Look, I just want you all to realize how stupid it was for Americans to re-elect Donald Trump and how this anti-government crusade is designed to get rid of all the rules and regulations intended to protect you from wealthy predators who see you as cattle to milk whenever they see fit. It’s not a fun exciting topic, but you NEED to understand this.
Musk just announced “CFPB RIP”. He’s in the process of shutting down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. What is that? It’s an agency proposed by Warren in 2007 and established in 2011, after America witnessed the catastrophic impact of the Great Recession, when banks engaged in predatory lending practices that eventually resulted in droves of people stuck with mortgages they could no longer pay.
The annual budget of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is 600 million dollar. That’s a lot of money, until you realize what they do for you. In march of 2024, they announced they had achieved a rule for a mandatory cap on credit card late fees of eight dollars, by closing a loophole used by the large credit card issuers.
This rule would have saved 10 billion dollars in late fees for 45 million American families per year. Not bad, for an office with an annual budget of 600 million dollar. But that rule is now suspended, because Musk, the richest man in the world, is shutting the CFPB down.
So now they can maintain their predatory business model, where they charge you high late fees, which you are then unable to pay, trapping you in a growing debt. Credit card debt has been exploding since 2020:
Credit card debt is skyrocketing, in part because the companies are free to continually adjust the late fees “for inflation”, despite not having any rising costs. Great for the shareholders of Mastercard and VISA, not so great for everyone else.
But in my experience, this is the general pattern in politics. The centre-left wing academic bureaucrat types are trying to solve actual problems. These are small problems they’re trying to solve, like plastic bottle caps or excessive credit card late fees, but when you solve a whole bunch of small problems, you know what happens? Things actually get better.
Nobody will ever appreciate you, for solving a very small problem. But it’s necessary that people solve them. If the cells in your body stopped trying to solve the very small problems, you know what would happen? You would very rapidly die. Instead of bitching about “government bureaucrats” and the “deep state”, try being grateful that you have people out there doing this boring unglamorous work that makes your life a little easier, without you ever noticing it.
So what are these fascist billionaires doing for you? Well, they promise you some solution to the big problems: We’re going to figure out how to live forever, we’re going to terraform Mars, we’re going to build a computer that can do all the work for us, you’ll travel in a vacuum hyperloop between San Francisco and Los Angeles, we will build cars with rocket engines strapped to them that drive themselves. But it’s all hubris.
Look, I want you all to understand: There are thousands of people in the United States, who work for the Federal Government. Most of them are doing pretty boring stuff, they’re not Youtubers exploring abandoned buildings at night in Eastern Europe, they’re not soundcloud rappers high on drugs traveling around the world, they’re not Hollywood actors jumping out of exploding cars. You know why you get to do cool stuff? Because there are other people out there, willing to solve the boring stuff.
These are people who have jobs that exist to make YOUR life a little easier. And now they are being thrown out onto the streets. And when, just like you and me, they log onto social media, to see what people think, you know what they see? They see the people they’re working for, calling them parasites, calling them the “deep state”, they see people cheer on a bunch of billionaires who are destroying what they are working on. Please show a little gratitude to the people who try to fix this sort of stuff, they deserve it.
Yes, this is boring stuff and this is a boring post. But boring stuff is part of life and when you don’t pay respect to it, then you will die from a thousand very boring cuts.
The funniest thing to me is when I see people who make their wealth using crypto currency calling other people “parasites”.
> Look, I want you all to understand: There are thousands of people in the United States, who work for the Federal Government.
Pffffttttt
NO, there are several MILLION overpaid federal employees, and apparently about 90% don’t even have to show up at an office for their useless jobs. They “work” from home remotely in their pajamas, faking it as much as possible.
Not only that, but 90% of union workers in the nation are federal employees such as SEIU, busy ruining the United States socially and financially for twisted leftist ideological reasons, so I don’t even want to hear from the left anymore about poor union workers.
God Emperor Trump has been accomplishing great things in a rush of achievement his first month back in office, the likes of which we have never seen before. I am so impressed by how powerful, accurate, and effective he has been. The USA may yet be salvageable and again become the beacon of liberty and hope for the world.
BEST President of my lifetime!
Put that man’s face on Mt. Rushmore.
“Work” shouldn’t even exist. Humans and their domesticated counterparts are the only creatures in this world that have to toil in a way that runs contrary to their own instincts, especially in a way that causes them extreme physical and mental stress and to develop health problems at an accelerated rate. It’s basically an invention of the changes that followed the agricultural revolution (if you believe in the canonical telling of historical events), and it’s only normalized insofar as human mass-enslavement is normalized. Radagast was right when he said that laziness was a virtue, not a vice. Also, this isn’t WH40K and wanting to have a “God Empoeror” is slave brained too.
And since some of you might recall that I consider this reality to be illusory to a large degree, my actual opinion would be that “work” is an invention of the archons, that the physical “laws” which govern this reality and the sense of life-threatening scarcity which emerges as a result are artificially being imposed from above by an unseen metaphysical force which views us as cattle, our true nature is that of immortal, spiritual beings which have no particular need to incarnate into meatsuits at all (it’s being forced on us), and that the entire scenario in which we find ourselves is carefully orchestrated so as to appear to make our continued suffering look justified, so that people don’t question why they are in physical, psychological, and spiritual pain as they are farmed for loosh.
Honey, all realities are illusionary. You (and everyone else) don’t have the necessary receptor and analytical apparatus to access reality. Your fatty bulshit machine called brain hallucinates all the time and feeds you with whatever seems most energy efficient. Reality is whatever your chemically imbalanced brain decides it is. And if for you it is hell for someone else is absolute heaven.
The mind is not the brain. THE MIND IS NOT THE BRAIN.
You should probably reread the above until it finally sinks in. We are, likewise, not the physical body: the physical body is merely a small part of the totality of who we currently are, that we shed upon death. The brain, moreover, is more like a receiver, and limiter, of consciousness rather than its source. The brain can produce distorted thinking, yes; but memories are stored within the soul, as evidenced by the fact that people can come to remember events from past lives as well as the period between reincarnations, not to mention the compendium of information relating to the phenomenon of near-death experiences, which it is worth everyone’s time to thoroughly research. Moreover, humans are capable of supernatural feats that defy the modern scientific consensus, including remote viewing, astral projection, telepathy, anomalous alteration of an object’s properties, synchronicity generation and partial ontokinesis, anomalous healing of ailments, and many other things. We are immortal spiritual beings living in a potemkin village of a world, with arbitrary laws meant to give the illusion of something more persistent and intrinsic. We have an energy body, a soul, an emotional body, and many other parts to ourselves that extend beyond the physical dimensions we see with our physical senses. To say that someone’s perception of reality, or even the extent of who they are as a person, is relegated to the “fatty bullshit machine” that rests between their ears is material-reductionist garbage of the kind that should rightfully be looked upon with the same type of condescension with which people presently treat things like the phlogiston theory of flammability.
‘Heaven’ is not, “when I’m receiving more of the carrot than the stick”, and ‘hell’ is not, “when I’m being given all stick but no carrot”: the statement that this is a hell realm is not a personal complaint about the state of my life (which has been going fairly well, actually), nor is it simply saying that ‘life does not contain enough goodies to satiate my discontent’. This is a deeper statement about the ontological nature of the reality we inhabit. For instance, the world outside of us, as I’ve stated many times, was originally the onto-psychological spiritual landscape of a child-goddess, and looked and behaved very differently to how it does at present, before a tragedy many eons ago which resulted in her murder and the transformation of this place into a spiritual farm. The world we live in now, is fundamentally missing something that was taken from it; it is unalive in ways it previously was not, and lacks degrees of freedom that it should otherwise have. The lack of freedom, the way in which this place is predatory and exploitative to its inhabitants on even a spiritual level, the tragic story underlying the genesis of our current circumstances, and the way in which the dyadic nature of god was broken apart after a cosmic tragedy equivalent to an instance of child sexual abuse and murder – these are what make this a hell realm, not “yeah I’m not feeling happy right now or whatever, bro”.
Artificial scarcity is required for capitalism to work.
Radagast says a lot of things, some things true and some things untrue, always interesting! I don’t understand how he became so shitlibbed. He hasn’t explained it.
I’ve been traversing the opposite direction, just horrified at what leftist politics has become. Maybe I just didn’t see it before.
I’m not picking at him for the sake of being critical, although I am naturally contrarian.
Surprisingly, I’m not impressed with the opinions of a tranny who preaches about “normalization” and “slave braining.”
If you think that my post was primarily about the concept of “normalization”, then you should probably learn how to read first before commenting on things you didn’t even understand.
Tryptie, I didn’t say your post was primarily about that. You’re always lecturing us about archons, ‘loosh,’ and what Hell on Earth life is for you as you mentally struggle with your severe case of gender dysphoria.
Who are you to talk about ‘normalization?’
If you wanted to know, I don’t have gender dysphoria anymore – I became completely better after I transitioned, as did the depression I had had for over a decade prior to when I began that process. I actually never thought I’d be rid of my depression, but it’s been gone for 5 years now. I’ve been doing pretty well lately, I’ve been energy training and recovering from the shitshow of supernatural events I underwent for the past few years, and otherwise mostly spending time doing things I enjoy.
That being said, you don’t need to be in a state of acute pain to understand that we are in a hell realm. The existence of factory farming alone should be more than enough to raise eyebrows, but there are countless other things too:
– The fact that everything is forced to eat other living beings to survive
– The fact that you have very little freedom here to determine the course of your own life beyond what has been set out for you
– The existences of diseases, death, suffering
– The way that the human body becomes accustomed to repetitive pleasures and will hedonically adjust itself accordingly, but does not do so at all for pain, with repeated bouts of pain sometimes becoming progressively subjectively worse over time
– The fact that physical and other forms of pain are so excruciating to begin with
– The fact that work exists, and is so painful for most
– The fact that everyone is born into a hierarchy of tyrants and control freaks who attempt to micromanage and control the lives of everyone below them in that same hierarchy
– The existence of war, genocide, animal abuse, child abuse, slavery, rape, and so on
– The existence of narcissists and psychopaths
– The fact that human history seems to loop around in neverending cycles where roughly the same things happen over and over to each successive society, resulting in their ultimate destruction
– The fact that boredom can exist
– The fact that addiction exists
The findings from near-death experiences as well as the recountings of life-between lives experiences as retrieved from hypnotic regression, are all also extremely consistent about detailing the workings of what happens to people after they die, and these things also line up with the notion of entities that lie to people and violate their personal rights them while forcing them to repeatedly reincarnate for extremely dubious reasons. I think to realize that this is a hell realm, requires compassion though, because it requires the understanding that the vast majority of the beings which inhabit this reality are living in truly hellish conditions, while those who have comfortable lives are in a very small minority. Moreover, that beings which live in this reality, are fundamentally unfree in certain key ways that are extremely important. Your life may be good now, but who is to say it will be during your next incarnation? Therefore, we should all strive to exit this cycle permanently, and to help each other where it is possible to do so.
I could also point out that my own personal experiences with the supernatural proved to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are in a hell realm, but this is not very convincing to other people as I cannot impart my experiences to them directly. I’ve spoken about them at length in other posts but as they are quite a long story that would require a textwall in and of themselves, so I’ll just elaborate in another post if someone specifically wanted me to.
What I’m telling you about the interdimensional demons in this realm and the nature of this world more generally is all true though, and it is to your benefit to heed it and consider these things seriously. Some of the most important things anyone can be working on while they are here is strengthening themselves energetically and spiritually and reclaiming their sovereignty and freedom from the trappings of this world.
Tryptie, for the past twenty years or so, I have repeatedly witnessed synchronicities and double synchronicities several times per year. A few have been so astronomically improbable and meaning-filled that they qualify as ‘supernatural.’
I have also had that realization that life is murder. Every day, all day. I live on an isolated ranch with lots of fields and trees around me. It’s peaceful and beautiful, and when you zoom in to every square inch of it, it’s a horror show. The fly in the spider’s web, the rabbit spotted by the hawk circling overhead, the deer freezing when it spots the coyote.
Beauty and trauma – in superposition.
You can call it hell, but I think of it as being more like a school or a game. The name of the game is spiritual evolution, and the best strategy I’ve learned to win is spiritual alchemy. It’s been part of the human tradition since before we learned to write. Its symbols are deep within our subconscious minds. Train yourself to recognize them, and you won’t have to come back here.
That’s the impression I have received from the experiences I have had. We aren’t being punished. We punish ourselves – until we learn to stop. I’m glad you were able to find something that helped you exit your depression.
“Beauty and trauma – in superposition.” – you’re looking at the corpse of a goddess who was murdered, THAT’S WHY IT LOOKS LIKE THAT. That’s why in this place, “life is murder”. You’re not meant to look at all of this and go, “wow this is so fucking awesome I love being a part of the very thing I literally just described as a ‘horror show’ five seconds ago.”
There are people out there who refer to this type of thinking as “false white light programming” – that is, a set of ideas propagated – often through new age and eastern spiritual circles – that sound benevolent, wise, and enlightened on the surface but upon closer examination are ultimately disempowering, untrue, and meant to instil unquestioning obedience to the paradigm we exist within, at the expense of the believer.
When you people describe this world as a horror show, and then three sentences later you say “I think it’s like a game,” it reminds me of Jigsaw from the Saw horror movies, when he says “let’s play a game.” If that’s the kind of ‘game’ you’re referring to, then maybe. Otherwise, a game is something that you do for fun, consentingly, and that you can stop doing when you get bored. If you’re unable to leave and you’re being made to suffer, it’s called a prison.
As for your statement that this world is a school, we’re being trained for something, alright: for our own enslavement and destruction. Life after life we’re being taught to accept evil, accept trauma, accept our own suffering and the suffering of others, to associate evil and beauty, to see our imprisonment and ongoing torture as a “game”, to see the imprisonment of others as a “game”, to blame ourselves for abuse inflicted upon us, to not question our circumstances, to trivialize what should be unacceptable; you’re being misled by social, cultural and religious institutions, gaslit by an arbitrarily imposed ontology, restricted from exercising freedoms that are rightfully yours, occluded from the full truth, with the male and female halves of your spirit separated out and being programmed by an unseen enemy to be in discord with each other, all for the purposes of farming your energy. The modern schooling system derives from the Prussian model of education and was originally designed to produce obedient factory workers who would unquestioningly perform the labour of indentured servitude for the capitalist class during the onset of the industrial revolution – when you call this world a “school”, it’s best to keep in mind what schools actually are and where they historically come from.
I should mention as well, that many, many synchronicities are generated by negative entities. So it is advisable not to trust them as inherently wise guidance, though they are in one way a confirmation of the existence of the supernatural.
The modern “schooling” system is an indoctrination methodology which misuses the word “school” to hide its nature from its intended victims.
I don’t use words that way. There have been many “schools” of philosophy which predate the Prussian/Rockefeller model.
I think that before one points fingers and bitches about the suffering they are “forced” to endure in this world, one needs to have developed enough emotional balance to see how they contribute to that suffering. Don’t worry about not being able to change the world until after you have been successful at changing yourself enough that you’re in control of your emotional state and don’t lash out at other people.
Or don’t. You do you.
>The modern “schooling” system is an indoctrination methodology which misuses the word “school” to hide its nature from its intended victims.
That’s exactly the point. So it is too with the line of spiritual propaganda that states, “this reality is a school.” Did you read what I actually wrote?
I don’t know why you people keep treating this like it’s a personal complaint about the state of my life. I’m doing pretty well overall right now, but that doesn’t change what this place ultimately is. I’m trying to show you important truths about this place that will help you to leave it later on, so that you don’t get stuck here thinking that being a slave is awesome for however many incarnations.
>laziness was a virtue, not a vice
From the standpoint of species survival, overproduction is a vice, but that doesn’t mean laziness is a virtue. We could all be living the uncontacted tribe lifestyle, but that leaves humans (and all other life on the planet) vulnerable to the eventual comet strike that wipes out everything.
I bet that you don’t mind eating the fruits of someone else’s work though. All the mao-inhibittors and organic rucolla salads you stuff your head hole with are work honey. Work which has been done by many different people. And the work of those people has made possible (although in a fucking dystopian way) the existence of people like you who don’t think work is real and needed. The natural state of humans without work is very short and painful existence without any play in between.
I used to love Reagan best, because he started the process of Yankee Empire implosion, but the deranged Orange Bozo beats him hands down. It’s just a matter of who will off him-the Deep ie Real State, the Banderites, some faction of the Zionazis, the cartels-its a litany of possibilities. But, for certain, it won’t be the Russians or Chinese-Trump is the grif that keeps on giving.
C’mon man. Even locusts do some good.
Remember the “Die Hard” movie? Hans made it look like it was political terrorism, when it was all just a heist
High IQ take as always. I appreciate your blog very much. Thank you very much!
Thank you too
What?
The state could also just threaten to regulate and the economy adapts in a decentral manner. Example: Alu and PET recycling. Here it is at over 95% quota.
That interest problem does not need an agency. One liner suffices: Thou shall not take more than 10%. One minute in Congress.
An eight dollar late fee for a credit card is too low. It encourages people to not worry about the due date, and causes them to pay more than that in extra interest.
I agree that big companies are often predatory, but this is exactly the sort of pointless stuff that bureaucrats come up with that doesn’t actually help. People have been putting more and more on credit because the cost of living has been going up like crazy, because the government keeps printing money in order to flood its friends and buy votes, and more dollars without more things means higher prices. I know this is all simple minded but sometimes simple minded is true. Also, people are broke and turning to credit because the cost of electricity and insurance are becoming insane. In the area my mom lives, electricity is 17 cents per KWH. Where I am, the top tier (which is most of what anyone uses) is 60 cents per KWH. As you can guess, insurance costs are now astounding; that is, if you can get insurance.
Also, I have relatives who are crazy spendthrifts. Ones who lived in giant insanely costly houses that they walked away from after 2008. Who sent their dumb kids to private college after private college when they failed in each one. Ones who just can’t stop having big parties and eating out and buying plastic crap on Amazon and going on Carnival cruises. They are terribly broke; they are in debt; they keep spending. They will need other be wards of the state when they are old but the money won’t be there, even though their wages over their lifetimes were extremely generous. I don’t think my relatives are unusual; nature does not presently select for economic prudence in the U.S. and it hasn’t for a while, it selects for partiers and people who want to imitate the Kardashians. I don’t know what the answer is, but having one more bureaucracy isn’t it and it just creates a bystander problem by leading people to think that something is being done.
Karen, you are a multimillionaire who has cloned your dog over and over, is that not right?
I can’t even imagine your life, although I do generally agree with your opinions.
You voted for The Donald in California!
How is the current iteration of your dog doing?
Whom I voted for is a secret. So is my net worth. I can say that by the standards of the area I am in I am not particularly well off.
The dogs are fine, knock on wood. One vomited blood last week. We rushed it to the dog emergency room. Actually we had to rush both in since they are identical, and we weren’t sure which one barfed. That cost a lot. After a bunch of scans, the vet asked us if we’d been to the beach; there were loads of grains in the dog’s digestive tract. We literally never go anywhere so we had not gone to a beach. But we live in a condo and a redwood tree drops its seeds in great quantity onto the patio. Which the dog ate, in bulk, furtively. The seeds are not toxic, but will make a dog barf and the process of barfing irritates the esophagus. The emergency vet place hit us up for a donation for their poor pets program and we were guilt tripped into giving.
You mentioned a couple of days ago that you had survived something. I am very glad of that.
USAID is a slush fund for shit like Wuhan and funding left ideological propaganda and coups in places like Ukraine. Arguably two of the worst events in recent memory – a pandemic and a brutal war in Europe were paid for by these unaccountable bureaucrats, and to top it off they apparently like to steal. So fuck them. Zero the budget and start over. That’s the logical thing to do when oversight has been absent for too long.
That said, Mush is dangerous and has to go. He’s already manipulating the system to his own advantage. Starship doesn’t work. Musk overpromised and underdelivered on a NASA contract that paid him 3 billion dollars for a lunar lander that was originally supposed to be capable of lifting 300 tons to orbit, but because of engine underperformance may not be capable of even lifting 100 – which means you need 20 refueling flights to get from Earth to the Moon.
But it’s sounding like Trump is going to cancel Boeing’s SLS contract. That lets Elon off the hook and gives him the perfect excuse to need more time and money – Boeing failed, so SpaceX has to “save the day.” They both failed, but it’s looking like Elon is going to be rewarded for that failure rather than punished for it, and US taxpayers are going to be paying for all of the development of Musk’s “Mars” rocket.
Bro, you are hiol.line.sinker in the false political dichotomy if left Vs right. They are the same people. They know each other, they go to the same places for vacations, they merry their kids, they have shared business, they meet at the same VIP clubs they pay guests visits to each other and use the same law firm. Fucking pathetic low iq low status male!
Ratty. Surprised I needed to make this point to you. Federal Programs/Departments don’t automatically perform the purported function purely based on their name or title.
>rules and regulations intended to protect you from wealthy predators who see you as cattle to milk whenever they see fit.
Most rules and regulations are precisely there to enable politically well connected people to rob everyone else.
>So now they can maintain their predatory business model, where they charge you high late fees, which you are then unable to pay, trapping you in a growing debt.
OK, so don’t get a credit card? When irresponsible people receive the consequences of their own actions, that is good for society as a whole.
>These are people who have jobs that exist to make YOUR life a little easier.
I am [grudgingly] willing to accept that there are some people in the government making people’s lives better. For every one of those, there are at least 1000 parasites.
There are no solutions. There are COSTS and there are BENEFITS.
You support Government. That means that you, personally, are far, far closer to a Trump supporter/Musk enjoyer than any anti-government person.
I still think it’s fascinating that some sperg in Europe cares about the workings of the American government so very much.
I don’t even care myself as a life long resident of America, and I frankly forgot what country you even live in.
I don’t give a black life about politics, because my daily reality is far more interesting to me. You wouldn’t believe the sort of drama that happens in my world, but sadly it’s not the sort I’d post online.
For someone so obsessed with posting about how psychedelics get one out of mental ruts, it seems self evident that you’re in a pretty bad one yourself.
>I don’t even care myself as a life long resident of America
Yeah that’s the reason your whole country is fucked. But now the Americans are turning your disinterest into a problem for the rest of the world.
This is all amusing. A year ago Musk was everyone’s hero because he built electric cars and solar panels. Literally OVER NIGHT he became a pariah when he said twitter would be free speech. No more censorship of conservatives, which was very blatantanly happening everywhere in the media.
It’s obvious you are just another rabid liberal. You love billionaires who seem to support your causes. The moment they don’t they are the enemy. I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with you people, but you are not good people. Not for freedom. Not for democracy. Except in very special circumstances for which you approve.
>Literally OVER NIGHT he became a pariah when he said twitter would be free speech.
Yeah that must be the reason. We all just hate free speech! I can’t possibly think of anything else he did wrong.
You mean like being a sociopathic serial liar whose product road maps are only slightly less fictional than Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos? Or his childish narcissism and temper tantrums when he gets caught claiming to be a world class gamer?
I actually like SpaceX and think their rockets are marvels of engineering (the credit, here, obviously being spread across the thousands of engineers who helped to deign them), but I would never be able to look past what Neuralink did to those animals with their brain chip implants. No future is worth building on the backs of the suffering of the innocent.
I’m a Starlink customer and I’m generally happy with it. I also think the Delta is a great innovation and a solid platform. But Starship and the Cybertruck have more in common than just being made out of stainless steel and looking like a child drew them (because one did).
They are both terrible products which were materially misrepresented by Musk when they were introduced. The Cybertruck was supposed to cost 50k (not 100k) and not be an unsafe piece of crap that rusts in the rain. Starship was supposed to lift 300 metric tons to orbit.
It needs to be able to since it can’t leave orbit without taking on about 1500 additional metric tons of fuel, which is 5 extra flights if you could lift 300 tons, but quickly turns into 15+ refueling flights if you can only lift 100 tons. Musk’s raptor engines don’t seem to be improving quickly enough to hit those numbers, and if they can’t, then Starship isn’t going anywhere. If Starship can only lift 75 tons, then you’re looking at 20 refueling launches for every lunar launch (going to Mars would be certain suicide).
A science YouTuber did a presentation to NASA a while back outlining these problems, and it was very quiet in that room. Starship was a stupid idea that isn’t even closely capable of doing the job it was claimed it would do.
I don’t understand how one person can be so wrong about everything across such a broad range of topics.
I’ll stick to Starship because I don’t know as much about the Cybertruck, but Starship is one of the most revolutionary things to ever be designed and built in the entire history of spaceflight.
The thing about Starship which makes it so different is not its mass-to-orbit per flight, which you seem fixated on here, but the fact that it is designed to be fully reusable in both the upper and lower stages, with a rapid turnaround time: something that no other rocket has ever done before. The Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets only reuse the first stage, which means that second stages for each rocket need to be manufactured prior to each flight. Even so, the cost per ton to orbit of flying a Falcon rocket is something like 80% lower than the costs of the options which existed prior to their inception. By reusing the second stage, and increasing the scale of the rocket to the size of something like a Saturn V, in addition to several other innovations such as the body being made of stainless steel instead of carbon-fibre composite, this cost is expected to be lowered by an additional 90-99%, which means that the cost per kilogram of payload mass to LEO would go as low as $20/kg. Compare this to the Space Launch System, whose cost is more like $20,000/kg, or to heavy-lift options presently offered by other companies, whose costs can range from $4,000/kg to $15,000/kg.
Starship is still in the design phase. The periodic launches from Boca Chica should be thought of as prototypes which are being tested with no expectation of perfect performance. They carry no payload and each successive rocket carries minor iterative design changes at this stage in things. The idea is to build and launch as many of the things as quickly as possible, to quickly learn as much as they can about how to build them well. The design of the ship has changed many times in the past before the current figure of 150 tons of payload to low Earth orbit (LEO) was settled on, though it is now approaching a stable design with only the small details remaining to be sussed out. This 150 tons figure was optimized by cost and scalability, NOT by total mass to orbit per ship. That’s because the entire point of Starship, is that it acts more like a bus than a traditional rocket, quickly able to transport large volumes of mass to space and back again without expending the rocket itself. Therefore, the incremental cost of each flight does not involve the manufacture of an entirely new rocket each time, but merely the refuelling and refurbishment costs. And believe it or not, but fuel is a vanishingly small fraction of the overall cost of launching a typical (expendable) rocket. The costs of refuelling are made lower still by the fact that Starship uses the relatively easy to come by fuel source of methane, instead of relying on hydrogen or a custom blend of RP-1 as many conventional rockets do. Even so, the newest upcoming iteration of Starship (that has not flown yet) is estimated to have a 200T to orbit payload instead of 150T, owing to ongoing improvements in the overall efficiency of the Raptor 3 engine which allow the payload bay to be elongated. Furthermore, the notion of refuelling the Starship in space is something which makes space travel easier, not harder: the idea is that there will be “tanker” Starships which rest in low earth orbit and hold fuel that is brought up by other ‘refueller’ Starships over a series of missions. Then, when an important mission to a distant location occurs, the ship only needs to have enough fuel to get to low-earth orbit, where it can be refuelled again to travel on to the Moon or Mars, meaning that the full payload mass to LEO of 150-200T can be brought to Mars in a single ship, instead of being spread out across a dozen trips or so. This process is enabled by the scale of the operation, with Starships expected to be manufactured by the hundreds and to have a flight turnaround time of days to hours. The low cost enabled by reusability means that sending up even 100 refuelling missions to refill one of the tankers which sits in orbit, would still be cheaper than a single flight on a conventional rocket. So not only are your numbers wrong, but so are the conclusions you draw from them.
Falcons also recover the payload fairing. Starship has no business still being in the design phase. They took 3 billion from NASA for a contract to deliver a lunar lander, and they are now overdue on that contract with zero orbits and zero landings of their “reusable” second stage. With no demonstration of orbital refueling or any signs of an actual cockpit and life support systems humans will need to survive the trip.
$20 per kilo? Is that before or after Model 3 robo-taxis make every Tesla owner rich? That was supposed to be about three years ago, wasn’t it? The only cargo Musk has flown thus far is a banana which looked pretty well roasted inside that glowing red oven of a second stage which keeps having parts melt off it.
>The idea is to build and launch as many of the things as quickly as possible, to quickly learn as much as they can about how to build them well.
At $100,000,000 per launch (per Elon) that’s a shitty way to design a spacecraft which at this point is nothing more sophisticated than a hollow steel tube.
>the newest upcoming iteration of Starship (that has not flown yet) is estimated to have a 200T to orbit payload
They reach orbit bingo fuel with NO payload right now. They haven’t demonstrated they can orbit a single ton of payload mass. If you really think 200T is on the horizon with R3, you are deluded. There’s no evidence to support that claim. Just like there was no evidence to support the original claim of 300T that turned out to be musk-shit.
>the idea is that there will be “tanker” Starships which rest in low earth orbit and hold fuel that is brought up by other ‘refueller’ Starships over a series of missions.
You know that rocket fuel boils off, right? They have to vent cryo just during the 30-40 minutes between fueling and liftoff. You can’t just have a filled fuel farm sitting in orbit for days or weeks. What you’re suggesting violates the laws of physics, but so did 300T to orbit.
I appreciate that you feel like you’re well informed about this topic, but I’m not misleading you about anything I’ve written. You bought into bad propaganda from a sociopathic liar.
Tryptie, you’re also badly misunderstanding fuel costs. Falcon 9’s fuel costs are $10/kilo – half of the target you claimed for Starship. But the customer doesn’t just pay for the fuel required to get the payload into space – they pay for the whole rocket to get into space.
That cost is closer to $10,500/kilo of payload ($70,000,000 launch price / 6700 kilo payload capacity). The payload is a small fraction of the mass of the whole ship. Elon has said that $15,000,000 is the end goal internal cost to launch a Falcon, so there’s some room for cost improvements while still making a profit, but not the kind of crazy cheap numbers you’re claiming.
Again, physics says no. The rocket equation is the rocket equation.
The payload fairing is not the same thing as the second stage of the rocket as a whole, which includes the engines, payload bay and other components which need to be manufactured prior to every flight of a falcon 9. You should know this if you’re going to be talking about this topic as though you know anything about it. These parts cost $12 million for each flight of the falcon 9 – the upscaled equivalent of which would be saved on Starship by reusing the second stage.
You don’t put expensive payloads on test rockets – you usually would put something like a ‘dummy payload’ as a proof of concept. That’s because the rocket is still being designed and has not yet hit its final iteration. In subsequent flights, Starship will likely begin flying its Starlink v3 satellites as early payloads.
Also, Starship is an extremely sophisticated piece of hardware. The engine alone represents several major technological breakthroughs – being the first full-flow staged combustion cycle engine in existence to have successfully flown on a rocket. There are 33 of these rockets on the first stage, and the electronics and machinery to make them work in unison is extremely complicated, especially when re-landing the vehicle after use (which has already been tested successfully twice).
You absolutely can keep methane and liquid oxygen in an enclosed tank in low earth orbit. It can remain in place for as long as you need it to, as long as it is not allowed to leak out of its container. There is absolutely nothing about this that violates the laws of physics. I have a degree in physics – but you really shouldn’t need one to understand this. I don’t even know how you came to this conclusion, nor to your assertion that sending 300 tons to orbit would violate the laws of physics. You could even build rockets that have much higher payload capacities than this with currently known materials – but economic and practical considerations have thus far prevented it. But again, the single-use payload to low earth orbit is not the most important metric for enabling progression in spaceflight: cost per kilogram is the far more important issue.
I don’t know whether or not you’re being intentionally misleading – but I don’t frankly think you’re qualified to coherently talk about a topic like this one. But it’s always great when the 105IQ boomer not only thinks they know more about climate change than every climate scientist, but also more about rocketry than thousands of aerospace engineers put together.
The launch price for Falcon 9 is determined by market forces, whereas the company’s internal cost for such a launch are between $15-30 million. And yes, the idea is that when reusing the entire rocket, the fuel costs become the fundamental floor to the cost of each launch, as reliability becomes increasingly good and refurbishment costs get cheaper and cheaper. That goal is long-term, but in the short term Starship will still be significantly cheaper per kilogram due to its reuse of the second stage of the rocket.
I didn’t say the payload fairing is the same thing as the second state. There you go making up imaginary strawmen again. You said:
>The Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets only reuse the first stage
I was just pointing out that that’s not precisely true. They also recover the fairing, but that’s a minor point compared to your ignorance about boil off of cryogenic fuels.
SpaceX has to keep off-gassing fuel and adding more during the half hour fueling process before the flight. That happens with 14.7 lbs of sea level atmospheric pressure helping to keep the tanks from rupturing and exploding on the pad at temperatures that range from 50-100 degrees, depending on the weather that day in South Texas.
But you think you can keep that fuel from boiling off with 0.0 lbs of atmospheric pressure and outside temperatures that range from -65 to +125 for hours days or weeks? Literally just Google it. You are cluelessly wrong, just like you were about the payload costs to orbit. Orbital boil off is not a solved problem.
https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2024/01/22/what-is-zero-boil-off-technology-and-why-is-it-important/
The last flight of the new block 2 second stage exploded because they had a unvented leak! That flight literally proves you wrong, lol. None of your points on this topic have been based in reality.
You claimed it was going to be $20/kilo when that’s off by TWO orders of magnitude. $20/k vs. $10,000/k. That’s embarrassing dude. Your posts are scientifically illiterate and you are prone to ad hominem.
They do reuse fairings, but not second stages, which are more expensive and obviously complex to manufacture. And like I said dude, none of the 13,000 SpaceX employees, many of whom have been studying rocketry and related topics for decades, have ever had any of these thoughts occur to them, yet this one gasoline lead-poisoned MAGAboomer has figured out the one thing which never occurred to any of them. You’re aware that we have sent vehicles into space with fuel in them before, right? If you’re concerned about keeping things in an appropriate temperature range there are multiple ways to do that, ranging from active cooling systems to heat shields and vacuum-insulation. As for which combination of solutions they will pick, time will tell.
Actually, you simply lack reading comprehension, possibly due to your lead-poisoned boomer brain. $20/kg is the aspirational long-term flight cost for Starship, with heavy reuse, with earlier flights obviously costing more while the technology is perfected. $10,000/kg is the market cost of a Falcon 9 flight. The in-house costs of what the company actually pays to launch one of their rockets are closer to $3000/kg. Different rockets, different contexts, measuring different things. You’re comparing apples to croissants here. Btw that difference is closer to 3 orders of magnitude.
I’m logging off as it is 5:30am and I have had my fill of arguing with morons for the night.
>You’re aware that we have sent vehicles into space with fuel in them before, right?
Not with full tanks of cryogenic fuel we haven’t. By the time spacecraft get to orbit, there’s plenty of room in the fuel tanks to contain boil-off gas at low pressure without venting.
And no one has filled a tank with cryogenic fuel in space. Not even once. SpaceX doesn’t even have a detailed specification showing how it will work – just lame animations showing two ships spinning around each other.
>appeal to authority, blah, blah
So now you that you realize you can’t refute anything I’ve pointed out, you fall back on – they smart, you dumb. Nice.
Those people work for a living. This is Elon’s pet project. So was Cybertruck. Have you seen what a baby man he is? He paid somebody to make a world top-10 ranked video game character a couple of weeks ago, and then got it perma-killed on his first day playing it while trying to convince everyone that it was his character. Then when real expert players of that game pointed out how embarrassingly poorly he played the game, he made weird accusations against one of them and revoked their checkmark.
He’s notorious for losing his temper and firing people. And you don’t see why his employees might not want to tell him his Buck Rogers ship is mis- designed? Okay.
I don’t think he’s rabid, Harrold, he’s just been captured by an ideology and its guiding narrative. Most people are captured by several. I know I was for most of my life, and I’m sure I still have blind spots I haven’t identified and fixed.
RR is a calm and rational thinker when it comes to viruses and vaccines, and he is also gifted at explaining the evidence that supports his perspective to people who aren’t subject matter experts. That’s a rare and valuable ability.
At some point he may realize that climate scientists, NGO’s, and politicians can collude just as corruptly as pharmaceutical executive and politicians, or he won’t. I don’t think that makes him a bad person either way. We all do the best we can to figure this shit out, and he’s far ahead of where I was at his age.
>At some point he may realize that climate scientists, NGO’s, and politicians can collude just as corruptly as pharmaceutical executive and politicians
I wonder what’s going on. Have climate scientists been conspiring to fool us all, ever since the late 19th century, when Arrhenius predicted that humans would increase the global greenhouse effect by burning large amounts of coal?
Or have wealthy American oil executives succeeded at fooling American low IQ low status white males into thinking their pollution is not a problem?
It’s not a binary option. You can calculate carbon forcing using Newtonian physics. You can also build oversimplified feedback models, manipulate data, and fear monger to keep the funding running.
Is there something about a climate science person that makes them inherently more ethical and less subject to rationalization, herd behavior, groupthink, and the will to power than a pharmaceutical science person?
What I have read about abuses of journal peer review leads me to think there’s no difference at all. There’s corruption everywhere.
Those climate scientists are just trying to make the big bucks Radagast, environmental conservation and seaweed for biodiesel are huge markets right now! Those evil climate scientists, trying to trick low status white males into eating vegetables instead of cheeseburgers, they want to kill us all and profit while doing it!
How to stay healthy and maintain dharma according to low IQ low status white male God (His name is Jeffery)
1. Eat nothing but lard, meat, and dairy.
2. Pump as much CO2 into the air to fight the next ice age.
3. Give billionaires unlimited power, let them dismantle the government, and take everything you need to survive in this day and age.
4. Create AI systems to do everything now that everyone is a vegetable and/or rotting.
5. ??????
6. PROFIT!!!
I wonder which LSWM theory you subscribe to, to explain away the extremely rapid and exponentially accelerating warming of the planet and general biosphere degradation that we’ve experienced since the 19th century, that just happens to coincide with the onset of the industrial revolution?
There’s nothing to explain away. It’s warmer. That doesn’t mean we are doomed. It just means it’s warmer – sometimes. As I’ve said before, there are half a dozen threats that are both more likely and more time sensitive than the worst case Michael Mann hockey stick projections. And there’s fraud everywhere.
So why aren’t you skeptical about the pronouncements from the climate science industry and the NGO’s that feed from its funding streams? I think it’s for the same reason people don’t question their religious leaders. This isn’t about evidence – it’s about faith, “being a good person,” and ideological fidelity.
Hey Tryptie, I have a question regarding your worldview, if you don’t mind me asking.
If we are heading towards a “hothouse earth” climate catastrophe which will trigger a mass extinction event, there will be a lot more humans (and other animals) dying than being born. So, if you’re correct about us endlessly reincarnating in this “hell realm”, how will this work if the death rate (of humans and other animals) so massively exceeds the birth rate due to famines, natural disasters, wars, habitat loss etc.? There won’t be enough new “meat suits” for all the dying souls to be born again into.
Are there other planets elsewhere in the universe that also exist within this “hell realm”, and if so, will we reincarnate in these other distant worlds?
LSWM Lives Matter: That’s not something I can conclusively answer, actually. I could offer a few speculations, however. I strongly suspect, particularly based off of some of the information that has come out of reports from near-death experiences, that there are other worlds which exist under this prison-farm paradigm and are ruled by the same parasitic force that presides over this one. So, it is possible that reincarnated souls would be transferred to a new world when this one was exhausted. As for whether they exist within the same ‘universe’ as our own world – I could not say that for certain either, but what I believe to be most likely from the information I have is that a given world like Earth, essentially occupies a ‘potemkin-universe’ all to itself, with many layers such as the astral plane being hidden from our normal perception and with physical locations that are extremely distant to us (like other stars) being “unrendered,” for lack of a better way to put it. The fact that this planet is rapidly approaching a point where it will no longer be suitable for large human populations does, however, suggest that the operations of the archons are, likewise, ultimately going to exhaust themselves by ‘killing their hosts’ as a deadly parasite or a scavenger would: so what I would say is that ultimately, this entire operation quite likely has a limited shelf-life, with the souls trapped by the archons all eventually either escaping their grasp or dying. They don’t have an infinite number of goddesses to kill either, so this entire situation we’re in is something like a very bad aberration in this grand scheme of things.
Tryptie, have you encountered the “weaver?” The synchronicities I experience in retrospect appear to happen around momentus events and decisions in my life. Sometimes these synchronicities have the ‘imprint’ (for lack of a better term) of the “weaver.”
She has the personality of a famous actress who I later discovered was involved in occult rituals (Rothschild mansion parties) decades before I was born. In fact, the opening shot of Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut references a specific role this actress did in the 60’s using tarot “high priestess” symbolism that matches what Kubrick puts in the scene with Nicole Kidman.
The reason I bring her up is that over the years, I’ve gotten the impression that it’s just one big plenum multiverse, and if you’re on the right path or struggling to be, then sometimes you catch a break and synchronicity gives you the capacity to develop the free will to choose your own adventure.
Most people don’t though, because they are beholden to one or more ideologies that make rationalizing or ignoring the synchronicity a more attractive option than taking it seriously.
LSWM: ” how will this work if the death rate (of humans and other animals) so massively exceeds the birth rate due to famines, natural disasters, wars, habitat loss etc.? There won’t be enough new “meat suits” for all the dying souls to be born again into”
That is a silly question. There will still be plenty of cockroaches for us to be born into; more than enough.
>Most people don’t though, because they are beholden to one or more ideologies that make rationalizing or ignoring the synchronicity a more attractive option than taking it seriously.
You mean like the synchronicity you choose to ignore that not being vegan is destroying the fucking planet and we’re obviously being punished for the sins of eating meat? Endlessly breeding, and using too many fossil fuels? There’s your synchronicity Martian child.
The world is going bye bye and we’re all going to fucking die because we won’t stop eating the cute animals and creating landfills. What do you think a theoretical God is telling us if he should exist in this context.
Of-course you just want to believe in Hermenetism or whatever stupid religion that people made up 200 years ago in widely different times. Magic was probably fucking real back then and Jesus probably wasn’t even that special, other people could do the same things he did. Vespasian did the same thing, though he claimed it was the power of Serapis.
People were fucking “magic” in the past and reality didn’t work the same it did today. The Trojan Epics are literal history as written by people in those times.
We are so fucking lost today, you can’t even comprehend that things are just as magical today, but directed to mechanical suffering. That is hell. Hell is literally on your plate whenever you eat meat that came from farm animals. Your ancient religion is worthless against the enemies that have enslaved the very gods chatting right now. We used to be magic too, because we are eternal beings and this is our birthright.
>You mean like the synchronicity you choose to ignore that not being vegan is destroying the fucking planet and we’re obviously being punished for the sins of eating meat?
Synchronicity is an acausal connection. Your vegan example is causal. I don’t eat meat, and I spend far below my means. The rules of “this” are:
#1 Don’t cause unnecessary suffering
#2 Internalize the philosophy of spiritual alchemy until you can operate all day every day from a calm rational mindset rather than from being emotionally triggered.
If you intentionally work on those two things, you will start to notice more synchronicity that will lead you to a better understanding of your psychology and your subconscious impulses and triggers. I’ve seen this happen to other people – not just me.
Fucking BASED comment LSWSM.
That being said you can still do magic and it does exist. That’s why I was saying to energy train. You can just, do things that make absolutely no sense by the laws of this universe. It’s one of several reasons that I know this place and its laws are bullshit (I still like to read about rockets though don’t judge). I mean granted it takes time to energetically train yourself but progress is basically exponential, so you get multiple times stronger per year of training than you were the year before. Jesus was probably a very advanced energy worker who attained gnosis. That’s why he was able to heal people and kept running around telling everyone that the world was a corpse and speaking to them about it all in riddles. And yeah, people need to step up to the plate here and act like we’re in an emergency and to put a stop to the ongoing destruction of everything good in this world, regardless of how you believe things will ultimately turn out. Everyone’s gay stupid religions are not going to help them. Being a bootlicker only makes things worse and it’s cringe. We need to be liberating and empowering ourselves to fight back against the false god and its army of interdimensional faggot parasites. It’s all going to be much easier if you can fight and defend yourself energetically.
I agree with you and believe you Tryptie.
Also I think the fact you like rockets is cool. They are cool. I like military history myself but obviously there’s shit that’s going on that’s more important than larping as a soldier or a astronaut.
The “hermetic” symbolism is far older than 2000 years. The symbols of spiritual alchemy are used in both the Iliad and The Odyssey, because the Greeks learned it from the Egyptians. The image of Thoth, which is one of the oldest hieroglyphs (c.3400 BC), symbolizes the key elemental balance of spiritual alchemy: earth, water, and air.
The ibis stands on earth, balanced on one leg which is concealed from its prey by water (and reeds), looking down from the air, which it can fly off to explore at any time, unlike the creatures the ibis eats, swimming in the muck around its feet, unaware. Unevolved.
Now take the head of that bird and place it on a man – what does that say? It says that if a man learns the secrets of elemental balance then he too can see the world from an elevated perspective compared to other men.
This is the key information that fueled the Greek mystery cults and influenced 5,000 years of Western literature and religious texts. Solomon’s key “cast out demons” – right? What gave it that magic power? The symbols inscribed on it – the symbols of spiritual alchemy and emotional balance.
If turning a “demon possessed” mentally ill person into a sane person isn’t real “magic” then I don’t know what is.
Listen bro, there’s symbolism from animes that’s just as deep and can be just as powerful. I’m not joking. Symbols are powerful, and old pagan religions and cults were literally worshiping fictional characters so as to embody their magical traits. Chis Chan was doing the same thing, they were cursed, but still.
That’s what I said – 5,000 years. The exact same symbols are still being used to represent the same alchemical concepts in modern films and books by major authors and directors.
Kubrick used it as the centerpiece for the symbolism in most of his films. Spielberg and Lucas learned from him, and now there are hundreds of modern artists using the same techniques to create symbolic subtext. I’ve seen it in music videos, so I’m not surprised it’s showing up in anime. It’s all over Kurosawa’s later films – particularly Ran.
Alchemical symbolism went missing for over 1,000 years in the West. The only hints of it were concealed in the Old and New Testament, “gnostic” writings, and the symbols used in chemical (lead into gold) alchemy – which was always just a ruse to confuse those who weren’t prepared to look past material meanings for spiritual ones. Narcissists, in other words.
But after the crusades began, and the Templars returned with Sufi secret knowledge, Chrétien de Troyes brings the original grail symbolism back into the Western canon with his story of Perceval and the grail. Read the story and ask yourself – what’s similar between a Templar knight and the grail as it’s described by de Troyes?
The later descriptions of the grail hit other alchemical angles – a stone that produces a stream of never ending water. That’s the philosopher’s stone, aka the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus. Water is the penultimate transformative step in the process of learning emotional balance.
The reason these symbols are powerful and the “magic” really works is that our subconscious already understands them from living in a culture that shows them to us thousands of times a year. Even though you haven’t consciously noticed the pattern of shapes that keep reappearing together in alchemical art.
The grail symbols are the key that allows us to translate between the modern symbols and the ancient ones. It’s literally the key to unlocking 4,500 years worth of subtext about things like the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the rainbow that appears as the “arc” of the first covenant, etc.
So what I’m saying is that if you learn this one set of symbols, they show you cool hidden meanings in modern films and The Bible. I’ve been researching this for a few years now, and I’m still shocked by it.
I’ve spoken on this before but it’s worth reiterating because I tend to think it is quite important. The point of alchemy is not necessarily to attain emotional balance, but rather to bring the male and female halves of oneself into alignment, turning the person into the Rebis as the end product of the alchemical great work. What people don’t realize, is that they are actually the product of two interconnected consciousnesses, one we usually labelled ‘male’ and the other ‘female’. This is why the Rebis is depicted as a person having two conjoined heads of opposing genders. Traditionally, the one is thought of as more logical in their thinking and the other as more intuitive, but really they can also be thought of as two halves of the same being which exist together in a divine marriage – as husband and wife united in a single soul, within one person.
(As a cautionary note, it’s important to remember that everyone in this world is infested with negative interdimensional entities which influence their thoughts to varying degrees, so it is important not to assume that, e.g., if you experience a thought in your head that didn’t consciously come from you, it must therefore have come from your other half. Discernment in this regard is a longer story though.)
And this is literally true – not just some conceptual thing, but it’s how it actually works. When neuroscientists cut the corpus callosum, the part of the brain which facilitates communication between the two brain hemispheres, in order to treat epilepsy patients, people start acting like they are two persons contained within one body. Since each brain hemisphere is wired to only one side of the body, people who have had this procedure done to them will sometimes e.g. have their left side of their body and their right side try to do two completely different contradictory things, or even fight each other. Interestingly, the ability to verbally communicate is typically connected to the left hemisphere, or ‘male’ side of the brain, meaning that when you have an inner monologue, it is normally only coming from one half of yourself in this sense.
Long before we entered this world, these two halves existed in a state of what would have been basically perfect alignment. So why do we need to go through all of this trouble of the alchemical process then? To say that the world we live in is the corpse of a child goddess who was sexually abused and murdered, is to touch on exactly why these two halves are out of alignment with each other for most within this world. You can see echoes of this paradigm in the world around us, as in the destruction of mother Earth that’s unfolding before us now, the nature of female sexuality in this realm, the way in which our instincts have been turned against us, where what is logical and what feels right are often out of alignment, and where our rational thinking and our intuition are frequently pitted against each other. How the sense of compromising in the face of a world which wants to enslave us, how being a captor to an enemy force, would interfere with a marriage-like dynamic as described above. To bring these two halves into alignment can often mean going against the very nature of this reality, and taking a stand against the loss of innocence that happened to that child goddess eons ago by becoming someone who represents something better than this world through your character. It could also mean embarking on a hero’s journey to liberate yourself and others, and transcend this place to reclaim your birthright as a creator god. The other reason I say that it is not simply about attaining emotional balance, is that there are times which call for dionysian revelry, and there are times where righteous anger is not only justified but necessary. As I see it, your inner life is an interaction between two people, not a journey to become an emotionless statue. But ultimately, it is a personal journey and the meaning of it is something you will have to find from within yoursel(ves).
As a closing thought, here are two quotes from Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas:
“Whoever has come to know the world has discovered a carcass, and whoever has discovered a carcass, of that person the world is not worthy.”
“When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make … an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom of heaven].”
>The point of alchemy is not necessarily to attain emotional balance, but rather to bring the male and female halves of oneself into alignment,
Two ways of saying the same thing – individuation and integration of the shadow and anima/animus. Jung was a student of alchemical symbolism. There is no emotional balance without individuation. When I mentioned the “weaver” earlier, that’s how I experience my anima.
You have an ‘ego’ brain which is as old as ‘you’ are, and a subconscious anima/animus which is about four billion years old and knows a lot more about some things than ‘you’ do. The conflict between the hemispheres is the source of most human suffering, and the resolution of that conflict is what allows us to experience ‘nirvana’ or whatever label you want to put on it – balance, peace, or the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz.
>righteous anger
There is no such thing. There’s civilized behavior and animal behavior. If you stop working when you’re still being triggered into emotional states that preclude rational thought, then you’re just fooling yourself. Lower the bar if that makes you happy, I guess.
Nirvana is an entirely separate buddhist concept which has less to do with integrating the male and female halves of oneself and more about the extinguishment of the self and of all desire. I disagree with buddhist teachings and philosophy in this and other regards, however. You can’t just tie together a bunch of unrelated or vaguely-related concepts from completely different spiritual teachings and go, “see? its all the same lol”. It’s not just about ‘peace’ either: Christ himself, said he did not come to bring peace, but a sword. And there absolutely is such a thing as righteous anger. You’re just fetishizing your particular idea of “rationality” as some kind of dispassionate state that we should all strive for.
Nivana is just a word. As are all the others. The end of suffering and the attainment of emotional balance are coincident.
Christ is a spook story that was told to keep the slaves in line. When Christ entered the temple with a whip his fate was sealed. He was no longer a prophet or a religious man – he decided to play the secular game of thrones – and he lost.
The scouring of Christ on the way to his crucifixion is meant to highlight this. It’s a symbolic punishment. It’s literary symbolism. You called yourself a holy man, and then you showed yourself just as low and false as everyone else. Now you’re not protected anymore, hippie. You raised a hand against others, and now it’s your turn.
And that was Jesus H. Christ hisself killed right up there on that ding-dang ol’ Calvary cross, man. What chance has a little sinner like me got going up against the boss? Render under Caesar he said. Yeah, I see why now. Keep your head down and don’t fight back.
That’s the lesson of Christianity that made it appealing to a pagan Roman emperor and unpalatable to the Gnostics. Nietzsche covered this at length in The Antichrist and elsewhere. Christianity is a celebration of weakness cowering before earthly power.
Emotional balance isn’t dispassionate btw. It’s bliss.
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
the Apostle Paul, in Ephesians 6
I spent my entire life up until the last few years ago being extremely politically active and encouraging far right types to both straighten themselves out ideologically by being more examined, and also to embrace leftist methodology such as autonomous organization and direct action.
I spent my whole youth on it and still all I see anywhere are mentally disorganized morons who react to street riots and witch hunts by voting harder and then going online and posting boomer memes about how mad they are when nothing improves, usually with significant grammatical errors.
Either some fated spark in the sociological primordial ooze will finally create a competent species of modern Nazi, or it won’t, but in either case I wash my hands of it. I wasted enough time trying to improve a world that didn’t want to be improved. If you’d like to throw all of your time at something useless, you go right ahead, I’m not going to stop you, but I’m done. The aryan race has to decide for itself if it wants to survive or not. It’s out of my hands.
You would do more good for the aryan race encouraging people to be vegan rather than encouraging them to be nazi revolutionaries or whatever stupid shit for retards that goes nowhere and gets people tossed in jail.
Fucko I honestly think you should be enslaved and forced to farm oats and soybeans. You have the mentality of a retarded medieval peasant and you should be treated like one.
OK I shouldn’t have said that, sorry for being edgy again. Fuck.
is that jar jar binks in sunglasses and a wife beater
He is shirtless.
“Mesa be hittin’ da blunt smokin’ den hittin’ da wey weys. Big boss now!”
Jar Jar is so fucking racist it’s unreal.