Is life worth living?
In the past decade, but particularly in 2021, I have seen growing despondency amongst Gulchers. In response to a recent discussion, I was moved to write: "Who is John Galt?" implies a "Why bother?" attitude. Did Ayn Rand make a premise that life is worth living without even realizing it?
Just another proof the Atlas Shrugged is now non-fiction.
Regarding We the living (not the book) . My wife and I have consciously been living each day to the fullest, knowing that things can change in a flash, and we want to not have any regrets of the we should have could have. We try to live in a balanced happy state of mind.
Regarding today’s incredibly corrupt satanic Globalist pedo-files, I have to say they are hell bent on destroying anything Good. They do it in a very Uncivilized manner. That’s why I say we are in the “Uncivil War” it is simply a war between Good and Evil or Darkness and light.
I am very optimistic about our future, because for the first time the masses are awakened to the tyrannical Cabal and are rising up against it. Also Durham Investigation , Election fraud , Big Pharma/ Fauci fraud , big tech collusion with govt to censor . Epstien/Maxwell , Hunter and his laptop from Hell ,all these issue will come into the light for all to see. Truth always trumps propaganda. Good or light will prevail I hope, but if tyranny wins I will die on my feet before living on my knees!
Peace on Earth ....Goodwill towards mankind!
On a somewhat separate note, have you noticed how few of the Gulchers from a decade ago are still here?
The separate note: Yes. Some I miss (excellor sp?), others not (e-- sp?). I enjoy the company of those that are still here and those that breeze in and out.
Have you noticed that one very important thing Progressive Marxists just can't can't stand is being made light of and laughed at?
Or Trump supporters calling themselves Deplorables after Cackles Clinton The Evil Hag call us a "basket full" of those.
The latest turn-about they can't stand is "Let's Go Brandon."
I'll continue to post a Babylon Bee I think is funny, though someone apparently works hard striving to be first in line to tack a 0 on it. Guess we all need a purpose in life.
I'd rather pursue my happiness.
The life expectancy of a corrections officer is 59. You can look that up.
Me dino was known for cracking jokes during the 21 years I worked at a maximum security prison.
Though being in extreme danger during a short riot that my rescuing coworkers put down, I'm now I'm age 74 going on 75 in March.
Of course, I may drop dead today. Life is short. So do what I do. Blow your nose at that.
Thought I was coming up in the world when the managing editor of The Montgomery Advertiser in Bama's state capital used the word "guarantee" that I'd be the police beat reporter at the end of a hiring freeze. Two months later he hired someone straight out of college for a lot less money promised me. That was my "seeing the writing on the wall" moment. Nevertheless, I bagged a job in Mississippi with slightly better crappy money than at the weekly and was shocked when they wanted me to write crap about Ronald Reagan. And up until then I thought Mississippi was supposed to be even more conservative than Alabama. I resigned and found out I could make more money painting walls for a construction company. Now ain't that pathetic?
Later I saw an ad about the Alabama Department of Corrections needing officers for two prisons being built and very long story short I now have a pension.
I've had close calls too. If I had been sleeping, I would have burned up in a rented trailer due to an electrical malfunction directly under my bed, but I was away attending a college class working on my wonderful journalism degree that's now called "communications," which may explain a few things. I fell into rapids at Yosemite, stepped in quicksand beside the Cahaba River (promoted as the last wild river in Alabama) and even fell off a cliff, grabbing a bush like the Lone Ranger on TV. I climbed up a 60 degree (like on my protractor) incline by grabbing one bush after another. For grabbing that first bush, my right shoulder was sore for days.
Two guys tried to kill me over a police story I wrote, but when one them chickened out so did the other. That's when I began to conceal carry for some funny reason.
Today I bumped into a corrections coworker in a grocery story. She was surprised when I told her about a retired coworker who died that was about my age. I was surprised when she told me about another coworker way younger than both of us who died.
Life is. The purpose of Life is continuity...all life.
Nobody asks to be born
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=-on...
Human, Homo-Sapiens, are language. Without language we are grunting foraging beasts. Without language none of the tools we use exist. Only through language, does the identification of raw materials and their respective conversions, take word-symbol-metaphor-form-value resulting in "trade". Language=Trade=Commerce
Worth? This part one of four.
https://metamind.quora.com/What-is-th...
Part 2-4 found here
https://metamind.quora.com/?q=meta-mind
Enjoy the ride!
A fairly good biography of Rand---I say fairly---is "Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical" by Chris Matthew Sciabarra, which highlights the philosophical nature of her schooling.
"When a man, a business corporation or an entire society is approaching bankruptcy, there are two courses that those involved can follow: they can evade the reality of their situation, and act on a frantic, blind, range-of-the-moment expediency---not daring to look ahead, wishing no one would name the truth, yet desparately hoping that something will save them somehow---or they can identify the situation, check their premises, discover their hidden assets, and start rebuilding."
None of her characters who loved themselves, attempted suicide. She said, in "We the Living", concerning its autobiographical nature, that unlike Kira, she felt some "compromise" was necessary, as she needed to get out of what became the Soviet Union, in order to alert people around the globe of the very atrocity of Marxist/Leftist idiotology. Kira died attempting to leave Russia; Rand survived to write the story.
That's why the tyrants are attacking the health of everyone with drugs that impede the body's ability to thrive.
There are alternatives to the state's perverse vaccines.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/outpati...
Our health and our freedom are our responsibility to defend.
However, since I've only read page one, I'm not certain of the duties the alliances are to have.
For me, I figure I'm the only one who can decide what is good for me, and what isn't.
With regard to health, one can look at cancer, disease, traditional medical implants, and even tissue engineering (my most recent field) as disturbances (in the differential equations sense). That means that one should look at them from a proportional-integral-differential (PID) control standpoint. I haven't met people who look at these medical issues the way I do. My current work at minimizing COVID risk will ultimately more than fund my tissue engineering work. I continue to have a self-generated purpose, modified by the short term opportunities (like COVID) that present themselves. The people who deny ivermectin and
The key is in maintaining a purpose. If you read Galt's speech, you will see that purpose is one of three "supreme and ruling values" of one's life. If I no longer had purpose, in a time such as now, it would be very easy just to "shrug". When I "shrug" completely, I will die very soon thereafter.
But I'm a proponent of a K-14 length of study. Not that that will help some people, but it might help others.
I'm not an expert in everything, but I am a polymath. (When they told me that, I had to look the word up.) Anyway, when I come across something I don't know but need to know, I'll research it. I started out in the medical field, myself.
I've never heard of tissue engineering, but the engineering part---and here I'm assuming it is a human manufactured activity---puts me off. Can you give me a purpose for it?
You didn't answer the question: what are these "alliances" supposed to be doing?
I used a program called Polymath today to simulate a differential equations part of a reactor engineering exam I wrote for next month today.
Tissue (organ) engineering really is just science at this point. It will become engineering when I and others can control it. You probably would like to have a replacement organ when one of yours wears out.
I didn't answer your question about "alliances", because I didn't propose any alliances. I did say that life presents challenges because you can't be an expert in everything (although my colleagues say that I come as close as anyone they know). You can verify for yourself what you have time to verify.
Americans have often assumed (perhaps erroneously) that people who report findings are telling the truth. That is a premise that needs challenging. When The New York Times refers to "all the news that is fit to print", very few people realize that this really means "all the information we will let you hear". I have watched peer reviewed articles with many citations just disappear from the Internet because they tell a story that disagrees with the "narrrative".
An alliance is only worthwhile if it creates value to all parties within the alliance.
Do you know how many biochemical reactions take place in any one cell at any one time?
One challenge of going the National Institutes of Health route, even if I didn't have the philosophical and financial unwillingness to be a Stadler, is that Dr. Fauci disagrees with my intellectual approach and controls the NIH Allergy and Asthma institute that could fund such work. Thus, even if I weren't philosophically opposed, I wouldn't get funding anyway.
All diseases and vaccines inject genetic sequences into a cell's nucleus. Thus, they are by definition, potential carcinogens, teratogens, and mutagens. When one gets a vaccine, it is like getting one of the old Windows updates to "patch" a vulnerability. As the local nanotech guru, I teach students how to evade (cloak) and/or defeat the immune system to deliver chemotherapy and radiation therapy "smart bombs" directly to their targets. If I wanted to do so, I could modify a few arginine (one of the amino acids) sites to increase "infection". This is how one would do "gain of function" research, which Fauci and his colleagues have been successful in continuing despite objections.
Fauci is the real life Floyd Ferris. Francis Collins is someone I met once while I was a grad student at Michigan and he had just invented DNA sequencing. Dr. Collins is, while honorable for his achievements, he became Dr. Stadler.
And this is something that is not well known yet.
https://www.naturalnews.com/files/vir...
13-02056-v2.pdf
And now I must retract at least parts of my statements referring to lack of proper experimentation in today's scientific milieu, as I have found good experimental results in some of the papers I have read.
Which brings me to something else. The immune process involved in the historic vaccines---smallpox, polio, etc., are a sort of "natural selection" on the part of the leucocytic mechanisms. The DNA engineering, like GMO, is a human manufactured CHANGE in genetic structure, more of an "artificial selection", like breeding animals.
In Vet school we found out that a consistent attempt at an artificial selection of cattle for a meatier, more compact animal resulted in dwarfism of the cattle. And here they weren't using a manufactured biochemical change in DNA, but only a selection based on phenotype in the young. DNA engineering through biochemical means must be more carefully studied before its widespread use in humans. And maybe even in GMO applications.
For example, I worked with TB patients at Fitzsimons Army Hospital (Aurora, Colorado) in the late '60's, being careful to wear gloves and masks, of course. Since then I never tested positive for TB when they used---maybe it was the scratch test, not sure---UNTIL about 1992 or 1993, after a new type of test had been developed. The doctor told me this test would test positive for the TB bacterium, if even only one bacterium had entered my body THIRTY YEARS BEFORE. I did not have TB, an X-ray established that. What I had was an antibody to the bacteria, meaning I had been exposed to the bacterium in a way that stimulated an immune response. I think that is very interesting. How does the immune system "remember"? What is going on, EXACTLY?
Smallpox was a virus similar to cowpox, an immunity to the cowpox virus stimulated a similar immunity to the smallpox virus. In fact, using the dried, decomposed material from the pustules of a person with smallpox also brought about a "natural selection", inducing an immunity to an active smallpox virus.
(I worked for an immunologist years ago. In the same laboratory as her husband, a pharmacologist.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/high-he...
When I was at Colorado State University in the early '60's I had a job as a lab tech for a researcher who thought he could prove experimentally that something eaten by planaria could be passed on to its progeny. This is crazy. He went even further, and attempted to "teach" the worm how to get through a maze and thought he could prove that, too, would be passed on genetically.
These are impossibilities, and put the whole science of evolution at risk of discreditation.
But I meant the cells invaded by the virus DNA or RNA fail to survive, once the virus leaves the cell, as far as I know.
It is called "shedding of the virus". This is what occurs in Ebola, when the host begins to exsanguinate, and in smallpox, when the pox forms on the skin. Different viruses shed differently. I suppose in flues and colds the host sheds the virus through the lungs and its fluids.
The rest of the world is being bull-whipped to get in line, unfortunately too many are knuckling under. America may very well be the last to face the fire, but don't kid yourselves, the Davos crowd (NWO) is running the global financial market. The Great Reset is coming. What America dose (you or I) will determine the fate of the planet. Our very freedom and sovereignty is at hand. The Tree of Liberty. The Blood of Tyrants. Some assembly required.
Science, and the zeal for knowledge, replaced battle in the life of the Europeans, as a means of combatting problems. (Notice the use of the word "combat", here).
Cervantes showed us in "Don Quixote" the lengths a man will go to, to accept a challenge.
From the Quest for the Holy Grail, to tilting at windmills.
Will Galileo's struggle with Urban VIII have been in vain?
Will mankind, or has he already, gone back to a time centuries before Galileo, when someone in authority is to determine your reality for you?
(Blarman, what do you think of Carlyle's Great Man hypothesis, in the light of Rand's Objectivism?)
But can someone else really determine what Reality is for someone else? I don't think so. Reality determines itself and our perception of that Reality is incomplete and faulty due to our own limited knowledge and understanding. Just so with Galileo. He was persecuted for affirming Truth, just as many others before and since. Did that mean that somehow Truth was subject to the whim of the tyrant who called himself Pope? Not so. We may be inconvenienced, belittled, even put to death like the martyrs before us, but Reality will go on independently and without respect for such tyranny. Eventually, Truth will win out.
As to the Great Man Hypothesis, I believe that we are all born with the possibilities of greatness, but that few posit the existence of that greatness and even fewer act to realize it. Ignorance and apathy are bane to self-actualization.
You need to read the classic "Obedience to Authority", a famous study by Stanley Milgram.
The despondency among Gulchers and non-collectivists of every stripe is a natural reaction to watching unfold before us the fruits of intellectual mass-poisoning of at least a generation of American (and European) kids via "educators." If we were all skipping around in a Pollyanna-ish frenzy I'd really start to worry. But no, Western Civ being in a death-grip by neo-Medievalist misanthropes needn't be an excuse to mope around dejectedly either. We have to break the death-grip and drive these humanity-hating scum back into the holes from which they slithered.
Our starting point for that counter-offensive is - always has been and always will be - morality. As Peikoff once pointed out (presumably Rand too, but memory is hazy,) an idea presented as moral will ultimately prevail over an idea presented as "This works better" or any such pragmatic drool. Our philosophy is morally good - also factually true, efficacious and benevolent in practice - demonstrably; their philosophy is raw moral evil - capable of producing mountains of murdered human corpses and nothing more - demonstrably.
We are seeing the abject fecklessness of Republican (and Libertarian) "leaders," Trump emphatically included, because with few exceptions they have utterly, infuriatingly defaulted on making the moral case for individualism, for human rights, for capitalism, for liberty. [A great single-issue example is the racial collectivism the Democrat Left unleashed in summer of 2020: Republican "leaders" couldn't locate racism's antidote - that single, simple word: individualism - with both hands and a GPS-synced road map. I don't remember the word being so much as uttered by a single worthless one of them, and I don't expect to. There are dozens of other examples of this default - pick an issue, any issue.]
Rand's signature line "Who is John Galt?" is not an instruction to adopt a "Why bother" attitude, it's another of the brilliant tools she used - in this case irony - to drive home her theme. To the random man-on-the-street, the phrase is indeed an expression... not necessarily of "Why bother" but of "Who knows?" The brilliant irony - and economy - lies in the fact that that simple question and its answer are an extreme distillation of Atlas' theme: Knowledge - therefore freedom, production, abundance - is not automatic, and John Galt is the embodiment of the philosophy which answers all questions pertaining thereto.
So I think Rand meant "Who is John Galt?" as a question that has two aspects, like sides of a coin. The crude, surface-level public meaning expresses the "Shrug" and the full philosophic-level core on the flipside expresses the "Atlas."
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"Growing despondency"...Reminds me of something my wife and I watched this morning. There is a plethora of violence at airports and on jet liners lately...all to be enjoyed on youtube from people's smartphone videos. I am blown away at what appears to be a huge increase in unstable behavior in the general public. That said...One can't help but see a vast majority of the violent offenders in airport terminals are African American people. What's gotten into all these people? Am I watching a society just completely unraveling?
Is life worth living?...Reminds me that I want to read "We the Living" before the movie is released (if it ever is).
After all, to date it has been found that 27 types of viruses have been found lurking in human semen. I believe, that is, it is my hypothesis, that semen provides a safe environment from the leucocytes and other phagocytes that are involved in attacking and eliminating external life forms, because semen must provide a certain "safe space", if you will, for the more fragile haploid cells of the male of the species. And the immune system might judge these haploid cells an alien antigenic life form, had they no "safe space".
I also think the state of science, insofar as it relates to immune processes, is somewhat confused. I find that in this comment of yours, but please don't take that personally. You are not a biochemist, I am presuming.
By the way, the answer to the question I asked you concerning the number of biochemical reactions taking place in any one cell at any one time, is, according to a few of the sources on the Internet, about half a billion: 500,000,000 simultaneous biochemical reactions. What could go wrong?
Semen is indeed a safe environment for viruses. There is at least one other "safe space from immune cells". I am forgetting it off the top of my head, but I think it is part of the digestive system.
Wow, 58 comments in under an hour on this issue.
She went on to document her experiences, through her novels, which of the ones that I've read, had happy endings.