#i am more interested in analyzing what exists because there are just... so many interconnections that can be considered and discussed

[thedorfmirrin]

I agree so much with your Mayu thoughts! My headcanon for her doppel is that, since it preys on men, this reveals NOT that Mayu on some level “wants” this attention, but rather that in her heart of hearts she recognizes it as predatory and indeed hates it—for all that her outward personality is so primed towards being “nice” in the way women are socialized. (Of course, this is headcanon exclusively because I can’t give the same developers who wrote this character anywhere near that much credit.)

That is an interesting headcannon! Mayu definitly doesnt want the attention that she gains, through both this happenstance nor her dopple.

I Beleive that i may have a slightly different read on her dopple than you, so i hope ya dont mind me just dumping my own thoughts out !

(Now I never heard of it saying that the dopple preys specifically on men, but rather all sorts of people- though i could understand if "men" in particular are victims to it for reasons ill say)

Dopples themselves are personifications of the literal wishes and emotions themselves that a girl makes to become her magic form. And there is one emotion that is displayed bigtime in Mayu's wish - Guilt.

I beleive that Mayu's dopple is formed by the fear and guilt that it is from being a blamed victim. The guilt that she is "alluring", the fear of what that could mean to other people and herself. What if she becomes so alluring from just being herself that it makes people obsess over her, or worse?

She does NOT want a n y advances on her in the game, showing zero interest in any romantic endevors or such. And yet somone tried to take advantage of her kind, naive (and very "female-coded 'perfect'") personality, just because she was such, and everyone blamed her for it. She does not have a healthy view of herself now, she sees herself as something horrible, somebody who is too nice to resist and therefore will cause the worst chaos and will make people suffer from it. Her dopple is that fear of herself inside out, shaped in her dna as she feels it is intwined with her very being (and unfortunatly, this is not an esclusive fear to her, but so many girls around the world- that they may be taken advantage of just because they are sweet and 'female').

Her feelings of her dopple are very much immenent whenever it is used, she cries. She hates it so much. It may be beautifull and magical but it hurts her so much emotionally that she cant not cry everytime it exists. That shows, as you said, she DOES NOT WANT the preditorus affection it will give. Any attention she gets from this is not because of her, but because of people's selfish worship of her embodiment of "femininity".

So yeah! She completly does not want the unfomfortable preditorous attention of that creep in her story. I suppose my idea differs on that i dont think she quite understands the extent of how bad HE was. And when something is wrong and a person can't tell what is it, they turn their confusion inward and Blame Themself. She didn't understand why he was so preditorous so she turned inward, she guilted herself so strongly to try and grasp on what the problem "should" be, guilted herself untill she probably wouldve became a witch (hence her dopple) over how bad she felt (( with the lovely help from oh so helpfull Ria pff))

I do not think she understands completely whats going on for this reason.

Also a brief thing to mention- i know you may be very upset (as i am too) over the cliche horrible creepyness of her story, but i don't think we have to think that they didnt put much thought or effort in it- i feel that as poorly handled as it is, it still had an interconnected planning and a reason (as evidenced by her dopple). They do put lots of planning and ideas into this game, it IS a part of Madoka Magica! Does that mean I feel this was a good personal story, heck no. They need to revise it like ten hundred times before it can get its point across without feeling like creep pandering..

Or maybe i just feel this way because i over analyze and think everything to death untill i like it? ò ^ ô ?

Hehe, anyway, thank you so much for shairing this headcannon with me!! :D <3

I love hearing headcanons and having escuses to dump my brain thoughts all over, and sorry if i rambled a bit much about this, but also thank you for reading! Please feel free to add any more thoughts you have too!

#this was so fun to write out #i headcanon lots about lots of characters #and their dopples are particularly interesting #so deep... #((also brief headcannon just because its relevant but i like to think Mayu is ace!)) #mirrin's werds #ask #thank you for the ask! #magia record #mayu kozue #headcannons

[meditativeyoga]

Cross-Train with Yoga? Winning!

If you run, cycle, or swim, exercise this sequence 3 or more times a week after your much easier exercises. Start with Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward-Facing Pet Posture) and stay for a few breaths, transforming your emphasis internal. Notification your power level, and also sign up any kind of areas of tightness or openness in your body. Equally as you start a training session with a feeling of purpose, take a minute to establish a purpose for your practice.

Lentine Zahler had actually always imagined doing an Ironman triathlon, and now she was in Kona, Hawaii, at the Globe Championship. She had completed a little bit majority of the 112-mile biking portion, which took her from a rich environment-friendly community of midtown Kona up a hill to brutally warm black-rock lava areas. Tough winds were blowing bikers laterally on their bikes, as well as Zahler, incapable to let go of her handlebars for anxiety of falling over, had gone the entire distance without solid food. She was achingly starving, irritable, and also worn down. She could not remember why she had registered for this torture as well as considered surrendering. However after that she transformed her focus internal, deepened her breath, as well as really felt a sense of calm come her. She guided interest to the locations of her body where she was holding stress and also launched them. Lastly, she showed up on level ground and was able to liberate one hand to eat. Rather of dwelling on the aggravation of the previous 70 miles, she discovered she was able to be in today minute and also allow the past go. Simply put, she tapped into every little thing she 'd learned via her yoga practice, and she completed the race in good time-- and also with a sensation of ease.

Her story is inspiring, but not uncommon. Zahler, who is likewise a yoga educator in Rose city, Oregon, is component of an expanding variety of endurance athletes-- marathon joggers, cyclists, and also triathletes-- that have actually located that the physical as well as psychological practices of yoga can help them stop injuries, boost their performance, as well as bring a whole brand-new measurement of understanding and joy to the sports they love.

Putting the Body at Ease

One of things many athletes love regarding sporting activities like running, cycling, as well as swimming is that balanced, repetitive motion over cross countries could be deeply introspective. The drawback of this activity from a physical point of sight is that the continual cycles of repeated motion tax obligation one collection of muscular tissues while underutilizing the rest. With time and range, this develops muscle discrepancies that can result in imbalance and also injury. 'If you have also a small misalignment in your stride, when you duplicate that activity over and over, it could cause injury,' states Sage Rountree, a yoga exercise teacher and also triathlon coach in Church Hill, North Carolina, as well as the writer of The Athlete's Guide to Yoga exercise. Runners, she says, have the tendency to have actually overworked hip flexors and quadriceps and underworked glutes. Rountree educates lunges as a means for joggers to launch the hip flexors in their back legs while stretching as well as reinforcing the hamstrings of their front legs. As well as since the form of a lunge resembles the jogger's stride, she says, it is an excellent way for joggers to analyze their positioning and also balance.

According to bicyclist as well as Stanford College workout physiologist Stacy Sims, bicyclists develop comparable kinds of discrepancies. Since they are continuously in a crouched setting on the bike, their quads and gluteus muscular tissues have the tendency to be solid, but their hip flexors are tight as well as weak, she claims. 'Yoga opens up the hips up as well as enhances the bordering muscles, which could prevent injury.'

In enhancement to the anxieties of repeated movement, there's also the matter of holding the body in one placement for a very long time, whether it's crouched down over a bike or in a running stride. The body ends up being gotten, with the shoulders as well as the back rounding forward. The majority of us currently have a rather forward-leaning posture, simply from daily-life activities like resting at a workdesk. Presuming a similar setting while running or cycling aggravates the tightening as well as could bring about back discomfort as well as postural issues. Presents like Anjaneyasana (Low Lunge) that open the front body, consisting of the hip flexors, can neutralize this.

And to strengthen the core muscular tissues should support the stance during training, Rountree teaches postures like Virabhadrasana III (Warrior Pose III) and One-Legged Plank Posture. 'When the core muscular tissues tire while you're running, you wind up slouching,' she says.

Body Conscious

In addition to fixing muscular inequalities and imbalance, yoga exercise uses athletes an additional device for protecting against injuries: enhanced body recognition. 'With yoga, you begin to feel your body extra,' says Ed Harrold, the director of yoga exercise and sporting activities training for the Kripalu Institute for Phenomenal Living in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and also the originator of the Versatility for Professional athletes efficiency training program. Harrold recommends that athletes hold postures for 10 to 20 breaths at once to create body recognition. By doing so, he claims, you could discover exactly how the body really feels when uninjured and come to be far more aware of 'yellow lights' (stabs of pain or pain that could signal the starts of an injury) when taking part in a sport.

Increased body understanding additionally suggests discovering ways to isolate the muscular tissues you need so that you could loosen up the ones you do not. 'In an endurance sport, you should have one of the most effective type you can,' states Rountree. 'You don't wish to be running with your arm joints out by your shoulders or your shoulders hunched up to your ears. That mishandles. You desire to conserve that power because you are mosting likely to be out there for a long time.' To exercise this awareness, Rountree suggests standing in a lunge and also scanning the body. If you are involving muscles in places like the shoulders or neck, practice launching them. You'll then have the ability to repeat this on the track.

Recreational range cyclist Greg Merritt of Berkeley, The golden state, says that discovering this concept through yoga has been a massive benefit. 'Holding stress needlessly for 5, 15, or 25 hrs on the bike will certainly result in numberless problem, as well as can also cause the feared 'DNF'-- did not end up,' he says. 'Now, as I ride, I do continuous self-checks concerning how I'm holding myself on the bike. It's sort of like discovering how to own an auto and constructing the behavior of watching the roadway ahead, your mirrors, your speedometer, and more, yet this is a routine of interior tracking, keeping check on my body from the inside.' Includes Zahler, 'If I am on the race track, and I feel pain someplace in my body, my yoga practice has actually instructed me to look for compensation in various other locations.' She states that this body scanning has likewise showed her to take a stock of how every little thing feels as a whole. 'My service the mat has offered me the chance to discover the manner in which my body serves as an interconnected system and usage that interconnectivity as a device anywhere I could be.'

Sporting Mind

By meaning, endurance professional athletes have to endure, whether you're taking part in a triathlon, running a marathon, or perhaps pursuing a weekend 10k bike ride. Yet your mind typically tells you that you have actually had enough prior to your body is actually prepared to stop. By practicing mindfulness on the mat, says Rountree, endurance professional athletes could discover to be existing with any kind of variety of sensations-- pain, dullness, stress and anxiety, resistance-- while training or competing. 'There are always minutes in a yoga exercise class when we feel restless,' claims Rountree. 'In some cases it's difficult to remain in Utkatasana (Chair Pose) for another few breaths, but we learn how to do it anyhow. We find out that uneasyness is just a hostility that the mind is tossing at us, and we maintain going.' Taking this ability right into endurance sports can give a professional athlete a tremendous edge.

Jason Magness, AcroYoga educator and co-founder of Yoga-Slackers, claims that the mindfulness he's learned via his yoga practice has actually gotten him with his hardest endurance-sport experiences. While on a multiday exploration travelling race in Moab, Utah, he began to worry. He was tired and distressed regarding just what was to find-- as well as he was just halfway with. 'I was already unpleasant, as well as every little thing appeared so far away. I believed, 'I am never going to finish.' '

But he had the ability to use just what he found out on the yoga mat to bring him back into the here and now moment. He thought regarding exactly what he does at the beginning of his Ashtanga technique when he obtains distressed concerning the backbends that come with the end. 'In my technique, I would certainly claim, 'I am simply mosting likely to feel what it's like to be in this asana, in this breath.' So I began to do that throughout the race, and also I had the ability to claim that I was doing was a lengthy technique.' Instantly, he states, the future really did not issue. 'I was just able to feel just what was taking place currently-- as well as keep going.'

Seated reflection is one more way to exercise stilling the mind, which could help professional athletes stay focused while competing. If you could take this tranquil state with you into activity, your initiative ends up being effortless, states John Douillard, a previous expert triathlete who techniques Ayurvedic and also chiropractic sports medication in Boulder, Colorado.

' It's all about the capacity to be tranquil during dynamic stress and anxiety,' he states. Douillard compares the stillness of the mind throughout a long run or ride to the still eye of a hurricane. 'This is the runner's high. For most professional athletes, this state is an arbitrary event that they often stumble into. Yoga offers you the capability to get in right into it often.'

Learning to Breathe

Many yoga educators will certainly inform you that the breath is whatever-- a tool for meditation, a way of routing power throughout your body, and a sharp indicator of your physical as well as psychological state throughout technique. In a similar way, the breath is an important part of any kind of endurance professional athlete's training. The breath dictates athletic efficiency, and efficiency determines the breath-- when you are slowing, you'll see your breath coming to be superficial and struggled. Superficial breathing, claims Douillard, promotes the considerate nerve system, that makes you anxious. That zaps your power much more. If you can discover a steady, even pace of deep breathing while moving through an asana technique, you can take that skill as well as apply it while running or riding.

Douillard suggests practicing Ujjayi Pranayama (Victorious Breath) while training, which causes the parasympathetic nerves and develops a neurological calmness in your mind. Deep nasal breathing brings the mind into a steady alpha state, he claims, which is suitable for grappling psychologically with lengthy distances. Simply bringing focus to the breath additionally aids professional athletes to remain focused when going fars away, which is a terrific antidote for something that also one of the most enthusiastic and devoted endurance professional athletes claim they struggle with now and then: monotony.' You see everybody out there running with their iPods,' claims Rountree. 'They need some type of distraction. However there's so much inside to pay focus to. Emphasis on the breath, as well as you don't ever before have actually to be tired once more.'

Athlete's Breath

According to Dr. John Douillard, director of LifeSpa, an ayurvedic hideaway center in Stone, Colorado, as well as writer of Body, Mind, and also Sport, practicing Ujjayi Pranayama regularly could boost your athletic efficiency by soothing the mind as well as body and also allowing you to exert yourself much more efficiently. 'Breathing out with Ujjayi has the result of producing a reflective calmness throughout the task. That's what yoga is about, discovering the best ways to be both still and vibrant at the very same time.'

If you typically breathe via your mouth during workout, Douillard says, this strategy will take some obtaining made use of to. 'Most of us are accustomed to taking shallow breaths from the top breast, which is extremely inefficient,' he clarifies. 'When you breathe out with Ujjayi, you have an even more full breathing and also exhalation.' Exercise Ujjayi Pranayama at rest up until you fit with the method before attempting it while training.

1.Start by Breathing in usually with your nose.

2.Exhale with your nose. As you exhale, restrict your throat slightly, making your exhalation audible. You'll discover that, in normal nose breathing, you could feel the air coming out through your nostrils, but here you ought to feel a feeling in your upper throat, it does not feel as though air is moving with your nostrils a lot at all.

Try making this noise without restricting your stomach muscles. If you're doing it correctly, you'll find it's impossible making the noise without a little contracting your stomach muscles. Assume about squeezing the air out of your abdomen by tightening your abdominal muscle. The tighter you make your abdominal muscle during the exhalation, the more obvious the noise will certainly be. If you're not exactly sure you have actually obtained it, breathe out with your mouth open, as if you were fogging up a set of glasses for cleaning, the haaa audio you make comes from inside your throat as opposed to your mouth. Now, close your mouth and also make the same sound, and also bring the noise throughout your exhale.

Once you have mastered making this audio with a superficial breath, begin to increase the size of the breath and the vibration of the noise. Maintain boosting the deepness of the breath until you are taking in every last little air as well as pressing out every last bit.

Anjaneyasana (Low Lunge), variation

Anjaneyasana opens up the hip flexors, which can be extremely limited in joggers and also cyclists. It enhances as well as stabilizes the quadriceps muscular tissues on the front leg and also stretches the external hip, both which are necessary for healthy and balanced knees. This pose likewise works the erector spinae muscular tissues, which run up and down to sustain the spine. The split stance enhances the series of movement in the running stride.

From Downward Facing Dog, step your best leg ahead into a lunge with your shin vertical to the ground and your right knee straight over your right heel. Drop your left knee to the ground, well behind your left hip. Maintain your hips low as well as settled towards the front of your mat. Raise from your upper body and also extend your arms expenses. Find an equilibrium in your appropriate leg between security and also remainder, as well as see the intensity of the stretch in your left hip and also upper leg. Hold for 5 breaths, after that repeat with your left leg forward. Notice just how your experience differs between sides.

Virabhadrasana I (Warrior Position I)

Warrior I constructs toughness as well as stretches the hip flexors of the back leg as it opens up the front of the body.

Stand with your feet 3 1/2 to 4 feet apart. Transform your left foot in 45 degrees, and turn your torso to encounter your best leg. On an inhalation, move your arms alongside your ears, maintaining your shoulders low. Get to strongly via your arms, raising your midsection up as well as from your pelvis. As you breathe out, flex your right knee toward 90 degrees, keeping it straight over your right ankle. Press back via your left leg, grounding with your left heel, and also bring your left hip onward, maintaining your spine long and your chest wide. Hold for 4 to 5 breaths. Turn up on an inhalation, pressing your left heel right into the floor and also aligning your right knee. Repeat on the other side.

Virabhadrasana III (Warrior Posture III)

This conditioning posture improves balance and emphasis while extending the hamstrings.

Come into Warrior I with your right leg onward. Shift your weight into your appropriate leg as well as, on an exhalation, integrate the straightening of the front leg and also the lifting of the back leg as you enter into Warrior III. With your hips even as well as parallel to the flooring and your arms expanded in front of you, press back through your left heel. Inhale and also go back to Warrior I, exhale as well as return to Warrior III. Repeat 4 times, and on the last time, remain in Warrior III for 5 breaths. Repeat on the other side.

Eka Pada Rajakapotasana (One-Legged King Pigeon Posture), variation

Come onto all fours, with your knees straight listed below your hips and your hands a little ahead of your shoulders. Slide your right knee forward behind your right wrist, positioning your right shin at an angle under your upper body. The beyond your right shin will relax on the flooring. Gradually slide your left leg back.

Lower the beyond your right buttock to the flooring, maintaining your hips made even to the front (if needed, position a folded up blanket under the best butt for assistance), with your right heel simply before your left hip. Bend your right ankle joint to safeguard your right knee. Fold your torso onward over the best thigh. Clear up in for a longer hold, either propped on your arm joints or prolonging your arms in front of you. Develop towards holding for 3 or 4 minutes. Repeat on the various other side.

This longer Yin-style hold develops a deep go for the iliotibial band that leaves the external upper leg and the hip potter's wheels, which could become extremely limited on endurance professional athletes. Use the feelings you really feel in this posture as a possibility to discover how you react to intensity. Can you experience feeling without wasting power fighting it? Could you inform when the sensation is triggering you to draw back a little?

Happy Baby Pose

This position releases the reduced back, extends adductors and also hamstrings, and also promotes recuperation in tired legs.

Lie on your back and flex your knees toward your tummy. Take hold of the beyond your feet (if you can't hold them pleasantly, hold your calf bones or behind the knees) as well as bring your knees towards the underarms, shins vertical to the ground, soles of the feet dealing with the sky. Release your low back and tailbone towards the ground. Delicately rock left as well as right to offer your back an enjoyable massage therapy. After 5 to 10 breaths, bring your knees with each other and put your feet on the floor.

Viparita Karani (Legs-up-the-Wall Pose)

This corrective pose gives a number of the advantages of inversion, consisting of improving healing, without being an active position. As a perk, you obtain a passive chest opening.

Place a thickly folded up blanket regarding 5 inches from a wall surface or various other upright support. Sit sidewards on the left end of the blanket, with your appropriate side against the wall surface. Exhale as well as bring your legs up onto the wall surface and your shoulders and also head gently down into the floor. (Your pelvis must rise by the covering.) Open your shoulder blades away from the spine as well as launch your hands as well as arms out to your sides, palms encountering up. As you rest for a few lots breaths, notice where the body is holding tension and also release it. To come from the posture, move off the assistance onto the flooring prior to looking to the side.

Karen Macklin is a writer, editor, as well as yoga teacher living in San Francisco.

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[ho-ods-blog]

MEANINGLESS DISORDER IS TO BE CHALLENGED NOT FEARED. WE CAN BE OVERWHELMED OR WE CAN BE EMBOLDENED.

If we reduce everything to information do we lose the aesthetics, empathy and much more in life? What do you think?

To understand my current perspective and create the desire within you to pursue your personalized & positively balanced, productive quest for understending is to imagine what what isn’t possible by being easily done yet not in fact impossible - the sentence explaining all conspiracies as well as  what I’ll be explaining through the example of a chip - which isn’t one of the conspiracies at all.

Imagine if we all got chipped, for the sake of mutual understanding imagine it like a tiny memory card inserted, let’s say behind your ear which works because it connects, duplicates then mimmics each neuron and then replaces it by removing the original   with the technological components also within it.

Imagine that the heart keeps our body and mind alive and the chip our brain.

Now imagine that chip contains the whole of information from the main central computer which had collected all of searches and statistics along with the feedback itself in a matter of seconds upon laying your eyes on the person, home etc as well is still providing the same procedures and updating everyone each decided period of time.

Would you want to live in a world which now defines you insane/and/or questionable because you googled dick cheese around your friends for a joke and tried to understand sexual preferences as a kid? Nobody would. But that would be inside the mind of the person who would lay their eyes upon you a.k.a. it would get the information from the chip on another and that person would get your information just the same.

Do we then lose the aesthetics, empathy and much more in life? 

Okay, I am definitely writing this particular chunk of sentences to also signify I no longer give a shit about privacy because the groups of supertechs could come at me at any given moment, disrupt my algorithms to make my content visible to less users and there really isn’t much I can do as an average citizen with some interesting hobbies so therefore a couple of people from my hometown judging me for actively pursuing my interests in a way I choose really doesn’t even come to me as a negative thing anymore because there’s far more going on which I want to focus on and direct my maximum positive potential and impact on.

Now that that is out of the way,

That transhumanistic viewpoint(the chip example) is what I chose because I’ve read too much about it, seen too many films which lead to more research and read too many insights but today that example of the chip is just a prolonged and complicated version where the chip is the computer, the phone, the laptop and the human can find out information just not fast and easily or without extensive technical literacy and trial and error.

That is why this cybernetic connection was implemented with the assistance and constructive creativity of the groups of supertechs for the agendas long as the existance itself. I can write about this in another post extensively.

What matters to me more than my own privacy and social justice within my own experience is a positive change I can contribute by sharing not the information I am learning but the way I work my mind and actions around it because throughout the past year I have come to terms with the exceptional components I was once scared to share.

Today, I am conscious of my voice and more so confident in it’s validity because I see no negatively directed energy consciously or unconsciously motioned my way as anything which could ever be stronger than God, no weapons forged against me prosperous and no truth which I speak less legitimate than somebody’s illusion of theirs despite them percieving it as truth.

I now resonate with the ideals which bring in no obligations for accusations to prove what is already truth as well as no pointed fingers but rather everyday courses of action from healed individuals of own controlled mindsets because keeping a positive vibration is in fact what should matter right when you wake up, while you are brushing your teeth, making lunch, going to school, work etc. what matters is to use the internet, web and social media consciously as well as choosing what you want to think about and what gets to hurt you and keep you stagnant.

This simple piece of text is made with the intent to serve it’s purpose on it’s own.

It isn’t done so that at a certain point in the future when there’s plenty of them as well as other endeavors it’s author gets money, status, recognition, fame, etc, nor is it the goal of any of my visionary creative endeavors.

I had made enough of regretful decisions in my life to innerstand, understand and overstand as well as define the emotion of it without words necessarily that I must use the remaining time of mine on Earth for the greater good.

It is fortunate for us to be alive at a time where doing something as simple as writing a micro-blog post can offer some people a chance to start controlling their thoughts in hopes of maintaining a safe space.

What I had gathered from merely a couple of videos on youtube in which Jaron Lanier ( computer philosophy writer, considered the funding father of virtual reality, visual artist, was in the first company which sold VR goggles, was in Atari, worked on apps for internet 2, visiting scholar at Silicon graphics, works at Microsoft research since 2009 as thhe interdisciplinary scientist etc) is speaking about the contents of his book “you are not a gadget” as well as information since the digital age took place was more than enough for me to try and find the appropriate place to channel it constructively.

I decided to use the notes I make along the way as I watch the videos and read the material as a tool I can shape into something for those who aren’t necessarily willing to sit and watch youtube videos all day long, clean their house and listen to them, drive and audio it or perhaps even read the books ( which I want to highlight still ARE much-MUCH greater sources for everything I will ever be speaking on because through the information I share I am still secluding a paragraph to explain how I choose to deal with the information instead of turning it as a weapon for my own stagnancy and misguided lack of faith.)

It is still the biggest tragedy to me to see this cybernetic connection we share done in the utmost negative way and the knowing it hadn’t even started to take place at it’s maximum potential is truly what could be terrifying to a point of episodic daily nausea if only us and in this case myself were to base our mental states upon people and actions which are outside of our control.

The computer can send information to another bundle of information in a set of bits and it is analyzing them mathematically and, yes - it does not matter to a computer what the information says.

”Meaningless disorder is to be challenged and not fear because we can choose to be overwhelmed or emboldened.”

The strength from within is omnipresent and the fear of failure, lack of constructive impact or whatever the individual might use to shape their own low vibrational perspective for not making an active shift in their own life -are all illusions because the purpose of the negativity is to achieve sustainability of itself as it is. That is why it is important to understand you either sink towards the end of your life or swim towards it because as you can see the finish line is the same yet the pathaways different.

It may be easier to keep the sinking mindset yet it isn’t even remotely as joyful, courageous, rewarding, fruitful, positive, needed and surprisingly positively influential to those around you (as well as much, more I can write about) than the swimming.

In this life you can choose to think finishing highschool and  pursuing a degree, finding and maintaining a job with or without a carreer, finding, accepting, returning as well as nurturing and maintaining love, travelling and friendships are the peak you need and want yet the sinking mindset still bears the low vibrational tendency to show up uninvited and subtle as it hides within outcomes you learned how to disregard positively and label it swimming.

Whatever you choose, the information presented remains existant and true.

Anytime two people connect to the internet is universally financed by a third party who believes they can use behavioralist techniques to manipulate the first two people without them undestanding whats up.

In regards to the talks by Jaron Lanier -

the WE is the global cyber net in which those who built it, are making the most money off it as well as keeping it existant are somehow above the circumstances and the average citizen are still modern day workers to keep it going and developing into whatever the purpose of the behavioralist techniques really is while it is disquised as solely statistics to better consumerism and the user experience.

“We’ve created a society based on universal trickery and deception and therefore developed an already flawed society into a universal community of individuals who do not believe election votes, routinely expect to be bullied one way or another and made to feel terrible. That is the society which does not believe in truth anymore.” we're all connected, from seemingly all perspectives.

A manmade connection would be computers which had done another interconnection and way back in 1938, a man by the name of Burrhus Frederic Skinner decided to present an idea of treating computers as a tool to remove individuality and by experiments alter the human nature by getting them to change by the reward/punishment stimuli a.k.a. positive/negative feedback loop(social experience) and the negative ones are more common actually because of that feedback loop between the dopamine hits. The person contributes their motion, eye movements and facial expressions to the statistics.

The experiment is a human version of keeping a rat in a box and providing it some food when it pulls down the tiny lever inside that box .

The cybernetics are naturally a negativity machine. The likes, comments, the interaction people get on social media is what provides them the small dopamine hits which keep them using it in the ways which highlight education last.

Skinner was about using digital networks to transcent idiosincracy(a mode of behaviour or way of thought peculiar to an individual!) He was the first there to have something to say about peoples “weird and felatious ideas about freedom) the first time it crossed paths with computing was through Norbert Weiner who was the first generation contribute when the ideas for altering started.

He was the first who started changing others’ perceptions on how the computers are being percieved. The idea is to use a computer to make it into much more than it is,as well asmuch more complicate and Weiner coined the term for it from the Greeks which is the now famous “cybernetics”)

(BOOK RECOMMENDATION: WEINER : NETWORKING COMPS)

DEFINITION OF CYBERNETICS BY CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY:

the scientific study of how information is communicated in machines and electronic devices, comparing this with how information is communicated in the brain and nervous system / Too often a simplistic cybernetic control model underpins performance measurement systems. -cybernetics was trumpeted as a universal science of government that would help to guide the social organization necessary for modernization.

DEFINITION OF CYBERNETICS BY DICTIONARY.COM: the study of human control functions and of mechanical and electronic systems designed to replace them, involving the application of statistical mechanics to communication engineering.

What if you have a computer watching a human being, his moves, looks etc and then what if that computer provided stimulus. Couldn’t this computer gradually become an automated behavioralist who controls the person?

This is a human use of human being and if everybody has these computers with themselves always then these little computers can measure everything about those people, who they talk to, what they search, their locations, and in return give them some sort of reward/feedback - texts, sounds, art etc.  but what we neglected is the radios connecting all of those small computers to a big computer which is modifying a computer like a behavioralist who could pull statistics and change society without you knowing it is happening to you, too.  

This all goes into depth just like anything and the particular planted seed had developed itself stranded into one probability for salvation in a clusterfuck of mass destruction of probabilities because despite the good and the bad within for example Artificial Intelligence, those of us who consider it’s positive aspects are on the same page as we speak of it the like we speak of  humans who, naturally, aren’t all good with good intentions and the technological advancements are not yet well balanced with anything else in our world which is behind it.

Instead of rescuing people, natural resources, animals, finances, jobs, security etc. we had massively shifted to a world of subtle, reliable shades of different types of horror in which ignorance serves as a peace of mind, heard, body and soul which still is mostly low vibrational and contributing to the madness in any way the technology pleases.

The culture of digital technology and it’s strong movements back in the 80′s and 90′s served to commerce the idea of making everything free and open. The culture, the software, the music, the encyclopedia, the anything.

The idea was to use a certain special group of people considered the supertechs to change the coutse of history with the advertising model as the meeting point.

The surface experience for people is about business of advertisements where the biggest are the wealthiest and at this point Mr.Lanier had already confirmed that he is actively supporting Google and had sold his company once to them.

What interests me about Mr.Lanier is why he thinks that nobody truly hears what he is saying because most people do and the only reason nobody is doing anything to actively pursue the most productive courses of action towards the biggest change is the fact we think we will be met with death or disappointment because one broken down middle class individual is nothing to a group of elite supertech at the Silicon valley type of hubs around the globe.

Mr. Lanier says the right way to proceed is to change yet he bears such friction when he is saying that what we would be doing is unimaginable yet achievable if the act of trying actually takes place. So, is he saying that the dominant power considers the change unimaginable because they had created this agenda which does not deem it fitting but speaks on what could be done if we were to actually do something which nobody within that elite community actually wants if the advertisement model is still not in their infrastructural ownership?

The experience of our lives is much more deep and valuable than certain wordings deem it out to be.

“Social experience” sounds like two words you read and go on yet what we rarely consider is what it all means.

It is your entire living experience and it matters because we’ve created such an easy way to unconsciously shift our energy to motion due to feelings and where we direct it and using words as energy signatures which help and to further explain just understand that we even think with words and the manifestation is a path of directed energy. (Emotion, E=energy, energy in motion)

The bizarre solutions of the supertechs as I had already stated were to make everything open and sharable without much knowledge of behind the scenes.

The differences between advertising , adjusting and finetuning(a.k.a manipulation a.k.a behavior modification without the consumers knoweledge) because:

advertisers=manipulators,

companies=behavior manipulation modifiers,

engagement =addiction

The changes this creates are small, broad and statistical which is how you achieve a goal without mass disturbances.

The companies sales pitch example is: We’re targeting this group of two million consumers. We can get 3% of this part of our consumer whole to change by 5%.”

You could say: Who cares? We get free shit for these tiny shades of difference.” but what I must state once more is the importance of what Jaron is saying is that the reliable shades of difference carefully applied consistantly have a compounding effect/like compound interest over time and the results are a significant change which CAN make shit really ugly like overturn elections, disrupt the society.

One important thing to mention is that Mr. Lanier defines the process of placing the whole world through a central computer would be mass insanity yet he states that it is not feasible which he used to say it isn’t impossible yet not as easy.

All of those fast samplings capture what drives you fastest - the responses. The negativity which makes the most money is between the dopamine hits. These include startle responses, becoming scared, arising fast and decaying slowly.

BEHAVIORALISM BY WIKIPEDIA: Behaviouralism seeks to examine the behaviour, actions, and acts of individuals – rather than the characteristics of institutions such as legislatures, executives, and judiciaries – and groups in different social settings and explain this behavior as it relates to the political system. BEHAVIORALISM BY GOOGLE: the methods and principles of the scientific study of animal (and human) behaviour.

BEHAVIORISM BY GOOGLE: the theory that human and animal behaviour can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings, and that psychological disorders are best treated by altering behaviour patterns.

DEFINITION OF CYBERNETICS BY CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY: the scientific study of how information is communicated in machines and electronic devices, comparing this with how information is communicated in the brain and nervous system / Too often a simplistic cybernetic control model underpins performance measurement systems. -cybernetics was trumpeted as a universal science of government that would help to guide the social organization necessary for modernization. DEFINITION OF CYBERNETICS BY DICTIONARY.COM: the study of human control functions and of mechanical and electronic systems designed to replace them, involving the application of statistical mechanics to communication engineering.

So we have to find a way to be sane throughout the paranoia one could encounter. To be optimistic despite the realism pushing itself with logic by default.

We have to face up to climate change.

We have to define our fear of A.I and transhumanism,

We have to stop genetically modifying food and people,

We have to start filtering our tap water,

We have to stop painting another false image over mass murders, dissapearences and the already painted picture of peace,

We have to find a way to stop deforestation, habitat loss, poaching,

We have to implement a steady course of action to limit the amount of technical illiteracy,

We have to find a way to create money which isn’t from trees, fix minimal pay where it exists only on paper, remove the governments maximum involvement and keep it a normal percentage,

We have to be aware of the extinction of animals which are actively happening each year,

We have to find a way of dealing with trash outside of the ocean because it is killing the beings meant to live in it not be murdered in it,

We have to find a way to deal with our natural resources again which are sunlight, atmosphere, water, land along with vegetation, animal life that naturally subsits upon or within the identified substances, coal, oil, natural gas, phosphorous, other minerals, iron, soil, timber which are all exposed to destruction.

We have to start purging out egotistical issues from our hearts and choose education and a multiversal mindset through local actions and sharing this post would actually be a gigantic first step.

We have to find a way to remain sane despite the world.

Never stop believing in our own purpose because of low vibrational people who mask out the words of yours in a humoristic set back which always work around the same groups of people who value popularity amongst their friends and social media than actually working on becoming a better person with an active role in shifting the world as a small, reliable shade of difference simply because they found a way of pushing out their own content without making a fuss about their own awareness.

What is the measure to which we measure empathy these days, asked the deceased Alan Turing, who will be the next topic on ho-ods.

Would we be in a position to proclaim equal rights to a machine if the machine could pretend to be a person undistinguishable from me and you.Do you agree with what the C.E.O of Google is actively sharing when you realize that it comes about the internet coming alive as a big living thing in which we are neurons/thoughts and the personalizations we make don’t allow personell forgetting.

Ask yourself why shouldn’t you trust the promise of artificial intelligence?

Who is the civilization for?

How to be a humanist and pro technology at the same time?

What is a person in todays age?

Are we really cyber liberaterians because we haven’t gotten passed anything new due to the fact we have chosen to give everything of ours for free as we are portrayed as liberaterians?

Who owns the future?

What about misdirect angry people who grew up in a less functional world than it ought to be given due to our technological capabilities?

The next essay will be posted sometime on march 16th. Be sure to check out You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier either on youtube or pdf.

#cybersecurity #jaronlanier #awareness #positivity #truth #ho-ods #hoods

[kalbong-tiu]

Understanding a Pandemic

Writing anything about this pandemic is an ambiguously perplexing task for one simple reason which hopefully will remain impartial and subjective throughout this narrative. 'I am not a virologist and I have no idea what is this all about, other than knowing that a lot of people had already perished and our way of life has been altered drastically from what we were used to a couple of years ago. In this time of extreme contagion there is no room for half-baked pretension so let's try to be blunt with the facts.

Definitively it is a virus, any of a large group of submicroscopic infectious agent that are nonliving, extremely complex molecules, typically containing a protein coat sorrounding an RNA or DNA core of genetic material but no semi-permeable membrane. They are capable of growth and multiplication only in living cells, and that cause various important diseases in humans, animals and plants. Summarily, according to Mirriam, it is a causative agent of an infectious disease.

Coronavirus

Any of a family (Coronaviridae) of single-stranded RNA viruses that have a lipid envelope studded with club-shaped projections that infect birds and many mammals including humans, and include the causative agents of MERS and SARS.

Infectious Disease. Fatal.

Less than a fortnight. That's how long it will take for your body's immune system to decide whether you live and will continue watching Netflix day in and day out or you're helplessly doomed and may be dead due to complication. That is also the extent of everything I know about this pandemic and for a non-scientist like me, anything other than that is bullshit.

So, lets start with every bullshit that you may have probably learned and believed from social media while living in sedentary hiatus for a year and a half as to where this virus came from.

Wuhan, China.

A bustling large industrial metropolis in the heart of the old imperial China situated along the confluences of the Yangtze river and its largest tributary, the Han river. Chinawise, Wuhan is a class-A city in terms of wealth, development, social standards and the resultant corruption mentality with a categorically upscale maritime traffic, though landlocked, that served as a major transportation conduit and a hub for trade and commerce in the central China region. Without the extensive river and the webs of interconnecting channel and canal system in the region, Wuhan and the nearby cities within the river's reach is practically non-existent. This is also one of the places in China where research institutes can be found, 350 of them to be exact, one of which is the reputably infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Wang Jian, a 3rd Engineer cadet on one of my prevous ship lives here along with his young capricious wife and her nagging mother who berates him constantly especially when he sends no money. Tradition dictates that if you hold a girl's hand her parents can demand marriage instantly to avoid familial indignity. Apparently, that is what happened in his case of which he openly loathed and forfeited to fate. I hope they're still alive by now.

Exotic Meat Market.

The first mention of the emergence of this virus strain was said to come from this place which I'm particularly confused of as all meat markets in China are deemed exotic even to Asians. Chinese markets always sell meat of any kind of animals because as Xiaopeng once said, Chinese eat everything that swims, everything that crawls, and everything that flies, except airplanes. Animals we oftentimes see in the zoo are butchered here for meat and traditional medicine including endangered species imported and smuggled from as far away as the African savannah and the Amazon rainforest. The more exotic the meat, the more commanding the price. Live frogs and dried insects are even normally displayed in most food section of large swanky supermarkets besides choice beef cuts and imported truffles from abroad. Bush meat swamped local markets. Apparently, this virus came from animals and was transmitted to us humans in an inconceivable and uncomprehending way other than consumption and infection albiet through unintentional contact or elective absurdity.

Bats and Other Exotic Animals.

The identification of a certain kind of bats allegedly found only in the caves of a particular region of China that hosted the deadly corona virus strain was discovered a few decades ago, extensively studied, scrutinized and genetically analyzed down to their sub-molecular composition by various researchers. Various entities, which in this case is not principally subjected only to the Chinese virologist who discovered it but by the entire scientific field of virology research all over the world. Bats fly but they are not airplanes so they are probably part of the menu.

The postulation of this virus coming from pangolins, another type of exotic zoo display animal of the anteater (Myrmecophagidae) specie, was also suspected although there were inconsistent research result to assume validity to the claim.

Laboratory Leak Theories

A lot of American media ballyhoos specifically pinpointed Chinese research laboratories as the primary source of this pandemic which I find very conflicting from the onset. For how could a seat of government justify the notion of intentionally culling half a million of its citizenry just to assess a virus effectivity? Apart from being too farfetched to be accepted, it does not logically imply that since the pandemic allegedly started in Wuhan, the laboratories within its vicinity are all deemed suspect as the source of its transmission. It is also widely established that there are a handful of laboratories specializing in virus research all over the world other than China. Why is it then that their existence were all discounted for considering it is general knowledge that most various research projects particularly in the field of science all over the world are openly tied up and shared research materials even to the extent of breaching national security, I have not the slightest idea. With this factual reasoning alone, the notion that some foreign agencies are covertly funding research in aiming to create advance viruses in Chinese laboratories could also be feasibly warranted. Inasmuch as an accidental release is concerned, as prattled to be one of the possible cause by most analyst in the western countries, that would be very unlikely considering foolproof measures are always a top priority in research facilities dealing with these kind of hypersensitive experiments. There are also international standard and practice commissions that certify and oversee the operation of this facilities to avoid any possible slip ups and unintentional circumstance that violates its operating protocols. However, there were verified reports of three researchers from WIV who became sick enough to require hospital care way back in November 2019 which substantiated the incipiency timeline of the pandemic and adding credence to lab-leak theorist proponents.

World Health Org.

A branch of the United Nation that specifically deals with and monitors the health of the entire world population may have dampened the spread of the disease through their information and rehabilitation programs but were unable to evade mounting criticism in its initial conduct in handling the pandemic. Their search for the source of the virus in China were also inconclusive as Chinese authorities were uncooperative and hesitant to divulge their own findings and statistics. However, there were circumstantial postulation regarding the agency's lackadaisical outlook during the onset of the pandemic that raised eyebrows among academics and other health monitoring agencies specifically in relation to their complicit reluctance in stamping China's outright culpability of the crisis. China’s refusal to cooperate in the investigation is also tantamount to admitting damaging lapses in containing the pandemic intrinsically. China's alledged funding contribution to the agency, according to unsupported assertion by some financial watchdog, is also suspect. Though blaming China for this crisis is tantamount to censuring westerners for introducing cancer catalyzing hotdogs and genetically modified foods to the world, the fact that the pandemic started in China eventually remains true in nature although the origin of the virus. Whether it was from animal spillover or laboratory leakage, still remains vague and debatable.

Conspiracy Theories

Two years ago, a symposium that chiefly addressed the virus strain was held somewhere in the North American continent. The Chinese scientist who was the leading authority on the subject mysteriously became infected and died along with a dozen investigative researchers who had audaciously delved into and exposed conspiracy theories regarding its origin and nature, including prominent WHO representatives. The death of the Chinese doctor who exposed through media the initial surge of patients and casualties and who nonetheless alerted the relevant authorities regarding the possible onset of a pandemic sadly also became a fodder for conspiracy theorist.

Black Ops

There would be no mystery casualties and conspiracy theories without black operations and this in itself is self explanatory. Most superpowered countries acknowledge their existence decades ago though initially intended as a deterrent to foreign intervention that could jeopardize national interest and security. It is however recently being expanded to covertly exercise and influence the psychological characteristic of the people within its contituency and beyond by using social media platforms as a tool. Whether this is a black ops gone haywire or an economy based deliberate strategy for world dominion, I would not know because I'm also not a political scientist nor a financial strategist.

Media Frenzy

The media and internet wars of today that is currently waged by competing superpower countries is a billion dollar industry. The corollary effect of mass communication brought about by the invention of the world wide web considerably became a lethal weapon considering it has the capability to act and produce an effect that could influence world politics and the economy. Media, as we all acknowledge, is also responsible in providing veracious reports and proliferating fake news that spread solicitude and panic other than public differential diagnostic attitude. Their actions further complicate the efforts of the relevant health agencies to combat the scourge. In as much as blaming the Chinese for the spread of the virus or creating racial tension to stave off the reproach, mass media became the focal point of interest in this war of words and the source of pointless namedropping allegation that instigated worldwide mass hysteria for reasons way beyond our already distressed comprehension.

History

There were countless pandemics and plagues that came to ravage the entire world ever since men started to record history and it is remarkably interesting to ponder the consistency of its recurrence. Though the discovery of vaccines may have saved countless lives in the past, nature has its way that we still can't figure out and relentlessly unleashes novel vaccine resistant virus strains we've never encountered previously. The progressing coronavirus epidemic at the onset of the 21st century that preceeded the lentivirus, filovirus and orthomyxovirus scare however is noteworthy. These viruses, notably MERs, SARs and the current SARs2 Covid-19, all of which are of the Coronaviridae family, came to emerge in Asia. HIV, Marburg, Yambuku or Ebola in the late 20th century all mysteriously came to manifest in Africa. Apparently, natures way of disseminating viruses is also peculiarly discrimatory.

The rapid spread of the disease however can also be summed up as the effect of inequality of living standards between rich and poor nation, the unintended result of globalization. People from poor nation immigrate to developed countries to seek affluent lifestyles as investor flocked to third world countries to extract their resources and cheap labor. With the prevalent ease of travel and border restrictions, the spread of the disease became inevitably uncontrolable. Complacency, which is a common human trait that transends all aspects of life's boundaries, may have also became the multiplying factor in the spread of infection and fatalities, a self assumption that was dispelled by the sudden shock of morbid reality. As it was before, people never learn.

Vaccine

Vaccines were available within six months since the outbreak which is quite unprecedented considering the novelty of the virus strain. This may be partly due to the alarming and rapid propagation of the disease that affected the whole world and the widespread economic downturn following the general lockdowns and quarantines imposed stringently by almost all countries. Although a host of speculation regarding the initial test phase of most vaccines were insidiously circulated through the media, the demand however validated their importance though their effectivity are still closely being monitored particularly on the emerging regionalized variants that are said to have an increased transmissibility rate. Most Covid-19 vaccine brands however have shown remarkable capability to neutralize the virus ranging from as low as J&J's 85 percent to Pfizers 97 percent effectivity particularly in combating B.1.351 strain, which is also known as the deadly South African variant, the fast spreading Indian variant and the latest dominant B.1.1.7 variant that is currently ravaging the US and Israel. Studies have shown that those who had received vaccination, especially the frontline health workers who are more prone to be infected, had a high percentage rate of immunity in staving off infection than those who shun the medication. Generally, vaccination is a must, whether the drug is made in China or anywhere else, and the only option to those who does not approve of it (e.g. gene therapy theorist) apparently is to live like a hermit inside a cave a thousand miles away from civilization for life. Eating those cave bats though will still probably end their lives in less than a fortnight.

These are some of the examples of misleading nonsense that were fed to us by the media lately. More is yet to come. But for all this hype, three things still remains essential for our survival in these pandemic and that would be by getting vaccinated, by not getting infected and by trying not to infect others. Generally, media these days are mostly for entertainment purposes only, so let's just keep it that way.

#kalbongtiu

[bigbrothernetflix-st]

EPISODE FOUR

“ ‘something will be unleashed’ are u gonna start KILLING PEOPLE??” - saira

HOH: Nick UPSIDE DOWN: Emma & Kiki NOMINEES: Monty & Saira POV: Jev FINAL NOMINEES: Monty & Saira EVICTED: Saira (1-0)

JOSH C

well, we just voted out GINA and i'm feeling some kind of way about it. i feel like the push to save emma was VERY quick and i think there are a lot of alliances going on that i'm not involved in which is FINE but it's just something i need to watch out for. i know i talk with almost everyone constantly so i think i'll be okay for this week, but i'm just worried about the people that i enjoy.

a lot of people have said they don't talk to saira or brianna so i wouldn't be shocked to see them both go up, which is FINE i guess but i enjoy both. i don't want saira to leave at all but i don't think she has as GOOD of a social standing as brianna does. which is worrisome because i know this is her first game so she doesn't have any pre-existing relationships to save her which is.. not ideal.

i'm finding things a BIT frustrating because i have to navigate not ONLY game thoughts but people's pre-game relationships. not that i'm knocking anyone for them but almost everyone i've talked to says they don't talk to monty but they wouldn't want to see him nominated. i just don't FULLY understand why we can't nominate him but they're friends with him so he's a bit UNTOUCHABLE. i might push it anyways because he's the only person i don't really talk to anymore. WHO KNOWS.

i've felt like a deflated balloon for most of today so maybe i'll just go with the flow on this but i need to make sure i'm not just voting out all the people who will be votes for me later on. 

ARIA

Im small, bitter, and very angry...but spite is the best motivator and im going to use it to win this season. Anyways i miss saira im SICK of trusting nicks, i see a nick i FLOOR IT!!! I refuse to have a nick fuck me over in a game again i am so over it. But hehe anyways lets get into the info spilling section real fast and then i can analyze because my position has drastically changed from last time-

also sorry for repeated info but sometimes i forget things or people say it again so..

-nathan leaked "all" his alliances to me (Screensht is cut weird i think theres one he cut off)

-Jacob found out my gina connection

-perfect voting record is dead (told jacob i voted out gina tho idk why hehe)

-kiki-joey connection 

-emma knows about bri's backups because jake leaked it to her before he left

-josh c IS EVERYWHERE

-nick says they havent talked to bri

-nick likes jev

-nick wants (more so wants others) to take a shot at kiki/nash

-nick said nathan is a wildcard 

-joshua nommed monty and nash

-STOP UNDERESTIMATING JOSHUA

-told josha jacob is protecting him

-joey exposed saira's deal to me and bri

-joey wants a larger alliance

-bri said they like nick,,,but that conflicts earlier info so im thinking peer pressure or just bri is too sweet for this cast and i adore her-

-bri told nathan her noms

-nathan hates bri and for wHAT??

-jacob has a dpov and used it to cement a f2,, AND DID THE SAME THING WITH BRI FFS 

-jacob scared of nick and jev

-kiki and nash tell everything to jacob

-jacob said emma and joey have a connection??

-jacob thinks nick is gonna join the emma jev joey side (his words)

-jacob thinks monty is a threat

-jacob ranked the players in tiers as follows: 

A kiki jev bri

B joey joshua nathan

d: nash saira monty

-bri talks a lot with kiki and josh c

-told bri about the trio between jacob kiki and nash

-joey told me yesterday he wants to win,,,but then just said to take him out

-planting seeds against joey to bri

-jacob wants to bring dpov up with alliance at f10

-joshua and jacob were shook saira was evicted

-told jacob that joey asked to throw

-jev and jacob are getting closish

-jacob is so threaten by nick

-jacob told bri that nathan doesnt like her

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and thats where im at currently. Lots of options and lots of interconnections I have to navigate but i think im gonna be fine for the time being which makes it super easy to just be complacent and float my way to jury BUT!!! I want to try setting myself up well where i dont get clocked at f9/10 and wabam im out. Im trying to set people against each other subtly but honestly i think im overestimating myself here but at least i know im safe. I mean for now im trying to set up this side of jev emma joshua to at least form together as a group but im STRUGGLING i might just have to settle for them keeping each other safe without a solid alliance ig. At the same time I think i really have two actives pieces of info im working with which is emma knowing about bri's backups and then me and bri knowing about jacob's dpov.

So i think what I want to happen is that Jacob wants to dpov nick out at f10 so i'll let that happen probably which puts a huge target on jacobs back, idk if its anon but if it is ill make sure bri leaks it kinda framing it in a "if you leak it and i pretend to not know i can analyze how other people respond so we'll know what everyone thinks" and once jacob leaves emma can leak the bri's angels (which should be weaker at this point since jacob is the glue that holds it together a bit) which #1 makes a bunch of good players house targets and then forces those people to solidly stick together as well. Not sure how im gonna play both sides but,,,,if i can play it off kinda like i did in pasio somehow maybe i'll be fine but who knows. Either way im here to have fun (and hopefully win for gina/saira)

WELL WELL!!! just did a vc with jacob, he decided to take matters into his own hands and be totally cracked and now thinks nick/monty/nathan are a side,,,,which,,,,idk yall nathan did show me all of his alliances and none of them were that but who am i to stop jacob from making himself a target by leading this charge against them uwu. I do need to be more proactive about leaking tho but im not sure how im gonna work that. Also im not sure if i want nick/monty/nathan all gone, i can live with monty gone bc they probably think i nommed them and might want revenge but also nick and nathan are kinda cute numbers for me,,, 

I mean idk because at this point i have a game relationship with mostly everyone left in this game and im just not sure which path i need to take to get to the end yet and its kindaaa stressing me out a little bit. I can feel myself starting to drop in peoples trust rankings a little bit and god its kinda annoying how jacob has this game wrapped around his finger, however i dont need to be in a dominant position this entire game i believe in myself!! I got this easy peasy!!! 

JEV

My reverse psychology paid off and I won the veto so I'm loving that for me, I'm not going to be using it because I'd preferably like to see Monty leave because I just... never see them and I think Saira is much more deserving of her place here than Monty is. It's frustrating that Monty is cruising through this game so easily because we haven't spoken to eachother since day one, and they haven't even bothered to come and speak to me to campaign for me to use the veto. Like, do you want to be here or not?

Thinking about it more, I'm super happy I won the power of veto. I managed to ensure myself and those I'm closest to in this game weren't going to be named as renom and kept Monty up there as a final nom, which I'm worried otherwise wouldn't happen during this game since people seem either threatened by Monty OR a little over-eager to keep him around in this game, which annoys me but whatever. I just hope whoever wins HOH has the balls to make the right decision, better to get him gone now rather than later.

JEV

So I think I've had a little bit of a brainwave/breakthrough. This is gonna be longwinded so hear me out.

Apparently from what I've heard, the nominations this week were revealed in order of who recieved the least to the most nominations from every

one. This is extremely interesting to me, as I've taken note that Nick, Aria, Jacob & Brianna were 10th-8th in the rankings of votes respectively.

First of all, I haven't made secret that I think something is going on with the Pasio alumni. This was highlighted when I was asking around for what people were doing for nominees, and from everyone I heard Saira/Monty, but from two people I heard Saira, Nash, Joey & Monty -- with Monty strategically placed last in the ranking, to give the illusion his name was the least uttered. Funnily enough, the two people I heard this format of the names were Nick and Aria who just happen to be Pasio alumni... interesting, right?

So looking at the ranking, I'm thinking "okay so they obviously didn't do eachother, and with Nash/Joey in 3rd and 4th respectively, they must've not expected so many votes on Monty and didn't plan accordingly, and so split the votes too much and didn't have enough to put up Nash or Joey over Monty. So I'm thinking, I know there's a connection between Jacob and Monty because I used to play orgs with them on Skype. Jacob used the veto on Brianna last week, this has brought me to the conclusion that Monty, Nick, Brianna, Jacob & Aria are working together with the possibility that Josh C is either playing both sides or is fully with them too, hence why he recieved the least votes.

That places Myself, Emma, Kiki, Nash, Joshua, Joey & Saira on the outside, and Nathan too as I'm guessing he's strayed from their alliance and/or wishing to work with them, hence why he recieved 5th most votes. 

I'd love to make an alliance with this group of people, but it's still only pre-jury and I don't want to be seen as playing too hard too soon.

(cont.) So I initially wasn't going to go for this HOH, but I feel like I need to because I can't trust anybody else to make the move to take Monty out, and I'd rather see their numbers thinned sooner rather than later. It would paint me as their #1 target for next week probably, but if someone I trusted won HOH next week then I could go to the upside down and not have to worry about it.

JEV

Yes again I'm so sorry, another thing that was interesting to me was that I mentioned to Aria that I was close with Emma, and she asked for an alliance with the 3 of us almost immediately after, stating that she was also "very interested" in working with Emma too. This tells me she's the mole and wanted the alliance to try and get intel from us, I don't believe for a second she did Saira/Monty along with me and Emma at all, which is why myself and Emma are hesitant to say too much in that alliance chat. So I like Aria, but I don't trust her as far as I can throw her.

HOST WEEKLY CAST ASSESSMENT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL__dyRaq2E&list=PLFEwPPy8j010XXwntq80VSU0qLNTNpSIN&index=5&t=0s

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Unpopular Opinion Time

So this is the thing - Iove Sherlock. I am very much, an unapologetic, Sherlock fandom blog. I’ve been in fandom since, I think 2012/2013? (I don’t really remember a time before) I’ve meta-ed, I’ve written fanfic, I’ve been on the TJLC train, I’ve made sad Johnlock graphics with Hamilton lyrics, I’ve made some of my best friends in this fandom who I love screaming with and I love analyzing the show. I accept wholeheartedly that there is grander plan, that there’s a lot hidden in plain view, and it’s all about subtext. Though real-life has prevented me from being super active on tumblr of late, I was very much looking forward to S4 and seeing it all play out.

All that being said - I didn’t love it. I very strongly didn’t love it. My strongest feeling upon finishing was annoyance. I slept on it, to see if my opinion changed, and it hasn’t. I know that the three episodes are all interconnected, and by the end it will all come together, but I’m a little bit worried (for me at least) that it will be too late. And this is why.

There were little things - I’ve always really appreciated the cinematography, and this time, the effects and transitions just felt gimmicky. The writing was off - I don’t know if it’s the 2 year break between, the fact that Thompson is gone, that this episode is just really supposed to be background for everything else - but the writing was off. It was jumbled and incoherent. And many of the twists were foreseeable - especially with the cases (which I always liked, even if they weren’t the point) - and that just makes me sad because when I can predict shows, I get bored. But all of these things were minor. The big thing - and the thing that got me so angry it colored my reaction to the episode in it’s entirety - was Mary.

Anyone who is at all familiar with my blog knows that I am not a fan of how Mary Morstan has been handled in Sherlock. It’s fair to say I downright hated the character. And my biggest criticism has always been that I don’t think she was very well written. Admittedly Mary is going to be difficult in any modern adaptation, because Mary Morstan was originally written at a time when it was entirely acceptable for woman to exist only to prop up men in fiction, to an extent that would be, at the very least, odd today. She’s an important character, in that she further’s Watson’s story, but does so almost entirely from the sidelines. It’s hard to translate that to modern times, but what Moffatiss did was overkill. They went from no backstory to SO MUCH BACKSTORY, giving her MUCH POTENTIAL. It was as if they were saying, “See in our story Mary can be an assassin! And sassy! And great!”

The problem is - they gave her all this great possibility they were never going to be able to deliver on. Mary would never get the chance to get fully fleshed out as a character, because this is a show about John and Sherlock. She’s left hanging, with all this potential and nowhere to go. A reformed assassin turned nurse, turned wife and mother deserves more than Sherlock could ever give her. That’s why, in my earliest criticisms of Mary, I called her a paper doll; TPTB gave her all this attitude, all these possible personalities to to try on, and not enough time to do anything with it, leaving the viewers to fill in the blanks (which fandom has done admirably), but leaving hole in the show itself. 

T6T felt like they realized this. It felt like they sat down to write this series and said, “Oh shit, there’s a bunch of unresolved stuff with Mary that leaves plot holes and questions that distract from the leads. Let’s deal with all that as quickly as possible, then be done with her.” Then they tried to fit it all of Mary as a character in about half an episode, patted themselves on the back for making her a Strong Female Character, and then killed her off in a way that furthered the emotional development of the two white male leads on the show. I mean how insulting; when I go I hope it’s not so that my significant other can become the man he was always meant to be.

This is my main issue with T6T - I’m tired. I’m tired of seeing potentially interesting female characters get shoved aside or killed when they become too much for the writers to handle. That’s what happened here - Rosamund Mary got bigger than TPTB ever intended her to be, so they dispatched her as quickly as possible. Which gets around to what has to be my biggest criticism of Sherlock overall - I don’t think Moffatiss is very good at writing women (keep in mind, I’ve never seen anything else the 2 of them have written, so this could be wrong). And I wish they would stop trying. If you’re shitty at writing female character, just stop writing female characters; I’d rather have no female characters, than terribly-written female characters who are little more than outdated stereotypes. 

Now it could be, there’s a larger plan for Mary, and come the end of the series I’ll eat my words. The last 30 seconds certainly gives me hope. But if there’s not, this might be the end of me and Sherlock, my enthusiasm may continue solely in fandom/fan works. Even though I love Sherlock Holmes, I can’t devote energy to something that’s struggling with representation I consider so important, especially when there are so many good and developed and interesting female characters out there (including in other adaptations).

My anger at how Mary was treated colored my reaction to the episode so much that I can’t really engage with meta or theorizing because I don’t really care. I’m to hurt. I always felt like Moffatiss respected the intelligence and experience of the fans watching Sherlock, and I can’t help but walk away from T6T feeling a little insulted. I’m hopeful that soon I’ll be proven wrong. 

Also I would really love for Mary to have been the big bad all along but then are they just trying to recreate what Elementary already did who knows? 

#tnt rattles #spoilers #sherlock #s4 #critique #feminism #that wife

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Conclusion

Hadi Mohammed Africans Studies 363 Stony Brook University Professor Miletsky December 2018 CONCLUSION In the beginning I had a lot of thoughts and attitudes towards what I thought was appropriate and what I felt like made someone a good writer. You often see people cool make things clear online about what is going on in this world and their positions on it there are a lot of black lives matter protest going on in the United States and people who speak out on it. I use those opinions that I see other people making and let it cloud my judgment without assessing my own matter and opinion on the matter. During the course of this class we were required to read many texts that highlight different part of this argument. It is supposed to be primarily of breaking the boundaries between people of other races and cultural understanding, including what it means to be black and understanding how hard black people might have it. Also, there are many different texts that I read that talk about race and how that might be a divide between black people and non-black people however that was what that was how things are in this country. Because a lot of people are starting to come out and complain about that and just the many injustices that people feel and how their voice is not being heard there has been more effort to include people that includes black people in many day-to-day things. For example, the media. Before, I did not pay attention to this issue however while reading one of the text that was assigned for this class I did not pay attention to how the media impacted the way black people are perceived. There also was not a big representation of the African-American people within the media and within things that we see going on in the media. In text that bell hooks wrote, she explains that people do not black people do not get a lot of representation in film and television. She says, “When most black people in the United States first had the opportunity to look at film and television they did so fully aware that mass media was a system of knowledge and power reproducing and maintaining white supremacy” (hooks, pg. 117). That opened my eyes to see that there really is not many roles that are created for black people and even if there might be a role available to a black person, they might be made to look like the funny or a comedic character. And it’s not just African-American people it is also Hispanic people and people from other races. They often do not get as many roles as white people because there are often not enough people in the crew such as the director or casting director or producer. This why sometimes when there is a predominantly black cast that sells a lot in the box office it looks as though it is a huge accomplishment for them even though that is supposed to be something that’s more normalized instead of just celebrated because it might seem like it is one in 1 million. This framed my view of the media and made me rethink about the way that people of color are portrayed in the media. It seems as though it might not be fair to black people and drawing attention to these kinds of issues is why it helps to fix the problem and what helps to break down all the barriers between white and black people. Another recurring theme throughout the semester has been the idea of language and how communication should allow people to understand black people and other culture as well. Another and author wrote about how language and different lenses could be used to connect. Peoples understanding of other cultures and their way of life. It also discusses how learning about it is better than assuming or getting the wrong idea about what they believe to be true. Representation is very important for black people because that is idealy what they need. I learned that it is the description or portrayal of someone or something in a particular way or as being of a certain nature. Representation is beneficial to people to who are not able to directly express themselves and accurately show a depiction of where they come from. Stuart Hall, someone we were able to analyze also gives accurate accounts on what is is to be represented in society and where things comes from. As well as how it plays a major role in people’s understanding. Hall makes the claim that representation connects meaning and language to culture (Hall, 1997, p.15). It used as the process in which meaning is transferred between people within the culture through the use of language, signs and images. These different points are viewed as symbols for other things. Learning about these different topic and points of view I was able to grow my mind into some things that was thinking about things beyond my control and what I can do to help. I often thought about how I can use some of my platform on social media to influence other people and teach them more about cultural knowledge. It is better to live in a world that does not include ignorant people or people who spew hate and ignorance as well. It’s also urged me to reach out to some political figures and to participate in the past elections. It is best that we have people who are more representative within the government and has our best interest at heart when making certain policies that might affect us in the long run. Many people have not been aware of things that might have had to change and harm us in the process of the changing because we did not have adequate members of the government for representing our interest and we would have ended up suffering as a minority group. Because of some of the reading in this class and and things that I have written about in some of the sort papers and how it got me thinking about things that were beyond me it’s urged me to be more active with in politics to make sure that there are people there who can advocate for us and make sure that we are getting the right kind of laws that Taylor to our people. This class has also made me more aware of social problems among me and my peers and house some communicative effort have to be made in order for them to understand why I am the way I am and why my culture is also like this and how we are also similar as a whole. It encourages me to urge my peers to also come together and stand up for things that are in that are in our control. Nothing is more necessary to the future of this country than ending racial inequality and discrimination in America, as I don't need my younger siblings to face the discrimination Black individuals still face in our current society. When winning our fight to freedom and provocative the passage of different laws that was tailored to making us more equal, there are still other unfair advantages where a lot of black people who end up wrongfully incarcerated. I also showed a lot of this mental change and growth through the papers I submitted and as a writer is caused me to think deeper into some of the things that I had to read and write about which is prompting most of this change for me. I hope to contribute to ending racism by utilizing my gift of learning more interconnectivity, and running a social media campaign titled aims to oppose the widespread thought that, as a result of racial difference was lawfully illicit, actual racial difference doesn't still go on in our society. Our recent presidential election might have brought life to a divided country, however it additionally exposed how powerful social media is. By raising awareness of racial disparities that occur all over, I hope to encourage a brand new wave of modification in our country like that of the current Black Lives Matter movement. Also, I know that social media can only do so much in addressing these issues as not everyone can afford the luxury of having internet access. However, I hope that my interests in influence and learning can inspire all those who do have access to take it upon themselves to be the change by being inspired by the fact that we are globally united in this issue. Although I expect negativity and criticism from people who either do not believe that this issue exists or do not believe in our cause, I am willing to encounter it if it means our society as a whole irrevocably can grow to accept each other’s differences. Before, my writing was more about summaries of what I was reading that lacked some of my own analysis and deep thinking. My writing before also seemed more informative rather than something that put deeper thinking into what I was thinking from the things that I was learning. Now, I’m able to think about being apart of a minority and how it is extremely conflicting on my part because we do not have as power that we should possess. As a person who is apart of the African minority community, I am sometimes conjointly disconnected from my non-immigrant peers. Coming from a background of underprivileged people from Africa, I knew that, even at a really young age, I had to be a decent student so that I am more likely to succeed. It gives me a better work ethic so that I am actually able to shine throughout my community. It would be incredibly useful in our community as minority students and people who hope to make a big difference if we make it a mission to pave ourselves a much better future. As a black male who is currently in school, and was also trying to break away from the usual thought that I have to talk, walk, and look a certain way, we should try to come together to make sure things like that stop happening. This is mostly what I learned throughout this semester.

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Expert: Living on the canals and rivers of London for many years, I came within close quarters of some of that city’s most desperate inhabitants, namely those who live on narrowboats because living in London has, in recent years, become horrifically expensive and beyond the means of most, even when flat sharing. Yet, reading the media reports from the BBC, a media corporation which is obligatorily funded by British residents, it would be easy to think that there is no economic inequality in the country, that homelessness is not rising at record rates, and that all the British are just thrilled about the impending royal wedding next May. The fact is that media often sells the public an image that functions in diametric opposition to their best interests. We have seen this in the analysis of U.S. elections and how conservatives consistently vote against their own interests when selecting the best candidate and we are seeing this in recent years with the media’s liberal use of “clickbait” as headlines mislead the reader as we are drawn in only to find a flimsily concocted story. “Fake news,” ironically one of the President Trump’s favorite phrases, is precisely how he gained access to the White House.  Still, we are given so much fake news that we must struggle to find the least fake news to read during our morning coffee.  We are living in an era where even a morsel of truth is better than the vast numbers of publications where “news” has been replaced by ideological dogma, such as the new millennium’s penchant for prescriptive list of items that women must do or stop doing. Media has radically shifted its mandate in recent years having come to take on the role of the advertiser, selling an ideal lifestyle and political ideology, instead of reporting on the mechanisms of power which are forcing ideology forward, revealing who is sponsoring these narratives, how these ideological mechanisms are being bought and sold, and why. I am most concerned that in an era where the average American university graduate is indebted for an average of 21 years to repay student loans while their salary is not commensurate to their investment and more and more people are surviving simply by accumulating debt on their credit cards.  The economic crisis has been largely cast as a government one, but the reality is that media has played a large role in towing a line of personal wealth, despite the fact that 68 percent of Americans have destroyed their credit before age 30 and credit repair will likely be their only way forward under a lifetime of growing economic despair. How did the media come to dominate the role of ideological mouthpiece for consumerism instead of being a transparent vehicle which reports and queries such ideologies?  It would be useful here to examine the interconnectivity between these media messages where economic hardship is swapped out for images of glamour. Certainly, there is a well-known link between how advertising promotes a product through creating a desire for said product. But how might media function to promote ideology in much the same way that advert campaigns sell perfume or car tires? In Ways of Seeing Berger discusses this link between image and how people perceive themselves: Publicity is the culture of the consumer society. It propagates through images that society’s belief in itself. There are several reasons why these images use the language of oil painting.  Oil painting, before it was anything else, was a celebration of private property. As an art-form it derived from the principle that you are what you have. It is a mistake to think of publicity supplanting the visual art of post-Renaissance Europe; it is the last moribund form of that art. Here Berger analyses the notion that somehow art is “pure” and devoid of any commercial value as he demonstrates how economic structures absorb messages from culture and the art world to sell these repackaged messages once again. Berger’s thesis?  That “without social envy, glamour cannot exist”: Glamour is a new idea…when everybody’s place in society is more or less determined by birth, personal envy is a less familiar emotion.  And without social envy, glamour cannot exist. Envy becomes a common emotion in a society that has moved toward democracy and then stopped halfway, where status is theoretically open to everyone but enjoyed by few. The oil painting and the publicity image are not so dissimilar:  reality is based on paintings, art reflects reality,  and then art becomes co-opted by media to give prestige to the product when sold. It is the value of the artwork as possession, as having x value, that elicits this cycle of art as ideology. The consumer will forever want this ideal because what she is buying is ephemeral. The well-known television series, Mad Men, was in many ways a critique of how media has taken hold of our society, of culture, and of the individual from herself, such that the focus of the plot ultimately fell to the protagonist whose job it was to show us how shallow we all are in the face of consumerism.  As Don Draper states: “People want to be told what to do so badly that they’ll listen to anyone.”  Emotional lack and need feeds the machinery of consumerism as ideology and ideology as product. John Berger’s task in Ways of Seeing and later the BBC series of the same name, demonstrates how markets create their own demand by utilizing emotion—be it glamour, pleasure, possession, prestige, future dreams—in order to ensure its hereafter? Or might things have changed since the 1970s? Berger states in the narration of his BBC show: “The highest value of this civilization is the individual ego,” and he demonstrates his point through the images and messages of a British advertisement for Pimms. He leafs through the magazine and placed in juxtaposition to this advert is a story about refugees in East Pakistan with an accompanying text appealing to a political conscious and the next page, an ad for another alcoholic beverage Martini. There is, according to Berger, no coherence between these images and text: “Reality itself becomes unrecognisable.”  And this is salient point especially today. What do words mean when images of Pakistan, England, and elsewhere are juxtaposed to realities of “over there” where the fundamental message is that we deserve to drink Pimms and those people over there deserve what happens to them:  “What happens out there, happens to strangers whose fate is meant to be different from ours.” Today, two generations after Berger’s Ways of Seeing (1972) was released on the BBC, we have an explosion of images coming to us through television, print media, and the Internet, all which function to imbue “truths” through their hyper-multiplicity and repetition.  There is no change in the way that we are sold “things” as objects or in the form of ideology.  Wealth abounds virtually such that the impoverished reader is allowed to identify with this mediatic fiction which manipulates economic inequality, where those on one side are deserving of wealth, those on the other side are deserving of death. It is the ultimate in naturalizing social, political, and ethnic hierarchy. “Whatever happens in the dream is meant to happen to us,” says Berger.  Publicity implicates that there are simply those who are meant to be included, and necessarily those whom it excludes are negligible.  The fact that you matter also includes the unfortunate fact in our world today, many others simply do not. Ideology as media message attempts to render invisible this “sad fact” replacing political analysis within the surrogate model of a new, happier reality. Indeed, that dreams is meant to happen uniquely to you. Desire, glamour, future dreams, social mobility—these are all part of how products are advertised and marketed.  The idea that “you are unique” hinges upon this social suspension of reality and the belief that the subject really does have a choice from a plurality of possibilities (ie. Pimms versus a humanitarian disaster) while paradoxically being unique in the world of choices.  The images might say multiplicity, but the message—as Don Draper knows all too well—is choice.  She is one person buying this product which means she is not only unique, but she holds the power. What happens when you take advertising from the 1960’s and analyze it in the terms of the information highway of our contemporary world?  How has media changed and how might the consumer body (and consumerism) have changed in a world where we have billions of images and messages floating around cyberspace every second? In Amusing Ourselves to Death Neil Postman compares the Middle Ages (belief in the authority of religion) with our contemporary world (belief in the authority of science (58). Along with science, technology, and orbiting narratives of progress (60), Postman argues, comes a new problem which he calls the “information glut” which leads to “information chaos.” According to Postman, none of our problems are due to insufficient information, but from a lack of the ability to analyze and prioritize it. We can’t answer the question of the purpose our information is supposed to serve. So managing information has become the key issue (J. Beniger, The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society). Postman goes on to explain the cultural impact of printing, and aligns printing, telegraphy, photography, broadcasting and computers as the technological driving forces in changing cultures which together give us access to instant, indiscriminate information. The result is that we accommodate ourselves to new technology in a world where technological progress has become the chief aim of life (70).  Postman applies this notion of technological progress to advertising contending that advertising is less about the product and more about the consumer. Market research, not product research, is key today. And the questions of marketing and advertising are no longer how to reach the consumer but rather what is wrong with the consumer? How can this product be seen to fix that other, fictional problem?  Postman views that the problem of media is not really about advertising itself but the holistic worldview of technopoly which brings together concepts of progress and consumption, and where tradition is the obstacle (ie. he describes Christmas a “culture rape”). During London’s “Occupy LSX” in 2011, I was shooting a film at the protest locations and interviewing many people who came in daily to participate as well as those who were living in tents outside St Paul’s Cathedral.  The occupation site was disheveled, there was no main organizer or leader of this occupation as hierarchies were denounced in this movement, chaos ruled and handmade signs abounded.  I walked around the camp daily filming and talking with protestors. Many—most even—would cite quotations from the Internet hit film Zeitgeist when I would ask them what they hoped to accomplish.  Ostensibly from the Left, many of these individuals would talk about the “system,” “the Man,” and most would recite this line as if a memorized chorus: “One day, machines will do everything and we won’t have to work.” I would interject and say, “But most everyone I know loves to work.  Don’t we need work to fulfill ourselves? I do!”   Another said, “But that is how the system wants you to think? There is enough money out there that we don’t really need to work.  One day we can all be sitting at home all day playing video games.” I responded that this seemed like a very bleak future, and a boring one at that.  I asked them to tell me more about this “system” and none could elaborate it aside from clichés of our being brainwashed, our being forced into this “system,” our being unhappy in “this system.” By the end of my weeks filming at St Pauls, it was unclear to me what this system was or if their system was any different in structure to ethos.  In having discussions like this over several months I came to experience that at the heart of Occupy LSX included zero organization, no plan for understanding its greater constituency, and this protest lacked any coherent message or guiding force.  If anything could have used Don Draper, it was Occupy LSX.  For every single protestor I noted bought their food from the most exploitative of UK food chains, Tesco Supermarket, where £1 of every £8 in the UK retail market goes.  Their actions were in complete contradiction to their words and sadly these protestors did not even realize it. It was this moment that led me to understand how political activity can mirror the consummation of messages and how advertising has become an irrefutable tool for mass communications today—even if that message is anti-consumerist.  Postman’s technopoly demonstrates how all messages of protest failed (in London) because there was an appeal to rationality whilst the images of the protest were, if anything, anti-rational.  Like LSX needing to find its willing consumer to come into its makeshift tea tent to discuss a future revolution, all advertising projects require the investment in belief.  Postman moves Berger’s connection between rational thought and advertising into a completely new dimension where now the “truth” no longer matters: By substituting images for claims, the pictorial commercial made emotional appeal, not tests of truth, the basis of consumer decisions. The distance between rationality and advertising is now so wide that it is difficult to remember that there once existed a connection between them. Today, on television commercials, propositions are as scarce as unattractive people. The truth or falsity of an advertiser’s claim is simply not an issue. A McDonald’s commercial, for example, is not a series of testable, logically ordered assertions. It is a drama-a mythology, if you will-of handsome people selling, buying and eating hamburgers, and being driven to near ecstasy by their good fortune. No claims are made, except those the viewer projects onto or infers from the drama. One can like or dislike a television commercial, of course. But one cannot refute it. Indeed, we may go this far: The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products….And so, the balance of business expenditures shifts from product research to market research. The television commercial has oriented business away from making products of value and toward making consumers feel valuable, which means that the business of business has now become pseudo-therapy. The consumer is a patient assured by psycho-dramas. So the “system” of the protestor living in a tent for half a year would seem to be the holistic social space wherein everyone—these protestors included—recreate their own communities, their own notions of change and even revolution.  Certainly, the “system” is not a unilateral mass of power being speculated onto the multitudes by some overlord. But it is a discourse for reading society and for understanding which individuals take part and which opt out.  When looking very closely at how these new products exist in all their forms—from green energy tools to donations to the Red Cross to helping victims of a natural disaster—we can notice a trend in how the “system” is very much reflective of our cultural and social values, constantly shifting and changing into something else. Thirty years ago North American women were sold on margarine, today they are told it is toxic to the body with informercials running 24/7 about how low density fat will kill you.  Now buying butter makes the subject feel as if life will never end for her. So if we must speak about “the system”—or any system for that matter—it is the one in which we have made ourselves simultaneous subjects and objects of ideology whereby consuming helps us be better people.  Today the narrative that media tows is very much in line with turning the reader/spectator of news into the subject-object of a political ideology that seeks its own end by amassing believers. In not fulfilling the mandate to reveal the facts and expose “the truth about the facts” as Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel maintain as the role of journalism, we are simply allowing media to become a pipeline for corporate and elite interests. We can give way to these economic and political giants, or we can demand regulation of media that might allow it be more about investigation and presenting of the facts over political partisanship and ideological pantomime.  To pretend that we are absolutely powerless and surrender ourselves to “the system” does not seem to be a healthy or constructive approach to countering the force of fake news or ideological propagation within media.  It is up to us to hold our politicians and media accountable. http://clubof.info/

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Lucid astral delta state

Today I will speak about lucid dreaming.  Another term for lucid dreaming is astral projection.  It occurred to me to share this topic after having an experience while in delta state. My mind experienced my dream as a waking experience,  as if in a profoundly meditative state.

In our dreams we are guided through patterns  by a higher intelligence.  What we see and do occurs entirely in our own mind  yet it is channeled from the divine universe.  As gravity flows through our system,  a condensation forms on our receptors,  condensation is lucid processing experiences.

I felt compelled to communicate about this topic since my dreams have done more than come from a place of anxiety, whimsical  interest.   The thematic messages  relayed to me during my dream time has been more complicated then my logical rational thinking brain can comprehend.

On a subtle level the morphing narratives with hidden intense agendas feature bitter and controlling characters revolving around my own destiny and preventing my personal evolution while leading me by the reins toward disempowerment. Complexity of the symbolisms delivered upon my vessel has led me to analyze deeper revelations upon my own understanding of reality.

My grandmother appeared before my eyes and revealed held at hands end, a magnificent pearl. Not any pearl.  This one was truly spectacular.  It was fabulous and it glowed like a thousand diamonds in the sun. I was in awe.

Yet it seemed so familiar to me.  It made me feel as if I were a character in some great play that had been going on conducted by identities larger than myself. It made me feel as if she was holding some sort of great powerful gem that signified a treasure important to who I was and  the identity our galaxy was embracing as it transformed like a butterfly in a cocoon undergoing metamorphosis.

It was teardrop-shaped and violet.  I reached out to my grandmother telling her that I recognized it.  It was entirely transparent and beyond the purple tint swirling mists drew me into it.  I was drawn into the heart of the pearl.  I was drawn into a smaller pearl that existed within that pearl I had been shown. Also I was being drawn into another story that was within this story, or some story.

Within my story was the story of a woman.  This woman was living in virginia.  They say I was highly forested and she was living along the coast. Whether she used to live along the coastline or she used to gather oysters or clams or whatever they were,  from an area that was farther away from where she resided,  the case was that one day she was eating clams or oysters or whatever they were.  I am certain that it was oysters because she bit into something like a mussels and almost swallowed a very valuable stone. She might have almost lost a tooth in the process or broken a tooth and swallowed that if not for that by the happenstance of good chance she instead found this very same pearl that I have been describing to which my grandmother to communicated to me about.

That in which you are fully convinced of or not, the same dream continued again many nights ago. This woman did not fully recognize or take at face value the uniqueness of the gem before  her eyes. It was almost like a parable of life or about it. We can allow ourselves to become rich or poor, constrained or otherwise. We can come to develop our sovereignty and independence but never independence of the source of creation which is love.

It wasn't at all what it appeared to be on the surface. This precious stone held so many stories of individuals; yet when you came to look at it, all of these stories meshed together. Each person was representative of the hair in this strand of braided fibers. Each character in its own place and time was symbolic of adversity that needed to be overcome in order to form a interconnected trellis of consciousness identifying as geometry.

The gem which the woman did not realize was actually priceless but she had not the eyes to see it and in fact almost accidentally choked upon this hiding pearl.  The lesson is that we can up see abundance on the table or we do not seek to create abundance because moreover we are simply focused on not choking or survivalism. We don't want to have to turn purple in the face because our lungs are incapable of taking in oxygen. We do not want to have to be afraid for our lives because we are having difficulty getting past the throat chakra and are worried someone will have to perform a tracheotomy upon me.

Here is where it got really confusing.  Not that it was really confusing but that it could be really confusing for some people trying to figure out what I'm talking about from here. The stone was a consciousness or an entity in and of itself. It represented a higher consciousness or something that was more unified or authentically true when identifying as an entity then we could ever do in our simple human shells. My grandmother brought me that stone so many nights ago so that I might dive into it in my mind with my heart and energy as if it were a pensieve and I were in a jk rowling novel.  Maybe I was in the half blood prince or the order of the phoenix and were having to learn occlumency in order to develop barriers so my enemies could not penetrate my own mind.

By learning to have sympathy for other people by walking in the shoes of other selves existing in parallel timelines, I was interfacing with a technology and advanced demonstrating a simple geometric way of connecting with the akashic record in some sort of form.  For all intents and purposes this is what it appeared to be like.

I thought that this pearl might be perhaps an amethyst or a sapphire. It was maybe  like the color of the dragon in eragon or glowing like some dragon egg. Potentially it would hatch a dragon at any moment that would develop a relationship with a boy intending on apprenticing some great magician formerly a dragon rider. Maybe that relationship would be symbolized by a tattoo. This was some sort of impermanent marked as if it had been painted or airbrushed on my henna. If the dragon died in the tattoo was severed but the mark was always branded into the skin or at least lingering, scarring the epidermis. It was an interdimensional sort of tattoo and if the physical body of the dragon where to perish then the mark would also fade into some sort of netherrealm.

Potentially this dragon or maybe it wasn't a dragon at all, was supposed to guard a princess or the gringotts bank. That's why end magic person harnessing the foul or something like in warcraft, also have income from another realm to this world with intent to conquer, was so god damn hell bent on pile driving his horde through the center lane of the empire end burning down villages in the process in order to obtain glowing mysterious eggs hiding out in a decrepit radon filled cellar. Perhaps right next to the old aging bottles and anne frank herself viciously compiling diary entries and attaching tables of contents, there were the biological weapons of mass destruction. They had been untraceable in the 2003 surge into afghanistan. They had tried to be reinserted into the timeline again in aleppo thanks to those brigands and their guns mounted to truck tops. Maybe it was some sort of evil spider or even whatsoever more, contained within the pearl. A leviathan or sea monster hiding out in some moat like an ancient crocodile, hybrid hapie-mermaid to be investing subterranean bases hundreds of miles beneath metropolitan sewers.

We can imagine the paradigm setting crack forming now. The cracks which would lead to nefertiti's secret chamber. We can imagine the land splitting apart as if the continents were being flooded. We can imagine the rio de janeiro, the amazon river and the nile all coming to form inland seas. We can imagine these great waters turning the tide. We see the waters coming to rush in like a golf.

Where is it that we can imagine that the rush is not that you are being pursued by king or pharaoh ramses ii entourage of imperialists? In a parody of black friday or november the 30th, the black gun powder barrel treason, or more appropriately cyber monday, metaphorically everyone is running all over amazon.Com. Can you see it?

Visualize the hatching of this pearl giving life to viable offspring. At the same time we could just imagine like a clap of lightning or a butterfly impression formatting upon the last quarantine bastion in the movie I am legend’s glass as the zombie beats its head to get in, to get an equal share of consciousness, the garden of eden turned into e. O. Wilson’s slaughterhouse, magnon sleeping with eve, the ascension up the tower of babel, end the frost dragon of the white walkers coming to destroy the wall of jon snow and the rest of the free world.

Perhaps a few hot air balloons and well-placed black powder weapons could be used to knock out the queen.  According to the edge of tomorrow in which events tend to repeat themselves according to the weather and a ferret or ermine are marmots are stoat, or now that I come to think about it where it's to be a hamster or a gerbil? No it must be a guinea pig. Oh wait I have finally come to the following: the answer that I am searching for is a pika. If the pika is able to see its shadow then this determines whether or not humanity will proceed to junction a whether humanity will be allocated to timstream b.

As we see, or perhaps we don't but the evidence is clearly in front of our own eyes, in the movies the butterfly effect with ashton kutcher or before I fall we find out that a sacrifice of a person will be necessary much like mother nature choosing to consume the father of the hero’s journey himself to satiate her serial killer ideations.

According to the 1st and 2nd laws of nonlinear gravitation, the advanced free energy devices

And gyros, which are to be found in principal in agartha under the atlantic ocean,  in the aliens versus predator requiem temples ( mesoamerican pyramid structures portrayed in the movie aliens versus predator 2001), or in the cavities underneath the giza plateau  whose opening are located directly underneath the monument called the sphinx.

In order to get to agartha we have to follow someone who has been there to agartha and not get stuck in through dinotopia along the way.  Admiral byrd was never able to get to the atlantic temples because he encountered saucers. These saucers were like upside down tea cup saucers and when they fired weapons upon them, they were equipped with inferior technology and spiritual disciplines which did not enable them to reflect the laser based weapons back at the source of firing. Another phenomenon was not a whirlpool forming or hurricane such as the intervention famously made known by the history channel and ancient aliens as the sinking of the spanish armada in the 1600s. The planes that were deployed off of the aircraft carriers in theory we're crashing into barriers and the ships could not get over the barrier made famous by movies such as the hunger games the truman show and the 13th floor.

Of course this is all entertaining propaganda that has been timed to be delivered and revealed or unveiled at precisely the right moment so as to steer the ship into the highest possible consciousness for the highest possible number. This is sort of a utilitarian concept regarding to eugenics and intelligence principles, manifesting and embodiment of timeline accepted reality that needs to be lived out or experienced by a particular body according to the clause of individuation. We say accepted reality because it is clear to realize or is becoming rapidly more apparent that for the past 75 years all people living here on this planet have been undergoing a reality that is rapidly eroding like sand on the beach in a tsunami or a granule of clay in an epic mudslide varying thousands of people in the andes.

According to this person, where they came from, clams grew this precious stone. This was most certainly a living conscious clam or effectually the heart of it. Oyster is sort of like a muscle. It is just a soft pliable tissue but it has strings sort of like spider-man's webbing that it uses to adhere to barnacles. It just rocks gently absorbing the energy of the atmosphere as it rises the tide in and out and up and down.

They say that godzilla have been around for a very long time perhaps thousands of years and you have to wonder whether they are saying it is due to the radiation these days that he's absorbing or the black sun itself. Perhaps he is just a gigantic zone of disruption like a city. I can see it now godzilla and king kong being portrayed as giants walking or rather monsters rolling down the street representing healer christ consciousness.

This green toxic material which was engineered by dr. Baxter at the shredder’s laboratory, probably loaded with nanites and sponsored by the vatican, might see to it in the ninja turtles number 3 that our infamous 5 mutants, disregarding esmeralda the conquistador in the hunchback of notre dame, as well as ephialtes, could live to be far older than any tortoise.

Playing off of what mouse said in the matrix that maybe the machines got it wrong and who are they to know what tasty wheat really tastes like, who are we besides being a another facet of biodiversity in the same evolving biosphere, to say that a frog, turtle, or a clown fish really lives to be 250 years old and not 250000 years old.

It's like value of money. Everyone is so worried about what 19.5 trillion dollars of debt looks like compared to what they said had gone missing to .6 trillion dollars or compared to the 26 trillion-dollar debt figure that was thrown around after the time of the audit of fort knox. Can you really compare money or stove any sort of consciousness to the twinkle that occurs in lovers eyes before the grounding or birth of a higher? Is it the love and the hormones and comfortability that usually leads to the conception and pregnancy? Maybe we can judge the value of a dollar based upon the billions of people that are living on the planet and how many trees there are and how much resources there are and what infrastructure is in place to be able to develop these commodities, to turn the raw material into commodities. Some people would have you believe that you can base your own value based upon a carbon footprint and if your carbon footprint is heavy then you are going to hell.

Oyster as a metabolic process and as it is growing it ingests many toxins and these toxins clump together and as they crystallize over thousands of years, they form a precious stone known as a string of pearls. Very similar to a mink pelt you only get pelt per mink.

This particular pearl is a type that is found along the canadian coastline and in texas where I currently am or at least my body as my astral self travels in the dream world. Strings of pearls were used for trading and bartering along routes and roads very similar to the silk roads found in eurasia.

I envision myself admiral of an armada peacefully sailing around the world to promote consciousness and growth without bullying anyone.  Not at dark fleet but I imagine that each pearl contains its own fleet within it and I am admiral of thousands and thousands of interconnected fleet called the consciousness of the stars.

What is the price of only a single pearl?  What is the price of a single diamond or what is the price of a single life of a mother? Is it wrong that sigmund freud and nietzsche are so popular for their therapeutic views of life that are so good for everyone, when we have self fulfilling prophecies, endless feedback loops, regarding child armies and blood diamonds in africa and oedipus complex.

Love is like a vessel in the middle of the bay. It is berthed not because it is tied but it is berthed because it is anchored. You can't force habitats to conform to ‘the only’ ideal standards of what level of intelligence or types of beings are driving the dialogue as to if and when they should transform into shopping malls or a parking lot.

It is so easy to take that leap from a parasite and to being something that understands geometry and beauty so that you can relay through the entire field how it is that humans could best act and to promote the most ideal conditions. What is it that you are most passionate about? Is it even possible for what is below to unite with your higher self due to the conditions experienced in this pervasive reality? It's kind of like shakespeare's play macbeth, or the game of thrones, in that in a competitive society there's no peace of mind except for the comfort that anybody could slit your throat while you sleep in order to take what you have to be deemed more intelligent or prudent by acting rather than surrendering to naive instincts which lead to enslavement.

If we are to move towards a more aesthetic based culture, a culture that can see the preventable situations that can be circumvented by incorporating wisdom into the social practices of day-to-day life, we see ourselves as interconnected, because the gravity that flows through the geometry which we share with all of our relations and ourselves, inherently binds us to a fabric structure that we can sense before we can interpret with the physical vessel.

The fighting's done in and amongst warlords is done to establish a harem. By capturing more women, there is more women to father children in the society. The act of fornication guides how we develop behavioral mechanisms used in the discernment process of discovering what is sin compared to a saint. Dualisms such as if we will get a piece of ass or a share of the pie prevent us from over writing the programs so that each of our strings might be interwoven.

By learning to control the emotional body sometimes we think that we need to suppress our emotional true selves in order to appease those that have such a significant impression within our direct sphere of influence. It is almost as if societal suppression is achieved through dark forces seeking to sabotage our relationship with our guides that lead us to our higher selves add spell out the way as the carpet is unrolled before us. We are all celebrities and stars in our own right and you don't have to be blinded by the strobe light of cameras in order to know that you are loved and worth respect.

Everyone is on a quest line adventure and they seek many high council's upon their journey in order to truly bear the ring.  Bearing the ring symbolizes that we are willing to align with our own north star or higher self frequencies coming through from the multiverses at any moment as opposed to pretending we're operating on scripts that have been regurgitated through the lines of history.

No of course developing a relationship with our highest cell is not impossible. It is just like being drawn into the pearl as I was drawn into the mists of my dream. Engagement comes from automatically going with the flow. Discerning what feels good for me at any particular moment and knowing in the now how there is a balance between being a steward of the earth and self-gratification.

The highest will, identities and symbolism comes from being a shepherd of mankind in ushering them and myself toward becoming or embodying a new golden race. We sometimes trip upon hurdles as we are going down the lane. These hurdles are the terrestrial energies embodied by lower versions of ourselves and other people upon our shared planet. We can't win until we are willing to all become winners and more than leave no child behind, we can't leave anyone behind because everyone is screaming violently to be able to freely be themselves without being persecuted.

There is so much persecution to go around and so little room to hide from that persecution. We can prove to ourselves that we are committed to our highest will but we need to search out help in order to do that and when we take assistance, we need to be prudent and cautious with the ways that the resonance effects our body.

That's because it assists with the growth process. This doesn't mean that it will feel good. Just because it feels good doesn't mean that it will assist with the evolution of the planet.

In commitment to a twin flame we find all relations with everyone to be enhanced because they are from interdimensional in nature.

Love, Love those around you. Love a single flower a single a rose a single person for, Love is the connectedness that we need to bind us together sometimes it is that twin flame that can activate that fire of love, Be open….

But primarily love yourself!!!!

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