Re: merry xmas thang :)

On Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:22:04 -0000, He Who Sees All  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 19:44:09 -0000, slider <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> ### - and so this is christmas
>> and what have you done
>> another year over
>> another just begun?
>>
>> smile, goodness only knows what's gonna be happening to us this year  
>> huh,
>> nothing very good that's for sure! trumpy in the WH apparently wants the
>> suez canal back, forcing massive change to the middle east all the way
>> from the canal and red sea through to the ocean, undoubtedly backed-up  
>> by
>> the military and whatever else it takes to control that whole vast area
>> cutting right through muslim territory, and there's bugger-all they can  
>> do
>> about it!
>>
>> dunno what iran's gonna do now, if anything, they've missed the boat  
>> (the
>> last one leaving town) and are now right royally screwed/totally  
>> isolated,
>> and are prolly gonna get their head kicked-in sometime soon one way or
>> another...
>>
>> otherwise, russia is up next and no one really knows what they're  
>> capable
>> of if/when pushed into a corner, the problem with them being that 'when'
>> they decide to act they usually do so straight away without any notice,
>> and as such could launch an attack whenever they think it's time to do  
>> so
>> and which has already come fairly close a couple of times, the last time
>> being when our lady prime minister (liz truss) kept paranoicly peeping  
>> out
>> the window and watching the weather channels for wind patterns when  
>> warned
>> by the US that there was a 50% chance russia was gonna launch nukes upon
>> ukraine and she was worried the fallout would blow towards the uk... a  
>> 50%
>> chance!
>>
>> and the situation has become even 'more' difficult since then??
>>
>> yup, it's gonna be a difficult year alright, especially with the likes  
>> of
>> trumpy ruling the roost again (still can't believe they actually put him
>> back in sheesh, talk about being desperate?)
>>
>> meanwhile, here's a word or 3 from probably one of the last intelligent
>> people left on this planet, he's almost an old fossile himself by now  
>> (and
>> looks it lol) and it's a bit garbled, but his message is clear enough
>> towards the end that humanity's down to our last chance to alter our
>> otherwise inevitable fate...
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY9PZvK6CZs
>>
>> our chances imho not being very good if we've reached the point where  
>> it's
>> all down to trumpy to decide what happens to poor old planet earth, so  
>> not
>> exactly hopeful...
>
> And Merry Christmas to you too, Slider.  Thanks for the intellectual
> stimulation over the past few decades.  A shame this place is a ghost
> now of its former self, but a ghost is better than "never was...never
> will be".

### - Castaneda's intention to close his enterprise with a "golden key"  
appears to have come to a conclusion, successful or otherwise not really  
being the point, he apparently being content to let 'infinity' have the  
final/ultimate say in the matter upon a job well done/impeccably executed,  
his work as a whole being no small thing, will, am sure, continue to  
mystify people for generations to come if only because there's just  
absolutely nothing like it or to compare it to, it stands completely on  
it's own, possibly forever...



> Take good care.  I've got family over at the moment, lucky me :)

### - i've slowly lost all mine one way or another so don't have to bother  
anymore, lucky me haha ;)



> By the way, did I tell you I have a prescription now for 30g of flower
> each month for my insomnia?  It was pretty easy to get the
> prescription, next best thing to full legalisation.  It's good too,
> imported from Canada, 26% THC, a puff a night and no more waking up at
> 02:00 and struggling to get back to sleep.  natural too, proper REM,
> deep sleep, all the alphas etc - and a good stone as well.
>
> I think you have the same in the UK.  Give it a belt, much better
> quality than illicit, cheaper too.

### - as kids we sleep up to 12 hours a day, and then 7 or 8 hours per day  
as adults...

as old timers though, we need even less sleep/rest and can often get-by on  
just long naps...

iow, it's not necessarily insomnia (an 'inability' to sleep) so much as  
old habits die hard and you haven't kept-up with the changes, thinking  
something's wrong because you no longer sleep 8 hours a day like a young  
man and struggling to 'cure' it by doping yourself up when there's  
essentially nada wrong...

i.e., there can be medical/psychological reasons for insomnia in younger  
people, but in older people it might not be insomnia at all, just the need  
for less sleep + a new/different/adjusted routine to handle it with...

an alternative to dope is to use WILDs to correct/adjust the situation,  
e.g., i made this short video re insomnia particularly back in 2020 ('A  
Radical Solution To Insomnia - The CURE!") because one observed cause of  
insomnia in younger people is their normal unconscious sleep-routine  
becoming damaged in some manner, i.e., they somehow lose the automatic +  
unconscious part of the routine that usually pulls people 'into' sleep  
without them realising it, and this can be corrected via learning to WILD,  
which is nothing less than the finding of that unconscious on/off switch  
and being able to deliberately flip it one way or the other; either to  
lucid dream with or to sleep as usual, the 'unconscious' side of it  
removed!

A Radical Solution To Insomnia - The CURE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDwYFfI4G_A

check it out... if nothing else you might get a few lucid dreams out of  
it, which, believe me, is a very interesting/intriguing thing to be able  
to do... especially if one has a methodical kinda mind that likes to  
explore/probe every aspect of things; there being another whole side to  
our nature apparently - a whole third of our lives - that otherwise  
remains unexplored by dint of our being completely unconscious to what  
happens during it...

and happy new year to ya sport :)