tag > Narrative
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"Abandon hopelessness, all ye who enter here." — G.K. Chesterton
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Why do so many still buy into the (corona) narrative? - Interview with Mattias Desmet, Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ghent University in Belgium - about "mass formation"
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Bovis Scale - Life force bio energy units dowsing chart
Decisions Making Dowsing Chart
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"Lighting even the smallest candle is better than being angry about the darkness." - Chinese proverb
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Homo imaginatus (aeon) - "Imagination isn’t just a spillover from our problem-solving prowess. It might be the core of what human brains evolved to do."
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The Root of Devil, Lucifer and Satan
- "Devil": The word has its origin in the Greek "Daimon" which means "Knowledge, intelligence".
- "Lucifer": It comes from the Latin "Lucem ferre" which means "Bearer of light, clarity".
- "Satan": It comes from the Hebrew "jun" "ha-shatán" which means "questioner, opponent".
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The fear of worldview collapse
"It's not about Corona at all. It's about a worldview - about trust in those in power. Just as a child trusts their parents, many people want to trust their leaders. This need for trust is understandable. But we have to come to terms with the fact that there are leaderships that don't deserve trust - abuse of power is the keyword. There are plenty of examples in history. How would it be, if I took on more responsibility myself? If my inner values took the lead? How about if love took the lead?" - Lars Ebert
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"if you need me i’ll be in the forest, searching for portals to another dimension..."
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100 year old rhododendron and the woman who planted it.
Lovely story, right? The "Fact checkers" don't think so, and say it is "decontextualized".
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"It is deliberate policy to keep even the favored groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another."- 1984 (P. 231, Chapter. 8), G. Orwell
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Samim.io: "Like going to a sauna with a cold shower afterwards"
Got the following message from a regular reader of this blog, based in Hong Kong. It made me smile: "Samim's blog: The last sane corner of the Internet. The (one of the rare, if not only) place where bullshit gets called out. Thanks for keeping posting, Samim. Visiting here feels like going to a sauna with a cold shower afterwards (that feels good!). ❣️"
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Handwavy: "(informal, of a demonstration, proof, or explanation) Missing important details or logical steps, perhaps instead appealing to laymen, common sense, tradition, intuition, or examples."
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Futures Cone
- Possible futures These include the kinds of futures that "might happen" - all the kinds we can imagine (the "warp drive" of Star Trek is a good example), these might also involve transgressions of currently-accepted physical laws or principles.
- Plausible futures These cover those futures which "could happen" according to our current knowledge of how things work. They stem from our current understanding of physical laws, processes, causation, systems of human interaction, etc.
- Probably futures These contain those which are considered "likely to happen". It is a simple linear extension of the present and often called "business-as-usual".
- Preferable futures By contrast, these are concerned with what we "want to" happen; in other words, these futures are largely emotional rather than cognitive, and derive from value judgements. Because values differ between people, this class of futures is quite varied.
