Computing postgrad, STEM, open source software & hardware and the maker movement. I like to mix art and electronics and have many projects on the go! Amateur Radio Callsign: EI7HTB, Gab: @kirwan_david, Website: https://donttase.me
I am an older gentleman now in retirement. I have paid my dues to the thieves in suits and hope that I can survive my remaining years while retaining whatever human(e)ity I have left. I don't take vaccines or meds and have not seen a Doctor in over 20 years and surprise, surprise, I am still very much alive and kicking.
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
~Patrick Henry
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"Police Station Blues" (Peetie Wheatstraw cover).
Walpurgisnacht release - - 6.00PM BST (GMT +1) Saturday 30.4.22
*** Recording of street performance in Whitechapel, London, E1, England ***
MY FAVOURITE WEBSITES
Comic art https://www.elivalley.com/home.
Rhetoric https://earth-wizard.livejournal.com/56638.html ... https://fictivemuseum.blogspot.com/2013/11/graham-harman-in-interview-with-sonyto.html?m=1.
Mail order occultism https://www.librarything.com/work/6761196/reviews/284090644 ..... ....
HOW TO DATE STRIPPERS ( in Misc. at end of article): https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/20/ozys-anti-heartiste-faq/
MONEY PROBLEMS SOLVED!
Debt management sounds like a scam, but isn't. You can legitimately get interest on debts written off. Better than succumbing to the grind, trying to work for 20 hours straight. Artistic grind is fine, plugging away at something you think worthwhile in itself. But work grind grinding away hours to get money... you need to either reduce your life expenses, or increase your pay per hour. When you're dead everything is done, it's fixed and final. It'll be too late to do what you wanted to in life.
https://www.gov.uk/options-for-paying-off-your-debts/debt-management-plans
-JOIN A UNION! ( It's like backing the right horse,even if you don't do anything apart from paying your sub, as long you need to work to live, then you benefit from upwards pressure from your union on wages and conditions - and as long as it's not a toothless union, obviously. If you're union hasn't got you a wage increase at least as much as your monthly sub you've wasted your money. IWGB for example got its' members paid £thousands during the Covid pandemic, by threatening to take the British government to court, as its members didn't qualify for "furlough" like directly employed workers, which forced the govt to start the SEISS scheme .) https://iwgb.org.uk/en/ (E.g. for those in non-traditional employment, if your sector isn't represented you can still join the holding branch). Unions aren't about group think, grassroots ones aren't anyway , they're about combination. You can only do so much on your own.https://www.instagram.com/reel/Co_6lOZIdu4/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet . What's the alternative to combination ? Dog-eat - dog. Pyramid schemes, and grifts, and things that really benefit the grifter most. Gurus who say get a suitable girl who is going to buff you up, get you prestige in front of friends and family. Go for the big bucks first. The goods or services are secondary . Hustle. That'll end up in CCJs and disgruntled customers on the phone, prolly as the infant you've now bred as well starts screaming in the background. Arthur Miller's "Death of A Salesman" is the modern Tragedy. That's not to say business gurus are bad people, or wrong about everything . They're right in that you need to get paid. This is from one of Ayn Rand's protégés: "The reality from my vantage point was that 50 billion years from now, when the earth is nothing but an ice ball, my problems of today will be too insignificant to have been recorded. Indeed, there would undoubtedly not even be a record of the entire century in which I had lived most of my life." (Robert J. Ringer," Winning Through Intimidation ". His first books are relentless. Later books admit not everyone has to think like him, or Ayn Rand.)
For a better learning, more concrete doubts are needed than abstract certainties, illusions are found in the details, that's the trick ;-)
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Never fight what you don't comprehend - myself ;-)
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"Vi veri universum vivus vici"
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You have the right to remain silent. Any shit you say can be used against you ...
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Many live beings in the universe are looking for a spiritual ascent, paradise, to attain Buddhahood, to reach nirvana, I look for a much deeper and more true meaning in my existence, to reach the maximum state which I call the fuck state, when you reach this state you will be able through training to control all the synapses of your brain, so more than ignoring or despising any shitty sensation of bullshit your brain will not even process it, when you reach the fuck state you will get rid of all the mundane nonsense, so you can definitely ascend spiritually, many beings confuse this state with a reversal state, where the being imagines and personifies an intangible abstract unreal state mixing this with reality, so instead the ascension occurs the practical opposite.
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English is not my native language, my personal goal here on minds is just to improve my others languages, another goal here is that it's a good place for share some things and many others interesting channels "Minds". my native language is Portuguese.
Therefore, I don't put personal opinions in my posts, I rarely do it, I enjoy just share some things that in my opinion are interesting, sometimes even a fake news is interesting for think, there is a little bit of truth in every lie.
I too doesn't like the political posts, because I don't know deeply the politics of others countries, then, I don't like to give opinions, however there are cases when it's impossible, a thing I avoid till the end :-)
I would appreciate to be corrected if I make any mistake.
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Agent Smith:Why, Mr. Anderson? Why, why, why? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?
Neo :Because I choose to.
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"To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human"
Mouse - Matrix
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“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic”
– Dresden James
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"Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
– Voltaire
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“Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.”
– Optimus Prime
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"We don't live in the world, we live in our minds, bound to our perception of what the world is, bound to our perception of what life is."
– Kyle D. Jones
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Found here on minds:
I have a theory, that you can make any sentence seen profound, by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it
– Plato
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“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
(106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator
Attributed to a speech in the Roman Senate in 58 BC as "Recorded by Sallust" in the fictional novel 'A Pillar of Iron,' by Taylor Caldwell (1983), ch. 5.
The quotation bears resemblance to Cicero's Second Oration against Cataline.
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Humans that only think of their survival are lower life forms than animals, they can't even feel for others.
Quatre, Gu