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Oct 13, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli

I can't believe how people are taking sides on this. Both sides are acting appallingly. Why must we take sides? Just because we have no useful solution to offer? Color me bewildered.

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Oct 13, 2023·edited Oct 13, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli

I'm posting this here because the comment box is broken. I cannot take sides in this either. Mostly I just see people acting appallingly. When I hear Senator Graham say we should destroy all of Iran's oil infrastructure, I think he is worse than the worst of Hamas, and his thinking risks a total global war no one wins. I think the only thing to be done now is to not get emotional and put one's own house in order.

https://williamhunterduncan.substack.com/p/some-thoughts-on-the-war

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The comment box is broken for me too. It's a substack problem; I've tried two browsers, multiple substacks, and rebooting. They usually fix things in short order.

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Same here. But it's true to form:

https://ponerology.substack.com/p/the-enemy-within

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Oct 14, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli

I know three highly anankastic parents: a neighbor, an in-law, and a co-worker. I would have assumed anankastic parents were unreasonably strict and controlling (and maybe some are), but in these three cases, the exact opposite is true: they refuse to see any fault in their perfect little angels.

When two kids are in a conflict, most parents will err on the side of correcting their own kids. Not so with anankastic parents: they will take it upon themselves to reprimand other people's kids, while excusing away the misbehavior of their own. They insist that their children would never lie to them, even when they obviously do. The kids will lie about other children, and even those children's parents, and the anankastic parent will accept this at face value.

In all three cases, their children seem pathologically spoiled and casually duplicitous.

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Very interesting, Martin!

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Oct 13, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli

"Let Us Consider This Situation" does not read well from a bumper sticker or teleprompter.

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LOL. New Substack name.

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Oct 14, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli

With respect to the drop in homicides in Western Europe from the 14th to 20th centuries, that could also be attributed to colonial expansion. Violent men and violence in general were exported to other parts of the world, while the proceeds of that violence was used to build more refined and beautiful societies at home.

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Oct 14, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli

Missing the point entirely, pit bulls are way worse than any of these dogs. They're bred to lock their jaws like an alligator and they can't release even if they want to. Chihuahuas might be more aggressive by some metric, but they don't rip kids' faces off. Pit bulls do.

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If Chihuahuas were the size of Great Danes they would kill everything.

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> Children of psychopaths, narcissists, borderlines, anankasts, schizoids, paranoids, etc., don’t necessarily just suffer as children.

Part of that could be because those conditions have a genetic component.

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Yep, agreed.

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Personality "disorders" also have a past life component. For materialists, the conceptual equivalent is "genetic." But if you see it for the truth of the situation, there is a way out, and if you see it as just genetic, there is no way out.

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Here's the thing I see as a cranky old radical feminist. The demographics of the ones doing the violence on both sides do share one important feature...

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Men? This type of aggression is typically a male thing. (Though with plenty of women egging them on at home!)

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True and women socialize men into civilization and the failure of mothers is certainly there. It's just testosterone is one hell of a drug.

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Oct 13, 2023·edited Oct 13, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli

LOL You're right on time. I just wrote this today. https://sheilamdean.substack.com/p/a-letter-to-parents-of-children-who It's not the most impressive piece of English literature, but it solders down my point.

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“ Richard Rorty once put it to me: ‘It is abstraction all the way down.’ In other words, since we have no privileged access to reality, there is no way to establish one conceptual scheme as more concrete or real above any other (Rorty 1979). All experience is theory laden. So, in this case, the claim that events are the most concrete entities (as opposed to some other ontological unit) is just to privilege the event concept at the centre of one’s system.

Such anti-foundationalism is a challenge that goes to the very core of the project of fundamental ontology, but Whitehead and Russell could defend their thesis by arguing that an event ontology is implied by modern physics”

Excerpt From

The Event Universe: The Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead

Leemon B. McHenry

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Oct 13, 2023·edited Oct 13, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli

Harrison, not to blow up your comments but I have some thoughts and you're probably going to get some wall text from me. In the meantime: can you explain the 'asthenic?' You referenced it here, and Lobaczewski mentions it several times in his book. Modern psych literature seems to roll this into 'dependent personality disorder,' but that doesn't seem right based on the context in which Lobaczewski uses the term.

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You're right, DPD as it's currently categorized doesn't really fit what L described. The only real parallel is something like "weak-willed." The closest I came to finding a parallel in Western psychiatry was Cleckley's description of a/anti-sexual types in Caricature of Love. But I have a Polish book on personality disorders with a section on asthenic, I think, so I'll scan and translate it.

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Huh. Maybe he's describing an enabler. I have known people who are very meek and seemingly sensitive, who will latch on to a really hostile, aggressive person and claim that he's just misunderstood and they can see the good in him—but it could be that the hostility is an outlet for the enabler's own latent aggression.

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Oct 13, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli

Thanks for this. Twitter has been a hell of historical and psychological illiteracy lately.

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Oct 14, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli

Interesting that you mention dogs. Moshe Dayan, a famous Israeli general infamously said: “Israel must be seen as a mad dog; too dangerous to bother.” And Ben Gurion said the following about Palestinians: "We view them like donkeys. They don't care. They accept it with love... To loosen the reins on the Arabs would be a great danger".

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The human experience is one of eternal conflict between a rather weak and easily-frightened body (compared to, say, a tiger or a bear) and a highly sophisticated and potentially extremely powerful being who, unfortunately, has gotten used to going unconscious (thus letting the body take over) with the slightest shock to the body (a blow or a bullet).

Thus, we can be made to "act like dogs" even though we have no right to stoop to such depths.

My teacher feels that the first great barrier to overcome is each and every person's reality on who and what he or she really is. Currently the one-lifetime, mind=brain boys are winning by a wide margin. As long as they hold sway, we cannot even begin to untangle the complexities of human life.

I am happy to see that Lobaczewski's students are speaking out for a more rational way forward. In times like this, I suppose the best advice is to hold on to your highest understandings and ideals. I would like to see more people studying the work of my teacher (Hubbard) but some level of higher understanding is better than none, and every bit helps.

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ISRAEL: A pox on both their houses! Recommend Scott Ritter's detailed and incisive essay: https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/why-i-no-longer-stand-with-israel

THIS STINKS OF PSYCHO GLOBALIST PARASITE FALSE FLAG OPS TO KEEP THE PROLES KILLING EACH OTHER WHILE THEY (THE RULING SCUM) PLOT TOTAL SLAVERY. AND THEIR MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX GROWS RICHER AND RICHER!

There is no noxious crime that the evildoers desiring to lord it over us won't commit to maintain their stranglehold on power. A groundswell critical mass resistance to their murderous enslavement plans is needed urgently!

THEY can't get rid of the 'useless eaters' fast enough! Mistakes were not made, it was always malice aforethought.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN EVEN WORSE FRAUD THAN THE PLANSCAMDEMIC! SO-CALLED GREEN TECH IS A GIGANTIC SCAM! MINING AND MANUFACTURING 'GREEN' PRODUCTS NEEDS COAL, GAS AND OIL AND MINING RARE MINERALS IS MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY TOXIC AND DESTRUCTIVE THAN LEGACY PRODUCTS. SCREW YOUR DAMNED AGENDA!

Creative performing arts, fine arts and literary arts are the best part of being human and the thing the globalist predator technocrat megalomaniac total slavery control freaks most want to destroy.

Too many 'sheeple' are brainwashed to blindly obey authority figures on the media or in daily life in corrupt system ruled by control freak psychopaths who use propaganda lies to enslave their subjects and they are dumbed down to be obedient by 'education' institutions. Fortunately I was raised to question everything. This transcends party lines. We need a system that punishes psychopaths and rewards compassion and sharing, we need a system that actually follows The Constitution in reality.

I DO NOT COMPLY! NEVER HAVE, NEVER WILL!

There is a fate worse than death - I would rather die than be a robotized slave of technocratic overlords! This is my hill to die on!

I have a landline and a wired laptop and a wired monitor screen, all the tech anyone should ever want or need. I never had and refuse to ever have one of those infernal mobile devices that are designed to enslave you.

My loathing of AI and all things NANO and digital knows no bounds!

Kudos to Harrison Keohli's heroic efforts and success in the struggle. We the People must always be aware of the existential threats lurking behind this fight!

How I stick my thumb in the eyes of the grotesque billionaire bastards pushing their enslavement agenda and how I embrace being fully human.

Fighting the globalist predator technocrat psychopath megalomaniac TOTAL SLAVERY AGENDA one performance at a time!

Amazing Amy: Eccentric Yoga Entertainer!

As an entertainer, I have been devastated and practically destroyed by the closure of all performance venues and then when they reopened, because MY BODY, MY CHOICE - being made a total untermenschen pariah outcast in NAZI NIGHTMARE LAWLESS 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' JAB CROW APARTHEID/DISCRIMINATION/SEGREGATION HELL NYC WHERE THE MAD/DRUNK WITH POWER TYRANT POLS DOUBLE DOWN ON THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES. I am trapped here with zero financial resources to leave or do anything else about this 'wish I were dead' endless misery life has become. The tragic irony is that my SPREAD THE YOGA LOVE performances are all about health, miraculously overcoming age (68) and injury to achieve feats of flexibility few can attain at any age. So BIG PHARMA who wants to addict every person on the planet to their toxic products hate people like me who prove that we do not need them if we eat healthy organic food and exercise daily!

https://www.reverbnation.com/artist/amazingamycontortionistuniqueyogadancer

I try and live and embody the creative performing artistic world and life I so fervently want existence to be about.

They can stick their f*cking damned NANO, Digital IDs, AI, jabs and chips up their asses where the sun don't shine!

All manner of lies and propaganda spew forth from the upper echelons in governments worldwide who are completely intertwined with the global criminal ruling class that wants to commit the worst atrocities imaginable and suffer no consequences. And their corruption slithers down the chain of command creating petty tyrants everywhere.

Supporting this excellent post with a statement and useful links. https://virustruth.net

We the People are facing HORRIFYING TECHNOCRATIC PSYCHOPATHY TO DESTROY HUMANITY AND ALL NATURAL LIFE!

It was NEVER about health! The Powers That Should Not Be were ALWAYS about they want you DEAD or a SLAVE! This is a painful truth to accept but we the people must wake up and fight back!

We must never lose sight of the larger picture of the vile malignance we are fighting against.

There is an insidious global ruling class plot to enslave all life on earth behind all the madness and suffering inflicted on We the People.

How to fight back against this TOTAL SLAVERY!

RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! DITCH THE DAMNED 'SMART' PHONES AND THE DAMNED QR CODES AND GO BACK TO LANDLINES OR FLIP PHONES AND USE CASH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE! INSIST ON CASH! CBDC IS TOTAL SLAVERY!

Other than getting rid of nuclear weapons which I support 100% the rest of the anti-nuclear peace movement and CLIMATE CRISIS propaganda is parroting UN utter GARBAGE, a complete surrender to the ENSLAVEMENT AGENDA by the diabolical despots of Davos - ruling class criminals who lust for total power and control and all of whom should be tried and jailed for life and their malign organizations dismantled: the UN, the WEF, the IMF, the WHO, the BIS, NATO, Blackrock, Vanguard, The Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, The Bilderbergers, the CFR et al.

There is an evil predator globalist technocratic elite agenda of eugenics/depopulation/genocide using bioweapon poison jabs, war, geoengineering, EMF radiation, starvation and economic collapse - THE GREAT RESET/AGENDA 2030/4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION to get rid of billions of 'useless eaters' and to use nano tech to turn the survivors into ROBOTIZED COMPLIANT SLAVES! WAKE UP AND RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! These are psychopath megalomaniacs who want to play god by turning all life into digitized metaverse mechanistic synthetic biology to be manipulated by their AI algorithms. A more demonic sickening idea is nearly impossible to imagine!

APPALLED AND HORRIFIED AT INSANE TYRANNICAL PROTOCOLS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HEALTH AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH TOTALITARIAN CONTROL! REVERSE THIS NOW!

MAKE THE WORLD AND AMERICA 2019 (comparatively speaking), AND FREE AGAIN!

NO, I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE MORONIC SCARIANT SHMARIANT MONKEYSHINES! WAKE UP ALREADY!

TOTALLY CONDEMN BIDEN AND ALL OTHER POLS WHO HAVE NO POWER TO LAWLESSLY ACT LIKE AN EMPEROR OR DICTATOR AND DECREE JAB CROW 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' FASCIST SEGREGATION/DISCRIMINATION/APARTHEID VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE NUREMBERG CODES AND EVERY CIVIL RIGHT IMAGINABLE.

NO GREEN NEW DEALS OR BUILD BACK BETTER FROM THE CRIMINAL TECHNOCRAT TYRANTS KLAUS SCHWAB AND HIS CRONIES FROM THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.

STOP THE TERRIBLE TYRANNY OF THE TECHNOCRATS GLOBAL AGENDA OF TOTAL SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL USING THE VIRUS AS EXCUSE AND PROPAGANDA TOOL!

NO MUZZLING STIFLING MASK MANDATES! NO FORCED VACCINES! END TORTUROUS DEVASTATING LOCK DOWNS NOW! I WANT MY LIFE BACK.

https://wrenchinthegears.com

https://www.stopworldcontrol.com/

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com

https://pandemicfacts.info

https://wearehumanwearefree.org/7-days-campaign/

https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/covid-19-roadmap-12-step-plan-to-create-a-totalitarian-new-world-order-were-on-number-8-headed-towards-number-9/

https://questioningcovid.com

https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1581-james-corbett-breaks-down-the-great-reset/

http://www.stopcp.com/GlobalResetPSYOP/GlobalResetPSYOPMindMap.html

https://everydayconcerned.net/2020/09/04/breaking-major-investigative-report-by-association-of-french-reserve-army-officers-finds-covid-19-pandemic-to-have-a-hidden-agenda-for-global-totalitarianism-nanotech-chipping-of-all-5g-irradia/

Pam Popper: https://makeamericansfreeagain.com

Del Bigtree: https://www.brighteon.com/channels/highwire

https://www.technocracy.news

Naomi Wolf: https://dailyclout.io

www.nojabforme.info

https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-must-awaken-from-corona-coma-reject-great-reset-robotic-technocracy-assert-common-humanity/5745213

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