The entire socialist sphere had been saturated with spies. Historians underestimate the gravity of the tsars belonging to the Houses of Hessen and Schleswig-Holstein. This aristocratic supercluster had its own family spy system and was all over the British empire. The Okhrana in Russia was small in comparison and only played a support role. The science about 20th century history and today's world hinges on the question of how deeply the socialists had been under control. The old Russian system wasn't working because of the dreaded "white" aristocrats. The revolution got rid of the whites and established a unified centralized empire.
Always interesting to see how the calculated dishonesty is relabeled as "I settled". Instead of "I deceived him for the money, lifestyle and undeserved respect". Unregulated emotions and other serious flaws are relabeled as "black cat personality". Leaving out the part where she's already planning on cheating to chase the excitement. And the part where perimenopause is getting closer. So most excuses for withholding sex are lies. The true reason is women are mad they settled and miss out, so they lash out slo-mo at their husbands and take away the fun and the sex from them. "If I don't have fun, he doesn't get to have fun." That pettyness gets relabeled too.
“The man who cannot laugh at anything is just as unhealthy as the man who laughs at everything.”
— Dr Rudolf Steiner
Laughter is as a window into the condition of the soul.
It isn’t merely a physical reaction — it reveals how thinking, feeling, and willing are working together inside us.
When these forces are in harmony, laughter becomes an expression of freedom.
When they fall out of balance, it exposes where the soul has become trapped.
The person who never laughs may appear disciplined, but inwardly he is rigid.
Thinking has become cold and inflexible.
Feeling can no longer flow into willing.
This isn't mastery —> it's imprisonment within one's own hardened inner structure.
The person who laughs at everything suffers the opposite imbalance.
Impulse overwhelms judgment.
Every passing stimulus dictates their reaction.
This isn't joy —> it's instability, a loss of inner direction.
Neither extreme is free.
One cannot laugh.
The other cannot stop.
Both are ruled by forces they do not consciously guide.
Steiner's ideal is neither suppression nor indulgence, but inner elasticity — the capacity to respond appropriately to life.
To laugh when laughter is true.
To be serious when seriousness is required.
Not because habit compels you, but because your awakened ego chooses.
This is why Steiner saw humor as a spiritual quality.
True humor lifts us above ourselves.
It softens judgment, prevents fanaticism, warms thinking, and lets us recognize human weakness — including our own — without cynicism or self‑importance.
A soul incapable of laughter has become spiritually compressed.
A soul that laughs without restraint has become spiritually scattered.
Only the soul that can both laugh and refrain from laughing has achieved genuine inner freedom.
For Steiner, laughter is more than amusement.
It is a subtle test of whether the ego is awake enough to guide the soul with both clarity and warmth.
Freedom is never found in the extremes —
but in the quiet mastery that lets every response arise consciously.
So "professor" Page now has a PhD in psychology alongside special fields of medicine? He can simply infer anything from his own personal case while dismissing anything that didn't work out and dismissing other people's cases where transitioning didn't work out? His voice still isn't finished and there is no beard. So he probably stepped on the break with testosterone. Because of atrophy and other side effects?
@buchundhund Der einzige Fehler in dem Interview sind die tierischen Eiweisse, die wir angeblich brauchen. Prof. Veith ist ein besserer Tipp. Neben Dr. Dahlke.