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Guess where this comes from:
“The hui, which started on Sunday, has so far been focused on empowering communities to help deradicalise and report extremism and the changing nature of extremism in Aotearoa.”
And they think the best option is to silence the voices of the radicalised, the fickshits, the oppressed that are completely aware of their predicaments.
And they think they’re “EMPOWERING” communities? Jesus wept! Even reformed Morons and other Religious fundies and the commentariat are probably just going to have to fight it out.
It probably won’t be on twitter though anymore (thankfully)
Merry Melbourne Cup everyone 🙂
Did you have a ‘sweep’ organised (winning)?
Bit of excitement about NZ horse I saw.
Oh I go all out on MC, such fun! Only got placed this year though 🙁 There’ll be another one next year…
The Lord loves a tryer they say! Let’s have a go mate at other pesky challenges in the interim. Are you up for that?
The total corruption of the UK Labour Party by supporters of genocide has been exposed.
Incidentally, the same things that the UK Labour Party are being paid by subverters to promote are being promoted by NZ Labour. Who’s paying Nanaia, I wonder?
https://electronicintifada.net/content/secret-document-reveals-israel-lobbys-dominance-labour/36591
Let’s have a go at existentialism. The aware realise that we don’t know our a from our e these days, so perhaps try to stand on our heads and quote Kierkegaard and Lewis Carroll.
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Kierkegaard:
Existentialism remains one of the more popular philosophies for the layperson to read about, consider, and study. The questions that it asks and the problems it confronts, ones of free will, anxiety, and the search for meaning; are ones we all face in our daily lives…
On finding meaning –
Kierkegaard agrees that life can be absurd and that meaning could be hard to come by. As opposed to Nietzsche, who said the death of God caused this, Søren argued that, in the present age, meaning is sucked out of concepts by abstraction and a tendency to view things with too much rationality. He lamented that he lived in an age where humans were increasingly viewed as generalizations, where the passionate man was seen as intemperate, and where most people simply went along.
He cries out for us to live passionately, and worry more about the problem of living life than trying to fit the social order. His philosophy is all about living this way, even to the point where an outside viewer will be unable to understand your motivation.
Kierkegaard also discovered a point that was hammered in by latter existentialists; reason and science can tell you a lot of things, but they cannot give something value or meaning. You have to do that. Meaning, value, and purpose cannot be reduced to quantifiable elements, it is up to the individual acting on their own to decide what the meaning of their life is going to be. His favored solution for finding meaning is to look to God and make a leap of faith. That alone, he argued, could both offer us meaning and properly balance us as people.
K seems very interesting. Let’s dig down a bit past the strutting of the conniving ones in gummint and their enablers. The ‘What a piece of work is man’ style of thought.
Missed link – this one I think to the Kierkegaard excerpt above. Sorry,
https://bigthink.com/thinking/gods-answer-to-nietzsche-the-philosophy-of-soren-kierkegaard/
News – Professor Slavoj Zizek has had his hair cut and, in addition, ‘We are Addicted to Chaos’.
https://unherd.com/thepost/slavoj-zizek/
From Kierkegaard’s critique – He cries out for us to live passionately, and worry more about the problem of living life than trying to fit the social order.
(I think Zizek could be called a passionate man and with something of value to say.)
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/477887/community-groups-urge-need-to-combat-online-hate-speech-at-second-counter-terrorism-hui
What to do about nasties on community groups sites.
Stop using Facebook as your total go-to site perhaps. Every body is addicted to it. Better if you put up newsletters on facebook and have emails for interaction. Just have FAQs updated to give latest with no route through for further information. The weeds are addicted to instant dissemination and instant gratification of every mental process that occurs.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018864710/annie-rauwerda-wikipedia-and-the-mysterious-deaths-of-oligarchs
Russian ones – previous deaths of scientists in last century below. Are we on a mousewheel?
GEC-Marconi scientist deaths conspiracy theory – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › GEC-Marconi_scientist…
The GEC-Marconi scientist deaths conspiracy theory claims that between 1982 and 1990 a number of British-based GEC-Marconi scientists and engineers who …