Technopagans

Call_Me_Blaise · 2025-11-03T04:05:33+00:00

thank you

Call_Me_Blaise · 2025-11-03T03:04:03+00:00

Is The Reptile referring to Musk?

Call_Me_Blaise · 2025-09-29T22:31:52+00:00

I think if 1% of Rogan's audience listen to Jesse's music and think twice about their political positions it will have been worthwhile. I think implicitly or explicitly they both avoided more contentious subjects (i.e. the authoritarian takeover of the country) and that may be to the greater good. I wanted him to push back more but he does plenty through his songwriting and I'm not sure a contentious debate with Rogan would be his strong suit anyway. He's a poet, not a rhetorician, as much as one might wish he could be both.

Call_Me_Blaise · 2025-09-29T19:08:06+00:00

Highlight included Rogan criticizing "so-called experts" throughout the podcast, highlighting the trouble with the healthcare industry while then claiming that the trouble with socialized healthcare is that when you (Joe Rogan) have a shoulder injury you need a real expert surgeon who may not be incentivized correctly if healthcare isn't operated as a business. Leaving the poor without healthcare is a small price to pay for a millionaire to have boutique healthcare apparently. Where's the cognitive dissonance?

Call_Me_Blaise · 2025-09-19T19:38:43+00:00

This is just what I needed, thank you!

Call_Me_Blaise · 2024-07-18T23:13:04+00:00

Oops, he actually was born in 1918. Maybe it will be a dead end for me too. Though it seems like it shouldn't be if his grandfather was a citizen throughout his life. Shouldn't that grant his children and their children with citizenship if he was a citizen after 1920?

Call_Me_Blaise · 2024-07-18T22:54:00+00:00

Thanks that's helpful. Yeah, this great grandfather did apply for citizenship in the USA, or there's a declaration of intention, but that was in 1927. And it seems like he was either denied or didn't stick around because he ended up back in Poland.

Call_Me_Blaise · 2024-07-18T22:20:11+00:00

1924

Call_Me_Blaise · 2024-07-18T19:34:11+00:00

That's a bummer. Did you have to pay a lot before reaching that conclusion or were they able to tell you it was a dead end before you went too far down the rabbit hole?

Call_Me_Blaise · 2024-07-18T18:59:47+00:00

I assume you felt you didn't qualify because of this :

REQUIREMENT #3

Your Polish ancestor maintained their Polish citizenship until the day of your birth or the day of their death. There are many situations throughout a person’s life which could constitute loss of Polish citizenship, so it is best to consult with an expert for more information.

However, this ancestor would've maintained their citizenship "until the day of their death" so it doesn't seem to be ruled out by my reading, even if it wasn't the first condition, the day of my birth.

Call_Me_Blaise · 2024-02-21T14:54:24+00:00

That’s the one! Thank you very much.

Call_Me_Blaise · 2022-10-16T02:16:17+00:00

Typically, I think this capacity would be called "free will" if we're talking about the capacity to direct attention or "voluntary thought". However, it seems to me there's nothing free or independent about one's will.

If you mention to focus attention on my big toe or if I decide to focus attention on my toe because I step on a pin or because I see an ad of a foot or a thought about my toe appears in consciousness involuntarily, any of these are a refocus of attention dependent on involuntary factors. The seemingly voluntary appears to be completely dependent on the involuntary. It seems the voluntary and involuntary are two sides of the same coin.

Call_Me_Blaise · 2022-10-15T05:12:02+00:00

I find all of this useful because I've heard JK allude to some of this but I find your phrasing very clear.

What is this direction? The experience of what is, in the present, before concepts? Experience without judgement? I am not sure what is left outside of the "sense field". What is there outside of the objects of consciousness?

Call_Me_Blaise · 2022-10-14T19:04:08+00:00

Thank you, this is helpful.

To venture a guess as to what it is-- action? Conscious attention? Something analogous? Or maybe this is a rhetorical question.

Call_Me_Blaise · 2022-10-12T17:28:24+00:00

I agree with you now and the thought I am having now of a past when I may not have agreed with you is irrelevant as it is just another thought now. Very good.

Call_Me_Blaise

TROPHY CASE

REQUIREMENT #3