Miscellaneous Illuminations
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Eastern Approaches—Alex Thomson
22.04.202514:01
“Since 1997 at least, we’ve gawped in horror at a terraforming world-engine that grinds and churns the country transforming it from Great Britain into the Yookay. Yet, amazingly, the entire genocidal endeavour adorns itself proudly with the rubber stamp of ‘Liberal Democracy’.
Whenever I point out that we never voted ourselves into this situation, somebody will inevitably reply that, on the contrary, the masses did indeed vote for it or at the very least they should have been smart enough to know the politicians were liars. And so, the final analysis is that it is the Demos themselves who are to blame for the failings and venality of the system, not the Kratos. We didn’t bash the walls hard enough; we didn’t devise more brilliant tactics or more ruthless strategies. We failed to recognize great warriors who fought for us. It’s our fault; we failed. We deserve it all.
The mind struggles to comprehend a system of governance more cruel and sadistic than that.”
open.substack.com/pub/morgoth/p/the-sadism-of-democracy
Whenever I point out that we never voted ourselves into this situation, somebody will inevitably reply that, on the contrary, the masses did indeed vote for it or at the very least they should have been smart enough to know the politicians were liars. And so, the final analysis is that it is the Demos themselves who are to blame for the failings and venality of the system, not the Kratos. We didn’t bash the walls hard enough; we didn’t devise more brilliant tactics or more ruthless strategies. We failed to recognize great warriors who fought for us. It’s our fault; we failed. We deserve it all.
The mind struggles to comprehend a system of governance more cruel and sadistic than that.”
open.substack.com/pub/morgoth/p/the-sadism-of-democracy
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Miscellaneous Illuminations
19.04.202516:21
‘Many modern Englishmen talk of themselves as the sturdy descendants of their sturdy Puritan fathers. As a fact, they would run away from a cow. If you asked one of their Puritan fathers, if you asked Bunyan, for instance, whether he was sturdy, he would have answered, with tears, that he was as weak as water. And because of this he would have borne tortures. And this virtue of humility, while being practical enough to win battles, will always be paradoxical enough to puzzle pedants. It is at one with the virtue of charity in this respect. Every generous person will admit that the one kind of sin which charity should cover is the sin which is inexcusable. And every generous person will equally agree that the one kind of pride which is wholly damnable is the pride of the man who has something to be proud of. The pride which, proportionally speaking, does not hurt the character, is the pride in things which reflect no credit on the person at all. Thus it does a man no harm to be proud of his country, and comparatively little harm to be proud of his remote ancestors. It does him more harm to be proud of having made money, because in that he has a little more reason for pride. It does him more harm still to be proud of what is nobler than money—intellect. And it does him most harm of all to value himself for the most valuable thing on earth—goodness. The man who is proud of what is really creditable to him is the Pharisee, the man whom Christ Himself could not forbear to strike.’
Quoting from chapter 12, ‘Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson’ in ‘Heretics’ (1905) by G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/g-k-chesterton/pdf-epub-heretics-by-g-k-chesterton-download/
Quoting from chapter 12, ‘Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson’ in ‘Heretics’ (1905) by G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/g-k-chesterton/pdf-epub-heretics-by-g-k-chesterton-download/
Кайра бөлүшүлгөн:Miscellaneous Illuminations
19.04.202516:14
‘If you are interested in the quest for truth in all its varied forms then you’ll need to carve out both space and time for serious reading and reflection.’
Quoting from ‘All Things Light & Practical’ by Shane Rosenthal, Feb 6th, 2025 https://www.humbleskeptic.com/p/all-things-light-and-practical
Quoting from ‘All Things Light & Practical’ by Shane Rosenthal, Feb 6th, 2025 https://www.humbleskeptic.com/p/all-things-light-and-practical
Кайра бөлүшүлгөн:
Benhur
19.04.202514:05
I AM ANTI-VACCINES
by Jesús García Blanca
10 May 2019
Original text in Spanish:
➡️ https://t.me/Francisco_J37/4267
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I have been researching health issues since 1993.
In that time I have learned - among others - from doctors of various orientations, biologists, geneticists, microbiologists, ecologists, immunologists, virologists, nutritionists, investigative journalists, lawyers and activists.
No, I do not believe that the earth is flat.
Yes, I believe Elvis died.
Yes, I believe that the scientific method is a tool of knowledge.
No, I do not believe that the scientific method is the only or the most complete or complex tool of knowledge.
No, I do not believe there are good and bad vaccines. They are all bad.
No, I do not believe that there are safe and unsafe vaccines. They are all unsafe.
No, I do not believe there are recommended and unrecommended vaccines. None are recommended.
Yes, I think vaccines are a business. But even if they weren't, even if they were absolutely free, I would still be anti-vaccine.
Yes, vaccines have a large number of officially acknowledged "adverse effects", including the death of the vaccinated baby, for which millions of dollars in compensation is paid. But there are many other adverse effects that are not acknowledged – despite being documented – and could be considered much more serious and of much higher incidence.
Yes, there are a thousand secondary reasons not to vaccinate, but over the years I have focused on what I consider to be the fundamental reason not to be caught between two fears: fear of the disease and fear of the vaccine: There is no bio-logical basis for vaccines.
Vaccines are based on a false theory of disease: the Microbial Theory or Theory of Infection. This theory was never proven; it was imposed by power interests. I have been asking for many years for the evidence that was used to consider that theory correct, and nobody gives me any answer beyond disqualifications, insults and various digressions.
Recent discoveries in biology, microbiology, immunology and other sciences, together with other findings that aren't so recent but are always silenced or ignored, show that vaccines do not fit into the functioning of life, of biological processes.
For a summary of this radical (root) position, you can read this article that Dr. Enric Costa and I published in an Italian research journal:
https://saludypoder.blogspot.com/2017/10/son-necesarias-las-vacunas.html
For further information, bibliography and references, I recommend the book that Dr. Enric Costa and I wrote in 2012, in which we gather the essentials of our critical position and provide arguments, evidence, data, readings, references... to help make a free, critical and rigorously based decision:
https://saludypoder.blogspot.com/2015/11/vacunas-una-reflexion-critica_15.html
https://saludypoder.blogspot.com/2016/04/vacunas-una-reflexion-critica.html
I encourage all those who have the intuition that vaccines are dangerous to educate and inform themselves in order to make safer decisions. And I encourage all those who believe in the safety and efficacy of vaccines to discuss with arguments, references and rigor the positions stated in the above-mentioned summary and links. I will be happy to discuss them, learn from them and revise my conclusions if new information is provided.
Jesús García Blanca
Blog Salud y Poder: http://saludypoder.blogspot.com
==========
Original text in Spanish ⬇️
https://t.me/Francisco_J37/4267
by Jesús García Blanca
10 May 2019
Original text in Spanish:
➡️ https://t.me/Francisco_J37/4267
=======
I have been researching health issues since 1993.
In that time I have learned - among others - from doctors of various orientations, biologists, geneticists, microbiologists, ecologists, immunologists, virologists, nutritionists, investigative journalists, lawyers and activists.
No, I do not believe that the earth is flat.
Yes, I believe Elvis died.
Yes, I believe that the scientific method is a tool of knowledge.
No, I do not believe that the scientific method is the only or the most complete or complex tool of knowledge.
No, I do not believe there are good and bad vaccines. They are all bad.
No, I do not believe that there are safe and unsafe vaccines. They are all unsafe.
No, I do not believe there are recommended and unrecommended vaccines. None are recommended.
Yes, I think vaccines are a business. But even if they weren't, even if they were absolutely free, I would still be anti-vaccine.
Yes, vaccines have a large number of officially acknowledged "adverse effects", including the death of the vaccinated baby, for which millions of dollars in compensation is paid. But there are many other adverse effects that are not acknowledged – despite being documented – and could be considered much more serious and of much higher incidence.
Yes, there are a thousand secondary reasons not to vaccinate, but over the years I have focused on what I consider to be the fundamental reason not to be caught between two fears: fear of the disease and fear of the vaccine: There is no bio-logical basis for vaccines.
Vaccines are based on a false theory of disease: the Microbial Theory or Theory of Infection. This theory was never proven; it was imposed by power interests. I have been asking for many years for the evidence that was used to consider that theory correct, and nobody gives me any answer beyond disqualifications, insults and various digressions.
Recent discoveries in biology, microbiology, immunology and other sciences, together with other findings that aren't so recent but are always silenced or ignored, show that vaccines do not fit into the functioning of life, of biological processes.
For a summary of this radical (root) position, you can read this article that Dr. Enric Costa and I published in an Italian research journal:
https://saludypoder.blogspot.com/2017/10/son-necesarias-las-vacunas.html
For further information, bibliography and references, I recommend the book that Dr. Enric Costa and I wrote in 2012, in which we gather the essentials of our critical position and provide arguments, evidence, data, readings, references... to help make a free, critical and rigorously based decision:
https://saludypoder.blogspot.com/2015/11/vacunas-una-reflexion-critica_15.html
https://saludypoder.blogspot.com/2016/04/vacunas-una-reflexion-critica.html
I encourage all those who have the intuition that vaccines are dangerous to educate and inform themselves in order to make safer decisions. And I encourage all those who believe in the safety and efficacy of vaccines to discuss with arguments, references and rigor the positions stated in the above-mentioned summary and links. I will be happy to discuss them, learn from them and revise my conclusions if new information is provided.
Jesús García Blanca
Blog Salud y Poder: http://saludypoder.blogspot.com
==========
Original text in Spanish ⬇️
https://t.me/Francisco_J37/4267
Кайра бөлүшүлгөн:Miscellaneous Illuminations
19.04.202514:00
'Well, the "Hymn to the Sun" by St. Francis is the greatest poetical document of the Middle Ages. I think it's much greater, certainly, than the "Nibelungenlied," but I think it is also greater than Dante's Divine Comedy. It's very short. It is really an enlargement of the 146th Psalm.
In the 146th Psalm, all the creatures praise the Lord. The sun and the moon, and the stars, and the fields, and the animals of the field, and man himself.
Now the only change, the little change that St. Francis made was that he appealed or addressed these creatures as his own brother and sisters and says, "My sister the moon, my brother the sun, praise ye the Lord."
And you see at that moment man has become the equals of all the other creatures, but not in your way, of Darwinism, where you step down to the creatures who cannot speak. But Francis in the true method has lifted up these beings to his own degree of articulatedness.'
[...]
'Well, gentlemen, a free man says that his heart speaks much louder and better than all science. And as I said, St. Francis has put down this law in this translation of the Psalms that the sun must be treated as our brother, and the moon as our sister.
That doesn't mean that you have to treat yourself as a horse, or as a pig, or as a cow. It's the other way around.
Well, that's not the whole story.
The story is that this Catholic publisher made the translation, or put it out, bibliographically very well done, nicely bound. And he wanted to make a profit. But he didn't care any more for the translation and the terrible thing is he could rely on an uneducated public that did no longer know Italian or Latin, we have the hymn in Italian and in Latin as well.
So the English translation said, "Our Mother earth, we praise the Lord." "Our Mother earth" is good paganism. That's the Greek, or the Roman. In antiquity the heathen said that the earth was a goddess and was the mother. I looked up the text once more and said, "Am I totally blind? This can never have been written by a Franciscan monk, by a saint of the Catholic Church, by the creator of the spirit of the Middle Ages" and true enough.
The real text of St. Francis says, and perhaps you take this down, as a seal under the barbarism of this moment in American history. The real text runs: " Our sister, the Mother earth, praise the Lord." Our sister. He kept the motherly quality for all the creatures which the earth had, for anybody who's sensitive. But he was very careful to say that we are the equals of this mother. And so he said, "Our sister, the Mother earth."
You see what miraculous this paradox is? And how he protected the human soul?
Now gentlemen, a translator who cuts out the creation of one thousand and five hundred years of martyrs, and crucifixions, and persecutions by omitting this one word should be spanked. He certainly should be laughed out of court. There certainly shouldn't be a publisher who dares to publish this as a translation.
But gentlemen, that's by and large the translation you read today.'
Quoting from the 25th lecture (of 25 lectures) in the recorded lecture series titled 'Universal History' by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973) at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire in 1954.
Audio recording and transcription https://www.erhfund.org/lectures/volume-12-universal-history-1954/lecture-25/
Quotes above can be found in pages 896-899 in the carefully compiled trancriptions of all 25 lectures (pdf shared in the comments).
In the 146th Psalm, all the creatures praise the Lord. The sun and the moon, and the stars, and the fields, and the animals of the field, and man himself.
Now the only change, the little change that St. Francis made was that he appealed or addressed these creatures as his own brother and sisters and says, "My sister the moon, my brother the sun, praise ye the Lord."
And you see at that moment man has become the equals of all the other creatures, but not in your way, of Darwinism, where you step down to the creatures who cannot speak. But Francis in the true method has lifted up these beings to his own degree of articulatedness.'
[...]
'Well, gentlemen, a free man says that his heart speaks much louder and better than all science. And as I said, St. Francis has put down this law in this translation of the Psalms that the sun must be treated as our brother, and the moon as our sister.
That doesn't mean that you have to treat yourself as a horse, or as a pig, or as a cow. It's the other way around.
Well, that's not the whole story.
The story is that this Catholic publisher made the translation, or put it out, bibliographically very well done, nicely bound. And he wanted to make a profit. But he didn't care any more for the translation and the terrible thing is he could rely on an uneducated public that did no longer know Italian or Latin, we have the hymn in Italian and in Latin as well.
So the English translation said, "Our Mother earth, we praise the Lord." "Our Mother earth" is good paganism. That's the Greek, or the Roman. In antiquity the heathen said that the earth was a goddess and was the mother. I looked up the text once more and said, "Am I totally blind? This can never have been written by a Franciscan monk, by a saint of the Catholic Church, by the creator of the spirit of the Middle Ages" and true enough.
The real text of St. Francis says, and perhaps you take this down, as a seal under the barbarism of this moment in American history. The real text runs: " Our sister, the Mother earth, praise the Lord." Our sister. He kept the motherly quality for all the creatures which the earth had, for anybody who's sensitive. But he was very careful to say that we are the equals of this mother. And so he said, "Our sister, the Mother earth."
You see what miraculous this paradox is? And how he protected the human soul?
Now gentlemen, a translator who cuts out the creation of one thousand and five hundred years of martyrs, and crucifixions, and persecutions by omitting this one word should be spanked. He certainly should be laughed out of court. There certainly shouldn't be a publisher who dares to publish this as a translation.
But gentlemen, that's by and large the translation you read today.'
Quoting from the 25th lecture (of 25 lectures) in the recorded lecture series titled 'Universal History' by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973) at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire in 1954.
Audio recording and transcription https://www.erhfund.org/lectures/volume-12-universal-history-1954/lecture-25/
Quotes above can be found in pages 896-899 in the carefully compiled trancriptions of all 25 lectures (pdf shared in the comments).
Кайра бөлүшүлгөн:Benhur
17.04.202516:43
Chesterton on Dominicans vs Franciscans
[...] Lastly, these two great men [St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Francis of Assisi] were not only united to each other but separated from most of their comrades and contemporaries by the very revolutionary character of their own revolution. In 1215, Dominic Guzman [Domingo de Guzmán], the Castilian, founded an Order very similar to that of Francis; and, by a most curious coincidence of history, at almost exactly the same moment as Francis. It was directed primarily to preaching the Catholic philosophy to the Albigensian heretics; whose own philosophy was one of the many forms of that Manicheanism with which this story is much concerned. It had its roots in the remote mysticism and moral detachment of the East; and it was therefore inevitable that the Dominicans should be rather more a brotherhood of philosophers, where the Franciscans were by comparison a brotherhood of poets. For this and other reasons, St. Dominic and his followers are little known or understood in modern England; they were involved eventually in a religious war, which followed on a theological argument; and there was something in the atmosphere of our country, during the last century or so, which made the theological argument even more incomprehensible than the religious war. The ultimate effect is in some ways curious; because St. Dominic, even more than St. Francis, was marked by that intellectual independence, and strict standard of virtue and veracity, which Protestant cultures are wont to regard as specially Protestant. It was of him that the tale was told, and would certainly have been told more widely among us if it had been told of a Puritan, that the Pope pointed to his gorgeous Papal Palace and said, “Peter can no longer say ‘Silver and gold have I none’ ”; and the Spanish friar answered, “No, and neither can he now say, ‘Rise and walk.’ ”
Thus there is another way in which the popular story of St. Francis can be a sort of bridge between the modern and medieval world. And it is based on that very fact already mentioned: that St. Francis and St. Dominic stand together in history as having done the same work, and yet are divided in English popular tradition in the most strange and startling way. In their own lands they are like Heavenly Twins, irradiating the same light from heaven, seeming sometimes to be two saints in one halo, as another order depicted Holy Poverty as two knights on one horse. In the legends of our own land, they are about as much united as St. George and the Dragon. Dominic is still conceived as an Inquisitor devising thumbscrews; while Francis is already accepted as a humanitarian deploring mousetraps. It seems, for instance, quite natural to us, and full of the same associations of flowers and starry fancies, that the name of Francis should belong to Francis Thompson. But I fancy it would seem less natural to call him Dominic Thompson; or find that a man, with a long record of popular sympathies and practical tenderness to the poor, could bear such a name as Dominic Plater. It would sound as if he had been called Torquemada Thompson.
From St. Thomas Aquinas (1933) by G. K. Chesterton, chapter I
[...] Lastly, these two great men [St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Francis of Assisi] were not only united to each other but separated from most of their comrades and contemporaries by the very revolutionary character of their own revolution. In 1215, Dominic Guzman [Domingo de Guzmán], the Castilian, founded an Order very similar to that of Francis; and, by a most curious coincidence of history, at almost exactly the same moment as Francis. It was directed primarily to preaching the Catholic philosophy to the Albigensian heretics; whose own philosophy was one of the many forms of that Manicheanism with which this story is much concerned. It had its roots in the remote mysticism and moral detachment of the East; and it was therefore inevitable that the Dominicans should be rather more a brotherhood of philosophers, where the Franciscans were by comparison a brotherhood of poets. For this and other reasons, St. Dominic and his followers are little known or understood in modern England; they were involved eventually in a religious war, which followed on a theological argument; and there was something in the atmosphere of our country, during the last century or so, which made the theological argument even more incomprehensible than the religious war. The ultimate effect is in some ways curious; because St. Dominic, even more than St. Francis, was marked by that intellectual independence, and strict standard of virtue and veracity, which Protestant cultures are wont to regard as specially Protestant. It was of him that the tale was told, and would certainly have been told more widely among us if it had been told of a Puritan, that the Pope pointed to his gorgeous Papal Palace and said, “Peter can no longer say ‘Silver and gold have I none’ ”; and the Spanish friar answered, “No, and neither can he now say, ‘Rise and walk.’ ”
Thus there is another way in which the popular story of St. Francis can be a sort of bridge between the modern and medieval world. And it is based on that very fact already mentioned: that St. Francis and St. Dominic stand together in history as having done the same work, and yet are divided in English popular tradition in the most strange and startling way. In their own lands they are like Heavenly Twins, irradiating the same light from heaven, seeming sometimes to be two saints in one halo, as another order depicted Holy Poverty as two knights on one horse. In the legends of our own land, they are about as much united as St. George and the Dragon. Dominic is still conceived as an Inquisitor devising thumbscrews; while Francis is already accepted as a humanitarian deploring mousetraps. It seems, for instance, quite natural to us, and full of the same associations of flowers and starry fancies, that the name of Francis should belong to Francis Thompson. But I fancy it would seem less natural to call him Dominic Thompson; or find that a man, with a long record of popular sympathies and practical tenderness to the poor, could bear such a name as Dominic Plater. It would sound as if he had been called Torquemada Thompson.
From St. Thomas Aquinas (1933) by G. K. Chesterton, chapter I
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