"Decades ago my mother warned about those who make things “complicated” or suggest that some things are just so mysterious that only our “betters” are suited for understanding them."
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And now you know why they insist on making our elections super complicated.
Yes...any time that which is simple or could easily be made thus, but the exact opposite happens? Beware...And that seems to be the order of the day -- the simple made complicated.
Absolutely WONDERFUL read here! Thanks for these great analogies! You have a gift! Love the pic & your story about weight training. Not often do I save things to read twice but this is getting archived!
As regards the word 'complicated', I say life is complex but people make it complicated, tying everything up in knots.
But in reality life is ultimately simple as life boils down to love, and loving one's neighbour as oneself.
And loving God because God is love.
As regards Covid 19 and the 'flu I compared early on and said to myself in essence:
If it talks like the 'flu, walks like the 'flu then it is the 'flu!
As to what the 'flu is I then eventually wrote this. No one had ever explained it before to me(not in mainstream medics interest to do so of course). I had to work it out myself.
Thank you for reading the newsletter and for your kind words.
Very interesting article. Thank you for the link. My POV on this topic is if "viruses" cause "infection" and symptomatic illness -- and exposure means automatic infection -- what explains those who do not get sick?
As a resident of NYC (birthplace) and later Boston who rode public transportation (subways), I managed to get through multiple winters remaining healthy or "unsick." This despite riding for much more than five minutes in packed subway cars with lots of people coughing, sneezing, blowing their noses, etc. all around me. How have I gone through decades of winters without a cold or flu -- without ever having gotten a flu "vaccine?"
BTW, your point about polio being rebranded rickets?? Wow...Wow. Thank you!
Many thanks for your reply and glad to have been of some help. If I may respond to your questions:
1. if "viruses" cause "infection" and symptomatic illness -- and exposure means automatic infection -- what explains those who do not get sick?
My main link should explain but this might help further in summary. I have used this text elsewhere. Links referenced are within my Covid 19 Summary in the main link I posted to your earlier.
"Viruses should be considered thus:
1. They are either poisons which are chemical not biological and must be dealt with by the immune system.
So it is not so much that a virus doesn't exist but that something, the exosome which is friend to the body, not foe, has been twisted into an enemy and then the lies magnified into something ginormous.
What doesn't exist except in the minds of those who fabricated the lies, are all the variants and so-called diseases, which are merely made up to make big pharma and medics look clever to justify them receiving large amounts of money for poisoning the masses of the people."
So considering a virus as the exosome, they don't cause sickness.
However, a virus as poisons or toxins do cause sickness.
Everybody suffers to greater or lesser extent from poisons created in the body and added to form outside. Neutralising these toxins is what matters, a case of cancelling out the minuses with pluses to create a neutral balance where peace reigns as it were.
There is no such thing as automatic infection except in the sense that everybody in a certain location might eat a poisoned food.
However, how each individual reacts is the key, as we are not a herd despite what people say. This is because immune systems are in different states. If some good and some bad the good should, given the same circumstances, be well, and the some bad will fall ill.
2. How have I gone through decades of winters without a cold or flu -- without ever having gotten a flu "vaccine?"
The answer will depend on many factors, what you eat, drink, holidays in sun etc, even whether you are fearful of catching something as fear is a key driver in reducing your immune system resources.
Think of it as a numbers games where you have 1,000 units of positive. Start being afraid and the negatives start taking 10's of units away rather than 1's.
As the vaccines are all, and I mean all vaccines ever, poisons and harmful, your answer in this case might be the very fact that you didn't have the 'flu vaccine!!
We have been horribly lied to about vaccines and I used to think they were of some use but not for the 'flu as i saw people fall ill anyway.
A rider re polio and rickets, I have made a note that DDT is propositioned as the cause in some quarters. As what is called germ theory of disease is basically wrong, then polio is merely a made up name and conceals possibly more than one issue.
It is terrible easy for medics etc. to pull the wool over people's eyes and polio is ultimately meaningless as a name.
It is not easy to deprogram our thinking after decades of lies but I hope that makes sense.
Always happy to try and answer other questions about anything. If I don't know i will say so!
But at 63 now I seem to know a bit more than I did in 2020. :)
Hello, again! I apologize, I meant those questions as rhetorical ones. The focus always seems to be on what makes people sick. Interesting question, but a better one is how do some people stay well -- all the time? Which makes me doubt very seriously this idea of "contagion." That whole notion has got to go!
To my point, how did I stay well under those conditions of close contact with "germs" flying all around a crowded subway car? Or how did my grandmother who cared for her husband who developed TB never get TB? He died from it, eventually having to go to the Veterans Hospital in the Bronx, NYC. She lived (in sadness) another 35 years -- and never got TB. I thought TB was "highly contagious."
Love it SheThinksLiberty! Great post. I'm very sorry about your loss of your Mom.
I agree with the simplicity premise. Looking back at all the mathematics and science courses I took at the MIT in the 1980's, the fundamentals were/are very straightforward and simple. I took a Signals & Systems course with a professor that wrote the text book, William M. Siebert. The opening pages of the text had a few quotes:
"We must be grateful to God that He created the world in such a way that everything simple is true and everything complicated is untrue." Gregory Skovoroda (18th-century philosopher )
"One of the principal objects of theoretical research in any department of knowledge ifs to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity" Josiah Willard Gibbs
"Seek simplicity and distrust it." Alfred North Whitehead.
There are fundamental concepts that connect a lot of science and mathematics.
I consider modern "medicine" to be next to worthless today. There are very few doctors that I would actually go to see. The so-called doctors are indoctrinated, not educated - they definitely lack critical-thinking skills. They are not able to connect the dots across disciplines and synthesize new ideas.
I recall reading about the Stanford entering class for the Fall 2023. The admissions board was proud to announce a very low percentage of Caucasians were accepted; and that no students who scored a perfect score on the SAT were accepted. As a comparison, there were a lot of students at the MIT in the 1980's who scored a perfect score on the SAT; it was very common to see students ace the tests and the achievement exams. A friend of mine from Taiwan, June, took every final exam for the first-year courses for his major, Electrical Engineering - and completely skipped ALL the freshman year courses. He was amazing and very humble. I'll take a kid who aces the SAT any day - that's the kid I want designing bridges, etc., not some hack who has been dumbed-down via marxist idiocy. I'll take meritocracy every time.
It's awesome that you were a natural bodybuilder. My guy at Egoscue West Palm Beach, Nathan Burke, is a natural bodybuilder - he's winding down now but he is quite a story; I looked him up online and he was shredded and had awesome symmetry. Another very humble guy.
I agree with your basic moves premise. Looking at the photo, is obviously worked for you. I learned a lot about training from Pavel Tsatouline of Strong First. He started out with a very simple program of deadlifts and a side press. He wrote a great reference book, "Beyond Bodybuilding", which gave tips for all body parts. Legs? Squats!! Lats? Pullups!!
Maintaining muscle mass and strength is priority number one as we age. Dr. Mercola just did a great post about KAATSU blood restriction training and the metabolic benefits. The guy is 70+ and he trap-bar deadlifted 400 pounds for 4 reps.
I just started hitting my pull-up bar again. It's my favorite exercise.
Thank you, Steve. It's funny...At the time of that picture, I wondered if I should even do it. It was about a month after my first (and last) show, and I thought I'd smoothed out too much. :) I wonder if I should add the pic of my trophy..? :)
Regarding simplicity/the simple, my mother's warning (Thank you for the condolences.) stayed with me. Is "X" really complicated?? Chances are not, but someone or many someones benefit from making it appear so. Be suspicious. As for the "simple" things like character, honesty, freedom -- they are simple, but as she said, sometimes not easy. Her other favorite expression in this context -- the simple, but not easy? "So what?"
That news about Stanford? They're done, as is all the mainstream everything -- academia, law, medicine -- with notable exceptions. I think you know that I've avoided doctors for years and years. "The Cut, Poison, & Burn Club."
Your Mom was very wise. My Mom had a lot of wisdom - she was way ahead of her time. She was the rock of our family. ( 5 sisters and 1 brother ). I agree that Stanford and the MIT, and everything else, are done. It's a good thing. After we get through this huge mess - the future looks bright.
Ha! You smoothed out too much!? You were shredded! I followed bodybuilding for quite a while back when "Arnold, The Education Of A Bodybuilder" came out. I met Arnold in Los Angeles - I was stationed there during my tour in the Coast Guard. Nate at Egoscue in West Palm was very much into natural bodybuilding - he had been to every Arnold Classic until covid ( He is from Ohio ). He placed first in several natural contests. You could never accuse me of being a bodybuilder but I always lifted weights. I was fortunate to have a great Phys-ED teacher in high school that suggested the following routine:
bench press
barbell curl
military press
barbell row
squat
Reps = 15, Sets = 3, Bouts or cycles = 3. So 3 times ( 3 X 15) 9 sets of 15 reps each exercise.
Your total reps per session were 135 for each exercise. My friend and I used to do the routine three times a week. We kept the same weight for all exercises. We started at 40 pounds and actually made over 100 pounds. It may not sound like a lot but we were high school kids and we were definitely shredded!
I later read that the Russians used to prescribe 15 to 20 rep routines for kids - it helped with tendon & ligament strength, etc.
The simple, but not easy? - "So what?" - perfect. Just get to it and get it done.
One more point. Talk about simplicity - John Beaudoin and his analysis of the Massachusetts death data. If you run through the analysis -it's super simple. He has offered to do it for the state of Florida - no takers. I recently saw on his Twitter feed that he challenged the "surgeon general" of Florida to a race - if John wins, he gets to analyze the death data for Florida. The problem is that Ron DeSantis is too concerned about himself - NOT the good citizens of Florida. You can't make this stuff up. It's ignorance personified. ( I can't find the tweet! Did they scrub it ) Peace. :-)
I recall Joel Smalley pointing out UK government warnings that you just can’t use the numbers in their UKHSA death tables to get death rates of vaxed vs unvaxed. UK govt says it’s “too complicated” and you can’t do it yourself, trust what we tell you.
And here is a juicy one. The made their reporting more complicated by reporting two measures (from covid and with covid). The latter (with) is what they had been emphasizing, which was and is and forever will be useless information. Now they claim they knew all along they were diverging. But somehow only now (jan ‘23) it is appropriate to focus on “from” deaths.
“We have been monitoring how closely deaths with COVID-19 and deaths from COVID-19 measurements align since the start of the pandemic. Since early 2022, there has been an increasing difference in the two measures. With high levels of immunity in the population and COVID-19 continuing to circulate, it is not uncommon for people who die of other causes to have a COVID-19 infection recorded at or around the time of their death. These deaths would be reported in the “deaths within 28 days of a positive test” measure, but not counted in the death registrations because their death was not judged to be related to their COVID-19 infection. “Deaths with COVID-19 on the death certificate” is considered to be a more reliable indicator of deaths due to COVID-19 at this stage in the pandemic and will now be the primary COVID-19 death statistic on the COVID-19 dashboard.”
Obfuscation and non-transparency, attempts to preserve authority and tyranny. Perhaps pivoting back toward the truth, slowly, as in, in the direction of, but maybe not getting all the way there. Seems to be a recent trend.
Reminds me of my Wheaton Terrier (GRHS) when she decided she was going to be ungovernable and didn’t want to lay down on command - ignoring the first couple commands, then lowering her back end part way to the floor, with more strident repetition eventually the back end is down but the front is still up, and finally after proverbial pulling of teeth the front gets down. Not a minute later up again.
"Decades ago my mother warned about those who make things “complicated” or suggest that some things are just so mysterious that only our “betters” are suited for understanding them."
---------
And now you know why they insist on making our elections super complicated.
Yes...any time that which is simple or could easily be made thus, but the exact opposite happens? Beware...And that seems to be the order of the day -- the simple made complicated.
The abomination called rank choice voting
Absolutely WONDERFUL read here! Thanks for these great analogies! You have a gift! Love the pic & your story about weight training. Not often do I save things to read twice but this is getting archived!
Oh...thank you, Michelle! ❤️ I'm glad you enjoyed it. I was hoping the analogies would make sense.
What an enjoyable read. I wanted to see how you connected the myth to your body building, and so you did. Damn, woman! What a pic.
Good insights and lessons. So agree. Also explains why the less 'educated' among us (less propagandized) were more likely to say no.
Thank you, well done.
Hello from the UK. Excellent stuff thank you.
As regards the word 'complicated', I say life is complex but people make it complicated, tying everything up in knots.
But in reality life is ultimately simple as life boils down to love, and loving one's neighbour as oneself.
And loving God because God is love.
As regards Covid 19 and the 'flu I compared early on and said to myself in essence:
If it talks like the 'flu, walks like the 'flu then it is the 'flu!
As to what the 'flu is I then eventually wrote this. No one had ever explained it before to me(not in mainstream medics interest to do so of course). I had to work it out myself.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/08/17/what-is-the-flu-a-k-a-covid-19-and-why-vaccines-are-pointless-at-best/
Thank you for reading the newsletter and for your kind words.
Very interesting article. Thank you for the link. My POV on this topic is if "viruses" cause "infection" and symptomatic illness -- and exposure means automatic infection -- what explains those who do not get sick?
As a resident of NYC (birthplace) and later Boston who rode public transportation (subways), I managed to get through multiple winters remaining healthy or "unsick." This despite riding for much more than five minutes in packed subway cars with lots of people coughing, sneezing, blowing their noses, etc. all around me. How have I gone through decades of winters without a cold or flu -- without ever having gotten a flu "vaccine?"
BTW, your point about polio being rebranded rickets?? Wow...Wow. Thank you!
Many thanks for your reply and glad to have been of some help. If I may respond to your questions:
1. if "viruses" cause "infection" and symptomatic illness -- and exposure means automatic infection -- what explains those who do not get sick?
My main link should explain but this might help further in summary. I have used this text elsewhere. Links referenced are within my Covid 19 Summary in the main link I posted to your earlier.
"Viruses should be considered thus:
1. They are either poisons which are chemical not biological and must be dealt with by the immune system.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/v-is-for-virus/
2. Or they are the exosome, part of the body's defense system. This is in fact what people are seeing under the electron microscope.
Coronavirus is the exosome as I keep pointing out.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/e-is-for-exosomes/
So it is not so much that a virus doesn't exist but that something, the exosome which is friend to the body, not foe, has been twisted into an enemy and then the lies magnified into something ginormous.
What doesn't exist except in the minds of those who fabricated the lies, are all the variants and so-called diseases, which are merely made up to make big pharma and medics look clever to justify them receiving large amounts of money for poisoning the masses of the people."
So considering a virus as the exosome, they don't cause sickness.
However, a virus as poisons or toxins do cause sickness.
Everybody suffers to greater or lesser extent from poisons created in the body and added to form outside. Neutralising these toxins is what matters, a case of cancelling out the minuses with pluses to create a neutral balance where peace reigns as it were.
There is no such thing as automatic infection except in the sense that everybody in a certain location might eat a poisoned food.
However, how each individual reacts is the key, as we are not a herd despite what people say. This is because immune systems are in different states. If some good and some bad the good should, given the same circumstances, be well, and the some bad will fall ill.
2. How have I gone through decades of winters without a cold or flu -- without ever having gotten a flu "vaccine?"
The answer will depend on many factors, what you eat, drink, holidays in sun etc, even whether you are fearful of catching something as fear is a key driver in reducing your immune system resources.
Think of it as a numbers games where you have 1,000 units of positive. Start being afraid and the negatives start taking 10's of units away rather than 1's.
As the vaccines are all, and I mean all vaccines ever, poisons and harmful, your answer in this case might be the very fact that you didn't have the 'flu vaccine!!
We have been horribly lied to about vaccines and I used to think they were of some use but not for the 'flu as i saw people fall ill anyway.
A rider re polio and rickets, I have made a note that DDT is propositioned as the cause in some quarters. As what is called germ theory of disease is basically wrong, then polio is merely a made up name and conceals possibly more than one issue.
It is terrible easy for medics etc. to pull the wool over people's eyes and polio is ultimately meaningless as a name.
It is not easy to deprogram our thinking after decades of lies but I hope that makes sense.
Always happy to try and answer other questions about anything. If I don't know i will say so!
But at 63 now I seem to know a bit more than I did in 2020. :)
Hello, again! I apologize, I meant those questions as rhetorical ones. The focus always seems to be on what makes people sick. Interesting question, but a better one is how do some people stay well -- all the time? Which makes me doubt very seriously this idea of "contagion." That whole notion has got to go!
To my point, how did I stay well under those conditions of close contact with "germs" flying all around a crowded subway car? Or how did my grandmother who cared for her husband who developed TB never get TB? He died from it, eventually having to go to the Veterans Hospital in the Bronx, NYC. She lived (in sadness) another 35 years -- and never got TB. I thought TB was "highly contagious."
Shredded!!!
Love it SheThinksLiberty! Great post. I'm very sorry about your loss of your Mom.
I agree with the simplicity premise. Looking back at all the mathematics and science courses I took at the MIT in the 1980's, the fundamentals were/are very straightforward and simple. I took a Signals & Systems course with a professor that wrote the text book, William M. Siebert. The opening pages of the text had a few quotes:
"We must be grateful to God that He created the world in such a way that everything simple is true and everything complicated is untrue." Gregory Skovoroda (18th-century philosopher )
"One of the principal objects of theoretical research in any department of knowledge ifs to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity" Josiah Willard Gibbs
"Seek simplicity and distrust it." Alfred North Whitehead.
There are fundamental concepts that connect a lot of science and mathematics.
I consider modern "medicine" to be next to worthless today. There are very few doctors that I would actually go to see. The so-called doctors are indoctrinated, not educated - they definitely lack critical-thinking skills. They are not able to connect the dots across disciplines and synthesize new ideas.
I recall reading about the Stanford entering class for the Fall 2023. The admissions board was proud to announce a very low percentage of Caucasians were accepted; and that no students who scored a perfect score on the SAT were accepted. As a comparison, there were a lot of students at the MIT in the 1980's who scored a perfect score on the SAT; it was very common to see students ace the tests and the achievement exams. A friend of mine from Taiwan, June, took every final exam for the first-year courses for his major, Electrical Engineering - and completely skipped ALL the freshman year courses. He was amazing and very humble. I'll take a kid who aces the SAT any day - that's the kid I want designing bridges, etc., not some hack who has been dumbed-down via marxist idiocy. I'll take meritocracy every time.
It's awesome that you were a natural bodybuilder. My guy at Egoscue West Palm Beach, Nathan Burke, is a natural bodybuilder - he's winding down now but he is quite a story; I looked him up online and he was shredded and had awesome symmetry. Another very humble guy.
I agree with your basic moves premise. Looking at the photo, is obviously worked for you. I learned a lot about training from Pavel Tsatouline of Strong First. He started out with a very simple program of deadlifts and a side press. He wrote a great reference book, "Beyond Bodybuilding", which gave tips for all body parts. Legs? Squats!! Lats? Pullups!!
Maintaining muscle mass and strength is priority number one as we age. Dr. Mercola just did a great post about KAATSU blood restriction training and the metabolic benefits. The guy is 70+ and he trap-bar deadlifted 400 pounds for 4 reps.
I just started hitting my pull-up bar again. It's my favorite exercise.
Thanks for all the great posts and perspective.
Peace. :-)
Thank you, Steve. It's funny...At the time of that picture, I wondered if I should even do it. It was about a month after my first (and last) show, and I thought I'd smoothed out too much. :) I wonder if I should add the pic of my trophy..? :)
Regarding simplicity/the simple, my mother's warning (Thank you for the condolences.) stayed with me. Is "X" really complicated?? Chances are not, but someone or many someones benefit from making it appear so. Be suspicious. As for the "simple" things like character, honesty, freedom -- they are simple, but as she said, sometimes not easy. Her other favorite expression in this context -- the simple, but not easy? "So what?"
That news about Stanford? They're done, as is all the mainstream everything -- academia, law, medicine -- with notable exceptions. I think you know that I've avoided doctors for years and years. "The Cut, Poison, & Burn Club."
Your Mom was very wise. My Mom had a lot of wisdom - she was way ahead of her time. She was the rock of our family. ( 5 sisters and 1 brother ). I agree that Stanford and the MIT, and everything else, are done. It's a good thing. After we get through this huge mess - the future looks bright.
Ha! You smoothed out too much!? You were shredded! I followed bodybuilding for quite a while back when "Arnold, The Education Of A Bodybuilder" came out. I met Arnold in Los Angeles - I was stationed there during my tour in the Coast Guard. Nate at Egoscue in West Palm was very much into natural bodybuilding - he had been to every Arnold Classic until covid ( He is from Ohio ). He placed first in several natural contests. You could never accuse me of being a bodybuilder but I always lifted weights. I was fortunate to have a great Phys-ED teacher in high school that suggested the following routine:
bench press
barbell curl
military press
barbell row
squat
Reps = 15, Sets = 3, Bouts or cycles = 3. So 3 times ( 3 X 15) 9 sets of 15 reps each exercise.
Your total reps per session were 135 for each exercise. My friend and I used to do the routine three times a week. We kept the same weight for all exercises. We started at 40 pounds and actually made over 100 pounds. It may not sound like a lot but we were high school kids and we were definitely shredded!
I later read that the Russians used to prescribe 15 to 20 rep routines for kids - it helped with tendon & ligament strength, etc.
The simple, but not easy? - "So what?" - perfect. Just get to it and get it done.
Have a great day!
Peace. :-)
One more point. Talk about simplicity - John Beaudoin and his analysis of the Massachusetts death data. If you run through the analysis -it's super simple. He has offered to do it for the state of Florida - no takers. I recently saw on his Twitter feed that he challenged the "surgeon general" of Florida to a race - if John wins, he gets to analyze the death data for Florida. The problem is that Ron DeSantis is too concerned about himself - NOT the good citizens of Florida. You can't make this stuff up. It's ignorance personified. ( I can't find the tweet! Did they scrub it ) Peace. :-)
I recall Joel Smalley pointing out UK government warnings that you just can’t use the numbers in their UKHSA death tables to get death rates of vaxed vs unvaxed. UK govt says it’s “too complicated” and you can’t do it yourself, trust what we tell you.
And here is a juicy one. The made their reporting more complicated by reporting two measures (from covid and with covid). The latter (with) is what they had been emphasizing, which was and is and forever will be useless information. Now they claim they knew all along they were diverging. But somehow only now (jan ‘23) it is appropriate to focus on “from” deaths.
“We have been monitoring how closely deaths with COVID-19 and deaths from COVID-19 measurements align since the start of the pandemic. Since early 2022, there has been an increasing difference in the two measures. With high levels of immunity in the population and COVID-19 continuing to circulate, it is not uncommon for people who die of other causes to have a COVID-19 infection recorded at or around the time of their death. These deaths would be reported in the “deaths within 28 days of a positive test” measure, but not counted in the death registrations because their death was not judged to be related to their COVID-19 infection. “Deaths with COVID-19 on the death certificate” is considered to be a more reliable indicator of deaths due to COVID-19 at this stage in the pandemic and will now be the primary COVID-19 death statistic on the COVID-19 dashboard.”
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/whats-new/record/9f865030-aba0-4246-8b50-2bac2ebd12db
Thank you! Perfect example for my essay's thesis -- making the simple (or what should be) complicated...Malfeasance? Ill intent? Hiding something?
Obfuscation and non-transparency, attempts to preserve authority and tyranny. Perhaps pivoting back toward the truth, slowly, as in, in the direction of, but maybe not getting all the way there. Seems to be a recent trend.
Reminds me of my Wheaton Terrier (GRHS) when she decided she was going to be ungovernable and didn’t want to lay down on command - ignoring the first couple commands, then lowering her back end part way to the floor, with more strident repetition eventually the back end is down but the front is still up, and finally after proverbial pulling of teeth the front gets down. Not a minute later up again.