Here and Now...What's Happening?

[meeradas]

thwo [i leave this typo like it is - i like how it looks and sounds).

'd you be willing to do this?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=D3r430bQQss

just in case: I'd even be willing to go back to "no cell phones".


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Posted by Baby Steps (here)
there is such a wide gap between who one is and who one can imagine one being.......
is that gap destructive, productive, challenging , or illusory

challenging, yes; the others depend on how you act upon it

[ulli]

Posted by meeradas (here)
thwo [i leave this typo like it is - i like how it looks and sounds).

'd you be willing to do this?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=D3r430bQQss

just in case: I'd even be willing to go back to "no cell phones".


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Posted by Baby Steps (here)
there is such a wide gap between who one is and who one can imagine one being.......
is that gap destructive, productive, challenging , or illusory

challenging, yes; the others depend on how you act upon it

Before I throw away my smartphone I would need to explore other alternatives.
And I believe we are all pretty close to finding those.

[ulli]

This looks at Jordan Peterson’s new free speech platform from all sorts of angles. Don’t get me wrong; I’m all for it.
Just that absolute perfection is hard to come by.

https://mobile.twitter.com/RogueNota...free-speech%2F

This comment made me laugh out loud:


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@ProximaCeti
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Jun 12
Replying to
@RogueNotary
It will all be swastikas and pepe frogs by the end of the year.

[meeradas]

i have to drag this here... am actually in tears over it (laughing...)

https://youtu.be/79ds8DnlK7g?t=3078



just in case:
I use the "zero credibility circus" [tm] as entertainment only;
that way, it really does a good(e) job.

[ulli]

I catching up on what has been posted during my two+ year absence from the forum.

Here is an interview Kerry conducted that I found particularly interesting. (Posted originally by Pathwalker.)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=I_VQG3SL8ZQ

Also have decided to take down my jolly tea-drinking avatar, and replace it with one that reflects the somber and more serious feeling of the forum.
Quite a challenge I might add, since Im feeling really, really positive these days. But there is nothing worse than trying to force a gloomy crowd to cheer up, and then failing.
Better to join in in the shared sorrows. Only then can we gather strength to pick ourselves up by the bootstraps.

[ulli]

To me transparency is the opposite of deception.

YET:
many deceivers use the word to win the confidence of their prey. They know there are truth seekers out there, and those truth seekers pose a danger to their feelings of security, which the deceiver type tries to maintain behind a deceptive smoke screen.

Meanwhile many genuine people, who don’t have a malicious bone in their bodies, also know that being too open can damage their comfort zone. In our turbulent times we get tossed between wishing for a better world for all, or make a protective cave for ourselves and our loved ones, believing that collective extinction is imminent.
So things are not that simple.
The biggest clash of philosophical thought these days, to me, anyway, is in the paradigms of the “we are all one” on the one hand, and “good and evil” or black and white thinking, and effort at excluding the grey tones, on the other hand.

Yet it is a bit of both, at different times. Each individual needs to take counsel with themselves, to arrive at the suitable answer. Meditation helps, but also contemplation. And the willingness to be specific about details.
This definitely poses a conundrum.

[ulli]

https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/c...IYHvJEwRSyOG1E

This guy photoshopped himself into pictures of his younger self.

I would love to do the same, but next to my future, wiser self.
Might learn something useful.

[ulli]

I love this: street murals become visible only when it rains

https://mymodernmet.com/pantone-proj...pLO2mX6GnacBeY

[ulli]

Some dads still care about their kids falling for fashion scams.

[PurpleLama]

It's been 2 years since we had a raft to float down the creek. One forgets the exertion in favor of the good times one has, so the next trip will be overnight thereby splitting the work into two days and showing the kids what our version of primitive camping should be like.

-one tired Lama

[ulli]

Posted by PurpleLama (here)
It's been 2 years since we had a raft to float down the creek. One forgets the exertion in favor of the good times one has, so the next trip will be overnight thereby splitting the work into two days and showing the kids what our version of primitive camping should be like.

-one tired Lama

You are a good Dad, Lama.
I salute your efforts, and your kids will still remember those efforts when they are old. Their gratitude will stretch to all possible dimensions you might be traversing.

[ulli]

[ulli]

Introducing Japanese Rockabilly sub-culture.

https://mymodernmet.com/denny-rensha...GfVaBBZ-Jv3BkQ

[Bluegreen]

Posted by janus (here)
I do miss Calz

He has dealt with changes but still drops in from time to time to let us know he's kicking. Taking the liberty of forwarding from a couple weeks ago the latest message to the world from Calz:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cZ_3OhYZ5Gw

[ulli]

Posted by Bluegreen (here)

Posted by janus (here)
I do miss Calz

He has dealt with changes but still drops in from time to time to let us know he's kicking. Taking the liberty of forwarding from a couple weeks ago the latest message to the world from Calz:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cZ_3OhYZ5Gw

If you are in touch with him please tell him to get his fat a.. over here. I’ve missed him, too.

[Dennis Leahy]

Hauntingly beautiful, liquid vocal by Becky Bliss:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZK_icuO4xPU

[ulli]

[PurpleLama]

[ulli]

Funny Lama.

I guess dark humor is what has kept us together.

Not idealism.

Dark humor is better than cynicism, right?

[Carmody]

Careful about Peterson. I watched about 15-20 of his videos and found he made no missteps. No reason to distance myself from a minimal recommendation.

A friend, debating champ in his younger days...warned me to be careful as he says that Peterson does what is known as 'the Gish-gallop'.

The problem, for the friend, is that Peterson is apparently an Israeli apologist of some sort, from the friend's understanding. The gish-gallop is from all Peterson's reading, and no apparent research of his own? Basically, forming and placing and ordering everyone else's data, in a way he sees fit. nothing new in that and pretty well on par for the vast majority of 'experts' - as we like to see them as being. The gish-gallop in this case might be the simple subtle re-framing of excellent data, presentation and connection methods, projections for the reader to fall or step/walk/flow into, etc.

So, the man has some really good and decent data but beneath it all, it may be a bit ..uhm..er..off.

Most of us are resigned to dealing with the end point data as we cannot do it all ourselves. Peterson is very very good at laying all of that data out in a useful manner. But the deeper unspoken sentiment may be a bit problematic. We don't know the reasons/shape/etc for that seldom shown apparent sentiment, or whatever the case may be, so I think it is a good idea to not get behind him 100%.

The usual cautions, as no one is perfect.