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Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 66

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before:
1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.
2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here.
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue.
4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religious, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.
With that said, the floor is open for discussion.
Mucky state of the collective astral around here
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)Gawain
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)i am positively misanthropic and depressed right now over the election and living here in Mordor, so yeah... i'm doing the backstroke in a cesspool right today. tears streaming down my face as i type this because i'm lost.
James says i read too much news but it's how i wait for a sign that anything's changing and what to do as an artist.
i looked at the craft fair applications photos and websites and the colored people thing has been completely gamed and it's gross and i want no part of any of this. some woman was selling a white cake of soap. so instead of just a shot of white square soap, the blackest legs and arm were framing this white soap.
another girl under the disgusting BIPOC+ (WHAT's the PLUS for???) was white, had blonde hair, but a spanishy "z" at the end of her name.
today i'm struggling with hating people so i cannot write Mark back above. but i know you can handle my evil confessions.
the democrats KILLED people and took away wealth and stratified society and !EL GATO! is right when he said the Republicans need a new story... but REALLY? isn't: "don't kill me or take away my rights!" enough???
i'm struggling and not feeling the love right now. all that forgiveness crap is suiciding out the window as i type this, Kimberly.
so YEAH.... i feel you, sister.
if James wasn't home i'd try and telephone Temporary Reality and wipe this on HER like peanut butter so she's hella lucky.
x
erika
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To paraphrase the poet, don't follow the wrong god home.
Mental and spiritual hygiene are just as important as physical, and without them you pick up all kinds of cooties. That's how they get you down, those cooties-purveyors.
Find one thing you can do that uplifts you (your oxygen mask first while our society experiences its "wing separation event.")
You can do this.
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)Don't despair! I was flabbergasted watching results roll in last night too. How is 'murder, censorship, and tyranny' a winning campaign?! Even though I'm not a republican (or democrat), I was hoping the red wave story would have played out as fantasized. I can't tell you how many people, in this blue area, when talking quietly, say the vector we are on is insane. That made me think the wave would come crashing in. And then the investigations would start. But it didn't. I've been to this rodeo before. Lucy got me again anyway.
And then I realized, I had bought in to the damn story again, for a bit. They had hooked this fish. I was up and down with the red wave. And it occurred to me, faster this time than before, THEY won't be helpful in fixing this. THEY never were going to be. I had hoped they would lift some of this weight, get the ball rolling, crack the narrative. They still might, who knows. Then your words echoed for me...
This is on us. This is OUR job. This is our burden and privilege to shoulder. We get to be the pretty ones. You and me and everyone here. It will take longer. It will be harder. It will be all the more spectacular for it, when we look back and tell the story. We have a setup for an epic story for the ages. We just need to not quit.
The whale was never the answer. You are. We are.
Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
Murmuration.
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The thing that really struck me though, was an intense sensation of horror combined with a sense of realization of just how badly western culture had screwed up. A phenomena which I regard as compelling evidence of the demonic hypothesis.
:D At least you have the vocal talents to make your SoP really sing! /|\
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-14 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)YUP.
erika
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)It's like rat pee.
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)At the same time, public fear is ramping up big time: various authorities are screaming "mask, mask, mask", schools have over a quarter of their students home sick, lots of adults are ill too. People are dreading the coming winter.
Ron M
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-11 12:09 am (UTC)(link)!!!!!! This really strikes me as a 'wow' moment!
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)I hope it passes for you soon too.
Murmuration
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Actually, one of my coworkers was an hour late for the lunch because someone rear-ended her 1/4 mile from the restaurant. Her car was barely tapped, but it happened because the other driver had a stroke or heart attack or something, so my coworker had to call an ambulance, give a statement to the police, etc.
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-09 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)-Translucent Jejune Octopus
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-10 10:29 am (UTC)(link)(Got ketchup?)
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I attended a meeting of my religious group last Saturday. We are losing people. A lot of them are older and we would be declining anyway, but I think not at such a rapid pace. I think many of our members were harmed by the vaxxes. The leader of our sect had very little spiritual to say this time, which is unlike him. He spoke of the need to prepare to demolish our main meeting house to avoid putting that burden of the joint owners of the property, who are no longer able to attend. Really depressing. I am rallying with the leader and one other motivated younger intellectual member to at least leave a legacy for when people come around and realize they need it.
Religions have come under fire everywhere except perhaps Russia (from what I can tell). They were blamed early on for spreading COVID. In Japan, most religious groups I know stopped holding public ceremonies, and some (including ours) even discouraged their members from coming together and performing them privately, for fear of incurring suspicions and fatal levels of criticism. None have resumed public ceremonies.
The Kompira Shrine has stopped holding training courses for its followers these past three years. This year they tried to organize an on-line course, but it appears to me that they are suffering financially enough (much revenue from tourism) that they've had to let go of priests, and those who remain just don't have the time to organize very much.
Meanwhile, the digitalization of Japan seems to be the only thing going forward. The tide is withdrawing even further from spirituality, and I will be driven further from society than I am already, but my little circle of light will not go out.
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(Anonymous) 2022-11-11 02:27 am (UTC)(link)-Derpherder