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To: skinowski who wrote (775750)1/16/2023 7:30:31 AM
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I know it's bad now but thank goodness we have an anti-bullying policy in schools, just think how bad it would be if bullies had free reign.

I know it's bad now but thank goodness for the clot shot, just think how bad it would be if we had no protection at all.

I know it's bad now but thank goodness for the drug war, just think how bad it would be if drugs were legal.



To: skinowski who wrote (775750)1/17/2023 5:16:26 PM
From: Maurice Winn8 Recommendations

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Just like other evolutionary processes, brain DNA and the ideas they contain are in a petabyte reassortment, selection, elimination and mutation process.

Evolution is inevitable, relentless, cruel and merciless.

Lovely children can get brain cancer, be attacked by a python or hideous human if they are not protected. Hale Bopp and Jim Jones cultists select their own doom.

Faulty ideas that get a grip and go groupthink end millions of lives such as inventing covid, and worse, inventing bung genetic engineering to genetically modify infants to fail to protect them against the covid,while destroying them with the bung vaxx.

Ideas become fashionable but are destructive and death dealing.

Communism and socialism seemed like a good idea at the time. Umpty million dead people and blighted lives later those who suffered those ideas ditched them while credulous newbies in what was the bastion of free enterprise went woke, socialist, kleptocratic, fascist, totalitarian.

120 years ago people figured out that sunlight helped reduce various illnesses. Vitamin D was discovered and recently the effect of infrared sunlight and other sources on mitochondria and melatonin production. But low melanin people such as me got caught up in the fashion, overdosed on ultraviolet light and now experience world champion melanoma, squamous and basal call cancers. 60 years ago I knew not to get burned, but I mistakenly thought being brown was protection... not so much as I thought. Brown from sun is only partial protection. Enough vitaminD and melatonin is plenty. More is not better.

Unfortunately, ideas like " Russia Russia Russia We Have to Get Putin" will be much worse than too much sunlight. Being chimpoid, most people suffer from such limbic system tribal mania, and can't do reasoning and think bigger. See right here in SI for examples.

Ideas are sticky and we have to adopt rules of thumb and outsource thinking to experts because we are all limited to only 1 kg of brainpower. Developing every action from first principles is impossible. So we're stuck with using groupthink.

Unfortunately, wrongthink is part of that process. Even more unfortunately, the groupthink is often the wrongthink, but by weight of numbers and ego they automatically deny and crush ideas that are the better and more correct newthink.

It's a hideous process but here we are.

Will the wacko groupthinkers go for Armageddon or will they stop and think?

There's not much sign of thinking that I've seen, but maybe there are enough people who started out putting up Ukraine flags, but have now realised a few more facts and have decided that they were misled, deceived, lied to, recklessly endangered, impoverished and likely to be killed. They've taken down the Ukraine flags.

My original settlement proposal was good. Now, 100,000 dead and more, hordes maimed, millions traumatised, a billion impoverished, Ukraine is going to have to give up a lot more.

With Hunter, DementiaJoe10%, Obama, Valerie, Victoria, Liz, Ursula, Sanna, Jacinda, Justin, Nancy and co-conspirators in charge, we shouldn't be surprised.

Americans, British, Euroserfs, Aotearoastan etc voted for Armageddon.

Mqurice