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Clown Population
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Clown Population. The clowns inside the White House are only a small fraction of a total society of mock for mock, reactionary mocking, clowns. The entire nation is a "basket case of clowning around" on social machines / HDTV media machines / mockery.
People like to play a game of psychological denial and say ONLY MAGA is the clowns, only the White House is the clowns. It's the entire population of Untied States of America.
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It's important to preach "1 John 4:20" Bible verse, God is a fiction character, Jesus is a fiction character, hate of any living human person is bad. Don't become a liar and say "I love Jesus", "I love Yahweh", "I love Allah". It is science fiction storytelling, where it belongs in the Public Library along with Star Wars and Shakespeare with Hamlet's ghost. All metaphors. Love and Compassion are for real human beings, not story characters.
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Skywalker Ranch California, 1987: "The one who suffers is, as it were, the Christ, come before us to evoke the one thing that turns the human beast of prey into a valid human being. That one thing is compassion. This is the theme that James Joyce takes over and develops in Ulysses—the awakening of his hero, Stephen Dedalus, to manhood through a shared compassion with Leopold Bloom. That was the awakening of his heart to love and the opening of the way. In Joyce’s next great work, Finnegans Wake, there is a mysterious number that constantly recurs. It is 1132. It occurs as a date, for example, and inverted as a house address, 32 West 11th Street. In every chapter, some way or another, 1132 appears. When I was writing A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, I tried every way I knew to imagine, “What the dickens is this number 1132?” Then I recalled that in Ulysses, while Bloom is wandering about the streets of Dublin, a ball drops from a tower to indicate noon, and he thinks, “The law of falling bodies, 32 feet per sec per sec.” Thirty-two, I thought, must be the number of the Fall; 11 then might be the renewal of the decade, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10—but then 11, and you start over again. There were a number of other suggestions in Ulysses that made me think, “Well, what we have here is perhaps the number of the Fall, 32, and Redemption, 11; sin and forgiveness, death and renewal.” Finnegans Wake has to do with an event that occurred in Phoenix Park, which is a major park in Dublin." - Joseph Campbell, age 83
I said I choose my illusions. Like you with the Great Seal.
ETA: I've replied to your posts there as well. Forgive me for thinking I was as memorable to you as you to me.
"Vanity, vanity, all is vanity!"
These days I can barely remember my own self in all the mass mind / group think concerns I have.
I wasn't given much choice, perhaps not as in bad shape as someone born in 2020 in Palestine who can't escape, but in our own way technology and history imprison us. What's my nightmare is how many people seem to enjoy defeating other people and building technologies that empower our self-destruction.
I find no goodness in my society around me marching towards something worse than 1937 Germany. There are much better ways to learn and make mistakes than to build systems and devices of wrecking goodness.
We could be learning, and teaching, and sharing much better things....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwN_FbwWpjM
🫂 Hold hope, dear friend. We are called to be the light. If not us, than who?
"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves." - Carl Sagan
Nobody is gong to save us from our own selves. We exploded our population to 8 billion people and we are almost all able to connect, hope is people can see good common ground instead of where we are heading at the moment hate each other as common ground.
There are good signals and leadership, people have to favor it. [email protected]
Every movement throughout human history began with one, even down to cellular division.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss2c_aYzObU
Just for fun
https://www.gematrix.org/?word=1132
ETA: 11 is a master number
https://betemunah.org/eleven.html
"My cup (❤️) runneth over" !