From: allreadydun@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 9:47:10 AM UTC-7, slider wrote:   
   > LowRider wrote...   
   > > I was too lost in my own narrative to realize what a colossal mistake    
   > > Iraq was.   
   > ### - can consider this a powerful statement, because observation suggests    
   > that just about every human being ON this planet is currently completely    
   > lost in some similar kinda narrative about this, that or whatever... any    
   > underlying Reality routinely overlooked/ignored by default...   
   > > The beginning of the end, for the inheritors of the American Empire and    
   > > it's fantasy narrative.    
   > > I started to realize it the day they hung Saddam. That was thuggery and    
   > > gangsterism.   
   > ### - to quote leary: you turned on, tuned in, and maybe even ready to    
   > drop out ;)    
   >    
   > am pretty sure it all began a lot longer ago than that though, the above    
   > event (and others since) being but recent examples of summat that's been    
   > going-on for the longest time, a long-term plan...    
   >    
   > e.g., can remember a news report from 35+ years ago that made me sit right    
   > up at the time; the FBI issuing a statement that: "after 30 years of    
   > damage & delays caused to the system by the hippy era, we feel that we can    
   > now confidently say that we're all finally back on track..." (Sic)    
   >    
   > iow: all the crap we're seeing going down today would've likely happened    
   > 30 freakin' years ago only for an 'extra' generation created by the hippy    
   > era?? (yay thanks hippies, that's so cool)   
   > > My favorite positive life affirming metaphor lately is we are baby    
   > > turtles    
   > > in our shells, in our nest. The point being to break the shell, dig our    
   > > way out,    
   > > scramble across the beach, and make it into the ocean and grow to adults.   
   > ### - a wonderful analogy imho, is one of my fav's too from some years    
   > back re a half-penned sketch for a short story called 'turtle beach', the    
   > story of unfolding creation contained in just their cycle alone for all to    
   > see... Nature producing via trial & error 'just enough' eggs to ensure an    
   > open-ended hit/miss repeat of the cycle, the whole of Nature performing    
   > similarly, to the point that we're literally all related!    
   >    
   > iow: it really IS turtles all the way down haha! ;)   
   > > The negative life killing metaphor is termite mounds verses warrior ants    
   > > and fire ants.    
   > > I'm sticking with natures plan and staying in the ocean, my body a mere    
   > > navigation buoy.    
   > >    
   > > The beat goes on...   
   > ### - the turtles analogy is complete imho, in that it also covers the    
   > darker aspects as well, e.g., in the gauntlet they're all forced to run on    
   > their way to the water, of maybe 200 eggs only one or 2 ever survive to    
   > repeat the cycle, Nature having thus figured out, over millenia, the exact    
   > numbers required to fetch at least those 1 or 2 back each time... this    
   > involving a staggering realisation at the time! (can still remember    
   > reeling from all the implications of such a thing) especially considering    
   > that we're ALL basically those SAME turtles in one form or another!    
   >    
   > that 'every' species is coz that's how Nature works!    
   >    
   > that nature is literally beyond words :)   
   hey maybe if we guilt the creator real hard   
   he/she/it/them could pull a miracle out of their hat ?   
      
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