It’s springtime and my men are all sneezing and sniffling.
This topic is reminding me to get some nettles in them!

https://news.1rj.ru/str/thewholekitchensink/1603

"The diversity of our opinions does not arise from the fact that some people are more reasonable than others, but solely from the fact that we lead our thoughts along different paths and do not take the same things into consideration."

~ René Descartes, 'Philosophical Essays and Correspondence'

Art: Collage by Louise Brooks

(Collage art text is in French and it says: "I think therefore I am," one of Descartes' most famous sayings.)

Did you know that when Einstein gave lectures at the numerous US universities he was invited to, the recurring question that students asked him was:

Do you believe in God?
And he always answered:
I believe in the God of Spinoza.

The ones who hadn't read Spinoza didn't understand...

I hope this gem of history, serves you as much as it does me:

Baruch de Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher considered one of the three great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy, along with René Descartes in France, and Gottfried Leibniz in Germany.

Here's some of his wisdom:

God would have said:

Stop praying and punching yourself in the chest!
What I want you to do is go out into the world and enjoy your life. I want you to enjoy, sing, have fun and enjoy everything I've made for you.

Stop going to those dark, cold temples that you built yourself and say they are my house! My house is in the mountains, in the woods, rivers, lakes, beaches. That's where I live and there I express my love for you.

Stop blaming me for your miserable life; I never told you there was anything wrong with you or that you were a sinner, or that your sexuality was a bad thing! Sex is a gift I have given you and with which you can express your love, your ecstasy, your joy. So don't blame me for everything they made you believe.

Stop reading alleged sacred noscriptures that have nothing to do with me. If you can't read me in a sunrise, in a landscape, in the look of your friends, in your son's eyes... you will find me in no book! Trust me and stop asking me. Would you tell me how to do my job?

Stop being so scared of me. I do not judge you or criticize you, nor get angry, or seek to punish you. I am pure love.

Stop asking for forgiveness, there's nothing to forgive. If I made you... I filled you with passions, limitations, pleasures, feelings, needs, inconsistencies... free will. How can I blame you if you respond to something I put in you? How can I punish you for being the way you are, if I'm the one who made you? Do you think I could create a place to burn all my children who behave badly for the rest of eternity? What kind of God would do that?

Forget any kind of commandments, any kind of laws; those are wiles to manipulate you, to control you, that only create guilt in you.

Respect your peers and don't do what you don't want for yourself. All I ask is that you pay attention in your life, that your consciousness is your guide.

My beloved, this life is not a test, not a step, not a rehearsal, nor a prelude to paradise. This life is the only thing that exists here and now, and it is all you need.

I have set you absolutely free, no prizes or punishments, no sins or virtues... no one carries a marker, no one keeps a record.
You are absolutely free to create in your life heaven or hell.

I could tell you if there's anything after this life, but I won't... but I can give you a tip. Live as if there is nothing after... as if this is your only chance to enjoy, to love, to exist.

So, if there's nothing, then you will have enjoyed the opportunity I gave you. And if there is, rest assured that I won't ask if you behaved right or wrong, I'll ask. Did you like it? Did you have fun? What did you enjoy the most? What did you learn?...

Stop believing in me; believing is assuming, guessing, imagining. I don't want you to believe in me... I want you to feel me in you when you kiss your beloved, when you tuck in your little girl, when you caress your dog, when you bathe in the sea.

Stop praising me, what kind of egomaniac God do you think I am?

I'm bored being praised, I'm tired of being thanked. Feeling grateful? Prove it by taking care of yourself, your health, your relationships, the world. Express your joy!... that's the way to praise me.

Stop complicating things and repeating as a parakeet what you've been taught about me.

The only thing for sure is that you are here, that you are alive, and that this world is full of wonders.

What do you need more miracles for? Why so many explanations?

Look for me outside... you won't find me. Find me inside...

Nature is the place to look for the patterns and symbology of the Universe. For all ciphers and symbols came from Her and carry all the power of Her perfect cycles. The push and pull of Her energies. The ebb and flow.

Your Life is the laboratory given to you for you to learn. Your body is your crucible and your temple. To create… and to destroy. To study and to experience. And it is your experience that teaches you; for without experience, information is meaningless.

Go outside and touch the air and the earth. Feel the fire and immerse yourself in the water. Let Nature and all the manifestations of it saturate you. Use your Life as the gift that it is to mirror the state of your inner being in an external representation of yourSelf.

This is where you will find God. In the understanding that God is all things…and also the no-thing that surrounds them.

LIVE.

And as you learn to do so without fear, shame or guilt, you will see the perfection of this place. You will understand that it exists not only IN a state of Duality but BECAUSE of Duality. It is the push and pull that allows you to experience anything at all.

You all want Love and Light and Harmony. But you would not comprehend any of those those things without also knowing the lack of them.

When you can feel gratitude for ALL of it, you will understand the purpose of Life on Earth.

@TruthRascalHQ ✨💕✨
—20 April 2023—

Oh my word. Watch for the Fibonacci Sequence in all of nature. Listen to plants sing to their creator.
Sacred geometry is amazing. We live in the most immaculate and perfectly orchestrated world ever created.
Open your eyes…

“We can find nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry.”

- Rudolph Steiner

@TruthRascalHQ ✨💕✨

For my part, I was up, energized and happy this morning.
This afternoon, however, I am utterly exhausted.
Talk about a roller coaster ride!

Welp, from the comments I’m certainly not alone in this experience today. Holy moly.

Pope Francis lost his Blue Check😂😂😂

BREAKING: George Soros is no longer Verified on Twitter 😂😂

HILARIOUS!!

🚨BREAKING: Hillary Clinton is NO LONGER Verified on Twitter. 👀

And of course there are many more.
It’s pretty funny that some of these people paid ridiculous sums of money for their blue check marks and now they don’t want to cough up the 8 bucks. I actually think it’s 11 now, but whatever. 😆🤣🤣

I might actually do that. ☝️
Not even remotely kidding.