I believe that MJZ and DB were ostensibly in the Philly area in mid January to make arrangements wrt the passing of MJZ’s parents…funeral? Lwat? Idk. But the hotel was not in Media. It was near the airport in South Philly, iirc. Media is a town in the Philly suburbs. I tend to think his lkw would have been associated with his parents or some other associate, who ultimately reported him missing. Moo, as I have not researched him at all. Of course, he *is* reported missing, so he can be sleuthed.
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Moo, but if I had my druthers, I’d call them extreme techno-utilitarians. Not rationalists. They give folks like Descartes a bad name.If you’re interested in their ‘philosophy’, here’s a long read on the history of the ‘rationalist’ movement online. The Zizians were a sort of splinter group:
Extropia's Children, Chapter 1: The Wunderkind
Back in the nineties, a teenage supergenius joined a mailing list. That odd seed led, via Harry Potter, to today's Effective Altruism and AI Risk movements; bizarre cults; and the birth of Bitcoin. This is the surreal saga of Extropia's Children.
People were warning others about them back in 2020:
Yes, IMO they've ventured past old-fashioned philosophy into a new territory of quasi-psychological theories of self/consciousness/the meaning of life.
Imo, I think you are giving them too much credit. To me, it has less to do with a spiritual vacuum than a rationalization for a deeply held impulse.
Maybe they want to look creepy and "culty"... sorry not funny but kinda funny to me! lol
Could be, for those who become the cult leaders But what attracts the devoted followers? They treat the leader as a 'prophet', not as just an ordinary guy with some philosophical ideas.
I can see that. The two that look the same to me though are Jack LaSota and Gwen Danielson. At first I thought it was two different pictures of the same person
Scientology taking that turn was less a natural evolution than a deliberate decision made in order to avoid prosecution for practicing without a license that went off the rails, though I suppose it's possible they may have ended up there anyway.
Great comparison. Personally, I’m just a little bit prickly about the rationalism claim.
IIRC correctly Manson would approach very young runaways and kids/girls on the street who were vulnerable and isolated from their families however some of his core followers (Leslie and Tex as example if I remember) also came from good families and were decently educated.
They didn't necessarily have to get it from there. Internal struggle between male and female essences is present in plenty of dualistic schools of thought the world over going back ages (the Cathars had something similar, for instance). And contrary to the information at that link, 'two-spirit' as a concept is mostly a modern invention. It's an amalgamation of a broad range of traditions from many different North American cultures with widely varying degrees of resemblance to one another, with a LOT of input from white new age/gay liberation activists Will Roscoe and Harry Hay, who were themselves into a lot of things that could be described as cult-like as well as 'cultural appropriation'. That site glosses over them completely, and presents a supposed historical linguistic basis in Ojibwe when in fact it was first coined in English and then translated back.I think there are two different ideas, and a person tried to merge them, but not too well. One was a transformation of “two-spirit” concept borrowed from Native Americans.
The History of Two-Spirit Folks — The Indigenous Foundation
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But, since it is a cultural appropriation and shouldn’t be used by non-Natives, hence someone comes with the concept of two sides of the brain. Biologically, it makes little sense, IMHO.
About the animals. Trying to follow their logic. Yes, ironically, even in Chernobyl where you’d expect to see sick animals after the nuclear disaster, totally different thing happens, lots of rare species emerge and thrive. But taking us humans out won’t help because the next in line species will evolve into another us, that’s all. To me, it looks primitive and scary but also, it is the product of a very lonely mind. And yet some of them definitely were gifted kids. It seems that lack of contact during Covid changed a lot.
True, I may have been thinking more of followers such as TY appears to be. Some of their preoccupations - like the value of animal life, definitions of what it means to be 'good', achieving deep insights by tripping on psychedelics, seem to me more religious, in the sense of defining some aspects of life as being 'sacred'.
This is not correct. It is possible to match bullets (projectiles) that have been fired from a gun - but it depends on the extent to which the bullet has been deformed at impact. Many bullets recovered by ME’s / coroners in soft tissue are sufficiently intact that rifling marks can later be used match the bullet to a firearm (assuming the firearm is found). Please see below:
reading this.... " look, all these people just constantly emit vast profusions of words, many of them needless."If you’re interested in their ‘philosophy’, here’s a long read on the history of the ‘rationalist’ movement online. The Zizians were a sort of splinter group:
Extropia's Children, Chapter 1: The Wunderkind
Back in the nineties, a teenage supergenius joined a mailing list. That odd seed led, via Harry Potter, to today's Effective Altruism and AI Risk movements; bizarre cults; and the birth of Bitcoin. This is the surreal saga of Extropia's Children.
People were warning others about them back in 2020:
Just want to give props for referring to the Cathars! My favorite heresy.
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