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Now reading, just finished intro, ready to begin the play. Written 2400 yrs. ago, this comedy is about when the women took over the Assembly and instituted communism - of property and of sex.
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Its a fairly common phrase from people that "their household is communist but it would not work at scale."
My household is an absolute monarchy. I reign with my Queen by grace of God and our subjects are but our children and this would work at scale.
How could we have such an imbalance in Canada between men & women, and where is this leading? I did a search & it appears to be so only for this particular age group.
Pour donner un ordre d'idée, le Canada affiche désormais un fort déséquilibre entre hommes et femmes parmis les 20-29 ans, il est encore plus marqué que celui observé en Chine, en Inde ou au Pakistan.
Là où certains pays ont créé ce déséquilibre par les avortement sélectifs, le Canada l'aura accentué à coups d'immigration principalement masculine venant du tiers monde.
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Surprisingly few people realize that the Western world once had a holistic, spiritually grounded healing system comparable to traditional Chinese medicine or Indian ayurveda -- or that many of the more destructive aspects of modern Western medicine are rooted in its rejection of that older and wiser tradition. In recent years a few good books have been published on the subject -- Culpeper's Medicine by Graeme Tobyn and The Humoral Herbal by Stephen Taylor are two that come particularly to mind -- but we didn't yet have a thorough, historically grounded book on the underlying philosophy of the old Western humoral medicine.
Well, the wait is over, and here it is.
Dylan Warren-Davis is a professional herbalist and also a capable medical astrologer -- I'd encountered his work in that context before I first saw this book. He's made a thoroughgoing study of the traditions that flowed into Western humoral medicine, and has the knack of explaining its philosophy and practice in clear terms. The Metaphysical Physician is to my mind exactly what the emerging recovery of traditional Western healing needs most; think of it as the textbook for your first year course in a medical school that actually taught prospective healers how to, you know, heal patients.
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COP31, the UN climate conference, opens today in Antalya, Türkiye.
Do you care?
Climate change matters. But I’ve never been sold on flying thousands of people around the world, burning all that jet fuel, and spending so much time telling people what to fear.
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Women's quest for romantic love is a widely under-rated first move in the rejection of patriarchy.
While studies often track labor force participation, gender wage gaps, or political representation, I would suggest that cultural shifts in favour of romantic love can be even more transformative.
It is her refusal to be treated as a low-status servant, who merely spreads her legs, serves and obeys.
Instead, she is seeking a man who cherishes her as an individual person, seeks her company, and wants to support her so that she can be happy.
From a global historical perspective, it is truly radical.
In the Egyptian film, "Open Door", Layla receives a later from her lover, "I love you and I want you to love me, but I don't want you to lose your identity in mine or in anyone else's. I don't want you to derive your self-confidence and confidence in life from me or anyone else. I want you to have your own independent identity, and confidence that comes from within, not from others."
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Immigration is and will continue to be an effective stopgap if one cares only about numbers. The better argument is that humans aren't fungible biomass that we can transfer from one side of the globe to another without irrevocably changing societies and erasing cultures
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Wow! Canada wins at all the wrong things. Government funded propaganda is expensive work apparently.
quote: "We’ll only have great fantasy in this century if we can recover the reading habits of the authors of a previous era."
So, Terry Pratchett was once asked what books aspiring fantasy novelists should read if they hope to write great fiction. His advice was telling. He encouraged authors to avoid reading much of what passes for contemporary fantasy (what he called “Extruded Fantasy Product,” derivative of Tolkien). “Do not write it,” he said, “and try not to read it. Read widely outside the genre. Read about the Old West (a fantasy in itself) or Georgian London or how Nelson’s navy was victualled or the history of alchemy or clock-making or the mail coach system. Read with the mindset of a carpenter looking at trees.”
Any great fantasy series you can name, from Star Wars to Narnia to Discworld, was written by authors who read voraciously, who read old books and loved old myths, whose minds were so steeped in history and folklore and obscure pulp fiction that they couldn’t have written derivative works if they had tried. We’ll only have great fantasy in this century if we can recover the reading habits of the authors of a previous era.
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Live Not By Lies drmcfillin.substack.com/p/li…
quote: "I believe we should apply the same standard to our healthcare system and in particular, the mental health industrial complex that has become an antihuman element of this broader system."
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Laughing at real life used to be what comedy was. Today, something like this has to be AI on a platform like X, otherwise would be seen as hateful, not funny.
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Is the Indian Act still relevant in modern Canada? This clip dives into the controversial reality of status cards and race-based identification. Watch the full take below. #Canada #IndianAct #Politics #Truth
First book was about the murders, this one is about the cover-up
A good follow up to “22 Murders: Investigating the Massacres, Cover-up and Obstacles to Justice in Nova Scotia” which was published in April 2022; this book, “Anatomy of a Cover-Up” was written after the public inquiries held later that year and issuance of the final report in 2023.
Cover-up is the appropriate word. Like going to a magic show, you might not know exactly how the magician does what he does, but you do know you're watching a magic trick. Just because you can't explain the mechanics doesn't mean you've got to become a believer in magic. Accepting as factual what the government told Canadians about this case would be like believing in magic.
A must read for anyone interested in this case.
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Vancouver landlords fined $90,000 after dividing home into 21 sleeping rooms for 17 tenants.
Contraventions of municipal zoning, building, electrical, safety, and fire rules.
The Greatest Theft in Human History | Jerm Warfare youtu.be/oetMwQexTEU?si=PK8B… via @YouTube
fr @ukcolumn Jerm Warfare w guest Etienne de la Boetie
@UoSlavery
Robbing from the poor to give to the rich
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It seems like the only factor controlling the immigration numbers is the airlines’ capacity to bring people in.
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Firewood Stacked? Meteorologist Warns "First Legit" Cold Blast Of Season To Hit Mid-Atlantic & Northeast zerohedge.com/weather/firewo…
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The Liberal government of Canada claims they drastically cut immigration and the press, which has received billions of dollars from them, repeats this lie.
Liberals plan to adds up to 282,000 one-time spots ON TOP OF their absurd targets, for up to 662,000 new permanent residents, 37% above the all time 2024 record.
Real GDP per capita is up just 5% since late 2015 and youth unemployment is 13%.
662k is over 5x the number of green cards the US issues per capita in a typical year.
ALT Bar chart of Canada's new permanent residents per year by government, 1997 to 2026, plus the 2027 plan: a 380k target and up to 282k uncounted extras, 662k total. Source: Statistics Canada, IRCC, Budget 2026. @smirkley
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Look at what the standard mental health paradigm does to young people:
Take “anxiety” as a mental health problem. If a teenager is displaying this emotion we say they have a mental health problem.
But if you’re in an environment that’s conditioning reflexive obedience, you’re supposed to feel anxious. That anxiety tells you you’re facing the threat of self erasure.