Fragile Mind
Submitted by QMS on Wed, 02/19/2025 - 6:00am
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Brittle Brain
A tough nut to crack
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Busy trying to define the features of humanoids, trying to put some perspective on it.
Can easily blame the rate of failure on Covid or Capitalism, but those concepts
do not quite cover the present situation we have.
Self destructive tendency's seem ever more apparent. Has anyone else out there
experienced a diminishment of social construct?
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Trying to define the present decline of rational mind may be a fools errand.
Still, wonder where this river is going.
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Open thread so pick it up and run with it.
Comments
rivers are always running downwards - so there is my
comment of wisdom. ahem. Stay warm and dry.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Indeed
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seems US and Germany are
paddling downstream without
abandon. time to turn this boat around
question everything
Good morning...
A light drizzle today, but snow in NW AL.
Old dogs will need to learn new tricks. Here's a geography lesson for you...
(5 min) President Trump has been making sweeping changes only a few weeks after starting his second term (looking at you, Gulf of America). But did you know some of those changes are happening globally? Here are all the places Trump is using his surprisingly extensive executive power to rename.
Thought you might want to start the day with a chuckle. Have a good one and thanks for the OT!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Funny stuff
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seems the America logo
is getting worn out
rebranding won't help
thanks for shopping at trumpmart
question everything
The brain we are born with
is all about plasticity. We sometimes refer to it as learning, impressions received by our senses, which are sorted in increasingly complex associations of time and space, cause and effect, pleasure and pain, which are prioritized, sorted and stored in vast neural networks. This allows us to react or respond more effectively to the world around us.
Received impressions are a form of food, analogous to the food we eat and the air we breathe. Bad food can make us ill and poluted air can damage our lungs. Similarly, impressions we receive in our mind, can be beneficial or can act as a literal toxin.
“Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me.”
Well, that may be true of our bones, but it certainly does not apply to the thinking organ that resides between our ears. A steady diet of stress, fear and anxiety can damage the brain itself.
“The story around the world gives a silent testimony:
— The Beresovka mammoth, frozen in mud, with buttercups in his mouth…..”
The Adam and Eve Story, Chan Thomas 1963
Yes, that makes a lot of sense
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the toxic info-sphere explains
increased befuddlement
thank you for engaging ovals
question everything
Evolution of consciousness
through systems analysis of systems. The perfection of the "new" human consciousness through cybernetics and total surveillance. The ultimate perfection of the humanoid, via Stargate through X. This is the technocratic nonsense of the billionaire data goons around Dump. Allowing their worker bees access to IRS, SSA, etc., is just totalitarianism on the move. Hannah Arendt called it the mass mind. Bernays, if I recall correctly, characterized its psychology as that of the id projected onto the mob at large. Lying? You have to have a conscience to regret one's lies.
Did they dismantle the CIA yet?
Today is the anniversary of Iwo Jima. Did you see the picture of Xump raising the flag there while under enemy fire?
語必忠信 行必正直
Prognosis
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first create a disease
then market a cure
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how to fix a broken mind
with artificial intelligence
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resolve social unrest
with surveillance
question everything
Heh. Didn't see Trump, but I spotted Ira Hayes. On that note,
It appears that Leonard Peltier has finally been freed. seriously outraging feebs all across the land.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Thanks for the Ira Hayes tune and link
EL. I don't believe I had heard of Ira Hayes before, thanks. My uncle, who was something of a hero to me as a child, fought at Bougainville, too. He had a large history library, and gave me one history book at every opportunity mostly about war of one kind or another. My aunt did not want him to discuss the war, and was discouraged to mention it, for fear of triggering his ptsd.
If I remember to do so, I will try to get Flags of Our Fathers, by Bradley, when I get a chance. I read two of his books; I think he's a great historian.
Hope your recovery from surgery is progressing well. 건강 하세요. Wishing you best of health!
語必忠信 行必正直
Good mornin, soryang
I read that the Iwo Jima photographer was the Trump ear shot photographer.
Hmmmm...
CIA is intact.
FBI slightly slimmed down.
We are closing in on the dream of some weirdos towards digital currency, 100% surveillance, and being chipped with AI.
This is an entirely new totalitarianism.
I am childless and old. Soon, it will be another generation's problem.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning Cap'n Q. Is this the river you ask about?
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Something like that
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the river of sin rhymes with a river of gin
hope you are healing amigo
question everything
Thanks. At my age it goes slow, but that's ok. n/t
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good afternoon, Cap'n!
I skimmed this article featured at Mondoweiss.
The left is criticizing Trump for his genocidal Gaza and West Bank policies. You know, that party that backed up Genocide joe to the hilt for doing more or less the same damn thing?
This is a good example of why I am not a fan of any political party or politician.
They are all doing someone or some thing's bidding.
It is also why I do not get into arguments with anti-Trumpers or pro-Trumpers. I don't give a shit. No TDS or MAGA for this little old lady.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/02/the-liberal-establishment-is-finally-crit...
Thanks for the OT, friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
The Zerohedge article linked
below floats the idea of the US leveraging gold to settle its insane debts. There is a great deal of smoke and mirrors hidden in the verbiage about how it is to work, too much for my brittle brain to follow, but it does make for an amusing read. Given all of the market activity in gold of late, perhaps there are some some actual moves afoot that might bear on this.
Any opinions from those who actually study Economics? As I've said before, as an atheist I can't be expected to understand that particular religion. But perhaps someone can explain to me like I'm 5 how this could possibly be thought to work...
https://archive.ph/ti3rs : the Sovereign Wealth Fund, writ large.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.