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NeoNotes – Government should not be trusted
Sunday, 22Apr2018
❝Respectfully, I do not believe that a government agency should be trusted with caring for the environment.
When government is "responsible" for something, regular people stop paying attention. It becomes Somebody Else's Problem (I stole the label from Douglas Adams) and they can't be bothered. Then when something goes wrong, those ordinary people demand reform of the agency, not fixing the problem.
Additionally, it will always depend on keeping the "right people" in elected office AND overlooking abuse of power because it's the "right people." Case in point, the CO2 rules under the Obama EPA were far beyond anything used before and used shoddy science as the justification. Criticism of the rules was actively discouraged not because of the effects of the rules, but because it was the EPA and for the Greater Good. The institution and the policy was more important than the results.
Personally I avoid environmentalism. I prefer ecology and I focus on the interconnections and the tradeoffs. Power with instead of power over.
Pardon, but it's not the EOC (End of Conversation).
Carson's Silent Spring was disputed and is still disputed to this day. That should be part of any conversation including that book. It should also be a study for how propaganda is passed off as fact.
Looking at the history of the EPA, it's amazing how ineffective it has been. Just as one brief example, the "Superfund" has shifted the cost of environmental cleanup from the polluters to the taxpayer. Since the polluters face minimal consequences, of course they don't clean up their act (pun intended).
As I pointed out above, if it is government's "responsibility" to clean up the environment, then regular people just don't pay attention.
Just out of curiosity, what's the fix for "too many people?" Forced sterilizations? Killing by the millions and tens of millions?❞
NeoNotes are the selected comments that I made on other boards, in email, or in response to articles where I could not respond directly.
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Difference between the Story and the Journey
Thursday, 08Mar2018
❝It is the difference between the Story and the Journey. One is told while the other is lived. The only two purposes of the story are to honor the memory of those who have gone before and to teach you to recognize where the path begins for your own journey. The rituals are not the faith. The map is not the territory. The words are not the thing. You can only be responsible for your journey alone because it is your journey and no one else's.❞— NeoWayland, Some thoughts from my WebTree path
Tainted frisson
Tuesday, 27Feb2018
Politics has tainted paganism in my mind and I am working to re-establish the separation.
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I wonder. If a symbol can be "tainted" no matter what it was used for previously, what does it take to "purify" the symbol?
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“Speak To The Sky” (pagan version)
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I call myself pagan
Thursday, 27Jul2017
❝I call myself pagan because I don't have a better term. I'm polytheistic and pantheistic. On alternate Thursdays and every third Tuesday I might admit to an animism bent as well. On the 13th of the month, I'll tell you (truthfully) that the label isn't really all that important, only the manifestation.❞
— NeoWayland
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The air is still humid from last night's never-storm. No rain, but plenty of lightning and thunder around midnight.
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Tuesday, 11Jul2017
There's something very renewing about greeting the sun at dawn dressed in nothing but a pendant.
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I was coming off a long time of being militantly solitary and I relished the fellowship I finally allowed myself.
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Tuesday, 21Jun2016
❝The "Witch Winter Solstice Ritual" in Nylon is populist pap. It's a lot like having Easter using only Cadbury eggs and never once mentioning a resurrection or what it might mean.❞
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Intuition & Inspiration
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Act of Change
Thursday, 24Mar2016
According to popular culture, magick is about breaking the rules and molding reality.
Nope.
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Tuesday, 08Mar2016
No matter what the inspiration, you still have to come down off the mountain. Living in the Here & Now helps make you human.
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More and more I think I was wise to separate my pagan blogging from my political blogging.
Read More...The grand cause
Tuesday, 09Jun2015
You take a plot of land. Now you can grow flowers or vegetables or both. You choose.
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Better
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Blessings and ethics
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