Eh well it frees money from your wallet. Personally I want a phone with archaic things like: a physical keyboard. and battery slot to put a separate one . And gasp wireless charging baked in. I love the phoneS I have. But think things like battery, keyboard and wireless charging are more important than having an american flag and expensive person to plug the phone.
On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 3:33 PM uǝlƃ ☤>$ <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have our own local source in Jon. See his post from december of last > year: > > On 12/29/20 10:24 AM, jon zingale wrote: > > Falun Gong is an interesting case. Across from the University of Texas at > > Austin was one of my all-time favorite vegetarian restaurants, Veggie > > Heaven. The owners of VH were Falun Dafa practitioners from China. Images > > about the restaurant portrayed meditators floating above lotuses with > auras > > of light. The last page of the menu included a heartfelt letter speaking > > about the plight of practitioners in China, complete with images of > beaten, > > imprisoned and tortured practitioners. The prices at the restaurant were > > very inexpensive (one could get a veggie bowl for $5) and yet they would > > participate in a daily humanitarian effort. Homebums and traveler kids > would > > find their way to the door of VH, hold up a finger or two, and shortly a > man > > would step out of the door and bring them food. This would happen dozens > of > > times a day. One day, even I tried it and low-and-behold, hot food was > given > > to me. > > > > Shortly after this introduction, I started looking into the qigong > practices > > and history of Falun Dafa. No doubt it appeared to be a questionably > > bureaucratic organization, not unlike the Christian churches here in the > > west. That said, the qigong practices seemed to do something for my base > > stress level. > > > > Through my continued interest, and access to the wonderfully extensive UT > > library stacks, I came across the book "Breathing Spaces: qigong, > > psychiatry, and healing in China" (a book which I believe I have > mentioned > > on Friam before). To my surprise, the book does not so much cover the > health > > benefits of qigong but rather chronicles mental health issues involving > > qigong practices, persecution of qigong practitioners in Chinese > psychiatric > > hospitals, and the rise of belief in "superhuman abilities" via qigong in > > China shortly after the Tiananmen Square incident. > > > > The big take-home for me, and a possible connection to organizations like > > qAnon, is that in times of hardship it is well documented that > communities > > have been observed incorporating "supernatural belief and abilities" > into a > > kind of warrior's narrative. For instance, historians like John Hope > > Franklin [1] and anthropologist Wade Davis [2] have noted this tendency > in > > the transformation of Yoruba into Voudun by Africans brought as slaves to > > the new world. > > > > Once while playing go with my buddy Joe at St. Johns, I asked him about > the > > perception of Falun Gong in China (he is from Hefei). Joe's take was > that it > > was a largely fraudulent and criminal organization and that the Chinese > > government was very much right to go after it. I didn't press him very > hard, > > in part so as to not strain our relationship (a potential weakness on my > > part). Still, when I search the web even now, I am surprised by the > amount > > of literature that exists pointing to the potential mental health risks > of > > such a meditative practice. In the conclusion of Qigong-induced mental > > disorders: a review[3], the authors state: > > > > "Despite the widespread use of Qigong, there is a conspicuous lack of > > controlled data regarding its effects on mental health. Qigong, when > > practiced inappropriately, may induce abnormal psychosomatic responses > and > > even mental disorders." > > > > Which, when I read it I cannot help but feel that this "peer-reviewed > paper" > > is somehow propaganda. > > > > I am not always so sure what it could mean to "trust" nations or > peer-review > > in this post-enlightenment period. Yesterday, the United States > > president-elect gave an address where he reports that "Many of the > agencies > > that are critical to our security have incurred enormous damage. Many of > > them have been hollowed out"[4]. If he is speaking truthfully, then I am > > unsure what a network of trust can be. If he is not, then the same. My > > takeaway here is that it is more than reasonable to have a lack of faith > in > > one another and in our institutions. I speculate, that without good > cause to > > restore trust, we ought to expect organizations like qAnon to become more > > mainstream. > > > > Meanwhile in the US: 300k dead from Covid, rampant unemployment, a > K-shaped > > economy, closings of small businesses, and a stock market decoupled from > the > > economy. Bipartisan politics has: given rise to climate change as a > > political button, prevented many in need from receiving assistance, and a > > political system decoupled from reasoning about issues. Those of us in > the > > upper part of the K-shape hold onto our stocks and jobs and hope that it > > gets better. Those of us in the lower part prepare for what? > > > > [1] From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans (at least I > > think it was here?) > > [2] The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing > Journey > > into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombies, and Magic > > [3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10336217/ > > [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mkRWc9yKIQ&ab_channel=GuardianNews > > On 7/19/21 9:35 AM, cody dooderson wrote: > > I recently visited a tiny town in the western slope of Colorado. The > small town does not have it's own newspaper, so from what I could tell the > people read something called the Epoch Times. It appears to me to be > blatant right wing propaganda. > > It turns out that the Epoch times is at least partially funded by the > persecuted Chinese religious movement called the Falun Gong. I don't know > much about them other than that they appear to have a serious and > justified problem with China. It suddenly makes more sense why the > republicans in my circle are now so anti China. How did this chinese > religious movement end up allying with the far right media machine? > > -- > ☤>$ uǝlƃ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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