Posts by san_jose_guy

Reading: https://www.amazon.com/Eliphas-Revival-Western-Esoteric-Traditions/dp/1438435568/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 Most interesting, and more about it later. Mentions one Hoene Wroński https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Maria_Hoene-Wro%C5%84ski Polish military officer, born 1778. When Russia took over, accepted commission in Czar's army. But then returned it and went off to France, to fight for Poland's independence. Involved in…

"The number of new print titles issued by U.S. publishers has grown from 215,777 in 2002 to 316,480 in 2010. And in 2010 more than 2.7 million “non-traditional” titles were also published, including self-published books, reprints of public domain works,…

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uD-KYA6n6hw/Ve7pdC0Tj8I/AAAAAAAAF6g/BL74MVTBa8A/s1600/Aristotle%2Bwas%2BPlato%25E2%2580%2599s%2Bstudent.%2BDate%2B1509.%2BArtist%2BRaffaello%2BSanzio..jpg Imagine what it would be like to be able to spend time regularly meeting with friends and debating the ideas of Plato and Aristotle. Maybe it would be a regular meeting in one of our Viet Coffee shops, and maybe for…

1440 Multiversity What is this. Uses the old Bethany Christian College site in Scotts Valley, next to Santa Cruz. Sounds like a new Esalen? 75 acres would cost a fortune. They are saying $47 Meg. I would have though much…

Are Traditional Colleges and Universities Bad Environments? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Isla_Vista_killings Now there is even some sort of a book about him: https://www.amazon.com/Supreme-Gentleman-Twisted-Rodgers-Virginity-ebook/dp/B016PG1696/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1499815929&sr=1-1 He found a traditional college unlivable. But he also did lots and lots of things which made matters worse. I would still…

As we sit here today, Dougster has completed his preparations and is ready to have every last drop of his blood transfused out and replaced with Ammonia. And then before the loss of Oxygen causes any brain damage, he…

Papa Roach - Forever (Live) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZsUY_81zFc Usually this kind of a song would be in the key of D, the most etherial or introspective of the keys. Think for example of the Red Hot Chile Peppers. Here, the link to get to…

Strip clubs have always catered to chumps and losers. A guy who is not able to take girls home with him, like it or not, he is a loser. A guy who believes that buying dances is the…

An extremely interesting book. Still have not decided what I really think about it all. White shows that our economic system is completely designed for 'economic harvesting', of the 98%. So the book is about fighting back.…

So this is how it is looking from my vantage point, having been involved with some supposedly opposed to psychiatric medication, but who actually promote psychotherapy and the idea of 'recovery'. Most middle-class child abuse involves doctors of one sort…

Peter Thiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2017/06/22/brotopia-how-the-valleys-tech-elite-plan-to-outlive-the-rest-of-us/ " Peter Thiel’s interest in extending his life has led to wild speculation on just how far he would go. Indeed, about 75 percent of Alcor’s frozen customers are male, and Max More, its CEO, is a libertarian like Thiel.…

Putting a good face on dystopia, social darwinism, eugenics, the usual: http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2017/06/22/brotopia-how-the-valleys-tech-elite-plan-to-outlive-the-rest-of-us/ SJG