🇩🇪 German citizen:
"You keep claiming that Iran will build an atomic bomb within two weeks, so why do you never mention Israel’s possession of 200 nuclear warheads?"
Walmart updated their new AI call system for when customer call in
It now says, “This call and your voice may be recorded for quality or other business purposes”
You won’t believe what their “other business serves” are…
It is not limited to AI training, voice cloning datasets, emotion tracking, behavioral analysis, customer profiling, speech recognition systems
So when you call into Walmart they are literally recording. then storing your voice. It can possibly be used for things like “voice cloning” and more
This is horrifying and it’s really happening
Here are some of the more controversial uses:
- behavioral profiling
- emotion detection
- cross-linking voice data with customer profiles
- long-term biometric storage
- AI model training without clear opt-in transparency (You are literally just calling in to talk to customer service)
Even worse, modern AI systems can extract a lot more information from speech than people realize:
- accent
- emotional state
- stress
- probable age range
- speaking habits
- identity likelihood
- purchase intent
- deception indicators (though these systems are often unreliable)
All this and voice cloning….
Some states have started to pass legislation to stop this but it’s still in the early stages so companies are getting away with it
What they’re keeping secret is who their vendor is. In fact, they’re willing to let cases go in order to keep the vendor a secret. What happens in Gaza, doesn’t stay in Gaza.
A German man jokingly called former Chancellor Olaf Scholz a name on Twitter because his Fortnite download was crawling at 173KB/s. The tweet had 503 views.
Authorities investigated him for committing a criminal offense (insulting a politician) and he was forced to delete it.
Imagine what would happen if they get their way, ban end-to-end encryption, and monitor all of your private messages.
Israel is wiping out village after village in South Lebanon.
Villages older than entire modern states.
Villages that survived centuries of history.
Not military targets.
Civilian homes.
Civilian infrastructure.
Civilian life.
This is what they call a “ceasefire.”
Going into "spirituality" without purifying yourself is extremely dangerous:
Because when an unpurified person develops occult perception, they do not perceive higher truth.
They meet their own lower nature - projected outward.
Dr Steiner says that a person ruled by personal passions still lives entirely within the Sentient Soul.
And if such a person enters occult development prematurely, their “intuitions” are nothing but transformed versions of their instincts, desires, vanities, fears, and emotional compulsions.
In other words:
Your lower impulses become clairvoyant.
Your ego starts wearing spiritual clothing.
This is why purification is not optional in Steiner’s path.
It is the foundation of all higher development.
So what does purification actually mean?
Not repression.
Not becoming emotionless.
Not pretending to be “good.”
Steiner says the first task is to remove the personal element from one’s impulses.
That means acting less from:
- wounded pride
- likes/dislikes
- emotional reactions
He directly criticizes this kind of ego-centered mode of thinking.
The goal is to transform impulses from personal motives into universal ones.
You begin asking:
Does this impulse serve only me?
Or does it serve truth, humanity, reality itself?
This is the real alchemy.
Steiner says the astral body becomes luminous only when a person expands beyond personal interests into universally human interests.
Most people today do the opposite.
Everything is filtered through:
“How does this affect me?”
“What do I get from this?”
“How do I appear?”
And then they wonder why their inner world remains chaotic.
According to Steiner, unpurified impulses do not disappear during spiritual practice.
They intensify.
Which is why he gave the six auxiliary exercises:
- Control of thought
- Initiative of will
- Equanimity
- Positivity
- Openness
- Impartiality
These are not “self-help habits.”
They are technologies for purifying the astral body.
Steiner says they neutralize destructive forces before those forces descend into the etheric and physical organism.
Without them, instincts rise upward into false intuition.
With them, the Sentient Soul gradually transforms into what Steiner calls the Intuitional Soul.
Passion becomes devotion.
Instinct becomes conscious will.
Reaction becomes moral clarity.
This is why Steiner places enormous importance on pure thinking.
Universal thinking cools the astral body.
Truth-thinking dissolves ego-thinking.
Clear concepts weaken emotional illusion.
And finally, Steiner says none of this stabilizes until the Consciousness Soul awakens.
Meaning:
self-observation, inner honesty, responsibility, the ability to see yourself without self-deception
Because without self-awareness, the ego simply spiritualizes its own impurities.
And that is what much of modern spirituality actually is:
unpurified desire pretending to be higher knowledge.
Occult development does not automatically make you higher.
It magnifies whatever already lives inside you.
Purification is the work of many lives, but each impulse you refine in this one becomes a light that guides the next.
Dutch activists are blocking the rail lines to the port of Rotterdam to stop military supplies from being shipped to Israel.
If similar tactics were applied all across the world, Israel’s war machine would grind to a halt in months.