[Windhoek, 1/13/22] Before the internet was common, roughly 30 years ago, one had no access to out-of-town newspapers. If you lived in Philadelphia, say, you couldn’t readily glimpse daily life in Seattle, much less Hong Kong or Luanda. Arriving in a strange town, a great pleasure for me was to pick up the newspaper, so I could browse local crimes and trivia, such as, “Blaine and Doris Hunter have just returned from a week-long trip to Florida, where they had a wonderful time with their daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren.” With nothing dramatic to report in tiny burgs, such notices were common.
What we have here in American is Lysenkoism, not the Science of Life. Any educated person who thinks “otherwise” is subject to struggle sessions and erased from social discourse; the Coward19 version of 1984.
Kellog was an interesting man. There is something to be said for eating sattvic food, eschewing alcohol, and sublimating the sexual impulse. I dare say the West has been torpedoed by all things sexual for...”unless we restrain desire, we destroy ourselves.”
I think the history of Western Ideas
regarded gratification of every worldly desire as sinful; and that the flesh should be the abject slave of the spirit, intent upon unearthly things. Man was created for a life in spiritual communion with I AM but he yields easily to the seduction of negative compulsions of the sensuous side of our nature that draws us away from contemplation of the Divine and lead us into these deadly, worldly entanglements.
Character is Power.
Man has degraded himself to a great degree by becoming a puppet of passion. Look at the TicTok phenomena. Avaricious women sell their bottled farts to incels for fortunes that men formerly risked their lives crossing oceans and flying to the moon for..
The central, strong desire is sexual desire. Desire for money, desire for children, desire for property, the luxurious ways of rich persons is downstream.
The effects of technology, and its abetting of the pornification of the West through instant communication and the re-ordering of society from biological breakthroughs that unleashed radical feminism- is a feature not a bugbear- and can’t be pushed back, it must be overthrown and smashed into a thousand pieces.
Linh....Sorry I have to go off topic, but you want to talk about taking it up the tailpipe (reminds me of Jim Carrey in "Liar Liar") then I just have to talk about the rental situation in the United States.
I must preface by saying we have new management (seems like this happens every year) so online payments have to be updated to fit the new company's profile.
Today is the 1st, so my rent is due.
I pay $1000.10 per month for a 420 ft studio apt.
That is already a fkn rip-off, but still one of the better deals in Metro Phoenix.
After conservice charges the rent is now $1057.19.
Then they charge you $20.20 for "rent tax" bringing the total to $1077.39
My ass is already starting to burn.
Anyways, I go online to pay only to find out they want another $34.00 for "online convenience" bringing the grand total to $1117.39
They are trying to bleed us fkn dry.
Suffice to say, I will be giving them a Cashiers Check for $1077.39.
Gotta run now, I hear there is a sale on Petroleum Jelly.
From 2005 to 2018, I paid $950 for a two-bedroom apt in Philly within walking distance of Center City. My landlord never raised my rent. I gave him the Italian edition of my Blood and Soap, with a dedication in Italian, which he certainly appreciated, for he was a sponsor of Italian classes in the neighborhood. After his retirement as a doctor, he even went back to his hometown in Italy to run for some office, but almost no one voted for him! Anyway, I got a pretty good deal, but it was still astounding to see rents going up in Philly.
The one time my brother went to Philly with his family, I met them near the Liberty Bell. On the way back to my apartment, I could hear my nephew say to his mom in the back of the rented car, "People live here?!" The kid was shocked at the shabbiness of my neighborhood. My brother lives in Cupertino, CA.
Cool that you had a relationship with your landlord. The complex I live in is gigantic, stretching a quarter mile in each direction with almost all the buildings 3 stories tall.
A few children in the office to hand out air filters & answer only the most basic of questions. Who knows where the real owners are ?
Speaking of Covid...Jimmy Dore had a great interview with Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya (Barrington Declaration) & Dr. Martin Kulldorff the other day.
Fauci and his pal, Francis Collins, did their best to smear the two.
I suppose I could write up a couple of Limericks, but I don't think that would go over as well lol
On the bright side, I've been playing around with it for a couple hrs now & finally found a way to make an internet bank transaction w/o an accompanying "convenience" fee to these new vultures.
Remember my 1st apt back in 1975 (when you were being dragged out of Saigon) all ya had to do was walk in the office, pay the 1st months rent, sign a piece of paper & they handed you the keys. I even had a hot girlfriend (reason I got the apt in the 1st place).
Glory Days as Bruce once growled.
Sounds like your brother is living the "American Dream" in Silicon Valley.
Weird, fatal cures are nothing new in the West either. A few years ago a few women died asphyxiated during some kind of new age healing ceremony somewhere in the U.S.
As for the current vaccines, I think they are just a cash cow, a new development of the flu vaccines, and probably as useless as them. The following is from 1979, from the book "Confessions of a Medical Heretic", by Dr. Robert Mendehlson:
"The mad vehemence of Modern Medicine is nowhere more evident than in the yearly infuenza
vaccine farce. I can never think about flu shots without remembering a wedding I once attended.
Strangely enough, no grandparents were among the participants and no one seemed to be over
age 60. When I finally asked where all the old folks were, I was told they had all received their flu
shots a few days before. They were all at home recovering from the shots' ill effects!
The entire flu shot effort resembles some massive roulette game, since from one year to the next it's anybody's guess whether the strains immunized against will be the strains that are epidemic.We were all afforded a peek at the real dangers of flu vaccines when in 1976, the Great Swine Flu Fiasco revealed, under close government and media surveillance, 565 cases of Guillain-Barre paralysis resulting from the vaccine and thirty "unexplained deaths of older persons within hours after receiving the shot. I wonder what would be the harvest of disaster if we kept as close a watch on the effects of all the other flu shot campaigns. Dr. John Seal, of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, says, "We have to go on the basis that any and all flu vaccines are capable of causing Guillain-Barre syndrome."
I think what's new now, it's not so much the vaccines (even though they use this new mRNA technology whose long-term effects we still don't know) as the weird "vaccine passports" and the attempt to make them mandatory for all men, women and children in the world.
What we have here in American is Lysenkoism, not the Science of Life. Any educated person who thinks “otherwise” is subject to struggle sessions and erased from social discourse; the Coward19 version of 1984.
Kellog was an interesting man. There is something to be said for eating sattvic food, eschewing alcohol, and sublimating the sexual impulse. I dare say the West has been torpedoed by all things sexual for...”unless we restrain desire, we destroy ourselves.”
I think the history of Western Ideas
regarded gratification of every worldly desire as sinful; and that the flesh should be the abject slave of the spirit, intent upon unearthly things. Man was created for a life in spiritual communion with I AM but he yields easily to the seduction of negative compulsions of the sensuous side of our nature that draws us away from contemplation of the Divine and lead us into these deadly, worldly entanglements.
Character is Power.
Man has degraded himself to a great degree by becoming a puppet of passion. Look at the TicTok phenomena. Avaricious women sell their bottled farts to incels for fortunes that men formerly risked their lives crossing oceans and flying to the moon for..
The central, strong desire is sexual desire. Desire for money, desire for children, desire for property, the luxurious ways of rich persons is downstream.
The effects of technology, and its abetting of the pornification of the West through instant communication and the re-ordering of society from biological breakthroughs that unleashed radical feminism- is a feature not a bugbear- and can’t be pushed back, it must be overthrown and smashed into a thousand pieces.
Many believe that remark is what got Kennedy killed or at the very least "allowed" to be killed.
The CIA has more money than God and apparently no oversight.
It's arguably the most dangerous entity on the planet.
Don't forget Mossad
Linh....Sorry I have to go off topic, but you want to talk about taking it up the tailpipe (reminds me of Jim Carrey in "Liar Liar") then I just have to talk about the rental situation in the United States.
I must preface by saying we have new management (seems like this happens every year) so online payments have to be updated to fit the new company's profile.
Today is the 1st, so my rent is due.
I pay $1000.10 per month for a 420 ft studio apt.
That is already a fkn rip-off, but still one of the better deals in Metro Phoenix.
After conservice charges the rent is now $1057.19.
Then they charge you $20.20 for "rent tax" bringing the total to $1077.39
My ass is already starting to burn.
Anyways, I go online to pay only to find out they want another $34.00 for "online convenience" bringing the grand total to $1117.39
They are trying to bleed us fkn dry.
Suffice to say, I will be giving them a Cashiers Check for $1077.39.
Gotta run now, I hear there is a sale on Petroleum Jelly.
Yo Bill,
From 2005 to 2018, I paid $950 for a two-bedroom apt in Philly within walking distance of Center City. My landlord never raised my rent. I gave him the Italian edition of my Blood and Soap, with a dedication in Italian, which he certainly appreciated, for he was a sponsor of Italian classes in the neighborhood. After his retirement as a doctor, he even went back to his hometown in Italy to run for some office, but almost no one voted for him! Anyway, I got a pretty good deal, but it was still astounding to see rents going up in Philly.
The one time my brother went to Philly with his family, I met them near the Liberty Bell. On the way back to my apartment, I could hear my nephew say to his mom in the back of the rented car, "People live here?!" The kid was shocked at the shabbiness of my neighborhood. My brother lives in Cupertino, CA.
Linh
P.S. I must add that each of my two bedrooms was tiny. I used one as an office.
P.P.S. My landlord was delighted I had spent two years in Italy, but he was very disappointed, almost annoyed, that I never went south of Naples.
Always leave them wanting more Linh.
Late......Bill
Cool that you had a relationship with your landlord. The complex I live in is gigantic, stretching a quarter mile in each direction with almost all the buildings 3 stories tall.
A few children in the office to hand out air filters & answer only the most basic of questions. Who knows where the real owners are ?
Speaking of Covid...Jimmy Dore had a great interview with Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya (Barrington Declaration) & Dr. Martin Kulldorff the other day.
Fauci and his pal, Francis Collins, did their best to smear the two.
Bill
Linh
I suppose I could write up a couple of Limericks, but I don't think that would go over as well lol
On the bright side, I've been playing around with it for a couple hrs now & finally found a way to make an internet bank transaction w/o an accompanying "convenience" fee to these new vultures.
Remember my 1st apt back in 1975 (when you were being dragged out of Saigon) all ya had to do was walk in the office, pay the 1st months rent, sign a piece of paper & they handed you the keys. I even had a hot girlfriend (reason I got the apt in the 1st place).
Glory Days as Bruce once growled.
Sounds like your brother is living the "American Dream" in Silicon Valley.
Hope his golf game is coming along.
Weird, fatal cures are nothing new in the West either. A few years ago a few women died asphyxiated during some kind of new age healing ceremony somewhere in the U.S.
As for the current vaccines, I think they are just a cash cow, a new development of the flu vaccines, and probably as useless as them. The following is from 1979, from the book "Confessions of a Medical Heretic", by Dr. Robert Mendehlson:
"The mad vehemence of Modern Medicine is nowhere more evident than in the yearly infuenza
vaccine farce. I can never think about flu shots without remembering a wedding I once attended.
Strangely enough, no grandparents were among the participants and no one seemed to be over
age 60. When I finally asked where all the old folks were, I was told they had all received their flu
shots a few days before. They were all at home recovering from the shots' ill effects!
The entire flu shot effort resembles some massive roulette game, since from one year to the next it's anybody's guess whether the strains immunized against will be the strains that are epidemic.We were all afforded a peek at the real dangers of flu vaccines when in 1976, the Great Swine Flu Fiasco revealed, under close government and media surveillance, 565 cases of Guillain-Barre paralysis resulting from the vaccine and thirty "unexplained deaths of older persons within hours after receiving the shot. I wonder what would be the harvest of disaster if we kept as close a watch on the effects of all the other flu shot campaigns. Dr. John Seal, of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, says, "We have to go on the basis that any and all flu vaccines are capable of causing Guillain-Barre syndrome."
I think what's new now, it's not so much the vaccines (even though they use this new mRNA technology whose long-term effects we still don't know) as the weird "vaccine passports" and the attempt to make them mandatory for all men, women and children in the world.