From: allreadydun@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 3:10:24 PM UTC-7, chris rodgers wrote:   
   > 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 ?   
      
   isn't it funny how quick all people's of the Earth are to   
   make someone else the guilty one?   Maybe it's time they   
   put the blame where it belongs?   I mean who is runnin' the   
   show here?    Organized creation/creator?   there's humor in that.    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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