Filling the unsaid spaces between opinions with champagne last week, I was toasting my friend’s birthday when we settled on a sudden death we could agree on.
When is progress no longer progress but just interfering with nature. We do not need robots or humans with a brain chip to have a fulfilling life. Just to use science as an excuse to do crazy things doesn’t mean that we should.
Wade Davis quotes a Lama commenting on Western science as having "made great achievements for minor needs". Yeah, does it even count as progress if you don't really need it? ...
Listened to you on the delinpod again. My take fwiw is your intellect and compassion will write great comedy. Really smart comedy is appreciated by a wider audience, and is so rare. So yes, no master bating jokes.
It wasn't until the last year that we earned the privilege of going to the off limits 4th floor of animal research. I went into a state of shock as deep within my soul l felt an overwhelming sense of revulsion. I was face to face with unadulterated evil for the first time in my life. Of course we were told that it was all in the cause of helping and advancing mankind. I didn't trust the "science". I trusted my soul instead. I had worked so hard and diligently and steamed big, only to get to this crossroad. l had a profound sense that God was asking me to choose. I silently walked out and away from my potential career. What l saw could not be justified For years l wondered and asked God at various stages of my life what the point
of all that was - until COVID. All my education, in statistics, in the history of psychological research, in the various methods of mind control and human behavioural manipulation served me well. I worked day and night for 6 months typing the truth online at every opportunity l could get. I like to think l saved at least one life. My decision to honour life way back then became validated in a way l never would have believed it could. Gods hand was at work in my life all along. All praise to our creator God. Our decisions matter. We do have agency. We do have choices to make. We are powerful when we fear not and exercise faith. We are wonderfully made and God is good. We each in our way make a difference however much that appears not to be the case. Give God something to work through and with. Be bold my fellow human beings. It's the only way to go.
It wasn't until the last year that we earned the privilege of going to the off limits 4th floor of animal research. I went into a state of shock as deep within my soul l felt an overwhelming sense of revulsion. I was face to face with unadulterated evil for the first time in my life. Of course we were told that it was all in the cause of helping and advancing mankind. I didn't trust the "science". I trusted my soul instead. I had worked so hard and diligently and dreamed big, only to get to this crossroad. l had a profound sense that God was asking me to choose. I silently walked out and away from my potential career. What l saw could not be justified For years l wondered and asked God at various stages of my life what the point
of all that was - until COVID. All my education, in statistics, in the history of psychological research, in the various methods of mind control and human behavioural manipulation served me well. I worked day and night for 6 months typing the truth online at every opportunity l could get. I like to think l saved at least one life. My decision to honour life way back then became validated in a way l never would have believed it could. Gods hand was at work in my life all along. All praise to our creator God. Our decisions matter. We do have agency. We do have choices to make. We are powerful when we fear not and exercise faith. We are wonderfully made and God is good. We each in our way make a difference however much that appears not to be the case. Give God something to work through and with. Be bold my fellow human beings. It's the only way to go.
When is progress no longer progress but just interfering with nature. We do not need robots or humans with a brain chip to have a fulfilling life. Just to use science as an excuse to do crazy things doesn’t mean that we should.
I agree it’s rank!
Wade Davis quotes a Lama commenting on Western science as having "made great achievements for minor needs". Yeah, does it even count as progress if you don't really need it? ...
Thank goodness for you and your witty, insightful musings. Keeping me sane today. Thank you again 🙏
I’m away from the crowd too. Enjoyed your conversation with James Delingpole!
Thank you X
Listened to you on the delinpod again. My take fwiw is your intellect and compassion will write great comedy. Really smart comedy is appreciated by a wider audience, and is so rare. So yes, no master bating jokes.
Just coz we can, doesn’t mean we should.
Loved your chat with James too. Re Ashley resonated. Look forward to reading your Substack posts.
I did a research degree in psychology.
It wasn't until the last year that we earned the privilege of going to the off limits 4th floor of animal research. I went into a state of shock as deep within my soul l felt an overwhelming sense of revulsion. I was face to face with unadulterated evil for the first time in my life. Of course we were told that it was all in the cause of helping and advancing mankind. I didn't trust the "science". I trusted my soul instead. I had worked so hard and diligently and steamed big, only to get to this crossroad. l had a profound sense that God was asking me to choose. I silently walked out and away from my potential career. What l saw could not be justified For years l wondered and asked God at various stages of my life what the point
of all that was - until COVID. All my education, in statistics, in the history of psychological research, in the various methods of mind control and human behavioural manipulation served me well. I worked day and night for 6 months typing the truth online at every opportunity l could get. I like to think l saved at least one life. My decision to honour life way back then became validated in a way l never would have believed it could. Gods hand was at work in my life all along. All praise to our creator God. Our decisions matter. We do have agency. We do have choices to make. We are powerful when we fear not and exercise faith. We are wonderfully made and God is good. We each in our way make a difference however much that appears not to be the case. Give God something to work through and with. Be bold my fellow human beings. It's the only way to go.
I did a research degree in psychology.
It wasn't until the last year that we earned the privilege of going to the off limits 4th floor of animal research. I went into a state of shock as deep within my soul l felt an overwhelming sense of revulsion. I was face to face with unadulterated evil for the first time in my life. Of course we were told that it was all in the cause of helping and advancing mankind. I didn't trust the "science". I trusted my soul instead. I had worked so hard and diligently and dreamed big, only to get to this crossroad. l had a profound sense that God was asking me to choose. I silently walked out and away from my potential career. What l saw could not be justified For years l wondered and asked God at various stages of my life what the point
of all that was - until COVID. All my education, in statistics, in the history of psychological research, in the various methods of mind control and human behavioural manipulation served me well. I worked day and night for 6 months typing the truth online at every opportunity l could get. I like to think l saved at least one life. My decision to honour life way back then became validated in a way l never would have believed it could. Gods hand was at work in my life all along. All praise to our creator God. Our decisions matter. We do have agency. We do have choices to make. We are powerful when we fear not and exercise faith. We are wonderfully made and God is good. We each in our way make a difference however much that appears not to be the case. Give God something to work through and with. Be bold my fellow human beings. It's the only way to go.
A thousand times this. Xx