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Steve Martin's avatar

Indeed Rima.

Along with Margaret Anna Alice's 'philanthropath', Mathew Crawford's 'kulangeta' (the Inuit word for psychopath), another recent addition to my vocabulary is Toby Roger's frequent use of 'iatrocide'.

Just a guess, but a minority (morally autonomous altruists) has been fighting a minority (Cluster B personality sociopaths) since the stone age in a never-ending war of mankind against its own worst nature.

Though not optimistic, some of us can not help but to go down fighting the good fight ... that fable of 'The Scorpion and the Frog' thingy.

Cheers from Japan Rima.

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Rima E Laibow MD's avatar

Thanks for your thoughts, as always, Steve. By the way, I believe that I originated the iatrocide a couple of years ago. Glad to see people are using it. It is a useful, and all to common, description.

The need for the word is related to the fact that I have chosen to practice 55 years of medicine and psychiatry without ever prescribing a pharmaceutical.

I actually am cautiously optimistic since we have, for the first time since it was formed, the opportunity to actually exit the operational end of the global death machine, the UN. BUT, once we do that, that's when the real work begins since the same awful folk will come back around wrapped in the right flags and slogans and try to do the same thing that they are doing now under the current banner.

But it is actually something we can do if we are smart enough and dedicated enough.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Thank YOU, Rima.

I am still relatively new to the substack arena (and this increasingly morbid vocabulary), but flatter myself into believing some of us are just genetically predetermined to aim for a more morally autonomous life than others.

As a side note, did I ever mention I worked part time in the rec room at Fort Huachuca at about the time your husband was there? Worlds apart, in a small world.

Cheers and keep up the good fight!

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remoteviewer57's avatar

Revelation 9:5-6

King James Version

5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Whoa! Good find!

You probably had already guessed I was thinking of that South African fable — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog

Cheers!

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remoteviewer57's avatar

The Fable Sparked A Memory Vaguely Familiar To Me But What Sparked Me Was About Boiling Frogs & The Scorpion Or More Appropriately The Scorpions Sting And How It Is Related To The Covid Vaccines, Vaccine Injuries & Permanent Changes & Control That Leaves Men No Longer In Control Of Their Own Free Agency. Zombie Slaves If You Will? Great Interaction Steve! Love Ya Brother! :)

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remoteviewer57's avatar

Also We Have A "Plague Of Frogs"!

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Steve Martin's avatar

Still trying to guess the metaphorical implications of this one ... but I'll take your word for it. 😂

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remoteviewer57's avatar

They Are Marked With Luciferase? Nano Micro-Chips?, Traceable & Controllable With 6G? Mark Of The Beast?

Revelation 13:17

“And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”

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Steve Martin's avatar

I like the way you think, remote!

Subscribed with pleasure.

My voice is mostly scattered in comments to others, so will be looking for ya there.

Cheers from Japan!

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remoteviewer57's avatar

The Holy Spirit Never Fails Me Brother I Am Blessed In My Relationship With Jesus Christ. Amen

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remoteviewer57's avatar

Cyborg's?

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remoteviewer57's avatar

Homo-Cyborgensis?

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Ninsuna's avatar

I share your lack of optimism, and your determination to continue to fight the good fight, regardless.

But I must admit, I'm feeling stupendously weary, worn to a frazzle by it all. A war of attrition is extremely effective, and the devil loves to see death by a thousand paper cuts.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Hi Ninsuna.

And I share in your weariness, the ups and downs. Still learning to appreciate the simple things in life, but also be inspired by a few writers.

Buddy Dean, just wrote a blistering piece ... https://doesnotplaywellwithothers.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-the-tinfoil-saints-with

I am seeing we share a lot of people in who we follow, so I'll add some other favorites ... Margaret Anna Alice, Mary Poinexter McLaughlin, and Kathleen Devanney.

But yeah, I sometimes fall into a pit summarized by evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr in his debate with Carl Sagan about the Fermi paradox. He conceded that there was probably alien intelligence somewhere else in the universe ... but most likely not human-like. He went as far as suggesting human intelligence may yet prove to be a fatal mutation of a social primate.

I don't consider myself anti-intellectual, but do tend to see reason as mostly post-hoc excuses for darker genetic predispositions for greed, fear and fear ... and maybe logic and reason have a built in self-destruct mechanism ... similar to historian Joseph Tainter's assumption that all complex systems reach a tipping point of collapse when energy requirements are no longer self sustaining.

I find some consolation in meeting and sharing with a handful of like minded people of an altruistic bend. When I am weary, that keeps me going just a bit longer. A bit.

Cheers from Japan, and keep up the good fight.

steve

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Ninsuna's avatar

Thank you, Steve. The simple things in life are my soul food, and good writers can be delicious seasoning. I've long believed that human intelligence has proved to be at least as destructive as not, having advanced beyond spiritual maturity, making it dangerous. I'm not too intellectual myself, and you are apparently far more erudite, but I'm a believer in spiritual DNA, and matching intellects aren't required. Cheers back, all the way to Japan! (I follow James Corbett -- smart people apparently to like to move to Japan.)

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Steve Martin's avatar

Hi Ninsuna.

I'm with you in believing 'intelligence' tends to be over-rated, or misunderstood at best.

Thank you, but I winced at the compliment of 'erudite'. I'm not yet of literary quality, and might never attain that level ... but the legalese of those corporate lawyers who write the fine print of a user's agreement or non-disclosure-agreement ... they are far more erudite than I will ever be. 😂. And more corrupt.

I remember back when Chomsky still had a respectable name, he gave a 2010 speech at Chapel Hill entitled "Human Intelligence and the Environment" in which he referred to the debate between Carl Sagan and Ernst Mayr about alien intelligence. Mayr raised an interesting and troubling hedge to that probability in proposing it would not be human-like intelligence ... and went as far as to say human-like intelligence may prove to be little more than an ultimately fatal mutation of a social primate. Looking at the historic sweep of 'what can be weaponized, will be', I find it hard to disagree.

I agree with your implication about something (some phenomenon?) defying conversational definitions of 'spiritual', 'DNA', and 'intelligence' — some divine spark that some have, and some don't. I don't know if we can ever define it, much less quantify it ... otherwise some of the bad seeds among us would try to commodify it. 'Grace of god' is as good a phrase as any for me.

I follow James too ... a force of nature that is above my pay scale. Another buddy under the radar who you might find some inspiration in is Dean Scoville, his latest post being exemplary of his work ... https://doesnotplaywellwithothers.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-the-tinfoil-saints-with

Oh, and I hesitate to associate Japan with that brush of intelligence. While one side of the journalistic coin is effective marketing of Japan's traditional virtues as an exotic must-see, must-do for world travelers, the other side? Without force or mandates, Japan is the most heavily jabbed nation on earth, and back when X was Twitter, the Japanese government was by far the biggest censor of the platform.

The good, the bad, and the ugly are just as common here too. Human. All too human.

Keep the faith!

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Ninsuna's avatar

Thank you for the recommendations; I much appreciate that. I'll definitely check out Dean Scoville.

Yes, humans are humans, of course. I often say I wasn't born a cynic and a misanthrope, just an observer. [It's so odd that humans tend to be so egotistical and self-aggrandizing while Biblical scripture notes that the only thing in all creation that God ever regretted creating -- the only thing that ever broke the heart of God -- is human beings (Genesis 6:6). ]

But I wasn't aware that Japan was so big on the cult of Pharmakeia and worshipped at the altar of the goddess Vacinnia. Or does their famous politeness simply elicit hyper-compliance?

Well, regardless, I'll never understand it. Nowhere to run, I guess... Covid lunacy was the real global contagion.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Bingo, Ninunsa!

Although there is a superficial cult of reducing science to authoritative 'scientism', you nailed it with 'politeness' as the passive-aggressive flip-side of a culture of blind compliance to authority.

The corporate nation-state, including education (where I've worked for 43 years here) values blind compliance to authority above all. I learned that the hard way, and ended my career by retiring from a tenured position about 10 years ago.

Both meritocracy and a politeness in the name of harmony are as spotty and superficial here as meritocracy, individuality, and prosperity theology are in the states. Otherwise, Japan would not have such an epidemic of suicides, even among school children, and a current pandemic of digital thievery and fraud, as well as human trafficking through marginalized run-away girls and exploitation on non-skilled immigrant workers.

(sigh) ... Same old, same old.

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remoteviewer57's avatar

Matthew 24:13

King James Version

13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

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Gordon Groves's avatar

The Life Insurance companies' actuarial tables revealed a 40 percent rise in all-cause mortality following the introduction of the Covid shots. Crunch the numbers and you get more than 3 million dead and 30 million disabled for life. By now the numbers are much higher, since the lipid encapsulates often taken six months to a year or more to break open and dump their deadly payloads into the body. People are still dying from the encapsulated poisons. Is this an epidemic , a pandemic, or murder by the military?

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Rima E Laibow MD's avatar

It is a multifactorial genocide.

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Michael Kosh's avatar

“Since the lipid encapsulates often takes six months to a year or more to break open and dump their deadly payloads into the body”

Interesting. Do you have a source for this?

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Penny's avatar

And outright lies

My father at the age of 97 was admitted to hospital after a fall, he had congestive cardiac failure, renal failure .. he died of old age, his death certificate states he died of Covid !!! He has a fraudulent death certificate

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EK MtnTime's avatar

The clock keeps ticking and we are no where near properly getting out of the WHO and UN. So much rides on it and it’s truly a dystopian nightmare if it goes forward.

I had stopped randomly checking VAERS a long while back because it is so depressing but James Roguski posted the all VAERS COVID reports as of the end of March and it’s jarring...it’s always been jarring.

For the life of me, I can’t figure out why “they” didn’t prevent reporting to VAERS because even in the early months the data was truly damming and now it’s a picture of the most devastating attack on the world’s populace since the Great Flood. Even as awful as the numbers are, by God’s grace, the world dodged having billions dead.

https://openvaers.com/covid-data

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Rider's avatar

Here is are a few questions, motivated by my hangup on logic.

Since nobody has ever physically isolated and then studied any pure specimen of "covid", conclusions follow. It is not knowable what a non-isolated particle might be made of. Does this mystery particle have genetic material and if so what? Does it have a protein coat and if so what? With such basic issues never resolved, what exactly do Virology Church Deacons test to try to find the mystery particle in people? How could the Deacons experiment with non-isolated mystery particles to prove or disprove pathogenicity?

Since "covid" is said to be associated with any symptoms or no symptoms, and there can be no test to find "it", and there is no evidence "it" causes illness, how do The Faithful know what covid is or if it exists?

Why should one assume "it" could kill anyone?

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remoteviewer57's avatar

Genocide Or Democide There Were A Lot Of Evil People Murdering Others Even Their Own Families To Get Rich.

The Love Of Money Is Indeed The Root Of All Evil.

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Xmen442002's avatar

Congress, Trump and SCOTUS, as well as our entire government are captured entities of a foreign power and have ZERO authority to act on their own without approval.

All of this stems from what happened when Trump signed off(98% approval from the same Congress you say can save us) on a illegal law 6/24/19 that handed off all government power to HHS and the DOD in the event of a national emergency ever being declared.

Six months after the signing, Covid was declared that emergency on 1/27/20 and on Feb 3, all power transferred to HHS.

Obviously, RFK is just the company spokesperson with no power except that which is granted to confuse a very naïve American public.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Though I'll never know for sure, you are probably correct. When I now think of the 'Biohazard' movie series, I think of it as more of a documentary than Sci-Fi.

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EJ's avatar

The WHO requires a 12-month waiting period before a country can formally be removed from the alliance under the WHO Constitution. Donald Trump withdrew on January 20, 2025, with WHO membership officially ending on January 23, 2026. The disease cycle has honed in on 2026 as a major event. The next pandemic outlined by the WHO, will occur before 1/23/2026.

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Xmen442002's avatar

she states the Rubio signed off on the declaration, making the document irrelevant except to a naïve American public.

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Rima E Laibow MD's avatar

It, like the withdrawal he supposedly effectuated in his first term, is a flamflam, twinkletoes nonsense faux withdrawal.

Politics as usual.

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Mary's avatar

True Dr. Rima. Several diseases were ignored once covid hit the airwaves. I was hearing more alarm and news than I ever heard about cancers, diabetes, hypertension and many other dibilitating and killer diiseases combined. Since these and many other diseases reportedly have accelerated since the roll out of the covid jabs. I suppose the MSM has no choice but to report on them. Of course they never make mention of the biological and other man-made weapons that contribute to diseases.

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Dr.Don Hall's avatar

Bioweapons/Vaccines

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