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Men Who Enjoy Sharing Some men love sharing their wives with other men. This is something I’ve noticed in my work with couples that surprises a lot of people. There are way more men than you’d expect who get genuinely turned on by the idea of their partner being with someone else — what some people call hotwifing or even cuckolding. At first it sounds wild, right? But when you dig into the psychology, it starts to make a strange kind of sense. For a lot of guys, it’s not about feeling inadequate or wanting humiliation. It’s often this powerful mix of pride and trust. Watching or knowing their partner is desired by someone else can feel like the ultimate compliment — like “she’s so sexy that other people want her, and she still chooses me.” There’s also this intense erotic charge that comes from breaking a really deep cultural taboo around possession and jealousy. It taps into something primal too — that sperm competition instinct (which is a real thing by the way) gets mixed with the thrill of seeing your partner fully in her pleasure. And at the core of it all is an incredible level of emotional safety. You can’t even entertain the fantasy unless you feel rock-solid in the relationship. What fascinates me most is how it flips the usual script about what makes intimacy “safe.” For some couples, leaning into this fantasy actually brings them closer because it requires radical honesty and communication most relationships never touch. Of course it’s not for everyone, and it only works when both people are genuinely into it. But I’ve seen it become a really freeing, exciting chapter for couples who explore it thoughtfully. Have you ever come across this fantasy in your OWN relationship or heard about it from friends? Does it intrigue you, scare you, or just make you curious? Have you done it? Would you do it? Drop your honest thoughts in the comments. Let’s hear them!
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🚨 KEEP FIGHTING, TEXAS AND FLORIDA - AMERICANS STAND WITH YOU - BAN CAIR! CAIR’S NEW MELTDOWN VIDEO: A 4-MINUTE PANIC ATTACK MASQUERADING AS A PRESS CONFERENCE CAIR’s latest video message wasn’t strength. It wasn’t confidence. It wasn’t calm leadership. It was panic - raw, unmistakable panic - from an organization that finally realizes Texas and Florida have pulled back the curtain on a political network they’ve been building for decades. Edward Ahmed Mitchell, CAIR’s national deputy director, delivered the message himself — and unintentionally revealed far more than he intended. Let’s break down the meltdown: 🔥 1. Mitchell Opens With “Alhamdulillah” - Then Launches Straight Into a Political Attack This wasn’t a neutral legal update. It was a political broadside dressed up as a religious rallying cry. Mitchell framed CAIR as the perpetual victim, because two governors finally said “enough” and designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR affiliates under state authority. His tone wasn’t confident. It was defensive, agitated, and anxious. Why? Because CAIR’s entire model depends on: Guaranteed access Zero scrutiny Automatic legitimacy Total institutional protection Texas and Florida just detonated that arrangement! THANK YOU Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott 🔥 2. Mitchell Repeats CAIR’s Favorite Script: “We are just a civil rights organization.” But CAIR itself boasts: 🔴 25 national offices 🔴 500+ employees and board members 🔴 70+ attorneys 🔴 A national media arm 🔴 A political grooming pipeline 🔴 A long-term plan to manufacture 100,000 lawyers, journalists, activists, and candidates by 2050 This is not some small, local nonprofit. This is a national political machine with massive institutional reach and today’s video looked like a man terrified that the machine is finally being confronted. 🔥 3. Mitchell Insists Governors “Have No Authority”, Because Discovery Terrifies CAIR He claims: “No governor has the authority to declare an organization a terrorist group.” Texas and Florida just did, legally, under their state powers. Mitchell’s real fear is apparent: Discovery. Because discovery means: Financial transparency Internal communications Partner networks Organizational structure Funding flows Political strategy documents And Governor DeSantis said it openly: “I look forward to discovery - especially the CAIR finances.” (LOVE THIS) That single sentence hit CAIR harder than any executive order. 🔥 4. Mitchell Says This Is All About “Palestinian Advocacy” -A Convenient Deflection His claim: “We are being targeted because we speak for Palestinians.” No, Florida and Texas cited CAIR’s associations with.. - individuals convicted in terror-financing cases - referenced public federal evidence - acknowledged the organization’s long-standing ties to extremist-influenced networks as documented by U.S. prosecutors and national security experts. These issues existed long before the current conflict. This isn’t about advocacy. It’s about influence, infrastructure, and ideology, all of it in plain view. CAIR’s new tactic is painfully predictable: turn every criticism, every investigation, every designation into “an attack on Palestine.” How much longer do they think this overused excuse is going to work? 🔥 5. Mitchell Accidentally Confirms CAIR’s Vision: They See Themselves as THE Voice of Muslims He declares: “They want to target YOU.” Translation: CAIR wants Americans to believe that attacking CAIR is attacking every Muslim in the country. This is the classic playbook of ideological organizations: Claim to represent everyone Insulate themselves with identity Equate criticism with bigotry It’s not civil-rights language. It’s political power-protection language. 🔥 6. Mitchell Uses Fear to Fundraise: “Without CAIR, Muslims Will Be Targeted.” The emotional manipulation was SO blatant: “Without CAIR, Muslim workers and students will face bigotry with no one to help them.” Then the sales pitch: “Support your shield. Donate now.” DONATE - GIVE US YOUR MONEY, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH! This wasn’t about law. It was a national fundraising plea rooted in grievance and fear, delivered at the exact moment Texas and Florida undercut their institutional access. 🔥 7. CAIR Ends With a Promise: “We’ve beaten governors before - and we’ll beat them again.” That’s not the language of a nonprofit. That’s the language of a political combat organization preparing for open confrontation with state governments. Texas and Florida finally said: “No more.” And CAIR is lashing out. ⚠️ THE REAL TAKEAWAY: CAIR IS SCARED AND THIS VIDEO PROVES IT You can hear it in the tone and the pacing. You can hear it in the plea for donations. They know: Momentum is shifting - AMERICANS ARE FED-UP! States are waking up Discovery is coming Their political network is being exposed Their institutional access is unraveling Their long-term pipeline is under scrutiny This wasn’t leadership. It was damage control. And it all ends with the most important point: Texas and Florida took the first steps. Now every red state must follow - immediately. WHERE ARE YOU RED STATES: Alabama. Georgia. Arizona. Oklahoma. Kentucky. No excuses or delays. No pretending this threat isn’t real. CAIR has shown the world exactly who they are. It’s time every state responds.
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🚨 KEEP FIGHTING, TEXAS AND FLORIDA - AMERICANS STAND WITH YOU - BAN CAIR! CAIR’S NEW MELTDOWN VIDEO: A 4-MINUTE PANIC ATTACK MASQUERADING AS A PRESS CONFERENCE CAIR’s latest video message wasn’t strength. It wasn’t confidence. It wasn’t calm leadership. It was panic - raw, unmistakable panic - from an organization that finally realizes Texas and Florida have pulled back the curtain on a political network they’ve been building for decades. Edward Ahmed Mitchell, CAIR’s national deputy director, delivered the message himself — and unintentionally revealed far more than he intended. Let’s break down the meltdown: 🔥 1. Mitchell Opens With “Alhamdulillah” - Then Launches Straight Into a Political Attack This wasn’t a neutral legal update. It was a political broadside dressed up as a religious rallying cry. Mitchell framed CAIR as the perpetual victim, because two governors finally said “enough” and designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR affiliates under state authority. His tone wasn’t confident. It was defensive, agitated, and anxious. Why? Because CAIR’s entire model depends on: Guaranteed access Zero scrutiny Automatic legitimacy Total institutional protection Texas and Florida just detonated that arrangement! THANK YOU Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott 🔥 2. Mitchell Repeats CAIR’s Favorite Script: “We are just a civil rights organization.” But CAIR itself boasts: 🔴 25 national offices 🔴 500+ employees and board members 🔴 70+ attorneys 🔴 A national media arm 🔴 A political grooming pipeline 🔴 A long-term plan to manufacture 100,000 lawyers, journalists, activists, and candidates by 2050 This is not some small, local nonprofit. This is a national political machine with massive institutional reach and today’s video looked like a man terrified that the machine is finally being confronted. 🔥 3. Mitchell Insists Governors “Have No Authority”, Because Discovery Terrifies CAIR He claims: “No governor has the authority to declare an organization a terrorist group.” Texas and Florida just did, legally, under their state powers. Mitchell’s real fear is apparent: Discovery. Because discovery means: Financial transparency Internal communications Partner networks Organizational structure Funding flows Political strategy documents And Governor DeSantis said it openly: “I look forward to discovery - especially the CAIR finances.” (LOVE THIS) That single sentence hit CAIR harder than any executive order. 🔥 4. Mitchell Says This Is All About “Palestinian Advocacy” -A Convenient Deflection His claim: “We are being targeted because we speak for Palestinians.” No, Florida and Texas cited CAIR’s associations with.. - individuals convicted in terror-financing cases - referenced public federal evidence - acknowledged the organization’s long-standing ties to extremist-influenced networks as documented by U.S. prosecutors and national security experts. These issues existed long before the current conflict. This isn’t about advocacy. It’s about influence, infrastructure, and ideology, all of it in plain view. CAIR’s new tactic is painfully predictable: turn every criticism, every investigation, every designation into “an attack on Palestine.” How much longer do they think this overused excuse is going to work? 🔥 5. Mitchell Accidentally Confirms CAIR’s Vision: They See Themselves as THE Voice of Muslims He declares: “They want to target YOU.” Translation: CAIR wants Americans to believe that attacking CAIR is attacking every Muslim in the country. This is the classic playbook of ideological organizations: Claim to represent everyone Insulate themselves with identity Equate criticism with bigotry It’s not civil-rights language. It’s political power-protection language. 🔥 6. Mitchell Uses Fear to Fundraise: “Without CAIR, Muslims Will Be Targeted.” The emotional manipulation was SO blatant: “Without CAIR, Muslim workers and students will face bigotry with no one to help them.” Then the sales pitch: “Support your shield. Donate now.” DONATE - GIVE US YOUR MONEY, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH! This wasn’t about law. It was a national fundraising plea rooted in grievance and fear, delivered at the exact moment Texas and Florida undercut their institutional access. 🔥 7. CAIR Ends With a Promise: “We’ve beaten governors before - and we’ll beat them again.” That’s not the language of a nonprofit. That’s the language of a political combat organization preparing for open confrontation with state governments. Texas and Florida finally said: “No more.” And CAIR is lashing out. ⚠️ THE REAL TAKEAWAY: CAIR IS SCARED AND THIS VIDEO PROVES IT You can hear it in the tone and the pacing. You can hear it in the plea for donations. They know: Momentum is shifting - AMERICANS ARE FED-UP! States are waking up Discovery is coming Their political network is being exposed Their institutional access is unraveling Their long-term pipeline is under scrutiny This wasn’t leadership. It was damage control. And it all ends with the most important point: Texas and Florida took the first steps. Now every red state must follow - immediately. WHERE ARE YOU RED STATES: Alabama. Georgia. Arizona. Oklahoma. Kentucky. No excuses or delays. No pretending this threat isn’t real. CAIR has shown the world exactly who they are. It’s time every state responds.

Amy Mek

89,991 views • 8 months ago

This happens to everyone at the moment of death. —The face becomes frightening. Imagine seeing your own face—not the face you see in the mirror, but the face that corresponds to what you actually became. The public face disappears. The Instagram face disappears. The charming face disappears. The “I’m a good person” story disappears. The excuses disappear. What remains is the character you actually built. And that is terrifying because you cannot negotiate with it. You cannot say: “That’s not who I really am.” Because the entire life is there. You become incapable of escaping yourself. ⸻ Then comes the really frightening part: desire survives. After the physical and life bodies have been left behind, the person retains the astral body and Ego. The desires themselves remain—but the physical organs through which those desires were satisfied are gone. Imagine someone whose greatest pleasure was food. The appetite remains. But there is no mouth. Someone obsessed with sexual gratification: The desire remains. But the physical mechanism through which it was satisfied is gone. Someone addicted to status: The hunger for admiration remains. But there is no audience. Someone addicted to possessing things: The desire to possess remains. But the physical world is no longer available in the ordinary way. This is a condition of burning thirst without a means of satisfying it. That’s the horror: you discover that some desires were never really “you.” They were forces you allowed to rule you. ⸻ Then it gets worse: you experience what your actions did to others. The postmortem process isn’t simply: “You did something bad, therefore punishment.” It is more intimate. You gradually come to understand the consequences of your actions. Suppose you humiliated someone. On Earth, you experienced your side of that event. You remember what you said. What you intended. Why you were angry. But now imagine experiencing the event from the other person’s soul. You discover the wound you left behind. The loneliness. The humiliation. The fear. The damage to their confidence. The consequences that continued long after you forgot the conversation. And the terrifying thing is that you don’t need an external judge to condemn you. You begin to understand yourself. That is much more severe. ⸻ The person you thought you were disappears. Eventually, the most frightening discovery may be: “I don’t know myself.” You spent your whole life constructing an identity. Your name. Your career. Your appearance. Your reputation. Your political opinions. Your relationships. Your ambitions. Your possessions. Your sexual identity. Your social status. Your accomplishments. And then death starts stripping away everything that depended upon the physical world. What remains? the I. The spiritual individuality underneath the temporary personality. The horror comes from being unprepared to encounter the spiritual reality of yourself. ⸻ And then the terrifying thing becomes beautiful. This is the twist. The soul continues through a process of purification and development, eventually moving toward the spiritual world. So the “face” isn’t ultimately the face of a demon. It’s your own face. And the real demon, metaphorically speaking, is everything in yourself that you refused to see while alive. That’s not the end. It’s the beginning of becoming something different—something beautiful.
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This happens to everyone at the moment of death. —The face becomes frightening. Imagine seeing your own face—not the face you see in the mirror, but the face that corresponds to what you actually became. The public face disappears. The Instagram face disappears. The charming face disappears. The “I’m a good person” story disappears. The excuses disappear. What remains is the character you actually built. And that is terrifying because you cannot negotiate with it. You cannot say: “That’s not who I really am.” Because the entire life is there. You become incapable of escaping yourself. ⸻ Then comes the really frightening part: desire survives. After the physical and life bodies have been left behind, the person retains the astral body and Ego. The desires themselves remain—but the physical organs through which those desires were satisfied are gone. Imagine someone whose greatest pleasure was food. The appetite remains. But there is no mouth. Someone obsessed with sexual gratification: The desire remains. But the physical mechanism through which it was satisfied is gone. Someone addicted to status: The hunger for admiration remains. But there is no audience. Someone addicted to possessing things: The desire to possess remains. But the physical world is no longer available in the ordinary way. This is a condition of burning thirst without a means of satisfying it. That’s the horror: you discover that some desires were never really “you.” They were forces you allowed to rule you. ⸻ Then it gets worse: you experience what your actions did to others. The postmortem process isn’t simply: “You did something bad, therefore punishment.” It is more intimate. You gradually come to understand the consequences of your actions. Suppose you humiliated someone. On Earth, you experienced your side of that event. You remember what you said. What you intended. Why you were angry. But now imagine experiencing the event from the other person’s soul. You discover the wound you left behind. The loneliness. The humiliation. The fear. The damage to their confidence. The consequences that continued long after you forgot the conversation. And the terrifying thing is that you don’t need an external judge to condemn you. You begin to understand yourself. That is much more severe. ⸻ The person you thought you were disappears. Eventually, the most frightening discovery may be: “I don’t know myself.” You spent your whole life constructing an identity. Your name. Your career. Your appearance. Your reputation. Your political opinions. Your relationships. Your ambitions. Your possessions. Your sexual identity. Your social status. Your accomplishments. And then death starts stripping away everything that depended upon the physical world. What remains? the I. The spiritual individuality underneath the temporary personality. The horror comes from being unprepared to encounter the spiritual reality of yourself. ⸻ And then the terrifying thing becomes beautiful. This is the twist. The soul continues through a process of purification and development, eventually moving toward the spiritual world. So the “face” isn’t ultimately the face of a demon. It’s your own face. And the real demon, metaphorically speaking, is everything in yourself that you refused to see while alive. That’s not the end. It’s the beginning of becoming something different—something beautiful.

Zherka

142,909 views • 23 days ago

Thought experiment for people regarding the concept of Absolute Time. Absolute means NO EXCEPTIONS. We are NOT looking back in time when we see galaxies and stars. We are NOT looking back in time 1.25 seconds when we see the moon. We're Not looking back in time 3 minutes when we see Mars. We're Not looking back in time 8.33 minutes when we see the Sun. If an astronaut lit a matchstick on Mars, the distant observer would see predator heat waves at the top of the matchstick in real-time while the matchstick started to blacken towards the astronaut's fingers. But there would be no orange light from that chemical reaction or flame seen. If the matchstick burnt out before the packet of orange light from that particular chemical reaction made it to Earth… then the distant observer would just see a disembodied orange flash of light with a lag. But the Earth-bound observer would never actually see the flame associated with the orange wavelength it put out. The wavelength of color emitted by the flame is not a recording of reality. If the orange light is 650 Thz, that means there are 650 trillion individual and separate bursts of orange light pulsating in 1 second. NOT that "the same light" is "waving" 650 trillion times a second and that light is a recording of reality. There are 650 trillion brand-new lights flashing in 1 second. Each Hertz is a brand-new emission and packet unto itself. Time does not re-emit 650 trillion times a second, nor is a photon a particle or a packet of reality acting like the frame of a reel of footage. The orange light that already left the flame will continue to propagate out until it meets the electrons making up the distant observer. But remember, it is never the same light within that packet. And the electrons making up the observer will absorb all of those different lights within that packet and re-emit brand-new lights that produce the product of illumination. A photon is a massless packet of energy, spherically expanding at the rate of c from the source it comes from. Illumination is the result of that energy being absorbed and RE-emitted by any other electrons that did not output that primary packet. But time is not associated with the same light. It's never the same light and time does not re-emit between packets. Time is not relative. Do NOT allow your mind Carte Blanche to think along the lines of relative time. DROP IT for this thought experiment. We are thinking along the lines of ABSOLUTE TIME/ Galilean VARIANCE. What does absolute time mean? It means time is constant in ALL frames of reference. Any frequency shifts between atomic clocks IS a literal change in the speed of light. But relativity forbids the speed of light from Ever changing, so relativity (Lorentz INVARIANCE) invented the concept of the 4th dimension and space-time. Because Relativity doesn't allow light speed to shift.. they interpret the same frequency shift between atomic clocks as being conclusive, irrefutable evidence that time and reality itself shifts. Rather than say it's just that ONE clock being affected by Earth's gravity and the oscillation of that ONE cesium clock is being altered compared to other clocks. People don't realize that in relativity... time dilation is SYMMETRICAL! Not even most relativists know their own theory. If Clock A and Clock B are synchronized and together... and then they accelerate apart... Einstein said Clock A would see Clock B as being slower itself. And Clock B would view Clock A as slower than ITself. NOT that only one observer would see back in time and the other would see forward or not at all. No... BOTH observers are supposed to see each other BACK in time relative to each other according to Einstein and the consequence of the math. It doesn't make ANY sense!! But relativists toss that part of time dilation under their 4th dimensional rug. The rug is woven from threads of gold that only the smart people can see apparently. So... here's a thought experiment/ Gedankenexperiment for absolute time. NO paradoxes... no nonsense or confusion. What do you see in a club? You see disco lights changing and a color wheel effect. You see everyone in REAL-TIME. Not just because they are so close to the lights. Light is not a recording of reality. Light is simply color. Illuminating reality in a certain color. Just because you can't see something yet or the color hasn't reached you doesn't mean it isn't happening in real-time. Zoom out and look at the people in the club through binoculars a mile away. You are still looking at them in real-time. The colors are shifting with a delay in the club. Now look at the club through a telescope from the surface of the moon. You're still looking at the people in real-time. But now there is a lag of the colors shifting by 1.25 seconds because it takes light 1.25 seconds to travel from the Earth to the moon. Now look at the club through an even bigger telescope from the surface of Mars. You're still looking at the people in real-time, but now there is a lag of the colors shifting by 3 minutes because it takes light 3 minutes to travel from Earth to Mars. fr you are a third hypothetical observer zoomed out and watching the person from Mars AND seeing the club on Earth... you're still seeing everything happening in real-time as well. But you see the colored wavepackets traveling with a delay to the observer on Mars. And the disco color wheel effect is just lagging before it affects the observer from Mars and the observer on the Moon. It doesn't matter how far you zoom out! There is only now to observe. But there WILL be a lag and delay for a given color/wavepacket to reach distant observers. But all points in space are already illuminated by other starlight. So if you're too far away... you'll just see the club in real-time but without any disco lights. Just see them in white light because that's the source already illuminating the scene. This is where it gets the most difficult because people think light itself is a recording of reality that replays a scene from where it came from. But another punch in the gut of relativity is that in order to see REFLECTED light... that would require a TWO-WAY transit. Which means the light would have to be sent out... record the scene of a distant event and then RETURN in order to REplay the event. Which means it would take 6 minutes to see the club from Mars by that logic and 2.5 seconds to see the club from the moon by that logic. The difference in tick rates between clocks has NOTHING to do with time dilation. Wait.. what?! How can that be? Because a clock itself doesn't represent all of time and reality. The difference between clocks is a "Transverse relative time shift." If the only light in the universe was from the lighter… the only way a distant observer would be able to see the astronaut on Mars is if the astronaut held down the button of the lighter for longer than 3 minutes. It takes 3 minutes for the packet of light to travel from Mars to Earth. The distant observer would never be able to see Mars, unless the light stretched from Mars all the way to Earth, and illuminated the path between Mars and Earth. And that would take 3 minutes for the boundary and first part of that wave packet to reach Earth. But if the distant observer wanted to observe Mars in real-time… then that packet of light would have to be on for longer than 3 minutes. So if the astronaut on Mars flicked the lighter at 12:00, the distant observer on Earth wouldn't see anything until 12:03. If the light was on for 3 minutes and 10 seconds, and the distant observer is 3 light minutes away... the distant observer would be able to see Mars in real-time for 10 seconds starting at 12:03. In the 20 second video clip of the rotating planet with shifting colors... just imagine you're a couple light minutes or light seconds away. You're still seeing the planet spin in real-time. But there is simply a delay of switching colors. You are Not looking back in time. It's just a color wheel effect from a great distance away. That's it!! There are many major flaws which tarnish people's critical thinking on this thought experiment. 1. Light does NOT ricochet or bounce. Electrons absorb, emit and re-emit ALL electromagnetic radiation. The electrons, making up the glass of a mirror will absorb the incoming light and re-emit a brand-new light as an equal and opposite reaction. NOT that "the same light" bounced off the mirror and continued on within the same frame of reference.  2. Light is NOT a recording of reality. 3. It is NOT the same light being observed from a source. It's never the same light. Each Hertz is a new light. Think of half of a sine wave as being its own emission. On an oscilloscope, a stimulus generates a peak which initiates an equal and opposite trough. Or vice versa. That repeating process is not "the same light." If you cut and paste that sine wave to another sine wave, the boundary between the waves will always be in phase. (thus refraction) 4. The speed of light is NOT the same in ALL frames of reference, no matter what. 5. Light is NOT made of particles and waves that flip back-and-forth. 6. Time is NOT connected to the speed of light. Time remains constant regardless if you accelerate towards or away from a clock. The clocks themselves will indeed be off! But that's an affect on the electrons making up the atomic clock affecting the oscillation of the isotope which is ASSUMED to ALWAYS be the same. So ANY difference in oscillation is treated as a literal distortion in space-time. 7. Space and time are not linked at all. That is a mathematical artifice under Lorentz invariance. Time is relative under Lorentz invariance. But time is absolute under Galilean VARIANCE. When people hear or see the word GALILEAN... their brains switch to auto pilot to "aether theory" and "classical physics." What people don't realize is that aether theory used Galilean INVARIANCE. Rather than space-time being used as an excuse to explain the difference in frequencies between atomic clocks... it was originally aether being used as an excuse to keep the speed of light the same. But None of those things are valid! We are thinking under the framework of Galilean VARIANCE! Completely new revolutionary model returning to Isaac Newton and Classical physics but without the corpuscular theory (particle) theory for light... without a particle-wave duality... without an aether... without a 4th dimension. Just good ol elementary math within 3D Euclidean space. Everything happening in real-time, right now. This reformulation of Galilean transformations was offered by Dr. Edward Dowdye in 1991 called The Extinction Shift Principle. Effectivity as opposed to Relativity. If light required a two-way transit, in order to travel out… Record an event, and travel back to replay the recording…  then it would take 6 minutes to see the astronaut on Mars instead of 3.  Remember… They say the SAME light is a recording, and must travel there and travel back in order to REplay. Relativity says time is relative: t' ≠ t time is NOT the same from all frames of reference) and t = tₒ / √1 - v²/c² but Galilean Variance says time is not relative: t' = t (Time IS the same from all frames of reference) and τ_tr = τₒ / √1 - v²/c² Relativity says c' = c (The velocity of light is the same from all frames of reference) but Galilean variance says c' ≠ c (The velocity of light is NOT the same from all frames of reference) and that c' = c ± v (The velocity of light in one frame of reference is dependent upon the velocity of the light source relative to an observer in another frame of reference. Whether that light source is approaching or receding away from that observer) Relativity says E = mc² (Energy and mass are universally equivalent and literally interchangeable under All conditions.) but Galilean variance says E = Δmc² = mₒc² (Energy changes in a system are the result from changes in mass. mₒ represents the original mass. Mass and energy do not literally interchange. There is an equivalence, not an interchange.) The Rebirth of Classical Physics: Time, Light & Gravity Star light and illumination: Flicking a Lighter on Mars visual example:
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Thought experiment for people regarding the concept of Absolute Time. Absolute means NO EXCEPTIONS. We are NOT looking back in time when we see galaxies and stars. We are NOT looking back in time 1.25 seconds when we see the moon. We're Not looking back in time 3 minutes when we see Mars. We're Not looking back in time 8.33 minutes when we see the Sun. If an astronaut lit a matchstick on Mars, the distant observer would see predator heat waves at the top of the matchstick in real-time while the matchstick started to blacken towards the astronaut's fingers. But there would be no orange light from that chemical reaction or flame seen. If the matchstick burnt out before the packet of orange light from that particular chemical reaction made it to Earth… then the distant observer would just see a disembodied orange flash of light with a lag. But the Earth-bound observer would never actually see the flame associated with the orange wavelength it put out. The wavelength of color emitted by the flame is not a recording of reality. If the orange light is 650 Thz, that means there are 650 trillion individual and separate bursts of orange light pulsating in 1 second. NOT that "the same light" is "waving" 650 trillion times a second and that light is a recording of reality. There are 650 trillion brand-new lights flashing in 1 second. Each Hertz is a brand-new emission and packet unto itself. Time does not re-emit 650 trillion times a second, nor is a photon a particle or a packet of reality acting like the frame of a reel of footage. The orange light that already left the flame will continue to propagate out until it meets the electrons making up the distant observer. But remember, it is never the same light within that packet. And the electrons making up the observer will absorb all of those different lights within that packet and re-emit brand-new lights that produce the product of illumination. A photon is a massless packet of energy, spherically expanding at the rate of c from the source it comes from. Illumination is the result of that energy being absorbed and RE-emitted by any other electrons that did not output that primary packet. But time is not associated with the same light. It's never the same light and time does not re-emit between packets. Time is not relative. Do NOT allow your mind Carte Blanche to think along the lines of relative time. DROP IT for this thought experiment. We are thinking along the lines of ABSOLUTE TIME/ Galilean VARIANCE. What does absolute time mean? It means time is constant in ALL frames of reference. Any frequency shifts between atomic clocks IS a literal change in the speed of light. But relativity forbids the speed of light from Ever changing, so relativity (Lorentz INVARIANCE) invented the concept of the 4th dimension and space-time. Because Relativity doesn't allow light speed to shift.. they interpret the same frequency shift between atomic clocks as being conclusive, irrefutable evidence that time and reality itself shifts. Rather than say it's just that ONE clock being affected by Earth's gravity and the oscillation of that ONE cesium clock is being altered compared to other clocks. People don't realize that in relativity... time dilation is SYMMETRICAL! Not even most relativists know their own theory. If Clock A and Clock B are synchronized and together... and then they accelerate apart... Einstein said Clock A would see Clock B as being slower itself. And Clock B would view Clock A as slower than ITself. NOT that only one observer would see back in time and the other would see forward or not at all. No... BOTH observers are supposed to see each other BACK in time relative to each other according to Einstein and the consequence of the math. It doesn't make ANY sense!! But relativists toss that part of time dilation under their 4th dimensional rug. The rug is woven from threads of gold that only the smart people can see apparently. So... here's a thought experiment/ Gedankenexperiment for absolute time. NO paradoxes... no nonsense or confusion. What do you see in a club? You see disco lights changing and a color wheel effect. You see everyone in REAL-TIME. Not just because they are so close to the lights. Light is not a recording of reality. Light is simply color. Illuminating reality in a certain color. Just because you can't see something yet or the color hasn't reached you doesn't mean it isn't happening in real-time. Zoom out and look at the people in the club through binoculars a mile away. You are still looking at them in real-time. The colors are shifting with a delay in the club. Now look at the club through a telescope from the surface of the moon. You're still looking at the people in real-time. But now there is a lag of the colors shifting by 1.25 seconds because it takes light 1.25 seconds to travel from the Earth to the moon. Now look at the club through an even bigger telescope from the surface of Mars. You're still looking at the people in real-time, but now there is a lag of the colors shifting by 3 minutes because it takes light 3 minutes to travel from Earth to Mars. fr you are a third hypothetical observer zoomed out and watching the person from Mars AND seeing the club on Earth... you're still seeing everything happening in real-time as well. But you see the colored wavepackets traveling with a delay to the observer on Mars. And the disco color wheel effect is just lagging before it affects the observer from Mars and the observer on the Moon. It doesn't matter how far you zoom out! There is only now to observe. But there WILL be a lag and delay for a given color/wavepacket to reach distant observers. But all points in space are already illuminated by other starlight. So if you're too far away... you'll just see the club in real-time but without any disco lights. Just see them in white light because that's the source already illuminating the scene. This is where it gets the most difficult because people think light itself is a recording of reality that replays a scene from where it came from. But another punch in the gut of relativity is that in order to see REFLECTED light... that would require a TWO-WAY transit. Which means the light would have to be sent out... record the scene of a distant event and then RETURN in order to REplay the event. Which means it would take 6 minutes to see the club from Mars by that logic and 2.5 seconds to see the club from the moon by that logic. The difference in tick rates between clocks has NOTHING to do with time dilation. Wait.. what?! How can that be? Because a clock itself doesn't represent all of time and reality. The difference between clocks is a "Transverse relative time shift." If the only light in the universe was from the lighter… the only way a distant observer would be able to see the astronaut on Mars is if the astronaut held down the button of the lighter for longer than 3 minutes. It takes 3 minutes for the packet of light to travel from Mars to Earth. The distant observer would never be able to see Mars, unless the light stretched from Mars all the way to Earth, and illuminated the path between Mars and Earth. And that would take 3 minutes for the boundary and first part of that wave packet to reach Earth. But if the distant observer wanted to observe Mars in real-time… then that packet of light would have to be on for longer than 3 minutes. So if the astronaut on Mars flicked the lighter at 12:00, the distant observer on Earth wouldn't see anything until 12:03. If the light was on for 3 minutes and 10 seconds, and the distant observer is 3 light minutes away... the distant observer would be able to see Mars in real-time for 10 seconds starting at 12:03. In the 20 second video clip of the rotating planet with shifting colors... just imagine you're a couple light minutes or light seconds away. You're still seeing the planet spin in real-time. But there is simply a delay of switching colors. You are Not looking back in time. It's just a color wheel effect from a great distance away. That's it!! There are many major flaws which tarnish people's critical thinking on this thought experiment. 1. Light does NOT ricochet or bounce. Electrons absorb, emit and re-emit ALL electromagnetic radiation. The electrons, making up the glass of a mirror will absorb the incoming light and re-emit a brand-new light as an equal and opposite reaction. NOT that "the same light" bounced off the mirror and continued on within the same frame of reference.  2. Light is NOT a recording of reality. 3. It is NOT the same light being observed from a source. It's never the same light. Each Hertz is a new light. Think of half of a sine wave as being its own emission. On an oscilloscope, a stimulus generates a peak which initiates an equal and opposite trough. Or vice versa. That repeating process is not "the same light." If you cut and paste that sine wave to another sine wave, the boundary between the waves will always be in phase. (thus refraction) 4. The speed of light is NOT the same in ALL frames of reference, no matter what. 5. Light is NOT made of particles and waves that flip back-and-forth. 6. Time is NOT connected to the speed of light. Time remains constant regardless if you accelerate towards or away from a clock. The clocks themselves will indeed be off! But that's an affect on the electrons making up the atomic clock affecting the oscillation of the isotope which is ASSUMED to ALWAYS be the same. So ANY difference in oscillation is treated as a literal distortion in space-time. 7. Space and time are not linked at all. That is a mathematical artifice under Lorentz invariance. Time is relative under Lorentz invariance. But time is absolute under Galilean VARIANCE. When people hear or see the word GALILEAN... their brains switch to auto pilot to "aether theory" and "classical physics." What people don't realize is that aether theory used Galilean INVARIANCE. Rather than space-time being used as an excuse to explain the difference in frequencies between atomic clocks... it was originally aether being used as an excuse to keep the speed of light the same. But None of those things are valid! We are thinking under the framework of Galilean VARIANCE! Completely new revolutionary model returning to Isaac Newton and Classical physics but without the corpuscular theory (particle) theory for light... without a particle-wave duality... without an aether... without a 4th dimension. Just good ol elementary math within 3D Euclidean space. Everything happening in real-time, right now. This reformulation of Galilean transformations was offered by Dr. Edward Dowdye in 1991 called The Extinction Shift Principle. Effectivity as opposed to Relativity. If light required a two-way transit, in order to travel out… Record an event, and travel back to replay the recording…  then it would take 6 minutes to see the astronaut on Mars instead of 3.  Remember… They say the SAME light is a recording, and must travel there and travel back in order to REplay. Relativity says time is relative: t' ≠ t time is NOT the same from all frames of reference) and t = tₒ / √1 - v²/c² but Galilean Variance says time is not relative: t' = t (Time IS the same from all frames of reference) and τ_tr = τₒ / √1 - v²/c² Relativity says c' = c (The velocity of light is the same from all frames of reference) but Galilean variance says c' ≠ c (The velocity of light is NOT the same from all frames of reference) and that c' = c ± v (The velocity of light in one frame of reference is dependent upon the velocity of the light source relative to an observer in another frame of reference. Whether that light source is approaching or receding away from that observer) Relativity says E = mc² (Energy and mass are universally equivalent and literally interchangeable under All conditions.) but Galilean variance says E = Δmc² = mₒc² (Energy changes in a system are the result from changes in mass. mₒ represents the original mass. Mass and energy do not literally interchange. There is an equivalence, not an interchange.) The Rebirth of Classical Physics: Time, Light & Gravity Star light and illumination: Flicking a Lighter on Mars visual example:

TheRealVerbz (Jason Verbelli)

16,608 views • 1 year ago

This video has been extremely painful to watch for any sane Zimbabwean. It has made Zimbabweans the butt of jokes across the region, especially in Southern Africa and other African countries on social media. I have written extensively about the father of this child, Paul Tungwarara, who is President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s so-called Presidential Investment Adviser. You see, this is what shows just how detached President Emmerson Mnangagwa has become from the realities of the lives Zimbabweans are living and how ordinary citizens actually feel about him. I do not know whether his intelligence services are failing to give him the correct information, whether he receives the correct information and simply ignores it, or whether this is now a reflection of a deeply dysfunctional system in which people around him are too afraid to tell him the truth. What is clear is that a cartel of opportunists like Paul Tungwarara has formed around him, abusing proximity to power while lacking the emotional intelligence to understand what should and should not be done in public. They think these comical stunts are pleasing him, when in reality they are humiliating him, destroying his image, and ensuring that no meaningful legacy remains behind him. You cannot go to one of the biggest hospitals in Zimbabwe and humiliate nurses by asking them to dance for US$100 as if they are beggars. It is degrading and insulting in a country where healthcare workers are already suffering because of economic collapse and poor governance. It does not end there. Paul Tungwarara’s daughter, Tinotenda Tungwarara, went to the Mbudzi Interchange in Harare, threw around US$500, and asked desperate Zimbabweans to scramble for the money. People went because they are suffering. They have been pushed into abject poverty, humiliation, and economic desperation by years of economic failure under President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government. This is precisely why many Zimbabweans are rejecting any attempt to extend the Constitution to give him an extra two years in office. If Zimbabwe had a functioning economy, if citizens had jobs, dignity, decent salaries, and functioning public services, people would not care much about political manoeuvres. Across Africa, citizens tolerate many things from politicians as long as their quality of life is improving or at least stable. But this is different. This is public humiliation of citizens by people connected to power. And if somebody close to the President is reading this, please whisper this into his ear that the people around him are damaging him politically every single day with these idiotic and comical antics. If there is ever an attempt to remove him from office, these actions are creating the emotional atmosphere that would make citizens support such a move. It is almost as if the people around him are deliberately creating a body of evidence to justify his political downfall. Nothing destroys a leader faster than surrounding himself with arrogant people who mistake public suffering for entertainment, and who are detached from public opinion. As for these nurses, journalists cannot continue writing about these things forever. We do not have an opposition or a political opposition leader, so we have reached a point where Zimbabweans need to use their own heads and decide what kind of society they want to live in. If nurses are prepared to be abused and humiliated like that, then they have become part of the problem. A society that normalises the humiliation of professionals, especially healthcare workers who are already working under terrible conditions, has much deeper problems than it is prepared to admit. At some point, you also have to reflect on what some South Africans have been saying, that Zimbabweans have chosen a timid path of enduring abuse and humiliation. I do not think that in any normal society people would be made to dance like that for crumbs, it is deeply dehumanising. There comes a point where people must ask themselves difficult questions about what they are prepared to tolerate and why they continue tolerating it. The excruciating level of unsophisticated behaviour is shocking. Chibharanzi chaicho. I cannot believe that a state with intelligence services would allow something like this to happen publicly. The level at which President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rule has sunk is absolutely staggering. I know there are people inside that government who fully understand exactly what I am saying, that this has now reached a point where the entire country is being embarrassed and humiliated by these antics. Zimbabwe is being laughed at across the region, on the continent, and beyond. And the frightening part is that a President who is supposed to be the first citizen of the country, either cannot understand, is failing to understand, or has completely lost the capacity to understand that this is wrong. That is what makes this situation so alarming. I want to speak directly to President Mnangagwa. If any one of your soldiers were to decide to go into the streets and move against you because of this behaviour, which you have failed to curtail and stop, I want to assure you, sir, that the majority of Zimbabweans would support such a person. I do not know whether that is what you want, or whether you understand that things have now sunk that low, from the gutter into the sewer. And to all the people who are behaving like this, humiliating Zimbabweans, making them dance for trinkets, putting money under the interchange and asking people to go and look for it, preying on their poverty, the abject poverty that has been induced by your actions, I want to assure you that when the day comes that the President is no longer there, you will be dragged into the streets. Some of you will face brutal consequences, and unfortunately, many Zimbabweans will celebrate because of your behaviour and the humiliation you have subjected people to. You are not the first people to have access to state money, and you will not be the last. Across the continent, there are many people with access to state resources, but they are far more sophisticated than you are. They understand how to behave, how to carry themselves, and how not to embarrass their principal and dehumanise suffering citizens. When elites begin turning citizens’ suffering into entertainment, they should never forget that history has a brutal way of eventually humiliating those who humiliate others.
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This video has been extremely painful to watch for any sane Zimbabwean. It has made Zimbabweans the butt of jokes across the region, especially in Southern Africa and other African countries on social media. I have written extensively about the father of this child, Paul Tungwarara, who is President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s so-called Presidential Investment Adviser. You see, this is what shows just how detached President Emmerson Mnangagwa has become from the realities of the lives Zimbabweans are living and how ordinary citizens actually feel about him. I do not know whether his intelligence services are failing to give him the correct information, whether he receives the correct information and simply ignores it, or whether this is now a reflection of a deeply dysfunctional system in which people around him are too afraid to tell him the truth. What is clear is that a cartel of opportunists like Paul Tungwarara has formed around him, abusing proximity to power while lacking the emotional intelligence to understand what should and should not be done in public. They think these comical stunts are pleasing him, when in reality they are humiliating him, destroying his image, and ensuring that no meaningful legacy remains behind him. You cannot go to one of the biggest hospitals in Zimbabwe and humiliate nurses by asking them to dance for US$100 as if they are beggars. It is degrading and insulting in a country where healthcare workers are already suffering because of economic collapse and poor governance. It does not end there. Paul Tungwarara’s daughter, Tinotenda Tungwarara, went to the Mbudzi Interchange in Harare, threw around US$500, and asked desperate Zimbabweans to scramble for the money. People went because they are suffering. They have been pushed into abject poverty, humiliation, and economic desperation by years of economic failure under President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government. This is precisely why many Zimbabweans are rejecting any attempt to extend the Constitution to give him an extra two years in office. If Zimbabwe had a functioning economy, if citizens had jobs, dignity, decent salaries, and functioning public services, people would not care much about political manoeuvres. Across Africa, citizens tolerate many things from politicians as long as their quality of life is improving or at least stable. But this is different. This is public humiliation of citizens by people connected to power. And if somebody close to the President is reading this, please whisper this into his ear that the people around him are damaging him politically every single day with these idiotic and comical antics. If there is ever an attempt to remove him from office, these actions are creating the emotional atmosphere that would make citizens support such a move. It is almost as if the people around him are deliberately creating a body of evidence to justify his political downfall. Nothing destroys a leader faster than surrounding himself with arrogant people who mistake public suffering for entertainment, and who are detached from public opinion. As for these nurses, journalists cannot continue writing about these things forever. We do not have an opposition or a political opposition leader, so we have reached a point where Zimbabweans need to use their own heads and decide what kind of society they want to live in. If nurses are prepared to be abused and humiliated like that, then they have become part of the problem. A society that normalises the humiliation of professionals, especially healthcare workers who are already working under terrible conditions, has much deeper problems than it is prepared to admit. At some point, you also have to reflect on what some South Africans have been saying, that Zimbabweans have chosen a timid path of enduring abuse and humiliation. I do not think that in any normal society people would be made to dance like that for crumbs, it is deeply dehumanising. There comes a point where people must ask themselves difficult questions about what they are prepared to tolerate and why they continue tolerating it. The excruciating level of unsophisticated behaviour is shocking. Chibharanzi chaicho. I cannot believe that a state with intelligence services would allow something like this to happen publicly. The level at which President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rule has sunk is absolutely staggering. I know there are people inside that government who fully understand exactly what I am saying, that this has now reached a point where the entire country is being embarrassed and humiliated by these antics. Zimbabwe is being laughed at across the region, on the continent, and beyond. And the frightening part is that a President who is supposed to be the first citizen of the country, either cannot understand, is failing to understand, or has completely lost the capacity to understand that this is wrong. That is what makes this situation so alarming. I want to speak directly to President Mnangagwa. If any one of your soldiers were to decide to go into the streets and move against you because of this behaviour, which you have failed to curtail and stop, I want to assure you, sir, that the majority of Zimbabweans would support such a person. I do not know whether that is what you want, or whether you understand that things have now sunk that low, from the gutter into the sewer. And to all the people who are behaving like this, humiliating Zimbabweans, making them dance for trinkets, putting money under the interchange and asking people to go and look for it, preying on their poverty, the abject poverty that has been induced by your actions, I want to assure you that when the day comes that the President is no longer there, you will be dragged into the streets. Some of you will face brutal consequences, and unfortunately, many Zimbabweans will celebrate because of your behaviour and the humiliation you have subjected people to. You are not the first people to have access to state money, and you will not be the last. Across the continent, there are many people with access to state resources, but they are far more sophisticated than you are. They understand how to behave, how to carry themselves, and how not to embarrass their principal and dehumanise suffering citizens. When elites begin turning citizens’ suffering into entertainment, they should never forget that history has a brutal way of eventually humiliating those who humiliate others.

Hopewell Chin’ono

77,430 views • 3 months ago

Beethoven could not hear the music he wrote. At the age of 28, he realized he was no longer able to listen to a flute being played in the distance, and he spent the rest of his life composing the most enduring music in Western history in almost complete silence... He had been a working musician since childhood. His ears were everything. In 1798, in the middle of a heated argument with a singer, he noticed for the first time that something was wrong. The sound was thinning at the edges. He could hear voices, but high frequencies were beginning to disappear. He told no one for years. By 1802, the truth was no longer deniable. On his doctor's advice he moved to Heiligenstadt, a quiet village outside Vienna, hoping the country air would help. It did not. There, alone and surrounded by farmland, he wrote a letter to his two brothers that he never sent. It was found among his papers after his death. We now call it the Heiligenstadt Testament, and it is one of the most devastating documents ever written by an artist about himself: "You men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the cause of my seeming so... what a humiliation, when one stood beside me and heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone heard the shepherd singing, and again I heard nothing." He wrote, in the same letter, that he had thought of ending his life. And then he wrote the line that explains everything that followed: "Only my art held me back. It seemed impossible to me to leave the world before I had produced everything I felt called upon to produce." He went back to Vienna. He went on composing. Over the next two decades his hearing continued to fade. Friends began writing their words down in small notebooks instead of speaking them aloud, and waiting while he read. Modern scholars call these the conversation books. Around four hundred of them survive. To compose, he developed his own methods. He bit one end of a wooden rod and pressed the other against the soundboard of his piano, letting the vibrations travel through his jaw to his inner ear. He had stumbled, through trial and error, onto the principle that modern science calls bone conduction. The cause of his deafness has never been settled. What we do know is this: he realized he was losing his hearing at twenty-eight, and he could have stopped. He wrote the letter, he held the thought of dying in his hand, and then he put down the pen and went back to work. Most of what he is remembered for was composed after that moment: The Fifth Symphony. The Seventh. The Ninth. The Missa Solemnis. The late quartets. All of it was made by a man who could no longer hear most of what he was writing. There are people who give the world what they receive, and there are people who give the world what they were never able to receive. The most enduring beauty in human history has almost always come from the second kind... -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: I write about beauty in all its forms. If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.
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Beethoven could not hear the music he wrote. At the age of 28, he realized he was no longer able to listen to a flute being played in the distance, and he spent the rest of his life composing the most enduring music in Western history in almost complete silence... He had been a working musician since childhood. His ears were everything. In 1798, in the middle of a heated argument with a singer, he noticed for the first time that something was wrong. The sound was thinning at the edges. He could hear voices, but high frequencies were beginning to disappear. He told no one for years. By 1802, the truth was no longer deniable. On his doctor's advice he moved to Heiligenstadt, a quiet village outside Vienna, hoping the country air would help. It did not. There, alone and surrounded by farmland, he wrote a letter to his two brothers that he never sent. It was found among his papers after his death. We now call it the Heiligenstadt Testament, and it is one of the most devastating documents ever written by an artist about himself: "You men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the cause of my seeming so... what a humiliation, when one stood beside me and heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone heard the shepherd singing, and again I heard nothing." He wrote, in the same letter, that he had thought of ending his life. And then he wrote the line that explains everything that followed: "Only my art held me back. It seemed impossible to me to leave the world before I had produced everything I felt called upon to produce." He went back to Vienna. He went on composing. Over the next two decades his hearing continued to fade. Friends began writing their words down in small notebooks instead of speaking them aloud, and waiting while he read. Modern scholars call these the conversation books. Around four hundred of them survive. To compose, he developed his own methods. He bit one end of a wooden rod and pressed the other against the soundboard of his piano, letting the vibrations travel through his jaw to his inner ear. He had stumbled, through trial and error, onto the principle that modern science calls bone conduction. The cause of his deafness has never been settled. What we do know is this: he realized he was losing his hearing at twenty-eight, and he could have stopped. He wrote the letter, he held the thought of dying in his hand, and then he put down the pen and went back to work. Most of what he is remembered for was composed after that moment: The Fifth Symphony. The Seventh. The Ninth. The Missa Solemnis. The late quartets. All of it was made by a man who could no longer hear most of what he was writing. There are people who give the world what they receive, and there are people who give the world what they were never able to receive. The most enduring beauty in human history has almost always come from the second kind... -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: I write about beauty in all its forms. If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

James Lucas

153,966 views • 3 months ago