But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become self-serving busybodies.

Alan Watts (via vulgartrader)

Science Is Not A Religion The COVID has been a real source of inspiration for me. I had long been interested in virology but had little motivation to look into it. There was also a lot of noise about vaccines, but I wasn’t motivated enough to check that out either. When the Corona noise started last March, it got my attention. My wife got stuck in China for an extra week because of it. But I had traveled in and out of China a lot during the H1N1 hype in 09 and so I assumed they were running the usual “Chinese fire drill,” only more hyperbolic than before. Starting with a Columbia U online virology course in March, the professor assured us that the Corona virus was mild and that this would be over by the summer. The course provided the basic mainstream narrative about virology, but I still was not able to obtain a good explanation about the Corona-19 hype. Additionally, I read mainstream publications related to viruses and vaccines as well as looking into the alternative views about the same topics. I was very surprised by what I found in both the mainstream publications and by the alternative views. One thing I now know for sure: There is no way for anyone to parse the “data” being provided by the mainstream media, who hasn’t spent at least 100 hours of research on virology. The mantra “Believe the Science” is NewSpeak for: “Trust us, we know what we’re doing.” And in some cases it means: “Do what I say not what I do.” However, there is no belief necessary with science. It’s not a religion. At best science is a fallible attempt to explain the inexplicable.  There are no solid answers, only best guesses and approximations. Science evolves as we obtain more information. All finding are provisional and incomplete. The history of science is replete with examples of dogmatic proclamations that were ultimately proved wrong, like: Lord Kelvin’s assertion in 1902 that we now knew everything there was to know about physics, despite the fact that Roentgen had discovered gamma rays in 1895, Becquerel discovered radioactivity in 1896 and Max Plank had discovered the quantum in 1900. There is a long list of these types of dogmatic mistakes made by very intelligent scientists. “We see through a glass darkly.” (1 Corinthians 13:12) ‘”The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” (Feynman)  I have some provisional opinions about the tactics being used to “control the virus.” Those opinions are defiantly not the mainstream views. These opinions are based upon about 1000 hours of research into the topic. I’m still prepared to adopt the mainstream opinions, if and when the mainstream narrative produces the “science” they what me to believe in. Until then, I remain a humble seeker after truth and follow the science I have found to the best supported by the evidence.

"When six corporations control more than 90% of media communications, the media does not inform, it indoctrinates. Corporate media provides selective information, often unreliable, for the express purpose of controlling public opinion, rather than informing it." -Egberto Willies and Keyan Bliss

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

John Muir (via entheognosis)

The night is always old. He’d walked too often down dark streets in the secret hours and felt the night stretching away, and known in his blood that while days and kings and empires come and go, the night is always the same age, always aeons deep. Terrors unfolded in the velvet shadows and while the nature of the talons may change, the nature of the beast does not.

Terry Pratchett - Jingo (via aeshnacyanea2000)

Facts not fear

Tell me again how the lockdowners care about humanity?