Month: December 2020

There will come a day soon when there will be a fight over the memory of 2020. People will claim all of this was regrettable but necessary.

This is an obvious lie. None of this was necessary. It seems likely that 8 or 9 out of 10 people who ACTUALLY died of COVID-19 would have lived if they had not been Vitamin D deficient, and they would not have been Vitamin D deficient if they had been TOLD from the get-go to supplement.

It is also the case that the average age of death from COVID-19, in nearly all countries, is the average age of death from ALL CAUSES. This means most of the people who died were on the verge of death anyway.

So basically you were either knocking on death’s door to begin with, or lacking in an easily obtainable nutrient. Take those numbers out, and you get a mild to moderate flu epidemic. That is the cold hard truth.

And you have to add back on to the back end what I suspect will be at least a doubling of the number of suicides and drug overdoses, and a huge increase in overall mortality that will last some years from the stress of this year, the stress joblessness will continue to create for many, and from an overall reduction of preventive care of half or more. Cancer screenings, heart screenings, wellness visits, vaccinations for kids: all down immensely. All this will lead to more death.

And whatever the merits may be for single use surgical masks worn properly, they are not seen often. Most people wear cloth masks, and cloth masks CLEARLY INCREASE infections from viruses. This, even if they are changed and washed daily. Here is that study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25903751/

So anyone who is not filled with rage and resentment is either a vastly better person than me, ignorant, or enjoying the process for reasons of profit and the enjoyment of the abuse of power.

When the wheels start turning, resist them. Speak the truth.

Specifically, I am going to encourage those of you who have read this far to share the link to the mask study. We have been called “science deniers” all year. Well, this is science, and it says the OPPOSITE of what is being claimed.

Things will change this year, in some ways for the better and no doubt in some ways for the worse. I hope things get better, but they may get worse. I continue to believe, though, that in a world of lies there is merit in working a bit daily to speak the truth to the mob. So here you go.

Happy New Year!!!

 In our physical work, the job is to be competent.  To do quality work at a reasonable pace, with good focus, and reliable outcomes.  We know it when we see it, in general.

The work of the soul is to become brighter, more coherent, more clear, and more open.  We “do” soul work every day, although often it is done poorly, and not infrequently people are trending in the wrong direction, that of bitterness, anger, futility, frustration, humorlessness and the darkness that follows all of these.

But qualitative growth is possible and the core REASON we are alive.  It is the meaning of life, if one wants to use that phrase.  But it is a FEELING of meaning.  This is what we want.  It is neither necessary nor in most cases even desirable to explain it, any more than it is good to wonder why you feel good, or why a joke is funny.  Just let it be.

And if one asks “how do you GET the feeling that life has meaning?” the answer is you don’t.  Life well, and it alights on you like a butterfly.  It may not stay there, but as time goes on, you see it more and more.

At root, the core problem of modernity is that our philosophers and scientists–I will note the latter often mistake themselves for the former–have lost this sense that “being” per se can be qualitative, and that it can be improved at the individual level.

At its root, Socialism is nothing other than the INEVITABLE emergence of a morality rooted in the abstraction of “society” made necessary by our innate moral sense–the moral sense of materialists who are also philosophical pessimists in most ways that matter–combined with an intellectual incapacity to figure out how to pursue it at the individual level.  They have to pursue social morality when they cannot make sense of individual morality.

And self evidently social morality is a convenient hiding place for the dissolute and awful people of the world.  Cheating and horrendous behavior come naturally to most people attracted to the Democrat faith.  It is a church which both admits everyone, and demands nothing other than obedience to its POLITICAL creed, and at that to the words and ritual behavior, not to anything concrete that could ever be seen in the physical world, which is to say not to outcomes, and not to the alleviation of suffering, or even the AWARENESS of suffering.  It is enough to brag, to preen, to posture, and to gloat.

 Bread feeds your body.  Emotional and spiritual digestion of experience–of the energies in the world–is what feeds your soul.

And how does one “digest” experience?  By accepting it, then adding it to an existing flow of energy–both emotional and subtle–within oneself.

Kum Nye, on this account, could literally be rendered “the practice and science of emotional and spiritual digestion, which is to say internalization and integration and reradiation.”

What is the life of the body?  Doing.  What is the life of the soul?  Being.  They are intertwined.

I recently started reading Marcus Aurelius, and the Stoic philosophy is in important attributes identical to that of Buddhism.  You are reject desire and aversion, and you try to “cling” to what is real, what is good, what is eternal.  The Hindu phrase Sukkhadukhasamo (Happiness and pain the same) applies.

And spiritual digestion is health, and health is happiness.

This morning I was contemplating the odds of the survival of our Republic as something not run by leering bastards who sell themselves cheap and don’t understand anyone unwilling to do so. The odds are against sanity, decency, and goodness.

But then I thought to myself: all I can control is me.  My focus needs to be on maintaining my own integrity–of keeping myself from being pulled to pieces and scattered to the four winds by inconsistency, lies, and denial–and the rest is out of my control.  And here is the core truth I realized: this is simultaneously PRACTICAL and idealistic.  It is the best of all worlds.  It is very difficult, but intelligent, and generous to the extent generosity truly is a gift to the world.

I get moments of this, of connection even to “bad” energies, and it is FASCINATING.  The sum product of “bad” energies and my own life is completely unpredictable.  Beauty can be found in ugliness, joy in the processing of pain.  Life can be a miracle where it DOES NOT MATTER what “happens” to you.

These are old teachings, old skills, not very common any more.  But everything that was ever possible remains possible, in my view.

Cut and paste from an email:

 I thought this worth the watch. It is clear, coherent, factual as far as I can tell, and fits the need well for some sort of conspiracy theory to explain this mass madness, that I keep commenting on day after week after month.

 I posted on this some years ago, but in my mind, this is the best movie by means of which to begin to appreciate what Communism is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssJbC2pNaCA

It takes a while to set up.  Be patient.  It will kick you in the balls.

 There was a saying, back in the days when most Americans knew that most politicians were for sale, that “an honest politician is one who, once bought, stays bought”.  It was half joke, half serious, I think.

I have said this before, but what we need are less politicians who are “honest” this way.  We need more tech titans–some of whom may have “borrowed” money from the Chinese to start up or stay up–who are less “honest” too.

It would be a boss move for Trump to proactively offer to pardon anyone willing to come forward with details.  Some people have no consciences to speak of, but there are certainly a lot of people who, in times of duress or hasty greed, made decisions they have come to regret.

What has to be understood is that the tyrants always eat their own.  Some of Stalin’s worst excesses were directed at people that helped him and Lenin gain power in the first place, the Old Guard.  He hated the Old Guard.  They were a threat to him.

EVEN IF you are part of a movement you think will protect you, EVEN IF you think you are safe, you are not safe, if you know too much.  There can only be a few.  Everyone else is burned in the fire.  There are compartments inside of compartments, and if you are not at the middle, you are driftwood once your particular task in the whole thing is complete.

 I think a lot of people think if they just keep their mouths shut, and go along to get along, they will be fine.

I don’t think this is true.  I don’t think there is any path out but insanity on the one hand–of the sort Winston Smith ended with–complete marginalization in the middle, and the victory of common decency on the other.

The power elites KNOW WHO YOU ARE.  They have databases which can instantly analyze every website you have been to, every statement you have ever made on the internet, who your social networks are, where you work, how much you make, and they can assemble a pretty damn accurate psychological profile instantly using AI.

And there are any number of tools they can use against you.  I won’t share my own ideas, since I may have thought of things they haven’t–although it is doubtful–but just consider that the array of ways of attacking and marginalizing you are much vaster in scope than you are likely to be able to imagine.

You exist in an informational soup they control.  You cannot escape it, outside of face to face conversations with friends, and perhaps paper communications–what we used to call letters.

It does not matter how silent you are.  If you are not one of them you will be flagged and targeted.  It is inevitable.  Fascism–which is plainly the goal–is “Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.”  That was Mussolini’s definition.

And if you are actually or potentially against them, that WILL NOT be allowed to stand.

I cannot overemphasize how surreal this moment is, how present the danger, how potent the powers arrayed against freedom, dignity and basic goodness.

EVERYTHING humanity has ever longed for is RIGHT HERE.  It is possible.  It would even be inevitable if powerful and evil human beings were not snatching all our progress from us as quickly as it can happen.

As I say, I can’t see the way forward.  My own path makes a virtue of speaking the truth as well as I can.  That is all I can think to do.  Please add your own contributions.  It is up to all of us.

Never quit.  Never submit.  Never give in, at least fully.  If full resistance is not possible, take what you can get.  Maintain hope.  Keep up the fight as long as there is breath in you, then fight from wherever we go after that, for the good of and ultimate salvation of all living beings.

 If the hidden oligarchs of the world are willing to murder millions of people around the world to prevent Donald Trump from getting reelected, imagine what is possible with him out of the way.

It is literally possible that more people may die of hunger globally in 2020-2021 than died in 25 years or so of intermittent and completely unnecessary famine in China, which was prior to now the largest famine in recorded world history.  It is a virtual certainly that more people will die of starvation than Stalin murdered in the Ukraine.

Google is blocking the link I just posted.  That link should be GOOD NEWS for anyone who actually wants this pandemic to end.  But it is not good news.  It is terrible news for Google.  They are fully behind this push to put our freedom and prosperity in the rear view mirror.

I continue to believe President Trump needs to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to prevent these evil and horrific monsters from occupying our White House.

 https://www.foxnews.com/health/vitamin-d-other-everyday-vitamins-could-counter-coronavirus-effects-report

[This link is apparently being blocked.  As if more fucking evidence were needed that the world is increasingly under the control of psychopaths.  Do a search on something other than Google on the key words, or check Fox News directly for Vitamin D.  This is some nasty, nasty news, that should infuriate anyone with a pulse and a conscience.]