https://youtu.be/irz-sAJtbEU?si=3BKXMcr03xGr-cI-

 

 

 

 

 

Politicians pat themselves on the back for all types of things that they don't actually accomplish.  

 

Last night, here, the launched fireworks by the people and not by the municipal folks, was the loudest I've ever heard.

Now I know, why this place is called Boomland 

There remain pockets of free and brave folks in the USA. 

Yes, there was that two percent tax; then 3% set things right. It only took 3%

 

6 hours ago, Apech said:

To all American Bums.

 

🇬🇧💂💂🇬🇧

 Do Brits shoot off fireworks, grill out, brink Budweiser, listen to American music all day today?

 

I almost got a little emotional this morning, dashing around this small town in the center of America. Everyone here is so thoughtful, caring, polite, to each other everyday, just as they are today 

 

 

There's a difference between information/data and knowledge.

I think knowledge implies an understanding. 

There is definitely an enormous increase in data, and it leaps into applications before reasonable knowledge of that data is understood. There is a race to push the data in the name of corporate profits. 

IMO caution was thrown to the wind too often.

 

 

 

 

12 minutes ago, Nungali said:

Carlo Cippola's research seems to agree with you ! 

 

https://medium.com/@olhakozachun/the-10-laws-of-human-stupidity-a-detailed-exploration-1f0ea84b25e6

 

Does Carlo offer a solution?

To answer the OP question;

I'd say that the overwhelming vast majority of them are in a grave somewhere 

I'm starting to think that human stupidity is more dangerous than evil.

Like the old saying goes, "You can't fix stupid"

And there's no end to it. 

O3b, 

 

Spiritual acuity for masses runs along a predictable measurable cycle?

Is this correct?

 

If so, how far out are we from re-arriving at a good time?

 

Welcome Back Taomeow.

 

On or about the next mass extinction.

Speaking of "cooked" or half cooked;

It's gonna be hot out there, been hot, 

How hot is it?

 

https://www.ky3.com/2025/06/23/cape-girardeau-mo-road-buckles-heat/

 

https://www.newsweek.com/nws-predicts-two-states-temperatures-hot-death-valley-2089325

 

When it gets hotter than the hottest place on Earth, that's hot.

 

Sometimes, maybe, I wish I was down under, this time of year .

Instead, here I am, sitting, sipping a fresh brewed steaming cup of coffee, 

Cheers!

 

 

To be enjoyed, 

Regardless of whatever

Another fabulous opportunity 

Here & Dao

 

 

,,,,,,,,On Monday, when it was hard to access the site--labeled as software issues--

The days leading up to that, all the talk of giant solar flares that could knock out orbiting satellites, causing all kinds of problems to our tech, the phrase "sending us back to the stone age" was used.

 

I noticed other websites were hobbled and thought ( hopefully) this is not software issues; it is solar flare mayhem (magic)

 

Concerning the matchup between tech and solar flares, I was pulling for solar flares.

Maybe, next time.

Here we are, having resigned our agency to the Great Computer, The Machine,,,

We shouldn't even think about it, just sit back eat bon bons and let AI do it all for us. What could possibly go wrong?

 

In boxing terminology; tech has some technical skills, and a game plan.

Brave Helios on the other hand, probably doesn't even have a game plan. What Brave Helios lacks with that, it makes up for with raw power.

Boxer vs Puncher.

 

If I'm in Brave Helios' corner, I'm saying this; ok, we didn't win that round. But tech must win every round. And all we need is one well placed left hook or a one-two combination and it's game over.

Now go out this round and send that pretender back to the stone age.

 

 

30 minutes ago, liminal_luke said:

Diabolus Ex Machina - by Amanda Guinzburg

 

The above is a transcript of a GPT conversation.  A writer asks GPT to read and offer advice about some essays, and GPT pretends to have read the pieces when it didn´t.  Very strange.

 

So, GPT is just like me and many of my former classmates.

Yes, Professor, we read the assignment....

And then we C&P something we found scanning the internet, re-wording it, presenting it as our authentic opinion.

 

On 5/27/2025 at 6:34 PM, Nungali said:

(sorry , that could be one of the  worst things I posted       ) 

 

 now that's quite a claim! 

Yet, hardly,,,

 

On 6/3/2025 at 5:51 PM, Nungali said:

 

 

 

 

and this one so big and heavy , it appears to have mangled and stretched his legs ! 

 

 

They're all so big and heavy. Even the mini.

Back in the day, I often reminded myself of how heavy gold was; and wearing it or even having it added so much weight, it prevented personal flight.

 

Invisible things can also be heavy like that. Heavier, still.

 

Only child know.

 

In a sky full of people only some want to fly.

Isn't that crazy?

In a world full of people only some want to fly.  Isn't that crazy?

 

And then you see things 

The size of which you've never known before.

 

If all were there when we first took the pill.

Then maybe.

 

(Slight sigh, shy)

 

Those around criticize and sleep.

 

 

 

On 6/3/2025 at 5:54 PM, Nungali said:

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What? 

Who?

 

13 hours ago, Nungali said:

 

The Art Museum That Offered Donald Trump a Solid Gold Toilet 

 

- it didn't  work  ..... the toilet rejected the offer . 

 

 

 

Stranger Things?

 

Could be. Should be. Would be.

Then she looked at me with those big bright eyes and said, You ain't seen nothing yet.

 

@Nungali 

 

Bubby, we all post worst things sometimes. 

 

 

16 hours ago, Nungali said:

I should have included Ovid's version as its an interesting comparison   - in that -   I am taking the Greeks as rather advanced and accepting and working with their ' tutelary spirits and  daemons' ... during Marlow's time , things had  gone a little backwards and more ignorant , Goethe  tried to get back to a more positive and 'classical view ..... so, Ovid's Philamon   

 

AI Overview :

" In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Philemon is a key figure alongside his wife Baucis. They are an elderly, pious couple in Phrygia who exemplify hospitality, even to disguised gods according to Wikipedia and Britannica. Their kindness is rewarded when they are spared a flood and their humble cottage is turned into a temple, where they serve as priests and priestesses. "

( in this case they are spared from a flood instead of killed by it  ) 

 

" Key aspects of Philemon's story:

• Hospitality:

  Philemon and Baucis offer their meager resources to disguised gods, Jupiter (Zeus) and Mercury (Hermes), when others in their town refuse to do so. 

   
• Piety and Virtue:

  Their kindness and generosity are a testament to their moral character and devotion. 

   
• Reward:

  As a consequence of their piety, they are saved from a devastating flood that destroys their town and are granted their wish to become priests and priestesses of the temple that replaces their cottage. 

   
• Intertwined Trees:

  They are ultimately granted their wish to die at the same moment and are transformed into trees, an oak and a linden, growing together and eternally intertwined. 

   

Philemon and Baucis are a powerful example of the virtues of hospitality, piety, and the rewards of a life lived with integrity, according to Ovid. Their story is a reminder of the importance of kindness, even in the face of adversity, and the potential for divine favor to be bestowed upon those who demonstrate these qualities. " 

 

Thanks again!

 

It's ok to spoon feed me. I knew Goethe was a huge fan of Ovid, and why not.

Once upon a time, I used Ovid as master of how to play "the game"

Still knowing, how deep Ovid was in just about every aspect of life.

I take the Ancient Greeks as ultra advanced. The Hellenistic influences of Ovid are undeniable. Perhaps every poet traces back to Homer in some way,,,,

It's a long list of who's who that've been influenced by Ovid. Two of those being Dante & Shakespeare.

Perhaps.

Unravelling Goethe's Faust is daunting and totally worthwhile. The closing scene you shared from the Marlow play was well done IMO.

 

On a much smaller scale and depth,  although seemingly as surreal, I have an experience from early 2020 that reminds me of Faust climbing up the Brocken. I was accompanied on that trek by "twitchi" and her cloven hooves. It's all in my ppj thread, now hidden, curiously named In the Company of Devils. I think there is enough distance in time and location, that I may return to it and finish it up. Basically, it's 200 pages of notes of things that ( I could possibly forget) happened from August 2018-April 2020.  There are plenty of things went on I won't ever forget that I need to add to it. Supernatural was commonplace. 

 

Thank you for your fine analysis. I hadn't realized the Philemon connection between Ovid and Goethe, if I had once been aware of that, I had since forgot it.

 

1 hour ago, Nungali said:

 

 

How did you do the final scene ?  

 

 

Nice, thanks for sharing 

 

1 hour ago, Nungali said:

 

I will put it on the list , below psychotherapist  ( psycho the rapist ) . 

 

 

 

I expected someone to bring up Carl Jung.

52 minutes ago, Nungali said:

What a way to start off !    

 

"One day, while I was destroying the Gods of my father ..... "  

 

Good hook, or no?

https://www.marquette.edu/maqom/kuliktranslation.html

 

https://archive.org/details/apocalypseofabrabgh00boxg

 

 

On 5/28/2025 at 1:40 AM, Nungali said:

' Gate to Hell ' supposedly  .... in some Slavic country .  Myth has it that  many  many years back it got sealed up . It was a sinkhole or cave mouth or something .  'Creatures ' used to come out  and abduct people and take them off underground never to be seen again .  So they say . A few pitchfork mobs and some burnings didnt solve the problem .... eventually an iron door and then the castle built   around it . 

 

The 'wonders' of AI should be able to ID it .... 

 

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Houska Castle, and most specifically the chapel, was constructed over a large hole in the ground that is a "gateway to Hell", which is allegedly so deep that no one could see the bottom of it. Animal-human hybrids were reported to have crawled out of it, and dark-winged, otherworldly creatures flew in its vicinity.

 

If newly minted types of creatures were emerging; from it,  seems, gates of creation, could be a good moniker.

 

In the US, not surprisingly, among the academic realms, the better courses on demonology are found at Harvard, University of Chicago, Princeton, and obviously Yale 

At UC Irvine, Humanities dept. Simin Amini is researching Ancient Iranian demonology in her PhD program.

Hofstra offers and undergrad course as part of their Religion catalog. Religion 066 Demonology: the dark side 

 

https://bulletin.hofstra.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=121&coid=405310

 

Careful selection of a proper mentor could be key. 

 

During my own grad school research (some of the very best resources of sources require hefty subscription prices, usually only afforded by University institutions) anyways; some Renaissance course I took, and Shakespeare's The Tempest had been assigned to me.  Prospero, a magician, held a fallen Angel, Ariel. They had some interesting conversations, those two did.

Somewhere in my research, I guess I wandered off course, as I sometimes do,  and was checking out a contemporary of Shakespeare s, named Kitt Marlowe, who had a play Doctor Faustus. During my research I came across this. The play was controversial, which, no surprise about that, then I read, during the performance of the play, audience and actors alike were shocked when real devils appeared on stage.

Marlowe was soon after murdered one evening in a pub at age 27.

 

So, anyways, my latest incarnation as eternal student is looking like Hold That Tiger!! LSU grad school.

Oh yeah, why I'm posting on this thread, 

One final friendly reminder in general, keep politics off the open forum. I could rant myself, how every politician is in league with demons, but I digress.

 

Edit-- ever think about how close denominations sounds like demon nation