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[Ukpoohbear]

Are birth charts a complete *luck of the draw or are they a reflection of our past karma?

I have always believed it is an imprint of our soul and past lives but I’m curious to hear what everyone else thinks.

 

[FraterAC]

Are birth charts a complete lack (you mean luck, right?) of the draw or are they a reflection of our past karma?

I have always believed it is an imprint of our soul and past lives but I’m curious to hear what everyone else thinks.

I would tend to agree with you, but I must admit it's a belief.

If someone thinks everything is chaotic randomness, then that's all one's horoscope is. If one thinks everything is human imagination and subjectivity, then that's all the horoscope is. If one does not believe in astrology at all, then it's just foolishness anyway.
If one thinks there's intelligence and law in the Cosmos, then there must be intelligence and law behind the horoscope.

If one suffers from the misconception that one opinion (or belief) is just as good as another, the whole issue is mooted (for them), and they needn't trouble about it.

 

[Ukpoohbear]

I would tend to agree with you, but I must admit it's a belief.

If someone thinks everything is chaotic randomness, then that's all one's horoscope is. If one thinks everything is human imagination and subjectivity, then that's all the horoscope is. If one does not believe in astrology at all, then it's just foolishness anyway.
If one thinks there's intelligence and law in the Cosmos, then there must be intelligence and law behind the horoscope.

If one suffers from the misconception that one opinion (or belief) is just as good as another, the whole issue is mooted (for them), and they needn't trouble about it.

Yeah, at the end of the day, until we die, it can only be but a belief. You summed up the different possible outcomes well.

Persoanlly, I have a strong, maternal feeling from God. I see it, feel it and I trust it. I’m not religious, I just translate it as a type of divine intuition that I listen to.

Even if there is such a thing as a Divine Creator, he could still leave it up to us to evolve amongst the chaos.

So even if some people see proof of an afterlife, it does not necessarily mean our charts are not a luck of the draw.

But what even is bad luck? It’s all a perception anyway.

 

[david starling]

Mars is already beginning to separate from the , conjunction in tropical Taurus. The Moon has ingressed perspicacious Sagittarius.

 

[Ancar]

Are birth charts a complete *luck of the draw or are they a reflection of our past karma?

I have always believed it is an imprint of our soul and past lives but I’m curious to hear what everyone else thinks.

Hi, Pooh Bear. I'm glad you posted this! I consider it a great question, and I'd like to share my experience and "take" on it.

I absolutely believe that our birth charts are a reflection of our past karma. Everything I've gone through in life is clearly there in my birth chart.

The "greats" in the field of reincarnation, e.g., Edgar Cayce, usually say that we, in our soul form, wait to be reborn at a chosen time when the planets, etc., are in appropriate configurations for a life that we should live in order to reap good karma and/or to pay bad karma.

"Paying bad karma" isn't simply "punishment" - it is more practical education (as opposed to theoretical or superficial). It's the experiential development of more profound understanding of others' suffering, and thus of greater empathy and love for others. We choose when and whether to learn by experiencing difficulties in life which we have been ignorant of, insensitive to, and unjustly critical of.

Material experience seems to be the only way that most souls can learn these things. If you haven't suffered it yourself, you can't really comprehend it.

I personally can remember much of my life previous to this one (I have since I was a child), and I know for certain that I am living the karma (both good and bad) that I myself "earned" then, and probably in earlier lives. This is the one perspective that I think has kept me sane when life has gotten very hard, and I've had an extremely hard life this time - I know why I'm going through these ordeals.

I know without any doubt that I had often been cold, cruel and selfish. And as a soul, I chose this time to learn greater empathy and to make amends for the suffering I had caused. This lifetime I "signed up for very hard courses" that I very much needed to master in order to graduate as a better, more empathetic soul. There is no unfair difficulty, no unjust struggle - it is always for a reason, for a goal, for that "PhD".

Cayce and most others warn that we will earn more "bad karma" for ourselves if we see others suffering and just say "they earned it". (This is unfortunately what has corrupted many South Asian concepts of karma.) We are meant to help those we can in their grueling learning process just as we need help in ours. This reciprocation of love furthers our growth as souls. And we feel more genuine respect and love for ourselves as a result. The golden rule: Love others as you love yourself. So if you can't respect and love yourself, you are unable to truly love anybody else!

Many theorize that souls who do not choose to grow may continue to reincarnate and live evil lives. But they are separating ("unplugging") their souls from the Great Source (God, Brahman, Higher Power, Divine Creator, Mind of the Universe...) until their souls are eventually depleted of spiritual energy. At some point, when their physical body dies, their soul (if it even still exists) dies with it. They will no longer exist as an entity. I doubt if Hitler's soul still exists...and I suspect that some very famous souls incarnated today might have the same fate in store.

 

[Ukpoohbear]

Hi @Ancar thanks so much for sharing your thoughts.

I must say, I relate with everything you have written!

I have had difficult karma this lifetime too and I felt hurt and betrayed by my family when I was younger. It was only after being given a succession of past life memories in January 2019 time, that my soul could really and truly understand the coldness and indifference and basicallly a lack of love from my family.

Well, when I murdered someone in a previous life, who incarnated as a family member this life, it is understandable now, from a past life perspective, why certain people would not be fond of me 😂

For someone who was completely heartbroken by a lack of love and support from a 3D perspective, to then be able to understand their reactions from a different perspective, it was priceless to my healing journey.

I think I was cold in previous lives. Plus I have a memory of murdering a benefactor, then murdering soldiers who had taken over my city and so I went on a streak of vengeance, like an insurgent, and then I have a horrible memory of lying in a field, injured and unable to move, until the enemy came and shot me dead.

So it’s basically, murder, be murdered, murder, be murdered.

I cannot agree enough with your words that we, humans, need to physically and emotionally feel what it is like to be hurt, the way we hurt someone, before we truly learn our lessons.

So I have been able to forgive a lot of behaviour this life time, and then I had to go on a mental journey of learning to forgive myself, which is actually harder.

And, when I have been unable to forgive someone, and I have asked god for guidance because I am not able to progress in that area, I have had an intuitive message from God say, ‘you are only human,’ meaning, he understands and recognises my pain, and does not want to push me into forgiving someone if I am not ready for it.

To have something as big as an omnipresence like God, to have the capacity to empathise with me, as if I was just his, and not 1 out of a trillion souls, is comforting.

~

I have always wondered what happens to souls who do not progress. I find your ideas new to me.

I assumed that, eventually, an evil soul would have a moment of love creak through their otherwise dark soul, and that crack of light is enough to work with and work on the next incarnation.

This is just my theory though.

For example, in interviews with psychopaths, some of them have absolutely no light in their soul at all. And then some, appear to have a 0.5% of regret, that paves the way for progress in the next like. Like, there was a psychopath who communicated regret about a particularly gruesome way he had murdered an innocent man, by pouring acid on his face and watching his face melt. The guy said that was the one murder he regretted, because it was too painful for him not to feel some type of remorse.

~

I’m going to say something controversial here, but only because it is about Trump and he gets peoples backs up - I am from the UK and not political at all, but I think this is a good example to share, because everyone knows how unlikeable he is —

There is a story about Trump and Trump’s Father, and Trump’s brother, Fred, who drank himself to death. His mother described Fred as ‘a dolphin born into a family of sharks.’

The sharks, Trump and his father, bullied and tormented Fred because he was not as ruthless as they were, and they condemned him for it, and he drank himself to death.

Now that wound, that Trump will have hidden in his soul, that regret over the death of his more kind-hearted brother, will bring a fragment of light in which God can utilise for Trump’s personal growth.

Before anyone has a fit, I’m not suggesting Trump is a good guy this life.

I am open to your suggestion that, if a soul refuses to grow, then it will eventually die out. That is a new concept to me and I am glad you brought it to my attention.

~

On another note, isn’t it interesting that once you see the pattern of life in terms of multiple incarnations, and can see that pain leads to a more open heart, isn’t it weird when you notice people whose hearts are so closed in life?

You can see ego in a lot of people.

I have had some bizarre experiences, where some people seem to hate me, even mental health care professionals. I think they see in themselves their own hypocrisy, even without me saying anything, and it triggers something in them.

But, just to even the playing field here, I am also a work in progress. And if it wasn’t for such a tough childhood and a longing for answers, I would be just as unconscious as they are. And even though I am relatively more conscious than some people, does not mean I am not like a Bull in a China shop, making mistakes left, right and centre.

Even with a relatively more open heart than the average, I still cause pain to people either unwittingly or. because of my ego.

Most of my past life memories, I have murdered people, benefactors and the more fair game of murdering soldiers. And I think I have been born a girl this life time, and my right wrist was broken during a Saturn transit, because God has *barred* me from fighting this life, forcing me to think more 😂

I hope my words made sense. It’s rare to be able to talk to someone about these things.

 

[FraterAC]

if a soul refuses to grow, then it will eventually die out.

In my understanding, the soul is immortal and divine, so can't die.
The consciousness of the soul personality is the intersection of divine consciousness and conditioned existence.
I understand that the soul personality goes through innumerable incarnations, gradually alternating the various opposites of experience. A personality may swing very far and very long into experiences we call evil but through hardship and suffering eventually would swing back to center and then into experiences we would call good. How long those sojourns last and the amplitude of those swings are variable.

 

[Ukpoohbear]

In my understanding, the soul is immortal and divine, so can't die.
The consciousness of the soul personality is the intersection of divine consciousness and conditioned existence.
I understand that the soul personality goes through innumerable incarnations, gradually alternating the various opposites of experience. A personality may swing very far and very long into experiences we call evil but through hardship and suffering eventually would swing back to center and then into experiences we would call good. How long those sojourns last and the amplitude of those swings are variable.

Yes, I agree more with that theory and you say it very concisely —

Energy cannot disappear, it just transforms.

Plus, love is the greatest energy of them all.

~

Basically, to say some souls cannot be redeemed, is like saying God’s love is conditional, or can be outsmarted.

God loves every soul, even demons, probably.

And Satan is ultimately a rather weak energy.

Because people who resort to playing games or manipulating others as a coping mechanism, are essentially weak, not powerful, even if power is glamourised.

 

[FraterAC]

Yes, I agree more with that theory and you say it very concisely —

Energy cannot disappear, it just transforms.

Plus, love is the greatest energy of them all.

~

Basically, to say some souls cannot be redeemed, is like saying God’s love is conditional, or can be outsmarted.

God loves every soul, even demons, probably.

And Satan is ultimately a rather weak energy.

Because people who resort to playing games or manipulating others as a coping mechanism, are essentially weak, not powerful, even if power is glamourised.

I think to a large extent it depends on what one thinks an individual incarnation IS.
Hinduism says, ultimately, "The Atman IS the Brahman." Which I understand as, the "individual" soul IS the Oversoul, the one Divine being. If that is true, then NO "soul" can be mortal and disposable, regardless of what phase of its existence it is in.

 

[ShannaUK]

After death bad souls either keep on wandering in our physical realm as demons or are sent to hell for eternity. A lot of people who experienced NDE and led sinful lives have reported they had been sent to hell.

 

[Ukpoohbear]

I think to a large extent it depends on what one thinks an individual incarnation IS.
Hinduism says, ultimately, "The Atman IS the Brahman." Which I understand as, the "individual" soul IS the Oversoul, the one Divine being. If that is true, then NO "soul" can be mortal and disposable, regardless of what phase of its existence it is in.

That makes sense. We are all an extension of Divine Being. We are all ‘One.’ And so, instead of scapegoating or judging others, the best thing to do is work on forgiving ourselves.

I came across a video yesterday about 5D, and the guru was saying to love everybody - love people who have humiliated you, love people who have hurt you, love people who hate you.

And there was another guru, he looked Caribbean and would just spend his days hanging out in his garden. And he said, don’t speak about negative stuff to people. No one wants that. Instead, ask how their day is and say how great of a day it is.

I am not in 5D right now, I’m too stressed, but it was nice to see the 5D radiate from these men.

 

[conspiracy theorist]

You know it's funny (not in a haha sense) ..... what is currently transpiring in the US political realm. I am thinking how a guy like JD Vance being the VP pick is a culmination of a confluence of events that, at the time to me, seemed like just another eccentric online group with fringe ideas.

I remember being barely 19, trawling on some dark corners of the web. At the time, there was a max "exodus" of people from the imageboard 4chan to "8chan" that was run by wheelchair bound dude that we nicknamed "hotwheels".

The posts on 8chan, and specifically their politically incorrect section which I spent most of my time, were lengthier, more thoughtful and more serious. People seemed to evolve from spouting off hitlerian rhetoric and jew hating "ironically" to a full-blown genuine belief of the validity of the attempted "Fourth Reich".

I remember there being an offshoot of anonymous posters who had a full-blown programme to "redpill" which included the neoreactionary ideas outlined by a guy going by the pseudonym Mensius Moldbug.

You got the sense that there was a real zeitgeist happening. There were a lot of disaffected people, guys with no direction and no hope, "accelerationists", neoreactionaries, neo-nazism.

There was no "intellectual dark web" because guys like Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro did not yet become the figures that people would coalesce around. In terms of JB, I remember clicking on a video of JB doing a presentation on Canadian television, and enjoying what he had to say. I sought out his youtube videos of his classes which at the time had only 200 or so views... most likely being from his students.

Then came Trump's campaign. These platforms were delirious. Here was an "outsider" who would "burn it all down". Memes such as Can't stump the Trump, God Emperor Trump (using themes from War Hammer 40k) and other such delights. It was fun, exciting and mobilising, in a way that Hillary failed to achieve. We knew how that turned out. In retrospect, I believe there was a highly effective and insidious astroturfing campaign to seed Trump sentiment among the "Internet generation". It worked.

I remember on the cusp of the 2016 election, the controversy around John Podesta and "pizzagate" erupted. I remember being in the 1st threads where these "revelations" were dropped with delirious conspiries being concocted. Also the kerfuffle over Hillary's emails. These folks would eventually evolve into Qanon.

I remember when the so-called "oathbreakers" was just some dumb guy reposting in a thread with barely any engagement.

I suppose that there were quite a bit of people who were also there, and were true believers who were committed to making this new zeitgeist a reality in the real world.

JD Vance would have been in his late 20s at the time, which would be the prime demographic that would be around those parts of the web.

To me, his potential role as Vice President of the United States would complete the circle of a movement that has been percolating for a while. Now the monarchical, fascist and neoreaction elements are now combined in the figures of Trump and Vance. It's impressive in it's scope.

This is what the Left had to contend with but never took seriously until it was (arguably) too late.

 

[conspiracy theorist]

The intellectual underpinning of Vance's ideas on governance and politics

 

[FraterAC]

Hi @Ancar thanks so much for sharing your thoughts.

I must say, I relate with everything you have written!

I have had difficult karma this lifetime too and I felt hurt and betrayed by my family when I was younger. It was only after being given a succession of past life memories in January 2019 time, that my soul could really and truly understand the coldness and indifference and basicallly a lack of love from my family.

Well, when I murdered someone in a previous life, who incarnated as a family member this life, it is understandable now, from a past life perspective, why certain people would not be fond of me 😂

For someone who was completely heartbroken by a lack of love and support from a 3D perspective, to then be able to understand their reactions from a different perspective, it was priceless to my healing journey.

I think I was cold in previous lives. Plus I have a memory of murdering a benefactor, then murdering soldiers who had taken over my city and so I went on a streak of vengeance, like an insurgent, and then I have a horrible memory of lying in a field, injured and unable to move, until the enemy came and shot me dead.

So it’s basically, murder, be murdered, murder, be murdered.

I cannot agree enough with your words that we, humans, need to physically and emotionally feel what it is like to be hurt, the way we hurt someone, before we truly learn our lessons.

So I have been able to forgive a lot of behaviour this life time, and then I had to go on a mental journey of learning to forgive myself, which is actually harder.

And, when I have been unable to forgive someone, and I have asked god for guidance because I am not able to progress in that area, I have had an intuitive message from God say, ‘you are only human,’ meaning, he understands and recognises my pain, and does not want to push me into forgiving someone if I am not ready for it.

To have something as big as an omnipresence like God, to have the capacity to empathise with me, as if I was just his, and not 1 out of a trillion souls, is comforting.

~

I have always wondered what happens to souls who do not progress. I find your ideas new to me.

I assumed that, eventually, an evil soul would have a moment of love creak through their otherwise dark soul, and that crack of light is enough to work with and work on the next incarnation.

This is just my theory though.

For example, in interviews with psychopaths, some of them have absolutely no light in their soul at all. And then some, appear to have a 0.5% of regret, that paves the way for progress in the next like. Like, there was a psychopath who communicated regret about a particularly gruesome way he had murdered an innocent man, by pouring acid on his face and watching his face melt. The guy said that was the one murder he regretted, because it was too painful for him not to feel some type of remorse.

~

I’m going to say something controversial here, but only because it is about Trump and he gets peoples backs up - I am from the UK and not political at all, but I think this is a good example to share, because everyone knows how unlikeable he is —

There is a story about Trump and Trump’s Father, and Trump’s brother, Fred, who drank himself to death. His mother described Fred as ‘a dolphin born into a family of sharks.’

The sharks, Trump and his father, bullied and tormented Fred because he was not as ruthless as they were, and they condemned him for it, and he drank himself to death.

Now that wound, that Trump will have hidden in his soul, that regret over the death of his more kind-hearted brother, will bring a fragment of light in which God can utilise for Trump’s personal growth.

Before anyone has a fit, I’m not suggesting Trump is a good guy this life.

I am open to your suggestion that, if a soul refuses to grow, then it will eventually die out. That is a new concept to me and I am glad you brought it to my attention.

~

On another note, isn’t it interesting that once you see the pattern of life in terms of multiple incarnations, and can see that pain leads to a more open heart, isn’t it weird when you notice people whose hearts are so closed in life?

You can see ego in a lot of people.

I have had some bizarre experiences, where some people seem to hate me, even mental health care professionals. I think they see in themselves their own hypocrisy, even without me saying anything, and it triggers something in them.

But, just to even the playing field here, I am also a work in progress. And if it wasn’t for such a tough childhood and a longing for answers, I would be just as unconscious as they are. And even though I am relatively more conscious than some people, does not mean I am not like a Bull in a China shop, making mistakes left, right and centre.

Even with a relatively more open heart than the average, I still cause pain to people either unwittingly or. because of my ego.

Most of my past life memories, I have murdered people, benefactors and the more fair game of murdering soldiers. And I think I have been born a girl this life time, and my right wrist was broken during a Saturn transit, because God has *barred* me from fighting this life, forcing me to think more 😂

I hope my words made sense. It’s rare to be able to talk to someone about these things.

Thank you for posting this.

 

[Ancar]

In my understanding, the soul is immortal and divine, so can't die.
The consciousness of the soul personality is the intersection of divine consciousness and conditioned existence.
I understand that the soul personality goes through innumerable incarnations, gradually alternating the various opposites of experience. A personality may swing very far and very long into experiences we call evil but through hardship and suffering eventually would swing back to center and then into experiences we would call good. How long those sojourns last and the amplitude of those swings are variable.

Yes, @FraterAC, I prefer seeing it this way. It makes the Great Source infinitely fair and loving. God gives us eternity to "get it right".

An analogy in the material dimension, even when a star "dies", it doesn't disappear as an individual object. It becomes a black hole, a neutron star, or a white dwarf. I can't find anywhere that a star completely disappears and loses its "individuality".
https://ciera.northwestern.edu/research/black-holes-dead-stars/

Many theorize that souls who do not choose to grow may continue to reincarnate and live evil lives. But they are separating ("unplugging") their souls from the Great Source...until their souls are eventually depleted of spiritual energy. At some point, when their physical body dies, their soul (if it even still exists) dies with it.

I'd like to clarify that this is still only an interesting concept to me, hence my beginning with "Many theorize...."

Related issue: Unlike Hindus, Sikhs, Jainists, Platonists, Gnostics, Druzes,Theosophists, Cayce, Whitman, Benjamin Franklin, Emerson, and other reincarnationists, most Buddhists believe in a form of reincarnation that has always completely baffled me (instinctively feeling it's as irrational a religious invention as limbo or transubstantiation):

"Although Buddhism denies the existence of an unchanging, substantial soul or self...it holds to a belief in the transmigration of the karma that is accumulated by an individual in life. The individual is a composition of five ever-changing psycho-physical elements and states...that terminates with death. The karma of the deceased, however, persists and becomes a...'germ of consciousness' in the womb of a mother. The vijnana is that aspect of consciousness that is reborn in a new individual...."​

https://www.britannica.com/topic/reincarnation​

 

[FraterAC]

Exactly who or what a human manifestation IS, is still an open question.


It is possibly also the only question that matters.

 

[Ancar]

Basically, to say some souls cannot be redeemed, is like saying God’s love is conditional, or can be outsmarted.

Just thinking...to be fair to people who contend that an individual soul could dissipate to nothingness, another material analogy: Let's say a well-raised son (soul) chooses to leave his loving parents (God), lured by the quick wealth of a life of crime (material evil), but eventually dies from an overdose of expensive cocaine in celebrating a successful heist (a consequence of his poor choices).

Does that mean his father's or mother's love is not unconditional? When they will still deeply grieve his loss? When at any time, he could have joined his parents' business or finished college with his parents' help?

However, I agree that they've been "outsmarted" if the son conceals his criminal activities - God is never "outsmarted" so that part is irrefutable.

What I'm getting at is that it would not mean that God's love is "conditional" if the soul deliberately cut itself off from God's inexhaustible source of love and spiritual energy in order to fulfill its narrow, selfish, insatiable lust for power and acquisition in the material dimension.

Again, I'm not saying I believe that souls can extinguish themselves. I honestly don't know. But I strongly feel that the soul's path is always the soul's informed choice.

 

[FraterAC]

Just thinking...to be fair to people who contend that an individual soul could dissipate to nothingness, another material analogy: Let's say a well-raised son (soul) chooses to leave his loving parents (God), lured by the quick wealth of a life of crime (material evil), but eventually dies from an overdose of expensive cocaine in celebrating a successful heist (a consequence of his poor choices).

Does that mean his father's or mother's love is not unconditional? When they will still deeply grieve his loss? When at any time, he could have joined his parents' business or finished college with his parents' help?

However, I agree that they've been "outsmarted" if the son conceals his criminal activities - God is never "outsmarted" so that part is irrefutable.

What I'm getting at is that it would not mean that God's love is "conditional" if the soul deliberately cut itself off from God's inexhaustible source of love and spiritual energy in order to fulfill its narrow, selfish, insatiable lust for power and acquisition in the material dimension.

Again, I'm not saying I believe that souls can extinguish themselves. I honestly don't know. But I strongly feel that the soul's path is always the soul's informed choice.

What is the "soul?" What IS it?

 

[katydid]

You know it's funny (not in a haha sense) ..... what is currently transpiring in the US political realm. I am thinking how a guy like JD Vance being the VP pick is a culmination of a confluence of events that, at the time to me, seemed like just another eccentric online group with fringe ideas.

I remember being barely 19, trawling on some dark corners of the web. At the time, there was a max "exodus" of people from the imageboard 4chan to "8chan" that was run by wheelchair bound dude that we nicknamed "hotwheels".

The posts on 8chan, and specifically their politically incorrect section which I spent most of my time, were lengthier, more thoughtful and more serious. People seemed to evolve from spouting off hitlerian rhetoric and jew hating "ironically" to a full-blown genuine belief of the validity of the attempted "Fourth Reich".

I remember there being an offshoot of anonymous posters who had a full-blown programme to "redpill" which included the neoreactionary ideas outlined by a guy going by the pseudonym Mensius Moldbug.

You got the sense that there was a real zeitgeist happening. There were a lot of disaffected people, guys with no direction and no hope, "accelerationists", neoreactionaries, neo-nazism.

There was no "intellectual dark web" because guys like Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro did not yet become the figures that people would coalesce around. In terms of JB, I remember clicking on a video of JB doing a presentation on Canadian television, and enjoying what he had to say. I sought out his youtube videos of his classes which at the time had only 200 or so views... most likely being from his students.

Then came Trump's campaign. These platforms were delirious. Here was an "outsider" who would "burn it all down". Memes such as Can't stump the Trump, God Emperor Trump (using themes from War Hammer 40k) and other such delights. It was fun, exciting and mobilising, in a way that Hillary failed to achieve. We knew how that turned out. In retrospect, I believe there was a highly effective and insidious astroturfing campaign to seed Trump sentiment among the "Internet generation". It worked.

I remember on the cusp of the 2016 election, the controversy around John Podesta and "pizzagate" erupted. I remember being in the 1st threads where these "revelations" were dropped with delirious conspiries being concocted. Also the kerfuffle over Hillary's emails. These folks would eventually evolve into Qanon.

I remember when the so-called "oathbreakers" was just some dumb guy reposting in a thread with barely any engagement.

I suppose that there were quite a bit of people who were also there, and were true believers who were committed to making this new zeitgeist a reality in the real world.

JD Vance would have been in his late 20s at the time, which would be the prime demographic that would be around those parts of the web.

To me, his potential role as Vice President of the United States would complete the circle of a movement that has been percolating for a while. Now the monarchical, fascist and neoreaction elements are now combined in the figures of Trump and Vance. It's impressive in it's scope.

This is what the Left had to contend with but never took seriously until it was (arguably) too late.

This is a conundrum, because I watched the RNC for a bit, during the celebration of the announcement of the VP candidate, and

the Neutra family was speaking --- Their children are being held hostage in Gaza, and they asked for help from the Republican Administration.

Before them a Jewish American spoke against the anti Semitism on college campuses. And they spoke about their confidence in the Republican candidates in helping Israel and the US get their hostages released.

weird

 

[katydid]

What is the "soul?" What IS it?

It likely takes many lifetimes to answer that question.