Franklin, I am so wishing you were in the same room so I could shove your shoulder, high five you and say, "No waaaay!!!"
We are now three for three. This time I think I'm eavesdropping on your dreams, since yours were out first. I'm really loving your stack, Franklin. You go right to the important topics. And I couldn't name a better example of a guy who takes spirituality seriously. I would even say a guy's guy--who opens that door for other men. Thank you for being!
If we accept that the "Universe" is poised in our favor, that things are meant to work out for us, that our "energy" predicates our outcomes, and can begin to rewire our mind and brain to begin to not only accept this, but *expect* it, life becomes one magical event after another.
Reclaiming our time, our space, our emotions, our feelings, is the gold standard of creating a life that we want.
Philip! I had hoped and anticipated that you would join in! No conversation about spirituality and men would be complete without you--this is the water where you swim.
"From an atheist perspective, the world is chaos held in check by the ego."
I confess to being entirely mystified by this sentence. I also get the feeling that there's something important there, if only I were smart enough to understand it.
I like that you give me the benefit of the doubt that I'm making sense, Mark, even when I don't. Let me add more words to that thought, and see if it resonates or not.
If all came into being through millennia of genetic trial and error to produce consciousness, life has no inherent meaning other than the avoidance of pain, some fleeting pleasure, procreation, and the postponement of death. Yes?
The universe may have its own order but you're a blip on its radar. The only thing that's looking out for you is you. So your ego--which I mean as a neutral term for the individuated self--is all that stands between you and disaster. You hold the vortex at bay that's always looking to suck you in.
Alternatively, purpose and meaning is all that exists, and your happiness is its goal, along with everyone else. Since Franklin's statement above was my fifth miracle of the day, my empirical evidence is pointing that direction. But you're currently in a situation where those miracles are bittersweet, if they come at all. Hoping things are going as well as they can.
"So your ego--which I mean as a neutral term for the individuated self [...]"
That helps. I wasn't quite sure what ego meant here. I know we've had this conversation before but I always need to understand the terms.
Right now my goal is alleviation of someone else's pain, as you know. That's the meaning I can make out of my life right now. But it's certainly possible that for my friend, this is some kind of miracle, albeit a short-lived one.
I think you are embodying, Mark, the ego in service to the Self, uppercase. The Self is the knowledge that we're all connected, more than connected, One. In other words, the Christ mind.
I was thinking this morning that the masculine side of the brain, in its true function, is the Christ mind connected to everyone else and the feminine side is the Wholly Spirit with its portal to connection to God.
I also thought of you last night when reading Shantaram, the book Julius recommended that I think you would like. Although even longer (900+ pp), the content would be a welcome relief from Hitler's War.
In it, the main character talks about the things people do habitually for one another in the slum without ever saying thanks. To say thanks would demean the gift, turn it into a debt and discharge it. Their gratitude is instead expressed in how they live, doing something anonymously 'in return' or for someone else or not at all. It's just because 'they are human' as the Inuits say.
It was a passage that made the concept real to me in a way it hadn't before, and I know it was one that you were puzzling out, my Inuit dog (private joke ;-)
I can tell from your response, Helene, that you listened to the video and didn't just read. Yes, Oscar's story was heartbreaking. He had just had dreams about his mother, which he said didn't happen often, before we met. It felt like everything was converging to have this deep connection.
Oh yes, I did get the post on the Coronavirus Committee 411. I'm sorry I didn't respond. I don't have telegram so I couldn't open it. Was it about the Breggins and Malone? I'm curious as to your summary of it.
Glad to see your face in the comments, Helene, you're always so perceptive and compassionate.
To Frances, this is the telegram link Helene sent me, in case she doesn't get back directly: Check out Corona Investigative Committee 🇺🇸/🇬🇧/🇦🇺's post: https://t.me/CoronaInvestigativeCommittee/411
Love this subject. And reminds me of the wisdom embedded in the practice of doing one's best and then not being attached to outcome. No 'self' or 'other' recriminations when things don't go the way we hoped and even strived for. There's meaning in all of it.
And likely when we are disappointed or heartbroken and surrender over our biggest 'failures' as being as meaningful as our 'wins' and good fortune, we by necessity put our egos in the right place. A bigger story than we can see is unfolding.
Trusting in the face of disappointment is harder than when things are going to plan obviously. Essential lessons are often harder to learn. Ultimately all meaning is deepened when we can do it.
Your statement about "the practice of doing one's best and then not being attached to outcome" prompted me to add the sutra with the bear photo to my post. Then, when looking for the name of the sutra, I found the Tao te Ching quote that Mark Spark had assailed in his comment (and I would love your thoughts on that question I raise in the exchange).
So I put that in. Then I found a poem by a woman that seemed like it fit the first section. But how could I leave the last without another? And I had a great AI image from Amy Rosebush to use. Meanwhile I had to describe the clouds.
In the end it's practically a new episode. Check it out if you have time.
And yes, that trust in the face of disappointment is so hard. I don't think it's about failure. There's a lesson you're distilling for all of us, Kathleen. I'm sorry you needed to be the crucible for that alchemy, but I can't think of a sturdier vessel.
I have manifested thousands of miracles! I think the essential thing is belief. If you believe a thing, it becomes true for you. If you believe a thing for someone else, first they must deserve it or it can backfire on you.
When I was a very small child I thought that manifesting was normal, everyday behaviour! It took me years to realise that it was not something most people did. So I set about teaching others how to do it, which in hindsight, has turned out to be the most satisfying joyful thing in my life.
To receive a call or a visit from a dyed-in-the-wool sceptic who just manifested their first miracle is such a banging buzz! These are the sort of wages that the soul craves and they are beyond all materialism.
It made me so happy to see your 'like' on my comment to Mark Alexander. You are living proof, Frances, that the masculine/ feminine or rational/ spiritual or logical/ intuitive are not a zero sum game where one takes away from the other. You demonstrate my suspicion that they develop in tandem or not at all. So grateful that I came to the attention of someone with your perception and heart.
I only wish I could get the time to view more of your work but it just is not possible. I like to get around to visit everyone who subscribes to me but I just broke through the 10,000 mark on Uncensored and 3,000 on Boodicca. I try to see what everyone is saying to keep abreast of the zeitgeist and the major concerns - I need a couple of clones (or crones?). 🤣😂
My, how I needed to read this first thing in the morning. It’s so easy to look at a to-do list and become overwhelmed. Time being “expansive” and not “expensive” - not sure if I’ve experienced that since I was a child. How do I get there? Feeling guilty simply by spending time reading Substacks when I know something has to be cleaned, worked on, organised… but reading posts like this also be nourish my soul, without which I wouldn’t feel the purpose for the other stuff.
See, that's the reward for being late to this post! It wasn't until Kathleen's response that I went back to edit in a poem, and one led to another, and another. I was wanting to tell you this too--you mentioned feeling guilty about not responding right away to comments when you finally got a post out, then did all the things that had accumulated inbetween. Substack is the art of the slow convo. You get to say your piece and, then say, "You guys talk among yourselves. Be back later." Unlike someone else's post, you won't miss out because everyone's still there when you return.
My daughter Veronica just realized that, because she felt guilty about (almost) always being late, she would show with her body language that she was SO stressed out. Then she realized she was internalizing that stress and other situations didn't need it. Her telescoping of stress made other people internalize it too.
So stop and say, "What do I want to do right now?" That cleaning will wait too.
Leave it up to you to relieve me of my guilt. I’d like to call myself a time optimist just because I always think I’m going to stretch that 24 hours into something longer. I hope Veronica releases all that stress. Plenty of time on her horizon. 🤗
Quote: "From an atheist perspective, the world is chaos held in check by the ego"
I was an atheist and anarchist for a good chunk of my life. Values I was imbued with by my father provided guidance both during that period and after. The anarchist part, trained me to be skeptical of "authority" and "laws". The combination provided for a very good journey.
I would describe myself still as an anarchist, aka small scale sovereigntist for community self-governance. I hold it as entirely possible that there's no creator god and the cosmos created itself out of nothing. I hold as another hypothesis the third paradigm, that we are OneMind Dreaming and Reality exists outside--meaning, purpose and a God worth having around. I reject completely a god who created pain, death, suffering and loss because he 'loves' us so much. If the world exists, then God does not. It's only by questioning the reality of the world that a God worth having around becomes possible.
"Watch the timing with the little things in your life."
?
Not me. No.
That will not be my response to big tragedies such as wildfires, hurricanes and floods.
I care about the truth. I also care about the welfare of myself and others.
Wildfires? I always ask questions. Among other things, I ask if arson is a possible cause.
Hurricanes? Floods? I ask, in similar fashion, whether it is possible that trillionaire moneyed interests might somehow play a role in these things that benefit said trillionaires.
I ask similar questions about so-called contagion. Who benefits from "medical misadventure"?
"Cui bono?", an ancient crime investigation principle, is Latin for "Who benefits?" In other words, follow the money.
Some play a non-zero sum game of life, that's win win. Others play Monopoly and insist on being the Banker (issuing and controling money).
Attention is a moral choice.
So is kindness,
empathy,
caring,
gratitude,
appreciation,
compassion,
as well as
the seeking of beauty, goodness, and truth.
I believe that the right response to big tragedies, whether they are caused, exacerbated, or ignored by people is this: "Forgive them, they know not what they do."
I confess, I sometimes forget my principles and dwell on anger.
Thanks for joining an active thread, Mark Spark, rather than the private conversation we were mired in on an old episode. Now I can get others to help me determine whether Mark Spark is an argument bot, designed to divert attention into a pointless cul de sac, or an argumentative individual who's merely looking to show he's superior to others.
In this case, he's taking my paraphrase, I think, from the Tao te Ching or one of the sutras, "In everything, watch the timing."
Somehow he's translating this into HIM being someone who cares about tragedies, truth and the welfare of others--unlike me. He follows the money ... and the arsonist! He asks 'cui bono' about so-called contagion, unlike my YT of that title regarding the CovidCon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSF7O2FI0S4.
He gives some platitudes about those other people he's better than and tosses out nine virtues that he possesses, as opposed to me busy watching the timing. And he ends with self-righteous anger. Oh, anger with love and laughter! And light and blessings!
This all seems very algorithmic, as I've thought of certain YT commenters who changed names but used the same phrases under new identities. What do the rest of you think?
And if people are acting as if all discussion should revolve around them, they may as well be an argument bot. This new Corbett Report shows that this is happening at a level we should be paying attention to since, as Mark the Spark says, 'attention is a moral choice': https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/algocracy-government-for-the-new.
I do intend to be argumentative, not for the sake of merely opposing a view, but rather for the sake of arriving at the truth of the matter.
2) using or characterized by systematic reasoning.
"the highest standards of argumentative rigor"
Yes, I claim I care and that caring is a principle that makes loving kindness possible. I think that "sharing and caring," when sincere, are absolutely necessary in order for actions of goodness to take place.
When I make a claim to care, I am not implying that Tereza does not care. Only that I did not understand why "sharing and caring" might be out of place in an economic system.
Angry? I am not angry.
Contest? Debate? I do not wish to have a contest or debate. (Win/Lose = "zero-sum")
I would wish to participate in a dialectic discussion. This would be a situation of dialectic, which is...
1.
the art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions.
Similar:
reasoning
argumentation
contention
logic
discussion
debate
dialogue
logical argument
ratiocination
2.
inquiry into metaphysical contradictions and their solutions.
(Win/Win = nonzero-sum)
(With sincere affection and a wish to share laughter when the opportunity arrises... )
Love & Laughter
mark spark
PS
If my recent post would be more easily accessed here, see below...
Earlier today
TUE 25 MAR 25
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Me
Re:
Examining Significant Limitations, Contradictions, and Inconsistencies¹
032525
Tereza,
You wanted to know whether I expect *every* author to rephrase and/or fully explicate the ideas in their publications. You might be wondering whether I cross-examine and/or challenge the author of *every* new idea I study. Do I?
Short answer, yes.
Every presentation of writing and/or audio recording, claiming certainty, that I wish to seriously consider, gets subjected to my own personalized self-education methods. Hence I question, challenge, and attempt to verify every significant claim I find. I take copious notes while questioning, paraphrasing, cross-referencing, and underlining.
In a similar fashion, I also may consider other paths to truth such as mythologies, fictional narratives, and poetic metaphors. I attempt to walk in the shoes of the author. I try on the world view of the author as best I can in order to gain literal understanding as well as metaphorical comprehension. I read between the lines. I apply many different means of finding the beauty, goodness, and truth of the matter, including intuition and imagination as well as scientific theorizing and logical reasoning.
Herein please find some authors I've recently considered:
•John Taylor Gatto (<2018)
•Stephen Monday
(local health officer I challenged publicly in the op-ed page of our local newdpaper, concerning his unfounded reasons for public ORDERS to wear masks)
(lecturer on the Trivium I criticized for failing to use Trivium Logic concerning the determination of cause of death during an alleged pandemic)
•Richard Grove (& Tony & LD)
(podcasters who sensibly changed their format after I criticised them for contradicting their own principles by falsely claiming expertise regarding "virology" and "gene therapy")
•James Corbett
•Mark Passio
•Michael Tellinger
•Quan Le (人間)
•Matt Ehret (husband)
•Cynthia Chung (wife)
•Sam Bailey (wife)
•Mark Bailey (husband)
•Tom Cowan
•Mike Holmes (& extended family)
•Iain McGilchrist
•Tom Shaw
•Lluvias Trozzi (OTTY founder)
•Oliver Anthony (troubadour & activist singing "Rich Men North of Richmond")
•Catherine Austin Fitts
•Tereza Coraggio
¹An actual
human
individual,
•mark spark
[ :-)
PS
If you feel it is a waste of your time to respond to my comments, simply ignore them. I respect your time and intend no malice.
Tereza! I too also made a piece about journaling miracles wayyyss back: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/why-you-need-to-journal-your-miracles
And that’s crazy, I too had a podcast with this same title: miracles vs manifestations: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/miracles-versus-manifestations
We’re so on the same page!
Franklin, I am so wishing you were in the same room so I could shove your shoulder, high five you and say, "No waaaay!!!"
We are now three for three. This time I think I'm eavesdropping on your dreams, since yours were out first. I'm really loving your stack, Franklin. You go right to the important topics. And I couldn't name a better example of a guy who takes spirituality seriously. I would even say a guy's guy--who opens that door for other men. Thank you for being!
Innit! Another same (beige) page: I am due phone calls with both of you!
If we accept that the "Universe" is poised in our favor, that things are meant to work out for us, that our "energy" predicates our outcomes, and can begin to rewire our mind and brain to begin to not only accept this, but *expect* it, life becomes one magical event after another.
Reclaiming our time, our space, our emotions, our feelings, is the gold standard of creating a life that we want.
Philip! I had hoped and anticipated that you would join in! No conversation about spirituality and men would be complete without you--this is the water where you swim.
"From an atheist perspective, the world is chaos held in check by the ego."
I confess to being entirely mystified by this sentence. I also get the feeling that there's something important there, if only I were smart enough to understand it.
I like that you give me the benefit of the doubt that I'm making sense, Mark, even when I don't. Let me add more words to that thought, and see if it resonates or not.
If all came into being through millennia of genetic trial and error to produce consciousness, life has no inherent meaning other than the avoidance of pain, some fleeting pleasure, procreation, and the postponement of death. Yes?
The universe may have its own order but you're a blip on its radar. The only thing that's looking out for you is you. So your ego--which I mean as a neutral term for the individuated self--is all that stands between you and disaster. You hold the vortex at bay that's always looking to suck you in.
Alternatively, purpose and meaning is all that exists, and your happiness is its goal, along with everyone else. Since Franklin's statement above was my fifth miracle of the day, my empirical evidence is pointing that direction. But you're currently in a situation where those miracles are bittersweet, if they come at all. Hoping things are going as well as they can.
"So your ego--which I mean as a neutral term for the individuated self [...]"
That helps. I wasn't quite sure what ego meant here. I know we've had this conversation before but I always need to understand the terms.
Right now my goal is alleviation of someone else's pain, as you know. That's the meaning I can make out of my life right now. But it's certainly possible that for my friend, this is some kind of miracle, albeit a short-lived one.
I think you are embodying, Mark, the ego in service to the Self, uppercase. The Self is the knowledge that we're all connected, more than connected, One. In other words, the Christ mind.
I was thinking this morning that the masculine side of the brain, in its true function, is the Christ mind connected to everyone else and the feminine side is the Wholly Spirit with its portal to connection to God.
I also thought of you last night when reading Shantaram, the book Julius recommended that I think you would like. Although even longer (900+ pp), the content would be a welcome relief from Hitler's War.
In it, the main character talks about the things people do habitually for one another in the slum without ever saying thanks. To say thanks would demean the gift, turn it into a debt and discharge it. Their gratitude is instead expressed in how they live, doing something anonymously 'in return' or for someone else or not at all. It's just because 'they are human' as the Inuits say.
It was a passage that made the concept real to me in a way it hadn't before, and I know it was one that you were puzzling out, my Inuit dog (private joke ;-)
Adding: now I have to figure out what Self (capital S) means :-) .
I use it as the Self that includes all of us, and self as the flesh-encapsulated one.
Yes, that bit in your book about the Inuits regarding thanks as demeaning the gift was a new concept for me.
Shantaram sounds like an interesting novel; thanks for pointing it out.
That was a very bitter sweet one, but oh so true. Did you get my email on the breggans and malone or did I use the wrong email?
I can tell from your response, Helene, that you listened to the video and didn't just read. Yes, Oscar's story was heartbreaking. He had just had dreams about his mother, which he said didn't happen often, before we met. It felt like everything was converging to have this deep connection.
Oh yes, I did get the post on the Coronavirus Committee 411. I'm sorry I didn't respond. I don't have telegram so I couldn't open it. Was it about the Breggins and Malone? I'm curious as to your summary of it.
Glad to see your face in the comments, Helene, you're always so perceptive and compassionate.
To Frances, this is the telegram link Helene sent me, in case she doesn't get back directly: Check out Corona Investigative Committee 🇺🇸/🇬🇧/🇦🇺's post: https://t.me/CoronaInvestigativeCommittee/411
I am terribly nosey... what about the Breggins and Mal One?
Your reflections made me think of a Trance Code from a book I had a hand in making:
Mental Gender Balance is Divine Concentration Harmoniously !nteracting Divinity Distribution
An advert I made for that book: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oPHWdPGZtLU
You are so talented!!!
Thank you! BTW, I finally ordered your book (via a friend who has an Amazon account) and I am pretty sure I will be inspired by it.
I am inspired by you ordering my book! I'm counting that as my fourth miracle of the day. Thank you so much!
Love this subject. And reminds me of the wisdom embedded in the practice of doing one's best and then not being attached to outcome. No 'self' or 'other' recriminations when things don't go the way we hoped and even strived for. There's meaning in all of it.
And likely when we are disappointed or heartbroken and surrender over our biggest 'failures' as being as meaningful as our 'wins' and good fortune, we by necessity put our egos in the right place. A bigger story than we can see is unfolding.
Trusting in the face of disappointment is harder than when things are going to plan obviously. Essential lessons are often harder to learn. Ultimately all meaning is deepened when we can do it.
Best to you. Thanks T. XOX
Your statement about "the practice of doing one's best and then not being attached to outcome" prompted me to add the sutra with the bear photo to my post. Then, when looking for the name of the sutra, I found the Tao te Ching quote that Mark Spark had assailed in his comment (and I would love your thoughts on that question I raise in the exchange).
So I put that in. Then I found a poem by a woman that seemed like it fit the first section. But how could I leave the last without another? And I had a great AI image from Amy Rosebush to use. Meanwhile I had to describe the clouds.
In the end it's practically a new episode. Check it out if you have time.
And yes, that trust in the face of disappointment is so hard. I don't think it's about failure. There's a lesson you're distilling for all of us, Kathleen. I'm sorry you needed to be the crucible for that alchemy, but I can't think of a sturdier vessel.
I love the additions - deepens the whole post.
I should have added 'perceived' failures to that sentence. I agree, it's not about failure.
Thanks, Tereza. Ah well, we've all got our challenges. :-)
I have manifested thousands of miracles! I think the essential thing is belief. If you believe a thing, it becomes true for you. If you believe a thing for someone else, first they must deserve it or it can backfire on you.
When I was a very small child I thought that manifesting was normal, everyday behaviour! It took me years to realise that it was not something most people did. So I set about teaching others how to do it, which in hindsight, has turned out to be the most satisfying joyful thing in my life.
To receive a call or a visit from a dyed-in-the-wool sceptic who just manifested their first miracle is such a banging buzz! These are the sort of wages that the soul craves and they are beyond all materialism.
Great topic, Tereza! Love ya! xx
It made me so happy to see your 'like' on my comment to Mark Alexander. You are living proof, Frances, that the masculine/ feminine or rational/ spiritual or logical/ intuitive are not a zero sum game where one takes away from the other. You demonstrate my suspicion that they develop in tandem or not at all. So grateful that I came to the attention of someone with your perception and heart.
I only wish I could get the time to view more of your work but it just is not possible. I like to get around to visit everyone who subscribes to me but I just broke through the 10,000 mark on Uncensored and 3,000 on Boodicca. I try to see what everyone is saying to keep abreast of the zeitgeist and the major concerns - I need a couple of clones (or crones?). 🤣😂
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. Love it, love you. Thank you. I accept the permission to slow it all down, T. 💗
My, how I needed to read this first thing in the morning. It’s so easy to look at a to-do list and become overwhelmed. Time being “expansive” and not “expensive” - not sure if I’ve experienced that since I was a child. How do I get there? Feeling guilty simply by spending time reading Substacks when I know something has to be cleaned, worked on, organised… but reading posts like this also be nourish my soul, without which I wouldn’t feel the purpose for the other stuff.
Love the poetry you included. Thanks, T.
See, that's the reward for being late to this post! It wasn't until Kathleen's response that I went back to edit in a poem, and one led to another, and another. I was wanting to tell you this too--you mentioned feeling guilty about not responding right away to comments when you finally got a post out, then did all the things that had accumulated inbetween. Substack is the art of the slow convo. You get to say your piece and, then say, "You guys talk among yourselves. Be back later." Unlike someone else's post, you won't miss out because everyone's still there when you return.
My daughter Veronica just realized that, because she felt guilty about (almost) always being late, she would show with her body language that she was SO stressed out. Then she realized she was internalizing that stress and other situations didn't need it. Her telescoping of stress made other people internalize it too.
So stop and say, "What do I want to do right now?" That cleaning will wait too.
Leave it up to you to relieve me of my guilt. I’d like to call myself a time optimist just because I always think I’m going to stretch that 24 hours into something longer. I hope Veronica releases all that stress. Plenty of time on her horizon. 🤗
Quote: "From an atheist perspective, the world is chaos held in check by the ego"
I was an atheist and anarchist for a good chunk of my life. Values I was imbued with by my father provided guidance both during that period and after. The anarchist part, trained me to be skeptical of "authority" and "laws". The combination provided for a very good journey.
I would describe myself still as an anarchist, aka small scale sovereigntist for community self-governance. I hold it as entirely possible that there's no creator god and the cosmos created itself out of nothing. I hold as another hypothesis the third paradigm, that we are OneMind Dreaming and Reality exists outside--meaning, purpose and a God worth having around. I reject completely a god who created pain, death, suffering and loss because he 'loves' us so much. If the world exists, then God does not. It's only by questioning the reality of the world that a God worth having around becomes possible.
.
"Watch the timing with the little things in your life."
?
Not me. No.
That will not be my response to big tragedies such as wildfires, hurricanes and floods.
I care about the truth. I also care about the welfare of myself and others.
Wildfires? I always ask questions. Among other things, I ask if arson is a possible cause.
Hurricanes? Floods? I ask, in similar fashion, whether it is possible that trillionaire moneyed interests might somehow play a role in these things that benefit said trillionaires.
I ask similar questions about so-called contagion. Who benefits from "medical misadventure"?
"Cui bono?", an ancient crime investigation principle, is Latin for "Who benefits?" In other words, follow the money.
Some play a non-zero sum game of life, that's win win. Others play Monopoly and insist on being the Banker (issuing and controling money).
Attention is a moral choice.
So is kindness,
empathy,
caring,
gratitude,
appreciation,
compassion,
as well as
the seeking of beauty, goodness, and truth.
I believe that the right response to big tragedies, whether they are caused, exacerbated, or ignored by people is this: "Forgive them, they know not what they do."
I confess, I sometimes forget my principles and dwell on anger.
Love & Laughter,
mark spark
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Thanks for joining an active thread, Mark Spark, rather than the private conversation we were mired in on an old episode. Now I can get others to help me determine whether Mark Spark is an argument bot, designed to divert attention into a pointless cul de sac, or an argumentative individual who's merely looking to show he's superior to others.
In this case, he's taking my paraphrase, I think, from the Tao te Ching or one of the sutras, "In everything, watch the timing."
Somehow he's translating this into HIM being someone who cares about tragedies, truth and the welfare of others--unlike me. He follows the money ... and the arsonist! He asks 'cui bono' about so-called contagion, unlike my YT of that title regarding the CovidCon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSF7O2FI0S4.
He gives some platitudes about those other people he's better than and tosses out nine virtues that he possesses, as opposed to me busy watching the timing. And he ends with self-righteous anger. Oh, anger with love and laughter! And light and blessings!
This all seems very algorithmic, as I've thought of certain YT commenters who changed names but used the same phrases under new identities. What do the rest of you think?
And if people are acting as if all discussion should revolve around them, they may as well be an argument bot. This new Corbett Report shows that this is happening at a level we should be paying attention to since, as Mark the Spark says, 'attention is a moral choice': https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/algocracy-government-for-the-new.
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Tereza & readers,
I do intend to be argumentative, not for the sake of merely opposing a view, but rather for the sake of arriving at the truth of the matter.
2) using or characterized by systematic reasoning.
"the highest standards of argumentative rigor"
Yes, I claim I care and that caring is a principle that makes loving kindness possible. I think that "sharing and caring," when sincere, are absolutely necessary in order for actions of goodness to take place.
When I make a claim to care, I am not implying that Tereza does not care. Only that I did not understand why "sharing and caring" might be out of place in an economic system.
Angry? I am not angry.
Contest? Debate? I do not wish to have a contest or debate. (Win/Lose = "zero-sum")
I would wish to participate in a dialectic discussion. This would be a situation of dialectic, which is...
1.
the art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions.
Similar:
reasoning
argumentation
contention
logic
discussion
debate
dialogue
logical argument
ratiocination
2.
inquiry into metaphysical contradictions and their solutions.
(Win/Win = nonzero-sum)
(With sincere affection and a wish to share laughter when the opportunity arrises... )
Love & Laughter
mark spark
PS
If my recent post would be more easily accessed here, see below...
Earlier today
TUE 25 MAR 25
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Me
Re:
Examining Significant Limitations, Contradictions, and Inconsistencies¹
032525
Tereza,
You wanted to know whether I expect *every* author to rephrase and/or fully explicate the ideas in their publications. You might be wondering whether I cross-examine and/or challenge the author of *every* new idea I study. Do I?
Short answer, yes.
Every presentation of writing and/or audio recording, claiming certainty, that I wish to seriously consider, gets subjected to my own personalized self-education methods. Hence I question, challenge, and attempt to verify every significant claim I find. I take copious notes while questioning, paraphrasing, cross-referencing, and underlining.
In a similar fashion, I also may consider other paths to truth such as mythologies, fictional narratives, and poetic metaphors. I attempt to walk in the shoes of the author. I try on the world view of the author as best I can in order to gain literal understanding as well as metaphorical comprehension. I read between the lines. I apply many different means of finding the beauty, goodness, and truth of the matter, including intuition and imagination as well as scientific theorizing and logical reasoning.
Herein please find some authors I've recently considered:
•John Taylor Gatto (<2018)
•Stephen Monday
(local health officer I challenged publicly in the op-ed page of our local newdpaper, concerning his unfounded reasons for public ORDERS to wear masks)
•Kevin Cole https://www.unityofthepolis.com/about/
(lecturer on the Trivium I criticized for failing to use Trivium Logic concerning the determination of cause of death during an alleged pandemic)
•Richard Grove (& Tony & LD)
(podcasters who sensibly changed their format after I criticised them for contradicting their own principles by falsely claiming expertise regarding "virology" and "gene therapy")
•James Corbett
•Mark Passio
•Michael Tellinger
•Quan Le (人間)
•Matt Ehret (husband)
•Cynthia Chung (wife)
•Sam Bailey (wife)
•Mark Bailey (husband)
•Tom Cowan
•Mike Holmes (& extended family)
•Iain McGilchrist
•Tom Shaw
•Lluvias Trozzi (OTTY founder)
•Oliver Anthony (troubadour & activist singing "Rich Men North of Richmond")
•Catherine Austin Fitts
•Tereza Coraggio
¹An actual
human
individual,
•mark spark
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PS
If you feel it is a waste of your time to respond to my comments, simply ignore them. I respect your time and intend no malice.
("•" = Menschen, not AI)
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