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[kimberlysteele]

 

 

 

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[tamanous2020]

Thanks for hosting an open mic Kim.

If theres one thing I've taken from the current insanity, is that hard and crazy times act as the thrustblock to real internal and spiritual development. Speaking only for myself, being surrounded by overt propaganda winnows my mind to have a clearer picture of where my beliefs stand. And seeing a crisis like peak oil gain momentum provides that ignition to actually accomplish the preparations for the future as opposed to procrastinating. In retrospect, I'm more thankful for these times than the 2000 oughts where looking back it feels like a period of inebriation.

Now if only "to know to will to dare to be silent" was a tad easier in practice :p

So thanks to you Kim, and others, who've been putting the pedal to the medal and providing us thoughts to digest, divinations to understand and a space to be among like minded folk.

Tamanous

[kimberlysteele]

I have known a great many upper 20% salary classers who think they're middle class who think we are living in times of persecution. They continually fail to understand that they are the ones with the most privilege keeping everyone else down. For instance, take my ex-friend who inherited his grandmother's three bedroom house as his stepfather pays for his continuing college/gradschool. He thinks of himself as poor. He felt persecuted by the Trump administration. Now that Biden is in, it is worse because there is no longer a convenient scapegoat.

[(Anonymous)]

Scapegoat for what? What is he upset about? (Decline in general? Or...?)

[kimberlysteele]

He hates his life -- he blames others for his misery and is especially vicious to his immediate family despite relying upon them as he is well into his 30s. Trump is just another blame-target for him -- a straw man to heap all of the ills of the world upon.

[kimberlysteele]

Another woke ex-friend thinks the rich should be made to pay for COVID. He was depressed before all this happened and now? Well, I wouldn't know, because he's an ex-friend. I imagine he is falling apart like the rest of the salary class. He regularly travels between the US and Europe for personal reasons, plus he vacations in France, the Bahamas, Spain, etc. He thinks saying "the rich should pay for COVID" doesn't include HIM. He doesn't understand how the curse could backfire against his family, and his family happens to be the reason he is wealthy. Plus he didn't specify the terms of the payment when he hurled the "rich should pay for COVID" curse. I'm terrified of his karma even if he is not. That's why I maintain an extremely long distance between myself and him -- it's not the first unwitting curse he has thrown and I suppose it won't be the last. He's living in a glass house while hurling hand grenades.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm just beginning to learn about these curses thrown about in a rage. I sure know I've done more than a fair share in my life. Now that I'm aware of the karma, and I bite my tongue, what's next? Just riding out the storm as the blowback comes a flying? With hindsight, I know I've already gotten a bunch of blowback.

I was really impressed by the story of Paul Foster Case. He was known never to have said a bad thing about another person. The worst he ever said was, "That apple is a bit green." That's a good role model.

[kimberlysteele]

The best strategy I have for dealing with my past foibles is saying "I don't do that anymore" -- I just happened to write an essay about it: https://kimberlysteele.dreamwidth.org/12184.html

Paul Foster is a curious Case indeed -- ha ha, there is probably a hell I am going to for making that joke -- and my thought is that he learned all about "I don't do that anymore", just in previous lifetimes.

[(Anonymous)]

That’s a pretty picture!

—Lady Cutekitten

[kimberlysteele]

Thanks!

[houseofmirrors]

https://www.nytimespost.com/political-correctness-gone-mad-words-easter-egg-dropped-from-seasonal-chocolate-treats/

I wonder now how various neopagans are to think of the erasure of even the last remnants of their roots from Easter?

They have complained for so long about it being coopted by Christians. Will they have anything to say at all about "Galaxy Eggs?"

[kimberlysteele]

Galaxy eggs LOL. I used to be a member of the Temple of Set. The Temple of Set are atheists who occasionally and conveniently pretend to believe in Satan when they want him to give them material things (I think they confuse him with Santa). My local pagan movement has been co-opted by materialist atheists. This is especially true of the Theosophical Society in my area, the supposed headquarters in Wheaton, Illinois. The TS library has been closed for over a year. Very Professional Managerial Class, atheist reasons for doing so. Gotta keep that goodie train rolling out the free communist money, so ramp up the fear porn in the name of Virtue and close the library. Nevertheless, even Setians are smarter than the current Theosophical Society pagans -- not all Setians believe in forceful vaccination and forever masks whereas TS pagans are more solidly anti-freedom.

Christianity has suffered a possible death blow from decisions made last Easter and especially last Christmas (2020). Christians had their chance to save their religion by flooding their churches but they took the cowardly route and stayed home. What Would Jesus Not Do...?

[causticus]

I've noticed online too the massive materialist atheist invasion of pagan/polytheist spaces. IMHO, any self-respecting polytheist group needs to show them the door immediately....but no, that might hurt their feelings. I noticed on one particular pagan subreddit that any attempt to call out "atheopaganism" (barf) for the utter disingenuous rubbish it is elicits an immediate torrent of downvotes and scold-replies from cowardly apologists.

I've concluded that those of us who actually honor the gods (and without any sillystrings attached) should start keeping closed spaces and carefully vet anyone new who wants to join the group in question. Maybe go back to the "Scribe Z" way of doing things JMG has joked about every now and then.

[kimberlysteele]

That's why Manly P. Hall's "Path of the Lonely Ones" makes so much sense. There isn't a single group for a bunch of insecure materialist atheists to invade. As far as Christians and honoring their God, they're more talk than action. If they honored their God, they wouldn't be afraid of going to church maskless and catching a bug that kills less people than the seasonal flu.

[mollari]

Frankly I think this is because most in the pagan scene are atheists, in fact even if not in name: too much of the pagan scene strikes me as being best described as playing at being pagans....

[houseofmirrors]

I think the response on the part of Christians is more an admission of what has long been their reality rather than a failed last chance.

For as long as I remember, "" Christians"" in the USA had more veneration for Regan, and then later the neocon pantheon, than they ever did for Jesus. They have been worshiping government (only their team though), while pretending to worship their God. What a rude awakening they have had lately.

All religions to the majority in the west appear to be little more than a jersey to wear or a flag to wave. Nothing to take seriously. It leaves them I'll prepared to deal with people who very much do take things seriously.

Mendelssohn is an underrated composer.

[kimberlysteele]

I have been sight-reading a little Mendelssohn on the piano lately. He's truly underrated. I feel like his dopiest tunes were picked to become famous (Wedding March, Spring Song) and all of his most beautiful songs have been mostly overlooked.

Re: Mendelssohn is an underrated composer.

[(Anonymous)]

Which ones would you nominate for more attention?

COVID vaccine

[(Anonymous)]

I also wanted to tell you that I contract for a large international manufacturer of brown fizzy sugar water. They want to know their employees’ vaccine status and are pushing it, HARD. Fortunately, my status as a contractor protects me somewhat from their machinations, but the members of my small team were talking about their own vaccinations- when and where, which shot, etc. I cheerfully lied like a rug and told them I’ll be getting it when I have no intentions of the sort. Fortunately, it’s a fully remote position so it doesn’t really matter anyway, and they can’t ask me for proof (and since I don’t have benefits through them, there’s no way for them to know). I live in Florida and our Governor has come out against the vaccine passports, saying they will never be required here.

Hopefully I won’t get any negative karmic blowback for my dishonesty, but in the moment I cared not a whit. My position pays well and while it’s PMC times infinity, I have every intention of riding till the wheels fall off! I do wonder how many there are out there like myself, parroting the lines they want to hear to their faces but secretly a dirty, unwashed deplorable in the safety and comfort of my own home?

You should read the emails they send out, it’s crazy! One message said the vaccine is proven safe and effective, where the word “safe” was a hyperlink. I clicked the link to see what it led to and all it linked to was the CDC website saying, “the vaccine is safe,” with no supporting data provided. Things that make you go hmmmmm...

Re: COVID vaccine

[kimberlysteele]

They don't even care that it is unsafe. I was talking to a salary class person and she was on the verge of getting the vaccine essentially to fit in. I asked her to please look into it on alternate news sources before making the decision. If the people who get this vaccine end up with COVID and not Bell's Palsy, a stroke, and autoimmune disease, they should consider themselves exceedingly fortunate.

Re: COVID vaccine

[(Anonymous)]

Some emails imply that if one refuses the vaccine, one will not be allowed to return to in person work, which to me read very much like a not-very-well veiled threat of nasty repercussions for refusal. While they can’t outright say they require it as a condition of employment, they could certainly find other ways to make your life miserable until you leave on your own - or fire you for other reasons. If I got fired tomorrow I’d have a moment of silence for the paycheck and then move happily along, but for some of these people a salary class job loss would be personally devastating. Is their whole identity. Women with young children work insane hours, emails in the middle of the night while nannies parent their kids and they miss the best years. Sad! I believe they will regret it one day.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi,

I just watched this and I think it is
very good info re 'great reset' etc.
So I thought I would share it.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/jBhrGKOwkezu/

and this one as well. It is with Sidney
Powell. It is 4 parts. here is part one and
the others are listed on the side at this link:

https://rumble.com/vfbwwh-part-1-sidney-powell-is-not-backing-down.html

This is all information that will not be
seen on MSM, so I thought you all might like
to know about it.

Thanks.

[(Anonymous)]

It's pretty clear to me that Wokeness must be scoured from the earth entirely, with any trace of it ever having existed being an obscure subject for scholars only. But where do you start with something like that? What would Sun Tzu do?

[kimberlysteele]

I couldn't agree more. Wokeness is cancer. Unfortunately I think wokeness is just the newest word for sanctimony, and sanctimony has existed since before proto-humans swung from tree branches. As for Sun Tzu, he's hardly transparent to me, which is why I am spending so much time meditating on his Art of War!!

[(Anonymous)]

Perhaps so, but the specific set of Harvard University Arts and Humanities Department suicidal death cult values that the woke are being sanctimonious about just have to go.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi all,
I just thought I would pass along the link
for Mike Lindell's Frank Speech.
He launched it today.

For now it is just livestreaming with many good guests, and Gen. Flynn is co-hostng
quite a lot.


frankspeech.com

so, its an alternative soc. media.

I hope it is ok, I thought some might be
interested in checking it out :)