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Thank you all for your kind words and thoughts. I feel your love and support and value your friendship.

A Bastet case, I have become reading sonnets, having fun The port is good, so they declare in Portugal, some cat is there who sweeps a tail across the rug and makes a toy of some poor bug photo Jon Bodsworth

Cool cats rarely follow rules, or get good grades in public schools. They cultivate an air of mystery, not for them the one two three. So Apech´s drinking wine in Portugal, and not concerned with us at all. Let alone the great cat Bastet, who surely deserves her own sonnet. meow

He's done a lot of Egyptian study yet never talks of Bastet, buddy. What kind of cool white cat is that?

Not my brother, a friend. And in reality he´s a sweet guy and I don´t wish him any harm. Just someone who got caught up, as so many of us do, in a particular mind loop. For brother Apech He´s a cool white cat, who knows where it´s at. He´s done lots of Egyptian study, I´m lucky he´s my buddy.

Science is fascinating, so I can´t fault those who make it´s study their life´s work, though there are certainly ethical landmines to be navigated -- and some navigate them with more humility and grace than others. But I like to think there´s a special place in some unfathomable lower realm for those who know nothing of science themselves but proudly declare "I believe in science" in an attempt to coerce relatives and friends to make a given behavioral choice. Not that I´m bitter or anything.

Not strictly relevant but I managed to reduce my intra- ocular pressure from 21 to 16 by palming, acupressure and massaging round the eye sockets.

I feel like we lost the ability for true inspiration, as a species we are supreme at optimizing existing things, but not very skilled at recognizing whether what we optimize is really opportunity we should be pouring all our efforts into or if we should have looked around at all the other potential options before diving single-mindedly into the first idea we find - which usually the one with the most killing or control potentials. But really science and innovation will rarely be truly beneficial because the motivation is corrupt now. We have moved away from solving survival challenges and exploring what is possible and the world around us, to money. If money is the motivation, the results are only ever going to be crappy. Heck you don't even need a good product to make a lot of money, you just need something people will think is good long enough to get investment, build your house of cards, and exit. Speculation is more profitable than the thing being speculated on.

The thread this one got split from was about LIFE sciences. And of course went as those topics always do: 1) When someone talks about the problems with LIFE sciences, the self-appointed defenders of science bring up TECHNOLOGY as proof of progress of SCIENCE. Technology, indeed, is booming and blooming, but this does not inform one of the state of affairs with life sciences. You want to know the state of affairs with their progress that made any positive difference in the lives of live humans? The last time life sciences made progress was in the 19th century when they stopped bashing the concept of hygiene and ridiculing and ostracizing surgeons who wanted to wash their hands before performing surgeries. And no longer put them in lunatic asylums for this crazy idea that infant and new mothers' mortality may have something to do with the fact that they dissect corpses for scientific purposes and then move on to delivering babies without washing their hands. 2) There's countless irresponsible endeavors in current LIFE sciences which the people currently called scientists do JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN, and most of them are extremely destructive to the health and well-being of actual live human beings and all creatures great and small. The bulk of tangible progress is in weaponized applications. Purportedly against the potential enemy. In reality, innocent bystanders who are affected are pretty much everybody on the planet. 3) This extinction-level status quo is entrenched so firmly and the indoctrination runs so deep, and is so all-encompassing, that talking not only with its perpetrators but also with its victims is usually an exercise in futility.

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Sorry to hear about your loss. My condolences.

Deepest condolences 🙏🏾

It is a belief system for the indoctrinated, but for the indoctrinators it is primarily (and often entirely) a power grab system. All our "life sciences" inherited the tradition they directly arose from -- that of witch hunts, getting rid of ideological competition, gaining both power and money, monopolizing control of people's bodies, calling the shots. (There's a pun in there.)

Thank you all very much, my father has been very ill and passed early this morning. I value all of your good wishes and friendship.

Bravo.

I don't know about Qigong is improving my eyesight or not. I know Qigong will keep my body in good health from getting worse! Qigong is Qigong, no matter what name one wants to call it. It has the same effect on the body. It is not how you breathe to determine which organ was benefited. Qigong practice will benefit which organ is the weakest that needs attention. The body is a self healing machine and it will take care of itself on its own. There is no need to see what Qigong one practice. It is because it was only the given name is fooling you.

I am not aware of diagnostics becoming less rather than more invasive... depends on what you're comparing them to and what you know about the ones perceived as non-invasive that are in reality anything but. E.g., ultrasound in pregnancy is mighty controversial (and if you haven't heard about it, there's a reason for that... we hear what the establishment wants us to hear, everything else gets swept under the rug... it's just that some of us have stumbled over that rug and developed a habit of lifting it to see what lies beneath before venturing a step.) A fetus is extremely sensitive. Some of the concerns are neurological effects (exposure could affect fetal brain development or neuronal migration, based on animal studies), thermal effects (risk of local tissue heating, particularly near bone), cavitation effects (microscopic gas bubbles forming and collapsing in tissues, damaging molecules and cells), intrauterine growth restriction (observational studies noted a statistical correlation), and subtle long-term effects (concerns regarding increased risks for conditions like autism, childhood cancers, speech delays, etc.). It's just one example, but there are many "non-invasive" diagnostic procedures that are only non-invasive because the invasion is not immediately obvious. As for insulin -- that was discovered over a hundred years ago... Diabetes, in most cases, could be prevented or cured with better lifestyle and (especially) dietary choices. But the money isn't in that. Hence the current approach -- to pretty much everything.

I remember a time in my life when I was trying eye exercises and found out that calmly looking at one object at a time would leave me very peaceful and serene. Forgetting the aim of getting better eyesight I kept on doing it for the sake of peace of mind. A few months later my eye exam showed that I had inexplicably less two diopters of astigmatism. That convinced me that the Bates exercises really work.

Great news, thanks for sharing.

Science is nice, and science can stop you, From doing all the things in life you’d like to. If there’s something you’d like to try, If there’s something you’d like to try, Ask me I won’t say no how could I?

Don’t deny yourself, let your bitterness rip, online it’s harmless. Is that ‘science believer’ your annoying brother again?

Most smart kids want to be a lawyer earning $100,000. Rather than a scientist with entry level $30,000. Inventions built in a lab owned by a university or large corporation means they own your creation. While by contrast owning & operating your own independent lab is prohibitively cost ineffective. Given the dubious nature of copyright and intellectual property protection laws, foreign powers might simply steal your invention. Producing at lower cost than you yourself could ever afford to. Everything about markets, higher education and the economy are stifling & unfriendly to innovation / progress. And so people shifted career trajectory and found other things to do.

Barney is never extinct, he lives in our hearts and minds forever . . . . Or at least that annoying theme song does .

Aside from random things like lithium batteries there hasn't been much progress in technology either. Try googling "Father of artificial intelligence". The name of a man from the 1940s will pop up. Alan Turing. A huge chunk of AI work was completed around 1940s. The only reason AI didn't become mainstream sooner is due to lack of hardware necessary to make it function. Tech has also been a dead end in terms of innovation and progress. But maybe its ok. It might give our spiritual power a chance to catch up to our scientific power?

Apparently there have been 16 crucified saviors. Perhaps it takes a while to get it right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Sixteen_Crucified_Saviors

Yes, that is a good thought. As long the practice was done correctly reached to the realm, who cares how it works. Only I do! I like to investigated and told what I think and speak out. However, some people don't know and have no idea what I know with denial. That is okay, it is because we are at a different comprehensive level.

Unless you were an emu .... then your wife will take off and leave you to hatch the eggs and you end up a 'single dad' for 8 chicks ! ... and you dont get to fly !

All species of ants have some flying ants ... but its just for 'fun' ( reproduction ) .... not for the commoners ; not all ants can fly; only reproductive ants, such as queens and males, have wings and they do so for a single mating flight. The vast majority of ants, which are the sterile female worker ants you see foraging, do not have wings and are permanently wingless.

IMO this is supreme Goodness, but it is not only like good behavior. Majority of people can't recognize it due to strong post-heaven shen influence which caused by post - heaven negative yin factors (energies, that is also called karma but not in Daoist teaching)

Old man shouldn't feel his end, he will go blind.

Sorry to hear about your loss, Steve. Take care...

Some 20 years after reading his autobiography I've met in person Meir Schneider and can tell you that he his legit, a man that healed himself of almost total blindness through exercises based on the Bates method. https://youtu.be/JWdCGX6HzjE?si=2zMiAanqlsv3gcAI

Sorry to hear of your father's illness and passing, Steve. Take care of yourself!

Condolences for your loss Steve. (as it is sometimes said, "bon voyage" for him)

So sorry for your loss Steve

Sorry for your loss, steve.

@steve Hope you deal well with the temporary absence of your father's presence

@steve My condolences to you and your family. Sending you love and best wishes.

Sorry for your loss, steve, stay strong at this difficult time. Best wishes to you and your family.

Sorry for your loss Steve. Hope that over time you find healing. I lost my brother earlier this year and have been learning much about grief. Best wishes and good healing to you.

Ah yes, in English too. No Egyptian Bah as etymology though, bah! Grumpy cat will eat the Bah bird.

hello, says the featherfoot man