Fogbow

Flatpoint High wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 4:17 pm

Chalan wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 11:23 am

Frater I*I wrote: ↑Thu May 12, 2022 4:59 pm

VOTE QUIMBY!!!!

So posited that Quimby may be substituted for FNORD in all unofficial gatherings of The Society

HAIL ERIS!

I am an avid consumer of all things Robert Anton Wilson, I’d probably worship him as some minor deity if he hadn’t convinced me of the delusions down that path.

Sadly, I was inattentive to my email (35K unread and counting...) and MISSED the notice that I could now have Starlink - I only noticed it when my deposit was refunded - alas - perhaps NEXT year when my place in line comes up again, I will have it - for my RV.

Flatpoint High wrote: ↑Thu May 12, 2022 5:09 pm for those interested in reading the tome:
http://www.carrollquigley.net/pdf/Tragedy_and_Hope.pdf

Thanks for the link - loved “Strangers with Candy” so hard. “Good times!”

Not sure I understood the post but welcome! My only contribution to the debate of the above never to assume that most actors and their actions are rational. They might be… but it's unlikely and one would never assume it. TL;DR: If the conjectures in this aforementioned book are accurate, most of wh...

Flatpoint High wrote: ↑Thu May 12, 2022 5:09 pm for those interested in reading the tome:
http://www.carrollquigley.net/pdf/Tragedy_and_Hope.pdf

Thanks for the link - loved “Strangers with Candy” so hard. “Good times!”

Frater I*I wrote: ↑Thu May 12, 2022 4:59 pm

Foggy wrote: ↑Thu May 12, 2022 10:14 am not Quimby.

VOTE QUIMBY!!!!

So posited that Quimby may be substituted for FNORD in all unofficial gatherings of The Society

jez wrote: ↑Thu May 12, 2022 12:37 pm Welcome to our raucous little playpen, Chalan. I was told to keep an out for you from a mutual acquaintance that got the name of this wonderful site from me.

Thanks Jez - blame this acquaintance for my rants, they pointed me here :chuckle:

Foggy wrote: ↑Thu May 12, 2022 10:14 am I approved the post, but the author in question is Carroll Quigly, not Quimby. The book, Tragedy and Hope, was written by a former Georgetown University professor in 1966.

Further affiant sayeth naught.

A pox on my ephemeral memory banks! You are quite right.

I was raised in a family who firmly believed that Communism was the largest evil in the world, and it would ruin humanity if we didn’t dedicate our lives to eradicating it from our world like some cancer. Nothing else seemed to matter quite as much. My parents became John Birchers. We went to rallie...