Scarmoge

… am I the only one who notices a similarity between this image and Bidenchenko. 🙂

see also the resignation of Peter Boghossian, one of the few of my tribe actually doing philosophy. Quite the yuck that he pulled off a Sokal (see also Sokal, Alan D. (1996), “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity”). That Boghossian was able to pull off such a thing after Sokal gives…[Read more]

… nice, thoughtful commentary Laurent … a very useful presupposition for engaging the world.
P) what is possibly not being seen (or known) that would make “the seen (or known)” make more (notice “more” leaves open the possibility that should someone somehow discover some unseen or unknown, that one should keep open the possibility that…[Read more]

… last time I checked those who embody the spirit of Thrasymachus do not ask for nor require your, mine or anyone’s consent.

“Do you know how much it costs every day to keep you in poverty?” – Sarojini Naidu speaking to Ghandi.
Mother Teresa had a similar problem stemming from a rather strange worldview of her’s that held suffering as a virtue. See Christopher Hitchen’s Mother Teresa: Hell’s Angel and his The Missionary Position, and also Aroup Chatterjee’s (an…[Read more]

… gee I hope he doesn’t have a “heart attack”, has an “auto accident”, becomes so despondent that he “accidentally” suicides, or an oldie but goodie, steps out of the bath and while walking across the floor with wet feet “accidentally” steps on a frayed section of a fan cord and is electrocuted (on this last one see the death of Thomas…[Read more]

… first we take Manhattan then we take Berlin …
“I’m guided by a signal in the heavens (Guided, guided)
I’m guided by this birthmark on my skin (I am guided by)
I’m guided by the beauty of our weapons (Ooh, ooh)
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin … ”

also one might give a listen to Cohen’s The Future

“Things are going to…[Read more]

… actual gold bars? … amazing how much “real” gold is “floating” (considering the density of gold — is 19.3 g/cm3, almost identical to that of tungsten at 19.25 g/cm3 — tungsten has been used in the counterfeiting of gold bars) around these days. Maybe they ended up with 50 million in tungsten bars. One can only hope.

… see the cover of The Who – Who’s Next for the appropriate response to unwanted monoliths.

… don’t be concerned … just the creation of a new revenue stream and a means of expanding the membership … to paraphrase a well known text: “marketing of marketing, all is marketing” … this too shall pass.

… an rud fìor Laurent!

… I must admit tp not a small amount of jealousy … would also like to walk the streets of Akrotiri.

… my (sad) thought as well FiatLux ,,, I think those documents “disappeared” (i.e. suffered the same fate as the Roswell dailies, MK Ultra records, the few microfiche containing crucial JFK evidence that were destroyed as a”space saving measure”) long, long ago.

“Control is Power” – Amon Goeth
Yes, Virginia there really was an Amon Göth. It would be interesting to find out who has attended the military training for becoming commandan … (Come on man! You know there have been trainings conducted and manuals written (The Theory and Practice of Hell by Eugene Kogon is already out there) might be an…[Read more]

… I own the oil and mineral rights to a piece of the sea floor, a prescient “Atlantis Rising” or “New Atlantis” (one can view Leicester Hemingway: New Atlantis Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in Austin, Texas) purchase I might add, that has recently been evaluated and estimated to hold roughly 14 Quadrllion…[Read more]

… yes FiatLux in addition to your observation of so few noticing may I add … and even fewer responding in ways that might counter, or at least slow, the putting into motion the execution of those announcements.