURU. *I BOW DOWN AGAIN AND GAIN TO KRISHNA’S TYAGA. I CAN BE ABSOLUTELY SURE THAT NOT ONE OF THOSE 16000 WOMEN WAS USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF SEX OR PLEASURE FOR KRISHNA. I AM 120% SURE. HE REUSED THE SEX SLAVES OF NARAKASURA AND GAVE THEM THE STATUS OF KRISHNA PATNIS. *WHY HE NEEDS PLEASURE? SUCH EXTRAORDINARY SACRIFICE INCLUDING THE SACRIFICE OF WHO HE IS GOING TO GO DOWN IN HISTORY. *YOU NEED DIVYA DAKSHU TO SEE KRISHNA. K SAYS GIVE YOU DS TO SEE THE LARGER ME. ONLY IF YOU SEE LARGER ME YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHY I WITHDREW FROM HUMANITY. WHY I SELF QUARANTINE MYSELF. *PRALAYA IS NOT YET OVER IT ONLY STARTED IT WILL BE FULLY TRIGGERED BY DEC 14TH AND AFTER THAT CASCADING CRISIS. *CHEMISTRY OF THS PRALAYA, OF THIS DELUGE, WILL INSTIGATE EXTREME NEGATIVITY AND SUICIDAL ARROGANCE. THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE YOURSELF FROM THIS IS: DON'T SLEEP MORE THAN 6 HOURS. KEEP YOURSELF IN HIGHER AND HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS BY WHOLE DAY EITHER PRACTISING UNCLUTCHING, COMPLETION, WORKING WITH KAILASA DIGITAL NATION. WHEN YOU WORK WITH AILASA DN, YOU CONSTANTLY INHALE ME. YOU ARE IN MY BREATHING SPACE. *ACTION IS THE ULTIMATE ALCHEMY. *CONSCIOUSLY DECIDING TO BE IN ONENESS WITH PARAMASHIVA BEYOND KNOWN AND UNKNOWN COMPLETION AND INCOMPLETION. TELL PARAMASHIVA: BEYOND MY KNOW AND UNKNOWN C AND IN I SURRENDER TO YOU O PRM KEEP ME IN ONENESS WITH YOU. LET ME BE IN ONENESS WITH YOU. WHETHER I KNOW IT OR NOT, WHETHER I AM COMPLETE ABOUT IT OR NOT LET ME BE IN ONENESS WITH YOU BECAUSE I KNOW YOU EXIST. I MAY NOW HAVE SEEN YOU BUT MY GURU HAS SEEN YOU. YOU ARE INTRODUCED TO ME BY SOMEONE I TRUST MY GUUR. MY GRU HAS TOLD YOU EXIST S YOU EXIST EVEN I HAVE NOT PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED SO I KNOW YOU EXIST AND YOU ARE SOURCE OF MY EXISTENCE SO PLEASE KEEP ME JIN INESS WITH YOU . AS YOU GAVET TO MY GURU GIVE IT TO ME. *DECIDE TO BE IN BEYOND UR DEL THAT IS INTEGRITY, ONENESS UNCLUTCHING COMPLETION. *SOMETHING WHICH DOESN'T CHALLENGE OR CHANGE YOU..SAME WAY, INTEGRATE TO SOMETHING BEYOND YOUR PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, RAISES YOU TO THAT REALITY I CALL THAT AS COSMIC INTEGRITY. *ESSENCE OF TODAY'S SATSANG: THROUGH THE ALCHEMY OF UNCLUTCHING PLAY THE CHEMISTRY OF PRALAYA DELUGE ECHO PANDEMIC. *I WILL EXPLAIN THE BIOLOGY OF THIS PRALAYA IN FURTHER SATSANG. WE HAVE MAHESHWARA PUJA NEXT. ALL THE PARAMASHIVA GANA PARTICIPANTS WILL HAVE A MEETING AFTER THAT. I WILL REVEAL MY VISION AND STRATEGIES FOR KAILASA. Read the full post here: https://www.facebook.com/138595819561610/posts/4124847857603033/
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hanzi83 · 6 years
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Meh
I know these can get kind of tiresome because it seems every couple of days I feel compelled to air out my thoughts, just to get it off my chest, and it is important for me to do this because it displays how irrational my mind works when I am constantly flustered, whether it be from accumulated secrecy, the ills and evils of the world, how it affects me, mixed in with retaining information and frustrated that I can’t remember anything because there is constantly flow of information in my thoughts, so much so that it just all rumbles together, and if there is something I should know, or something I have watched, my head hurts because I can barely remember, yet I remember with so much else. I have spewed so much over the years; it is hard to find consistency in any of it. I know human beings evolve and because I feel I think certain people know better from the get and inject the culture with their dose of propaganda, which then trickles down to regular people such as myself to be influenced by thoughts.
I never knew how to think from the get go and went with what I saw people in my life do, or people at school, or in the entertainment I consumed, where I would spend my days daydreaming envisioning being a star while I was supposed to be listening and paying attention and it took me down an interesting path of changing ideologies or not knowing there was a sinister agenda behind something I deem as harmless. Only in the last couple of years I have woken up and breaking down the layers in this life, that even people in media will dismiss since their voices dominate the media and especially the internet.
Now being on Stern Show brought me a lot of harassment, and I became a target, and notice that it went all along across all forms of industries. I began to speak out and even though I have bought into right wing conspiracies in the past, before I realized fully, because there were elements of it in me even as late as 2016 to an extent, but when I realized in my delusional brain, that even the internet is propaganda on different levels it became evident I would be a target for online harassment because they know my delusional brain can’t get over the little fame I had, where the extreme narcissism comes out about the self worth scenario I had concocted in my brain, because it is too complicated to use my brain power to its fullest like everyone else, especially in such an era where the nonstop consumption is taking place because you have to keep up with everything to get what people talk about and it becomes so overwhelming you don’t know how to even talk about anything anymore. It would be easier to get on with my life if these people would stop harassing me. They win either way. It is established that I am not mentally stable as society would like me to be, so with that narrative being perpetuated, it is easier to dismiss me if things go sour with certain individuals. I could just be so mentally ill that it could just be my fault, or does that what they want me to think, because even though blame can be put on me for my behavior at times, it is just fair when this is what they have done to a lot of people. So they can goad me into a response to do something or say something that will be considered offensive, but if I just fight back, I am still giving them my attention and they are getting something out of that.
They can use the excuse they gave a bunch of us fame etc but we were the ones that were brunt of the jokes while elitists laughed at us and paid minions thinking they can have a piece of fucking with us as well. They rake in the dough while the ones they exploit get endless harassment, and in my case since I have been speaking out, and with full admission that I don’t have concrete proof, it still seems to strike a nerve. I see what happens with the past, or people who have been caught up in some shadiness, and then apply the trends to people in the older guard who have been attached to controversy in the past, that it eventually bites them in the ass. It seems like the countdown is on the way, because lately they have been getting more aggressive with their tactics to fuck with me.
I see this done from all these Stern Show spawns that he created a blue print for and how to exploit people or send people to harass them for content of the show, and when I am in familiar waters of being reminded how it was from the Stern Show, it fucks with me and because I put myself out there to show the public that this is the reality of this mental illness and this is what others who are mentally ill, especially ones in the industry who can’t talk and say anything, they have to self medicate, and I refuse to be someone who could have become a star sooner if I had compromised myself sexually and mentally. I know I am not much to look at, but there have been rumors of this for a while and now with some of the stories that go on, I can apply there is a good side finally exposing the past, so a new wave can be created. I had a break down because if I had to sell my soul, what lies would I have had to put out in the culture, and it would be justified because I was being paid, and I sacrificed and self sabotaged at my own detriment and now I stay bitter, but still want to speak out because certain people choose to protect the system and others want to expose shit but are still limited.
I see how other whack packers are treated. I don’t know if they are truly into scummy things, but there is a reason they put me in that category when Artie and Jon Hein claimed I was a contributor, without even realizing it because I believed there was some kind of payment but maybe I am not permitted to touch the money, so now they created this persona against my own will by keeping me out of commission and labeling me someone who lives in his parents basement. I even feel compelled to use it as a punch line but even that spreads thin after a while. It seems like the more I have spoken out, that they put out another category for me to be a target under. I am associated with the Stern Show so that one is already not good to certain people, then it is the conspiracy theorist thing which is associated with the right wingers like Alex Jones, then it is the angry misogynist, when I am fighting with chicks who I deem are sent by the system after having to please them, and even though I have sounded like I was being judgmental about it, it is more a slight at the system in place that lets certain chicks play in the game if they get something out of it. Either way another checkmark for that category, how about someone who doesn’t get laid and thinks women owe them something etc, when at most I have said if I become big I would like to have sex with certain people, but I never expect to leave my basement but even if I was afforded that opportunity, I would not want to force anyone to do anything and it is probably for the best for most chicks to stay away from me, I could never imagine anyone being attracted to me. I feel I would be doing them a favor letting them stay away from me, but that could misconstrued as someone who just solely hates women and gets triggered by anything progressive that happens with them. How about how I am a Muslim who constantly goes off on the authorities in the world and kind of try to expose the narrative of them convincing people that people who are on the right are the ones being censored? That one is a big no-no, allegedly. The basic gist is I am telling you I am a flawed and mentally ill person that is the potential target for people to fuck with and being able to do it because they have belief that I could be a threat.
I can display that I will never be violent and I won’t harm myself constantly, but they try harder and harder to goad me into a reply and the reason I feel compelled to do that is because I feel these people are important people who have connections and if they put out enough negative stuff about me it has reason to raise some flags. They produce obvious photo shops of me holding a gun, when I don’t own a gun, and never owned a gun. I did claim back in 2006 when I used to rap, and even though I felt suicidal in the past, I thought being someone who was a little street seemed credible, so I put in a rap I had bought one, but I never had one at all. Over the years my pathetic ass story went from having a gun, to it being exaggerated and it was a B.B gun, to flat out just saying I didn’t have one. They constantly post threads about hacking my computer and knowing where I live around, and these are done to scare me, even though they seem to admit it but as a joke so people will tell me not to take it seriously, but I have to, and they know I have to because they know that I see the hidden layers and it can just seem to the average person that I am just a fucking nut case.
I worry about what they will do to others. There are multiple platforms out there that use the exploited type and making sure they find the most mentally unstable and get them for their entertainment value and then when they become angry from the shit they are being subjected to they then try to dismiss that person to be being crazy and then acting like they are normal. These people organize harassment and what is scary how nice they can seem to you when they are talking to you straight up, and even this blog will be posted or they will try to attack me more and more and even hint they will want my personal journals. I feel Stern and his associates are behind that shit, but he is too irrelevant in the culture for people to care, but to me it is because he is powerful behind the scenes, and the roles they have behind the scenes have more responsibility than what they are doing for their job on the surface, but people never see that narrative. He can hold back from mentioning certain people he knows and do that because I have been suspecting an association taking place.
I would rather not be here but they keep me alive to mentally torture, while people who have no idea what is happening can just fucking point at me and laugh or just reaffirm that I am fucking crazy and how I live in my parents basement, so not only am I alive when I don’t want to be, they have me to just stand here looking like a fucking idiot complaining about how people are fucking with my life, so much so that I am distant from everyone in my life, because I don’t know what they want from me, or because I feel upset I missed out on so much and it never fucking stops bugging me, so I stay alone, and they know that I can either take this mentally and just live with it and if I dare react and try to do something they will fuck with me.
I cans see things being applied to what he does with other people’s videos and then I am supposed to suspect he does that with mine and now I know because these types of people have learned from Stern in the school of Cobra Kai, they have adopted specific crews to get their people to harass others and manipulate them for content. It is sick and these people lack morals and human decency but pretend they would never do that. It should be investigated but these people are protected by the elite type and can do whatever they want, as long as they put it under the guise of entertainment. It is so fucking sick but no matter how much I hope that something will come up in my favor, it will always be destined for this to continue, but I worry for others who have also been abused by this kind of system and can’t speak out because they are probably in worse condition than me. Some would argue I am in bad condition, so just imagine how much worse it is for other people who are being fucked with.
This is why I believe these situations with certain moguls and politicians who are caught with something is all planned out and when it is convenient they will start exposing others out of nowhere. Maybe something is coming close which is why they are working harder to fuck with my life and using people to harass me and trying to do horrible things to get me to react in such a way where it continues to make me a target. Again I don’t know anything with my theories officially. They continue to move my cursor and fuck with me, even when I am writing in my journal, which triggers everyone from that world, or even the ones in my world. I start remembering everything from the past and how I would get walked on all over, and it just becomes harder to hold back when it has all manifested into this big ball of anger.
I hope the good ones are reading this and will eventually step in but I am not holding my breathe because I am a piece of shit at the end of the day and as much as I try to speak out and using whatever voice I have to speak out for the marginalized, and since I have opened their narrative up by thinking that the right side can make you think the ones fighting for equality and rising up because of the oppression is the sensitive, and not so cool type of behavior because we have been taught to lack empathy towards others and always parrot the higher ups propaganda of justifying the authoritative types can continue to do what they do. It is one thing to disagree but they always have a plan to counter it so the ignorant side seems cooler and will always seem like the “I don’t give a fuck” in being racist, homophobic, misogynistic etc. I say this as someone who fell for this shit because I was dumb and went for whatever came easier, and I didn’t want to rattle the wrong cage.
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afriendtokilltime · 7 years
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Guide for New Paladins (Paladin FAQ)
We at the University of Justice would like to thank Professor Hayashi Sayuri for writing up a helpful FAQ for our new students. As she is missing all but one of her limbs, she is the only one on staff who has the time to write it up.. Let this set an example to all our young paladins to always strive to do good, in whatever small ways you can.
Author’s Note: Go fuck yourself, Bartosz.
If, at the end of this FAQ--or even before it--you have any further questions for Professor Hayashi, please drop them in my ask box. (Write “ask Hayashi” or “for Hayashi” or “paladin FAQ” or something so I know it’s aimed at her.)
Q: Can I lie?
Your powers come from your force of personality. What do you think?
Q: Can I use poison?
Yes.
Q: But that’s dishonorable!
You’re a paladin, not a knight.
Q: I’m lawful. Shouldn’t I follow the rules of honorable combat?
No.
Q: I’ve been challenged by a Blackguard to a duel in single combat, and she’s far more powerful than me. What should I do?
Cheat.
Q: Seriously?
Yeah. You’re not a knight. Or a Blackguard for that matter. People expect paladins to be honorable, but we don’t have to, so it’s more surprising when we cheat. It’s an advantage you shouldn’t waste.
Q: Isn’t cheating chaotic?
It can be. A lot of cheating tactics lean toward chaos. If you’ve been cheating a lot in combat, you should be careful to make sure you’re being very lawful in your day-to-day life. Spend a couple days around an actual chaotic person--that should do the trick.
Q: Am I allowed to use ranged weaponry?
What kind of Hoplite shit is this?
Q: Am I allowed to run away?
Are you allowed to use tactics? Yes. Yes you are.
Q: But shouldn’t I stand my ground?
Not if you can escape and fight again tomorrow. Being a paladin doesn’t mean you have to be Stupid Good.
Q: What if there are innocents who will die? I can’t just leave them.
Oh, then you sacrifice yourself. Just don’t do it for nothing.
Q: Do I have to challenge people to single combat?
No. Single combat is usually stupid. You’re not even well-built for single combat. You can hit evil things pretty hard, but you’re still pretty much just a melee combatant. You’ll do a lot better if you have a wizard friend to throw fireballs and a rogue friend to backstab your opponent.
Q: Am I allowed to steal?
In very specific circumstances, yes. For example, you could steal a key from a guard to free some prisoners. Or you could steal an evil artifact from some cultists in order to destroy it. Basically, the rule of thumb is that you can’t steal if it would profit you anyway, or if it would hurt innocents.
Q: So can I loot corpse?
Oh yeah, totally. How do you think I got this sweet axe?
Q: I’ve heard that all paladins must consume a daily quantity of sugar, but I’m a diabetic. What should I do?
...what? What the fuck?
Q: Am I allowed to have premarital sex?
Have as much sex as you want. Actually, there’s a spell some paladins learn that lets them have half-celestial kids.
Q: Yeah, but if you’re married, it’s different!
Look, UofJ is a college. If sex made you fall, we wouldn’t have any students after the first two weeks.
Q: Can I be gay and be a paladin?
I don’t know. Let me ask my girlfriend.
Q: But I mean, you can’t, like, have sex, right?
Yeah, I’m not discussing my sex life with students.
Q: I’m in a poly relationship. Do I have to give it up to become a paladin?
It doesn’t matter what kind of relationship you are in. It literally doesn’t matter.
Except an abusive relationship, I guess. If you’re abusive, you’ll fall.
Q: I’m into, um, kinky stuff in the bedroom. Could that keep me from becoming a paladin?
Ah, college kids. Such priorities.
Q: My girlfriend cheated on me, and she’s still a paladin. How is that possible?
Because that’s not evil. It just makes you a dick. You can be a dick and still be a paladin, Ginevra.
Q: Am I allowed to drink?
With this job? Yeah.
Q: So if you can drink are you allowed to do...other things...like drugs?
Drugs have nothing to do with alignment. The drug trade is evil, though, so...grow your own, maybe?
Q: Do I have to respect my elders? I wish you did.
Q: Am I allowed to kill prisoners?
If a mortal being has surrendered, no. (Unless they draw a weapon, or--in some circumstances--if they attempt to run away.)
Q: What if the person who surrendered killed my father, and I want to avenge him? (I’m asking for a friend.)
We don’t do that. If you want vengeance, get a different class.
Q: Am I allowed to use torture?
Torture is always evil.
Q: But what if I need to do it to get information that will save lives?
It’s still evil. Anyway, torture isn’t really effective. Even if you, say, saw someone’s foot off so they can’t walk anymore (without any anesthesia or magic), they won’t tell you the truth, they’ll just say what you want to hear.
Q: How do I get the information, then?
Your powers come from your force of personality. Maybe you can think of something?
Q: I want to become a paladin, but I’m impatient and I don’t know if I can deal with being nice to people all the time.
Then you’re in luck, because paladins are the biggest assholes I’ve ever met.
Q: Am I allowed to use evil magic?
No...it’s evil…?
Q: So I can’t use necromancy?
No, necromancy is fine. Evil magic is anything that comes from the lower planes. You know. Where evil comes from. That’s all.
Q: But undead are evil!
Most of them. But necromancy is negative energy, not evil. Are you really planning on double-classing paladin/wizard necromancy subtype?
Q: Well, no, but I--
Didn’t think so.
Q: Is eating meat evil?
Oh fuckers, not you again! I have to say this every year. No. Eating meat will never be evil.
Q: Am I allowed to swear?
No.
Q: Am I allowed to be sarcastic?
No.
Q: Which god do I have to worship?
None of them.
Q: What? I can be an atheist?
Sure. Or you can worship a god. There’s plenty of places of worship on campus. But it’s not a requirement. (And ignore that “wall of the faithless” crap, that’s just god propaganda.)
Q: This sounds like some sort of Sigil crap.
Not all atheists come from Sigil. Some of them are normal Primes who just don’t happen to worship a god.
Q: But still, I want to be a humble paladin, not a stuck-up wizard in an ivory tower or something.
Actually, there’s more atheist paladins than any other class. Because we know where we’ll go when we die, there’s not much incentive--
Hayashi, this is starting to sound like a conversion pamphlet.
Let’s try that again. Worshiping, or not worshiping, any given god will have no affect on your status as a paladin. Got it?
Q: But I met someone who was a paladin of Pelor/Garl Glittergold/the One/Dionysus/Eilistraee!
Yeah. Lots of paladins do that. But they don’t get their powers from their god. It’s just something they say to show they draw their inspiration from their god. You could be a paladin of learning or a paladin of cheese and crackers if you want.
Q: So I can be a paladin of Pelor/Garl Glittergold/the One/Dionysus/Eilistraee?
Sure.
Q: That was a joke, right? There are no paladins of Eilistraee, right?
Actually, she has a rather large order. They get purged frequently.
Q: Okay, but...there aren’t any paladins of Lolth, right?
I’ve met at least one.
Q: Are there gods I can’t worship?
Not as far as I know. I mean, swearing fealty to an evil god seems wrong somehow, but plenty of orc paladins from traditional families still worship their racial pantheon.
Q: Orc paladins?!
Heck, even I sometimes go to ceremonies, and I haven’t worshipped those dicks since I was twelve.
Q: I might feel more comfortable getting this information from a, uh...human paladin?
Too bad. Anyway, I’m half-elven, and I’ve only got my left arm, so let’s assume that’s the elven half.
Q: That’s not how halves work.
Worship whatever gods you want. And get used to seeing orcs, because UofJ has a “savage scholarship.” It’s some kind of outreach program.
Q: Don’t they fall a lot?
All our students fall a lot. We’ve got a 41% graduation rate.
Q: What about worshipping demons?
Don’t worship demons.
Q: So, I’ll fall?
I don’t know, but nobody should worship demons.
Q: Should I go on a suicide mission to Hell?
No.
Q: Should I go on a suicide mission to the Abyss?
No.
Q: Should I join the blood war?
NO.
Q: I’ve fallen. What should I do now?
First, DO NOT make a deal with a demon.
Okay, second, take a deep breath. Falling isn’t the end. Just get an atonement spell, and you’ll be back in shape after one adventure. The majority of paladins are still LG after falling, with a minority being NG, and a smaller minority becoming CG or LN. Rarely is the action that caused a paladin to fall so heinous that the paladin becomes evil as a result. Although it has been known to happen, Phil.
Third, DO NOT make a deal with a demon.
Q: I don’t want to atone. I don’t think what I did was wrong.
That’s fine. For lots of former paladins, falling was a wake-up call. It made them realize that LG wasn’t for them, and they could do just as much good as a different class. Some become NG or CG, some become LN. Others remain LG, but choose not to atone.
If being a paladin is keeping you from personal fulfilment, I personally suggest you don’t even try. Yeah, free will means we can choose our alignment, but if your nature’s more chaotic, why fight it? Chaos can do just as much good as law.
Just make sure that you DO NOT make a deal with a demon.
Just because you decide to stay fallen, doesn’t mean you need to bang your way down the alignment tree hitting every branch on the way down. One evil action doesn’t mean you’re evil, now. (Those who fell due to becoming chaotic probably shouldn’t need this reminder, but you didn’t even do anything evil.) Being LN (or TN or CN) is a perfectly acceptable option. And you’re probably still good. There’s lots of alignments between “paladin” and “batshit crazy.”
You’re a paladin, so you’re used to alignment being a zero sum game, but now that you’re fallen, it’s time to get used to the idea that everyone has an alignment. Look at all the people around you who aren’t paladins. Do they go around murdering babies and raping cats?
Q: But what I did wasn’t wrong. Isn’t there some sort of Good Appeals Board I can take this up with?
Look, alignment isn’t one of those fuzzy, loosy-goosy conceptual things, like gods or oxygen or whatever. If you get dumped by Lolth, you can appeal to her (good luck), but if your alignment changed, it doesn’t really matter if Heaven takes pity on you or not.
Q: But I’m still Lawful Good!
Doesn’t mean you’re still a paladin, though.
Q: Why not?
If you’re still LG, it’s because you committed an evil action. Few evil actions are enough to change the alignment of a good person (like I said, it can happen, Phil), but those evil actions still matter.
Q: You said alignment is objective. I’m objectively LG! Heaven doesn’t care that I committed one evil action. Why should it matter?
Because we hold ourselves to a higher standard. That’s what makes us paladins.
Q: Didn’t you just say people who weren’t paladins could do just as much good?
Yeah. Cause they see good as a risk/reward calculation. Being willing to let things get a little messy might mean you take the bigger reward--you save more people. You help more. But paladins aren’t just about helping. Paladins are also supposed to be an example of what LG is.
Q: So you’re saying LG is more good than NG and CG are?
No, I’m saying it’s more lawful. Being a paladin means abiding by a code. The code says we never commit and evil action. So even if it seems really small, and the amount of good it could accomplish is really great, we don’t do it, cause it’s against the code.
Q: You’re saying paladins can’t think for themselves?
If there’s anything I’ve learned as a teacher, it’s that people are idiots, and not thinking for themselves is sometimes a blessing.
Q: But I’m still Lawful Good!
Then following a code shouldn’t bother you so much, should it? You can’t be a paladin again until you atone. Says so in the rules. See?
Q: Are the NG and CG exemplars our enemies?
Of course not. The beings of NG and CG are our allies in the fight against evil. Stupid allies who consistently ruin plans, but allies nonetheless.
Q: I’m 37th in a long family line of paladins. My parents want me to become a paladin, too, but I’m not sure. What should I do?
Don’t do it. You’re not cut out for it, and you’ll wind up falling.
Q: Should paladins act for the greater good?
I’ve never met anybody, paladin or otherwise, who said “greater good” and didn’t mean “evil.”
Q: If I meet an evil person, I should kill them, right?
Slow down, sparky. Killing isn’t the solution to every problem.
Q: But I can detect evil!
Yeah, and? That’s so you don’t get tricked by obvious con artists. (I was going to complain about the rumor that paladins are easily tricked, but looking back over these questions, I should probably bite my tongue.) You can’t literally kill everyone who pings as evil.
Q: But they’re evil.
Most of the world’s evil. Take a walk around Rome. If you went around trying to “eliminate” all of them, you’d be fallen in a day.
Q: Paladins are supposed to fight evil. How can I fall for that?
Look, I get that it’s objective reality or whatever, but there’s degrees of evil. Like, are you going to kill a 16 year old street urchin because she’s too poor to get money any other way than picking pockets, when there’s a devil right there?
Q: So you’re saying paladins are never allowed to kill mortals?
What? No, of course not. If it’s in self-defense, or defending someone else, it’s not murder. And even murder can be the right choice sometimes. Just use your brain. If you kill everyone who’s evil, well…
Q: Isn’t it better to try to get rid of all the evil people?
You know alignment can change, right? Free will?
Q: So I shouldn’t kill demons just for being evil, either?
What? No, that’s different. They’re demons. They’re not just people that are evil, they’re made of evil.
Q: Okay, but what about mortals that have a racial inclination to evil?
You mean alufiends? They still have free will. I know a nice LN alufiend who runs a teashop.
Q: And what about savage races?
That’s kind of an outdated term. I believe they prefer...actually, those races have nothing in common, so there is no PC term for them as a whole. “Mortals of non-heroic origin”?
Q: I mean, after wiping out a band of marauding goblins, if I find they had a child, what should I do? Should I slay it, to prevent it from harming the community later?
There is a runaway trolley barrelling down the tracks toward five people who are tied up, unable to move. One person stands on the other tracks. Do you pull the lever to switch the trolley, or do nothing?
Q: What does that have to do with anything?
That’s what you sound like.
Q: But that’s an interesting philosophical question.
No. It’s not. If morality is decided entirely in the realm of the hypothetical, then there’s no consequences, and therefore morality has no meaning. There would never be a trolley barreling toward five people, one person on the other tracks, and you deciding what switch to pull. The only reason to come up with an answer about the trolley problem is to feel good about yourself. UofJ doesn’t train you so you can sit around in an office like me, answering Philosophy 101 questions like some NPC class.
Q: Yeah, but what if there was a trolley?
You want an answer to the trolley problem? Fine. Jump in front of it yourself.
Q: What?
You jump in front of it yourself. You sacrifice yourself. That’s the only thing a paladin ever sacrifices for the good of the group. Get it?
Q: But what if the person on the other tracks was a baby goblin?
Don’t kill children, you idiot!
(Author’s Note: It’s been pointed out to me by my esteemed colleague that some of our students may not be aware that goblins, like all mortal races, have free will. They don’t have a special inclination toward evil. I’d think that’s plenty of justification to flunk them on the spot, but I’m not the president of UofJ.)
Q: But the goblin pantheon is evil!
And Lathander’s the god of the morning, but that doesn’t mean Professor Clery won’t bite your head off if you talk to her before she’s had her cup of coffee. (After she’s woken up at 11, the lazy git.)
Q: It’s different for humans.
It’s really not. And Professor Clery’s a bugbear.
Q: Okay, I won’t kill every evil person I meet, but I can’t travel with them, right?
I mean, that’s up to you.
Q: I won’t fall for having evil companions?
I mean, I guess you would if you started doing evil things with them? But not just for travelling with them, no. An evil person existing doesn’t make you evil by association.
Q: But if I have evil companions, they’ll backstab and betray me.
Not if you’re working toward a common goal. Evil just means they’re willing to screw over other people, not that they’re compelled to do it. If there’s a terrifying world-ending squid that wants to eat your hometown, then the evil hexblade is just as likely to want to get rid of it as you are.
Q: So I can’t torture anybody, but if the party rogue is already evil, I could just get her to do it…?
No!
Q: I thought I was supposed to tolerate my companions being evil.
No, you’re supposed to tolerate them. You should try to stop them from doing evil actions. Anything short of violence works. I like to go all orcish grandma on them. Passive aggression is really effective.
Q: I had my leg bitten off by a demonic crocodile. What should I do?
I don’t know, maybe write FAQs for idiot kids.
Q: A devil came around recruiting for the blood war…
I already told you, no!
Q: What if doing the right thing is against the law of the land?
You do the right thing.
Q: But I’m Lawful. If I don’t follow the laws of the land, won’t I fall?
You’re Lawful Good. You can’t just be lawful or just be good, you’re both. And LG means that you don’t follow evil laws.
Q: If I come from an evil country, how can I be lawful without following evil laws?
You don’t have to follow the law of the land to be lawful. Lawful just means you strive toward a consistent ideal. You keep a code--even if it’s not explicitly written out--of who you want to be. If that goes along with your country’s laws, that’s good, but if it means standing against your country’s laws, that’s still consistency. Consistency is what matters.
Q: So if I’m in an evil country, do I have to stand up to their laws?
As a rule, fixing society isn’t really our job. If you see evil right in front of you, you should try to stop it, but trying to bring real change to society is more trouble than it’s worth. It’s not our job to end slavery and stop genocide. Our job is to end cosmic threats. It’s a lot more efficient to focus on threats everyone can agree on. We might have different opinions about if mages should be locked in towers or own slaves, but we can all agree that someone’s gotta cut down the Blight.
I mean, I can’t exactly go home and “liberate” the women and end male rule--not without getting them to ditch the pantheon, which I don’t think they’d be keen on--but if I see a guy beating a woman, I can at least step in and mess his face up a little.
Editor’s note: This is just one paladin’s opinion and does not represent the views of UofJ. Many paladins get involved in politics and make a difference by fighting for justice.
Also, it’s called a patriarchy. You’re a scholar now, Hayashi, you could learn a few simple words.
Author’s note: Yeah, this kind of language mumbo jumbo is exactly the waste of time I’m talking about. I can sit here arguing over what to call men beating their wives, which is super helpful, or I can go kill demon squids.
Editor’s note: Since you’re no longer able to kill much of anything, you might consider getting more involved in social justice.
Author’s note: But then how would I provide this helpful FAQ?
Q: Wait, what are you talking about? Why did you bring up slavery?
It’s one of the more common evils. Most empires have some form of slavery. Rome, for instance. And let’s not get started on the drow…
Q: In my culture, slavery is perfectly acceptable. Can I still be a paladin?
What, and be OK with slavery? No.
Q: But it’s my culture!
Yeah, well, your culture’s wrong. It happens.
Q: That’s racist.
Seriously? After asking for a human to write this FAQ, I’m the racist? Look, I get it. I come from an evil culture, too. Let’s face it, most of us do. But things aren’t good just cause they’re culture.
Q: What about cannibalism? My culture’s okay with cannibalism. You said eating meat was never evil.
...I was talking about...I was talking about animal meat...no...no, cannibalism isn’t okay…
Editor’s Note: Technically speaking, cannibalism is only evil if you kill someone for the purpose of eating their flesh. If they were dead anyway, or you killed them for some other reason, and then due to starvation, you ate their flesh, that would be fine. Or if you ate flesh as part of a burial ritual. It’s killing someone for the purpose of eating them that’s evil.
Which is a reminder, kids, you should check out Bartosz’s philosophy 101 class, where you can discuss all these pedantic meaningless distinctions. Or you could not commit cannibalism, because that’s disgusting.
Q: I stabbed through a curtain, thinking my uncle was behind it, and I accidentally murdered an innocent.
Wait, what? Why did you want to kill your uncle? Never mind, I don’t want to know. There’s probably some creepy incest thing going on. Sorry, I started writing a response before I finished reading the question. Let’s see what it is.
Q: I didn’t fall. What gives?
You committed an evil act, but unknowingly. The paladin code recognizes intent. Accidentally killing an innocent, and other evil acts committed in ignorance, don’t cause you to fall.
Q: They don’t count as evil actions?
No, they do. If you somehow ignorantly committed enough evil acts in ignorance to change your alignment and become LN, you’d still fall. You can’t be a paladin if you’re not LG. I’ve never heard of a case of that happening, though, because you’d have to be really ignorant. And really clumsy.
Q: Wait, so don’t I benefit from staying ignorant? Is knowledge what causes evil? Should I eschew all knowledge from now on?
If that’s how you view being a paladin, then you’re gonna fall.
Q: All right, I don’t fall, but I still feel bad about it. What can I do to avoid it?
Okay, well, uh...instead of stabbing someone through a curtain, maybe, I don’t know, offer a chance to surrender first? Or at least call out, “Who’s there?”
Q: Wait, never mind. I spent like 20 days pondering the consequences of my sins and what to do next, and I fell anyway. So, did I fall because I learned my actions were evil and was able to appreciate the consequences?
No, that’s not really how it works.
Q: What the hell, then? Why did I fall?
Well, paladins are kind of, you know, action oriented. Sitting around for 20 days not taking action when your uncle’s apparently evil or something doesn’t really...work.
Q: Maybe I should consider what class I should be, then. This will require much reflection.
Yeah, okay, kid. You, uh...you do that.
Q: Okay, I’m good at the fighting stuff and the dying stuff, but I’m not sure about the social aspect of being a paladin. How should I treat the fairer sex?
Uh. Just treat them...like people?
Q: What about chivalry?
We don’t have that, uh, code. And some of us are women.
Q: Oh, that’s a good point! How should I treat paladin women? Should they be treated the same way I should treat other women, or…?
Seriously, treat them the same way you treat men. Supposedly any kind of treating the sexes differently counts as a minor evil act and can change your alignment, or something. So my colleagues tell me, anyway. Also, it’s super annoying.
Q: What do you mean?
Well, you know, if women are your fellow adventurers, they don’t usually want you opening dungeon doors for them and stuff. Especially if she’s the party rogue and you didn’t give her time to check for traps.
Q: So, treat them exactly the same?
Yep.
Q: Wait, am I allowed to attack women?
No. Even if a woman is evil, and is attacking you, and you will die unless you defend yourself, you can’t attack her. You will always fall if you attack women.
Q: Is it about ethics in games journalism?
No. It is never about ethics in games journalism.
Q: What kind of mount do you recommend?
Well, of course, all mounts are great and I’m sure you’ll succeed no matter what you choose. But dire parrots are the best! You can teach them to curse, and then you can really intimidate enemies by swooping toward them on a brightly colored steed shrieking “Fuck you and your mother! Bacaw!”
Q: Are you trolling?
No. My dire parrot is the best mount. Can your mount talk? I didn’t think so.
Q: Wait, so you have a parrot...you’re missing your legs...and a hand…are you a pirate?!
Yeah, we’re done here.
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The Empathic Mom's Guide to Success Through the Inauguration & Beyond
Hey there fellow sensitive soul. Are you finding it hard to sleep with what’s going on in the world?
Here I am at 1:11a lol writing this blog post the day of the Inauguration of our 45th President, Donald J. Trump. Sigh. lol I didn’t think I’d be writing about this or up for that matter lol but I could feel the call for me to share this.
As an empath we feel things. Sometimes if we don’t understand what our bodies are telling us it can show up as a variety of symptoms. We may label them as: headaches, insomnia, stress, loss or increased appetite, irritability, moodiness, and the list can go on. Each person is unique. That is why it is so important to tap into our intuition to decode the messages of our bodies and ultimately our souls.
I woke up with an extreme  pain & pressure on my head (for the woo crowd aka the crown chakra region), & what I imagine what some may call a migraine. Initially, I woke up thinking “WTF is going on I want to sleep?” bwahaha, seriously though I like sleep I’m a mom of a 1.5 year old lol, then I got quiet and heard,
“The collective is struggling in fear and angst with the upcoming inauguration. They are consumed by the news, media, & outside sources that are removing their focus from the truth. Fear, separation, lack of compassion for our fellow man is not the answer.  Some have gotten so far from their soul’s truth, they have forgotten, We are all one. What you do to another affects the collective. When you criticize another you criticize yourself. When you judge another you are judging yourself. The energy on the planet has shifted. It is time return to unconditional love and compassion for yourselves and each other.
There’s a calling from our souls, our Mother (Earth), our planet, our universe.
Your energy is powerful.  It is time to stop playing small and let go of the unawareness of being that you may become accustomed to. Your soul is remembering its true power. Its core truth. You are a limitless and infinite creator. It’s time to rise up & out of the limits and boxes that have been created and rise up into the possibilities. Remember, YOU have the power. You can at any time direct your attention to so many more pleasurable circumstances. There is so much beauty on your earth. The choice is always yours and know you are never alone, we (Archangels, Spirit Guides, & Ascended Masters) are here to help, all you have to do is ask.”
What a nice treat that was divinely downloaded from Spirit! Waking up is paying off!! Woot Woot! Lol
Ok back to the topic… If we want to see change in any situation  in our lives or the world we have to focus on the solutions and possibilities. Period. The same energy that created the problem will not solve it. Period. Test this out for yourself. Play with it. :-)
It is vital to understand how the law of attraction, vibration,  and how energy works. It is working in our lives whether we aware of it or not.
Just in case you are unfamiliar with LOA and vibration here’s a mini breakdown from my perspective.
Law of attraction and vibration are based on the principles that everything is energy and vibrates at a particular frequency. Everything has a frequency from emotions to physical things, like this laptop I am using to type this. Fear has a frequency and so does LOVE. Fear is lower on the frequency scale. It is a low vibration. Love & gratitude on the other hand are one of the highest frequencies and would be a high vibration. Low or high neither one is better, it is just higher or lower and based on personal preference.
I like to think of it in relation to a radio dial: Jazz music could be on 88.8 FM and Country music on 104.7 FM. Just because Country is on 104.7 doesn’t mean it’s better it’s just higher on the radio dial which means you have to turn the dial up to tune into if your prefer that station. So with Fear it may be on 88.8 FM and Love on 104.7 FM. In order to get to love you have to turn the dial up, aka raise your vibration/frequency (I’ll talk more about this in future posts).
So I wasn’t taught this in elementary, junior high, or high school. It wasn’t until I found an alternative college and started seeking answers for myself after hearing so many inconsistencies with what I was taught/told to be true and what I was feeling in my heart, my gut, to be true.
This is not a coincidence. It is by design. Yup I said it. Lol I was once asleep. I followed the crowd. I ignored the truth. I honestly couldn’t see it because I wasn’t tapped into my intuition, God, the Universe (whatever you identify with). Our parents did their best. We chose our families. We chose this lifetime. We are choosing every moment of everyday. It doesn’t mean it is always easy and not messy. I honor your soul and whatever experience you are choosing for yourself. Nonetheless each experience has the opportunity to support our growth and propel us along our soul’s journey.
We are born into the world with what I would call ‘soul amnesia” We definitely come here with a knowing but we are here to reawaken parts of our soul through life experiences.
Society has been set up in such a way that the media outlets use this to their advantage. Unfortunately, most of society is unaware of this. They haven't been taught this information and then there are other things influencing us more than we think i.e. chemicals in our food (GMO’s & pesticides), water (fluoride), and environment (pollution & EMFs). There is a reason for this.
It is time to WAKE UP.
I grew tired of being quiet because I know people truly deserve this life changing information. It is not fair to keep it to myself. I know a lot of this stuff seems unbelievable. Like made up shit. Lol as you start or continue on this journey there will be a lot of crazy stuff you’ll uncover. Stuff you may want to turn a blind eye to and stay comfortable. I get it. I was once in a place where I believed the lies and thought the things I have now found to be true were fallacies or what some may even call conspiracy theories lol. I am here to help the souls who are seeking the truth. Who know that something just doesn't seem right in the mainstream world. For the people who have always felt different. That stood out!  
I remember growing up feeling like I could transform and fit in, like a chameleon, when I needed to but never really having a grasp on who I was. I allowed my parents, news, magazines, the latest fashions & trends, doctors, gurus, friends, family, the government, everything outside of me to dictate what was best for me. I looked outside of me to define who I was. I am definitely not saying you can’t get amazing information from outside sources, (like this blog lol) but the ultimate source is you!
You are connected to Spirit, Source, God the Universe, etc… and have everything you are seeking within, but most of us haven’t been taught that. We’ve been taught to go outside of ourselves for answers that something outside of us is the culprit for our unhappiness, that we are victims to our circumstances. This is not a time to blame your parents for how you were raised. It's time to make peace with it. It is what is is and it’s is ok.  It is time to heal those wounds.
The energy has now shifted in the Universe and the frequency is rising to support more love, light, and truth. In order for the light to shine it has to emerge through the darkness. As a collective we have bought into ideas and concepts that have not necessarily been for the best and we have reached the tipping point. That’s why things appear to be falling apart.  Light is being shined on the darkness.
So as an empathic Mom what can you do to get through this inauguration & beyond?
Turn off the TV (news), put down your phone, get off social media
*Create boundaries. Only you can do that for yourself. Not everyone may understand and that’s ok. Everyone is not meant to understand and the sooner you can let go of anyone’s opinion about you the freer you’ll be.
     2. Take 3 deep breaths & smile
*Deep breathing floods our body with fresh oxygen and resets our nervous system & adding the smile, tells our nervous system all is well. Remember our bodies don’t know the difference between an imagined thought or something you experience in the physical. You can choose to visualize images and thoughts that support the future you desire.
    3. Plan a fun activity
*Do something you enjoy and immerse yourself in it. When we are in a state of joy we are in our natural state and in a high vibration. That’s where we create and magnetize all that we desire.
This weekend instead of focusing on the negative, all the fear, worry, and the things out of our control, let's tune our frequency (our vibration) to LOVE. How can you spread more love today and everyday?
People may say to me, “Get your head out of your ass Nicholle your can’t ignore what is going on.” And I say, “Quite the contrary. I have studied & experienced & applied the law of attraction & vibration in my life and I know what I focus on expands. So I choose to create boundaries in my life that support the life I desire.”
I desire a life full of love, peace, connection, community, service, and abundance. And watching the news following fear based propaganda who control the narrative and promote separation doesn’t support that space period. So instead I focus on how I can create change and shine my light so bright that others can experience a bit of that love and peace and create that for themselves.
How can you shine more light in your life & community? I would love to hear your ideas and what you are doing.
Thank you for reading!
~*Momgleic*~
Nicholle Caldwell
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Empathy and Laki the Sugar Glider
We are the wildlife generation. Or at least we were.
From National Geographic heroes, like Steven Irwin, to amazing programs on the television, like Blue Planet 2, we grew up surrounded by the beauty of the wild. Whether it was an octopus darting through coral, a hippopotamus submerging underneath water, or a Nile crocodile snapping down on unsuspecting prey — there was absolutely nothing more fascinating on the television.
However, at some point along the way, we stopped watching the shows we once loved. We stopped being as fanatical in our love for nature. We focused instead on our formal education, sports, college acceptance letters, and jobs. As our generation grew up, discussions shifted away from who wanted to be a reporter for National Geographic to who wanted to work as a software engineer at Facebook.
The fact that people have different interests is a good thing. This is how our a market-based economy must function. We must acknowledge that, in our society, people are lucky enough to have the liberty to express self-determination. However, the necessity to be connected to nature and the environment is not conditional. That is, our ecosystem must shift away from being a fringe issue. All life and all things on this planet are merely derivatives of the natural world. Therefore, we must protect universal common goods by realigning our consumption in a consumer-based economy with the natural limitations of our ecosystem. Clearly, everyone is a shareholder in the success and liable for the failures when we think in the context of environmental stewardship.
The Erosion of Empathy
In a consumer-based society, it is easy to become fascinated by material goods and advancements in technology. This type of thinking is not prohibitively bad for the environment, but actually sustainable if business is conducted in an environmentally conscientious manner. Incentives must align with ecological measures of protection. Too often, this does not happen. Unchecked greed has a tendency to circumvent legislative controls and capital incentives to allow for the destruction of our habitable planet. For example, the common talking point by environmentalists is any failure of fracking.
For the very same reasons that make this world so amazing, these are the very same reasons that make this world so terrible. Perhaps the failures we witness are sparked from those of who do not practice empathy. There is a fantastic TED talk titled the “Erosion of Empathy” and the topic was presented by Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen who serves as a Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge. As a cognitive neuroscientist, he breaks down empathy into two categories: cognitive and affective. Cognitive is the recognition of another person’s emotions and the ability to place oneself in another person’s shoes. Affective empathy, Baron-Cohen argues, is the ability to be affected by the recognized emotional experience another human being is experiencing. Or, in other words, it is the necessary factor in explaining human cruelty towards anything.
“Empathy is our most valuable natural resource for conflict resolution.” —Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen
In the video, Baron-Cohen acknowledges that there are three social factors that primarily affect empathy. The factors are the influence of authority, political or religious ideology, and tribalism. Tribalism, in particular, relates to both in-group and out-group relations that perpetuate propaganda for the explicit purpose of dehumanizing the opposition. Later in his talk, Baron-Cohen notes that those who are autistic and those who are psychopathic are mirror opposites. Essentially, those with autism tend to have affective, but not cognitive empathy and the converse is true for psychopaths. This understanding has a caveat, that is, people have varying shades of either or both types of empathy. To support his claims, Baron-Cohen referenced James Blair’s experiment at the Broadmoor hospital, discussed the MOA-A gene, and the impact of fetal testosterone.
How Do We Get It Back?
Naturally, if we assume Baron-Cohen is correct, the best way we can become more skilled practitioners at affective empathy is through targeting the three social factors he mentioned. As people, we have no control over the varying degree of the MOA-A gene we were predisposed to or the fetal testosterone we experienced during embryonic development. Despite the multiple ways to successfully break down social barriers, our team at Counter Current would like to feature a friend who owns a sugar glider. This example of atypical pet ownership is meant to be informative and not persuasive — this is not an analysis on the ethics behind the global wildlife trade rather insight on the marsupial.
Angela Karamanos is the proud mama of a semi-famous, female, sugar glider named Skatoulaki or, Laki, for short. For those who are not versed in Greek, we suggest you ‘Google it’. Angela, better known as Ang, is a 2018 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and played Division 1 Women’s soccer. Following graduation, she became a combat systems officer in the military and considers herself “wild, adventurous, and energetic.”
Q: “What do most people think when you tell/show them Laki?” —Ryan
A: “They say “only you would have a flying squirrel” and then proceed to ask me if she flies. After a minute or 2 they think she’s so cool because she’ll just hang out and jump between people like a little ninja. Then she’ll curl up and they all think she’s so cute.” —Angela
While living in Florida, she decided to purchase a sugar glider because they seemed like a lot of fun. According to her, “[they’re] tiny so you can take them anywhere without people knowing and they’re easy to take care of.” For her, compared to a dog or a cat, Laki is a way better fit. During the bonding process, she noticed how skittish sugar gliders can be, so it was awesome when she would “walk up to her cage and [Laki] would realize it’s me” as she “crawls right up my arm into my pocket.” From the description, it’s hard to imagine anything so cute.
However, sugar gliders are nocturnal creatures. In particular, it can be challenging to hear Laki barking at 4:30 AM because she wants to play, but it’s totally worth it because Laki is super loyal. Despite the patience required at the beginning, once Laki became familiar with Angela the nibbling or "crabbing” stopped. She recalled in the interview that there was this “one time I fell asleep with [Laki] in my pocket and when I woke up she wasn’t in my pocket anymore. I had no idea where she went and then I found her in my closet going crazy climbing up and through all my clothes!” Marsupials will climb on anything — or at the very least, try. Angela also mentioned another time she was lying down and Laki pounced right into her face with absolutely no regret. Without a doubt “it was pretty funny.”
An average day with Laki is built around routines. Angela loves to hang out with Laki and tries to as much as possible. In the morning, Laki is let out of her cage and fits snugly into Angela’s pocket. Later in the day, when Angela revisits the cage, she places Laki in to get some uninterrupted sleep. Around 8 or 9 PM, Angela will cut Laki some fresh fruits and veggies, so Laki can eat when she wakes up around 10 PM. From 10 to 11 or 12 PM, there is a strictly enforced playtime before Angela goes to bed. However, every day is different because Laki can be carried anywhere with Angela! Oh, and let’s not forget, that owning a pet has been show, scientifically, to make a person more empathetic.
Parting Thoughts
A huge thanks to Angela Karamanos for the interview! She was such a help and we wish her and Laki all the best. Stay tuned for an article about Laki, Zoboomafoo, and other marsupials that have made a splash in the lives of so many.
Disclaimer: This article is not a critique or an endorsement of the global wildlife trade for exotic animals. To our readers, expect a follow up article to discuss the potential benefits and negative implications of the global wildlife trade.
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“There are images I can never forget.”
Yeonmi Park is a 23-year-old North Korean defector and human rights activist, born and raised in North Korea before escaping to China at the age of 13. She grew up under the oppressive regime of Kim Jong Il with little access to the outside world.
Now, Park lives in the United and States, where she advocates for North Korean refugees. She has written several books and gives talks about her childhood experiences. In the book In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom, Park describes her memories of growing up and eventually escaping her home country.
The following excerpt from this book details Park’s childhood in North Korea.
North Koreans have two stories running in their heads at all times, like trains on parallel tracks. One is what you are taught to believe; the other is what you see with your own eyes. It wasn’t until I escaped to China in 2007 and read a translation of George Orwell’s 1984 that I found a word for this peculiar condition: doublethink. This is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in your mind at the same time — and somehow not go crazy.
This “doublethink” is how you can shout slogans denouncing capitalism in the morning, then browse through the market in the afternoon to buy smuggled South Korean cosmetics.
It is how you can believe that North Korea is a socialist paradise, the best country in the world with the happiest people who have nothing to envy, while devouring movies and TV programs that show ordinary people in enemy nations enjoying a level of prosperity that you couldn’t imagine in your dreams.
It is how you can sit in Hyesan watching propaganda videos showing productive factories, supermarkets stocked with food, and well-dressed people in amusement parks and believe you are living on the same planet as your government leaders.
It is how you can recite the motto “Children Are King” in school, then walk past the orphanage where children with bloated bellies stare at you with hungry eyes.
Maybe deep, deep inside me I knew something was wrong. But we North Koreans can be experts at lying, even to ourselves. The frozen babies that starving mothers abandoned in the alleys did not fit into my worldview, so I couldn’t process what I saw. It was normal to see bodies in the trash heaps, bodies floating in the river, normal to just walk by and do nothing when a stranger cried for help.
There are images I can never forget. Late one afternoon, my sister and I found the body of a young man lying beside a pond. It was a place where people went to fetch water, and he must have dragged himself there to drink. He was naked and his eyes were staring and his mouth wide open in an expression of terrible suffering. I had seen many dead bodies before, but this was the most horrible and frightening of all, because his insides were coming out where something — maybe dogs — had ripped him open. I was so embarrassed for him, lying there stripped of his clothes and his dignity. I could not bear to look at him, so I grabbed my sister’s hand and we ran home.
My mother tried to help people when she could. Homeless wanders would sometimes knock on our door to beg for food. I remember one young woman who brought her daughter to our house. “I’m so cold, so hungry,” she said. “But if you give me food, I’ll let my baby eat.” My mother understood that feeling because she had young children, too. She invited them inside and gave them both plates of food. I watched them closely, because the daughter was nearly my age. They were very polite, and ate delicately even though they were starving. I wonder often if they survived, and if they are still in North Korea.
There were so many desperate people on the streets crying for help that you had to shut off your heart or the pain would be too much. After a while you can’t care anymore. And that is what hell is like.
Almost everybody I knew lost family in the famine. The youngest and oldest died first. Then the men, who had fewer reserves than women. Starving people wither away until they can no longer fight off disease, or the chemicals in their blood become so unbalanced that their hearts forget to beat.
My own family suffered, too, as our fortune rose and fell like a cork in the ocean. In 1999, my father was running a business using trucks to smuggle metals out of Pyongyang, but there were too many expenses to pay drivers and buy gasoline, too many checkpoints and too many bribes to pay, so he ended up losing all of his money. My mother took me and my sister with her to live with her relatives in Kowon, about 230 kilometers away from Pyongyang, for a few months while my father made up his losses.
We arrived in Kowon to find that my mother’s family was also struggling to survive. Grandfather Byeon had died a few years earlier, and my grandmother was living with her older son in the family home. Her youngest son, who had been imprisoned years earlier for stealing from the state, was visiting them as well. In the labor camp he had caught tuberculosis, which was very common in North Korea. Now that there was so little food to go around, he was sick all the time and wasting away.
My grandmother had taken in lots of neighborhood children, and in order to make sure everybody else was fed, she ate only a tiny bit of food each day. She worried that she was a burden, even though she consumed so little and her bones were as light as a bird’s.
I loved my little grandmother Hwang with her wooden leg. She never got upset with me, even when I cried and pestered her to carry me on her back like a horse. She always smiled at me and she was a wonderful storyteller; I would sit with her for hours as she told me about her childhood in the South. She described a beautiful island off the Southern coast called Jeju, where women divers can hold their breath for a long time and swim like fish while they gather food from the bottom of the sea.
I as so curious when she described the wide blue ocean to me, and the playful dolphins that lived there. I had never seen an ocean or heard of such a thing as a dolphin. Once I asked her, “Grandma, what is the biggest thing in the world?” She told me it was the whale that breathes in air from a hole in its back and makes a fountain come out. I had never even seen pictures of whales, but they sounded like something I would like.
Most of her stories were from the time of Chosun, when there was no North or South Korea, only one country, one people. She told me we had the same culture and shared the same traditions as the South. She also told me a little bit about the time she visited Seoul, although even saying the name was forbidden in North Korea. You just didn’t mention such an evil place. I knew it existed only from propaganda, newspaper articles describing anti-imperialist demonstrations by its oppressed masses. But somehow my grandmother planted deep inside me a curiosity about this place she had loved. She told me, “come to my grave someday, and tell me that the North and South are reunited.”
It was a sad time to visit Kowon; because of the famine, so many people were dying. My grandmother took a lot of medicines, some opium for the pains of old age and other pills to help her sleep and forget the suffering around her. One morning before I went out to play, I saw her take lots of her medicine, much more than usual.
“Grandma, why are you taking so much medicine?” I asked.
She was very calm and smiled at me. “Grandma just wants to have a good sleep,” she said. “She needs a good rest.”
Later that afternoon, I heard a terrible sound coming from the house. It was my uncle calling my grandmother’s name. We ran inside and he was shaking her in her bed, wailing, “Wake up! Wake up! Answer me!”
But she was lying there peacefully, and no matter how loud my uncle shouted, she could no longer hear him.
A few months later, my uncle would also be dead. Sometimes I can still hear his voice, screaming for his mother, begging her to wake up. These are some of the things I wish I could forget, but I know I never will.
From In Order To Live by Yeonmi Park with Maryanne Vollers. Reprinted by arrangement with Penguin Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, A Penguin Random House Company. Copyright © Yeonmi Park, 2015.
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