Aetherous

Hopefully only the ones that want to!

I don't like the attempt to break down literally every barrier in existence, or else sue if someone doesn't let you...next thing we know there will be 50 year old men attempting to become Boy Scouts, and some idiots letting them because of the need for inclusivity. But on the other hand, I was a Boy Scout, and don't see a problem with girls who want to learn to tie knots, build a campfire, learn how to fish, etc. It's too bad that Girls Scouts are so lame that they don't really focus on cool skills. But then again, I hope they will still do their things, because I crave samosas and thin mints on a yearly basis. Of course there might need to be stronger supervision if there are camping trips, because it's only natural that attraction will occur when they're together...and male bonding will basically be a thing of the past, which is pretty unfortunate for the development of boys to men. The name might be confusing, but just change it to Scouts, which actually sounds better to me. So yeah...mixed bag. But girls should be able to tie knots and stuff too.

Your blog post is coming from a perspective of all that is wrong with the world, which is okay...sometimes one has to take a hard look and vent about things. That's good. But being written from only one side of the coin, I'm certain that it's not the entirety of your life...I'm betting that there are also things you enjoy. In my experience, it's better to spend time focusing on those things that you enjoy in your life, and better to completely ignore the things you hate. Try to add more enjoyable things, and think more about what you like. It can be positive to have dreams of how you want your life to be, and plan for making them happen. Set a goal to make your life more fun for you. Then do what it takes to make it happen. It's not worth spending time cultivating envy...looking at what others get away with and wishing you could, too. You have some disabilities in a certain sense, and aren't given the due that others with some disabilities are given. So that's the way things are...that's reality...work with it, rather than just complain about it. Working with it will help you, while complaining about it might feel cathartic, but it won't change a damn thing! Do what helps you. Sometimes in life, we have to make the things we want to happen, happen...we have to put in the hard work that others don't. It can be unfair, but we still have to. We can spend our time ruminating over how unfair it is, or we can be effective and make it work. Then we can get more of the things we enjoy...for instance, a pleasant house, a car, travel, good food, etc. Life isn't so bad. So some people can reap some benefits that you can't...millions or billions of people are in the same boat as you, having to work for things. You're in good company in that sense. The person you know who just receives benefits and doesn't earn them...those might be taken away one day. Then what will they do? They aren't even standing on their own two feet...when those who support that person stop supporting them, they will be entirely helpless...whereas you will be just fine, since you will (hopefully by then) be living by your own effort. So, these are just some things to think about which might help you. Avoid entheogens...total waste of time that does not ever lead to enlightenment, or anything worthwhile (despite what some claim). It's not my primary spiritual path, but I can recommend the Buddhist link in my signature for something very good to practice. There's a lot of nonsense out there about the spiritual path (for instance, suggestions to take mind altering drugs, fraudulent teachers, false ideas about what enlightenment is, etc). It can lead to years wasted...but that's part of the search, and part of learning. If you find something that really makes sense, improves your character in a real world way, and doesn't mess up your life, then it's a good path.

Here's an interview I stumbled upon, which shares a little bit of magical ideas within Germany which aren't really known outside. https://theomagica.com/blog/an-interview-with-walter-ogris

This has been distributed freely online by Dharma Ratna shop. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4JJZBKUPOk9R2FIcWFFdnI0cVU/view

Neo-nazis and white nationalists could be comitting crimes when marching and publicly sharing their views. Free speech has its limits...see Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire for the continuously upheld Supreme Court decision on violent speech. White nationalism's aim is to gain enough power so as to remove non-white races from the country...since that's an inherently violent and peace-disturbing message, it could be enforced that racists aren't permitted to march or have public events promoting that cause. What do you think...should events like "Unite the Right" (more like unite the white supremacists, not the right) be permitted in the US? Are we fascist if we are intolerant of truly racist speech and action, or are we doing the right thing and promoting true Americanism? Didn't we conquer the Nazis already? Are we really virtuous and Constitutional if we "stand for their right to free speech", when that free speech is oppositional to the liberty of humankind and against the tenets of the founding fathers? Edit: what this thread is referencing...

No one can top this post.

Would you look at that. http://www.dailywire.com/news/20252/our-enemies-blue-antifa-hosting-violent-anti-cop-paul-bois

True...although unfortunate for them that a member of their group did commit the crime they were discussing.

So, when we look back at Charlottesville, and see the leaked chat logs prior to the event in which they discussed the legality of mowing down counterprotesters in the street... And also discussing making deliberate choices to elicit violence from counterprotesters. And look in retrospect at what actually happened, with the murder of a girl and the injury of 18 others... I think we can say that the organizers (all members in the chat logs) of the rally pass the Brandenburg test for not having protected speech, perhaps for future events. At the minimum, it's clear that the group wasn't intending to peaceably assemble. If only we had known prior to it happening.

If they left out the "now" part, there would be no problem, because of Brandenburg v Ohio. There probably isn't even a problem here because of them just chanting something and not actually being on their way to do it.

I also felt like it was an incredibly negative time, especially during the period it was becoming darker. During the height of the eclipse itself that negativity seemed to lessen. It wasn't bad being in 99%. It got dark similar to the evening time, crickets came out, etc. Totality must have been really dark...2024 I'm going to plan better, so as to be in the totality while avoiding traffic.

The gods were really unhappy with someone living there.

Should Antifa have free speech, let's say if they organized a rally and had a leader speak, where they primarily called out for violence against police, but didn't provide a specific time in which to commit the violence?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/us/christopher-cantwell-arrested.html?mcubz=3

Counterprotesting is protected speech...and I'd say, actually important. What happened in Boston was actually pretty great. The left just needs to learn to be completely non-violent, and it will win this war.

Is it currently mercury retrograde?

This is not hard to discern...and is not at all necessary to parse. But I will. Yes, it has to have a negative connotation to be racism. If it's factual, using scientific research to declare something negative about a certain race, then what is the purpose behind looking into that research, talking about it, etc? If it's to promote a bias against another race, then it's racist. If it's because you're a scientist who is researching lineages of human beings or something, or an epidemiologist studying how diseases work in different races, it's not. Isn't this answer obvious to you already?

Obviously the second group is the one that seeks blood in the streets...but the reason why there was no fanfare for the first group in the past? There wasn't as big of a problem as there is today, this year. Is the problem as substantial as seeking blood in the streets? They are geared toward destruction through a much more powerful means: ideas. The pen is mightier than the sword. I haven't been writing so much about Antifa et al, at least in the past two weeks, because I don't take them that seriously. They need to be labeled as a terrorist organization (why doesn't that happen?), but they could be stopped by simply enforcing the law (why doesn't that happen?). Their legs are so puny due to being malnourished vegans...not something that's a red flag to me, personally. Ideas, however, can't be stopped. By the way, maybe this sounds like thought policing...it's not. I don't know how to prevent ideas from spreading...and declaring a white supremacist rally as an unlawful assembly doesn't stop the spread of their ideology. It probably only helps spread it. Actually, I think most people aren't strong enough thinkers on their own, and many can end up falling for half truths...especially when they're packaged neatly as hilarious memes, and as a vibrant inclusive movement. There are other factors to consider, such as why people end up joining crazy cults, etc. It's not that being aware of ideas is harmful, it's that certain people can't handle being exposed to certain ones, to half truths...and one possible remedy is exposing them to even more options - the other half of the truth. It'd be great if good people were dedicated to thinking the way that the Alt-Right has thought. It's that "4d chess" concept...think ahead. Know what drives people. Know how to spread a concept, and have it go viral. Brand yourself. Instead of only nefarious people doing these things, evil geniuses, it'd be great if we had some good geniuses.

I wouldn't go that far, because perhaps there are some people who truly believe in the concept of literally all ideas being uncensored...or other people who believe it sets a precedent for taking away types of speech that should truly be free. Or at least I'm gullible enough to truly believe these things about people, and not immediately assume they're closet racists. But it's absolutely a case where people playing devil's advocate and supporting the white supremacist side are following the letter of the law, while betraying the spirit. This is a great quote someone shared with me today: "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." - H. L. Mencken

Some second thoughts regarding the First Amendment... Okay so maybe it's not inciting violence to organize a rally, in which you know there will be violent counterprotesters, and (they key point here) where you consciously take steps to encourage their violence. Maybe... At least Brandenburg v Ohio doesn't address this particular situation as far as I'm aware... But another part of the First Amendment is that US citizens have a right to "peaceably assemble". They do not have a right to assemble when it disturbs the public peace. Perhaps the solution for white supremacist rallies is that if they're inherently not peaceful gatherings (by this I'm not referring to the fact that white supremacy is inherently violent...but I'm using "inherent" here to mean rallies where actual violence is sure to take place), then they can be declared unlawful assemblies and ended right away. The one unfortunate point - this could happen even if the only violent side was a group like Antifa. In which case, we could ask, "Does anyone truly have a right to peaceably assemble, if our peaceful assembly is disturbed by others and stopped?"

Good question. I've heard that the new moon and the full moon are both strong for lunar qi...although to me, it makes sense that primarily the full moon would be greater, since there's greater illumination of the moon. Apparently there are spring tides when the moon is full or new...why?...because the sun and moon are in total alignment at those times. When that happens, the Earth's water is pulled toward the moon (and we are something like 75% water). So perhaps even though the light of the sun is blocked by the Earth, and the moon isn't reflecting it, the moon still has greater power then.

You're spot on...been studying formally for 3 years. Imbalances have to be taken care of, then the system functions more normally...although that in itself wouldn't refill jing primarily, but only over a long period of time indirectly. Once the body is relatively normal, then if the person wants to build jing there are considerations for doing that directly (not that it's prenatal jing, which can only be protected).

Recently, Marina Abramovic's "spirit cooking" has been brought to the greater public's attention. This involves artistic-ceremonies where she takes menstrual blood, semen, breast milk, etc...and paints with them, consumes them, possibly individual participants bleed themselves during it, etc. According to her, when done privately, it's an occult working. I don't think this subforum has a catch-all thread for fake occultism, and the discussion of it...which I would say this is. Part of this would also include what people consider today to be the Illuminati. It's interesting to consider that the black magic concerns of the public are really a cheap, unintelligent bastardization of Western occultism...perhaps entirely ineffective, merely ridiculous, and gross. Yet, the power hungry and corrupt (in entertainment and perhaps politics) flock to it, and thereby give it the appearance of legitimacy.

As an entertaining aside, it seems this is at the core of the TV show Twin Peaks...in case anyone hasn't been watching it.