Excruciating - Ricky Gervais Meets Gary Shandling

 

I have much admiration for @rickygervais' obviously genuine animal rights activism, so I didn't want to like this @deep_beige article as much as I did. The petulant conflating of "criticism" & "censorship" by highly privileged people is beyond tiresome https://t.co/N2jOEJ6RrC

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 24, 2018

I always remember Ricky Gervais banging on about animal welfare as five hundred infant mammals were genocided in Gaza in 2014. If we can't respect human welfare I don't think animals are going to take a higher importance, and believe me I'm not happy about factory farming methods at all.

When Glen Greenwald tweeted the above I read the article first and saw a lot that resonated with me. I then searched for the episode of Rickey Gervais meets.., that it refers to and it's one of the most excruciating interviews I've ever come across, though I suspect Gary Shandling is a Zionist Supremacist, because even I can think of no reason that Ricky Gervais is hostile to Jews.

That said, Gary Shandling taught me an awful lot in a short space of time. I particularly like his words on bravery and courage. 

Doing things that scare us are mostly rewarded by the universe.

Stoned On Rock

I had a couple of epiphanies recently and one was about ten minutes ago. They involve secondary qualities of reincarnation and like my other best thought it came from nowhere but resonated so powerfully I was unable ignore it. It's a very unusual and enjoyable experience in terms of meaning. If you get to the last ten minutes of this latest Ancient Aliens episode you may see what direction I'm pointing towards. It's possible you might not find that incentive enough so allow me to pitch this particularly outstanding episode that only a fool could watch and not realise something extraordinary is missing from today's knowledge base.

I'm going to go out on a limb on this episode and explain that the ancient alien thesis is not necessary this time round. This forty minute episode of the extraordinary beauty of rock remains around the world is proof that as Graham Hancock puts it, we are a species with amnesia. I'll go further. It seems that resetting the history of Planet Earth has not only occurred again and again but that some greater intelligence uses this information to their advantage. It's more than likely that we are a mix of on and off earth genetic heritages but that something clever knows just when to play the game hack and reset the score back to zero for reasons that are loosely associated with enjoyment. Many have suggested and provided oral testimony that feeding off us is another way of putting that. Energy works in so many more mysterious ways than current science is able to even articulate or willing to bite that hand that feeds it.

Beijing Pumps

I saw these after failing to find some lip balm as the cold and dry air here is harsh when it blows. Serendipity led to some window shopping and then ducking into the Adidas shop near the office. Sadly they didn't have my size. However, Alisha who I met last night gave me an insight into women and expensive shoes that is solid gold. I love my job I really do.

"The east shall shake the west awake
And ye shall have night for morn"

- James Joyce / "Finnegan's Wake"

America is not at war, the Marine Corp is at war. America is at the Mall