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Tom posted a new activity comment 5 years, 9 months ago
If your head doesn’t start moving to that you’re not alive. : )
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Tom posted an update 5 years, 10 months ago
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/apocalypse-new-jersey-a-dispatch-from-americas-most-desperate-town-56174/
This article is seven years old but I believe pertinent to what’s happening right now. A small city in New Jersey which is desperately crime ridden and poor had it’s police department all but dismantled and replaced with high…[Read more] -
Tom posted a new activity comment 5 years, 10 months ago
Thank you for the breakdown, I will dive into your analysis with both ears.
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Tom posted a new activity comment 5 years, 10 months ago
Doc, are you saying that Bach literally attempted to
” illustrate ” the scene of the Archangel through his music or is that a popular interpretation of the piece ?-
No… I’m saying that IF one accepts Affektenlehre, and is fully cognizant of Bach’s deep commitment to Lutheran Christianity, that this will influence how one analyzes the score and performs the piece. Hence, this is my own interpretation. It would require me to argue that case from a careful walk through of the score. I can’t do that here, but…[Read more]
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Thank you for the breakdown, I will dive into your analysis with both ears.
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Tom posted an update 5 years, 10 months ago
At the risk of sounding like an alarmist, I believe we are watching a full scale attempt at a revolution in the US. Well, there’s been a slow one happening for a long time, but the mask is off and ” they ” seem to be make a dash for it.
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They do not want to face flyover country face-to-face. We have been talking about this day WAY too long. Thank you Coeur D’Alene for making our point!
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Tom posted a new activity comment 5 years, 10 months ago
The ” rule by expert ” is evidently here. They can’t be voted out of office, now what ?
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Tom posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the t…[Read more]
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Tom posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago
That and fear mongering. Marketing experts are driving the planet. Eesh.
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Mark Twain ‘It’s easier to fool people than it is to convince people they have been fooled”
Ayn Rand ‘You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality”-
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the t…[Read more]
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Tom posted an update 5 years, 11 months ago
A can’t stop thinking about the pysop side to all this. Almost overnight maybe a third of the planet has become convinced that without drastic changes to our behavior, this planet will be practically uninhabitable. I would say the same thing has been attempted with climate change. A PR firm is creating the ” apocalypse ” . A strong delusion and…[Read more]
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Throughout human history the few have always lead the many; the agenda, means and ways were all that changed over time. Now we have climate and health pushers infecting the global mind. “God damn the pushers.”
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On the subject of vaccine safety, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. says this” It is not about science; it is about marketing.”
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That and fear mongering. Marketing experts are driving the planet. Eesh.
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Mark Twain ‘It’s easier to fool people than it is to convince people they have been fooled”
Ayn Rand ‘You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality”-
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the t…[Read more]
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Tom posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago
I’m not sure how this turned into me defending informants LOL. My larger point was having created such a dire financial situation, lots of people are going to be willing to do things they wouldn’t normally. They ripped a page out of the Stasi playbook.
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Tom posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago
You sound like a strong individual. Some are not. I think abandoning compassion is a mistake.
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I agree that abandoning compassion is a tragic occurrence. And if a father is put in that position it would be an almost impossible position to face. But what sort of a man turns on his fellow man simply for the benefit of his singular circumstance? I was always taught that there is no greater act than to lay down your life for your friends, but…[Read more]
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Tom posted an update 5 years, 11 months ago
The idea of states or THE state paying people to spy on their fellow citizens is genius at the moment given the staggering unemployment numbers. People who have always been rat-like will surely jump on board but then there will be the starving father of 4 who will do anything for his family. How do you judge that guy ?
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… the same as you would for a father of none or of 10.
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And the same as you did for those ratting on hiding Jews In Warsaw.
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Being a father is no justification for “whatever it takes” type thinking, at least, that is, in the context of your question. I’ll do “whatever it takes” to provide for my child, until “whatever it takes” turns me “sub-human”.
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You sound like a strong individual. Some are not. I think abandoning compassion is a mistake.
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I agree that abandoning compassion is a tragic occurrence. And if a father is put in that position it would be an almost impossible position to face. But what sort of a man turns on his fellow man simply for the benefit of his singular circumstance? I was always taught that there is no greater act than to lay down your life for your friends, but…[Read more]
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I don’t think this is much of a “hide behind a fig leave” community!
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I’m not sure how this turned into me defending informants LOL. My larger point was having created such a dire financial situation, lots of people are going to be willing to do things they wouldn’t normally. They ripped a page out of the Stasi playbook.
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Tom posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago
Exhilarating.
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Tom and
Neru are now friends 5 years, 11 months ago
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Tom and
Katie B are now friends 5 years, 11 months ago
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Tom posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago
Thank you for the suggestion Katy, I will relay that to my wife. She is tenacious, well suited for the task.
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Tom posted an update 5 years, 11 months ago
I just wanted to share an example of the results of current hospital policies. My wife and I have a niece who is suffering from Lupus and had to be hospitalized. She was/is in bad shape and has been in for to two weeks. Well, do to virus rules no one is allowed to see her and she’s going crazy. My wife spoke to her on the phone for thirty minutes…[Read more]
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So sorry to hear that. Can you keep pushing to get her on a different ward? Maybe one where there is window so you could visit from outside? We’ve just done this recently with an elderly Aunt who we thought would slip away if she didn’t have contact. We kept pushing for it and it worked.
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Thank you for the suggestion Katy, I will relay that to my wife. She is tenacious, well suited for the task.
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Nice! I Like hearing that kind of thing, persistence paying off.
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Hope Katie B suggestion works.
I work in an elderly home, same problem.
The no visit rule is barbaric amonst other awful rules.
Wish you the best.
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Tom posted a new activity comment 8 years, 8 months ago
Color me excited !
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Tom became a registered member 8 years, 8 months ago
Camden, NJ was hopeless in 1974 when I lived EVER so briefly in Filthidelfia. At that time, there was a radical Black group that was terrorizing Filthtown and in the mere moments I lived there, I could see why. The city of pretty much 3 storey buildings which trapped air movement had a population of Blacks for whom there were no jobs, no hope,…[Read more]