Honestly, what I've been aiming to do here for days now, is 'dial in' something if not 'calm and relaxing' then certainly very far away from current affairs.
Unfortunately, such is not to be for us, since a lot of things are moving quite fast now.
I am not going to post photos here of the 'unusual looking' gentleman who is featuring in some viral videos right now, who could be someone in what's called 'light disguise,' and whose name may be 'Roy' or 'Alexander' although right now, it is being referred to as 'Allen.'
But I shall say that this matter specifically has to do with the Benghazi Embassy Attack... Rather than 'Seal Team 6' as is the spear thrust of the current Twitter campaign and associated viral video. Which means the anger is not misplaced...US ambassador J. Christopher Stevens (on right)
- killed in Benghazi
Absent of really good high level information, anybody could easily get caught up in all of the immediate 'hot button' issues and worry about those. And that would be on the basis that all normal people care about outcomes and consequences of events, especially political events.
But you know, if NASA has sent a probe already to Ganymede (we have mentioned that name here before), then we need not wait until a 25-man team actually goes there to find out what is there... ...like retired-CIA man Charles McCarry once fictionalized in one of his books.
...On account we might meet the people up there coming back down towards us from the opposite direction.
You know 'lights at the end of the tunnel' and all. (The headlights of a big train coming to meet you head on very fast from the opposite direction...).
Notwithstanding there are thousands of networked, super wealthy lunatics around the globe today, influenced by the ravings of specific other leading lunatics such as the late David Rockefeller and Jacob Rothschild - who all think it would be a good idea to cut the planet's human population by half... ...notwithstanding that -, it might happen anyway, all by itself for reasons very different to the ones that Rothschild et al have.This guy is not a very strong guy,
so he knows to bring a 'statement' part favor
to the party.
I'm still trying to think about the 'after-party.'
How much time will the re-election of Donald J. Trump give us all? A bit. I believe so.
But just consider this sort of 'rational speculation' even though it is totally just Sci-Fi:
What would a group of human-like, or humanoid people think like, behave like, act like, if they were say, something like around four thousand years ahead of us in cultural, social, experiential, development?
If various questions which we still consider are important, have already become 'settled arguments' to them, how much time do we expect them to spend (in words I have over-heard, 'waste') countenancing our meanderings all over the exact same silly dry trails?
...To this day, I have never heard a single apologist, preacher, philosopher, preacher or Islamic or Jewish religious rival to the mainstream Christian stance, set out the incident in the New Testament about the demoniac and the herd of pigs, like this...
...you see, in one Gospel it was 'a large herd' of pigs, and in Mark it is enumerated specifically as 'two thousand pigs.'Not a very 'macho' guy,
not very powerful guy;
prefers to work alone.
In the narrative, the man 'possessed' by a legion of demons, is too strong to be restrained even with chains. It is very clear that we are to draw the conclusion that he is 'strong because he has demoniac spirits in him...' And numerous of them. As an 'ordinary' human being he is not strong, at least not that strong or not so strong.
While the animal rights people have always raised objections to Jesus Christ allowing 'demons to enter into innocent dumb animals,' nobody has really looked at the question of well, what if Jesus had have said 'okay all of you, you enter into just this one pig...' Instead of two thousand of them. (IE From one man - which possession had made him unnaturally strong - to one pig, which would make the pig therefore also unnaturally strong).
I mean, taking a Spike Milligan view of it, maybe in that instance, we might have been able to witness a pig so strong, that when it leaped, it fairly looked like a flying pig - you know, as in, 'pigs can fly.' (Could not resist, sorry Jesus).
One simple understanding though, in relation to the story itself (it wasn't evidently any kind of parable but an actual narrative account of something actually having happened, as far as the Gospel writers are concerned), is that 'living sentient beings are discrete unitary consciousnesses although they are able to 'agglomerate' inside a superficially singular material physical incorporation.
For those whom I know read here and are of the Islamic eschatological traditions, the hadiths including the Quran itself, speak of 'Yajooj wa Ma'jooj' being of immense strength and relentless greedy appetite, deceitful, unjust, criminal-minded, and consisting of a very large number of actual 'beings' previously imprisoned for centuries behind some preternatural 'mountain wall of molten iron and copper' somewhere, possibly Kyrgyzstan - but now breaking through into the world of Men, and taking power and control and running amok over all the weaker humans. Most tafasir explain that this is meant to be understood as 'spirit beings' possessing actual material living human beings."He's a Fool...: "...He comes by air."
The pigs in the story in the Gospels all ran over a cliff into the sea and drowned.
Believe or don't believe, but do you consider the possibility of history repeating whether of just a didactic narrative or a hard physical truth, and half the world or more killing itself by doing something insanely rash, more or less similar to pigs 'running over a cliff into a deep sea far below and all drowning?'
My problem is not that such a thing might or could or is going to happen, but what do we do afterwards?
Would sticking a vaccine into a perfectly healthy human be considered "doing something insanely rash"?
ReplyDeleteIn all practical reality, and immense genuine scientific research into the area, not all snake bites are treatable with snake anti-venine.
ReplyDeleteThe idea that Covid 19 can be treatable with vaccines, even though it is far from any kind of standard viral infection, is jumping to unreliable and uncertain conclusions. But ahead of just that aspect, what about any other, future virus that was much much more lethal, or toxic at least? What is going to be the social-psychological impact there? Right now, people like Fauci are trading off the wider public's misplaced faith in medical science as an ABSOLUTE GUARANTEED ethical, benevolent thing. And that 'trade' is already beginning to become shaky.
We're in big trouble as a species. And there are not enough 'public philosophers' permitted into the media space to drive policies which could prepare for, or head off major critical problems before they turned catastrophic.