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Le Monde diplomatique on Iran and Israel

For my personal notes and commentary, see my writing on Google Blogger:

EGO SVM, in my Miranda Priestly mode: I do not understand. Do journalists need to go back to junior high to learn the alphabetical order of proper nouns? Am I reaching for the stars here?

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Thank you to everyone who got me to 50 likes!

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Liberal and Glad For It

Being liberal is just fine, without enforced ideology. Just freedom of the mind and will, without constant navel-gazing, and at the same time, respecting nature, life, and humanity.

It would appear that “woke” has taken on an ideological route, which is disconcerting to quite an extent. It’s a good thing that it's mainly an American phenomena, and mainstream Europeans are frankly not interested. As a de facto European, I happen to be one of them.

Some French commentators have made a point that the election (and reëlection after a hiatus) of the actual “hocus-potus gone wrong” is due to a mass rejection of woke ideology… who knows? That which I know is that enforced ideology is never a good thing. It usually gets replaced by another.

Text and commentary © The Anthropoïd Poët 2025

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A Personal Note on Tumblr Blogs

For the sake of my sanity, I am unfollowing nearly all blogs that primarily publish and/or reblog US political drama. There has to be a limit to this insanity.😒

I'm not even in that country, and do not intend to be so anymore, even if I was preselected for the Green Card visa. Given the actual chaotic status due to a madman at the helm, I suppose that I have seen more than my fair share of this travesty of democracy. I mean, didn't the Americans learn anything from 2016 to 2020? Are they that oblivious to reality? 🙄

Wishing the US-Americans the best for their future. Hopefully, there will be a light at the end of the tunnel (and a skeptic would say, "usually that of an oncoming train!") I just pictured Wile E. Coyote in my mind's eye. 🐺😅

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Another Mini-Heatwave Before Summer

As I have downloaded and joined the Vivaldi browser community, I get to publish on a free Wordpress blog.

Vivaldi’s servers are said to be based in Norway and Iceland.

Would I be using much less of Google Blogger? I don’t know. But I do know that Tumblr and Wordpress belong together.

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A Vast Old Religion — D.H. Lawrence

“It was a vast old religion, greater than anything we know: more starkly and nakedly religious. There is no God, no conception of a god. All is god. But it is not the pantheism we are accustomed to, which expresses itself as "God is everywhere, God is everything." In the oldest religion, everything was alive, not supernaturally but naturally alive. There were only deeper and deeper streams of life, vibrations of life more and more vast. So rocks were alive, but a mountain had a deeper, vaster life than a rock, and it was much harder for a man to bring his spirit, or his energy, into contact with the life of a mountain, and so draw strength from the mountain, as from a great standing well of life, than it was to come into contact with the rock. And he had to put forth a great religious effort. For the whole life-effort of man was to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain-life, cloud-life, thunder-life, air-life, earth-life, sun-life. To come into the immediate felt contact, and so derive energy, power, and a dark sort of joy. This effort into sheer naked contact, without an intermediary or mediator, is the root meaning of religion...”

― D.H. Lawrence

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If only…

The ferocious evangelical churches (mostly US-based) that were hell-bent in trying to convert me since my teenage years predicted that such an “event” would take place in the Year 2000. What the hell happened?

Twenty-five years later, and the religious nuts are getting crazier and crazier. What happened to the “deux ex machina” that was supposed to take them away, and leave the rest of us in real peace and freedom?

It could be that it was the “deus ex machina” that had the Y2K bug, after all. Or an asteroid got in the way of the “father-ship” like the iceberg did for the Titanic. Who knows?

One thing is for certain: It is practically impossible to convert me into following any political or religious ideologies.

Credits and kudos to the cartoon creator-s.

Text and commentary by Razz © The Anthropoïd Poët 2025

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Yogic Wisdom for Moderates

“Be happy for those who are happy, be compassionate toward those who are unhappy, be delighted for those who are virtuous, and be indifferent toward the wicked.” 

~ Patāñjali, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, via Josh Kramer Yoga on Instagram.

N.B. This statement applies at a personal level, so as to keep one’s mind at peace. This should not be taken at a state level with applicable laws and legislations, if they still exist (here’s looking at you, U.S.A!). A state cannot exist as an ochlocracy, that is the essence of human civilization. Even in the so-called “primitive” tribes (here’s using 19th century colonial-style positivist language), there are observable rules and regulations to which everyone adheres. In not doing so, the risks involve getting exiled or shunned for good, if not eaten, thrown into a volcano, or fed to the sharks (in three simplistic examples).

Commentary by Razz © The Anthropoïd Poët 2025

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LEMVRIA III : Medusa, Looking Atchya 👁️👁️🫣

Medusa is rather “stunning,” isn't she?

My personal question from seeing this meme: Can we wear himations and togas in public again? I'd love to wear a toga virilis.

[Credits: Meme by a certain “Adam the Creator.”]

Text by Razz ©️ The Anthropoïd Poët 2025

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LEMVRIA II

In the Ancient Roman religious culture (I am using neutral anthropological terms as much as possible, and the anthropological present), Lemuria comprises three days of May honoring yet banishing the dead from one’s house. Friday was the first day, today the second, and Tuesday will be the third.

My own way to celebrate the first evening of Lemuria (the beginning of the weekend) was to watch two horror movies, the first of which was the first time for me, although I remembered Dale Midkiff from Time Trax when I was a kid. The second brought back memories of my very early clubbing days, and the jitters during heavy turbulence…

No more Boeing flights for me, as their manufacturing strategy has taken on a game of Russian roulette. Boeing (737 Max) is unsafe.

Live life to the max (an old Pepsi Max slogan). One must not let it slip away like sand through an hourglass, because it usually does.

Trailer N° 1:

Trailer N°2:

Text by Razz © The Anthropoïd Poët 2025

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Troublesome Tumblr?

Troublesome Tumblr, get your act together, for crying out loud.

Screenshot of a mutual’s post labeled as “potentially mature content.”

This is more of a Deep Ecological post, rather than “mature content.”

Is there a limit to Tumblr’s troublesome incompetence? One wonders.

The post simply says, “The more we listen to nature, the more she teaches us.”

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Tumblr Parasitizing Automattic Inc.?

An extra suggestion: Tumblr may need to go non-profit or not-for-profit like BlueSky or Mastodon.

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The Best Romantic Horror Movie ? (update)

Since Tumblr had unreasonably flagged my original post here, I am reposting via Google Blogger, with an update.

See, just how easy it is to move on to another platform, especially when one has publishing skills?

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Science and Religion in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Credits: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)

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Two strikes …

Anyway, I am on Google Blogger (Big Tech again, for now). If anyone would like to follow me, here’s the link — it’s still burgeoning, but I may transfer my posts from Tumblr:

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Fran Fine being demure…

When getting (too many) messages from unwanted whore-monal ladies, one could respond like this. Just a friendly suggestion.

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Tumblr has lost its “mind”