Ecclesiastes was written by Solomon some 3500 years ago and he reports there is nothing new under the sun and, 3:16 Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.
I would posit that this is similar, tripe. "Archaeology" is unable to provide clues as to what happened in the past 160 years, let alone the past few thousand.
There are notable exceptions, such as Robert Schoch, but for the most part, archaeology is just another type of theocracy, whose job is to shape the prevailing narrative and avoid doing any, you know, actual -science.-
The false dichotomy (causing people to be driven "from pillar to post," when in reality they are the same thing, a piece of wood driven into the ground) caused by this "either religion or science" is part and parcel how those that consider themselves "our owners" effect their control of our minds.
The proper starting point for a seeker is to remember that "nothing is true." This is not nihilism, it is a "slate cleaner" to allow one to attempt to bring their perceptual reality in line with empirical reality. "Belief" devoid of evidence is foolishness, as is the contrary position that science removes the need for belief. We are thinking beings, but also intuitive.
One does not cut off their left arm because the have a perfectly good right arm, in the same way we should not shun aspects of our information-gathering abilities because we are told they are contradictory.
The Hegelian dialectic has been very effectively used in the past 100 years to take advantage of this cultural blind spot.
I could be wrong, but Kratoklastes might have been saying that the claim that Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes 3500 years ago is tripe, not the contents of the writings themselves.
But I’m not aware of any archaeology that has changed our understanding of the timeline of the Old Testament.
A former nurse told me her son got covid because he could not get a booster since he spent a week in the hospital from his second shot. The meme "If my dog had three rabies shots in a year and still got rabies, I would start to ask some questions " immediately came to mind.
There is a gospel passage where an apostle ask Him why he always speaks in parables to the people. Jesus answer was that people have eyes but will not see, ears but will not hear etc.
Memes go WAY back.
PS: the last 2 in your post are excellent, especially Biden and MBS. Gato, you are one talented feline.
That one kills me too. That, and, let's see, the energy of all that gasoline now needing to be electric? And....coming from what new sources, exactly? Not one lib I've talked to takes "building another damn/filling another driven-out-of-business-rancher's-grasslands with 1000's of solar panels/fracking/coal/drilling/'offshore' windfarms (good luck with those, whales!)/etc.," into account, when I ask if they really think EVs are gonna be that much of a savior. CLUELESS. CHILDREN.
I’m a Reforming Leftist but I was never a tyrant like what I’ve seen and experienced and I never want to take away people’s rights….. I just want to prevent child abuse and help Antifa moms parent their babies with a little love, stability & safety, and secure, instead of disorganized attachment. You know - It’s cruel, selfish, self-centered, abusive and neglectful parenting that’s got us here. Don’t believe me, read Children of the Crèche, or the Orphans of Davenport, those baby brains swung 80 IQ points based on what was done to them & what experienced they lived. IQ is built and so is our Personality - check out Epigenetics and Early Child Development, Epigenetics and Personality development. Neurons that wire and fire together create the foundations for Mind, Brain and Personality for everyone’s better or worse. Come from Hell and it is going to be a massive struggle and people esp kids who struggle get envious and rageful sometimes when it seems that no one cares - about kids and the Hell they are going through. Happiness and Hope Vs Cynism, Rage, Envy and Hate, anyway - I’m not going to try to explain anything anymore - I’m going to try to Meme. Since I’m a Spacially Challenged Leftist - I’ll just do one a Month in my Zone of Proximal Development. In a Month, I’ll do one a week. I do believe if we all did this, we have a chance at changing the world. Thanks
Just so all are aware, the major social media platforms and Big Tech have been developing image recognition tools for a long time. If you change your browser settings to "View page source" (right click on the screen for option) you'll find image analyzers that are able to read text in images, as well as detect what is depicted in the image. Here are links to two .jpgs that I saved screenshots of back in 2020 when I first discovered this feature. They improve them all the time.
Big Tech has designed and update these capabilities for many years now in China. So when it seems like we find an edge we should understand we are not alone and the resourceful freedom lovers in China have and continue to put the censors to the test...that the censors then import tools they've developed to combat free speech from China and stand ready and able to deploy by simply hitting an update button to their applications in the US.
Perhaps aside from reading substack articles about memes, memes are my favorite form of entertainment now. Powerlineblog.com Steven F. Hayward’s Saturday morning roundups are like Looney Toons for me when I was a kid.
I have to get my daughter’s attention by using memes. It’s how she communicates with her friends. But try telling her how genius this mode of communication is, and she just begs me not to ruin it for her. 😂
All I can say is God bless Grampa Morris and his nebbishy job at Pocket Books, because he brought home three volumes of Charles Addams' cartoons and set my tastes early. I ain't never looked back.
You should thank him, too, gato, 'cause I was primed from the start to appreciate your sensibilities...
You are hitting this one outta the park, gato. Can't wait to read parts 2 & 3. And the abundance of memes included is like extra treasure.
going way out on limbs to see if they will support your weight is the essence of cat.
As is always landing on one's feet, even if the limb fails!
Oh man!
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Elon Musk: "Who controls the memes, controls the universe"
We must seize the memes of production, comrade!
Join me in memeing the "elite" universities into clown world irrelevance: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-rank-the-top-npc-universities
"motive, memes, and opportunity."
Who controls the minds...
look who took over all the media by hook and crook, since the 1850s.
"Elon Musk: "Who controls the memes, controls the universe""
... and who controls Elon Musk, controls an idiot!
Elon Musk:
"We coup whomever we like; deal with it"
Is that your sage?
“always has”...yes indeed.
Ecclesiastes was written by Solomon some 3500 years ago and he reports there is nothing new under the sun and, 3:16 Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.
Wickedness and lies ruled then too.
Ever since the first man and woman partook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Genesis 3
>>> Ecclesiastes was written by Solomon some 3500 years ago
It's beyond bizarre that people still believe such tripe. It's the 21st century - we have archaeology now.
"We have archaeology now."
I would posit that this is similar, tripe. "Archaeology" is unable to provide clues as to what happened in the past 160 years, let alone the past few thousand.
There are notable exceptions, such as Robert Schoch, but for the most part, archaeology is just another type of theocracy, whose job is to shape the prevailing narrative and avoid doing any, you know, actual -science.-
The false dichotomy (causing people to be driven "from pillar to post," when in reality they are the same thing, a piece of wood driven into the ground) caused by this "either religion or science" is part and parcel how those that consider themselves "our owners" effect their control of our minds.
The proper starting point for a seeker is to remember that "nothing is true." This is not nihilism, it is a "slate cleaner" to allow one to attempt to bring their perceptual reality in line with empirical reality. "Belief" devoid of evidence is foolishness, as is the contrary position that science removes the need for belief. We are thinking beings, but also intuitive.
One does not cut off their left arm because the have a perfectly good right arm, in the same way we should not shun aspects of our information-gathering abilities because we are told they are contradictory.
The Hegelian dialectic has been very effectively used in the past 100 years to take advantage of this cultural blind spot.
I could be wrong, but Kratoklastes might have been saying that the claim that Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes 3500 years ago is tripe, not the contents of the writings themselves.
But I’m not aware of any archaeology that has changed our understanding of the timeline of the Old Testament.
Rick, as you said, that passage was written by "Sol-Amun-(Ra)," high priest of the Sun Temple.
Amun-Ra has managed to be the longest continuously worshipped God-priest of the last five millenia.
Would be impressive if it weren't so unsettling.
A former nurse told me her son got covid because he could not get a booster since he spent a week in the hospital from his second shot. The meme "If my dog had three rabies shots in a year and still got rabies, I would start to ask some questions " immediately came to mind.
Jesus understood the need for memes.
There is a gospel passage where an apostle ask Him why he always speaks in parables to the people. Jesus answer was that people have eyes but will not see, ears but will not hear etc.
Memes go WAY back.
PS: the last 2 in your post are excellent, especially Biden and MBS. Gato, you are one talented feline.
GREAT POINT! Memes are the proverbial metaphors of life!
I am astounded that people don’t understand what it take to build a car battery. Plus, they have to be replaced. Talk about pollution.
Yes. We seem to have a crisis of people who can’t think beyond one branch of a decision tree, whether with healthcare, finance, or environmentalism.
Well put.
That one kills me too. That, and, let's see, the energy of all that gasoline now needing to be electric? And....coming from what new sources, exactly? Not one lib I've talked to takes "building another damn/filling another driven-out-of-business-rancher's-grasslands with 1000's of solar panels/fracking/coal/drilling/'offshore' windfarms (good luck with those, whales!)/etc.," into account, when I ask if they really think EVs are gonna be that much of a savior. CLUELESS. CHILDREN.
"𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲, 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆, 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗻 – 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗿.
𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿, 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆, 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘂𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 --𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗯𝘂𝗴--𝗽𝘂𝘀𝗵 𝗶𝘁 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲--𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘁 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲, 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗯𝘆 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆; 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗮𝗴𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁.
𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱."
— 'The Mysterious Stranger' by Mark Twain
Love the meme about government and warlords. It reminds me of a flyer I once saw that read:
"If men are good, then you don't need government.
"But if men are evil, then you don't DARE have government!"
I’m a Reforming Leftist but I was never a tyrant like what I’ve seen and experienced and I never want to take away people’s rights….. I just want to prevent child abuse and help Antifa moms parent their babies with a little love, stability & safety, and secure, instead of disorganized attachment. You know - It’s cruel, selfish, self-centered, abusive and neglectful parenting that’s got us here. Don’t believe me, read Children of the Crèche, or the Orphans of Davenport, those baby brains swung 80 IQ points based on what was done to them & what experienced they lived. IQ is built and so is our Personality - check out Epigenetics and Early Child Development, Epigenetics and Personality development. Neurons that wire and fire together create the foundations for Mind, Brain and Personality for everyone’s better or worse. Come from Hell and it is going to be a massive struggle and people esp kids who struggle get envious and rageful sometimes when it seems that no one cares - about kids and the Hell they are going through. Happiness and Hope Vs Cynism, Rage, Envy and Hate, anyway - I’m not going to try to explain anything anymore - I’m going to try to Meme. Since I’m a Spacially Challenged Leftist - I’ll just do one a Month in my Zone of Proximal Development. In a Month, I’ll do one a week. I do believe if we all did this, we have a chance at changing the world. Thanks
Awesome. Love the memes. Have kept me laughing through all of this. Keep them coming.
Just so all are aware, the major social media platforms and Big Tech have been developing image recognition tools for a long time. If you change your browser settings to "View page source" (right click on the screen for option) you'll find image analyzers that are able to read text in images, as well as detect what is depicted in the image. Here are links to two .jpgs that I saved screenshots of back in 2020 when I first discovered this feature. They improve them all the time.
Big Tech has designed and update these capabilities for many years now in China. So when it seems like we find an edge we should understand we are not alone and the resourceful freedom lovers in China have and continue to put the censors to the test...that the censors then import tools they've developed to combat free speech from China and stand ready and able to deploy by simply hitting an update button to their applications in the US.
Image with text recognition:
https://i.imgflip.com/6nlbij.jpg
Image with description of scenery:
https://i.imgflip.com/6nlbsp.jpg
Clearly being done now that we have an adequate supply of CPU/GPU cycles to burn.
Perhaps aside from reading substack articles about memes, memes are my favorite form of entertainment now. Powerlineblog.com Steven F. Hayward’s Saturday morning roundups are like Looney Toons for me when I was a kid.
I have to get my daughter’s attention by using memes. It’s how she communicates with her friends. But try telling her how genius this mode of communication is, and she just begs me not to ruin it for her. 😂
Dang! Loving this!!!
muy bueno, el gato bueno :-)
All I can say is God bless Grampa Morris and his nebbishy job at Pocket Books, because he brought home three volumes of Charles Addams' cartoons and set my tastes early. I ain't never looked back.
You should thank him, too, gato, 'cause I was primed from the start to appreciate your sensibilities...