Twitter / X
"Twitter, officially known as X since July 2023, is a social networking service. It is one of the world's largest social media websites and one of the most-visited websites" -- wikipedia.
By request
"If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be suffering"
Priority request: An excerpt from "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl.
transactional thinking
Request: you expect something in return for your contribution in a short timeframe and if not, you will not provide your contribution.
T/F: other groups are also building on Doc’s work
Request: if so, how many?
extinction
request: seems a bit more severe than death... but maybe they're the same?
Living with Joy, by Sonaya Roman
"You will see immediate results in your life when you use the processes to learn how to radiate love, increase your feelings of self-esteem, and live in harmony with your higher purpose" -- goodreads.
confidence
1. the state of feeling certain about the truth of something. 2. a feeling of self-assurance arising from one's appreciation of one's own abilities or qualities. --Oxford languages.
eugenics
"Historically, eugenicists have altered various human gene frequencies by inhibiting the fertility of people and groups purported to be inferior or promoting that of those purported to be superior" -- wikipedia. The TvF calibration of Eugenics is 105 (awareness).
Sathya Sai Baba
proclaimed himself to be the reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi (cal. 485, TvF). He established free hospitals for the poor. An estimated 500,000 people attended his funeral -- wikipedia.
song: Day is Done by Nana Mouskouri
Do you ask why I'm sighing my son / You must inherit what mankind has done / In this world full of sorrow and woe / If you ask me why this is so I really don't know.
auditing (Scientology)
"involves repeated questioning forming an extended series. It may take several questions to complete a 'process', several processes together are a 'rundown', several rundowns completed and the Scientologist is deemed to have advanced another level on the Bridge to Total Freedom" -- wikipedia.
deciding something is yours
"You can just decide something is yours, without desire or any other negative position. Then it's a highest-good decision, meaning good for everyone. In this scenario, attachment doesn't come into play. Attachment doesn't occur in the context of the highest good" -- Brian's comment.
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"
Priority request: A quote attributed to Nietzche, of all people. It has become sort of a mantra for resilience in the face of adversity.
Medjugorje, as a spiritual center
"Since the [Marian] apparitions began in 1981, over 40 million people of all faiths, from all over the world, have visited Medjugorje and have left spiritually strengthened and renewed. Countless unbelievers and physically or mentally afflicted, have been converted and healed."
Christopher Langan
Langan's IQ was estimated on ABC's 20/20 to be between 195 and 210, and in 1999 he was described by some journalists as "the smartest man in America" or "in the world" -- wikipedia.