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HEGELIAN DIALECTIC
An interpretive method in which an assertible proposition ("thesis") is necessarily opposed by an equally assertible, apparently contradictory proposition ("antithesis"), the contradiction being reconciled on a higher level of truth by a third proposition ("synthesis"). [1850s]

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- What Would Hegel Say (WWHS) on "🕉"? -

It would seem that Prof. Dr. Kief may be suggesting that Hegel would NOT have liked the much-praised "🕉," for "🕉" is, in Hegel's system, too much of a one-way dead-end.

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Thx. Alarmist, Adam, Mod. Mr. Hail, Mr. Adams II The sCott, hehe - perfect harmony, heheh!

To disturb this a bit, since there is never ever only one thing - like night, - - or day, or good or bad or harmony here and - Free Jazz/ A-tonaliyt there*****: - since there just can't be Yin only, heheh, because that would make it blush and fall out of the symbol itself and necessarily disappear into invisibility (!) - - - I want to bring new tension here (this is the dialectical way out! - make it explicit how the two - - - - interact*** - - - - : - - - - Mod. hurry up! if you please with that Hossenfelder post: the world needs it! - And it needs it soooo badly!
  
***I wrote a post about this stuff last night on my Twitter thread, including Steve Sailer's take on sir Francis Galton - - - I'll see if anybody will have a look at that. Maybe! 
(4) Dieter Kief (@DieterKief) / Twitter

****think of The Allman Brothers going into full overdrive-disharmonic .c.l.u.s.t.e.r. .m.o.d.e. in some of their live concerts - on Whipping Post, for example...or think of Jimi Hendrix...THE WHO, or Strawinsky's Sacre Du Printemp

PS: Yeah, I did think of the old Coca~cola commercial, Alarmist, but then got that Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder song in my head.

PS: Greetings, Mr. Alarmist,

Thanks for the Coca-Cola commercial.
Oh how the world has changed in the last 52 years!

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I was thinking of that Coca Cola ad from way back...
🎶I’d like to teach
the world to sing
In perfect harmony...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW9cuta7mdE

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PS: "There’s no conflict. We coëxist in perfect harmony." Like ebony and ivory, huh? That was a really poor tune, in my opinion, compared to either of those musicians' other music.

PS: Good afternoon, everyone,

Greetings, Mr. Alarmist! I am in complete agreement.
We coëxist in perfect harmony. Cheers!

Mr. Hail, the ☮ is pretty cool, but 🕉 is the primordial sound of creation. It is the original vibration of the universe. From this vibration, all other vibrations manifest. 🕉 > ☮.

Thanks for the book review and the Scott Adams updates.
Found a couple books...

Scott Adams Win Bigly:
https://tinyurl.com/jjxxvehx

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People:
https://tinyurl.com/339m9a5f

I hope you guys all have a great afternoon!

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There’s no conflict. We coëxist in perfect harmony.

Time to grab me a Coke.

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- Peak Stupidity symbol showdown -

The mystical 🕉, vs. Adam Smith's peace-symbol

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We will await further developments, as the to symbols stare each other down.

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Scott Adams newest commentary on the controversy, continues to refuse to apologize.

(possible headline: Scott Adams claims, without evidence, a "trend" to so-called "anti-whiteness"; ADL, SPLC urges hate-crimes charges.)

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(quote from Scott Adams)

"Is there anyone who HASN'T noticed that there is a trend towards Anti-Whiteness in the United States? It's kind of noticeable!...

There was no journalism about 'why' I said what I did. Isn't that the biggest part of the story? But it's missing from the story. ....The weakest 'take' was to question me on the validity of the Rasmussen poll. The poll was just my 'jumping-off' point.

How many of the stories said, in a cowardly way, 'Let's talk about the quality of this one poll.' As if that THAT were the important thing. That was a cowardly approach to this story. That came from people who wanted to talk about it, because it's a big story, but they definitely DIDN'T want to tell you about the story, so instead they found a little safe harbor: 'Well, let's talk about the statistics. Let's talk about the margin-of-error...' (which, by the way, if they'd talked about it accurately, they'd have found that the margin-of-error was only 8%). But the poll was never important to the story.

How many people believed that I was 'fooled by a bad poll, and based my opinion on that bad poll'? Of course not. Who in the world would do that? Imagine the only thing I saw was one poll, and that nothing else had influenced my thinking. Do you think I would have done it if I had just seen one poll and it didn't agree with every observed reality? If I didn't see every screaming signal pointing in the same direction?"

(end quote from Scott Adams)

He says he will make more comments on the racist rant controversy in an exclusive interview with Chris Cuomo, who now works at a minor news-channel called News Nation.

End of update, thanks for reading, Adios

PS: I have no more faith in female German Astrophysicists, Dieter, as if I had been some sort of fan before, after watching your video.* She is no engineer, let me put it that way. I seriously think that, though she continually refers to the "energy balance", she does not understand the WHY of the equilibrium - there is no such thing as an "out of balance" situation, but maybe that's just her manner of speech.

You have got me ready to write a post about this video, Dieter, so I appreciate your bringing it up here. I'll say no more till I write the post.


* Yeah, it works here for me - I'm sorry, but it may have been the end of the link getting cut off in the window on a different device. (?) This blog software is CRUDE.

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@Hail, that is the Sanskrit for Om, which in Hinduism and other religions chiefly of India, is a sacred syllable considered to be the greatest of all the mantras, or sacred formulas.

The syllable om is composed of the three sounds a-u-m (in Sanskrit, the vowels a and u coalesce to become o), which represent several important triads: the three worlds of earth, atmosphere, and heaven; thought, speech, and action; the three qualities (gunas) of matter (goodness, passion, and darkness); and the three sacred Vedic scriptures (Rigveda, Yajurveda, and Samaveda).

Thus, om mystically embodies the essence of the entire universe.

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"are you OK with my making your 10-point summary of the Scott Adams video and aftermath, from a couple of days back, into a post?"

Yes

PS: "(d.) Scott Adams says he had no plan for this to happen by making his race comments. " I find that hard to believe out of him, Mr. Hail. If he really didn't figure that was going to happen, he has been spending too much time in a cube.

Mr. Hail, I just figured that Mr. Adams had the F.U. money and was perhaps tired of making more Dilbert strips.

I may have missed your reply on this, but are you OK with my making your 10-point summary of the Scott Adams video and aftermath, from a couple of days back, into a post? I will leave your stuff as is, and add a bit more commentary.

Thanks for the summary of "WIN BIGLY". I'd never heard that book till now.

PS: Yes, thanks for bring that up, Mr. Anon. I'd read about that in "The New America" (John Birch Society) magazine. Either they take the whole world for ignoramuses who don't know the composition of the atmosphere or a lick of chemistry, or they simply don't care as they have the might. Controlling the food production is just another level of control above controlling energy usage.

Shouldn't their goals be obvious to most people now?

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- (draft of) review of WIN BIGLY by Scott Adams -

(this is a continuation of the previous comment, updates on the Dilbert "racist rant and mass-cancellation" controversy)

Scott Adams, many will recall, came into some prominence for his political-commentary blog in the 2010s. Steve Sailer long ago linked to him. In fact, the two men (Sailer and Adams) have led parallel lives in many respects. They even look very similar. This makes it strange that Steve Sailer has chosen a radio-silence approach, so far, on the Scott Adams race controversy. I am thinking 2000s-era Steve Sailer would have much to say about the controversy.

Scott Adams really hit it big when he predicted a Trump general-election victory as early as September 2015, a time no one believed Trump could win, and even supporters said "at least it'll send a message to push this bozo forward." His book, WIN BIGLY, was a follow-up on that fame, and on the whole tenor of the times. Scott Adams himself was very safely outside the crosshairs of Wokeness at the time and got a cushy book deal.

Some of the contents of WIN BIGLY make it clear that it was primarily written between about December 2016 and July 2017, and by the end of the latter month meaningful changes were probably finished, so peg it to the "Q1-2017 into Q2-2017" period. The tone was pro-Trump without saying so directly.

The book was published and mass-distro'ed everywhere in October 2017 to some acclaim at t he time. It was meant as a retrospective on the previous two years.

WIN BIGLY is a simple, easy-to-read, pop-audience book. It resembles a self-help book in the important ways. Think of a Dilbertized and slightly esoteric version of "How to Win Friends and Influence People," which book Scott Adams says in WIN BIGLY was a big influence on him, and suggests the pastor was also a direct influence on a young Donald Trump.

The biggest influence on his own thinking, though, Scott Adams says, was a hypnosis course he took in his mid- or late-twenties in the 1980s in California. He claims it snapped him into a new way of thinking, basically describing a religious epiphany. There is a little of the Prosperity Gospel in Scott Adams' religion, if a religion it be.

The funny thing about WIN BIGLY: although it is most definitely about the Trump campaign and early presidency, and the Trump phenomenon, it strangely somehow avoids anything but superficial references to politics. It is concerned only with Trump as a "Master Persuader" and with analyzing his performance and tactics and strategy in that regard.

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- Dilbert controversy updates -

(a.) Dilbert's final syndicated comic will be March 13th. Dilbert and co. have been chased out of mainstream comic world.

(b.) Scott Adams says he will continue to draw the cartoons on a pay-platform and will "let loose."

(c.) Scott Adams says he had no plan for this to happen by making his race comments.

(d.) The best theory for why the Woke-mobbed him and exterminated Dilbert (not why someone complained about the race rant, but why the cascade happened as it did, so total and brutal) is: they wanted Scott Adams gone because the 2024 election is approaching, and he was a surprise hit in the 2016 election. That theory is according to Scott Adams.

(e.) I picked up Scott Adams' book on the Trump 2015-2017 phenomenon. It is called WIN BIGLY. (review in next comment)

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RE: The Alarmist

What is the symbol

- 🕉 -

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The system throws this link out - I tried it three times now -next attempt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqu5DjzOBF8

It's abut an overlooked CO-2 effect, German astro-physcist Sabine Hossenfelder says - ca. halfways into the video

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Not content with the War on Carbon, the same Globalist Overlord Class are opening up a War on Nitrogen:

https://www.brusselstimes.com/218107/reducing-nitrogen-emissions-flanders-launches-public-enquiry

"Significant excess nitrogen has been registered in the natural environment since it is used as a fertiliser for intensive agriculture."

The Dutch government has already started in on this and the Germans I believe are following suit as well. Their proposed solution? To expropriate farms and take that land out of agricultural use.

I find it hard to believe that "excess nitrogen" is all of a sudden a big problem. Nitrogen is about 80% of the f**king atmosphere. How would you know? So you walk past a fertilized field and it smells like ammonia. Deal with it. Or don't walk near fields. Are people dropping dead of the Bends in Belgium now?

What this all really is - the War on Carbon, the War on Nitrogen (which element will be next?) - is a War on People, on their ability to feed themselves and live decent lives.

PS: Carbon dioxide has what plants crave! ☮

PS: I get you about Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Alarmist. It's not the Gospel. Star Trek, the series, well, Captain Kirk is Jesus and Jim McCoy is his John the Baptist. "I'm just a country preacher, Jim!" Next Generation, bahh! just a bunch of pussies! I've never seen a one of them throw a good hardy punch at an alien.

Dieter, do you mean that this song just doesn't get going? I admit it's not my favorite. BTW, wiki says they wrote this song in about 15 minutes to add one more song, making 10, to the album.

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I watched this one and just did not get where it brakes -

what's up here - nyidea soembody more knowlegeable than I am?

The crucial part is at about 1/2 way in

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It’s like someone watched StarTrek: The Motion Picture like it was the Gospel and decided that the carbon units infesting the Earth are the problem rather than the Creator of meaning in life.

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