The Idle No More and Occupy movements, for all their good intentions (I charitably assume) are sloppy, decentralized, only vaguely purposed and subject to an infinite amount of "Hey, I'm part of your movement too!" They are (and I might catch hell for this if I were pompous enough to allow comments) feminine.
The Harper Government in its autocratic, crushing, legally buttressed inflexibility, is masculine.
Both are fucking wrong and bullshit, and I'm not picking one!!
The landscape of my birth influenced how I look at life.
Everything in Edmonton is much like me. Complex but not complicated. Practically skilled and without particular guile...
In the wide, freezing Edmonton winter, seeing kilometers of snow one is forced to take responsibility. It's difficult to use people that are forced by the landscape to put effort into not being ignorant or helpless...
Back in Victoria I can feel the subtle evil. Sunken between hills and water and bends in the forest the mind can turn inward. In Victoria a lack of responsibility is our excuse for our wounds.
Everything in Edmonton is much like me. Complex but not complicated. Practically skilled and without particular guile...
In the wide, freezing Edmonton winter, seeing kilometers of snow one is forced to take responsibility. It's difficult to use people that are forced by the landscape to put effort into not being ignorant or helpless...
Back in Victoria I can feel the subtle evil. Sunken between hills and water and bends in the forest the mind can turn inward. In Victoria a lack of responsibility is our excuse for our wounds.
I just finished watching the two-parter episode of CSI called "Grave Danger".
I kind of thought that Quentin Tarantino was dead to me after he insulted my grandfather's unit by having a FSSF patch on one of the guys in that disgusting, gratuitous Nazi-clubbing scene in Inglourious Basterds. I turned that movie off after the scene with Mike Myers as I was thinking, is this supposed to be bad? Is this supposed to be painfully unpleasant and somehow boring and revolting at the same time?
He really fooled me with sharp, snappy and morally desolate films like Pulp Fiction and Resevoir Dogs. And I loved Four Rooms, although I realized early on that the main reason that agonizingly funny last scene builds so perfectly to such an apocalyptically funny conclusion is that you just wish there would be a payoff for listening to ol' Quentin, wishing that he would shut the fuck up.
"If you don't like it, don't watch it!" Go fuck yourself. You know we can't stop watching it. And that is why people like you, if you ever tire of waking up in a pile of money and blow and women, should consider taking a vow of poverty, chastity and silence to contemplate what you've unleashed on the human race. Shame on you.
I kind of thought that Quentin Tarantino was dead to me after he insulted my grandfather's unit by having a FSSF patch on one of the guys in that disgusting, gratuitous Nazi-clubbing scene in Inglourious Basterds. I turned that movie off after the scene with Mike Myers as I was thinking, is this supposed to be bad? Is this supposed to be painfully unpleasant and somehow boring and revolting at the same time?
He really fooled me with sharp, snappy and morally desolate films like Pulp Fiction and Resevoir Dogs. And I loved Four Rooms, although I realized early on that the main reason that agonizingly funny last scene builds so perfectly to such an apocalyptically funny conclusion is that you just wish there would be a payoff for listening to ol' Quentin, wishing that he would shut the fuck up.
"If you don't like it, don't watch it!" Go fuck yourself. You know we can't stop watching it. And that is why people like you, if you ever tire of waking up in a pile of money and blow and women, should consider taking a vow of poverty, chastity and silence to contemplate what you've unleashed on the human race. Shame on you.
I'll bet myself a nice bottle of Malbec my MP doesn't get back to me. Either he doesn't give a shit about what I have to say; or some staffer checked his e-mail and threw out my cranky non-crank letter. Absent a response, I certainly sha'n't be eating my words...
On the other hand, all I did was "google" "critique of climate change" and I found this magnificent piece of writing—which is not at all political and is rationally laid out and well-balanced. Here is an example of what I consider to be very good writing (and yes, I did read the whole thing):
"I submit that unless global warming unleashes appalling penalties—in which case, the climate crisis and biodepletion will merge into one devastating event for virtually all life—the implications of humanity’s impact on biodiversity are so far-reaching that they may, in reality, dwarf the repercussions of climate change."
I hasten to say that I'm not a scientist. I still think there is doubt that we are responsible for an increase in the temperature of the whole Earth's atmosphere and biomes.
But my mind meets with that of Ms. Crist in that there is much more to this problem than fits into one of Al Gore's polemics!
"The knowledge that biodiversity is in deep trouble has been available for at least three decades, but this momentous event has never inspired the urgency that climate change has triggered in a handful of years. This seems to be a blatant manifestation of anthropocentrism."
The problems created by anthropocentrism, or the foolish attitude that only humans are of any importance, cannot be solved through anthropophobia (human repression) any more than they can be solved by the status quo... or by stupid human bandaids such as geoengineering, ie: pollution...
"When we speak we must be alert not only to what we are saying, but to what we are doing with our speech—how what we are saying has a good deal of shaping power over the world."
Exactly why I became a poet—because I felt this world's pain. The whole reason I'm here today.
On the other hand, all I did was "google" "critique of climate change" and I found this magnificent piece of writing—which is not at all political and is rationally laid out and well-balanced. Here is an example of what I consider to be very good writing (and yes, I did read the whole thing):
"I submit that unless global warming unleashes appalling penalties—in which case, the climate crisis and biodepletion will merge into one devastating event for virtually all life—the implications of humanity’s impact on biodiversity are so far-reaching that they may, in reality, dwarf the repercussions of climate change."
I hasten to say that I'm not a scientist. I still think there is doubt that we are responsible for an increase in the temperature of the whole Earth's atmosphere and biomes.
But my mind meets with that of Ms. Crist in that there is much more to this problem than fits into one of Al Gore's polemics!
"The knowledge that biodiversity is in deep trouble has been available for at least three decades, but this momentous event has never inspired the urgency that climate change has triggered in a handful of years. This seems to be a blatant manifestation of anthropocentrism."
The problems created by anthropocentrism, or the foolish attitude that only humans are of any importance, cannot be solved through anthropophobia (human repression) any more than they can be solved by the status quo... or by stupid human bandaids such as geoengineering, ie: pollution...
"When we speak we must be alert not only to what we are saying, but to what we are doing with our speech—how what we are saying has a good deal of shaping power over the world."
Exactly why I became a poet—because I felt this world's pain. The whole reason I'm here today.
Corresponding with my MP: IV.
Oh, Jesus. Am I really doing this?? Well, at least if politics is hopeless maybe I can demonstrate that. We'll see. Will I get a meaningful response? If I do I will post it.
To Murray Rankin, MP, Victoria:
Hello, my name is Chris and I live in Victoria.
I didn't vote in the recent by-election. After agonizing over my options, I decided I didn't support anyone. I am much more concerned with preserving Canadian sovereignty and human rights than with comparatively trivial, packageable issues such as sewage treatment and gender wage inequality. I could not bring myself to make a serious choice on the basis of what I read.
I hope that you appreciate that the political scene is dire. At a time when the federal Conservatives are completely out of control; making Canada unrecognizable measured against mine and my family's, and my community's values; my friends and a disproportionate number of young people simply cannot force themselves to give a shit about politics. They quite rightly fear that politicians are pure showbiz, lying sacks of crap in suits; who put on a show in Ottawa while their own wages stagnate and their hopes for the future grow dimmer and more squalid.
I am writing in the forlorn hope that I can engage you in a meaningful dialogue about our collective future; with some mind to cooperating to improve it. I failed utterly to achieve this with your predecessor. While I understand that an MP and their constituency office must be very busy, my letters to Ms. Savoie were only ever met by mass-mailed, form responses. This is not acceptable to me during this time of crisis.
I want to know exactly what the opposition AS A WHOLE is willing to do about the Harper Government. Not what your principles are or how you differ with the ruling party or your competitors; not what delaying tactics or protests you are planning; but what you are willing to DO to STOP this gang of criminals from destroying our homeland.
Yours truly,
Chris X BFA
Victoria
I just want to point out that Wikipedia has a fascinating and well-wrought article on anti-psychiatry.
I also just want to point out that the truth isn't restricted to things you are humbly permitted to cite at the end of a paper. You are equipped with the greatest truth-discerning mechanism in the universe: the logical, analytic human brain. Connected with other, verified and trusting brains, you are the monomer of truth and justice and reason.
Just be ready to let go of some of your preconceptions. And be warned that it isn't easy.
Don't trespass into the hippie brain, and think you're right just because what you're doing "feels good" or "is your thing". This is frequently wrong. Why do you think I'm so miserable and angry sometimes?? Hah!!!
I'm not a hippie, or a scientist, but I am right. I'm a sage.
I also just want to point out that the truth isn't restricted to things you are humbly permitted to cite at the end of a paper. You are equipped with the greatest truth-discerning mechanism in the universe: the logical, analytic human brain. Connected with other, verified and trusting brains, you are the monomer of truth and justice and reason.
Just be ready to let go of some of your preconceptions. And be warned that it isn't easy.
Don't trespass into the hippie brain, and think you're right just because what you're doing "feels good" or "is your thing". This is frequently wrong. Why do you think I'm so miserable and angry sometimes?? Hah!!!
I'm not a hippie, or a scientist, but I am right. I'm a sage.
The new world order, through its agent, fashion, tries to make us enjoy the thought of becoming agrarian peasants; which according to their plan is our future role.
Artificial tanning has become so popular we now have youth anti-tanning laws. And exercise programs are bigger than ever. You know who else is tanned, lean and muscular?? Agrarian peasants!
Full service at gas stations has been disappearing, and more people are pumping their own gas out of choice. We live in the first world, where we can afford to employ a person to provide this service. Do you know who else has to fend for themselves and get everything themselves?? Agrarian peasants!!
Yoga is blowing up right now!! You know who else practices yoga, being the yoking of your will to Brahman in order to overcome trivial worldly things like starvation, privation and misery, that are totally unnecessary?? Lots of agrarian peasants!!!
When people make bus ads invoking of all things, karma, trying to guilt-trip everyone into wasting time and potable water recycling; trying to turn this beautiful country Canada into a nation of trash pickers, do you know what comes to my mind? Trash-picking, starving agrarian peasants.
You know the easiest class of people to lord it over and repress, as they have nothing and are nothing? Peasants.
I'm not going easy on you, because this shit is evil!!!!
Artificial tanning has become so popular we now have youth anti-tanning laws. And exercise programs are bigger than ever. You know who else is tanned, lean and muscular?? Agrarian peasants!
Full service at gas stations has been disappearing, and more people are pumping their own gas out of choice. We live in the first world, where we can afford to employ a person to provide this service. Do you know who else has to fend for themselves and get everything themselves?? Agrarian peasants!!
Yoga is blowing up right now!! You know who else practices yoga, being the yoking of your will to Brahman in order to overcome trivial worldly things like starvation, privation and misery, that are totally unnecessary?? Lots of agrarian peasants!!!
When people make bus ads invoking of all things, karma, trying to guilt-trip everyone into wasting time and potable water recycling; trying to turn this beautiful country Canada into a nation of trash pickers, do you know what comes to my mind? Trash-picking, starving agrarian peasants.
You know the easiest class of people to lord it over and repress, as they have nothing and are nothing? Peasants.
I'm not going easy on you, because this shit is evil!!!!
You people have had it pretty nicely up to now. Life is a wonderful salad of choices. Well I'm here to tell you that if you don't start acting like you care about life, there might be no-one left to care for you, except perhaps your God.
You've wasted enough of your time on luxury cars, luxury food, shitty American TV shows, shitty American pop music, houses you can't afford and useless degrees from the adult daycare called university.
Here's a scenario for you. Harper Government (sic) approves CNOOC's takeover of Nexen. Check!
Nexen oilsands yield necessitates the Northern Gateway pipeline for export, just for starters. Maybe hundreds or a thousand protesters, "saboteurs" or "terrorists" are jailed. Hundreds? Thousands? Fie! That's just a drop in the bucket for the textbook techniques of industrial incarceration. Remember G20? That was an improvisation by local pissants by comparison...
Maybe a tanker barfs petrochemicals all over the Juan da Fuca strait. Maybe it's Haida Gwaii! BC becomes polluted tourist-free welfare land. Maybe Canada rebels! Well then we'll have either to continue to service our debts and pay a penalty for kicking out our foreign interests, which will be basically impossible; or we'll have to defend ourselves against an enemy military who is coming to enforce their country's legally valid claim...
So either we citizens of the debtor prison nation Canada are repossessed and become human resources in labour camps; or we deploy our armed forces and exhaust ourselves fighting a government with a one-child policy that has produced a glut of fighting-aged men.
Get off your fucking couch. Get off your fucking couch!
You've wasted enough of your time on luxury cars, luxury food, shitty American TV shows, shitty American pop music, houses you can't afford and useless degrees from the adult daycare called university.
Here's a scenario for you. Harper Government (sic) approves CNOOC's takeover of Nexen. Check!
Nexen oilsands yield necessitates the Northern Gateway pipeline for export, just for starters. Maybe hundreds or a thousand protesters, "saboteurs" or "terrorists" are jailed. Hundreds? Thousands? Fie! That's just a drop in the bucket for the textbook techniques of industrial incarceration. Remember G20? That was an improvisation by local pissants by comparison...
Maybe a tanker barfs petrochemicals all over the Juan da Fuca strait. Maybe it's Haida Gwaii! BC becomes polluted tourist-free welfare land. Maybe Canada rebels! Well then we'll have either to continue to service our debts and pay a penalty for kicking out our foreign interests, which will be basically impossible; or we'll have to defend ourselves against an enemy military who is coming to enforce their country's legally valid claim...
So either we citizens of the debtor prison nation Canada are repossessed and become human resources in labour camps; or we deploy our armed forces and exhaust ourselves fighting a government with a one-child policy that has produced a glut of fighting-aged men.
Get off your fucking couch. Get off your fucking couch!
Those poor pussies in the House of Commons. Can you imagine having to concentrate on what you're being paid to do, for eight whole hours? Sorry, six!
I'm not antigovernment. It's just that when you've got the NDP chanting "2015! 2015!" across the aisle, while the Cons chant back "Carbon tax! Carbon tax!", it's pretty obvious every horse in the race is doped.
I don't want to vote for evil, and I also don't want to vote for dumb. In dumb versus evil, the only victory is to reaffirm your sanity by turning to your neighbor and going, "Dude, we've got to do something."
I'm not antigovernment. It's just that when you've got the NDP chanting "2015! 2015!" across the aisle, while the Cons chant back "Carbon tax! Carbon tax!", it's pretty obvious every horse in the race is doped.
I don't want to vote for evil, and I also don't want to vote for dumb. In dumb versus evil, the only victory is to reaffirm your sanity by turning to your neighbor and going, "Dude, we've got to do something."
Fuck the Liberals and fuck Justin. I had high hopes for this man, because he seems spirited and youthful and (I thought) principled along my own lines. Apparently I was fooled by Liberal-related feelings of nostalgia for my childhood with Chretien. I guess the joke's on me! HA HA HA.
Bullet points are from CBC.ca
Italics by yours truly.
• On a carbon tax versus a cap-and-trade scheme, Trudeau said, "I don't know."
Carbon tax hurts those with less spending power; and it is less effective than a healthy economy directed towards clean energy. Carbon tax is predicated on the terror hoax of manmade global warming - intended as a universal tax that would seem suicidal to refuse. It is the source of the budget for running a one world government. We would do better to keep our sovereignty!
• On raising the GST: "No."
Look, I hate the GST too, but Stephen Harper should never have dropped it to 5%. I don't know what he was thinking. Maybe that he would introduce a lot of evil, draconian policies that would drain revenue and get him kicked out of the PMO. Thus leaving a massive, smelly dump of shit for whoever steps in to try and fix it. Talk about Canada's greatest monster.
• On decriminalizing and legalizing marijuana, Trudeau said, "yes," and added that "it's an automatic next step to look at taxing and regulation."
Fine, decriminalize marijuana! The tourist and ancillary tax revenue will generate itself, and police will be free to do more important things than sniffing out grow ops. I'm not sure how much I like the thought of more people feeling comfortable selling drugs on the street to random people and kids. For God's sake don't tax and regulate it. You'll fuck it up for everyone that way. That amount of money is too tempting for politicians to fritter away, steal or become dependent on. Then we'll have another tax rate we can argue over, weed farmer bailouts? et cetera. Barf on state-sponsored weed.
• On the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline project, Trudeau said he's not opposed to pipelines in general, just this particular one, citing environmental concerns. "It's the wrong one."
Way to hedge your bets, Justin. I like energy too! But Northern Gateway is by all accounts a suicidal project. How did this proposal get this far, by its lack of merit and with massive opposition from Canadians? There should be an audit of the process, and people should be charged and arrested for negligence and conspiracy to commit fraud, and jailed. Do you think this many people would protest a good idea?
• On China's growing investment in Canada's natural resources: Trudeau said that he's in favour of more trade with China and that's it's important to "engage" with the Chinese and not be "dictating at them." He called Prime Minister Stephen Harper's early stance with China "immature."
I am in favour of friendly trade with China - of finished products. We should not be exporting raw materials. That's what COLONIES do. And to suggest that we can modify the government of China's stance on human rights in the context of a business relationship is childish. That's like asking the carwash manager if everyone's WHMIS training is up to date. He'll probably smile and say, "I'll get right on that. Next!"
Bullet points are from CBC.ca
Italics by yours truly.
• On a carbon tax versus a cap-and-trade scheme, Trudeau said, "I don't know."
Carbon tax hurts those with less spending power; and it is less effective than a healthy economy directed towards clean energy. Carbon tax is predicated on the terror hoax of manmade global warming - intended as a universal tax that would seem suicidal to refuse. It is the source of the budget for running a one world government. We would do better to keep our sovereignty!
• On raising the GST: "No."
Look, I hate the GST too, but Stephen Harper should never have dropped it to 5%. I don't know what he was thinking. Maybe that he would introduce a lot of evil, draconian policies that would drain revenue and get him kicked out of the PMO. Thus leaving a massive, smelly dump of shit for whoever steps in to try and fix it. Talk about Canada's greatest monster.
• On decriminalizing and legalizing marijuana, Trudeau said, "yes," and added that "it's an automatic next step to look at taxing and regulation."
Fine, decriminalize marijuana! The tourist and ancillary tax revenue will generate itself, and police will be free to do more important things than sniffing out grow ops. I'm not sure how much I like the thought of more people feeling comfortable selling drugs on the street to random people and kids. For God's sake don't tax and regulate it. You'll fuck it up for everyone that way. That amount of money is too tempting for politicians to fritter away, steal or become dependent on. Then we'll have another tax rate we can argue over, weed farmer bailouts? et cetera. Barf on state-sponsored weed.
• On the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline project, Trudeau said he's not opposed to pipelines in general, just this particular one, citing environmental concerns. "It's the wrong one."
Way to hedge your bets, Justin. I like energy too! But Northern Gateway is by all accounts a suicidal project. How did this proposal get this far, by its lack of merit and with massive opposition from Canadians? There should be an audit of the process, and people should be charged and arrested for negligence and conspiracy to commit fraud, and jailed. Do you think this many people would protest a good idea?
• On China's growing investment in Canada's natural resources: Trudeau said that he's in favour of more trade with China and that's it's important to "engage" with the Chinese and not be "dictating at them." He called Prime Minister Stephen Harper's early stance with China "immature."
I am in favour of friendly trade with China - of finished products. We should not be exporting raw materials. That's what COLONIES do. And to suggest that we can modify the government of China's stance on human rights in the context of a business relationship is childish. That's like asking the carwash manager if everyone's WHMIS training is up to date. He'll probably smile and say, "I'll get right on that. Next!"
DO YOU KNOW HOW HIGH OUR STANDARD OF LIVING WOULD BE IF WE USED THE BANK OF CANADA FOR DEBT-FREE MONEY BACKED BY OUR OWN RESOURCES AND LABOUR? LIKE WE ARE SUPPOSED TO?? POOR PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING IN CANADA, PEOPLE ARE DYING...
I didn't vote on Monday. I didn't support the position of any of the candidates. And against my better judgement, I might say don't support anyone who isn't outraged about our debt position and the selling off of our resources. They might dangle some money in front of you, they might try to make you afraid of something as a motivation. But if they don't mention the primary evil of our debt to foreign banking interests, tell them to fuck off. At full volume. The time for this bullshit is over. It's the twenty-first century for Christ's sake.
I didn't vote on Monday. I didn't support the position of any of the candidates. And against my better judgement, I might say don't support anyone who isn't outraged about our debt position and the selling off of our resources. They might dangle some money in front of you, they might try to make you afraid of something as a motivation. But if they don't mention the primary evil of our debt to foreign banking interests, tell them to fuck off. At full volume. The time for this bullshit is over. It's the twenty-first century for Christ's sake.
Never trust an artist with the big, high-quality ubiquitous message of awesome revolution.
Big means it's bigger than him. Either he's a mouthpiece or he's pulling power from some older cultural structure, and those are all co-opted.
High-quality requires large financial risk. Considerable difficulty is encountered in getting a work to the point of being truly impressive. This is very telling about the value of the wished-for effect!
Ubiquitous is a dead give-away. For the mechanisms of ubiquity to be in place, many many powers and principalities must be placated, and convinced that the pith of the message is only advantageous to them.
What could be at once more and less ubiquitous than mainstream culture?
The wise counsel of the people closest to you. Trust in that!
Big means it's bigger than him. Either he's a mouthpiece or he's pulling power from some older cultural structure, and those are all co-opted.
High-quality requires large financial risk. Considerable difficulty is encountered in getting a work to the point of being truly impressive. This is very telling about the value of the wished-for effect!
Ubiquitous is a dead give-away. For the mechanisms of ubiquity to be in place, many many powers and principalities must be placated, and convinced that the pith of the message is only advantageous to them.
What could be at once more and less ubiquitous than mainstream culture?
The wise counsel of the people closest to you. Trust in that!
I am so sick of politics. It's killing me inside.
Some politician better prove me wrong. You all come off sounding like congenial snake-fuckers, with your suits and your staff writers. Don't think I can't read between the lines! I used to roll with thoth, I will write your eyeballs into your shoes!!
Some politician better prove me wrong, because if politics truly starts to fail, the alternatives are none too pretty. We're talking about the snake-fuckers who make and alter our laws, who send us to war.
I sure would prefer to have some protection and recourse, rather then depending on "anything's legal, as long as you don't get caught." That's called the law of the jungle.
Abandonment of the law leads to logic and order being replaced in the operations of daily life with fraternity, secrecy and Satanic-cult styled backstabbing and petty personal shit.
You might go twenty years in your daily routine not getting caught. But rile some associate's emotions and the yin wheel will turn on you. Favours for favours. The law of the jungle. Disgusting!
Some politician better prove me wrong. You all come off sounding like congenial snake-fuckers, with your suits and your staff writers. Don't think I can't read between the lines! I used to roll with thoth, I will write your eyeballs into your shoes!!
Some politician better prove me wrong, because if politics truly starts to fail, the alternatives are none too pretty. We're talking about the snake-fuckers who make and alter our laws, who send us to war.
I sure would prefer to have some protection and recourse, rather then depending on "anything's legal, as long as you don't get caught." That's called the law of the jungle.
Abandonment of the law leads to logic and order being replaced in the operations of daily life with fraternity, secrecy and Satanic-cult styled backstabbing and petty personal shit.
You might go twenty years in your daily routine not getting caught. But rile some associate's emotions and the yin wheel will turn on you. Favours for favours. The law of the jungle. Disgusting!
Fuck a flu shot. I'm not getting it.
Fine if you're a petite lady like my Mom; whom every winter used to come down with the deathly flu of suffering eww. But I'm pretty strong. I see no point in exposing myself to this sorcerous substance, "popularized flu vaccine," considering the risks involved and any potential benefit.
I refer to vaccine as sorcerous. Well it kinda is. Sorcery is making a deal to draw upon something, a power, that you don't fully understand. Unless you are a high-level operative and know machine language and how operating systems work, unless you built your computer with your own two hands and are an electrical engineer, you have at best a sorcerous understanding of the thing you're reading these words on. And if it ever breaks down in a way you don't comprehend, you will need to consult a sorceror; and that's the trade-off for the convenience and capability.
If you want the unnaturally good protection for yourself that a vaccine creates, you will have to accept a very tiny risk of dropping dead at the flu clinic, or some such. These minute risks, like the risk inherent in anaesthesia, are common in medicine and are almost invariably worth taking for the sake of curing something serious!
I understand the basic principle of stimulating an immune response, leading to heightened protection. I understand the principle of adjuvants, or chemicals variously intended to modulate or strengthen a dose...
But I don't understand how my health care professional does his sourcing. I don't understand the companies involved. And I don't understand production.
One thing I do understand is that these are big, expensive global companies. And the hallmark of a big, global company is that it contracts parts of the job out. Based on cost. Because efficiency in costing leads to shareholder profit, which is the heartbeat and bowels of a functioning enterprise.
If you are a big company contracting out all over the world, that doesn't make me rush to a judgement of ill will so much as it makes me think that best intentions combined with human fallibility combined with an extremely complicated product that must be precisely produced and monitored for safety, imply too much risk for a benefit which is trivial to me!
Fine if you're a petite lady like my Mom; whom every winter used to come down with the deathly flu of suffering eww. But I'm pretty strong. I see no point in exposing myself to this sorcerous substance, "popularized flu vaccine," considering the risks involved and any potential benefit.
I refer to vaccine as sorcerous. Well it kinda is. Sorcery is making a deal to draw upon something, a power, that you don't fully understand. Unless you are a high-level operative and know machine language and how operating systems work, unless you built your computer with your own two hands and are an electrical engineer, you have at best a sorcerous understanding of the thing you're reading these words on. And if it ever breaks down in a way you don't comprehend, you will need to consult a sorceror; and that's the trade-off for the convenience and capability.
If you want the unnaturally good protection for yourself that a vaccine creates, you will have to accept a very tiny risk of dropping dead at the flu clinic, or some such. These minute risks, like the risk inherent in anaesthesia, are common in medicine and are almost invariably worth taking for the sake of curing something serious!
I understand the basic principle of stimulating an immune response, leading to heightened protection. I understand the principle of adjuvants, or chemicals variously intended to modulate or strengthen a dose...
But I don't understand how my health care professional does his sourcing. I don't understand the companies involved. And I don't understand production.
One thing I do understand is that these are big, expensive global companies. And the hallmark of a big, global company is that it contracts parts of the job out. Based on cost. Because efficiency in costing leads to shareholder profit, which is the heartbeat and bowels of a functioning enterprise.
If you are a big company contracting out all over the world, that doesn't make me rush to a judgement of ill will so much as it makes me think that best intentions combined with human fallibility combined with an extremely complicated product that must be precisely produced and monitored for safety, imply too much risk for a benefit which is trivial to me!
Evil creeps into everyone's everyday life.
But don't be frightened and look over your shoulder. I'm not talking about the Harper Conservatives. I'm not talking about 9/11. I'm not talking about the Nazi Party. I'm not talking about Lenin and Stalin. I'm not talking about 1776 and Adam Weishaupt...
Human beings and organizations are not good or evil.
Evil is always a human being's choice; made easier in an evil situation. See Philip Zimbardo.
Ever worked on something that made you morally uneasy? I know I have. And I can't deny that, even if I make fun of it, or condemn it, or rag on it later to my friends, I have supported it by working on it and lending my energies to it. That's how I make money. That's how I feed myself and my family.
To sacrifice your life fighting evil is not an easy thing to do.
That is why a loving god would afford every one of us some measure of forgiveness.
But don't be frightened and look over your shoulder. I'm not talking about the Harper Conservatives. I'm not talking about 9/11. I'm not talking about the Nazi Party. I'm not talking about Lenin and Stalin. I'm not talking about 1776 and Adam Weishaupt...
Human beings and organizations are not good or evil.
Evil is always a human being's choice; made easier in an evil situation. See Philip Zimbardo.
Ever worked on something that made you morally uneasy? I know I have. And I can't deny that, even if I make fun of it, or condemn it, or rag on it later to my friends, I have supported it by working on it and lending my energies to it. That's how I make money. That's how I feed myself and my family.
To sacrifice your life fighting evil is not an easy thing to do.
That is why a loving god would afford every one of us some measure of forgiveness.
Dear America and friends, please vote for Obama and the Democrats. Your nation cannot bear the fundamentalist, warmonger tyrant Romney and the Republicans.
Not voting for Obama is the same as voting for Romney. Please don't fall for the same game that was played out in Canada during our last election. The party with arguably the most moral credibility was Jack Layton's NDP: a third, non-governing party with no chance of winning (much like Ron Paul). The stumbling centrist party, the Liberals, put forward a candidate who, like Obama, came off appearing arrogant and ungainly in spite of the fact it was his election to lose.
As a result of these two factors, the pseudo-fundamentlist / fascist Federal Conservative party won, forming a majority government, and has been able to wreck our country's laws and reputation with total impunity.
You must understand that psychotics, fundamentalists and people who are being paid for their co-operation will ALWAYS show up to vote.
Vote for Obama, though he's no JFK. See Alex Jones' documentary The Obama Deception. But follow up that remedial action by getting more involved in politics and in governance starting at the municipal / county level, state and interstate level. Then you can hope to see real change.
If you're too lazy or bitter to vote at all, the only option and inside track you must take is to critically examine your values and morals. For some background see Leonard Ulrich's documentary on YouTube, as well as Chris White (Knowwheretorun1984). If you are so hateful of Christians that you can't tolerate a little Christian perspective for some important research and analysis, I don't want to hear your bitchin'.
Also everyone should look up Yuri Bezmenov's lecture on subversion, and Ted Gunderson's lectures, available on YouTube.
Thank you for your time.
Not voting for Obama is the same as voting for Romney. Please don't fall for the same game that was played out in Canada during our last election. The party with arguably the most moral credibility was Jack Layton's NDP: a third, non-governing party with no chance of winning (much like Ron Paul). The stumbling centrist party, the Liberals, put forward a candidate who, like Obama, came off appearing arrogant and ungainly in spite of the fact it was his election to lose.
As a result of these two factors, the pseudo-fundamentlist / fascist Federal Conservative party won, forming a majority government, and has been able to wreck our country's laws and reputation with total impunity.
You must understand that psychotics, fundamentalists and people who are being paid for their co-operation will ALWAYS show up to vote.
Vote for Obama, though he's no JFK. See Alex Jones' documentary The Obama Deception. But follow up that remedial action by getting more involved in politics and in governance starting at the municipal / county level, state and interstate level. Then you can hope to see real change.
If you're too lazy or bitter to vote at all, the only option and inside track you must take is to critically examine your values and morals. For some background see Leonard Ulrich's documentary on YouTube, as well as Chris White (Knowwheretorun1984). If you are so hateful of Christians that you can't tolerate a little Christian perspective for some important research and analysis, I don't want to hear your bitchin'.
Also everyone should look up Yuri Bezmenov's lecture on subversion, and Ted Gunderson's lectures, available on YouTube.
Thank you for your time.
Gold and silver. Really??
"Gold and silver are all you can rely on"??? Someone, somewhere, could crash the price of gold and silver if they wanted to.
What pundits should be recommending is investing in useful, high-quality things, like my toaster that is about 30 years old...
But even that is patchy protection if you don't examine your faith! All of this comes back to faith. Like Yuri Bezmenov said.
Your faith goes with you everywhere and you can't hawk it for food or drugs or gas. It is the most important thing. With your faith intact, even if it is tacit and deeply personal, you will be able to help yourself and then others.
It's no wonder the rock-star archetype succeeds so mightily. We are all rock stars.
We all burn and burn, in a desperate world of unearthly beauties and dangers, struggling against our duties to be ourselves and ultimately find a peace that arrives too late and for not long enough.
But this is engineered theatre. This is all a metaphor. Life is truly better than this. It is so easy to get sucked into a world of phantoms.
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