Why did Tolkien call death a gift? In The Silmarillion, he writes death is an exclusive gift given to mankind by God. All other creatures envy this gift, including the immortal elves: Mankind alone, through death, is granted union with the divine. Tolkien's point is that

If all the Abrahamic religions were independently and scientifically scrutinized without using an already theologically colored lens, none would stand to reason. The Bible is a book of mind science, not secular history. If read right, it tells a different and more dramatic story

The World Bank has spent 60 years telling Africa to stay away from formulating industrial policy, and to export crude oil and bananas instead. Now it has done an about-face and admitted that it was full of shit all along. Barra Hart for The Spearhead

It blows my mind that one can have memories of the future now.

Real talk. Water carries memory, frequency, and energy. Whatever you emote, perform, or say around water is captured and stored. Our ancestors knew this and venerated water bodies.

Along with the US, Israel is the greatest threat to world peace today.

Nations that don’t like the USA and teach their kids about “the enemy.” 🇨🇳 China 🇷🇺 Russia 🇮🇷 Iran 🇰🇵 North Korea "I ❤️ USA" countries: 🇳🇬 Nigeria 🇰🇪 Kenya 🇹🇬 Togo 🇨🇩 Congo Guess which group is subservient, backwards, and underdeveloped.

Every time the West calls an African country "unstable" they mean the resources stopped flowing. I made a glossary of 100 diplomatic words they use and what they actually mean. orange-anselma-35.tiiny.site Bookmark this before your next history book. 🧵

Satanyahu's state of Israel go tear ACL.

We can finally stop pretending we don’t know how OpenAI and the rest of the Silicon Valley AI cartel intend to stay profitable. The answer is, and always has been, war. If you consider the monstrous infrastructure required to sustain these systems. We are talking about

Please join us for our upcoming Programme! Date & Time: Saturday, the 25th of April, 11AM WAT. Topic: Zionism is A Threat That Africa & Nigeria Must Confront: Exposing the Zionist Security Complex Zoom registration link: zoom.us/meeting/regist…

The open question the people of the Global South must answer is this: Should they focus on unmasking the armies of NGOs hosting "Global Democracy Summits" in their backyards while secretly laying the groundwork for regime change? Should they channel their rage into exposing

Not all day ones will stay day ones from day one.

Be yourself, be good to yourself, and be good to good people.

South Korea in the early 1960s had roughly the same GDP per capita as Ghana. South Korea industrialized through massive state intervention. Government-directed credit. Explicit industrial policy. Protected domestic industries. Export subsidies. Technology acquisition

Not a place like a dot on a map. It’s a process distributed across the brain cortex, thalamus, brainstem integrating information over time. Damage the system and the “location” shifts or disappears. So the better answer is consciousness isn’t located, it’s realized by a

It's diabolical what's going on. We've let it continue too long. Now it must end!

Europe's kings were so bored they’ve ditched the rulebook and jumped into politics. What else to make of Charles III and Carl XVI Gustaf rambling on about defending Ukraine and Article 5 of the NATO Treaty? Isn't it time they remembered that they “reign but do not rule”?

There's a whole industry built around African poverty. NGOs, consultants, conferences, awareness campaigns, celebrity endorsements.  Billions of dollars flow through this system every year, employing thousands of well-paid Westerners. None of those people have an incentive for

Political power in any country naturally rests with the poor and working class, as they are usually the most numerous. The elite need ignorance and division to remain in power.