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One gets this when saying that one has had enough of Paris as well…
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Speaking from experience, of course.
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Le Monde diplomatique on Iran and Israel

For my personal notes and commentary, see my writing on Google Blogger:
Edit: 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?
#Le Monde diplomatique#Brief notes#Commentary and critique#Subscribe to LMD#LMD = Le Monde diplomatique#Google Blogger#Names in Alphabetical order please#World Peace#We need world peace#I in my Miranda Priestly mode#More like Man-railing Priestly#Miranda Priestly
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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.
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#Eleanor Roosevelt#Liberal#Liberal and glad for it#No need to go overboard with any ideology#Rejecting American ideologies#no dogma#Call me an old fashioned liberal#A good ol’ liberal
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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. 🐺😅
#no more US political drama#chapter closed#sanity comes first#not my country not my problem#I'm better off and safer in Europe#Stop in the name of humanity#might delete later
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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.
#Mini Heatwave#Third Heatwave#It’s not Summer yet officially#Climate Change#Climate Crisis#Global Warming#Vivaldi Browser#Vivaldi Browser from Norway#Servers in Norway and Iceland#Free Wordpress Blog on Vivaldi#Wordpress allows footnotes
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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

#D.H. Lawrence#A vast old religion#deep ecology#dypøkologi#écologie profonde#Reading opens the mind#books and reading#books & libraries#Lady Chatterley’s Lover#His first “banned" book that I read in early adulthood#Banned books are the best#Banned books#Download his books from Project Gutenberg#Project Gutenberg#Quote from Goodreads#Kobo Reader#Kobo Canada#Kobo Reader is better than Kindle Reader
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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
#deus ex machina#Y2K bug#deus ex machina had a Y2K bug#Internet image#the titanic ship of the deus ex machina hit an asteroid or what?#it’s been too long#more like …#it’s been 84 years#now that I think of the Titanic movie
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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
#Yogic Wisdom#Patanjali#Ancient Indian Wisdom#quote#Let’s be moderate#All things in Moderation#Josh Kramer Yoga#via instagram#via Blogspot#Blogspot#Tumblr has gone beyond Victorian prudishness#A Pacific Islander of Indic descent with an Oceanic mentality
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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
#Medusa#Hellenic Mythology#Greek Mythology#Medusa was the original victim#Ancient Greek Myth#Know your classics#Ancient “Pagan” Powers#Distracted Boyfriend#Distracted Boyfriend meme
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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:
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Trailer N°2:
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#Lemuria#Ancient Roman Death Cultus#Pet Sematary#Pet Sematary 1989#Sometimes dead is better#Stephen King#Dale Midkiff#Final Destination#No one cheats death#Jitters on a plane#No Boeing 737 Max for me#Boeing is unsafe#If it’s Boeing I ain’t going#Live Life to the Max#An “old" Pepsi Max slogan#Youtube
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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.”
#Wake up Tumblr#Deep Ecology#Dypøkologi#This is not mature content#Incompetence at Tumblr#Details of your incompetence do not interest me#Is is possible for Tumblr to function normally?#Matt Mullenweg#Tumblr Staff#David Karp
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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.
#Corporate Communications#Tumblr parasitizing Automattic Inc#Matt Mullenweg#Automattic Inc#Automattic Incorporated#Tumblr needs to go non-profit or not-for-profit#PepsiCo dumping KFC and Pizza Hut#Also cogitating creating a Mastodon account#European Social Media#Mastodon#Tumblr alternative#Wordpress#Wordpress is important for the web#Wordpress is more important than Tumblr#Wordpress is important#PepsiCo Inc.
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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?
#Francis Ford Coppola#Bram Stoker’s Dracula#The Best Romantic Horror Film of All Time?#Bram Stoker’s Dracula 1992#Movie documentary#Review by Oliver Harper#Oliver’s Retrospectives#Gary Oldman#Winona Ryder#Keanu Reeves#Anthony Hopkins#Richard E. Grant#Cary Elwes#Billy Campbell#Sadie Frost#Tom Waits#Monica Bellucci#Michaela Bercu#Florina Kendrick#Jay Robinson#Superb music by Wojciech Kilar#Wojciech Kilar#Youtube
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Science and Religion in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Credits: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)
#Bram Stoker’s Dracula#Francis Ford Coppola#Science and Religion#There are no limits to science#Also too many God’s madmen
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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:
#There is something seriously wrong with Tumblr#Undue censorship#Tumblr is misbehaving#Second strike#Third strike and you’re out#Tumblr#US Big Tech Hegemony#Once a bad putty tat always a bad putty tat
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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.
#The Nanny#Fran Drescher#Fran Fine#How now brown cow?#Fran being demure#Maxwell Sheffield#Niles the Butler#CC Babcock#Renée Taylor#Lightening the mood#"Whore-monal” comes from Ugly Betty#Meme sharing#VACCA STVLTA#The insistent lady I mean
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