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Holding to the great form
All pass away,
They pass away unharmed, resting in great peace.
It is for food and music that the passing traveler stops.
When the Tao appears from its opening
It is so subtle, it has no taste.
Look at it, you cannot see it. -->
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2. Listen, you cannot hear it.
Use it.
You cannot exhaust it.
~ Lao Tzu from Tao Te Ching.
Translation by Charles Muller
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Folks who aren't history nerds or Orthodox Christians won't appreciate how horrifying this is. This monastery is one of the faith's most sacred sites, a thousand years old, a fountainhead of Russian spirituality --> cnn.com/2026/06/14/europe/ky…
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2. and the emerging Kievan Rus culture that would become "Russia." Even at the height of Soviet suppression of religion, the Reds knew to leave this place be. That super-patriot chauvinist Putin would target this monastery, well, words fail me.
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Fox to Acquire Roku, Joining the Battle for the Living Room nytimes.com/2026/06/15/busin…
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"It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day." ~ Evelyn Underhill
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To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.
~ Mary Oliver
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"Fate, I respect a lot. I never regret anything. Before you know it it’s 3 am and you’re 80 years old and you can’t remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart.” -- Anita Pallenberg
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"The question in society is never whether elites shall rule, it's *which* elites are going to rule, and the problem in democracy is to get consent to worthy elites." ~ George F. Will
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"Feelings aren't facts and opinions aren't crimes and aesthetics still count." -- Bret Easton Ellis
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“The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things, she decided, wondering how many writers and philosophers had said this before her, the trivial pleasures like cooking, one’s home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks ... " ~ Barbara Pym
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"If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you." -- Leo Tolstoy
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*** THIS ***
May 26
Para Service Announcement
now that there is an official government acknowledgement of the UFO phenomena - prepare for a 10,000% increase of circulated misinformation from media outlets, influencers, & coat tail riders trying to capitalize on the hype
- old and often debunked stories will come back around again
- conspiracy theories about who and what is in charge will increase
- wild claims from people in "the program" will increase
- unsubstantiated "scientific discoveries" will be rumored
- religious institutions will use the topic to instill fear in their congregations
- people who have a kindergarten education on the subject & history will pretend to be subject matter experts
bringing this topic to a larger less informed audience will increase the Noise-to-Signal ratio exponentially
...and the government has no problem with any of this
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OUCH
Jun 14
Right. Let’s examine the evidence presented here, because it is genuinely magnificent.
A country where roughly four percent of people own a passport has concluded, with total confidence, that it is the greatest civilisation in human history. And the proof? A European tourist enjoyed a Waffle House at one in the morning.
That’s it. That’s the smoking gun. Not life expectancy. Not healthcare. Not the small matter of $39 trillion in debt. No. A man who has actually seen the world found a 24-hour diner with laminated menus quite jolly, and somewhere in middle America a chap nearly wept with patriotic pride.
And he’s getting this from Fox News. Which is a bit like getting your restaurant recommendations from the man trying to sell you the restaurant. The entire network exists to convince Americans that everywhere else is a freezing Soviet breadline, so that none of them ever get curious enough to buy the passport and have a look. Tiny, sad flats. Depressing grocery stores. Described in vivid detail by a man who has, at a generous estimate, never been.
And here’s a detail nobody on that side seems keen to mention. This World Cup is the third in a row handed to a country with, shall we say, a complicated relationship with democracy. Russia. Qatar. And now America. FIFA does love a host that doesn’t ask too many awkward questions.
Here’s the bit he can’t quite process. We’ve been to America. That’s the whole point. We came, we saw, we had the hash browns, we got back on the plane, and we went home to the tiny sad flat with the universal healthcare and the six weeks holiday.
You don’t envy a place you’ve never seen. You envy a place you’ve seen and can’t get back to. And nobody is pressing their face against the glass trying to get back into a f Buc-ee’s.
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FRINGE QUEST retweeted
Jun 14
Phillip k. Rick and the illuminati
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FRINGE QUEST retweeted
Jun 14
I have reviewed Everyday Intuition: What Psychology, Science, and Psychics Can Teach Us About Finding and Trusting Our Inner Voice, by Elizabeth Greenwood, for the @SPR1882 website: spr.ac.uk/EverydayIntuition
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FRINGE QUEST retweeted
Jun 14
I can buy that there is an electromagnetic anomaly that affects electronics. That doesn't really change, though, that a good chunk of the mythology around the ranch is the result of fantasy-prone personalities reinforcing their beliefs as they scare each other in the dark.
Jun 14
Whether you’re a paranormal believer or cynic, there’s no denying that there’s something strange about Skinwalker Ranch in northeastern Utah.
Read the full story at the link below.
🔗: popular-mechanics.visitlink.…
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