@fiatlux
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FiatLux posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
Being serious for a moment, I sincerely wish you luck in finding a contextual frame that helps. I, too, suspect a feeling of hopelessness is part of their strategy. For me, it helps to remember that. I don’t want to give them the satisfaction of one more person falling for their evil schemes. -
FiatLux posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
Oh, I know the big corporations (the bulwark of fascism) will all be on board, whether it’s legally required or not. I just wonder whether the majority of their employees are on board too. -
FiatLux posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
A symptom of being too close to DC? Just kidding… I know there are frightened, gullible people all over. It just adds insult to injury when you have to deal with the uninformed but holier-than-thou. I suppose I’m blessed in that the few people close to me, though (to my great sadness) they’ve gotten or will get jabbed, respect my right to sa…[Read more]-
Fortunately, the closest to me respects my wishes. Don’t know though what’ll happen when the ‘privilege’ to visit family out of state comes down to being shot or not. That will create some additional pressure.
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FiatLux posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
For pity’s sake… Now even lexicology has been turned to propaganda! Not to mention that the sample sentence is particularly ill chosen, since vaccine “efficacy” and “effectiveness” have specific, distinct meanings, none of which is captured in this definition of “efficacious.” Do yourself a favor and get a dictionary on CD from a few years…[Read more]-
I concur… I rely on an older version of the Oxford English Dictionary, Webster’s having been unreliable from the beginning.
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If the definition or actually description of the word does not include the etymology I don’t bother to read it.
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… I agree. I use the 1903 Century Dictionary and either the 1898, 1903, or 1911 edition of the Imperial Dictionary. I just needed a quick and dirty confirmation of my usage. Imagine my surprise (not really) that the sentence example read as it did.
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I had to use Webster’s and The Chicago Manual of Style since they were what my clients (book publishers) required.
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I use a 1972 edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary in two volumes, which I correct when necessary by comparison with a 1937 edition of Fowler’s Modern English Usage and a 1931 Edition of Fowler’s The King’s English. For French I use a 1948 Harrap, and for German, Italian and Spanish I use Cassell’s Dictionaries published in the…
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FiatLux posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
Very good question, Scarmoge… We’ll probably have to ask an AI-based virtual judge. -
FiatLux posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
More like first double shield: total immunity from criticism. All critics are automatically white supremacist patriarchal misogynists… deplorable hate mongers… etc., etc. -
FiatLux posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
“If that’s what you want me to do, Nancy”! -
FiatLux posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
This may not answer your question, but I’ve seen the video that justa posted and think everybody should watch it. Zuboff does a really good job explaining how big tech sucks up your behavioral data without your knowledge and uses it for surveillance and profit. -
FiatLux posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
Sounds like the desired effect: Use social pressure, rather than brute force, to get people to line up for injections. Make the unvaxxed into social pariahs–a new “untouchable” caste–and award social virtue points to those who take their jabs. The jabbed can then strut around, head held high, proud of being good, caring citizens. Ugh. -
FiatLux posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
I wonder how many people can possibly be taking these CDC guidelines seriously. (I’m waiting to hear it’s only safe for 2 households to mix if 1 person stands on his head and you’re within 3 days of a full moon!) I don’t socialize enough to know how many people pay attention to this stuff. Maybe I’m better off this way!-
… In addition to head position and relation to the new moon I also heard rumor that a great deal of funding has been earmarked to conduct research into determining if holding one’s little fingers and toes in certain positions makes the vaccine more efficacious. A few days ago while doing a bit of writing I needed to check to be sure I…
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Often when looking up words on the internet. I encounter a site that will use the word drawn from a sentence recently used in the media.
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For pity’s sake… Now even lexicology has been turned to propaganda! Not to mention that the sample sentence is particularly ill chosen, since vaccine “efficacy” and “effectiveness” have specific, distinct meanings, none of which is captured in this definition of “efficacious.” Do yourself a favor and get a dictionary on CD from a few years…
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I concur… I rely on an older version of the Oxford English Dictionary, Webster’s having been unreliable from the beginning.
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If the definition or actually description of the word does not include the etymology I don’t bother to read it.
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… I agree. I use the 1903 Century Dictionary and either the 1898, 1903, or 1911 edition of the Imperial Dictionary. I just needed a quick and dirty confirmation of my usage. Imagine my surprise (not really) that the sentence example read as it did.
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I had to use Webster’s and The Chicago Manual of Style since they were what my clients (book publishers) required.
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I use a 1972 edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary in two volumes, which I correct when necessary by comparison with a 1937 edition of Fowler’s Modern English Usage and a 1931 Edition of Fowler’s The King’s English. For French I use a 1948 Harrap, and for German, Italian and Spanish I use Cassell’s Dictionaries published in the…
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Where I live in Northern Virginia, everyone I know is getting vaccinated, including family members. Even a pregnant woman I know (who had an illness her obstetrician identified as Covid1984) was considering it. Thank goodness her doc had some sense and told her to wait. Anyway, these people take the CDC guidelines seriously. I think it gives…
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What is that mental condition called, “confirmation bias”? Seeking out information that confirms one’s opinion or belief?
Once the buy in. No way out, obviously it works. -
A symptom of being too close to DC? Just kidding… I know there are frightened, gullible people all over. It just adds insult to injury when you have to deal with the uninformed but holier-than-thou. I suppose I’m blessed in that the few people close to me, though (to my great sadness) they’ve gotten or will get jabbed, respect my right to sa…
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Fortunately, the closest to me respects my wishes. Don’t know though what’ll happen when the ‘privilege’ to visit family out of state comes down to being shot or not. That will create some additional pressure.
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Down in south Texas where forcing one to wear a face mask is supposedly illegal starting tomorrow, the big chain corporate policy makers are taking and using the CDC guidelines seriously and ignoring state law and forcing employees and customers to comply with CDC mandates to wear masks and social distance or no service. Walgreens is on…
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It’s hard not to view this is as the endgame with the noose closing in. I’m struggling for a contextual frame that allows me to remain positive, or at least happy to have woken up another day. Which is, I imagine, just the way they want me.
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Being serious for a moment, I sincerely wish you luck in finding a contextual frame that helps. I, too, suspect a feeling of hopelessness is part of their strategy. For me, it helps to remember that. I don’t want to give them the satisfaction of one more person falling for their evil schemes.
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Oh, I know the big corporations (the bulwark of fascism) will all be on board, whether it’s legally required or not. I just wonder whether the majority of their employees are on board too.
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On board or not, if the boardroom says something, do it or find another position. “We have the bottom line to protect, not you.”
I did have a conversation with my waiter last week ata family owned restaurant. He said they will be required to still wear a mask after tomorrow. He did not want to but since he’s worked there for several years…
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FiatLux posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
I’m sure there’s method in all the apparent madness–e.g.:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/goldman-bank-america-made-hundreds-millions-texas-blackouts-
… see Naomi Klein The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.- Ecclesiastes 1:9-
Not UNDER the Sun…
Or the Son.
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FiatLux posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
I think Dr. Farrell’s right that as the globalists feel they’re nearing their goal, there’s going to be epic infighting among them. So, with any luck, the inner contradictions will only be exacerbated by an internecine food fight. -
FiatLux posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
Hmm… Dali’s melting watches were at least discernible as watches, as the table in this painting is discernible as a table. Today’s human society is nearly indiscernible as human. Postmodern paint splashing and Pollock–now there’s your analogy.-
Dali was certainly a master of his craft, Picasso, too. Both may have slipped into a state of creative psychosis but at least both could actually paint. I think a better analogy takes it even further… https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t07573
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Re: Pollock. For the corpus, or is that more plainly the corpse of modern art, we may offer our heartfelt thanks to our betters at the See/Aye/Eh for their comprehensive efforts at the business of “Culture Creation”. Under the rubric of the Cold War our betters were determined to show what “an open society” really looked like via its emphasi…
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Interesting, perhaps dated, read: The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe
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FiatLux posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
BW – What a find! Thanks for posting. All the better that it’s from 1956. Journalism, writing, and education in the English-speaking world hadn’t totally deteriorated yet.-
Back when MacLean’s Magazine could be trusted…not anymore.
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FiatLux posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
True enough. I’m not sure he meant he believed the government actually would learn anything or act in good faith. Still, it’s surprising to see somebody who couldn’t be more “establishment” than a British Supreme Court judge speak out in this way publicly. I have to give him credit for that.-
Will give credit for that 🙂
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FiatLux posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
Some good fodder for thought… For my part, I don’t believe there’s enough time–in the short term–to win the hearts and minds of people who don’t already see there’s something terribly wrong going on. It seems a better use of time to: find and connect with like-minded people who can be a source of support; make actionable contingency…[Read more]-
I tend to agree about prospects for the short term. What is needed is some long term planning… or as C.A.F. says, if you’re not in a conspiracy then you need to start one. lol
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FiatLux posted an update 5 years, 1 month ago
Retired UK Supreme Court justice Jonathan Sumption makes some excellent points on the effect of CV1984 policy on society and on the cultural values that allow Western democracies to exist. A few excerpts quoted in this article. (His stance on vaxxes is shockingly inconsistent with everything else he says, but much of the rest is very insightful.)…[Read more]
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“On What The Government Should Learn”
His statements on this topic have some logic if those that hold government positions chose to be in government so they could have a beneficial impact on society. That seems like a rather naive view. There may be a few that entered the ranks with that sentiment in mind but it is quite apparent that the…-
True enough. I’m not sure he meant he believed the government actually would learn anything or act in good faith. Still, it’s surprising to see somebody who couldn’t be more “establishment” than a British Supreme Court judge speak out in this way publicly. I have to give him credit for that.
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Will give credit for that 🙂
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FiatLux posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
I saw that article… It’s worth a read. -
FiatLux posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
One step at a time, Bluenose, one step at a time… -
FiatLux posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
I’ve noticed more reports of seismic activity around the world recently… Covert wars? Earth changes? Solar minimum? All of the above?-
Not sure ‘whodunnit’ is relevant here. More ‘what if’ the Mooon were to be disequilibrated?
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I did have a conversation with my waiter last week ata family owned restaurant. He said they will be required to still wear a mask after tomorrow. He did not want to but since he’s worked there for several years…
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