@scarmoge
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Scarmoge posted an update 5 years, 1 month ago
Hmmmmm. What is wrong with this picture? Privacy … what the g+1, d+1, K+1, K+1 is going on here?
Do not attempt to adjust your WorldView. There is nothing wrong with your WorldView. Do not attempt to adjust the pictures you see. They are controlling transmission. If they wish to make it louder, they will bring up the volume. If they wish to…[Read more]
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Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
… the key word is “illusions”. On occasion the “loss of hope” turns men into realists.-
The sense of the loss of hope someone can feel is real, surely. Though, I’m not sure I can correlate a Man “losing his hope” to then becoming a “realist”. (Realist and Illusion seem all too intertwined in this abstract context.) Someone can certainly be realistic with himself during a tough predicament but even that which looks hopeless…
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Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
… and for some reason I didn’t find it strange that the socialists disappeared, and then the others in succession … oh, uh, and I didn’t have a weapon to defend myself. -
Scarmoge posted an update 5 years, 1 month ago
Just a thought …
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.
– Patrick Henry
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Kinda like when as a youngster I had to deal with the idea my parents, me and all
humans die. Tough one to process, but necessary. Now that fewer years are left on the clock, the object is to keep my affairs in order so all the stuff I’ll no longer need can be easily partitioned out after my transition. Unless I manage to reach the time w… -
I’d say pessimist Pati has it backwards. It’s the loss of hope that turns men into beasts.
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… the key word is “illusions”. On occasion the “loss of hope” turns men into realists.
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The sense of the loss of hope someone can feel is real, surely. Though, I’m not sure I can correlate a Man “losing his hope” to then becoming a “realist”. (Realist and Illusion seem all too intertwined in this abstract context.) Someone can certainly be realistic with himself during a tough predicament but even that which looks hopeless…
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Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
… if one is prepping it may be in one’s interest to not mention that one is prepping and one should certainly refrain from doing so on any website(s) that may possibly be selling your data to provide a revenue stream.
The only true secret society is one of which no one has heard.-
Or if one hars of it, it is spoken of only with disdain and mockery. Then it truly is secret.
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Scarmoge posted an update 5 years, 1 month ago
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Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
… ” If you were successful in publishing the De analysi per aequationes numero terminorum infinitas Charles II or Issac Barrow must have given you some help. There was a great Hermeticist somewhere in your life. Somebody else created this unbelievable Cosmos from which you derived Classical Mechanics and Calculus, the very lines of…[Read more]-
Makes perfect sense… given that critical theory isn’t supposed to make sense. Logic and rational thinking are merely vectors of oppression, to be expunged from the academic canon.
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Scarmoge posted an update 5 years, 1 month ago
… since there appears to be a move to replace our current national anthem under the seemingly permanent BH Global Administration (for the foreseeable future only the first two letters will have been changed to protect the guilty) may I suggest the following …
Life is a Lemon
(written by Jim Steinman, performed by Meat Loaf)… It’s always…[Read more]
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Not too inspiring, but certainly apt.
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Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
… As Bugs used to say … “Could be Doc. Could Be.”-
Used a Bug’s saying at the Post Office yesterday. I wanted a Bugs Bunny book of stamps.
In the ensuing conversation w/the clerk I twisted a Bugs meme,
“If you can’t beat them. Take the shot.
But I’m not joining them;
taking the shot is like joining lemmings
jumping over the cliff.”
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Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
… speaking of gold … looks like the FBI helped themselves to a Civil War cache o’gold. I guess they felt they needed a hidden source of “funding” as well.
https://apnews.com/article/fbi-looking-for-gold-pennsylvania-dig-site-9b6b5fc3f7550ba30edbca0845e911ce-
With Penn “authorities” involved, we won’t be hearing about that treasure again!
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Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
… I think Ray Davies said it best …Silly boy, you got so much to live for
So much to aim for, so much to try for
You blowing it all with paranoia
You’re so insecure, you self-destroyer
Paranoia, the destroyer
(Here it goes again)
Paranoia, the destroyer
Doctor, Doctor, help me please, I know you’ll understand
Theres a time device…[Read more]-
Richard Weaver was right on the money in 1948 and here
we are with the intellect squashed and the truth no were to be found. Thanks for the reference.
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Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
… correction? … you mean those who THOUGHT they were storing gold at the Fed or within the US? 🙂-
I think it is possible that the treasury has been re-golded but I don’t think the Fed was involved. But HEY, I am just a conspiracy theorist.
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… speaking of gold … looks like the FBI helped themselves to a Civil War cache o’gold. I guess they felt they needed a hidden source of “funding” as well.
https://apnews.com/article/fbi-looking-for-gold-pennsylvania-dig-site-9b6b5fc3f7550ba30edbca0845e911ce-
With Penn “authorities” involved, we won’t be hearing about that treasure again!
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Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
… 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. -
Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
… 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…[Read more]-
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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Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
… Diogenes, I do believe you’ve discovered a new legal defense theory as well as 2 additional legal specialities: “AI Law” and “Drone Law”. And an additional 2 series in the Law and Order franchise. Ah yes, I can see it now … (insert Law and Order scene change sound here, you know the one) Law and Order: Drone Law and Law and Order:…[Read more]-
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As the waiter would say, “it’s not my table, sir”…
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Very good question, Scarmoge… We’ll probably have to ask an AI-based virtual judge.
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Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
… 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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Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
… were the two fingers held up palm in or palm out? Just curious. 🙂-
Interesting. I think it was palm in/
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Reminds me of the clerk asking[after purchase at cash register], Do you prefer a paper or plastic bag for you purchases?”.
I replied, Doesn’t matter, I’m bi-sackual.”. -
Isn’t that the Roman Catholic signing of excommunication??
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Scarmoge posted an update 5 years, 1 month ago
… cui bono intelligentiae
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Talk about plausible deniability, when police officer asked how suspect ended up dead for simple theft, “A drone suddenly appeared and shot him.”
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The AI made me do it…
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… Diogenes, I do believe you’ve discovered a new legal defense theory as well as 2 additional legal specialities: “AI Law” and “Drone Law”. And an additional 2 series in the Law and Order franchise. Ah yes, I can see it now … (insert Law and Order scene change sound here, you know the one) Law and Order: Drone Law and Law and Order:…
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As the waiter would say, “it’s not my table, sir”…
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Very good question, Scarmoge… We’ll probably have to ask an AI-based virtual judge.
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Scarmoge posted an update 5 years, 1 month ago
Hello boys, girls and all of you who have absolutely no idea of who, what, or even where your actual or virtual existence might be at this point in time. Please join me in singing Mr. Abbott’s Neighborhood.
This is to be sung to the tune of Mr. Rogers’s (or Rogers’ – which ever confused grammar / punctuation you prefer) ”It’s a beautiful day in…[Read more]-
Once again, the inmates are running the asylum.
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GOD BLESS TEXAS!!!
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My my I’d say a slight conflict of interest by the commission’s consulting firm. Not only do they service the gas and electric sectors, but the green carbon tax industries… ummm
https://www.potomaceconomics.com/practice-areas/emissions-allowance-market-monitoring/-
https://www.puc.texas.gov/agency/resources/pubs/news/2020/PUCTX-MR-PR-IMM-FIN.pdf
Sixteen billion dollars, what do you get?
Another day without masks.
Abbott et al get your humor suits on and get on over to Huntsville. Your private isolation jail cells await you. Oh and the Biven person is native Texan.
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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 -
Just shaking my head. What next?
If I were in TX, I might be out scavenging every burnable non-toxic item I could get my hands on. The power bills would do nicely to start my bonfire.
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… 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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Scarmoge posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
… oh, you mean like modern art? like possibly Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X by Francis Bacon (1953).
for a possible visualization of our most recent unpleasantness see Dali’s Morphological Echo
https://www.dalipaintings.com/morphological-echo.jsp#prettyPhoto%5Bimage1%5D/0/-
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.
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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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As terrifying as Bacon’s painting is, I think he captures quite well the essence of what fills that seat.
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“Can’t handle the truth?” Not when it’s never presented, how would I know?