Jonas Windridge

The ramblings and musings of a Dionysian 🍇

[Jonas Windridge @jonaswindridge]

[the following is a true story that changed my life c. 2007]

In my youth I traveled to the Himalayas where I ventured to a remote and desolate region in the Tibetan Plateau. While there I came upon a monastery perched on the side of a mountain surrounded by nothing but an empty expanse. It's almost as if the air is different up there, as it feels much lighter and calmer. It's as though the air isn’t as heavy as anywhere else on Earth.

When you enter into a place like that the colours are overwhelming and it feels almost as if you've gone from the dimension you know to a dimension where there are more colours than there are on the visible spectrum. It is so beautiful to witness and the energy it exhibits is one of peace and serenity. There is absolute tranquility there, like instead of going from outside into a building you go from outside into an entirely different world.

The resonation of sound vibrates and at once it stills you. Everything slows down, as if time itself has suddenly changed and now it beats to a resonance in perfect synchronicity with the frequency of your heart. For the first time in your life there's a lingering sense that perhaps time has been an illusion of your conception all along, and that the only thing that prevented you from feeling peace was your perception of it. To the ear it may sound like the distant echo of monks chanting but if you listen inside with spirit it feels almost like the energy of the Gods themselves levitating the room from one on earth to one in heaven.

Upon proceeding through and reaching a rear courtyard I saw from the corner of my eye a monk standing at the doorway of a humble abode. It was as if he had sensed my presence without any way of possibly having had insight of my coming, and to the mind it seemed impossible, but I felt as though he was there waiting for me. Like he knew I would appear.

From the very moment that I laid eyes on him I could sense a feeling of grace in him. And to the visible eye he had a smile that seemed bigger than it should have been, almost as if it encapsulated more than a smile. It said "I know you; but I am not a man. I am happiness itself. I am the joy of life and I am here to welcome you."

He gestured to me to come to him, to which I obeyed and with a gracious bow of sincerity he welcomed me into his home. It was a modest room with a bed, a window, a meditation cushion, some rosary beads, and a couple of books. The walls were dilapidated and the paint was peeling off and yet it felt like it was more homely than any other home I had been in before.

I felt bewildered but also captivated because it felt like it was a place that shouldn't exist. It was like it was from a fairy tale, and yet there I was. Perhaps it was him that made the room into what it was because I feel strongly now that it was the presence and aura that he exhibited that changed the perception of my senses.

He had an air of stillness to him with only a smile to give me, but seemingly without even attempting to do so he evoked in me a great feeling of peace. His smile never left him once, and when he gazed upon me it made me at once smile too. Upon looking into his eyes I could feel in him a deep sense of joy, and even more than that, in one sense I felt like he knows very little, but then in another way that he knows everything. He is the wisest of the wisest of men and yet he is so simplistic in his nature, and in all probability he didn't have a formal education.

I tried to converse with him but he didn't speak a single word of english, nor did I speak a single word of Tibetan, and yet at the same time when he spoke I felt like the words he was saying transcended our knowledge of linguistics because without even knowing his words I knew what he was saying. In a voice that resonated of a deep peace he said: "I love you. You are my brother, and I love you."

I turned to look at the window and gazed at the light. It was almost as if the light cascading in seemed as if it was brighter than it should have been. Like bending the laws of physics, the photons of the light rays either became enlarged or they slowed down, or I don't really know exactly how it happened but I know in my heart that something changed in that room. In one sense I felt as though I'd seen light for the very first time, like the perception I had of light up to that moment was very limited, and now for the very first time I saw what light really is, not what I usually perceive it to be, but the glory of it. Like coming from God himself the light was more than it was; it was holy.

My knowledge of the world changed in that instant.

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People like that have a public policy, and a private policy. The public policy is for narrative control and it is usually aimed at the media or markets, and it is also for expanding their sphere of influence. The private policy is their true intent behind the veil, and it is usually some combination of representing the interests of who every gives them the biggest cheque, or it's because they're being coerced due to control files or at least some form of self interest.

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@GENIC0N I don't day trade but i'd be stacking longs like crazy rn if I did. 🌕

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@MattisRedacted It's not due to AI, it's because of the impending civil unrest coming when the food shortages hit

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Empires fall because energy becomes expensive. It's all about the energy, not the currency. Everyone thinks that it's the currency, but it's not.

The currency expansion happens when the energy becomes scarce; to mask it, what they do is they fabricate wealth to keep the wheels spinning. That's why living standards deteriorate incrementally at first, only to accelerate later on. It's also why empires fall at the extremities first, and it's why corruption sets in gradually, only incrementally at first, until it festers and grows like a cancer that slowly devours away at its own host until the body can no longer sustain its own function. At that point the society can no longer support its own weight, so it either disbands or it pivots to a new model, because when the energy is expensive, it means that every subset within the system of systems begins to break down because the cost basis compounds on itself, which is the point that we're entering into now, btw.

Like it or hate it, it doesn't really matter; what matters is that we progress as a species, and this is the only way that works. The rise and fall of civilisations is the study of energy, and the net sum accumulation of that painful process is our technological and industrial progress (because it carries over).

Without the cover story for AI and the subsequent rollout of digitally tracking everything in real time in an internet of things society, we would break down and everything would fall apart. You think digital tracking and starvation is bad? Mad max world is a far sight worse.

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I think you'll find that the more someone buys into the rhetoric from either side, the lower their capacity for critical thinking or for forming their own opinions. That's not to imply that smart people can't be gullible to it, because they often are, but on balance of probability they're less likely to be interested in the charade that we call politics because the end conclusions they draw from the talking points aren't so narrow and one sided, and they're more likly to approach it from a vantage point of taking in multiple opinions, rather than solely attempting to further give credit to their exisitng bias.

Political ideology, at least in the modern sense of the term and also in this context, is akin to the analogy of a sports team. Their "team" is the right one. They don't hold rational views; instead, they rely on beliefs or assumptions they have that are fomed by a consistent habit of reinforcing views by getting their news media from sources that reinforce their narrow beliefs, and by only having friends that tell them how right they are or at the very least when they know someone that doesn't have the same views as them then suddenly it's not something they like to talk about with them, lol. I think the really low intellignce ones will cherry pick their friends based on political-football 'teams' and even become estranged to family that don't share the same rigid and dogmatic views as them. It's sad and I think it's a bit pathetic really to do that, because it shows what sort of person they are inside.

If you don't believe me, try to critique die-hard "loyal" fans from either side of the political divide and see how quickly their emotional disposition changes. If they end up attacking your character and can't process your talking points and can't give a valid rebuttal, that's a clear sign of low intelligence especially when they claim to have all the answers and spend a lot of time 'being well informed'.

In my experience a large majority of people I've spoken to in the past that hold strong views on these things end up not wanting to talk to me ever again because it makes them feel uncomfortable which is what it's really about to them, but they wontt admit that to themselves. They want to feel good about themselves by investing a sense of self into a concept, believing that an identity complex will save them from the misery of their own lives. They feel empty inside and they don't want to feel like shit, which is why it constitutes an identity complex because their self worth is derived from it. I never attack their character, and they're the ones that bring up the topic of conversation, yet i'm the villan for giving a counter view just because they're naked and afraid of themselves.

In recent times i've largely stopped talking about politics in general, not because I don't have a view but because if someone is so invested in it and it gives them a sense of purpose, then I think the smart thing to do is to just let them go with it. At least they have a sense of purpose and it detracts them from the fact that life is hard. And if you zoom out far enough we're all on differnet paths that lead to the same conclusion anyway, so what difference does it make? The only 'smart' thing is to is to just smile at them and let them be.

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@pmarca The coming mass starvation.

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@GENIC0N Do you think it would affect protein folding @GENIC0N

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@Cryptollica LOL at ceazy. Almost everyone is convinced this is a bear market now but i remain convinced that it's a pull back in a high time frame bull market and that we never had a blow off top. I think it goes vertical to 1.5 million now, or there abouts.

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@FilmThePoliceLA The face of that guy through the door looks like something from a horror movie. Imagine being one of their victims trapped in there with those mindless muppets blocking the exits and asking you if you really want to leave.

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@JoeyCheerio Normalise polymarket bets on how far it can go, that way it creates a flywheel where more attention = more financial reward = more people involved which means more skilled runners and bigger raids.

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Because in future decades after the debt model has burst and the population has been drastically reduced it will allow for a new era of prosperity.

I'm not so sure that governments will serve the same fucntion then as they do now, because the only way it would function is with a one world government (but maybe with varying degrees of autonomy to regions).

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In the early days of the internet, on an image board I cant mention because of rules 1 and 2, i have this memory of seeing this one thread where some random guy freeze dried his own seminal fluid, crustalised it and idk what else he did to it now to make the colour so opaque but he made it resemble you know what. And then he went to seedy night clubs and randomly "dropped" tiny bags of it on the floor.

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More $cientology raids please random internet people 🙏

To penetrate to the depths you need upwards of 100 people, and preferably 500~ to get to those upper usherins and reveal what is inside. The ignorant beauty of it is more exposure and cult like poker face reactions from "staff" the more viral and transparent they become as a collective. They're so in denial and can't rationalise that their own reactions to kids running about having fun is what gives them a tarnished reputation and just the fact that their "faith" is so closed that no ones allowed to see inside makes it go viral because everyone can see through the facade 😆

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@TradingThomas3 No, it's all narrative control while big money continues to extract what remaining wealth can be pulled out of the system before the big inflation finally takes hold and average Joe is left with nothing.

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What if the population of Earth is drastically reduced first? Would it be feasible then? Under what circumstances would it be a workable model? Fast forward decades into the future when supply chains are automated and machines do all of the manufacturing, mining, logistics, and menial labour intensive jobs, and even assist with all of the high skills jobs (meaning one doctor can do the work load of ten), at that point wouldn't the framework for the entire civilization also be utilising a digital blockchain-centric internet of things model where the concept of money we have now is irrelevant? I could ramble on. I don't know any of the small details, i'm merely speculating on what might be (not what will be), but my talking point is that you're thinking in terms of now, not in terms of decades or even half a century into the future.

I think they're getting us ready for a high tech world, and in that world the reality is going to be entirely different to what we know now. What it is, is, it's essentially a form of welfare, and it enables an enormous amount of leverage over the individual and the family unit. We will have no rights at all, and that's only one half of the coin on why it will be enabled, with the other half being that upwards of 50%+ of the population won't have nor need employment.

In Australia, we have a "Work for the Dole" scheme where the unemployed have to "volunteer" for something ridiculous like 20 hours a week of unpaid work, and they have to do it in shitty places where they're basically low-key slaves. They have to do it just to be able to get enough money to eat, and yet the amount of money they get doesn't even cover rent (if living on your own).

I think that UBI is already a reality in many parts of the world, with the dole scheme I mentioned being a prime example. It's always marketed as one thing, they don't call it UBI but effectively it's the same thing. It already exists mate, and it's only going to get worse.

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The trick is in understanding suffering, not to dwell on it. If you come to understand suffering, you realise that there is no suffering, and that there is only the illusion of suffering. This is the only way to arrive at true happiness because it's not dependent on the false reality that you are imposing on yourself because ironically it is only by denying the reality of that suffering that you truly suffer.

If you really think about it buddhism is nothing more than a philosophy on suffering and the only real measure of being a buddhist is in how little you suffer, when you suffer 😆

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@_tm3k Normies still don't get it, and it's now 2026 😐

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@GENIC0N Replace the term blood with spirit and you're spot on. But then again, blood is spirit, so maybe you're right hey

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@s8n @JacintaAllanMP please ban Nescafe blend 43 from victoria. It tastes like someone took a shit and then attempted to strain it with a water filter only to call it coffee and it turns the most innocuous of men into savage bloodthirsty maniacs (as per the 7news article).