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Are you living in the material world?
Are you afraid of dying? Has pseudo-science brought you to the brink of suicide? Have you selected suicide through pseudo-science?
What is trans-humanism? Do not worship the robots. Elayne will follow the slug people through the portal. But not before CARTER HORTON makes love to her. Carnivore is your friendly companion but the fuckin robot doesn’t like dogs.
The dragon is caught in a time capsule. The portal is opened by the slug people, simultaneously releasing: THE DRAGON, THE POND MONSTER (sentient, brackish, pond water), AND THE CARNIVORE.
A guy names himself Shakespeare on a far away planet that includes strange energies from space (the GOD hour). Shakespeare didn’t understand THE CARNIVORE. Do you understand the LION?
Some of my highlights:
Shakespeare’s Planet by Clifford D. Simak
Book last read: 2021-09-06 20:19:31
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Highlight: One by one, it came to them in those tiny intervals when they were truly honest with them selves, that the nagging doubts which hounded them might be more important than the pride.
Notes: Covid Cult
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Highlight: We will have a look at it, said this madman of a robot, Then it is all settled?
Notes: AI garbage
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Highlight: THE brain-that-once-had-been-a-monk was frightened, and the fright brought honesty.
Notes: Bullshit Christian preachers
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Highlight: For the first time, thinking thus, he was able to admit what he never had been able to admit before, or honest enough to admit before-that he had seized the opportunity to become the servant of science to escape the fear of death.
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Highlight: Fear, he thought-a man hounded all his life by fear-if not a fear of death, then the fear of life itself.
Notes: Mask wearing morons
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Highlight: The human race can come up with some peculiar notions. One friend ingesting another friend as a gesture of respect. Among prehistoric people, there was ritual cannibalism-doing a true friend or a great man a special honor by the eating of him.
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Highlight: And history. That is even worse. We dont have history; we have legend. Some of the legend probably is history, but we cant be sure which is history and which is not.
Notes: Amnesia
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Highlight: a sense of self-worth that is sufficiently strong to maintain you anywhere, no matter what sort of situation you may get yourself into.
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Highlight: And was that, he asked himself, the way to defeat the sense of lostness-to no longer need a home?
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Highlight: The logic of mankind, said the scientist, is a poor reed to lean upon. It is a logic dictated by observation and despite our many marvelous instruments, our observations were severely restricted.
Notes: Pseudo medical science
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Highlight: In all frankness, I think it was not so much the causes that motivated me as the opportunity which they gave me to hold and exercise certain positions of power.
Notes: Anthony Fauci
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Highlight: Less than five centuries before this morning in the bean patch, the Earth had faltered to a halt, not in war, but in worldwide economic collapse.
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Highlight: Government had disappeared; industry, communications and trade had ground to a halt and, for a time, there had been anarchy and chaos.
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Highlight: Build and manufacture for permanence and not for obsolescence; with the profit system swept away, obsolescence had become not only criminal, but ridiculous.
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Highlight: We have not experienced it, I am sure, said the scientist, because our minds, which are better trained and disciplined.
Notes: Pseudo science denying life.
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Highlight: And Im talking not only about myself, with my pettiness, which I am quite willing to confess, but you, Sir Scientist, with your exaggerated scientific viewpoint that you tend to flaunt to prove your superiority over a simpleminded, flighty woman and a dumb bunny of a monk
Notes: Scientific fakery
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Highlight: Id like to see the look on the faces of all those weighty neurologists and those bird-brained psychologists who worked out the scenario for us if they could only know how all their calculations worked out in actuality. Of course, all of them are dead by nowοΏ½
Notes: rejoice. The death of scientific materialism
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Highlight: Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we dont know if it even exists.