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End of the Beginning

“Is this the end of the beginning? Or the beginning of the end? Losing control or are you winning? Is your life real or just pretend?” "End of the Beginning"

Going through my writings for the past year when I kept coming across instances where things just do not make sense to me. Not the words I write or topics I talk about, but rather ‘some’ of the takes of these topics by the random minorities of INTERNET TROLLS, Internet Subcultures, and others. The problem in general with Internet Subcultures are Internet Subcultures. However, I have already written about that and those extremely short and not very well thought out opinions of said topics of mine.

This year was marked by life after Hurricane Ian, with damage to the house, only now being repaired. Due to inflation, rising insurance premiums and cost of living going up while monies coming in are either static or going slowly in reverse we had to make serious concessions as to what we wanted for our home. The house is forever changed. We won’t get the pool cage replaced. The insurance pay out was half of what it will cost for a new one and the insurance for it could buy a brand new pool cage every three years. We went over a year without one, adapted our lives and maintenance around that and it has worked out to a point where we had the time to think about what we actually wanted and how much we had to pay with for it. Now that we have a real concept of what we want we are slowly getting that done.

I started the year’s Blogging on my fitness history and journey over the years. I am still at it. I have learned to train smarter, around my current limitations and I feel I look good for what I have had to go through with my ability to still train at a high level. This past year I wrote about the Buffalo Bills more than I have in the past over a one year span. I am probably not done. With how Buffalo is these days, there is usually something worth discussing every few weeks, let alone months. I wrote a lot about redefining Woke-Culture as ‘(Whoa)ke Cult-Lure.’ I wrote about that subject enough to be a target of trolling then doxing by a very persistent but small group of 40+Don’t-Matter-Progressives on a stupid platform that no one really uses called SpaceHey. SpaceGhey, is what most that know the platform call it.

“Reanimation of the sequence Rewind the future to the past. To find the source of the solution; The system has to be recast.” ~BLACK SABBATH

I did more movie reviews this year than I have done in recent years. I think I will continue this trend in 2024. When I do a review I tend to write about movies that I knew nothing about going into it and being very surprised at how good it was. I will also write about movies I saw that I thought were going to be good from the trailer and/or the plot write-up and the movie being so terrible that I had to write about all the things I hated about it. In great detail, of course. I do not always review films that everyone else has seen or is popular. I go by what I want to watch, not what the mass media and YouTube reviewers say I should watch.

Movies I wrote about this year:

• Infinity Pool (2023) • You People (2023) • Knock at the Cabin (2023) • Nefarious (2023) • Choke (2008) • Oppenheimer (2023)

Movies I briefly talked about this year:

• The Elephant Man (1980) • The Thing (1982) • Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) • Altered States (1980) • Tightrope (1984) • Communion (1989) • The Fourth Kind (2009) • The Entity (1982) • Prince of Darkness (1987) • Galaxy of Terror (1981)

Along with my thoughts on politics and political ideologies I also dove more into religion/faith using Christianity as the main example. The only reason Christianity gets mentioned the most when I talk about religion is because it tends to be the most popular or most obvious. Most of everyone has heard of the rumored, “son-of-God,” Jesus Christ. We have all heard the stories and all that. It is the easiest one to prove wrong as well, but we’ll save that for 2024 and beyond. I spent just as much time writing about Social Media, Music and technical blogs with aspects of using smart devices and using older accounts with those devices. It is sort of pain in the butt when something newer comes out and it isn’t exactly compatible with your main accounts because your main accounts are now two decades old. I have newer accounts sure, but none of them are as used as my main INTERNET accounts that have most of everything signed into them. Sometimes the process is overly complicated and I will take detailed notes as to how I came up with the solutions. I will write out the notes in the form of a blog to tell the tale or just a backup for myself if I ever have to deal with the problem again. I prepared another medical update that handles the past/present of my medical conditions in a better, more thorough, breakdown. I had to take a break from everything during the months of June and July due to being sick. A combination of getting the flu and medications having adverse effects on my body for my diabetes. We still have yet to get a real handle on controlling my blood sugars. Granted we have made some strides in the right direction but my sugars continue to be higher, even with the medications they give me. At the beginning of June is when I started receiving harassment from that contingent of hypersensitive 40+Don’t-Matter-Progressives on the SpaceGhey. After I handled that, went on vacation, came back, got sick again, did I begin writing again. I was sent an open survey by my county’s Democratic Party and they made the mistake of allowing the survey takers a textbox for every question to give people a chance to say what they want to say. I will tell you; I wish ALL multiple choice tests or surveys did this. I have always had a problem with the multiple choice approach. It lacks contextual-value. Not all questions are written with context in mind and they should. Anyway; I sent them a very detailed survey back with why I would never register to vote or vote for a Democratic Party representative in any form of Government. This sparked a little bit of a debate, as most assume if one isn’t a Democrat then by default they must be a Right-Wing-Trump Supporter, which isn’t true either. I do not support either one of them as my main way to express how I feel about politics.

Both are poor choices for social societal evolution.

I took mid-October and the first part of November writing about the Israeli/Palestinian War. I wrote about 8,791 words on the subject. I studied the history. I looked at opinions on both sides and I fact-checked most of the things that are being spewed as semantics but really are just rhetoric, where semantics is the study of real and true meanings of words and phrases and are based on credible facts. Where rhetoric only has to appear it is based on credible facts, but doesn’t actually have to include anything real, true or fact, merely that it only sounds plausible. I take the same approach when talking about ALL forms of religion. That is why religion is such a tough sell and extremely easy to dismiss when looking really hard at the science, logic and common sense on the subject. If one is Pro-Palestinian they will be very triggered by what I got to say, but if one is Pro-Israeli they will be just as disappointed in my resolve or opinion on the matter.

I finally got around to defining what “Two-Step Flow Theory for Idiots” is…

One of the last big things I talked about this year are the Ten Things That Terrified Me in Film/TV. Things I remember that freaked me out in a Movie. I am 45 now and a lot of these were seen when I was a kid. So 80s baby all the way. I really harp on “conceptual horror” over just visuals. “Conceptual Horror” would be imagining you as a child, in bed, feeling this sense that you are being watched. You cannot see anything, but you look in the darkest corners of your room to see BLACK and feeling there is something there that wants you to be terrified of its presence upon you. You get the distinct feeling this thing, this entity, wants to do bad things to you or at the very least make you do bad things to others or yourself. That to me, this uncertainty, this distinct feeling of “a harmful force upon you,” is terrifying and really the only thing that truly haunts me. That unknown feeling of dread by something you cannot quantify, but is in your space that is supposed to be yours and safe.

2023 was a year where I looked into AI more than I ever have. Both with using ChatGPT, and writing prompts or, “cheat codes,” for ChatGPT. I wrote a few blogs about AI and I will continue to do that. I also listened to the audiobook versions of the “Remembrance of Earth's Past” or known as (The Three-Body Trilogy) by Liu Cixin. Three-Body is a mind-bending existentially terrifying sci-fi journey that explores humanity's encounter with an alien civilization. From the deep of cosmic concepts to intricate political and philosophical threads, Three-Body is an exploration of the unknown, challenging our understanding of the Universe, reality, perspective, perception, existence itself. Very few science fiction novels actually change how I think. This series absolutely did that with its concepts of first contact, the dark forest theory, game theory, nihilism, time, relativity, relativistic time, reality possibly being an infinitely long loop, love, death, infinity, multiple-dimensional realities, macro and micro quantum reality, religion not being real and existentialism. I will do a bigger BLOG-breakdown of the series with heavy spoilers at some point in the future.

For 2024, I currently have fourteen Blogs scheduled as of right now. This doesn’t mean I will be writing only fourteen Blogs but that those are the ones I have multiple pages of notes on the subject for and want to tackle. I wrote 30 Blogs in 2023. Where only half of them were planned in advance. I do plan to continue to work on Fiction this year. I am hoping to complete something this year for sure. There has been and will be many changes to my life and how my family carries on its wayward son… I tend to say this every year that the year before was the worse year of my life. The same can go for 2023 as well but I think of it in different terms now.

On 12/22/2023, after I had just came back from one of my deep thinking sessions on my walks around the wooded area in my neighborhood, my father passed away. Dad would have been 70 on the first day of 2024. As a family, we elected not to post this on the typical social media posts on subjects like this. Being Friday evening and all, with Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and my Nephew’s Birthday a day after that we did not want to ruin anyone’s holiday. We didn’t want our friends and family to have to stop their lives for our misfortunes. The truth is my father has been extremely ill since 2004, even before that. I started noticing my Father’s health change in and around 1995-1996. During that time, and years to come, my father did very little to help himself with his health. The Doctor would instruct him to do A, B, C and my father would take that and create his own sense of D, E, F of it. Health declined every few years. Every few years the cycle would repeat itself. Every time he’d go to the ER or stay in ICU, he’d come back, a little bit less of himself and more zombie-like. 2021 my father finally hit a wall that he couldn’t just walk through and his strength and awareness around him would dwindle. The last thing to go is a person’s sense of self. Towards the end he would stop communicating like a normal person. He would talk to us sporadically but be less and less coherent and more and more incoherent. Finally, my father’s body could no longer hold out and he passed peacefully in his sleep. One minute he was resting then next he was just a vacant vessel for a human soul.

I am not exactly sure how to word all this to sound as it should. As I have said, largely my father hasn’t been around in the way we know him and all you may remember him for a very very long time. It is hard to really understand how I feel and think at this moment. I do not feel that sense of sudden loss that most tend to go through. Actually ALL my brothers feel like this about this specific situation. When I think about this now, on the last day of 2023 and the day before his birthday, is I revert to when I was a kid and we lived in Tampa, Sarasota and right when we moved to North Port, from when that all started in 1984-1991. That is really how I think of my dad now. I cannot really think about him as my father, near and after 1997. 1997-2001, I was just graduating High School, trying to figure out adulating, finishing school, working dead end jobs, then going to college and not having a single clue as to what I was supposed to do. My brothers were all in High School doing their thing. My mother was dealing with my father, who started his descent into what we ALL had to go through for the last 20 years. Guidance for me was non-existent and with friends that are no longer here in my life anymore. I picked film in college because I loved movies. I wanted to work behind a camera from the time I left High School to now. I picked that because of the love but also because it would get me away from here and having to deal with all this stuff my dad was going through and watching my friends’ transition into their current lives, both for the best and not the best of circumstances.

I never actually got out of here and my degree is/was a complete waste of time, energy, money, resources and false-hope. Granted I love what I know but wish I could at least make a living doing it over just writing about it. Now with my own mortality showing these same signs; I am the same age now that my father was in and around when he began his issues. I think about how much quality time I have to work on projects like this. Both time and the roadblocks that were there, that are no longer there, but other roadblocks still exist. I feel like 2024 will be an end of a new beginning and the beginning actually begins, now…

Reflections of the self and redemptive nature of living life and then eventually time catches up. The ultimate fate of us ALL is death, the light, the love, the life, the emptiness and despair of it ALL. "It's a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done before. A far better resting place I go to, than I have ever known." ~1859 novel by Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities” reused in the final moments of the 1982 film: “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.” The very first record/tape/music I ever purchased was Black Sabbath’s Paranoid per the recommendation of my father. I was 11…

Rest In Peace Dad… 1/1/1954-12/22/2023

“Release your mind. Fast forward to the secrets of your code. Your life's on overload. Delete or save…” "End of the Beginning" ~BLACK SABBATH Writer(s): John Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Terrence Butler

Finis Principia (Latin for; End of the Beginning) by David-Angelo Mineo 12/30/2023 2,737 Words

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Club Satan

This is a response about an article posted on my Facebook feed on an ‘after school Satan Club’ at a Memphis elementary school, and now at a local elementary school in my town for elementary school students. The article’s headline: “Satanic Temple plans ‘After School Satan Club’ at another elementary school…”

1st and foremost I do not support or favor any religion in general. If you ask me what I think happens when we die? That talk will be about 2.5 hours and using so many references, from science, to science fiction, fiction in general, philosophy, logic, critical thinking, sacred geometry, astrophysics, politics, numerology, etc. One or many wouldn’t even grasp most of these concepts at the beginner/novice level, let alone, understand the lack of general awareness that religion, in all its glory, is the number one killer of human beings in all the history of mankind. Not by predators, not by an asteroid strike in our distant past, not AIDS, not heart disease, drug addiction, cancer, the black plague, global wars or diabetes, hunger, lack of drinking water. Nope… Religion has killed more people than all these combined. So you will have to excuse my lack faith in religion as an ideology that benefits all of mankind. You will never see me say the opposite, ever…

It’s been suggested human beings have roughly been on Earth in our current form for around 300,000 years. While Christianity’s history is around 2,000 years old, give or take a few decades. That is a huge gap, over two orders of magnitude (2.18) older than the Christian faith. One can insert just about any history they would want with that gap of time. Plenty of time for interpretation, telling of stories that miss details or include details that never happened. The Bible very well could be the first science fiction novel ever written for all we know. Movies like; "Prince of Darkness," directed by John Carpenter in 1987, centers around a group of scientists investigating a mysterious cylinder filled with a pulsating green liquid discovered in an abandoned church. The film explores the notion that early humans misinterpreted profound forces as benevolent when, in reality, they embody darkness and destruction. As they study the liquid, they uncover disturbing revelations about its extraterrestrial origin and its connection to an ancient evil force that transcends time, space and reality as we know it. As the liquid is studied by the group, it is suggested that our ancestors, grappling with incomprehensible phenomena, crafted a narrative (Christianity) that skewed the reality of these entities. Portraying God as a symbol of life, love, and light rather than the “Anti-God,” a malevolent, primordial entity with the potential to bring about apocalyptic consequences. That we never know what this energy actually is, but it can only be described in Christian terms of “Satan’s Father” or the “Anti-God.” The “Anti-God” is not a being of life, light, and love but a force of death, darkness, and destruction, shedding light on the possibility that humanity's early interpretations were shaped by fear and misunderstanding rather than divine revelation. "Prince of Darkness" and other films that attempt to challenge viewers to reconsider established beliefs and contemplate the origins of religious narratives. That is just one example of how creativity and attempting to look at religion with an analytical mind over blindly accepting what is written as literal gospel/truth/facts.

In the article, the Satanic Temple clarifies its mission, “presenting itself as a non-theistic entity that interprets Satan as a metaphorical symbol, separate from the supernatural associations often assumed. The club's curriculum, contrary to misconceptions, focuses on science-based and inclusive activities, aiming to foster benevolence, empathy, critical thinking, problem-solving, creative expression, personal sovereignty, and compassion among participating children.” https://www.live5news.com/clubsatan

Just because the group says we do not teach about Satan in terms of religion doesn’t mean it isn’t about Satan. This one quote from the article destroys any credibility that the Temple may have had about what its mission and goals are with this club. I support the first amendment, but if we cannot have Jesus in public schools then there isn’t any room for Satan either. If a public school is gonna allow Christian-theme clubs in their school then based on the first amendment Satan should also have its say. The Jesus-Karens’ wanna cherry-pick when it is ok or not ok to break the law, as they always tend to look at the law as silly when compared to the laws in the Bible, which to me, is just as silly. These same people will openly break the law when it suits them and always point to the Bible as the one true law.

Now that is fine and dandy, but if we all have to follow the law, so do Jesus-Karens’.

The question of whether it is fundamentally wrong to teach religion of any kind, including topics like Jesus or Satan, in public schools:

• Separation of Church and State: Teaching religion in public schools “may be” seen as a violation of our 1st amendment rights as outlined in the constitution of the United States.

• Religious Diversity: Every individual in that school and every public school has their own personalized belief structure. It would be fundamentally wrong to choose one and make that the standard for everyone. Hence, why ALL separation of Church and State exists to begin with.

• Parental Rights: The responsibility for religious education lies with parents and religious institutions, not public schools. Public Schools across all of the United States has taken a bigger interest with our children the last decade or so. They have been fighting with lawmakers during this time attempting to gain rights’ to kids without their parents being notified. This subject can be a blog all by itself. Giving them free spaces to teach and practice “progressive” values, that are hardly progressive, in terms of progressing forward in a direction of enlightenment. However, what I see “progressives” doing isn’t going forward, which is what the word actually means. Instead, “progressivism” steers human thinking backward, under the pretense of moving forwards. Even if it is after school and 100% voluntary there is still pressure to promote these concepts and for kids to accept the invitation or be told “they are on the wrong side of history.” It is why Separation of Church and State and Religious Diversity above exist in the first place. This is the part I think the schools lack the most. There is pressure by people for them to help promote it and pressure for kids exposed to it to join. Where they are supposed to be spiritually safe…

• Focusing on Academics: Public schools are primarily institutions for academic education, and introducing religion diverts resources and time away from core subjects. How we can expect our kids to know Math, English, History if we have them confused about what comes after this life or not. Can kids be kids and worry about this garbage when they have real stress in their lives? My only real acceptation to the rule about religion in public schools is if religion is mention in Historical Context. I can give a pass on that, but that would be more for High School level kids learning about world history in a classroom for historical context. Not religion as the subject, but merely part of the story that is world history.

Parents shouldn’t have to be in this spot of being angry about this particular thing to begin with. When we send our kids to school. We trust they are safe: Mentally, Physically, Emotionally, Sexually and Spiritually. Let’s not forget the incident by the original Jesus-Karens in the 1980s when Al Gore and his wife tried to cancel Heavy Metal due to it promoting Satan and they lost, BIG, and were humiliated on live TV. When we buy a CD and it has the “Parental Advisory” sticker on it, that is their contribution to pop culture, gate keeping, and heavy metal.

If a school was a religious boarding school or something specific, a non-public school, then I’d get it why religion is in school, but public schools, na… I have no issue with some things about religion in schools like the pledge of allegiance and God being mentioned in it. I always interpreted the word “God” to mean “whatever creation myth one believes in,” and creation itself is a myth, not a fact but a myth. I believed this at 8-years-old.

I have three different categories for defining God and it is based on how we spell God. God (any and ALL Gods of religion) • GOD (The Universe itself is GOD, not a conscious being, just everything encompassed into one big thing called the Universe/GOD) • god (Sacred Geometry Spirit Energy, Nature, not necessarily a conscious entity).

The word “God” to me never meant solely the Christian God, just “god.” The pledge is fine how it is. As far as promoting Satan goes, I feel the same way. I joke about hailing Satan, but that is all it is, a joke. It is utterly ridiculous, just like thinking more than God just being an imaginary friend for grownups. I am actually making fun of Satan here not hating on Christian faith, specifically. I am a metalhead. Always have been. I never associated Satan worship with metal music, but there are subgenres of metal music that focuses on the worship of Satan and the destruction of all Catholicism. I think all faiths are part of the clown show. It doesn’t have a place in public schools, whatsoever, for just the few reasons I specified here. However, they probably are different for you and absolutely different for most other people.

I am an agnostic, which is just a fancy term for saying; "I do not possess the information to make an informed decision on whether or not the One-God-Creation-Myth is more than just a myth and if any of this is actually tangibly real in our reality." Agnostic is just saying we do not know enough to say God does or doesn’t exist so we just do not have a stance on it in the terms that believers and non-believers have their stance. By default both sides tends to label us as either believer or non-believer, which is why we are agnostic to begin with. Agnostics tend to not believe in binary information systems about reality.

That not everything is as simple as positive and negative…

“In the status quo of trial by social media; the facts have nothing to do with anything. No matter what you do, no matter what you prove, no matter what you dismiss, logical approach or common sense thought or thoughts about a topic, there is always going to be people on a keyboard that will project the reality that they would like, that most fits with what they want to believe and have that all based on hurt feelings and sentimental opinion on every issue. Every issue is split in half or binary nowadays. There are no winners in this and the lives that are directly affected by it will never be the same.” ~me, September. 2023.

Every topic is so polarizingly binary: yes/no, us/them, good/evil, right/wrong, left/right, zero/one, gay/straight, black/white, man/woman, Jew/Muslim, Life/Death. You get the idea. Sources are biased, especially ones from the great religions of the world, the legacy news media from both left/right sides. Both spin their takes as pandering of right/wrong vs what right/wrong actually are. Both sides always paint the other side as: wrong, bad, evil, while always labeling themselves as correct, good and just. In binary information systems both sides cannot be these things. They must be one or the latter, ALWAYS…

The great flaw I see here with Jesus/Satan in public schools is we cannot have one without the other. If you have pro-Jesus after school programs in public schools then one or many must allow the latter that same respect. I have written at length this year about binary information systems and how they formulate, shape, our opinions and positions in reality. They are not what they are supposed to be, but the point I am making here is in public schools both should not be allowed. I agree with most that Satanism is just as much a religious faction as Christianity is even though they are saying in the argument that they are “presenting itself as a non-theistic entity that interprets Satan as a metaphorical symbol, separate from the supernatural associations often assumed. The club's curriculum, contrary to misconceptions, focuses on science-based and inclusive activities, aiming to foster benevolence, empathy, critical thinking, problem-solving, creative expression, personal sovereignty, and compassion among participating children.”

If you are a Christian parent and you want to protect your children from teachings that go against your faith, the public school system would probably not be trustworthy places to safeguard those concepts for your children. The public school systems are working to strip rights from parents so they can teach your kids what “they” value, not what “you” value…

Should be noted that just because I personally loathe religion of any kind, I do not hate people for choosing a religion/faith. It is your entitled right to choose what you want to believe. My only, real, issue with any of it is the forcing the beliefs on everyone and shunning those that choose not to listen.

Religion, to me, are the original Karen's of civilization, but I am not going to trash my brothers/sisters, family and friends for believing. I encourage freedom of choice, freedom thinking and being free to believe in what you want to believe. That is the beauty of this country and the beauty of the greatest document ever created, the constitution of the United States of America. It is the projecting of religious concepts over the Bill of Rights onto other people that tends to rile me up on the subject.

I have said this before about religion and religious folks:

"If one or many make religion/faith about them, internally, and not about empathy, love and support for others then the message they believe in and support is the wrong one. You have missed the point if you ever think this is all about you… The second you do that, the battles and wars you wage in the name of that faith are perverted, fundamentally and logically wrong. If you believe in hell, you are more than likely already on that ‘one-way ticket to midnight, call it, Heavy Metal…’”

Club Satan by David-Angelo Mineo 12/15/2023 2,417 Words

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2023 Updates!

Hi, friends!

I've spent the entire Mars + Mercury Rx re-doing my website, honing in on what I want to write about, what I want to say, what art I want to create, and how to move forward. I took Late Nov until Mid-January deciding how I want to show up in the world since 2020 completely destroyed my career AND my performing gigs. I have realized that I have an entirely clean slate, and I should make the best of it!

Not only am I in school, but I am a performer, and have a Patreon where I get to express myself, and share my favorite retro or retro-sounding movies, artists, music, and games with everyone. It is a collab with my partner, The Astral Stereo Project. Together we are Starship Lounge Productions [ formerly Van Astral Production ]. We have a lot planned for this year, so if you're into that, give us a follow!

I am also a singer and lyricist for a band called Gemini Paladin. We just released our first E.P. called " A Stellar Occultation ", and you can check it out on bandcamp, and support us if you'd like!

As for the website, The Mad Sorceress Grimoires, I listened to trusted friends talk about my strengths as a writer and artist, and re-did the appearance of my blog, as well as edit all of the blog posts. You can check out my posts here, like my post about working with the energy of Mars in a Sagittarian 8th House [ my natal placement! ]. I figured since Mars is direct in the opposite sign of Sag [ Gemini ], it's a good time to hype the post up again.

Anyway, I am SO amped up for this year. I feel like I have been planning stuff since LAST year, and I am finally able to tackle these projects.

Talk soon, everyone!

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“De cele mai multe ori te obişnuieşti greu, la început, să-ţi placă femeia fără care mai târziu nu mai poţi trăi. Iubeşti întâi din milă, din îndatorire, din duioşie, iubeşti pentru că ştii că asta o face fericită, îţi repeţi că nu e loial s-o jigneşti, să înşeli atâta încredere. Pe urmă te obişnuieşti cu surâsul şi vocea ei, aşa cum te obişnuieşti cu un peisaj. Şi treptat îţi trebuieşte prezenţa ei zilnică. Înăbuşi în tine mugurii oricăror altor prietenii şi iubiri. Toate planurile de viitor ţi le faci în funcţie de nevoile şi preferinţele ei. Vrei succese ca să ai surâsul ei.”

- Camil Petrescu (Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război)

[mineofilms]

Reflection on Idocracy

Going through my writings for the past year when I kept coming across instances where things just do not make sense. Not the words I write or topics I talk about, but rather ‘some’ of the takes’ of these topics by the minorities of INTERNET TROLLS, Internet Subcultures, and others. The problem in general with Internet Subcultures are Internet Subcultures. The media and a significant portion of the general public, are not familiar with or understand Internet Subcultures. To them it’s a word that has no contextual meaning. The divide in perception between those who are immersed in Internet Subcultures and those who are not are treated as social pariahs by the lot. The lot is mostly passive users, which tend to outnumber those immersed. The memes, the butt of the jokes, the sarcasm, and being closely associated to the WOKE subculture.

Being Labeled Liked This Infuriates These People.

WOKE, Progressivism, Influencers are Internet Subcultures and are also one massive subculture encompassing all three. It is really “(Whoa)ke Cult-Lure.” I can also do a play on words. It is WHOA man, whoa… It is also cult-like and a culture of lure… So I feel this spelling categorizes it very well. Everyone wants to be important. Everyone wants to belong to some group, any group, as long as they accept them. It’s golden... It really isn’t that hard when we shove devices in our kid’s faces for nearly three decades now and only a very small percentage of people properly shielded those same kids from the nonsense insanities of reality displayed through the INTERNET.

Is It Really A Surprise We Are Here?

(Whoa)ke Cult-Lure Activists go to extreme lengths to try to challenge what is actually being said. I tend to call this “tunnel vision,” but in reality is it known as "hasty generalization" or "jumping to conclusions." When an opinion is formed, based on a very limited or small sample of data and makes assumptions to generalize their viewpoint. A lot of the time these assumptions are based on subjective feelings. They are simply pissed off and making all their assumptions on those “hurt feelings,” and them “wanting to be right for the sake of being correct, without engaging in logical argumentation.” There is a tendency to attack the character of individuals who challenge their semantics, which isn’t semantics, but rather rhetoric disguised as semantics, than addressing the substance of their arguments. They just want to be right all the time, to make you look bad for challenging their pseudo-logic, and now they are pissed off on top of the needy desire to be correct about their assumption. You must comply or be the target of their anger. Sounds like a child doesn’t it? In most cases it is a child. Granted I feel adulating has now regressed to a point I consider under 25 child-like…

I have recently attempted to redefine (Whoa)ke Cult-Lure into a smaller phrase that, could say, fit on X (formally known as Twitter), which is as follows... “WOKE is both a Subculture and Internet Subculture that attempts to make minority issues displayed as majority issues and those issues be labeled as normal and/or everyday ‘FACTS...’”

Internet Subcultures are just that; minorities of the Internet. There are just a bunch of them out there, but at the end of the day. They are small, micro, mini when compared to all the people that use social media, that use the Internet, in general. Most people do not know what some of them even are, let alone most of them. Each group acts entitled as if their group warrants equality and respect by default without the majority of us even knowing what they stand for and are about. Their expectations from the rest of the lot, "us," do not even make logical sense in most cases. When you have some of the smartest people in the world going from respected scientist to all of a sudden saying one day; “I can wake up feeling like a female, one day I can wake up feeling like a male, and why do you care?” How does that actually work in the 0’s and 1’s, X’s and O’s, exactly?

What has been getting under my skin lately is the CLICHÉ of the (Whoa)ke Cult-Lure.

Of course these people are now calling themselves “content creators” or “influencers” on YouTube. Of course they say triggering shit. Of course they stand on one side of the fence while trashing the other side. Of course they are experts on making money and picking up sexual partners, bling blang this/that. If they were so successful at these things why are they spending hours of their days on YouTube and TikTok talking about it? If I went from broke to bling one or many probably would never see me on the social media, ever lol... How much more cliché can these self-proclaimed professionals get these days? As someone who follows the arts, (film, music and multimedia), studied the arts, contributed to the arts, worked my ass off to be part of the arts. Why exactly am I supposed to care about non-trained, nonprofessional "creators," losing their meal ticket so they do not have to go into the world, deal with real people and get a real job? Let us not forget the word 'creator' was made up to give NON-Professionals a title. It was ok in the early days but now this has become the (Whoa)ke Cult-Lure’s meal ticket. I want to ad, I say Non-Professional because do these channels have legal representation, a manager, an agent, are they in a Union for what they do, do they possess any educational degrees in psychology, fitness, finance, film, photography or any other subject where they are acting like a real counselor? Again, why would I want to get help on life's challenges from people that literally decided one day they were an ‘influencer’ or a ‘life-coach.’ If they are consoling people talking about the real world. In the real world... You have to go to school, get degrees, get certifications, pass board exams to be a life coach, which is just a fancy word for a personalized psychiatrist that takes even more time on you than the one to two hours a week you go to your everyday psychiatrist for.

Come on mannnnnnn... Who the FK you BS'n' here? I know people fall for this shit. I have a group of friends that also do this and they are soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo FAKE. Everything they do is another sale's pitch. Is it a life-scam, well, not really, but it also sort of is. Crazy That The FK'n Internet Melts for These People...

Of course, it's a pronoun thing over a biology thing. Of course, they put down anything that discredits their logic of non-facts displayed as FACTS. Of course, they use phrases like "fact of the matter,” or “matter of fact." Of course, they say air quotes FACTS a lot, but when you look at their facts and what they are built upon one or many cannot find anything fact-building but belief and opinion solely...

If I am Anti-Anything it is Anti-Cliché...

Even this Pop-Metal artist. Kim Dracula, who I like. The music is good, its heavy and catchy. Hell of a voice and can scream with the best of metal vocalists, is a walking, talking, FK'n cliché of what he represents. It is now cool to be a 40-year-old scene kid, with a (whoa)ke personality acting Goth? If anything, I just want people to stop being a walking, talking FK'n cliché of what they represent and be original with their own original thoughts on a subject, any subject, other than regurgitating someone else’s opinion as their own (Two-Step Flow Theory)... They talk and talk……and talk. Monologues/Reaction videos from other two-step flow-theory practitioners.

The More We ALL Are Supposed To Know...

My thoughts and feelings have not changed on the concepts on the subject of binary information systems. I have also written quite a bit on the issue of minorities in 2023, specifically the LGBTQIAA+/- or whatever they are calling themselves now, I really do not know anymore. The simple response is I support real people that are LGBT but do not support the QIAA+/-. It isn’t the topic of sexuality that bugs me here, I could care less about gay people, what they represent and all that. Great for them. If they want to be gay or trans. It doesn’t bug me like it bugs others, but it is the same thing I always argue about: rhetoric being labeled as semantics. Where rhetoric, by definition, does not require facts to be in the argument, only that it merely sounds like they are. Semantics deals with the actual meanings of words, phrases, sentences, and larger units of language. The meanings in the words would require logical, real, facts and not pseudo-facts where ‘pseudo’ literally means ‘made-up.’ The one part of this that I have always challenged is this all comes down to what a real, true, fact is and what isn't. Facts are obtained by the scientific method, not faith or a/the belief of it. Belief is just that, a belief, a thought that something is real/true. One believes this, whatever this is, to be true. A fact is taking that belief and proving it is actually real and/or true in the real world.

Belief Cannot Do That...

We as a species do not share a collective agreement that these two very separate things, beliefs and facts, are not one in the same. They are not. They do work together, but they are also very independent of one another. Facts cannot be solely based on belief and opinion alone. Fact requires real proof the concept is real. When the two-sided coin is broken down; both sides spew facts that are really based on opinion and belief solely and have no real tangible factual data to support it. Hence you see both sides melting the FK down, constantly.

I truly believe peoples of ALL walks of life should be able to exist, be free and live how they want to live. Most people stand for this. However, simply disagreeing with LGBTQIAA+/-‘s comments where I support normal LGBT peoples’ and tend to not agree/support the QIAA+/-‘ers doesn't make a person a LGBT-phobe. That is a big part of the problem. Most really do not care about LGBT people, in general. Hell, even the abbreviation LGBT is sadly misleading. They are such a small minority that they are lumped into one massive subculture group called LGBTQIAA+/- where most people that are "real" LGBT do not care about all this stuff. It is the QIAA+/- that gives the LGBT a bad rap just like BLM give Black Americans a bad rap. I say it all the time:

“Don't be a walking, talking, acting cliché of the very things one will stand for, believe in, support and claim to be.” That right there will gain people nothing but hate and contempt. One or many cannot argue pseudo-facts with logic and real FACTS obtained by the scientific method.

They Will Lose Every Time. Not Some of the Time or Once in a While, but ALL-OF-THE-TIME...

Just because a person or group want something to be real and true actually doesn't make it real and/or true. Its ok to be Gay, both sexes, silly there is a word for each gender to describe what gay is. That just adds to the logical fallacy of it all. It’s ok to be trans. It’s not ok to flip flop logic, science, common sense and critical thinking because one day a person and/or a minority of people choose to be this/that. Using children to gain support for behavior that is clearly not acceptable by the masses, aka the majority, is not ok. It is NOT NORMAL… Reality doesn't work that way, but a lot of mental illnesses do. To me, this is more of that attention seeking stuff that other people need to acknowledge their struggle. They are wrong. They’re ALL wrong. You know why? EVERYONE STRUGGLES, Including LGBT, blacks, whites, me. Everyone does. No group or single person is a special unique little snowflake that requires special treatment because they are gay/trans, whatever. Most people do not care. However, we all care when they force it on everyone as normal behavior and it isn't normal. Normal by definition is what the majority is and what the minority is not, but wants the label of normal to be associated to them. That is the big main difference between the word normal and how it is associated to a majority group and to a minority group. It literally means different things to each group. The definition has not changed, but how minorities look at all definitions has. The only way they can justify changing the definition of normal is to change every definition of every word that shatters their very small logic-bubble of; ‘this is only real because they believe it is real. No other tangible information exists on the subject.’

The main reason why is one word... Minority... In the United States, that isn’t so united anymore, it is widely accepted that only 5% of all people are LGBT. For trans only, it is 0.6%. These numbers are not exact but they are accepted by most statisticians. Not only is LGBT a minority but they are so small they have to be lumped into one acronym. “(Whoa)ke Cult-Lure is both a Subculture and Internet Subculture that attempts to make minority issues displayed as majority issues and those issues be labeled as normal and/or everyday ‘FACTS…’” If we disagree, or combat this with logic, real facts, common sense we are called “phobes” of some sort or called a bigot or racist. During all this the logic is never challenged by these people. They spend all their time trying to defame you; while never even bothering to tackle the subject matter at hand. Never, do (Whoa)ke Cult-Lure practitioners ever attempt to combat this with real logic, common sense or FACTS, other than the ones they believe to be true, but cannot actually prove to be true, or just made up, which is why the word ‘pseudo’ keeps popping up.

‘Pseudo’ Literally Means “Made Up…”

This victim mentality we deal with over here in the United States about race and gender is a big problem. We have to use some common sense, some logic here. One or many cannot assume because they were treated badly in one place for a thing like skin color, would be the same in other places. One cannot logically say Norway is the same as the USA in that respect. Like you couldn’t say the same thing about China and Norway. That really would be a stupid assumption. However, people do not get a pass because they look at their skin color and feel they are entitled to something more than everyone else and/or the flipside of that where they are being punished more than anyone else.

That is what Racism is.

Treating someone different in either direction of positive or negative based on the color of their skin.

If it is a miscommunication then, yeah, they should just say something about it and be like "our bad." I get it… It is super cringe and embarrassing to make a generalized assumption about someone or a situation and then be corrected and have to deal with that, on the spot, in front of the very people you just hastily judged and insulted. However, this situation was of your creation. Be humble. Admit you are wrong and apologize and just move on with your life. However, what tends to happen is they will double down on that judgement and attempt to force their judgement to be right or correct anyways, even though they are clearly wrong. I will not support or stick up for people that tend to:

1) Play the victim card if a situation doesn't go their way. —AND — 2) Using race/gender/sexual orientation as the underlying issue where it clearly had nothing to do with the situation. Ego to self is just as damaging as fear is the mindkiller to Paul Atreides from DUNE...

If one or many make religion/faith about them, internally, and not about empathy, love and support for others then the message they believe in and support is the wrong one. You have missed the point if you ever think this is all about you… The second you do that, the battles and wars you wage in the name of that faith are perverted, fundamentally and logically wrong. If you believe in hell, you are more than likely already on that “one-way ticket to midnight, call it, Heavy Metal…”

When someone thinks their religious beliefs are all about them and that God is talking directly to them personally, it's like they're making it all about themselves. Sounds egotistical doesn’t it? Sounds like narcissistic-sociopathy doesn’t it? This self-centered view distorts the real message of religion, which is about being humble and caring for others. True inner peace comes from understanding and connecting with others, not from thinking you're special or the chosen one. If someone twists religion to boost their ego, they miss the point and lose the peace that comes from being part of a bigger, more caring community. It's like missing the forest for the trees in a spiritual sense.

And this is coming from an agnostic who isn’t right or left… Just something to think about. The more we ALL are supposed to know… Something to think on with how you defend your opinions on the social media from people who challenge them, but do not actually challenge them, it is you they challenge, passive-aggressively. I am not intimidating… Others are just the intimidated. There is a difference. I am not mean, hostile or aggressive. I am direct, honest, logical and assertive. That makes weaker minds uncomfortable. It is not ME that makes them uncomfortable, my LOGIC challenges their comfort.

“In the status quo of trial by social media; the facts have nothing to do with anything. No matter what you do, no matter what you prove, no matter what you dismiss, logical approach or common sense thought or thoughts about a topic, there is always going to be people on a keyboard that will project the reality that they would like, that most fits with what they want to believe and have that all based on hurt feelings and sentimental opinion on every issue. Every issue is split in half or binary nowadays. There are no winners in this and the lives that are directly affected by it will never be the same.” ~David-Angelo Mineo 9/21/2023

There is always going to be racist people out there. There are always going to be sexist people out there. There is always going to be gender-mad people out there. There is always going to be binary thinkers out there. The more we point to a person, any person, and either take away or give them a better quality of life, due to their skin color, sexual orientation, gender and even creed that in and of itself is what racism is. Granted there may be times when it rears itself, but not all of the time, and not even most of the time.

You Know Who Does That? You Know Who Are Like That?

People in large cities, people that play the victim card as their main argument and the national media. They are the only very large groups of people that show outright racist tendencies. You cannot blame the individual human or extremely small group, (minorities), that has the predisposition on skin color, gender and creed. They are gonna believe what they believe. It is all our jobs to show people this isn’t a thing over trying to find something, anything, anywhere, that one could say: “Oh, this is racist.” I don’t know. Is it racist if the assumption is correct and has factual data to back that assumption up? I myself am a minority… Minority means, minor, not many, not all, not most, but “some.” Racists, Anti-Semitic groups and sentiment are the minority…

In the age of old wisdom, where our minds become fortresses, much like the Matrix itself. As we age, it's as if our beliefs are coded into the very fabric of the Matrix. Resistant to change is futile, just like the lines of code running through the digital world, all at once, everywhere. Trying to challenge those hardcoded mental algorithms is like attempting to cheat code their way through and outside the Matrix. Imagine This: You've spent your life devoted to a religion, any religion, it doesn’t matter, not unlike Neo discovering the truth about the Matrix. Now, envision reaching your twilight years and contemplating a religious about-face. It's not just a conversion; it's a full-on Matrix glitch that shakes the very foundation of your miniscule existence. You'd have to reassess your relationships, daily rituals, and maybe even your own identity – it's like waking up from a simulated reality designed to make you feel comfortable, but just enough to keep you believing this is all real. Let's not forget the thrill of political loyalty, something akin to being a red or blue pill devotee for three decades. Admitting you were wrong? That's not just a change of political allegiance; it's an existential revelation that shatters your entire worldview. Your entire belief structure crumbles. Your personalized system is shutting down. The thought of reconsidering your understanding of the world, faith, belief, reality, your moral compass, and your sense of community. It's like experiencing the black cat glitch, where you see the same black cat over and over, defying practical logic, leaving you questioning the very fabric of your reality.

Now, compare this with the malleable minds of the youth in the 2020s. They're like the newbies entering the Matrix, devoid of the baggage of decades worth of habits and relationships. Their beliefs are more open to new inputs and ready for programming. It's so much easier to sway them because, let's face it, they don't have the baggage of a lifetime supply of Matrix cheat codes shaping their worldview. It's like introducing a young person to sexual gratification for the first time and they never even knew what sex was, what sexual gratification was, let alone a phrase that describes it. To the wonders of the Matrix using a red pill - they're wide-eyed and open to the experience. The philosophical idea that adult humans already have their own firmly held ideals and beliefs. Plato's philosophy of the cave. The prisoners in the cave only knew their reality as shadows cast in front of them. Plato argued that if you freed one of those prisoners and forced them to look into the real world, they at first, refuse and resist this reality. They would have trouble accepting that what they always believed was real, was really just a very clever and intelligent illusion to manipulate them and their acceptance of the simulated reality. Good luck convincing someone who's been plugged into a Matrix-like reality for a lifetime. That there's a whole real world out there. They'll resist, deny, and probably start questioning your sanity for suggesting such a thing in the first place. Most delusional people will project their own truths onto other people. It is up to every individual to see this projection and not accept it till you yourself have been able to look into the validity of those projections. Changing core beliefs for them is like realizing they've been living in a Matrix simulation all along, and who wants to feel like their whole life has been a digital construct?

A dream? A false reality? Or NOTHING AT ALL? Completely Meaningless and Purposeless…

There is an idea of love and peace, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real love, no real peace, only a false sense of discourse, a construct of something illusionary, and though we can hide our cold hatred and we can shake our heads and feel love, hate, peace, life, death and maybe we can even sense our lives may actually be comparable in some small, but yet, insignificant way: we simply are not there. We are not listening. We are not paying attention. We ignore the fake cries, the real cries. We roll our eyes, jump on the social media to share our thoughts and feelings and be bullied because we will not concede that backward is now the new forwards under the ruse that is “progressivism.” We have all the characteristics of human beings—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but our tendencies to depersonalize is so intense, had gone so deep, that our normal ability to feel compassion and empathy had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure of the human spirit, life, love and then death. We are simply imitating a reality, not creating one. There is a rough resemblance of human beings in us all, with only a dim corner of our minds, bodies and souls functioning at a high enough level to even notice where the on/off switch is. If time is the fire in which we burn then it must be our basic human ego that fuels ALL TIME...

"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. It's only after we've lost EVERYTHING that we're FREE to do ANYTHING. You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world." "The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide." "Self-improvement is masturbation. Maybe self-destruction is the answer." — Chuck Palahniuk, "FIGHT CLUB"

meditatio in idocratia Latin for (Reflection on Idocracy) by David-Angelo Mineo All Through 2023 4,312 Words