When you subtract the barely literate from the population and find that opinions are split 50/50 on a topic, the truth is generally going to lie somewhere in the middle. People with strong opinions on controversial topics, tend to be uninformed. This is why wise elderly tend to have little left to say after a while. At some point, you just run out of things to say.
That’s kind of where I’m at by now. I went to a nice festival in Amsterdam with a friend this weekend. They held a performance of King Ubu, a kind of proto-Dadaist performance. The whole story is reminiscent of Macbeth, but it is satirical in that it drives the story to its natural extreme, leaving it utterly obvious how it’s going to unfold.
I also watched some horror movies on Tubi.tv. If you use an American VPN, you can just watch everything for free despite being European.
Here’s an interesting video from Philip K. Dick, talking about the difference between linear time and orthogonal time:
Philip K Dick spoke about “orthogonal time” in Metz, France in 1977.pic.twitter.com/tAP6rynZpc
— David Windt (@DavidLWindt) June 8, 2025
Dick was excellent at exploring the idea that what we perceive as “reality” is not real, being adjusted on the fly by agents that seem to exist outside of our physical realm. Dick suffered epilepsy and an addiction to amphetamines, that ultimately led him to claim he experienced living two lives simultaneously, one perceived to us and the other as an early Christian, Thomas, in the first century AD.
I also played some Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. You can just simulate a post-apocalyptic wasteland on your own computer right now. You can download it here. It allows you to do just about anything. You can search through abandoned houses for food. You can try to escape from prison. You can use a lighter to burn down houses. You can lead a ragtag band of followers to set up a camp. You can even build your own armored vehicle and use it to bash your way through waves of zombies (aka normies).
I could write about SARS-COV-2, but anyone who claims to genuinely know what’s going to happen is lying to themselves. Humanity is just kind of stuck doing a hail Mary. BA.3.2 might prove to have a big surprise, but again, we don’t know. I personally expect that in general, as more divergent serotypes emerge the overall problem will grow steadily worse.
The main problem we seem to be dealing with, is that everyone, particularly the children, is developing brain damage from the constant reinfections. And vaccination doesn’t solve that, according to science. Rather, it sets everyone up for continual reinfections, as I warned about years ago.
That failure to prevent brain damage is of course exactly what you would expect, as 99% of antibodies don’t manage to pass through the blood-brain barrier. The reinfections reduce your IQ by two points on average and we’re now going to see another summer wave, so go ahead and do the math. Two reinfections per year means four IQ points per year lost. Try to keep this going for ten years, see what happens.
I’ve seen everyone is starting to notice our world feels really weird now. People feel as if reality itself is breaking down. What I would recommend is to keep in mind that people’s brains are breaking down. If it looks like people, including famous people, behave very strangely, remember they’re suffering brain damage.
I could write about politics, but there isn’t really much left to say. The Dutch coalition government has collapsed again in a year, as there was no solution in sight for immigration. This has been a problem in our country for the past 26 years, never being solved.
I guess you could say I now understand what it means to feel old. I’ve seen the same shows unfold numerous times on the world’s stage and it started to tire me.
Well, there are only so many options, so things will seem similar. I get that it feels like an ongoing, rolling apocalypse – I feel that way too, but it does also seem to me that we are running on rails, on linear time, towards TEOTWAWKI from the virus and/or other catastrophe/s, and/or from something biblical.
Personally, I don’t perceive sudden unexplained changes in reality occurring around me. Instead, things happen as a result of cause and effect in linear time. If things are happening acausally, in ‘orthogonal time’, then it is not registering in my mind.
This is probably a good thing for me. If I were to perceive glitches in reality or perceive a sense of unreality on an ongoing basis, then I may end up psychotic.
That said, I have experienced my share of ‘Philip K Dick like thoughts’ and sensations of ‘unreality’.
For me, these experiences are uniformly unpleasant and, at times, capable of inducing panic attacks and feelings of dread and terror. The experiences served no useful purpose, so far as I can tell.
These negative experiences characterize my reaction to plenty of recreational drugs. It’s a reaction that I find unpleasant, so I don’t do them. I once had panic attacks for six months after smoking what I thought was weed and having a very bad night consumed with existential thoughts about reality/unreality.
On one occasion, I had the same cycling anxiety inducing thoughts after consuming some sort of chemical-soaked paper known only to me as a ‘trip’. It was an unpleasant experience, as was another time I took a couple of ‘trips’. Anyway, on the first trip in question, I spent a number of hours freaking out and pondering what was real and what wasn’t, and at the end decided that it didn’t matter, because I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference anyway.
At the time I felt that deciding that it made no difference made me feel better, but in retrospect it could also have been that the chemical that induced the sense of ‘unreality’ was wearing off.
But then, I am someone who was ‘disturbed’ as a child thinking about the nature of the universe – I could get into ‘thought loops’ about matter not being able to be created or destroyed, so where did it all come from? Same thing for thinking about whether what I perceived was real, etc. So perhaps I was always ‘sensitive’ to existential questions, or perhaps I possess some kind of innate weakness on that score that is best left alone.
For some, these are interesting and pleasant thoughts to play with, but for me, they can and do easily switch from ‘fun’ into ‘mind virus’ that sends me into anxiety inducing loops or otherwise fill me with dread.
In my experience, the best treatment is to force myself to think about something else, and to stay off the drugs. I felt better over time and with abstinence.
I like Project Zomboid, it’s like CDDA, it has less detail but has more tactile real time gameplay.
I have a close relative whose newly acquired nephrologist thinks that her decline in kidney function (which does not run in my family) may be due to IgG4 disease; he thinks it would explain her fairly recent onset pancreatic insufficiency (which also does not run in my family) and her psoriasis (which she has never had before), and I am seeing it could also explain the aortic aneurism that she had to have surgically fixed.
And yes, the covid vaccine may cause IgG4 disease: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10258086/. My relative has had 4 covid shots, and had covid twice.
She’ll be getting a kidney biopsy at a major medical center in a couple of weeks and we will see if that is in fact it. IgG4 disease is supposed to be really, really rare. Well it was, anyway.
Fortunately for her she is elderly and has had a great life and is still having a great life and also IgG4 disease problems can be greatly helped either with steroids or if those are too harsh with ritaximub, which kills all your B cells; it is very safe stuff overall. That is, it is safe if you are elderly and want a good remaining few years. How good it is for young people I don’t know; certainly needing it is not a plus. It is costly but the U.S. medical system is still good at providing that sort of med. For now.
So, I hope that that is what she has, since it would be the best outcome for her. But it does not bode well for the health system if that is what it is.
it could be IGA nephropathy. This can lead to blood vessels bursting in legs etc. Nasty “auto immune” disease.
Yeah, that does sound bad. I don’t think that is what she has since she has no protein in her urine and no blood in her urine and no flank pain and no edema. But who knows, and maybe the biopsy will determine if that is it. There was always worry that the covid shots would cause autoimmune diseases; I think we are seeing that.
>I guess you could say I now understand what it means to feel old. I’ve seen the same shows unfold numerous times on the world’s stage and it started to tire me.
Yup. Said it in a prior thread and I’ll say it again: You’re growing up and leaving childhood behind. And good on you for getting to this point.
In previous generations (yeah I’m gen X and have kids in their late 20s) this process would be helped along by an older man of the tribe but importantly someone other than your dad. Your generation are so woefully short of masculine role models that this process has been delayed for many young men which is why:
1. Some are so desperate for a male role model that they will pay the transparently repulsive Andrew Tate et al to fill the void, and
2. Many young men never actually become adults and thus stay as perpetual children thereby giving women the ick.
You’re doing better than both groups. You quite obviously desperately need a male mentor that you respect, and a mission in life (as Carportband correctly pointed out a few days ago.) Go find both.
Your comment is very sound.
Dads seem to represent the Other. If we don’t have a good dad-child relationship it is possible we shall have sociability issues.
But also, as you say, at some point (around puberty? or maybe around College) kids probably need more space to grow, and it might be difficult for the majority of dads to give that space (or for the majority of parents in general).
So, another male person could do the job.
Interestingly, the “priests” in the Christian tradition are called “fathers”, and there’s passages in the Gospel that support this choice.
Quote: “This is why wise elderly tend to have little left to say after a while.”
Well recognized. This is one of the things I suffer most. There are so many older people suffering at the same way.
And the younger people say: “Hey, let’s them just put together, problem solved”.
No, it’s not, because we elders don’t have much to say. It would make us only more depressive. Then better alone.
I think too that this brain-damage thing is spreading hidden and we can’t “see” or feel it. We are like frogs in the cooking pot. Where will this end? In another stone-age?
Excellent!
I will not be so lonely anymore.
With enough reinfections, everybody, eventually, will be exactly like me.
> our world feels really weird now. People feel as if reality itself is breaking down
Quoth Sammy Hagar, Crack in the World (October 1977):
There’s a crack, there’s a crack in the world
There’s a crack, there’s a crack in the world
There’s a crack, there’s a crack in the world
Just fifty more years we’re all gonna know
Why, when, where, how, and who get’s to go
So let’s all have a good time before the great divide
‘Cause things will start separating come 2025
So look for the subtle clues
It won’t make the front-page news
That depends upon which side that you choose
https://genius.com/Sammy-hagar-crack-in-the-world-lyrics
University professors in all fields, even logic-heavy maths, were reporting that the exams and coursework their students take were shorter, easier and dumbed down by a small amount, in every way, compared to the stuff of twenty years before on the CHE forums in the early 2000s, with plenty of proof. So, recent events are just the tip of the iceberg. At some point, long before, the things that a university degree gets you were themselves devalued.
“I do more GOOD outside of Israel.”
– Greta Thunberg
Greta is a QUEEN!!!
If you want to know what’s going on with the Los Angeles riots, this is some good footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoXKeMxtxKU
Gonna watch this.
It’s scary how Trump is planning to unleash Marine jarheads on the American public. It really does seem like libtards manifested the fascist dictator they were crying about in 2016.
Ignore comments where I wished for WW3 that I made like a year ago. (Charlie remembers) I was very depressed. War and oppression is bad.
Ahhh looking up some history, the older George Bush sent in Marines to quell the 1992 LA riots, and the army was called in to deal with protestors during the desegregation of the South, so I guess what Trump is doing isn’t as unprecedented as it initially seems.
There’s 2 new doomsday scenarios, adding on top of what we’re already known:
1) A Japanese study titled “Cardiac multiple micro-scars: An autopsy study” found hundreds (or thousands) of tiny scars on vaccinated people’s heart.
– Those scars are too small to find in anyway (MRI, troponin…) but they lead to unexplained arrythmia, then unexplained cardiac arrest and death, a few years after vaccinated.
– We don’t know the rate yet, but it might happen to anyone on the planet now (I think the virus can do what vaccines can).
2) Dr. Kevin McCairn found that spike protein can cause amyloid in the blood, which would progressively become big fibrous white clots.
– This might also cause large scale disaster on the planet too.
– Note that it’s amyloid, not prion, but it might make some prion too.
After 2020, the world is insane, really.
It’s nice to see Dr. McCairn’s work see the light of day. He had had so much removal and deletion of his accounts that he and his team had created their own online video streaming system.
Thank you for pointing out the Japanese study. Here’s a good description of it: https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/japanese-autopsy-study-uncovers-mysterious-cardiac-micro-scars-in-boosted-patientsraises-questions-not-conclusions-47e26d85. It isn’t clear from the article whether researchers looked for this before covid/vaccines; maybe that is a normal thing to look for or maybe it isn’t? “The uniformity and distribution of MMS (multiple micro scars) suggested a simultaneous microvascular inflammatory event.” And, “Crucially, without post-mortem data on unvaccinated patients or age-matched vaccinated individuals without cardiac arrest, the prevalence of MMS in the general population remains unknown.”
well, it’s a very new condition that was never seen in medical history, but now they surprisedly got 3 cases in a row, each after 5-6 jabs.
The authors gave very strong implication about vaccination being the cause, really.
Yes, it must have been pretty obvious to them that vaccination was the cause, otherwise they wouldn’t have broken social norms by mentioning it.
I’m usually skeptical about “new” things found in humans, because over the years I’ve seen a number of things be noticed that had never been noticed before (even though they had been there all along). But multiple micro scars on heart tissue seems like something that could not have been overlooked.
Yes. I was startled at the study. And the medical authorities lie so much when talking about “MILD myocarditis”.
1) Any myocarditis causes some SCARS in the heart, ALWAYS, no matter how small they are, and the scars are FOREVER.
2) With this new Japanese study, now we know that there can be hundreds of tiny scars on vaccinated people, but they don’t see any strange with their heart, except for a bit arrythmia.
3) Mansanguan et al. found the subclinical myocarditis rate to be 2,33%. Buergin et al. found that to be 2.8%.
– And the problem is the cardiac MMS can be at even HIGHER RATE, because they can’t be detected normally like those in the studies!!!
So, the implication of the Japanese study is insane: a high percentage of vaccinated people (more than 2-3%) might have hundreds of scars in their heart, which might not cause any immediate problem, but can disturb heart electrical conduction and lead to sudden cardiac arrest a few years later!! We have a big problem here.
(And if the jabs are truly bioweapons, they’re perfect weapon, leaving no doubt nor proof)
Serrapeptase may work to break down scar tissue on hearts. There are studies out there that look very promising for that purpose. Of course, if people don’t know they have hundreds of micro scars they won’t know to take it. Also I don’t know if getting rid of the scars actually solves the problem.
I don’t think it’d work.
Let’s assume Serrapeptase may work to break down scar tissue on hearts, then what? The heart’s muscle cells can’t multiply to replace the lost cell and recover, so you’d have cracks on the heart. I think it’d be even worse than scars.
I think currently there’s no cure for cardiac scars.
its crazy to believe a protease enzyme would cross the stomach lining. its crazy to believe it would let the blood albumins intact, doesnt touch the blood vessels, doesnt chew on heart muscle cells and then selectively dissolve scar tissue. protease cleaves almost any protein into bits. this serrapeptase-bromelain-papain bullshit is just advertisement for fearful idiots with to much money lacking a working brain.
Nattokinase has been shown to work.
betaalpha, there are loads and loads of studies; here’s a compilation: “Serratiopeptidase: Insights into the therapeutic applications”https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7585045/). It gets past the stomach lining somehow, and has innumerable medical effects. It even gets into the brain:
“Serratiopeptidase was found to be as effective as nattokinase (an enzyme shown to degrade amyloid fibroid) in relieving Alzheimer’s disease pathophysiology in a rat model [64].”
There are a lot of people these days with pulmonary fibrosis and these enzymes help them greatly.
Did you see that 1.8.1 now has last summer’s razor-blade throat AND norovirus symptoms, the vomiting and diarrhea? http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=71fe2139a887ad501313cd8cce3053c5&subId=7422067&u=https%3A//www.news.de/gesundheit/858670659/coronavirus-variante-nb-1-8-1-mit-neuem-symptom-durchfall-warnung-rasiermesser-halsschmerzen-erschoepfung-bei-sars-cov-2/1/
So, we won’t need suspended animation to arrive at Idiocracy.