By request

Owen Benjamin

He was a stand-up comedian and actor who had roles in mainstream film and television between 2008 and 2015... In 2019, he was banned from several mainstream social media platforms for violations of their policies, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube -- wikipedia.

David Buss (academic contributions of)

Priority request: An expert on human mate selection, Jordan Peterson likes him. "American evolutionary psychologist ... he is considered one of the founders of evolutionary psychology." - Wikipedia

surrendering something we want in the hopes of then being able to receive it

Hope suggests an incomplete surrender, yet the result is still positive.

Joel Osteen

Megachurch pastor calibrated as a spiritual teacher.

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.

"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.

T/F: a second American civil war has already begun

Request: Its hard to say that we aren't moving in the general direction of something like this.

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.