Having an amazing breakfast somewhere down South (eclair to go for later), and thought of this poem: https://youtu.be/W-vdPkESLZs
In my view, the point of life—or one of them since purposes always depend on contexts—is to learn to have experiences like this more and more often—to feel the magic.
When you do that you become food for others, and since everyone is hungry, this is one of the best paths of service.
COVID-19 does not just kill people, but fear of it eats peoples minds.
I was looking at an old abandoned church just now, and thinking there was some minister whose life mission was, as he saw it, saving souls.
Do you not think many such people go to their graves deeply disappointed they were not able to do more?
More generally, do you not think many people who feel a mission in life die feeling their work incomplete?
None of us can really “save” the world, and it may not need saving. Maybe we all have our own destiny and those who are suffering suffer because it is their job in this life to learn to rise.
And I was thinking yesterday, if I look at things ftom a Buddhist perspective, is a pleasant Samsara to be preferred over an unpleasant one? Both are so inferior to a larger reality we cannot comprehend that they are functionally equal. This is the theory, in any event.
Maybe I, and you, should set our shoulders to our work—honestly, sincerely—but not in the end take ourselves too seriously, or overestimate both what is needed and what is possible
It occurred to me today that when people embrace easy lies, the hard truths recede. They do not stay in the same place. They are not at the same distance. They retreat.
I just got an email from a group featuring a talk on Buddhism and Anti-mask ignorance. I’m sure the concept of Avidya was going to get worked into it.
I am going to say that if Donald Trump cannot prevent this steal, I will remember him mainly for that. This was something everyone could see coming from miles away, so there is no excuse for being blind-sided.
I COULD see some merit in letting the fraud happen, getting everyone to put their cards on the table, and THEN starting to arrest people. Maybe we needed the cheating to happen normally, for the media to do what it could easily have been expected to do, then walk the whole thing back and hopefully wake up a few more people who were asleep.
But as I say, I’m used to being disappointed. The bastards always get away with it, just as they would in a Banana Republic. We do not have an evenly applied and effective system of law. Once you get over a certain line, if you know the right people you can do literally anything.
I will note in the past that Powell has commented on Anthony Weiner’s laptop which allegedly shows Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin cutting of the face of a girl. It supposedly sickens everyone who watches it.
If this is true, what do we not know?
As I commented elsewhere today, Jeffrey Epstein was murdered in a high security prison, in his cell, and the murderers GOT AWAY WITH IT. We have made this a joke, but it’s not a funny joke. This is high level corruption that goes to the top of all our major agencies, particularly the FBI, which I am very sure will not lift one finger to look at evidence of fraud. They were given film evidence in Minneapolis and ignored it, just as they ignored Hunter Biden’s laptop.
If we don’t get something big soon, this country is going to hell.
Great commentary: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CHeZhRXASoo/?igshid=lvjy86jehq2r
Even in 2016 it was obvious there was a lot of fraud. Trump won, so by and large it was dropped, but if you recall he convened a commission to look into it headed by Mike Pence. Most or all of the States run by Democrats refused to cooperate in any way, shape or form. The Kentucky Secretary of State said there was not enough whiskey in Kentucky to get her to release voter rolls which could be examined for validity.
Here is the thing: Democrats really don’t HIDE their fraud. No one who has an ounce of sense can fail to grasp what they are doing. But they own the media, they own a lot of weak minds, and they own enough judges and legislator and Governors that they don’t really have to care if all sane people know they are cheating.
But if, as I argued as a Constitutional legal principle, ALL invalid ballots–whether the same ballot is run through five times, or comes from a dead person, or has the vote switched electronically or manually–constitute, EACH, legal examples of unequal protection. Legally and morally, EVERY ONE is equal to a black person denied the right to vote in the Jim Crow South. Each every one of them. ONE fraudulent vote is a crime, and as I noted, if the count is off by one, it could be off by a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand, or a million (when we get to a national scale).
For the same reason that Jim Crow was a legal abuse contrary to all the expressed and latent intentions of our Constitution, voter fraud is an abuse, and numerically most likely a much larger one. More Americans are likely deprived of their votes by fraud than blacks were ever deprived of their right to vote by poll taxes and the like.
It is thus highly ironic, hypocritical, and ultimately to their detriment that Democrats keep saying “every vote should count”. This is true, but every fake one means that a VALID one does not count. Their very method, and aims mitigate AGAINST the principle they proclaim.
Here is what I would like to see: the Supreme Court ordering all States to conduct top to bottom voting audits, in the interest of protecting the right to vote, to having each vote count, and to the principle of one person/one vote. Given their rhetoric, Democrats cannot in principle disagree, although of course they and their media outlets would howl like banshees.
Such an order would be large, but long, long past due. The truth is, in 2020 America, with all our technology, we have NO IDEA how much fraud happens. We know THAT it happens, but it could very easily be much, much, much larger than even the most cynical among us suspect.
The only way to find out what is there is to look. And the only way to look is to make it legally binding even to the people who stand to lose from the process, who have been obstructing the process, and who in many cases may well wind up facing jail time. Finally.
It is not too late. The sun has not set on America yet. It is late. Very late. But we are not finished yet. But if the Machine gets full control, we are. Outside of actual violence I see no chance of anything changing. and inside of violence I see little upside. That is not something I personally would participate in.
Far too many of us have lost our minds. We need the sane people, the ones in positions which matter, to do the right things finally, and help get us back on the paths of righteousness, fairness, and the American Way.
We are being held captive, in important respects, are we not? Could this not be one way of explaining the very odd and to my mind hard to understand fact that people seem to be ADDICTED to these lockdowns and restrictions? To the masks? If there is evidence against either–and that is in fact where most of it points–they don’t want to hear it.
If I ask “don’t you want to hear live music again?” they have nothing to say.