Navi Cedar
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Just as a commitment to carry another's secrets to the grave confers a deep strength on your character, there are some betrayals that kill parts of you long before you're dead. Broken promises of family bonds, vengeful disclosure of others' traumas and most private secrets, infidelities, lies told to use others - all of these corrode the soul in secret, alienating the self from itself. A person who is capable of treating others this way, without accountability or remorse, has already so ravaged their own integrity that their deepest, truest aspects become submerged in a frozen ocean within them. Their spontaneity becomes performance, their love becomes strategy. The aspects of their life once animated by desire, beauty and truth become shambling, false simulations. Experience stops penetrating to the core, the body becomes insensitive and dull, the Real becomes subsumed in ghastly, fractured, insufficient shards of representation. Even forgiveness can't erase the knowledge of the damage done, the suffering inflicted, the years of pain visited on others. These things are carved into the heart. Forgiveness can cancel a debt, but it can't change the fact of the debt. This isn't some kind mental illness, or the province of a some evil monstrosity, barely human. There are millions of people alive but barely living, barely able to stay present with a full moment of their lives lest their past immediately intrude on then. Alienated from themselves not by capitalism or modernity - this is a far more ancient evil - but by their own craven selfishness. Every betrayal of the self and others begins as a small failure of courage, an inability to bear the discomfort of full disclosure. If it's not corrected, it metastasizes into a life ruled by fear, spent running and hiding from the wreckage it inflicts on everything around it. It's a death long before dying, transforming the soul into a ghost trapped in an unfeeling body, one which comes to haunt everyone unfortunate enough to meet it.
I’m convinced that the average anti-vaxxer mom who gets all of her information from her phone while sitting on the toilet knows more about vaccines than the average medical doctor. This is because all vaccine education that medical doctors get is actually just sales training.
What’s wild about this global “age verification” push is that no one even knows who or where it’s coming from. Yet it’s clearly one idea with one source. Real power in “our democracy” has become entirely mysterious. Makes medieval Venice look like a New England town meeting
A mysterious object crashed in the Jabun region over Indonesia. If it were clearly a missile, a meteorite, or space debris, it would have fallen at an angle. The mysterious object fell vertically. This appears to be a UFO crash.
