It’s Thanksgiving time for those in the United States. Are there things worth being thankful for? I know one thing. I’m thankful for you, the listener.
Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy.
How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. We are officially in the holidays season and we are starting with Thanksgiving. Once thought to be a day to get together with friends and loved ones, is now a day of division and turmoil. How do we come together when so many are so torn apart? Can we reach a mutual understanding of what is reality versus what is not? Hopefully we can find peace and understanding and a time to connect with the ones we love, despite our differences.
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Listening on 26NOV2021
Alone together
‘Ber months began in the Philippines on 1 September. In the States, we have catching up to do. But it is said that in American we live to work, rather than work to live. That any or us find any time for leisure is given the many centuries of humanity, is a fortunate but relatively new privilege compared to the turmoil and labor which generations past found to be normal.
We should not be punished for events of the past that we as individuals had no direct hand in having occurred, that is something that was even said in Star Trek while Roddenberry was still alive. That said, as history has a way of rhyming, it is best to learn history (and its multiple perspectives on the same events) so that way that moving into the future past negative type events aren’t repeated. But most are ignorant of history, so we as a species are doomed to repeat the past, at the cost of many individuals well being, happiness, and existence.
Sometimes the consensus understanding is not true. Take the once common held view that the center of the universe is Earth. That said common consensus appears to be more difficult to achieve. Sometimes groups will ignore sources which do not align with that group’s views; sometimes those groups are highly influential and will hide or diminish those sources which do not espouse the views of that group.
Is ignorance, bliss? The fruit of knowledge, is what cast Adam and Eve out of Eden, and into the wilderness of reality/existence. For better or worse, whether allegory or literal event, our shared now remains regardless of any individual belief or interpretation of the story.
On Covid19/Wuhan Flu/FauXi Virus, have we moved from Pandemic to Endemic? Have you heard of the YouTube channel named WhatIfAltHist? If you haven’t may I suggest listening to his view of Safety first culture. As is the case with any YouTube channel, there will be counter POV videos attacking the channel, but that is the marketplace of ideas right? Is the Pandemic or Endemic virus being used to advance certain POVs and power gains, if so is that good or bad thing and why, if not why do a portion of the population believe that is the case? OK that is a really heavy subject that perhaps it should be avoided least the episode get to politicized and/or divisive.
It is coming to the end of the year, the end of one revolution around the star which sustains life on this third rock from it. Reflect on that. Has it been overall positive or overall negative? How can we do better going forward? What can we do to matter, given the multiple billions of years which make up the past of the universe, and many more which will be the future of the universe? When individuals landed on the Moon, and looked back on Earth, and can look upon it and know that all the past events of humanity can be obscured from their point of view with their own hand, how does that impact their perspective of humanity? How should that impact our perspective of our own lives? Should an individual despair? Should an individual strive? Does one matter? Why or why not?
Please take the recommendation of Anthony and I, and watch Red Dwarf. Perhaps a review and reflection of each episode, more than 10 series worth, can be fodder/fuel, for new content.
I have a friend who is self diagnosed as depressed but does not what to seek psychological help. How does one go about convincing that friend that it is not an attack on self to seek such help? If that person fears medication, can non medication based counseling still be helpful?
On the point if the world sucking. If cancel culture comes for you, what is your game plan? What is your internet OhShit plan? Do you have an offline OhShit plan? Is emergency preparedness a good thing to spend one’s time and energy on? At what point does one go from a sensible concerned individual, into a prepper?
Thanks once again, and hopefully things are better now than they were during your last read through of one of my comments.