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[cannibal cop]

Quote Originally Posted by bendk

Zombie deer disease is a 'slow moving disaster'. Why scientists say humans should 'be prepared'. MSN Mad cows and possible spillover.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob: practical guide

Prion diseases. Further evidence, were any actually needed, that the incurable optimist's "best of all possible worlds" encompasses even the worst of all possible hells.

[miguel1984]

I've been reading some Stanley Kubrick online memoirs. I also highly recommend the book Eyes Wide Open by Frederic Raphael. These are the most interesting ones:

--A Kubrick Odyssey by Frederic Raphael (Untitled Document)
--Plumbing Stanley Kubrick by Ian Watson (https://www.ianwatson.info/plumbing-stanley-kubrick/)
--Kubrick by Michael Herr (Kubrick | Vanity Fair)

Stanley Kubrick Was My Friend, Too by Alex Ross is a pretty funny parody of all of the above (Stanley Kubrick Was My Friend, Too | The New Yorker).

[bendk]

Peter Richter: Die Apokalypse in unseren Köpfen (2022) | untier.de

[bendk]

Author admits she used ChatGPT to write parts of prize-winning novel

MSN

[bendk]

Aztec Death Whistles: Why Are They So Scary and How Were They Used?

MSN

Chilling Sound of the Aztec Death Whistle: Listen and Learn | Ancient Architects - YouTube

(Available on Amazon)

[Gnosticangel]

Violence Is Our Way: The Great Delusion of Civilization: Beneath the pretense of benevolence lurks savage conquest.

"...For better or worse, we became conscious beings. This undefinable, fleeting, perhaps illusory state — ‘parent of all horrors,’ as Thomas Ligotti would have it — makes us think and evaluate. It gives rise to rationalism and forms the basis of our self-aggrandizement. We are not of the natural world, our political leaders say and we echo, we are above the natural world. Logic and evidence of biological evolution cannot affect this sentiment. It is ingrained, unquestioned, supreme. What apes? What bacteria? We are humans!

"Yet instead of styling ourselves as ‘protectors of the earth’ — we were given this thing we call consciousness, so why not use it to protect the unconscious? — we chose to become destroyers; to squeeze this planet of resources until all is dry. We did think and evaluate, even ponder, and still made the decision to burn fossil matter until we choke the atmosphere and, eventually, ourselves. All rationality and knowledge apparently cannot halt our evolutionary, primal greed and egotism. Can we stop pretending to be anything but animals now? Naked apes, not fallen angels, is what we are, what we will ever be. The self-deception can only last so long until it becomes laughable..."


https://beneaththepavement.substack.com/

[bendk]

Quote Originally Posted by Gnosticangel

Violence Is Our Way: The Great Delusion of Civilization: Beneath the pretense of benevolence lurks savage conquest. "...For better or worse, we became conscious beings. This undefinable, fleeting, perhaps illusory state — ‘parent of all horrors,’ as Thomas Ligotti would have it — makes us think and evaluate. It gives rise to rationalism and forms the basis of our self-aggrandizement. We are not of the natural world, our political leaders say and we echo, we are above the natural world. Logic and evidence of biological evolution cannot affect this sentiment. It is ingrained, unquestioned, supreme. What apes? What bacteria? We are humans! "Yet instead of styling ourselves as ‘protectors of the earth’ — we were given this thing we call consciousness, so why not use it to protect the unconscious? — we chose to become destroyers; to squeeze this planet of resources until all is dry. We did think and evaluate, even ponder, and still made the decision to burn fossil matter until we choke the atmosphere and, eventually, ourselves. All rationality and knowledge apparently cannot halt our evolutionary, primal greed and egotism. Can we stop pretending to be anything but animals now? Naked apes, not fallen angels, is what we are, what we will ever be. The self-deception can only last so long until it becomes laughable..." https://beneaththepavement.substack.com/

That site looks like it has a lot of great articles. Thanks, Gnosticangel

[bendk]

Religious ‘Nones’ Now Outnumber All Individual Religious Cohorts, Outpacing Catholics and Evangelicals

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Nobel Peace Prize winner: The time has come to recognize gender apartheid as a crime against humanity | CNN

Religion is the root of so many problems in the world. Theocracies should be destroyed.

[cannibal cop]

God damn it, Flyboy!

The Late David Emge Gave Us a Realistic Horror Hero in Romero's 'Dawn of the Dead'

[bendk]

Ancient 15,000-Year-Old Viruses Seen in Melting Tibetan Glaciers

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