Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 66
Nov. 8th, 2022 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
As we proceed through the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselesness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries. 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.
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Date: 2022-11-10 12:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-10 07:39 pm (UTC)x
erika
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Date: 2022-11-11 12:20 am (UTC)I'm glad now I have always been an introvert. Never part of a clique in school. Always an oddball few could label accurately. Wary of any new fad or in-group peer pressure. As the USA holidays approach I'm suddenly being invited back to a family Thanksgiving table after being thrown out - literally - last year for declining to state my medical history and the year before for not being worthy to be in their "bubble." Whenever I feel anger, fear or hate about those sorts of actions, I go into nature, let my mind wander, and then find it easy to "forgive" them. But I can't forget while accepting last year many of them will forget, twisting themselves into knots to blame anyone but themselves for the harms they did not just to me but to themselves, too.
Watched this week the movie, "The Banshees of Inisherin." A seething cauldron of people going nuts on an island each with uncontrollable internal fears. A bleak scenery of a treeless island checkerboarded with stone walls enclosing small fields of poor tired soil. A visual metaphor for every person living in their own painful walled reality. In the end, each character had to choose in their own different ways and in their own time what to forgive or not, forget or not.
W.R..
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Date: 2022-11-11 10:34 am (UTC)I'm one of those oddball introverts too.
Wonder if you'd be interested in a movie to balance out "The Banshees of Inisherin"? It's called "The Secret of Roan Inish", a lovely story about a family returning to their island. It's all about connections: family, community, nature, with a dash of supernatural thrown in. Watching it always makes me feel a whole lot better about life.
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Date: 2022-11-12 08:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-13 12:24 am (UTC)Also the very old Disney movie Thomasina, another delight.
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Date: 2022-11-13 04:53 am (UTC)A question for the crowd: I’d put these movies in the same bucket as dark crystal and labyrinth and neverending story and willow and henson’s the storyteller. Mythical fantasy, with complex stories that come from the heart. The original Star Wars somehow fits in here, in my mind, even though it’s sci-fi. There are a handful of illustrated books I’d lump in with whatever genre this is. St George and the Dragon, by Trina Schart Hyman is one example, and anything by Mignola (perhaps one of the greatest living artists). Maybe Dinotopia by James Gurney, although that is not really as mythical. And Wyeth. Not books of course, but his paintings have whole stories contained inside each one. And for games I’d say Shadow of the Colossus (😍) or Breath of the Wild or early Final Fantasy or Dragon Warrior. D&D for tabletop. Obviously Lord of the Rings casts a long shadow over all of these, across media, but that’s almost like a thing unto itself. So…to the question: Are there any movies or shows (or illustrated books or games) that would fit in this bucket that I haven’t listed? There must be if I’ve missed something like Roan. Recommendations appreciated!
Murmuration
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Date: 2022-11-13 05:04 pm (UTC)But in terms of "strangely enchanting" films I have watched (which some of your mentions also match) I would include "Big Fish" - a Tim Burton film starring Albert Finney.
I've watched it a few times and been "strangely enchanted" each time...
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Date: 2022-11-13 09:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-14 04:28 am (UTC)... And maybe "The Fall" fits in the bucket too
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Date: 2022-11-14 06:08 pm (UTC)Murmuration
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Date: 2022-11-14 08:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-14 11:53 pm (UTC)Murmuration
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Date: 2022-11-15 04:17 am (UTC)A loose fit for your bucket might be the anime "Your Name", but I'm not sure if you'd find it too heavy on the romantic end to be a true fit, though that aspect has a kind of studio ghibli feel.
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Date: 2022-11-14 05:47 pm (UTC)Murmuration
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Date: 2022-11-13 06:22 pm (UTC)Have you seen Mononoke No Hime? Or 'Princess Mononoke?' I haven't. But came across it regarding the word 'holobiont.'
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Date: 2022-11-14 06:03 pm (UTC)Your mention of holobiont reminded me of the boar in Mononoke, which reminded me of Beasts of the Southern Wild. That, also, was a great movie.
Murmuration
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Date: 2022-11-13 02:30 pm (UTC)(The person who posted about Secret of Roan Inish)
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Date: 2022-11-13 06:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-11-13 09:55 pm (UTC)