Sojo

So they are disguising faci$m with tribalism?

“It is quite possible that we are descending into an age in which two plus two will make five when the Leader says so.” - George Orwell (1903–1950)

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

I don't recognize this place (U.S.) anymore. I don't even recognize my family anymore.

"Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself? The Master doesn’t seek fulfillment. Not seeking, not expecting, she is present, and can welcome all things."-Lao Tzu

"The ancient Masters were profound & subtle...They were careful as someone crossing an iced-over stream. Alert as a warrior in enemy territory. Courteous as a guest. Fluid as melting ice. Shapable as a block of wood. Receptive as a valley. Clear as a glass of water."-Lao Tzu

I don't really want to get up either.

Cuteness overload for the timeline!
#Cats 🐈

“Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.” -Voltaire (1694–1778)

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.” -Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855)

For to watch the skies for those scientific Chem trails too.

Simon Magus

Im sorry hon.

Congrats!

Any help is greatly appreciated.

a cat is sticking its head out of a cat door . ALT: a cat is sticking its head out of a cat door .

Have a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving, American peeps. Everyone else, I bid you good day.

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” - Terry Pratchett (1948–2015)

Uruz
Strength, power, health, endurance, manifestation.

For the faithful, the patient, the hermetically pure, all the important things in this world (not life and death, perhaps, which are merely words, but the important things) work out rather beautifully.” - J. D. Salinger (1919–2010)

“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”- John Steinbeck (1902–1968)

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

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Make up, but no filter.

“Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong, but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.”- Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988), “Double Star”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

Follow-Up Question: How might one reconcile the tension between lofty vision and grounded realism, ensuring that the pursuit of ideals remains both aspirational and attainable, without allowing practicality to erode the moral and imaginative force that gives those ideals life in the first place?

“Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.” -Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

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Follow-Up question: When love is declared the highest human aspiration, does it signify an absolute moral truth woven into existence itself, or merely a psychological refuge that gives shape to our longing for purpose amid suffering and impermanence?

“A thought transfixed me...The truth, that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.”
-Viktor Frankl (1905–1997)