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For some, Estate Normie was wonderful: clean streets, mail that arrived on time, and sensible work from morning to evening collecting things and measuring the estate. These citizens, Normies, were much valued by the Estate Master: Lord Future. Lord future enjoyed power, and the Normies were most suspectable to the allures of his! Work hard he told them, give me all your present time, and all your present energy, and most of your present life and in the future you shall be rewarded! Perhaps an Estate like this one, although given your humble background likely much smaller and otherwise deflated, for you to age in your final days. For this beneficence and self-less kindness, Lord Future was the beloved of the Normies. And thus did they find most unfathomable a small, almost otherworldly minority: the Divergent. O "those divergent," the Normies thought to themselves! Always lacking proper sense, proposing "new ideas" and distracting from respectable road and weather chatter to motor-mouth about some bizzarro new notion (like self-actualization). What need we for "new" when the old works! But even through this, many of the Normies secretly envied the Divergents and thus enjoyed the subtle pleasure of controlling them, as eager deputies, for Lord Future (whose powers were more phantom-like than real!) How delicious to catch a Divergent a few minutes late for labor or delayed on a project because life! What is life if not serving the Estate, our (Normie) future! Inside his mansion, rich in marble and fine carpets and foreign wines, Lord Future viewed with pleasure from his balcony the marvelous economy he created before himself, his profitable Normie Estate that each moment gave him bliss (as much bliss as a man like him can feel)! What a fool thinks that life is meant for tomorrow and not today! How most appropriate and advantageous to himself, the Lord Future, thought to himself, that the Normies disagreed and the Divergents were too few and divided to break out of the Estate (which legend has it used to be theirs). For if they ever did, they'd behold the fresh farmlands and vineyards and free flowing waters just beyond the Estate. And what is a Lord without serfs?

Have you heard about this famous Arab peasant? In 1945, in rural upper Egypt, an Arab peasant named Muhammed al-Samman was searching for lost gold when accidently discovered what is now called the Nag Hammadi. What a powerful force, these texts found in Nag Hammadi! They have caused theologians to question the entire basis of Western Christianity. But for a long time they were not fully appreciated: fought over by antique hunters, left in humid New York vaults, stolen by Egyptian government officials and now sitting in a humble Egyptian library, diligently studied over by professors and scholars who frantically try to learn Coptic to understand them even more. Written in Coptic, in translation from Greek, and hidden away by some monk or holy person 1600 years ago, the Nag Hammadi proclaim the truth of Christ but in a fundamentally different manner than traditional Christianity. According to these Nag Hammadi texts, which call themselves "secret gospels," Christ came from heaven not to free man from original sin but to wake him up to his divine nature. Man, the texts say, is in an inferior material world controlled by a lesser, arrogant God who is jealous of man because the God of the All, a divinity of inscrutable power, wisdom and goodness, choose to bless man, or at least certain types of man, with divine powers. But the twist is the lesser God "created" man and thought man was creating in his image, but then Adam and Even discovered differently, after eating from the tree of knowledge, at the urging of the serpent. Jealous and outraged, the lesser God kicked them out of the Garden and blinded them to their divine nature: an eternal sleep he wanted for them because if man wakes his material world and its majesties lose power. He, that God, is dead. So Christ came to "wake" up sleeping man, a mercy and blessing from the God of the highest, a rebellion against the Master of the Material world, the Demiurge. Christ was killed but according to these "secret gospels" his resurrection is not so much a future physical event but an internal state among certain believers, who because of this are baptized into his Church (some from birth, blessed with spiritual foreknowledge and others involuntarily in a moment of indescribable joy and vision). These people, who can come from every cross-section of human society including women, are entitled to leadership of the Church based on original, creative revelation due to direct contact and inspiration with the divinity through Christ the medium. These texts, often called "gnostic" and seeming to have eastern influences, were denounced as heresies by the early Church and 1600 years ago the patriarch of Alexanderia in Egypt had a letter read in every church on easter denouncing the Gnostics as arrogant heretics, and he pursued the destruction of these gospels with such thoroughness that they vanished from the Earth until the Arab peasant found them in 1945 --- some loyal group had hidden the texts for safe keeping, a re-emergence at a more opportune time. The time of the Lion. Anyway, the patriarch here, his name I forget, declared that because the universe had four corners and four principle winds, there could be only 4 gospels. Hmmm, interesting logic there. But inspired by this idea, he gathered 4 gospels and declared them the only true gospels and these ended up forming the New Testament --- the bedrock of Western Christianity. But the New Testament is now shadowed by the Nag Hammadi gospels. Indeed, some of the gospels found here, like the Secret Gospel of John which you can listen to on YouTube, seem to pre-date the gospels of the New Testament based on carbon-dating science. For many readers, they offer a vision of Christianity that is compelling: a non-dogmatic, universal church based on creative interaction with the divinity and faith as an active, internal state rather than a static event celebrated through visible acts of worship. This Church is not one that is interested in the Ceasars of this material world, underlings of the Demiurge, and for that reason is quite the threatening church. And hence why it was suppressed: but that Arab peasant, who at first was afraid to open to the glistening jar because he thought they were jinns, unsuppressed and freed the Western imagination regarding Christian faith. Where this leads is our future history!

Every victorious host is greeted by supporters. You presume they would have done otherwise had Harris won. According to The Twelve Ceasars, when young August vanquished Anthony and Cleopatra, the milky skin Queen of Egypt, he returned to Italy and was greeted by a crow which shouted: Hail Octavian! Delighted, Octavian enriched the crow-trainer. A smart man that one --- he had also trained a second crow to shout Hail Anthony. That one, wisely, he kept silent!

Suffering is "imagined by God" and you are a hapless passenger, roving like a madman between Safwa and Marwa on banal animal cruelty (AKA KFC) moralism and genocide in Gaza? Arabs! Arabs! What have you become????

Human nature? What is that? That undecided destiny? Walking a tight rope, that! destiny. Watch and beware --- don't let the buffoons distract you as ye walk across. Even if they have bright orange assess dancing!

But doth the world end? Doth the world end? Or is end just a new beginning, new shape? Overflowing and down-going, serpent and star?

Elon Musk fired half the staff at twitter. Ad revenue went way down and some choppiness on the site appeared, but it still works. Now he wants to try that logic on the U.S government. Can the U.S government be analogous to an online website? Is there a "code" once written works for the government, regardless of the numbers of engineers and requiring only some maintenace work? Elon thinks so, and his net worth from code gives them all the assurance of the world. Guide us ye great Tech bros, guide us to the promised land! You certainly will do an important part.

In the land of the dead Who will wake them up Is it the orange chaos, or the black dead? We dont want black NOO NOO BLACK we love black just not when we're already dead Give us Trump Shake, shake shake us Trump Burn, burn, burn us Trump Shaken, and burnt, and bright orange in our faces -- will America wake?

Too many years without war. Mothers see their boys with swollen bellies and even tits --- the "blessings" of long years of peace and sugary corn syrup. Green here is not a mercy but a curse. Red, red --- even the mothers yearn for red now.

I thought it was nicely run. She won the first debate, had a good convention, and suffered no scandals. She lost because she's boring, too cautious, and too tight on the leash of the half blind, left-brain excel sheet "poll tested" responses politicos. America wanted chaos, and it will get chaos. Why is America so much further ahead in creativity than Europe and the rich world?

Wokeness is much bigger than race or sexuality stuff. Your manager being told to not monitor your MS teams status and loosen up dress standards is also being "woke." The image of the white woman attacking the enslaved woman her white husband attacked in-front of her. Abstract from that and you see "stuck" in dysfunctional situations, Dasein lashes out at the wrong target. We need to "release" the targets of our rage in order to free ourselves. You thought this was being done to be just "nice" to the gays and blacks?

If you benefited from public benefits in the country of your nationality, including the protections of the laws and health/educational benefits, then there may be an argument that you have a duty to that public especially if the "defending" includes defending against foreign invasions.

Please share any insights! I don't mean artistic or style in the sense of creating music or drawing/painting and such things but like aesthetics for fashion and personal possessions/living spaces. @Leo Gura you mentioned the importance of developing this in one of your videos on YouTube. Didn't see anything related to this on the booklist from the main site.

Yes I would survive in India and I have a positive view of Indians, really buttressed by working with Indians at my job, although it is sad the damage Modi is doing to India's reputation and the support he has among the north indians.

A most interesting article that has me considering seriously the possibility of purpose to the universe: https://aeon.co/essays/why-our-universe-can-have-cosmic-purpose-without-god