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"In this world there are two worlds: one that works not and lives forever, and one that lives not and works forever."

The internalizing of history is interesting. What happened before you were born is just as real and consequential as what happened yesterday. If yesterday mattered, 1000 years ago mattered. If what happened 100 years ago does not matter, then what happened an hour ago does not natter The only difference is your memory.

I’m not a fan of stories made of stories. Feels like authors write short stories then think up a story that integrates these stories.

Biggest problem with this therapy is that patients aren’t disciplined. No practitioner is going to trust the success of their practice on the conscientiousness of their patients to care for their own health.

Things to do: breastfeed to auto-ween, enforce good posture, eat minimally processed food, physical activity, fresh air, fully chew food, chew gum, practice jaw posture exercises.

George Catlin, ethnographer of Indians American west. Breath of Life

Fugitive Slavs acts was wrong to compel action by law.

Good thing all runaway slaves were good victims otherwise leaving your wife and kids alone with a fugitive having thoughts of murder-suicide and holding a knife would be a bad idea. FFS!

The immortals largely are agnostic and more so the older they get. The Norse gods, Christianity, and Islam are just another religion to them. However, Easter mysticism and American Indian shamanism are treated as valid. Why?

This book is from 1989 and we have queer characters. Crazy.

Berdache is an early European designation for American Indians who did not conform to Western gender and sexual norms.

Originates from the Arabic word bardaj (“slave” or “kept boy”) and became the Spanish term bardaxa/bardaje (person engaging in sodomy) and then the French term bardache (a boy kept by a pederast). Similar to Bacha bāzī.

I wish I found this book half as interesting as I find nd the idea of this book.

Loneliness would be the toughest part of immortality. It would be very painful to see everyone die. So much must seem futile. Time keeps going faster. It must move very fast after centuries or millennia. The wisdom of centuries would be very difficult for mortals to understand. Talking to people would be explaining income taxes to toddlers.

So far I really like this book.

Please tell me this whole book is not about an encyclopedia.

Slaves to a cashless socialist system.

An alien threat may be psyop to bring about a one world government.

Abolition of secrecy.

Secret Gov
1. Imports drugs
2. Welfare dependents were abandoned to create criminal class
3. Firearms are given to criminals
4. Crazy people are encouraged to commit mass shootings
5. Anarchy in cities
6. Terror group nuclear scare into martial law
7. Concentration camps
8. Media nationalized
Slavery!!!

Aliens. Ughhh.

Tobacco has been fertilized with uranium mine tailings causing increased cancer rates. Hmm.

Increase the death rate:
1. War
2. Plague - a disease (AIDS) spread by vaccination with a hidden antidote

Lower the birth rate:
1. Positive birth control
2. Sterilization
3. Abortion
4. Feminism
5. Homosexuality

Post WWII intellectual’s believed that the baby boom would bring the world’s end by or soon after 2000, if not sooner by nuclear annihilation, with civilizational collapse or human extinction IF the following interventions were not made:
1. Depop
2. Reduced growth
3. Vegetarianism
4. Birth control
5. Environmentalism
6. Space Colonies
7. Consciousness shift

Author predicts a nighttime roundup of patriots on Thanksgiving.

Nothing good is done in secret. Secret societies are either silly or evil.

Secret societies use exclusivity to attract people. The lowest rung of such societies is ignorant to the higher secrets. Most never learn the real secret purpose of the group.

1. Individuals, family, and peer group must be controlled by Intimidation and incentive (mass formation)
2. Fathers must be compliant ( the author’s characterization obscures)
3. Mothers are emotionally controlled and family unit must be disintegrated. Children must be separated from mothers.
4. Male children are taught to go to war (stated as matter of fact by author)
5. Female children are dependent on men

People make the government god so that they can act out their baser emotions against their neighbors without guilt or discomfort. The “nation womb” provides for every one of its dependent children but ultimately eats them.

There is a conspiratorial view of history that asserts that there are no accidents and that our lives are not a series of reactions to unforeseen crises. There is a God and God has a plan for our lives and our civilization. Likewise, there is a devil and he has his own designs for our destruction. Most convincingly, who would not, if so empowered, conspire to secure his own family’s aspirations and welfare?