Wat’s Carbon Water-N-Stuff Thread - Concepts In Iron And Wood!!!

Very true!!! :D There's so much dead matter decomposing. Need to move the major contributors to another location in the hopes of cleaning up the mess and breathing life back into decrepit institutions. DC is an oversize hospice facility.


Half the members, if we may call them that, are brain-dead but still breathing. This phenomenon happens nowhere else. We really need term limits for these assholes. Something in there 12-16 year ranges. That's more than enough time.


Apparently, that's more than enough time to loot out some personal wealth while they're at it.


Cocksuckers, and not in a good way . . . .
 
Half the members, if we may call them that, are brain-dead but still breathing. This phenomenon happens nowhere else. We really need term limits for these assholes. Something in there 12-16 year ranges. That's more than enough time.


Apparently, that's more than enough time to loot out some personal wealth while they're at it.


Cocksuckers, and not in a good way . . . .
I've been an advocate for term limits for a long time, but with that being said, there are some valid reasons against it. I think a more destructive force is the vindictive, destructive media constantly promulgating character assassinations, forcing good people to think twice before putting their families through the constant barrage of negative press.
 
I've been an advocate for term limits for a long time, but with that being said, there are some valid reasons against it. I think a more destructive force is the vindictive, destructive media constantly promulgating character assassinations, forcing good people to think twice before putting their families through the constant barrage of negative press.


I can understand why Sentient Life doesn't want to participate in a very fucked up system. That's why we get the dreck we get. These worthless motherfuckers are looking to cash in promoting their agenda. They are there to steal, loot, plunder and feather their nests with your money and mine. They don't give a shit about the voters and haven't for decades if not centuries. The first few sets seemed to care, but it's been All About Them since.


The Sentient need to arise and awaken and organize. It's past time.
 
I can understand why Sentient Life doesn't want to participate in a very fucked up system. That's why we get the dreck we get. These worthless motherfuckers are looking to cash in promoting their agenda. They are there to steal, loot, plunder and feather their nests with your money and mine. They don't give a shit about the voters and haven't for decades if not centuries. The first few sets seemed to care, but it's been All About Them since.


The Sentient need to arise and awaken and organize. It's past time.
They are almost always guaranteed to start as poppers and retire as millionaires. :mad:
 
They are almost always guaranteed to start as poppers and retire as millionaires. :mad:



Allegedly, AOC is broke with total assets of about $60K and liabilities of maybe $50K for a net worth of 10 grand. And there are posts claiming she's a millionaire. I'd reckon the truth is somewhere between. Of course, she did piss off Graftin' Nancy, so maybe she didn't get shown where the Dollars Tap is.


Yet.


Man, woman, Dem, Rep - every single one of them is no more trustworthy than a run-of-the-mill brigand. If they were all to hang by their necks from lampposts, the nation would improve.
 
Whomever you talk to, you hear the same cry: The resettlement never should have been permitted. We should have run into the street, set fire to everything in sight, have torn down the walls, and escaped to the Other Side. The Germans would have taken their revenge. It would have cost tens of thousands of lives, but not 300,000. Now we are ashamed of ourselves, disgraced in our own eyes, and in the eyes of the world, where our docility has earned us nothing. This must not be repeated now. We must put up a resistance, defend ourselves against the enemy, man and child.


~ Emmanuel Ringelblum, “Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: The Journal of Emmanuel Ringelblum,” ed. & transl., Jacob Solan (N.Y.: Schoken Books, 1958), p. 326
 
Poor Wat…

🥲

AJ is dead, and Wat’s terminal delirium suggests Wat’s end isn’t far off.

🌷
 

My Symphony

By William Henry Channing


To live content with small means.
To seek elegance rather than luxury,
and refinement rather than fashion.
To be worthy not respectable,
and wealthy not rich.
To study hard, think quietly, talk gently,
act frankly, to listen to stars, birds, babes,
and sages with open heart, to bear all cheerfully,
do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never.
In a word, to let the spiritual,
unbidden and unconscious,
grow up through the common.

This is to be my symphony.
 
Once upon a time,
we had empires ruled by emperors.
Then he had kingdoms rules by kings.
Today, we have countries . . . .
 
1 + 3 = 13


One of the interesting (and not in a conventional "interesting" way) is the binary view of politics and society in so very many observations and articles. Swear to Allah, I don't recall its being that divided 30 years ago. Whereas I find humans less trustworthy now more than ever, at least then I found the sense of society to be a bit more unified. I disagree with you but you're not some extreme characterization - then. Now, it's all horrible if it isn't lockstep with (what passes for) that person's thinking.


I discovered/observed several years ago that nothing is about good or bad, or right and wrong. It's about, does it work or does it not. And this shit is broken, badly, and has been for awhile. It's just that in all the din of bickering, no one is looking.



 
In March, 1668, Adriaan Koerbagh, a Dutch physician in his mid-thirties, hired Johannes Van Eede, a printer in Utrecht, to publish his new book, “A Light Shining in Dark Places, to Shed Light on Matters of Theology and Religion.” But Van Eede, after setting the first half of the manuscript, became uneasy about its highly unorthodox contents. Koerbagh argued that God is not a Trinity, as the Dutch Reformed Church taught, but an infinite and eternal substance that includes everything in existence. In his view, Jesus was just a human being, the Bible is not Holy Writ, and good and evil are merely terms we use for what benefits or harms us. The only reason people believe in the doctrine of Christianity, Koerbagh wrote, is that religious authorities “forbid people to investigate and order them to believe everything they say without examination, and they try to murder (if they do not escape) those who question things and thus arrive at knowledge and truth, as has happened many thousands of times.”

Now it was about to happen to Koerbagh himself. Van Eede, either outraged because of his religious beliefs or worried about his own legal liability, stopped work and turned over the manuscript to the sheriff of Utrecht, who in turn informed the sheriff of Amsterdam. Koerbagh was already well known to the authorities there; in February, they had seized all copies of his previous book, “A Flower Garden of All Sorts of Delights,” in which he had denied the existence of miracles and divine revelation. Realizing that he was in danger, Koerbagh went on the run, ending up in Leiden, where he disguised himself with a black wig. But a reward was offered and in July someone turned him in. Koerbagh was interrogated, tried, and sentenced to ten years in prison for blasphemy, to be followed by ten years of exile. The long sentence turned out to be unnecessary: he lasted just a year in prison before dying, in October, 1669.

A few months later, an even more subversive book was published in Amsterdam: “Tractatus Theologico-Politicus,” an anonymous Latin treatise that declared the best policy in religious matters to be “allowing every man to think what he likes, and say what he thinks.” In the preface, the author gave thanks for the “rare happiness of living in a republic, where everyone’s judgment is free and unshackled, where each may worship God as his conscience dictates, and where freedom is esteemed before all things dear and precious.” But the fact that the author withheld his name, and that the book’s Amsterdam publisher claimed on the title page that it had been printed in Hamburg, told another story. The author and the publisher were well aware that their unshackled judgment could put them in shackles.

These feints couldn’t stop readers, or the authorities, from quickly figuring out that the “Tractatus” was the work of Baruch Spinoza. Although Spinoza, then in his late thirties, had previously published only one book, a guide to the fashionable philosophy of René Descartes, he was one of Amsterdam’s most notorious freethinkers.



Pity that it seems to be falling by the wayside . . . where everyone's judgment is "free" . . . .
 
We are free to tell religious nuts that their superstitions are crap and have no place in government.
 
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