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by Santiago Odo
Sun Jan 27, 2019 9:56 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: An economic winter is coming
Replies: 50
Views: 69318

Re: An economic winter is coming

Glostic, receive my sincerest blessing. A couple of things. You have only alluded in the vaguest of ways to an impending catastrophe. You are showing what an engagement with paranoid, projecting thinking is. The topic therefore is how that sort of thinking operates and why. All that you have is an ‘...
by Santiago Odo
Sun Jan 27, 2019 6:49 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Moderation issues
Replies: 31
Views: 53554

Re: Pastiches

We have made religions out of the celebration of serfdom, the slave morality: a broken, tamed, defanged animal now worshiping its comatose existence as "good", even as mere ideal, because somehow it cannot be realized -- perfectly. Maybe you should think of getting out of town for a week ...
by Santiago Odo
Sun Jan 27, 2019 5:19 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Pastiches
Replies: 9
Views: 11909

Re: Pastiches

In the midst of the sky's temples
Blooms a flower.
by Santiago Odo
Sun Jan 27, 2019 4:28 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: An economic winter is coming
Replies: 50
Views: 69318

Re: An economic winter is coming

“Gustav Bjornstrand” wrote:Remember that I march followed by the god of fortune and the god of war.
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by Santiago Odo
Sun Jan 27, 2019 1:36 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: An economic winter is coming
Replies: 50
Views: 69318

Re: An economic winter is coming

[Diebert, we are trying to go more in a lyrical direction. Do you have the same thing but expressed . . . more poetically?]
by Santiago Odo
Sun Jan 27, 2019 1:33 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: An economic winter is coming
Replies: 50
Views: 69318

Re: An economic winter is coming

Gustav Bjornstrand wrote:You go around bent! bent! bent!

Your ten doors are full of hell,
you smell
like a fleet of scents,
your cracked eyes
don't see the heart,
you haven't an ounce of sense!

Drunk with anger, hunger, sex,
you drown without water.
by Santiago Odo
Sat Jan 26, 2019 1:27 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: An economic winter is coming
Replies: 50
Views: 69318

Re: An economic winter is coming

I cannot see how anyone could arrive at a stance where a solid prediction could be made. What is more interesting is that we are thrust into situations where we must *speculate*. And when we speculate, we tend to project. And the content of our projections becomes, for me, the interesting topic of a...
by Santiago Odo
Fri Jan 25, 2019 12:26 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: An economic winter is coming
Replies: 50
Views: 69318

Re: An economic winter is coming

There is still a decent amount of time
How much time?
by Santiago Odo
Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:14 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: An economic winter is coming
Replies: 50
Views: 69318

Re: An economic winter is coming

Yes, but the monogram is “AB”. Now, I know that here there is an obvious reference to the alphabet. And we all can see that a necessary “C” is implied. “C” must correspond to “see”, therefore there is ‘something to be seen’ which here means presented, explained. The reference to the alphabet obvious...
by Santiago Odo
Wed Jan 23, 2019 11:49 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: To compare is to judge?
Replies: 119
Views: 121375

Re: To compare is to judge?

This is so futile and tiresome. What will you do when those under your care begin to question your perception (and I emphasize 'your') Occidental values? What will you do when they encounter 'strange' words like 'infinite', 'God', 'spirit', 'ultimate truth', 'eternal', etc and begin forming groups t...
by Santiago Odo
Wed Jan 23, 2019 11:33 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: An economic winter is coming
Replies: 50
Views: 69318

Re: An economic winter is coming

Yes but you have to make some sort of a case.
by Santiago Odo
Tue Jan 22, 2019 6:53 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: An economic winter is coming
Replies: 50
Views: 69318

Re: An economic winter is coming

Glostik, beloved Child of the All, would you please outline your case a bit more?
by Santiago Odo
Tue Jan 22, 2019 2:05 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: An economic winter is coming
Replies: 50
Views: 69318

Re: An economic winter is coming

Glostic91 wrote:The most logical after death scenario is that the sun will come up tomorrow.
by Santiago Odo
Mon Jan 21, 2019 6:54 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trumpism
Replies: 344
Views: 377286

Re: Trumpism

“David, your thinking on Christianity is so limited. You haven’t explored the nuances of what we do as Christians, nor examined our theology in any great detail. You just swan in here with your mulish, hackneyed ideas about wisdom without realizing how clumsy and ignorant you look.” Quite a bit of ...
by Santiago Odo
Mon Jan 21, 2019 6:51 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trumpism
Replies: 344
Views: 377286

Re: Trumpism

If one cannot depend, shall we say, on 'reason', one what ultimately -- oh glorious glimmering one! -- do we ultimately rely? On the infinite of causality, this marvelous reality, which is sometimes called God or Tao. And reasoning is but a poor reflection. ::: blessings to you from the centre of a...
by Santiago Odo
Mon Jan 21, 2019 6:37 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trumpism
Replies: 344
Views: 377286

Re: Trumpism

i.e. the mythical enemies imagined by people who hate their own freedoms (for no reason whatsoever) would be emancipators and not oppressors. The enemy that would be defined by people who do not desire to be free, and who describe their imprisonment as 'freedom', would be defined as oppressors but ...
by Santiago Odo
Mon Jan 21, 2019 4:16 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trumpism
Replies: 344
Views: 377286

Re: Trumpism

Sometimes I admit to a certain indifference to you; sometimes I feel a kind of condescending pity; but today I feel rather miserable as I contemplate your horrifying situation! Would that I could help! Just reach out your hand! Do spankings help? Or sitting in the corner? Nothing?! Oh Lord . . . Any...
by Santiago Odo
Mon Jan 21, 2019 12:58 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trumpism
Replies: 344
Views: 377286

Re: Trumpism

Society has never been as free as it is now, at least in the West. An individual can just about do anything he likes, read whatever he likes, speak whatever he likes. Yet sadly, the only use that many people seem to make of this tremendously rare freedom is to concoct mythical enemies who seek to o...
by Santiago Odo
Sun Jan 20, 2019 1:14 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trumpism
Replies: 344
Views: 377286

Re: Trumpism

Society has never been as free as it is now, at least in the West. An individual can just about do anything he likes, read whatever he likes, speak whatever he likes. Yet sadly, the only use that many people seem to make of this tremendously rare freedom is to concoct mythical enemies who seek to o...
by Santiago Odo
Sun Jan 20, 2019 5:06 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trumpism
Replies: 344
Views: 377286

Re: Trumpism

No amount of grandstanding on this issue will change the reality that climate change is going to impact more and more on the world over the next few decades. For example, with the energy in the biosphere steadily increasing, the regular climate patterns that we are used to seeing (and upon which we...
by Santiago Odo
Sun Jan 20, 2019 3:10 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Moderation issues
Replies: 31
Views: 53554

Re: The Rudderless West

I lovingly suggest, dear one, that you give your head a rest for a time.
by Santiago Odo
Sat Jan 19, 2019 11:56 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The Rudderless West
Replies: 9
Views: 18701

Re: The Rudderless West

My dear and very special friend, hello! Receive my blessings. Would you consider the idea that this very notion of universality, representation and unalienable rights -- or moreover the way it was being deployed in the world being it by Soviet methodology or American "leading" exceptionali...