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When I was a boy, my grandmother was into “Ancient Aliens”, talked about Edgar Cayce’s sleeping prophecies and the Akashic Records “spiritual library that contains a record of all events, thoughts, feelings, and actions that have ever happened.”, etc She didn’t “believe believe” but she was open minded. Got me into science fiction and spooky TV shows. One of my favorites was “In Search Of…” with Leonard Nimoy. Great show. Talked about the killer bees that would enter the USA by the early 2000s. And turns out I was runnning an animal removal service with my brother and around 2009 I went with him on a job for bees in Everglades City. [I rarely ever went with him on jobs as I’m owner so I don’t have to] They were so vicious they came right after us and we had to dive into the truck as they crashed into the truck like hail. Thousands and thousands of angry Killer bees swarming around. It took 15 minutes for them to give up, we got out and sprayed the hell out of the hives and ran back in the truck and left. Since then, as they travelled north, the killer bees mated with the local population and created “irritated local/killer hybrid bees” which is as close to neutralized as we’re gonna get . So Leonard Nimoy was right. But I doubt Edgar Cayce nor was erich von daniken, as fun as it was to read as a boy and see many years later in X-Files, etc.

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Oh absolutely. For myself, I tend to be very very very slow at certainties. It’s very difficult to button things up. It’s very satisfying to hit upon something where I can say “I can work with this”, put it aside and move on but I can spend many years on something looking at it from far too many angles. I look towards ‘rejection’. I am not looking for things to accept because it’s easy to ‘FALL IN LOVE” with a pet idea. Rather, I look for things to throw away but not throw away as in “it is trash not truth” but throw away as “The Answer” and instead see it as a useful fiction that has some pragmatic value for somebody in some way – and perhaps many or most people in many or most ways – enough where I can trust it well enough but not enough to shout it from the rooftops “EUREKA!” When I hit those Eureka moments, it’s really nice though.

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Tim McDonald So, cause and effect is meaningless to you? You can mix time together freely so that cause comes after effect? My claim is: 1932: HUXLEY INVENTS TERMS AND DEFINITIONS. PUBLISHES A WORK OF FICTION CALLED A BRAVE NEW WORLD. 1948: Frans de Waal is born. 1960 – 1981 : Frans de Waal reads A BRAVE NEW WORLD. (between age 12-33) 1975: Frans de Waal starts a 6 year study on captive zoo chimpanzees at one zoo. 1982: Frans de Waal publishes a book “Chimpanzee Politics” based on studying captive chimps in cages. Sometimes after 1982: Newt Gingrich starts giving away a copy of “Chimpanzee Politics” to every young Republican entering Congress, telling them that “this is how everything works here in Capitol Hill”. 1993: Internet starts getting more available to the public and no longer just universities and military. America Online is a good part of it. post 1993: Online societies form of various voluntary groupings. 2000s : as evolutionary psychology continues gaining a foothold in universities and wider acceptance as it tries to shed its odd “sociobiology” beginnings, the graduates graduate and unemployed with lots of free time, bring the ideas onto the internet and start populatizing it in gamer hierarchies, “manosphere” online men’s only spaces for jokes and discussion like Bodybuilding Forums etc, popularizing the ideas. 2009-ish: 4chan starts mocking the hierarchy brutally. But the brutal mocking starts shifting to belief and pride in the levels as people do not realize it’s all just jokes and the bodybuilding forums seriousness mixes with the 4chan humor. 2024. Here we are today. That’s my claim.

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Creatures definitely live in these woods. A panther killed my pet goat about 12 years ago. Jumped into the cage three times, tore its head off, carried it with it deep into the woods, came back for more. Our chickens have been destroyed by skunks, panthers and bears. And there’s certainly unspeakable horrors beyond human comprehension out there. My 11 yr old ne refuses to go outside here after dark. My answer is: stop thinking in terms of matrix. Live your life. The matrix is a fictional movie made by trans women about living a fraudulent life for the sake of fitting in and that image on top is a meme that exaggerates human choices to some weird dichotomy that does not reflect reality but rather a fantasy some attempt to achieve; making real a fiction. Instead of trying to make a fiction real, be real.

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