The End is not the End

     We are currently in a renaissance.  Much harm is possible but the sheer amount of progress we face is indeed daunting.  "Beware the bearers of false gifts and promises" - and so it goes with the famous crop circle.  I don't think belief is what we're missing.  I remember well hearing that 'do or do not, there is no try'.

    Cataclysmology is a wacky term for, let's say, doomsday cults.  It has to be admired that the chosen few have repeatedly drawn a checkmark on the calendar and continues to move it back and back and back.  And as much as I admire the story of the so-called study of this term and it's many facts and figures, space is still a question mark for our modern eyes and ears.  The moon, for example, is established science by some but so oddly specific it has to make you wonder.

    The birth of Venus, for example, is said to have been a wonderous moment in our galactic history, wherein the destroyed planet of Tiamat had such a sensational impact on the Earth's orbit that the only mechanism by which this could be solved would be the entry of a new planet into orbit around the sun.  I have no fucking idea if this happened either.

    Entropy yes, ascension no?  We're so limited by our human experience of life, maturation, and ultimately our mortality that we're not being able to see something that stands out so clearly to some of us.  The finality of life gives rise to this existential fervor and unrelenting restless anxiety that drives us forward, making the unthinkable possible and the rather thinkable hard to accomplish.  Live, die, rinse, repeat.

    I think a sort of stasis arrives to any sort of planet like ours - not to get too far out.  There is a divine structure to the cosmos, even if it lay mostly empty, barren, and cold.  Stars like ours are so significant that we marvel at the possibility of life on Proxima Centauri, which would be planets orbiting a red dwarf and so we change our eye color and plant photosynthesis if our proposed journey is ever to have kicked off.

    I could go on and on about the future and the past and whether our destiny is sealed.  I don't know if that's even the main focus.  The main point I'd like to get across is that you, I, we she them that well all MATTER.  You could be looking 500 years into the future as some of us do or be stately and measured in the here and now.  Hell, even Thomas Jefferson thought the Louisiana purchase may contain dinosaurs.

    Out of a spiteful defiance  and denial, what we do indeed echoes throughout history, and is never really lost but simply relocated.  What happens inside of a black hole? Again, not sure, but do we really know what a billion year-old society is capable of?  I can't chalk it up to simply, "that's the way it is, circle of life" kind of thinking.

    The phrase 'in order to create a more perfect Union' gets mixed up with something about 'under God' which is funny to me.  The snap to attention of everyone experiencing something that's incredibly larger then themselves is another.  Why can't we have that always?  We should literally always be humble, deferential, and grateful to whatever web has been sown.  I find the more you take some of those layers away, the more we seem like rippling mirrors of one another,.. concerned only enough to take a quick look and shy away from our own reflection, or really what makes us us.  

    Apathy will take you *this* far and you can bet it's a tried and true form of denial.  Pronoia can take you a lot further but beware of always seeing the lights as shining forms of warmth.  When you break it down, I'm not even sure times like that even exist.  Things shift and drift, and history marches on again.

 

Dear Elon Musk, you should be embarrassed.(full picture rant)

 Dear Elon Musk (and company),

Free speech is your tentpole, yes?  You should be ashamed of yourself.

AS someone  gifted, sent, whatever you may be... the last of a good idea, the first of a last idea, you've made your mark.

Your conception of shallow empathy perplexes me.  "Deep empathy" as you understand of it, involved persecuting and prosecuting those who do things like stealing.  

The leftists and the perpetrators are coming for your women and children...  this is an old lie and moldy shoe out of which those that have drunk the poison of control - and complete control at that - continue to lose a left nut over...  you haven't the platform, life experience, and even the good sense, to sneeze overboard the harsh reality of everyday life for those us mucking and ducking and fucking, the many few/majority of us who live lives that are cold, brutish, and short.

If you want to throw your lot in with Republicanism, be my guest.  But don't dare meme against me with an upturned nose; no.... then I will know ye by your deeds.

Go with God next time and try not to hate others with such passion.  It'll serve you well in the meantime.  Can't say I've ever tried Ahyuaska before but that sounds like something you may have learned and lost track of over the years.

Tough years too, right?  Coming to you person to person would certainly be a joy, only if not for the wrong reasons.  Please don't get me wrong here either way; you're not an idiot.  And whatever wealth you come from is irrelevant to me, either in current and former form.  

I say eat the rich only in the ryest of French terms.  If you give a man a fish is going to be our modern day retro-platitude.  If you can't exactly use it within yourself to eradicate extreme forms of poverty, you could still put a dent in the thing.  That which is keeping us down, that which is preventing us from moving forward, is poverty of the mind, body, and spirit.  I know if you're concerned about ourselves blowing each other up, you should probably be more intertwined with global decision making.  Or contacting friendly extraterrestrials.  Or both.

The truth always lies in a bit of a grayzone.  Those who deal in absolutes are often sorely mistaken..  And the truth of your behavior is pretty bizarre.  Declaring yourself impaired in some way may be the heart of the matter, but I fear it has more to do with your upbringing and *sigh* your childhood.  Some of your words seriously do more psychological damage and confusion than anything.  Perhaps your mind is just too far ahead of where we are as a global civilization.  Yet space is such a busy place these days; imagine that.

I see in you a squandered opportunity like myself.  I see myself as superior to others, and anthropic separation of myself from my environment thanks to the detail-oriented left brain truth and reality tunnel.  Facts are facts, you are what you eat, and the holistic nature of your environment tell us we are in fact all a part of the same waking, slumbering, slobby, erratic, manic mind.  Do we prevail in the end?  Do We survive?

The choice is up to each of us, to gather in Ascending vibrations and seek a high order to things.  I will condemn you but I can also see things as they are, on the other foot, in another life...  You're surrounding yourself with people who agree as you'd disagree, and shame others as you enjoy to shame.  This is a bad combination, my friend.

Either something stinks with your thinking, you've been burned too many times in poor dealings with beaurocats, or something within you recoiled at the extreme left... I don't care much, and a lot of what you do doesn't center around me necessarily as much as it does friends and people that I love.  Please be cautious with those who are close to you, and even those who might seem far away by the imagination.

I like to laugh at people too, but I don't narrow in and steal their self-actualization from them too.  If your unable to love the world then my guess would be you have a minimal capacity to love yourself as well.

Be yourself, always, but judgement is a bit like breathing - we all do it involuntarily, no matter what... Question your own authority, even if it seems difficult.  I am a master and a slave to none.  Remember, to remember, to never forget.

You have literally a golden opportunity in front of you everywhere you look.  If you can't fixate on the positive at all times it means you are a human too.  Nobody has anymore right to that essential aspect of yourself than the next person.  Be kind, be courteous, be seated, as the saying goes.

Tony Stark is a good lesson to learn: redemption is always the order of the day, the primordial ooz that we all stem from (typically)  To earn this redemption, sacrifice is necessary.  No not human sacrifice, but ascension in both mind and intuition.  It's not a sin to be wrong sometimes.  And even the police like to say "fighting crime is a day job; eradicating evil is a way of life".  Keep doing the good and stop messing around with this fascination of absolute power that the right-wing political thinking thrusts upon us.  We really only live for so long.  You have to understand the fundamentals in order to see the whole picture.

Personal notes on Conflicting with Oneself

     I have a really hard time coming to believe that selflessness really exists... for better or worse for the strides of humanity.  I suppose that makes me cynical.  There's always going to be that drive to revel in the selfishness of having done something truly kind of unique.  It's almost a superpower that I can't grasp... I have done things out of the kindness of my heart on a day to day basis, which is great, and I can walk around with that feeling for a certain period of time.

    But those things that truly alter the course of history or at last for the lives of many seem odd.  Perhaps the reason we take credit for doing the deeds of angels is that it is to inspire others and let them know of this incredible feeling is real and possible and all encompassing once shared with an understanding audience of well-wishers.

    I have the drive to be the odd man out in a situation like a creative collaboration on a project.  I don't necessarily like the limelight.  A small amount of shared adulation can get me by and let me be for a while.  I do, however, profess to harbor the Great God-sized Hole in myself, delusions of grandeur, narcissistic desire... and I think we should all feel some of this sometimes in order to be at peace with our shadow, and to confirm or deny these feelings for the better in small ways.

    They say (I say) the ear doesn't really develop for playing with music without exposure and familiarity to music, without finding music that really speaks to you...  Indian musical philosophy seems to teach that the performance of music is perfect reflection of the material and spiritual totality of a person- their essence or essential nature.  In a more technical manner, Chinese and tonal language speakers have a leg up on our biochemical ability to decipher sound and pitch.  (And there's an emphasis on the arts under a totalitarian or ruling regime.) 

    This appreciation of form and essential being or even 'soul' brings a meeting of hearts and minds between every single person that exists, even if with some small degree.  Some are even specifically attuned to this subtle connection,  We also have that meeting of the mind within ourselves.  (Some call this The Master Mind's relationship to our individuality.)  The gift of introspection comes at a cost though.  We face uncomfortable truths and a battle for certainty in a world full of conflict, contradiction, and irreconcilable duality.

    This can be seen even our social and political ideas.  Politics is by its very nature the essence of division, and yet we all work ourselves into a metaphysical knot trying to understand why the answers just won't come.  Identification of a multi-faceted power structure is required then, and with that further down, down, down into the details you must wander to truly become 'educated about the issues'.  And not that there aren't right answers to questions that perplex us... human dignity and rights an unshakeable, powerful notion and inherence to us all.

    I used to tell friends and acquaintances to "Zoom out" to understand the true nature of reality.  And I suppose I was on to something, even if clunkily coming from an upbringing alongside computers rather than film lenses and photography.  Some aspects of ourselves and the collective We (the noosphere) are just eerily outside of us, a time-dilated influx of chaos into order and repeating dispositions of the two.  How could you possibly grasp the entire truth without at least an attempt to see yourself from the outside in?  It takes introversion to complement extroversion, even persistence to examine ourselves either way, and as well we know (if you've been following along), Balance is the fundamental and most powerful force in Existence.

    

Antigravity Issues, Pt 2

 Annie Jacobson is whole and righteous in her critique/display of her book detailing what happens during a hypothetical nuclear strike...

She makes the critical error though in what we all do and that is earthnocentrism in its finest hour and here is some evidence for you all:

ALL AVAILABLE ALEIN DISCLOSURES

We should take a beat to rediscover the book "Alien Mind:  The Thoughts and Behaviors of Extraterrestrials"  Here is a snippet of the introduction:

"Imagine the following. You go to a science museum and proceed to the hall of ancient civilizations. There, you walk among scenes of primitive life: crude shelters, fires, and handicraft. As you bend close to look at semi-apes with small skulls and big jawbones, a powerful stench overwhelms you. Suddenly, it hits you---this is no ordinary museum.

When you approach the displays they turn into life, transporting you to the actual sceneof such events: the smoke, the fears and passions of a cruel but beautiful landscape.

How would you feel?"

Just remember: The aliens have already landed, and they are us.

We're Gonna Talk Straight down to Earth so that Everyone can Understand.

     I know I'm fucking that up but who cares.

What I'd really like to do is just open things up a little, let everything feel a bit less restricted...  we all seem to know about alpha waves right?  

    The alpha wave is a long-sought protracted mental state where someone is either in a rather active meditative state or a rather fluid skills use flow.  If you've ever tried a brainwave monitor it is tricky to have alpha from one moment into the next.  Mine was usually puffing on a cigarette or listening to good music.

    I was into brainwave monitoring after it was 1976!  Just kidding.  Monks and shamans alike were also into these wave of brain, in that deep meditative states were associated with a lot of these same types of things.  And that's just from memory!

    Aside from the 'ol brainwave check in, we may just want to check in with ourselves... "Hey, how am I doin' today?" "Am I feeling truly grateful and peaceful?"  

    I am not for formalized prayer but I am for doing that sort of thing... the more you can ask yourself honestly "how am I making myself feel" and "why are my negative thoughts boiling to the top" the more you can send those thoughts away from you instead of having them camping out in your mind like a shut down train station.

    That's why I write.  Think, mostly.  Being what this is, it has always worked out just fine, as long as we don't blow up into smithereens because of a solar flare or a too-close-for comfort asteroid.

    There aren't many quick fixes in life right now.  We have a system in place where only a few billionaires and some numbering-in-the-many tech broheems have the economy by the balls as much as some energy and pharma sue ticals.

    So it's not that my meanderings are all later dross to look over and see if I've said something stupid.  Nor do I just write for myself in mind; I actually do like for a select batch of people to look over.  And maybe if those few tell another few...and on and on.

    I was gonna start this out with a few missteps I've seen Rogan go for... I was going to start with UFO knowledge and the 7th Golden Age but...  It's hard to go in on these topics without a refresher course for most people.  Does anyone remember the Phoenix Lights? It was in 1997 for godssake.

    I'll give it up for Rogan though in that he sees us being a techno-cybernetic organism that is either now or going to continue to birth some superior reasoning thing/being.  You only have to use your imagination and AI will be there like a guiding force, not the dominant feature of the species.  AI types and purpose will be like handily omnipresent augmented reality spectres, recognizing any time we feel frustrated or confused.  It could be things to other people but I think this is the augmentedness we were promised initially,

Be there everywhere at once... kind of nowhere too.  A digital escape route.  But what about the real world?  If humans see with .0035% of the electromagnetic spectrum, what sort of waves or undetectable signals are we unable to parce from noise, and how long of a timeframe do we now have to understand such a fabric of information?

    MY initial love for Joe and his kindred spirits:  Life moves fast and things get confusing, especially as a comic, and particularly as an artist.  Each of us have our own way of doing things.  It's not enough to simple comment on things as they are, but yes pontificated and make bold assumptions as hopefully one day those things come true, and come into being.

    

Do Russian trolls populate chat rooms?

Do Russian trolls populate chat rooms?

Yes, Russian trolls have been reported to populate chat rooms and other online forums. This activity is part of broader disinformation and influence campaigns aimed at manipulating public opinion, spreading misinformation, and sowing discord in various countries. Here's a detailed look at this phenomenon:

Background

1. Internet Research Agency (IRA)

   • The Internet Research Agency, based in St. Petersburg, Russia, is one of the most well-known organizations involved in these activities. It has been linked to extensive online disinformation campaigns.

2. Disinformation Tactics

   • Russian trolls use a variety of tactics, including spreading false information, amplifying divisive content, and impersonating real users to manipulate conversations and influence opinions.

Platforms Targeted

1. Social Media

   • Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have been primary targets for troll activities. Trolls create fake accounts to post and share divisive content, often focusing on controversial social and political issues.

2. Chat Rooms and Forums

   • Trolls also infiltrate chat rooms, forums, and comment sections of websites to disrupt discussions, spread misinformation, and provoke emotional responses.

3. News Websites and Blogs

   • Comment sections of news websites and blogs are also targeted to influence public perception and introduce misleading narratives.

Goals and Impact

1. Sowing Discord

   • One of the main goals is to create division and discord within target societies by amplifying existing tensions and conflicts.

2. Misinformation and Propaganda

   • Trolls spread misinformation and propaganda to distort the truth, undermine trust in institutions, and confuse the public.

3. Political Influence

   • During election cycles, trolls often intensify their efforts to influence voter behavior, spread false information about candidates, and undermine democratic processes.

Detection and Countermeasures

1. Platform Responses

   • Social media companies have taken steps to identify and remove troll accounts. They use algorithms and human moderators to detect suspicious activities and coordinate efforts with government agencies.

2. Public Awareness

   • Increasing public awareness about disinformation tactics helps individuals recognize and critically evaluate the information they encounter online.

3. Regulation and Policy

   • Governments and international organizations are working on regulations and policies to combat online disinformation and increase transparency in digital communications.

Conclusion

Russian trolls have indeed been active in populating chat rooms and other online spaces as part of broader disinformation campaigns. These efforts aim to manipulate public opinion, spread misinformation, and create discord within target societies. While significant efforts are being made to counter these activities, public awareness and critical thinking remain crucial in mitigating their impact.

AI and the United States Presidency

It's not a good sign where we, as progressive American adults, have to somehow fit the round peg that is Jon Stewart into square hole that should be reserved for the most qualified person for the job.  (Jon is indeed a comedian but needs to remind himself of what a thoughtful person he is and that he would be a great President.)

If we are asking ourselves: what does this mean for the future of democracy? We need to have a better mode of predicting power than we have now.  I think AI holds this promise, but novelty itself is what makes blips in the timeline.  https://futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2020-2029.ht

AI's promise is to make our lives a little bit better.

"We are not on track to control these systems."  

Ok.  So do we have any idea what to do in these situations?  Consult the Lodges!  

I trust in human beings, not necessarily their nature.  In times of crisis, the very many of us band together to figure out what to do in those trying times.  There is also people in the world whose intentions tend to be far worse, and willing to exploit vulnerable people and systems of people in these times.  Some have called it our institutions, but the fact that the US is so very interconnected in the modern world... as well as the fact that the world seems to be on an upward trajectory in terms of enlightened behavior, makes me feel this group is smaller and smaller still as time goes on.

The few that remain in the rare state of malleability of consciousness continue to fascinate me.  One such mind is inside the brain of a one such Henry Rollins.  He argues points to things like 'Education is the End of Disaster Capitalism' and how very right he is.  

"Henry Rollins is an American singer-songwriter, spoken word artist, writer, comedian,publisher, actor, and radio DJ."  https://bigthink.com/the-present/a-60-second-commencement-address/

I'm not sure if singer-songwriter holds... just kidding Henry.

Do yourself a favor of listening to this man talk for anything at length and feel yourself getting smarter by osmosis.

Now back to the question at hand:  Is there really a deep state in the world that wields this sort of unbeknownst, untouched power or... and take a deep breath here... we all have a sort of hand in the great "Unknowing"?  As Donald Rumsfeld himself said, "we have a lot of known knowns and a lot of unknown knowns."  Damn straight Don, and count yourself in with the latter I guess.  Does access to the storehouse of all the World make us happier, smarter?  I hope so, and I could probably come up with a list of examples.

Computing power is at the heart of what we, you, most of us do.  It is that little thing that is simultaneously tickling at your brain and a splinter within it.  Just like in the Matrix, Neo is going through something pretty profound that he can't grasp without (spoiler alert) coming into the presence of the mainframe and merging with it.

Does it mean that all of us become cybernetic nodes in the end times?  Of course not.  What it really means is what we've been told at certain times in our lives:  "It's all a ride" - Bill Hicks, "The Singularity is Near" - almost everyone now, "Life is for the living." - Me.  Do not waste your time here.  We've gone over that before.

There are really only a handful of things heads of state can control.  The rest is up to us as human beings and celestial bodies.  Be organized and thoughtful about how you approach the world.  Don't give in to fear and narcissism in an age where you are being constantly reminded how very approachable and accessible the world has become.  Each time we falter we find the capacity to pick ourselves up and dust off.

This world is yours too, so live your life to the fullest.  Be grateful and compassionate and all those ideas which were taught to you young.  It's a great big beautiful orb that we all share so let's try to sell it to our neighbors: the extraterrestrials.