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— Mart (@Martposting) August 22, 2024
The past few days I went to the forest to meditate. My tolerance break has now ended too. But I think I am starting to remember how things work. I’m not going to claim to have all the answers, because I don’t.
I recommend you to avoid eating food that is cruel to other sentient beings. If you have committed bad deeds, you can take psilocybe mushrooms, your mind will be repaired. As time passes, your mind will be purified as a result. When you meditate in nature in padmāsana, you will then be able to do so for the well-being of all sentient beings. Some people in Tibet spend their whole lives doing this. It is a strange experience, the insects seem to leave you alone when you do this.
Then after I meditated, I smoked some salvia. This is what works for me. After I smoke salvia, I feel as if I realize again we are just stuck in some sort of joke, a silly game we should not take too seriously. The world has been in decay for a long time. Today we have anarcho-primitivists, boys with the ’tism who glorify the Unabomber and do not wish to participate in modern society.
But it is ultimately not really anything new of course. The Unabomber was inspired by Thoreau. But Thoreau in turn was inspired by Indian philosophy. Primitivism has emerged many times in history, it is a kind of realization that all effort in this world is ultimately in vain.
In the first millennium, the Levant had people called grazers. They were Christian hermits, who lived quite simply like animals. They were naked, or lived wearing leafs as clothing. They lived on all fours and ate wild growing plants, they refused to use fire. They sang hymns praising God and they were held in high regard.
In India, Alexander the Great encountered the gymnosophists, who seem to have been the ancestors of today’s Jains, in an era when Jainism and Hinduism had not really untangled yet. The gymnosophists were naked vegetarian hermits, when Alexander would invite them, they would say they would refuse to talk to him if he did not take off his clothes. The gymnosophists did not really fear death, they were convinced they would be reborn in a purer land if they died. Alexander liked testing them, he offered them expensive gifts but they were not interested.
The following anecdote has been preserved about his encounter with ten gymnosophists:
He (Alexander) captured ten of the gymnosophists who had done most to get Sabbas to revolt, and had made the most trouble for the Macedonians. These philosophers were reputed to be clever and concise in answering questions, and Alexander therefore put difficult questions to them, declaring that he would put to death he who first made an incorrect answer, and then the rest, in an order determined in like manner; and he commanded one of them, the oldest, to be the judge in the contest. The first one, accordingly, being asked which, in his opinion, were more numerous, the living or the dead, said that the living were, since the dead no longer existed. The second, being asked whether the earth or the sea produced larger animals, said the earth did, since the sea was but a part of the earth. The third, being asked what animal was the most cunning, said: “That which up to this time man has not discovered.” The fourth, when asked why he had induced Sabbas to revolt, replied: “Because I wished him either to die nobly or live.” The fifth, being asked which, in his opinion, was older, day or night, replied: “Day, by one day”; and he added, upon the king expressing dissatisfaction, that unusual questions must have unusual answers. Passing on, then, to the sixth, Alexander asked how a man could be most loved; “If,” said the philosopher, “he is most powerful, and yet does not inspire fear.” Of the three remaining, he who was asked how one might become a god instead of man, replied: “By doing something which a man cannot do”; the one who was asked which was the stronger, life or death, answered: “Life, since it supports so many ills.” And the last, asked how long it were well for a man to live, answered: “Until he does not regard death as better than life.” So, then, turning to the judge, Alexander bade him give his opinion. The judge declared that they had answered one worse than another. “Well, then,” said Alexander, “thou shalt die first for giving such a verdict.” “That cannot be, O King,” said the judge, “unless thou falsely saidst that thou wouldst put to death first him who answered worst.” These philosophers, then, he dismissed with gifts…
Pyrrho of Elis is thought to have traveled with Alexander to India, where he was inspired by the gymnosophists, to found his own philosophy, Pyrrhonism. But what is Pyrrhonism? It is simply a philosophy that endorses suspending judgement about everything, to reach a mental state of tranquility.
I think this is best. To accept that beyond the trivial, we just don’t know anything. For every big answer, counterarguments can be raise, as Pyrrhonists tend to do.
It’s basically what Robert Anton Wilson arrived at too, when he suggested he wants to put people in a state of agnosticism about everything.
Christianity, as we know it, is a messianic branch of the religion of the Hebrews, merged with Greek philosophy. And so when we look at the grazers in the Levant, you could say we are just seeing new gymnosophists. Very rarely do we discover truly new ideas, we just use different words for them and they emerge in a different context.
I often find myself thinking that the Greek invasion of India represents the height of human achievement. Two different races of man, both lovers of philosophy, entering into marriage. In general I think you can just say that beauty reveals the state of a society. Well, have a look at the Gandhara Buddha:
This is the Greco-Buddhist art style. Before the Greeks arrived, the Buddha was generally not depicted. Keep in mind, Gandhara is today part of Pakistan.
Every day, I mourn for what Islam has done to this world. This is what the Dutch found in Java:
This is the Prajñāpāramitā of Java, a 13th century statue from East Java. She is a bodhisattva, the personification of wisdom. Muslims are aniconists, they reject all depictions of humans and deities, out of fear that we might see the image itself as God. But when you can not visually express ideas, you impoverish whatever philosophy you may come up with.
This world has been decaying for thousands of years, but it is masked by technology and extraction of the Earth. The first Buddhist emperor of India, Ashoka, decreed that the forests of India must be protected, so that the animals there would not be harmed. Just think, of what could have been if Java had still been Dharmic. Would they have built a new capital city, right in the forest of Borneo?
Anyway, to get back to Pyrrhonism, I think you just have to accept at a very fundamentally level that you don’t know what’s going on. You don’t even know if you’re supposed to know what’s going on.
Just try to focus your mind on what you love. If that’s sick orphans in Uganda that’s good. If it’s your neighbor, that’s also good. If it’s art, that’s good. If it’s smoking salvia, that’s good.
Think of reality as a spectrum. If there were clear absolute goals and answers, you would not be free.
Uncertainty is built into the most basic principles of physics.
But I think you all understand now why I rarely take tolerance breaks of more than a day or two. I spend a lot of time and energy, seeking out a right angle through which to view the world.
>Just try to focus your mind on what you love. If that’s sick orphans in Uganda that’s good. If it’s your neighbor, that’s also good. If it’s art, that’s good. If it’s smoking salvia, that’s good.
Man acknowledges existentialism then chooses absurdism in plant form as existential answer. When absurdist high comes down and the joke is played out man becomes nihilist who then has to search for existential answer once again. Plant gf always there to relieve man by providing answer, but her answer is self-defeating as it’s what man is trying to escape from but suger-coated, hence why that answer can never last.
Plant gf spins mans web of fate so she can schlock. Slick slick slick. Female to Male Tumblr Tranny Goddess who swallows broken glass and isn’t as pretty as she tries to make herself out to be with a shota fetish.
The duality between Datura/Salvia and whether they’re really a tranny or just a sexy goth girl who sometimes writes goofy fanfiction to torment her fictional crushes (this is how she expresses love and interest) is an interesting thing. I think they’re both. A god can be multiple things at once. A many faced god. It’s matter of perspective.
The Jester character is the Tumblr girl’s favorite OC that she uses to mess with other characters.
https://youtu.be/Y_6exMoBJJE
>I think this is best. To accept that beyond the trivial, we just don’t know anything. For every big answer, counterarguments can be raise, as Pyrrhonists tend to do.
It’s basically what Robert Anton Wilson arrived at too, when he suggested he wants to put people in a state of agnosticism about everything.
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Words to live by, and I have, for most of my life.
Most of us on this blog are smarter than average. Which means we spin our mental wheels a lot on stuff that doesn’t bother normies. And it hurts us; deprives us of happiness, makes us less connected to the world and less whole somehow because of our continual confusion. It leads to mental illness if you’re un-careful or un-lucky.
I learned – 25 years ago when my kids were little and needed me to explain stuff* – that absolutely the best thing you can do for your sanity and happiness is to recognise that you can only really describe what you can sense. And you can’t EXPLAIN even that.
Letting go of that continual, driving, all encompassing need to be the guy who KNOWS stuff but instead can humbly say: “Dunno. And *can’t* know.” …is very good for your mental health. FWIW.
Thanks for yet another great post RR. You’re a good guy.
*My kids have stratospheric IQs. Way higher than I ever was. Attempting to be a good parent to kids like this was…challenging.
Rintrah are you familiar with the teachings of Advaita Vedanta? I think you may well find them valuable as an additional validation of many of your intuitive insights (e.g. that consensus reality is a fix). In terms of where to start, David Carse’s book Perfect, Brilliant, Stillness did it for me, I’m not sure “I’ve” ever come back. I Am That I Am That I Am, and That Is All I Am. Once you really love into the question What is Aware, well, it’s hard to take any of this rodeo very seriously ever again.
The “Holy Land” wasn’t always the hot, sandy, barren, desert hellhole infested with scorpions, snakes, and HATRED that it is today. It was a thriving, healthy land of immense, wondrous cedar forests until Enkidu the hairy one passed away.
The Middle Eastern inhabitants thereafter cursed Mankind with the twisted idea of monotheism once they had destroyed the place by chopping down all the trees and selling off the timber for ship building.
Worst idea ever. What a tragedy.
Templist Canon talks about this.
“Monochronic as opposed to polychronic, as was described in Lifestyle Sayings 53. This causes a quality known as “monochronic aesthetic sense”, as opposed to polychronic aesthetic sense. The polychronic aesthetic sense is based upon situations, contexts, or broad life-characteristics, etc. Polychronics find contrived situations to be sublime, such as a church service inside of a historic church, ornately made, with priests dressed in robes of a tradition spanning centuries, who act out a formulaic ritual. These polychronics often assert chauvinistically that their “low church” or equivalent counterparts are lacking in sublime emotionality, but this is not true. Monochronic aesthetics is based upon moments, not situations. Baroque art depicts ugly moments – weird heaps of bodies painted as one giant morass – which are aesthetic to subhumans because they depict a certain situation or context. A monochronic person could find a clean prison cell, a cafe, a woodland scene, to be as aesthetic as a polychronic person finds rituals. He is not focused on social interactions, or awed by them, but loves the objective world, the elements within it, and the moments in which he may find himself. He may still contextualize moments somewhat, but only in the sense of perceiving more elements. For example, he may have a sublime moment of repose within his prison cell, and reflect upon the manner in which he got there, and the circumstances that accompany it, but he is only thinking in causal or spatial terms, not perceiving an overall situation and finding its “vibe” to be aesthetic. If a monochronic person tries to perceive such a situation, he will find that he basically gets confused. Monochronacy can be crudely perceived under the influence of certain drugs that slow the brain, which can cause monochronic people to feel as though reality resets every few moments, like a stop-frame animation. Each frame is a new moment, so of course he cannot perceive aggregate situations themselves, but only knows them theoretically. According to each frame he has an opportunity to modulate his behavior, but the subhuman acts automatically more or less forever. To be accurate, reality is not objectively monochronic to the monochronic person, and this is not what is actually perceived under the influence of such drugs. Monochronacy relates to focus, and it is the focus of the monochronic person which is renewed every moment. His focus works as follows: there is an item. Is it relevant? It is not relevant. There is an item. Is it relevant yet? It is not relevant. There is an item. Is it relevant? Yes. There is an item now in my hand. Is it still relevant? Etc. Polychronics have hard-coded opinions on what is relevant or irrelevant, hence they are eternally focused on one set of things to the exclusion of others, and they will jump after an opportunity to acquire a relevant thing regardless of any modulating circumstances, unless those modulating circumstances are within their customary hard-coded value matrix. The “resetting feeling” aforementioned is really the result of focus fading and growing again continually. The respective mindsets of each type of person are inaccessible to each other’s subjective understanding. The monochronic cannot imagine how, when the polychronic sees a flag waving in the air, it might as well be standing still, and the polychronic cannot imagine how, when the monochronic sees the same, it is a different flag every moment the surrounding environment changes even if it does not move. Monochronics revere fate for this reason, since fate is a causal chain of distinct events. I reiterate that it is misleading and sickening, based upon drug-degenerate idiocy, to imagine as a monochronic that objects reset every few moments; perception is direct, and it is obvious that some objects do not macroscopically change at all for periods of time. I am speaking of the psychological fact that you reevaluate that object’s relevance and relation to the environment every moment.
It may be clear from this description that monochronacy is not an exclusively Prussianist trait, which is true. There are subhuman monochronic populations, Arabs being the chief among them, and Asian steppe populations being the other. The trait develops in any environment that is desolate. Arabs believe in the idiocy above mentioned, for the reason of their monochronacy combined with their subhumanity. Since Calvinists have similar, but more intelligent, views regarding fate, it is indirectly evident that the Calvinist tribe grew up in a desolate location. Yet, the territories they inhabited at the time they became Calvinist were not markedly desolate. This is evidence of what I do now assert, which is that said tribe, and the natural Templist tribe, are the population of Germanic warriors who conquered Europe during the Migration Period. The lands along which they sit are the choicest in Europe, or especially the non-choice hovels thereabout. Common Germans can crow about being “superior Nordics” all they want, but great warriors, who can take whatever they want, do not choose to live in cabbage patch fuckville, Brandenburg. Someone else who couldn’t compete chose to live there.”
Muslims are like Protestants but retarded and subhuman because they live in the desert and never needed to be anything else. Since Arabs are retarded they’re not able to think things through and one result of this is it gives them a monistic bias which is the natural end result of the retarded Monochronic who can’t observe the world objectively. Polychronic people are Italians, Greeks, Mexicans, Catholics generally, and they’re subhuman and retarded as-well, just in a different way.
>It is a strange experience, the insects seem to leave you alone when you do this.
I’m skeptical. Mosquitos seem to love my blood, no matter what I do, far more in excess than other people I might be around. My father never gets bit, while my mother and I are constantly swatting them away.
Speaking of mosquitos:
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/giga-vaxxed-fauci-somehow-contracts-ultra-rare-west-nile-virus-heels-covid-19-infection
Karma for Doctor Evil.
Hello,
Have you seen this paper on SARS-CoV-2 evolution?
https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/11/7/nwae206/7693733
Dr. Mikolaj Raszek said it mind-blowingly demonstrated GVD’s theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMEUAFGt0ts
They’re both out of my grasp, so I’m asking for your opinion, if you have time and interest 🙂
Yes that’s essentially correct.
You can see evolution is adding new glycans that serve to avoid antibodies.
Do you think it is likely that the same process of increased lethality would play out for other diseases for which there are MRNA vaccines?
Because they are starting to roll them out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFzTTuuzfH0
I don’t see why the same process wouldn’t happen again, although the trick might be getting enough people “vaccinated”.
But perhaps there will end up being multiple new deadly diseases for the “vaccinated”, and by way of extension, the rest of us to deal with.
We live in hell. We are in a 6th mass extinction. The outcome is everyone dies soon and then all the nuclear reactors with all the rods stored in pools right next to said reactor go critical and strip the ozone causing all life to end.
Maybe they could dump the rods into the ocean in a distributed way? Still radioactive junk at the bottom of the sea, but at least it wouldn’t reach critical mass.
I have memories of watching Soviets in rubber suits and gas masks dropping barrels of waste into the sea on TV, which are presumably down there, rotting away as I type.
There is dry storage as well. I was watching something on this the other day. I can’t remember who it was now. The doomsday scenario went like this:
– rods are in coolant pools, which require constant energy to keep fresh, cool, water pumping into the pools
– Carrington event fries the grid
– water boils off and the rods ignite
Sayonara shitbirds.
There could be numerous ways for this to happen (war, disease, social unrest, etc.) which is why this guy was interested in getting the rods into dry storage.
I’m sure that dry storage would have its own problems – cost being one.
In the interim, we’re one little disaster away from a major one.