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No, that is my perspective. I really believe what I write and deeply care about these issues. Is that bad? As if humor trumps and being "cool" trumps caring and national survival?

Obviously I'm not always serious and I do love humor, both laughing and making people laugh.

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Jars, I have no doubt you mean what you write. And I respect your pursuit of ideological purity - Quixotic though it may be. Do what (you think) is right, even if success appears impossible - I think that's a good policy.

But when you're down in the rhetorical trenches, subtleties sometimes fly unappreciated over your head. I was not suggesting you change your ways. I was just making an observation - and ok, maybe provoking you a bit. But ya gotta admit, those commies don't have a sense of humor.

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Naw, I just don't think the subtleties are relevant when our people face extinction.

I grieve that neither you or Dys have any thing you love beyond yourselves in this world, thus you laugh in despair.

Hopefully you both have a spiritual life of some kind. Pantheism or worship of Nature (not Prakriti (Sk) or Cosmic Nature) is the usual recourse. It's something to be sure.

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Gotta disagree with you about subtleties, especially in these proto-apocalyptic times. Those subtleties can go a long way toward evening your odds vs. the house.

I don't know whose head you are in, but it isn't mine. If you read my writing, rather than looking for points to argue, you would realize that I am such a spiritual being that I barely have one foot in the material world.

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Perhaps, but that's bad too if people like you get into power and because of their spirituality, fail to put their own people first.

The Sufis are right: Jesus taught the way to the Other World. Mohammad taught both that and the way in this world as well.

Watch Silent Snow, Secret Snow: A boy leaves our common reality out of his love for snow.

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Hey, by the way, when one of your comments gets deleted, do you get any kind of notification. Asking for... a friend...

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No. Substack AI is a big brother who loves us.

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Jars, you are just trying to hide the fact that you fervently pray every night that I will somehow magically ascend to power. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone. I put on my oxygen mask first. The family. Then friends. Then my people. And if I still have energy and enthusiasm, the rest of the riff raff.

Is <i>Silent Snow, Secret Snow</i> more anime crap like <i>Graveyard of the Dragonflies</i>?

Dude, I've already left your common reality - and I don't even like snow.

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