not to slide into nihilism

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I would never go there, but I recognize this as the stuff that sends the unwary down that chute, never to return to the light of day. Turn off your TV. If you are jonesing too hard for something to watch or hear, do old movies with no commercials, or listen to lectures by fascinating people, or podcasts by people into interesting things, or surf around in crafts blogs, or do your housecleaning! Just stay the hell away from marketers of propaganda and products, the pervy purveyors of brain death. I know old movies are jammed full of it, too, and how, but they're old and you don't identify with them. Nobody living will have sucked yer brain out yer eyeballs.

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Or maybe some George Stevens if Cukor didn't do it for you... anything. Darn the holes in your socks. Take up knitting. Start lifting weights, anything. Just turn off that consarn TV.

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a mom against the einsteins enabling slaughter

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SHE ROCKS.

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I don't even want to think about this.

There was ample coverage of the loss of a US F-15 fighter jet over Libya Tuesday, and it always came with reassurances that the crew was safe. Less safe, however, were a group of Libyan civilians who came to the aid of one of the crew.

That’s because the civilians who met the plane’s weapons officer and offered him fruit juice while he waited to be rescued were attacked by US Marines during the brief ground incursion meant to rescue the crew. Some of the reports suggest the Marines arrived in a V-22 Osprey attack helicopter and opened fire on the crowd with it.

Six Libyan civilians were shot in the attack, including a young boy who local hospital officials say may lose his leg because of the attack. The weapons officer had been found in a sheep field and was met by the civilians, who were backers of the anti-Gadhafi rebellion.

The incident is news not just for the tragic outcome, but because despite the explicit UN prohibition on “occupation troops” being spun as a broad prohibition on ground troops, US Marines were indeed on the ground, in Libya, in a field full of sheep.

The pilot was initially picked up by rebel soldiers, who the Marines reported treated him “with dignity and respect” before handing him over to the troops. It does not appear there was any incident with regards to him. The Marines have yet to comment on the shootings in the recovery of the weapons officer.

The F-15 was flying out of Italy at the time of the crash, and officials are blaming a system malfunction. It is the first aircraft reported lost since the US and France started the Libyan War on Saturday. An F-15E Strike Eagle costs approximately $31 million.

I want a BATH in a REAL tub and I want it NOW.

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what is wrong with this picture? — UPDATING

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Hmmm?

U.S. President is warning Libyan leader that his forces must stop attacking innocent civilians or face military action.

If you can't answer this question instantly, I'm torn between ordering you away from my blog forever and begging you to live here.... [from 11am today]

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NOON-THIRTY UPDATE:

The French air force destroyed Libyan tanks and armored vehicles on Saturday, the first shots fired in a U.N.-mandated military intervention to protect civilians from attacks by Muammar Gaddafi's forces.

A French defense ministry official said "a number of tanks and armored vehicles" were destroyed in the region of Benghazi, with initial action focusing on stopping Gaddafi's forces from advancing on the rebels' eastern stronghold.

"Rebels"... pfeh....

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1:15 PM PDT UPDATE:

American warplanes, ships and submarines prepared to launch a furious assault on Libya's limited air defenses Saturday, clearing the way for European and other planes to enforce a no-fly zone designed to ground Moammar Gadahfi's air force and cripple his ability to inflict further violence on rebels, U.S. officials said.

"Rebels"... pfeh... talismanic words....

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Just a word about the multifarious other pushbutton revolutions in progress: People are being slaughtered and no UN mandates, no French and American airstrikes... pig shit smeared across the globe. Right now.

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7:05 PM PDT UPDATE:

The U.S. and European nations pounded Moammar Gadhafi's forces and air defenses with cruise missiles and airstrikes Saturday, launching the broadest international military effort since the Iraq war in support of an uprising that had seemed on the verge of defeat. Libyan state TV claimed 48 people had been killed in the attacks....

Fuck.

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MIDNIGHT PDT OH SHIT UPDATE:

Moscow regrets the attack from a range of European countries on Libya which is being conducted "with reference to the hastily adopted UN Security Council resolution," official spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich said on Saturday....

China regrets the multinational military strike launched against Libya, a spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.

"China has noticed the latest development in Libya and regrets the military strike against Libya," Jiang Yu said, adding that China did not agree with resorting to force in international relations.

Part of me hopes this turns into a serious disagreement, but, of course, that's suicidal....

For the record, this might be the source of the downed plane in the "rebel" city that we were assuming was Gaddafi's and setting this whole attack in motion. MIGHT be. Sarkozy's trying to get France behind him again... baaaad poll numbers... but then... the French are NOT as gung ho behind their president's military adventurism as Americans are... hey... can I say "used to be" yet?

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our resolve leaves something to be desired

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So far, the news is doing nothing for me. I think they've dialed-up the apathy rays again.

A Wisconsin judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday blocking the state's new and contentious collective bargaining law from taking effect, raising the possibility that the Legislature may have to vote again to pass the bill.

Dane County District Judge Maryann Sumi granted the restraining order in response to a lawsuit filed by the district attorney alleging that Republican lawmakers violated the state's open meetings law by hastily convening a special committee before the Senate passed the bill.

Sumi said her ruling would not prevent the Legislature from reconvening the committee with proper notice and passing the bill again.

So don't get excited... and I cannot recommend highly enough that you watch yesterday's Keiser Report. If you are SERIOUS, you will watch it and listen at least twice.

Seems the Pragmatists of Groupthink may not have thought this one through.

The Newspaper Guild has joined a group of Huffington Post bloggers in protesting the site's pay policy — specifically, its lack of pay.

The union said it requested a meeting with the Huffington Post to discuss the situation. "Thus far, the request has been ignored," the guild wrote.

“The idea of going on strike when no one really notices,” Huffington said. “Go ahead, go on strike.”

The Newspaper Guild, though, has over 26,000 members.

The natural comeback for this is that blogging for free at HuffPo gives you needed exposure for your own blog. She will point to the success of FireDogLake, and The Young Turks. And, especially, let you be on strike until doomsday because there are a trillion more bloggers and celebs out there who will jump at the chance to fill your shoes.

I'd be inclined to look at this as an opportunity to reclaim your soul... but that's me.

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love, 99
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turn OFF your tv

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I am NOT kidding. You turn it on to begin with because you want to be hypnotized. You don't want what they're hypnotizing you with, but you can't tell what that IS.

Contrary to a popular misconception — that hypnosis is a form of unconsciousness resembling sleep — contemporary research suggests that hypnotic subjects are fully awake and are focusing attention, with a corresponding decrease in their peripheral awareness. Subjects also show an increased response to suggestions.

And the repetition of sound bite memes is only the most obvious. There are malignant themes and stupefying cultural tropes and poison archetypes and symbolism and boatloads of id engagement and that immortal flicker rate, all working to turn even the most resistant personalities into completely compliant drones. It staves off the perception of the need to deal with difficulty, staves off dealing with difficulty—be it the mountain of laundry or the mountain of responsibility for making a good world. It is a big relief for people aching for respite from any number of unhappy pressures.

Well, so is a novel. So is knitting. So is tackling the uncomfortable problem and putting it behind you.

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love, 99
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I thought I was going to be in bed hours ago....

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so, are you, like, gonna cave soon, or not?

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I so admit that you are far less likely to get from this maniac what I do, but that does NOT mean you will not benefit from listening to him. I like him for a number of reasons. Foremost among them is the fact that he has stood Zen on its ear to deliver the Zen message. That rocks so hard, you just can't know, but oughta. He's probably the very best at fishing bliss ninnies out of their soup, because they're much less likely to find what he talks about too outrageous to bear, but that's the problem with your discerning ear. It's discerning wrong. It's discerning what it was programmed to hear. That's SO easy to cop to these days... isn't it? Truly, I would not keep this up if I did not think you stood to gain ultimate freedom of mind from it.

I also adore that he's an autodidact who learns everything out of books and falls all over himself pronouncing things. This happens when your scholarship is so solitary. It reminds me of 86 so much. He quit school really early in favor of learning what interested him, and I was his live-in pronunciation meter. He knew what he was talking about, and he knew the words he was using; he just sometimes didn't know how to say them right. On top of that, Tsarion often gets his constructions all turned around and has to take three or four runs at it, except when he's going so fast and hard he hasn't noticed. It started out getting on my nerves pretty badly, but it broke out into a completely endearing foible once I got the picture.

I still have not discerned for positive whether he disses Eastern mysticism so hard expressly to keep yer brain from running immediately down the wrong track, or if he's genuine about that, despite having the major hurdle of Zen well behind him, or if he's being crafty. He doesn't seem like a man with any time for that action, but he's also got the ability to see minutely into things and a demonstrated ability to cut to the chase on the moment, so this could be craft... and so transcendental if that is the case.

Maybe it's harder to drop your judging when you listen than it is by training yourself with reading material. When you do it with a book, you just keep reading it over and over aloud until yer fucking busybody mind is so bored it shuts up and the ACTUAL meaning FINALLY penetrates. Anyone with the patience and discipline to do that will be RICHLY rewarded.

An aha more happily surpassing than an orgasm.

Yep. I said that.

So, maybe, if yer wanting to take my hint but just can't hang with these lectures and interviews, mayhap you would consider one of his books? Just a thought.

You could email me if you want advice on Zen books to do this with....

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Maybe it would be better for you to bookmark this playlist. You could play it on days when you're lolling around with a cold or the flu, slipping in and out of nap mode. So you can sort of pay attention, in the moments when you swim up from your bouts of naps, and let it seep in that he's not as 'round-the-bend-sounding as you initially thought... or at least notice that he's saying very not-boring, new-sounding, genuine things.

Have you noticed how many people you hear who do not seem the least bit genuine? They're barfing out filthy propaganda as though you were a ten-year-old who couldn't tell. They're being clever. They're sticking to a script, even with their most original cleverisms. There's a party line, an agenda, a track, a desire to be perceived one way or another that shapes every word out their mouths... or fingers....

Aren't you sick of that? Wouldn't you give an arm or a kid for a genuine article of any kind to come your way? 99% of even so-called spiritual teachers are just riddled with an I'm-a-serious-teacherisms. It's EVERYWHERE. It never lets up!

Well, on my way to my doctorate in Out There, I have discovered a few people who are completely and unabashedly genuine, and spend all their time engaged in heavy scholarship, can back up their claims, no matter how fantastic you find them. They might be wrong. Most of them even admit that, but that in itself is a mountain of diamonds, right there.

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Or pick your own DVD or book with which to give this a try. I don't think it will work with something you're already disposed toward thinking about. It helps if you are avid to stop being in the trance, but it also helps if you don't realize how avid you should be and so just want to humor your favorite old master spy blogger....

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even more — link fixed

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I remind you, or for those coming in new to it, some of us are practicing listening to people instead of just to our own opinions, instead of always listening only to what we already think. The way you approach listening to this is to drop your own notions and just listen to the guy as though you were an empty-headed dope and every word he's saying is gospel... while you're listening, and even maybe for an hour or so after you're done and contemplating what was said. After that you get to let your critical thinking and conditioned mind and personal preferences come back in and make whatever hash of it they might. The point of doing this is learning to give yourself a chance to hear and take in truth. You can do the same with reading, particularly with reading the inscrutable stuff from the ancients, but really anything, and especially difficult stuff. Just leave your own shit out of it. Just read it out loud to yourself for as many times as it takes to get the busybody in your head to just stop trying to make something of what has been said. THAT is when your true mind can hear what's being said. That's when you get out of jail and really begin seeing.

So. Just don't go thinking I'm some goony Tsarion acolyte or worshipper whose reason to blog is to further his stuff. That's just appallingly dense and a pretty lowlife take in general. Remember, our culture is being sunk to the depths of seaminess and it isn't only sleazebuckets who think that way anymore. This is ANOTHER pitfall of the orchestrated demise of your mental health, the suppression of our ability to think and see and act freely.

The good part about practicing this while listening, instead of reading, is how much easier it becomes to get the time for it. You can be getting caught up on your ironing or your car repairs or dusting or the dishes... whatever... while teaching yourself to clear the mental cloud and glimpse actual actuality. I like using Tsarion so much because I can tell that he has seen the crucial bit about "enlightenment" and so most of what he says, even when only speculation, will all be arcing toward our awakening.

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An extremely lightly edited snippet from one of his posts:

Although the masters of the game may occasionally permit ordinary soft designer-rebelliousness, they are ever vigilant against the true hard form should it ever threaten to appear.

They are dangerous because there are so many of them. It is one thing to have a few nuts or dissidents. They can be dealt with, justly or otherwise, so that they do not pose a danger to the system. It is quite another situation when you have a true movement - millions of citizens believing something, particularly when the movement is made up of society’s average, successful citizens.
— William Colby (Late Director of CIA)

Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure. In a republican government the majority, if united, have always an opportunity. The only remedy is to enlarge the sphere" (that is, unite all the States under a federal government) "and thereby divide the community into so great a number of interests and parties that, in the first place, a majority will not be likely, at the same moment, to have a common interest separate from that of the whole, or of the minority; and, in the second place, that, in case they should have such an interest, they may not be so apt to unite in the pursuit of it.
— President James Madison (Elliot's Debates, Vol. 5)

That spirit of constructive resistance and rebellion was present in Mikhail Bakunin, William Blake, William Wallace, Che Guevara, and in the modern comedians Bill Hicks and Lenny Bruce. It was found in Giordano Bruno and Soren Kierkegaard, in Ezra Pound, Ayn Rand, Wilhelm Reich and Jiddu Krishnamurti. It is the holy daemon about to possess many people in the world, many of whom would not at this moment consider themselves rebels with any cause. There are many sleeping heretics in the world and they are soon to be awakened. However, there are certain rules that come with the package and certain laws that the rational rebel must acknowledge and master. Authentic rebels know, for instance, that it is pointless and hypocritical to strive against external tyranny unless one has first combated their own inner repressive instincts and drives. The true rebel is not merely a rager against the machine or a campus malcontent. He is a student of oppression, repression, and slavery. He allows the forces he despises and opposes to be his best tutors and he observes these forces closely, in order to become minutely aware of their nature and behavior. He extrapolates and examines the anatomy of tyranny and comes to know cruelty, sadism, violence, injustice, and destruction intimately. The rebels who are going to matter, and who will possess the rational power to effect proactive change, are those who become “walking encyclopedias” of evil. There is not a nuance of it that eludes them.

Having walked through Hades, to emerge again, the Servant of Truth is supremely qualified to heal and revive the lost and ignorant people of the world. His power lies in his healthy attitude to the challenges of life, in his Spirit of Rebellion and Contradiction. His authority is a result of his psychological and attitudinal freedom, for it is this inner condition that exalts a man — even one whose body is bound in chains.

For however far-fetched you find much that he declares outright is so, I don't think there's a way to call this man "a crank". He is utterly genuine and a superb source for anyone who wants to shake out his or her knotted and dusty brain.

You begin to see how stuff that has been injected into your consciousness—since before you even knew to try to protect it from filling with balderdash—can be flat wrong—horrifically easily—and you also notice that past, present and future can take on whole new more workable forms. You don't have to swallow a word Michael Tsarion says, and yet listening to him in this special thought experimenting way can revolutionize thinking itself... more!

But... obviously... only if you're someone who truly will do the work to wake up.

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It seems they've been busy uploading more interviews while I've been driving all over creation and ending up in the trees, stuffed full of fabulous cooking and about to drop. Just from making the playlist for us, I can tell he's talking about much the same things as always. I can almost finish his sentences for him now, but I still pick up bits and slices of marvelous things to contemplate from this guy, no matter how wild he gets. He has something essential about being that cannot be taught. It has to be seen and listening to people who have seen can help, but it... heh... oh, yes, clearly cannot be taught. If there were a way, you would be chained to something heavy right now until you got it through your thick skull. Take that to the bank. But, in truth, frustrating as I find it, it is better that you must see for yourself. You wouldn't be any good at it if someone had to chain you down and not let you go till you got the point.

So maybe just listening to Michael raving in the background while yer doin' yer ironing or baking a cake or fixing yer car or whatever—if you do it enough—remembering not to judge about the crazy stuff—some phrase will catch your inner ear and a whole new kind of attention will come over you. Suddenly you will have gotten the point of why that daffy old broad keeps linking up hours of him here.

There's more to life than this. Do you know there is equally as much inside your skin as outside it? Do you know your skin is no barrier? Do you have the remotest idea of the richness and the beauty and the intensely emotionally elevating livingness you are COMPLETELY missing out on while you are hypnotized? If you ever catch a glimpse you will kick yerself in the ass really hard—laughing and crying—but you won't look back. I'm trying to get you to stop watching that spinning pinwheel, that swinging watch on its fob, that air painting of the world that clouds your true sight and stuffs acres of cotton in your ears, as you think you hear just fine. One little glimmer. Then the requisite attention will come naturally.

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part of why i'm pulling my attention away from the tubes

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In national politics, it's all Hatfield vs. McCoy, and everyone doing a new iteration of fighting this endless battle is literally fiddling while Rome burns. It doesn't address what's wrong, clearly cannot, and we stay blind to it anyway... because walking like an Egyptian is completely off our radar. It is something brown people do in backward countries.

In international affairs, the same machine that needs retiring here is never not at work in any aspect of any country's political affairs. There probably isn't a country on the globe wherein there are no black ops from the controllers. I'd call them "American" if I thought it really was "America" behind this stuff. It's only American insofar as our might is what they use... but there is a distinction to be made there.

An American jailed in Pakistan for the fatal shooting of two armed men was secretly working for the CIA and scouting a neighborhood when he was arrested, a disclosure likely to further frustrate U.S. government efforts to free the man and strain relations between two countries partnered in a fragile alliance in the [covert drive to take over the world].

Last night Mr. North linked this video that is mostly an imam talking back in 2003, with an intro of the Kissinger lizard talking about the scene in Egypt in the last few weeks. If you have time, there are some interesting points in it, things that apply. It's pretty much aimed at blaming Zionists for everything, which even if wrong still has a rightness about it, and the cabal of sociopaths who really call the shots do seem at least to have the greater "glory" of Israel always in mind. I think we can say that much for sure, but I also think a lot of people give "Israel" and "Zionists" and "Jews" too much "credit" for their dirty deeds. If that's where it keeps pointing, that's what someone desires you to think.

And, while you've been sticking your nose in the air about my doctoral work around here, I've been learning plenty that applies to who this cabal might be and what's their end game. We don't any of us KNOW, but, truly now, some of us are better at the tea leaves because we don't let our heads get molded into contortions by the bombardment of expert inputs to keep us in line, to keep us hypnotized.

I've noticed that people don't have such a hard time seeing the nefarious forces at work behind the scenes in uprisings and demonstrations and revolutions in other countries, but are utterly blind to it in their own. The hypnosis would be the culprit. It takes a LOT of work on oneself to just be able to poke your head out of that quicksand, let alone leap out and experience complete freedom of movement again, but dammit dammit dammittalltoheckandback, that IS what it takes. You can say you love the planet and the creatures on it and want the best for us all, but that doesn't cut it. It's not even what you do next that cuts it. That's still theater, still what I call "air painting". It's still just expression that works only on the mental impressions of you unleashed on the public and reality has not budged a jot. You're still a coward whose own life and concerns are more important to you than the world's liberation from abjection to fiends. The emergence from this comes when you stop doing and perform.

An example of this is the maniac who gets on a boat and harries the Japanese whalers slaughtering full time every year down near Antarctica. He has not stood on ceremony. He doesn't act right. His morals are always in question. The Japanese fleet packed up and went home a month early this year. No matter what has been put into your head about Watson or his character, or what you may perceive as his real motive, he has sworn it is saving those whales from the Japanese, and he is not merely floating that boat down there. He's performing on his intention. He has saved whales and may yet succeed in stopping Japan altogether.

It's the same way with saving the world from the sociopaths. EVERYTHING you say or "do" against them is UTTERLY unthreatening to them. Even if the masses get out of their control once roused to the streets, they get their control back on the other end, if indeed you could say they ever lost it. It's all in place around the globe. No place they aren't and we are. So it takes a revolution of consciousness before you can have a revolution that overthrows them.

I don't know why you won't go there. There is actually no other worthy activity anywhere. But that's nailed down too! Hardly anybody minds not being engaged in worthy activity. That's been turned into something everyone thinks is the goal.

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another meditation

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I may have linked the first hour in this playlist a while back. It's Henrik interviewing Jordan, and Jordan may have gone permanently cantankerous. What a guy. He's always been all over the map and I can hang with that because he keeps looking. He has inspired and/or helped quite a few brilliant people in his day, and I can't say I'm one of the inspired, because he seems to me always to be mixing so much poppycock with the profound, and I'm sure part of my problem is my own mental conditioning, but I'm also sure part of it is his failures in communication. Anyway, I have been listening to the rest of this interview for the past couple hours, and he is just beside himself angry with the meatheads running around posing as sentient beings.

He's not alone.

It's actually fashionable.

It's a waste of breath, a waste of brain space, an indulgence, beside the point, and I hope this is only him blowing off steam from the mountains of insults heaped upon him in certain quadrants of cyberspace. I'm a little worried because, honestly, this can't be anything new to him. He's seventy years old. He should be serene amidst the shit slinging by now, after fifty years of doing this. But, yikes, he's not. This isn't the only interview he's filled up with mostly ranting and repeating himself, ad nauseam, and I'm worrying that this is the herald of dementia.

If it is not, here is a man who has spent his whole life glued to wonderful things to contemplate, divining important bits from arcana and riveting people with the retelling of both ancient wisdom and his insights from it, and he hasn't gotten further in his spiritual work than this? Truly now, there is cause for alarm.

If he spent half as much time talking about the nuts and bolts of his researches as he does about how stupid and useless and debauched Americans are, we might not be so stupid and useless and debauched! Or even if we still were, fewer of us would be. He can't not know that. How can he have spent all this time on it and not have seen at least that much? I mean, I feel for him. I do. I have been that way about learning things ever since I got out of school. I was never as keen on studying then as I have been since... although... you know, I think the tubes has jumbled this up, inhibited it harshly on one end, while expanding it amazingly on the other. I maybe need to go sit on a stump at the beach for a day or two and see if I can't devise an approach that balances this better.

We need to seriously assess how much we are losing in our gains here. I don't think any one of us, let alone all mankind, can afford to do the usual level of learning everything the hard way with this. I don't think all you frustration addicts out there should be so judgmental about all the Out There stuff I try to bring to the table. I'm trying to help you unhook from the great mesmerism you maybe even think isn't working on you. But it IS. Keeping you nonstop appalled is the lock on your consciousness needed to keep you weak.

Weak. Yes, yes, "knowledge is power". Right? Well, misters and mizzes, where's yer fuckin' power? What have you got that can't be ripped away? What have you given that can't be ripped away? How much better is the world for your access to all this information? Why is absolutely every comments thread at all the greatest sites riddled with so much drivel you can't keep reading or you'll have to go dive into a vat of boiling oil? I know, I know, I'm probably more burnt out on this particular feature of the intertubes than most, having had to pay attention to it for too long, but, even so, it's at least 95% crap out there, and I'm being generous.

Is that because we're as moronic as Jordan says? Or is it because we are too bombarded with inputs to function right? I have trouble with this. I have had trouble with this my whole life. I can't help my IQ and I've never had another one. I know most people are stuck down where the atmosphere is thicker and I don't know how to pull them out. Be that as it may, I can tell where their intent is, where their hopes are, and by far the most of them want good things for everyone, so what is the deal here? Where's the rub? Where's the beef?

If you can recognize your own ineffectuality and realize your own disinclination to change anything in your life for real, doesn't this alarm you? Do you want to come sit next to me on that stump?

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godmotherfuckingdammityoutwits!

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I have screamed and hollered and hopped up and down and bellowed and insulted and gone postal on you over the ABJECT STUPIDITY of participating in all this social media crap. I have reminded you of the horrors inhering such activity. I have BEGGED you! Just enter yer account name in the box at the link and see what pops up. Just enter ANY Twitter account name you know about and see what pops up.

GETAMOTHERFUCKINGCLUEBEFORETHEYHAULMETOTHEBIN!

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the akhenaten metaphor — oh, at least triple-entendre

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This monumental work of investigative journalism has completely slipped your mind, hasn't it?

The disciples of this psychotic pharaoh spend all their time making sure that it does. If you had been listening to all the Tsarion stuff I have been linking—and HERE is today's—you would know the full and backasswards outrageousness of Obama comparing himself to Akhenaten.

It's kind of horrifying to learn that the most beautiful Egyptian antiquities are sculptures of Akhenaten—who, it seems, was quite lovelier than Obama, though there is a resemblance—because many scholars are dirt positive Akhenaten, the leader of a sun cult, was the historical entity upon whom the Moses myth was based, and the Exodus was not bad people chasing out the wretched, but Egypt evicting their psychopath pharaoh and his wealthy followers. Kicked out of Egypt, they would go on to start slaughtering Druids wholesale, coöpting and corrupting their teachings to form the basis of Christianity. This might sound fantastical to you, but the scholars who have put forth this interpretation of history have provided us with tomes full of references and cogently explained why, even now, our understanding of our own history is such a despicable jumble of nonsense. But you wouldn't have any idea of that because you don't do wuwu.

Akhenaten was SUCH a narcissistic sociopath that he had people killed for not worshiping and paying tribute to him. It never even entered his mind to have a care for how resentful people might become as a consequence of his divine entitlement. It did not sink in even after he was driven out of Egypt. He decided that instead of Egypt, chosen as he was, it would be the world.

So Akhenaten's face is THE masthead for current events, no? Yes.

It crosses my mind that all the portraits of him are so gorgeous, not because this is what he looked like, but because the artists were afraid to render him truly... just a thought... I mean, who is that good looking?

I'm using this lightning bolt of an example to shock you out from under that little mound of sleeping powder with your name on it. These people are highly advanced in the art of mindfucking. It serves them! You cannot fight them while you are napping in a tub of fluoridated suds; being mesmerized by the flicker rate on your TV; having what's left of your sensibility assaulted ceaselessly, every day, every hour by outrageous and terrifying bits of information; fighting the jackasses on "the other side" of whatever wedge issue you pick; all the rest that is done DELIBERATELY to you so that you find you have NO vitality to even feign the courage and dignity the Egyptians are again displaying, and this time in the eyes of everyone on earth.

I wonder sometimes if I would not have a more salutary effect on sentient beings if I just confined myself to posts about knitting or Origami. I keep trying to give you ways to get some space in there to regain the helm, to counteract the soporific effects of the unremitting blare of light blindness. You're too wiped for it.

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Refusing to accept something — that is, resisting — often has the potential to land us in hot water. However, many of us need to learn and understand that taking the chance of landing in hot water is always better than foolishly sitting in warm, comfortable water while it is being boiled. Sometimes the correct option, the one that will keep us safe and free, is to resist.

In case you missed it in the updating earlier today....

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More points and authorities in re the matter of my standing among the hard left. You will note the proclivities of the author and his position on ElBaradei. I tellz yiz, it always makes me feel better to find evidence that others are on my track... and they're almost always pretty much leftly lefter of what you call "progressive".

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Sharif Abdel Koudous reports from Tahrir Square....

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let's stick with the heavenly theme, shall we?

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While we are soothing our aching nerves, we can be gaping at the splendors and the horrors of the mental conditioning being pumped into us over the last century, sort of liberating ourselves as we're entertaining ourselves, taking our minds off the hamster wheel and using them to regain a sense of spaciousness....

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take note

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He's right.

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in case you need reminding why i'm taking refuge in michael tsarion

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The news isn't worth attention just now. Whereas, the kaleidoscopic light show of Tsarion's blend of knowledge and speculation is riveting. I'm sure it's more riveting to me because I am into considering how he has thrown dharma into the air and put back the pieces in an entirely spectacular way.

Within Buddhism there are three vehicles—Hinayana, Mahayana and Ekayana—and, indeed, several models of each, available as transportation out of delusion and into the real. Each vehicle is geared, broadly, toward the needs of various mentalities. By far the most people need to start with the Hinayana, where the MAIN thrust is you-do-not-exist-and-settle-the-fuck-down, because they cannot enter without getting over that part, don't have the first part of a chance to catch the hem of the crucial insight because they are too blocked by belief in the reality of their false selves and their conditioned outlooks. There are quite a few who are so altruistically-oriented they can start right out in the Mahayana, the don't-be-a-selfish-bastard vehicle. The Ekayana, the One vehicle, is for those who don't need either of those starting gates. I can rap this down because I have the most experience with this mystical school, but there are other mystical schools that use their own modes of psychic travel to get you the same place. The same place. Awake. Aware. Dealing with the real.

The goal is identical in them all.

No matter what vehicle is involved, the vital thing to know is that it cannot be mere dogma. The schools must continually morph, never fall into dogmatic repetition of what worked in the past, because the deluded can easily learn to sound just like the enlightened ones who have gone before. They can sit at the head of the room and quote enlightened masters and put you through all kinds of rigors and you will end up having gone through untold rigors, signifying bubkes. Imitation cannot teach. There is NO linguistic form that can encapsulate it, and any linguistic form can transmit it, so long as an enlightening being is doing the transmitting. I think Tsarion has slipped the bonds of didacticism. The autodidact has done a Jackson Pollack with dogma... and the dharma is twinkling in the background.

I'm about 90% sure Michael Tsarion can wake you up if you don't need the basics to gain access, but wonder if he can do anything for suffering sentients too ready to just close their ears because they can't hear any loony and unscientific mumbo-jumbo about space aliens and numerology. I'm wondering if he doesn't leave you in the dust with all the ways he makes sure to appeal to the masses of conspiracy nuts and alien abductees. If your mental conditioning to knee jerk discount anyone on these subjects, how can he help you?

He can help you if you've been listening to me about removing yourself from your listening, provisionally, for long enough to hear, before you drop your iron curtain down on him. ONLY if you are a strong enough being can you do this, and you will not become strong enough until you learn to do it. A person of good faith, a genuine person, someone who really wants to be of use and to help bring us out of this mess, will do the kind of work on themselves it takes to uncritically listen to others and learn from it. I do NOT mean to learn to mimic what you hear, to be the kind of uncritical that convinces you to get off one bus to hell in favor of a more comfortable or entertaining ride. I mean that you need to educate yourself and quit just furiously sucking up bits of information to identify yourself with or against as you whizz by in your merry way through our daily agonies. You need to get big enough, and cool enough, and strong enough to deal with this world, do you not?

What you ARE doing is not cutting it, right?

This guy has plucked enlightening being from the vast libraries of alternative research, and if you are smart you will try to catch his wave, whether or not you can hang with his theories or space aliens or astrology or numerology or debauched secret societies poisoning every corner of all media with nefarious symbolism. None of that matters. You can just leave it hanging there, neither for it nor against it. There is a transcendentally lucid thread going through all of it, and you can't come wise to it if you don't just keep listening without judging.

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loads and loads more good listening

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I am workin' my heart out for you here, dudes, and, you know, sometimes I just don't think you appreciate the quality of my creativity here. I mean, you had NO idea I really look like THIS. I think I should go away mad....

I mean, neither do you seem to grok that, even though I've given Tsarion his own label so you can get back to him at your convenience, the vast bulk of it is via the supremely unreliable YouTube. Any one of a dozen things could happen to disappear these links from the face of cyberspace and you will have MISSED YER CHANCE to transcend it all. I should go away mad....

But, instead, since I have sneezed no fewer than thirty times this evening, probably due to my advancing anaphylaxis over Genghis Ponzi Yoo, I'm going to take a couple hunnert vitamin C and D pills, and then suck on some zinc lozenges while listening to all this from BED. So... look at it this way... I'm going away fighting....

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more on the most important theme

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Seems that one has to go for one's doctorate to find people on one's subjects. So be it. Even if you only bother to listen to the first chunk of this playlist, it drives home A.A. Hodge's so quotable line....

total institution

governmentality

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a history lesson

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If yer a kid, or you just need reminding, learning from history has its rewards, especially if you've trained yerseff not to be too mixed up by your conditioning to let it inform you into positive manifestation.

Some people say this kind of thinking could be, and is purposely not, taught in schools, which I still find somewhat fantastic, but others assure me is doable. Trouble is: it hasn't been taught in school for about a hundred and fifty years. So you have to battle the hardening of your synapses to take it onboard after you've reached a certain age. It's not impossible, but you have to work at it. For real. Not as a spectator. For real.

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