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Sherrie Jean's avatar

I can't wait to try a Chai latte with oat milk.

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Sherrie Jean's avatar

Ok. Thanks Mattias, I enjoyed how your words have gently affected my thinking and direction. I can visualise ways to change my thoughts for the better. Blur the division from us and them to me and you - in a way. Great real talk. I'm grateful to have such easy access to your thoughts/advice/ponderings and feel incredibly fortunate to have you "in my pocket" and your learning right there so available. How lucky we are. 🌺

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Christian's avatar

Der Text spricht das Dilemma an, auf das sich der Homo Sapiens hin entwickelt, und soll, nämlich ich Richtung einer Transhumanistischen Technokratie. Wir müssen erkennen, das die analoge Kommunikation, verbunden mit Liebe zur Erde und ihren Ursprung der Evolution, tragende Säulen unser mitaneinder sind.

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Signme Uplease's avatar

Be fierce in your resolve to treat everyone as human and with compassion for that is how to ensure you maintain your own humanity.

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Bifurcatio's avatar

I've come to a new suspicion that there actually was some Spiritual wisdom in the early Middle East. How could there not be since they plagiarized so much from pre Abrahamic Western philosophy. But any wisdom therein was hijacked by corrupt tyrants and turned into a tool of oppression.

Not only do I like your handle, 'Eva van Loon', but the way your mind works is to my liking as well. I've written my first Substack post in a year or two and wouldn't mind your comment on it: https://bifurcatio.substack.com/p/a-possible-wild-card

Cheers!

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Alison Fayers-Kerr's avatar

Yuval Noah Harari has a way of sounding highly intellectual and 'cutting-edge' clever but........

..............to me, he is an educated idiot standing on an artificially high moral scaffold.

A Homo devoid of morals, and seemingly ignorant of poetry, the power between words, the value of nuance. Yet his screetchy voice proclaims itself harshly in cracked falsetto (which offends my ears)! My brain is pierced, it stings and then I slump disappointedly, my thwarted anticipation abruptly destroyed.

Another one who interrogates the subject matter by asking HOW?

How, how, how does it work? What happens if we experiment mechanistically with Nature's progeny.....let's break it down, replace bits mechanistically using tools and technology so we can destroy the original and make a prototype transhuman.

I'm going to smoke a cigarette now; it'll be a long wait for the question that really matters. The all-encompassing WHY? The path that leads you to discover your soul and leads you onwards to DEUS.

"In reality, humans don't die because a figure in a black cloak taps them on the shoulder, or because God decreed it, or because mortality is an essential part of some great cosmic plan: Humans always die due to some technical glitch" (Harari, Homo Deus, p.25). "And every technical problem has a technical solution. We don't have to wait for the second coming to overcome death" (Harari, Homo Deus, p.26).

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EO Wilson Devotee's avatar

Mattias MeSmet establishes and memorializes himself as far more than a painter, a conceptualist, a cultural examiner par excellence. His perspectives form the third color - projected by a color TV and without which final color, there would be no realistic color at all. Mattias provides a third color to the wheel of understanding.

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dorus's avatar

Or, when I upload a picture of a cute kitten the everybody loves it. But when I post something serious and meaningful, then the silence is baffling.

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Tony C.'s avatar

Mattias Desmet is full of shit. Pre-occupied people are not De-Souled. What a crock of shit.

Mattias is pumping transhumanism to the hilt and worshiping at the alter of Scientism. I agree Frances, Desmet is pure propaganda, and he outed himself as a Technocrat with this propaganda piece. His pal Harari is an enemy of mankind. Birds of a feather flock together.

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Frances Leader's avatar

Thank you Tony! It is disgusting that so many other people commenting on this post actually believe that people can be 'de-souled'.... I despair of their IQ!

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Tony C.'s avatar

I thought that was suspicious. I suspect the positive comments were mostly either paid operatives of the clandestine services or their contractors, or chatbot trolls. Probably both.

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John Stroncheck's avatar

We must focus on how things must be. The devil is always in the details. So forget the details and talk about the dreams.

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m cameron's avatar

We can master the art of Good Speech by speaking the Truth from our HEARTS. Engaging the heart in navigating is the way around the soul-less phenomenon we see unfolding everywhere in all age groups.

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Lynley Hocking's avatar

Harari is a psychopath and so are all promoting the 2030 agenda. People can never lose their soul, praise God, but they can disassociate or be disassociated from it. The former is a survival defence and an antagonistic world, the other is due to psychological warfare played on its people via iPhone and technological take over, inhumane systems, addict culture and a life adjudicated on the premise of ‘separation’. A little love, a lot of community and a swathe of sanity...including removal of mobile phones..will reembody those ‘soulless eyes’ with vibrancy to spare.

Let’s turn our attention inward through prayer and meditation and spend time in the softness there. 🙏🏾

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Frances Leader's avatar

"In a way, the major social crises of the 21st century all reflect a problem in the relationships in which humans are caught: they all stem from problematic and failing relationships between humans and institutions (banking crisis), between humans and fellow humans (war on terror), between men and women (MeToo crisis), between humans and nature (climate crisis)."

That paragraph impressed me, Mr Desmet, sir.

But not in a good way.

It oozes mind control and propaganda!

You and your WEF friend, Yuval Harari, serve as narrators and nudge-chums for a nasty agenda which is hurtling towards a totalitarian dystopia.

Surely you could have managed to reiterate the trigger word *CRISIS* just a few more times?

Banking, war, terrorism, rape and climate are just a few of the hyped horror, fear porn plots being deliberately rolled out on the unsuspecting public! Are you holding back on mentioning starvation, poisoning, radiation, weather warfare, forced migration and endless false flag events? Or are they the shock and awe surprises on the cards for 2025?

Mr Desmet, sir.

Humanity has not been 'de-souled'. We are seething with soulful righteous anger.

The genuinely soulless predators, who you choose to refer to as 'elite', have torn their own veil and created a warranted death shroud..... for their entire way of life.

Happy New Year, Predators! We see you.

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Perseus's avatar

the soul may still be there, the civility has gone. The little gadgets in the hands of people does not make them robots. Isn’t it not more a over saturation of moral in minds? Moral only exists in individual minds but not in reality no matter how much it is promoted.

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LDT's avatar

‘What is Truth?’ ‘Truth’ is Christ.

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