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If you have an Internet addiction (and if you’re reading this, you probably do), a moment of mindfulness can save you.
LOG OUT when you have even a fleeting thought that you’ve had enough.
Delete the app from your phone every time you’re done using it.
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This is why the Bible says not to fear 365 times. One for each day of the year.
We are commanded not to allow fear in because it is the biggest mind control device since the beginning of time.
Fear not!
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Walter Kirn just exposed how the elites control your mind with fear.
“They have actually looked at the frontal lobe as a piece of real estate.”
“And they are constantly occupying it.”
“You aren’t allowed to live in your own mind anymore.”
“You haven’t been thinking for yourself.”
“Adam Townsend… is a former Goldman Sachs trader.”
“And he has a theory about what’s going on and why this election was such a wipeout.”
“Your mind is being occupied by a series of outrages.”
“Abominations.”
“Traumas.”
“And challenges.”
“That do not allow you to think.”
“Two days ago, before the election, you were told there was going to be a nuclear war.”
“Tucker Carlson came out and said, there’s an imminent nuclear exchange about to go on in Iran.”
“And I realized that we have been subject to now for months, years… to a series of scares that each of which has come to nothing.”
“Will AI break out and take over the traffic lights of America, causing massive gridlock or collisions all at once?”
“I say we’re gonna have to resist frontal lobe occupation.”
“Laugh at every disaster.”
“Is this not the essential lesson of Covid?”
“To fear not?”
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I really like some of these.
for the past few weeks, I’ve been exploring painting with Fable 5.2 in code. one of the most common critiques I heard about Opus 5.5’s paintings was that it was only emulating real art. I thought that was fair, so i’ve been asking Fable 5.2 to develop personas—artists with some sort of a back story and a consistent style roughly identifiable in time
not knowing what to expect, i’ve watched this project evolve in directions i never predicted. I give comments or steers, and Claude updates or revises the engines that power the brushes and paint. where paintings come up i like or find intriguing, i ask it to go deeper. these are some favorites.
each of these is a python program, some one to two thousand lines of code, that places every stroke through a simulated paint engine with different bristles. most take a few thousand strokes, but i’ve pushed much higher with varying results. Claude does not use an image model, nor render or trace in advance
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There's a game I play in museums. I call it "spot the red dot", yeah? Go, look at paintings, you'll often find the artist has placed a single more-or-less consolidated area of red somewhere. It brightens and livens up the whole picture, can make a real difference
for the past few weeks, I’ve been exploring painting with Fable 5.2 in code. one of the most common critiques I heard about Opus 5.5’s paintings was that it was only emulating real art. I thought that was fair, so i’ve been asking Fable 5.2 to develop personas—artists with some sort of a back story and a consistent style roughly identifiable in time
not knowing what to expect, i’ve watched this project evolve in directions i never predicted. I give comments or steers, and Claude updates or revises the engines that power the brushes and paint. where paintings come up i like or find intriguing, i ask it to go deeper. these are some favorites.
each of these is a python program, some one to two thousand lines of code, that places every stroke through a simulated paint engine with different bristles. most take a few thousand strokes, but i’ve pushed much higher with varying results. Claude does not use an image model, nor render or trace in advance
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This is your weekly reminder to stop taking planet Earth so fucking seriously. This is an organic simulation. You're here for the human experience. Yeah, the bills feel real, the emotions feel real, but you're here to experience life. Enjoy the game. Create your reality.
It's only that serious if you're out here doing degenerate shit, losing your integrity or selling your fucking soul for money and attention. But if you're genuinely a good person, living by your principles and not fucking people over, why are you stressing so much?
Enjoy the fucking experience, fam. It's a game. 😊
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The gym/auditorium of an abandoned Catholic church/school in Detroit, Michigan. The amount of detail that went into building a place like this is truly staggering. So much of our craftsmanship has been lost in construction over the last century...
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Surprisingly few people realize that the Western world once had a holistic, spiritually grounded healing system comparable to traditional Chinese medicine or Indian ayurveda -- or that many of the more destructive aspects of modern Western medicine are rooted in its rejection of that older and wiser tradition. In recent years a few good books have been published on the subject -- Culpeper's Medicine by Graeme Tobyn and The Humoral Herbal by Stephen Taylor are two that come particularly to mind -- but we didn't yet have a thorough, historically grounded book on the underlying philosophy of the old Western humoral medicine.
Well, the wait is over, and here it is.
Dylan Warren-Davis is a professional herbalist and also a capable medical astrologer -- I'd encountered his work in that context before I first saw this book. He's made a thoroughgoing study of the traditions that flowed into Western humoral medicine, and has the knack of explaining its philosophy and practice in clear terms. The Metaphysical Physician is to my mind exactly what the emerging recovery of traditional Western healing needs most; think of it as the textbook for your first year course in a medical school that actually taught prospective healers how to, you know, heal patients.
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This is the intended response.
My documentary will be available soon, and you should watch it.
This Friday on SalemNow. Widely available on other platforms a few weeks later.
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A fun rabbit hole is to go on Wikipedia and read about all of the old asylums your state had at one point. Architecturally a lot of them were really really cool
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trees are the largest, oldest, and most spiritually advanced plants on earth, and you can befriend them whenever you'd like.
according to Taoist mysticism, trees can help you open your energy channels and cultivate calm, presence, and vitality, especially when you feel emotionally depleted and low on energy. you can reciprocate their help by helping them with their own blockages and devitalized areas. it is a mutually beneficial relationship that needs nurturing.
every tree is an individual, the same way every person is. each one has its own temperament, desires, and individual life. and they don’t all feel the same way toward humans! some are endlessly generous and want to give you all the energy you can take. some are sick or weakened and need your comforting and healing energy. some are just friendly souls who enjoy human company. others are indifferent to you.
the best trees for healing are big trees, especially pines. pine trees radiate life force, nourish the blood, strengthen the nervous system, and contribute to a long life. they also deeply nurture the immaterial spirit. many other trees can be tapped into for different purposes, as shown below.
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here are some tips on how to befriend a tree, because they're actually really fucking cute and not that hard to win over:
trees that are used to having people around understand our energy and tend to be more open and friendly than the ones far out in the wilderness. city parks and random backyards are full of powerful, approachable trees that would love to have closer relationships with the humans who share their world. to choose a tree, walk near them and hold your palms out, noticing which one gives you a peaceful sense of warmth or tingling. that pull usually means the tree is open to you.
start by smiling at the tree of your choice. the inner smile is actually the foundation of all Taoist practice, because vital force (Chi) only flows freely through a body and mind that are open. smiling is the fastest way to open yourself up. some trees, especially medium ones, can sense this opening of joy and purity and reciprocate it.
once connected, the work happens in your mind's eye. visualize the tree's energy being drawn in through your palms, down your body and out your soles into the earth, then let it rise through the roots and trunk back to your hands. this makes it a mutual exchange, and the tree can tell the difference.
a small tree can be too weak to make an impression on you, and a huge tree is so immense that you’re too small to make an impression on it. it barely registers that you’re there, which means that it takes more persistence to get it to take an interest in you. to catch a big tree’s attention, match its pace. big trees are profoundly still, so the more you calm your breath, body and mind, the more easily they can sense you. sitting in silence for a while with your whole back resting on the trunk opens the connection.
visit on a regular basis so the tree can learn when you’ll come back and look forward to seeing you. trees live on a longer time scale than human beings do, and you can close that gap by coming back to the same tree over and over, so the relationship can grow. if you stay away longer than usual, you might get a clear sense that the tree really missed you, and that intuition is often correct.
always say thank you and goodbye when you’re done. end the interaction by thanking the tree out loud or silently, then gather the energy you’ve taken in and store it with your mind's eye near your belly button area so it doesn’t scatter. leaving without closing up is like walking out mid-conversation!
once you have a real relationship with a tree, you can keep the bond alive from a distance. you can reach it with your mind when you’re far away, picturing it, smiling to it and feeling the connection open the same way it does in person.
trees are the largest, oldest, and most spiritually advanced plants on earth, and you can befriend them whenever you'd like.
according to Taoist mysticism, trees can help you open your energy channels and cultivate calm, presence, and vitality, especially when you feel emotionally depleted and low on energy. you can reciprocate their help by helping them with their own blockages and devitalized areas. it is a mutually beneficial relationship that needs nurturing.
every tree is an individual, the same way every person is. each one has its own temperament, desires, and individual life. and they don’t all feel the same way toward humans! some are endlessly generous and want to give you all the energy you can take. some are sick or weakened and need your comforting and healing energy. some are just friendly souls who enjoy human company. others are indifferent to you.
the best trees for healing are big trees, especially pines. pine trees radiate life force, nourish the blood, strengthen the nervous system, and contribute to a long life. they also deeply nurture the immaterial spirit. many other trees can be tapped into for different purposes, as shown below.
What if I don’t *want* to exit the wheel of death and rebirth? What if I *like* the wheel? What if the wheel is fun?
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Narrative violation: Met a fisherman from Santa Cruz last night who’s been fishing for over 50 years. He said the ocean is the healthiest he’s ever seen it. More fish than ever, whale populations are booming, species that had nearly disappeared are coming back.
Not all doom and gloom out there.
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Chinese medicine teaches that ‘prolonged looking’ harms the blood.
This is one of what is called the ‘five overstrains’, which states that :
‘lying down too long harms the qi,
sitting too long harms the flesh,
standing too long harms the bones, walking too long harms the sinews and looking too long harms the blood.’
While each is a normal daily activity, each also places demand upon a particular substance or tissues in the body. Doing one for a long time without sufficient rest and recovery can overtax them.
In Chinese medicine, the Liver stores our blood and the Liver opens up into the eyes. When you look at something, the eyes depend upon nourishment from our Liver blood so you can see clearly.
When you lie down, this blood returns to the Liver to be stored and replenished. During the day blood nourishes the eyes and the body. During rest, blood returns to the Liver, particularly as the body settles in for sleep.
‘Looking’ for hours continually taxes the blood that nourishes the eyes. Over time this can contribute to Liver blood deficiency, especially when the blood is already insufficient.
This teaching also involves the Heart. The eyes serve the Heart and the Heart houses our spirit - the shen. Blood holds the shen in place and ‘long looking’ keeps the shen engaged outwardly through the eyes and can tax the Heart’s blood.
Long looking can leave a person mentally scattered or frayed/tired, in this body of medicine.
Long looking when it was originally taught, would have included reading or sewing and close handwork - think focus and prolonged attention essentially. These days we can see that screens are the same kind of activity. They hold the gaze, are bright in all the wrong ways and overly occupy the mind.
There are definite signs of depleted blood and they can be as follows :
The eyes become dry and tired, someone’s vision might be blurry (especially in the evening). The muscles might twitch or feel tight and the nails become brittle. Sleep becomes restless, sometimes with many or vivid dreams and the mind can have trouble settling down. In women, their period may also become lighter or more pale or late. The sinews of the body can ache in some way or become too tight.
To restore the blood, part of the practice is to reduce what taxes it and to allow the Liver to rest and store blood.
Close your eyes often while you work, since this rests the eyes and allows the shen to withdraw from constant outward attention (I will attach my two absolutely favorite liver healing exercises below that specifically work with these concepts, both in the liver and in the eye).
Lie down to rest during the day if that’s available to you. Traditionally, being asleep before 1 am, as this is when the Liver’s time begins on the Chinese body clock. Be asleep and let that blood return and be replenished overnight.
Our emotions also draw upon the blood of the Liver. Anger injures the Liver by driving the qi upward and can disturb the movement of our blood. Grief can also injure the Liver. Repressed frustration can greatly hinder the free movement of the Liver and prolonged stagnation can eventually lead to blood stasis.
To preserve the blood, anger also needs to be allowed to settle and any grief beneath it be given room to be felt.
Practices to try are below :
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Des ossements de saint Nicolas, conservés depuis près de mille ans, ont donc été volés, brûlés et écrasés par "désir de destruction".
On est toujours sans nouvelle de l'inestimable torque d'or de Vix, volé cet été. Probablement déjà fondu.
Une civilisation livrée aux pillards.
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Right around the 2012 election I attended a well-heeled Unitarian service where the lady minister said “Of course, we don’t believe in hell. Except for Republicans.” Tremendous laughter and jovial reactions, most enthusiastic moment of the service. I was unsurprised but slightly sickened. Too often, the demonization and failure to encounter.
Pretending that people don’t carry bloodlust in themselves allows people to excuse it and misname it in themselves: ‘empathy,’ ‘social justice.’ We see a movement of mob-led souls who do not know how to evaluate their own impulses, who cannot name a single virtue. Almost as dangerously, we have people disheartened by the collapse of social stigmatism of antisocial behavior.
They risk either not knowing what is building towards them, or they risk themselves becoming similarly possessed. We have not had widespread martyrdom for so long, we have gone abroad to be missionaries rather than in our communities, that what it means to face true hate and overcome it, even unto loss of life, is rare knowledge with even less experience of it.
The Cross and His words on the Cross bear remembering. Hate possesses unto madness, and there is so much hate.
This is not fringe. This is mainstream now. It’s what the democrats believe and it’s an incitement to violence towards conservatives.
I was at MSG last night at Dave Chappelle’s show. I love comedy and entertainment and it used to be just making fun of conservatives, our policies, here and there, now it’s celebrating our murder and cheering about it. A young father murdered live on tv in front of his family and the entire stadium cheered for his death.
I want to say that I was surprised but I wasn’t. I’ve never been so disgusted and angry but we’ve been completely desensitized by the left and how they cheer for our murder and suffering.
Just a few days ago a prominent NYU professor called for Elon Musk to be killed.
After the elections on Tuesday jokes were flooding X about “let’s dig up charlie and kill him again.”
Psychopaths Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan joked about it on their podcast and then fake apologized saying it was “gun violence.”
These people are absolute demons.
How do you govern or reason with an entire party that wants you dead?
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this could be us but you'd rather disassociate through your days and nights and avoid responsibility, and therefore peace, forever
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Ces ossements conservés depuis 1000 ans auront donc survécu à la Peste Noire, la Guerre de Cent ans, la Révolution française, les deux guerres mondiales, mais pas à la présidence d'Emmanuel Macron.
Après l'épée de Roncevaux ou le trésor national du Hiéron, encore une perte irréparable pour notre patrimoine.
🔴🇫🇷 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗘 — Des OSSEMENTS attribués à saint Nicolas, évêque de Myre, conservés depuis 1098 à Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, en Meurthe-et-Moselle, ont été VOLÉS dans leur reliquaire, au sein de la basilique, puis DÉTRUITS.
Le suspect, interpellé à son domicile, a reconnu avoir BRISÉ la vitrine protégeant le reliquaire, avant d’en voler le contenu, de BRÛLER les ossements puis de les ÉCRASER par « désir de destruction ».
(Source : L'Est Républicain)
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whenever i see some black bird i think of that tumblr post that's like "if you think you're looking at a raven, it's a crow. if you think you're looking at the biggest bird you've ever seen, it's a raven" and it's never done me wrong
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My expertise is in strip malls, but I'm going to offer some dating advice for the first and last time.
If you are serious about finding that person that you will end up settling down with:
1) Don't ignore red flags. The potential deal-killers that you notice by the third date are going to be what cause you to break up in the third year.
2) No matter how great the chemistry is, you need to think about some serious things that maybe didn't matter when you were in your mid-twenties, and perhaps walk away quickly. If you want to have a family and they don't, it may not be worth pursuing. If you're religious and they're not, you should face the music now. Don't sweep things under the rug that will come up in four years. Need to make some adult decisions
3) If your gut tells you that you're in a relationship with the wrong person - get out. Doesn't matter if it's been years and your families are close. You need to be straight with youself. If you know it's not a good fit deep down, it's not going to feel great in the short-term, but you're much better off single than in a relationship that ultimately isn't going to last.
4) Marry someone happy
In the end, for the vast vast majority of people who really do want to settle down -- it all works out. And if it happens much later than you thought, it's just as sweet, and you realize when you look back that every moment you spent worried about it was wasted.
