Such a predictable pattern... I think of a pretty good business idea. Nothing impressive, but it would be sustaining... Costs all checking out, suppliers look fine... But oh, getting product into the US, lol, good luck. Customs fees were already blatant crime, but now with tariffs, I can really only conclude that the plan is to literally impoverish and enslave all Americans.

I could highlight this whole chapter, but that would be impractical... such a great book! Huxley is talking about his observation that there are two versions of God being worshipped by people - the God in time, and the God in eternity - and the time worship causes cultures and ideologies to do violence. Very very worth reading! He shows how Marxism fits into the worship of time and justifies unspeakable violence and suffering on behalf of some imagined future good. #Perennial #Philosophy #Bookstr #gnostr #history

Woke up early, so naturally I start reading about ancient Egyptian stuff. Egypt + ☕ = 😺. Some cool jewels have surfaced : Etymology of "nature" is a lie - dictionaries say its from French, and then from Latin. Liar liar pants on fire! Its from "neteru" in Ancient Egyptian. Prob will write more on this later. "Mary" is originally an Egyptian word/name, meaning "beloved." It also had connotations of purity, so there was already the path to its catholic meaning, the Virgin Mother. The root was "mr" or "mer" and then in Hebrew they added "ya" to get "Miriam" which literally meant "loved by God." Isis and Mary are the same person - already knew that, but got a bit more clarity on usages. The royal blue or purple is from the blue lotus. I remember learning in school that blue became the royal color because its hard to make, so scarcity. But that's really not true. Blue was originally associated with the spirit in Egypt because of the blue lotus, which you can get high from. In hieroglyphs, if something is painted blue, you immediately know that concept is spiritual or symbolic. ☕

Y'all remember when Obama visited Anthony Bourdaine - in Vietnam, iirc - and like the next day we found out that Bourdaine committed suicide? I still think about that.