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Nov 9, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

Tessa thank you

What should we bring along to the gathering?

What should we leave out?

Are you going to screen the participants before inviting/admitting them?

I do agree to the “only paid subscribers”, leave the chat bots out.

A reminder to self” “The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.” Aristotle

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Nov 9, 2023·edited Nov 9, 2023Author

Thank you! Please bring along yourself and the good intention! I am very happy about your participation! This Friday will a chance to meet each other and figure out what people want to talk about, etc.

I don't think it's fair or technically possible to prescreen but I will moderate if anyone tries to disrupt. A lot of moderation is usually not necessary when the intentions are good, given the nature of the situation and how much difference love can make in the world, there probably will be disruptors trying to poop on the good vibes and make people fight (if not immediately then at some point) but that's a good opportunity for the community to handle it with wisdom and self-respect and to weed out the trouble makers (not based on opinions but based on the modus operandi). The main thing is that we all stick to even-headedness, honest first person perspectives, and that we resist the temptation to go into the unproductive "courthouse" mode of conversation where the sole purpose is to drown other people in talking points and have the last word. On my end, I love everyone but usually do not bend when love is at stake. Souls are to be respected!

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Nov 9, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

Tessa! What a lovely idea! I think I could make it! How do I sign up?

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I am so happy you can join! I will be sending the link to all paid and comped subscribers, you should be getting it tomorrow!

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Nov 9, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

Thank you! It will be nice to meet you and everyone. I think it will be 11:00 am Seattle time... 3 hours apart...

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Yes, I think it's a 3 hour difference

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Nov 9, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

Sadly my european timetable means i won’t be able to join in. But i fully applaud this!

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Thank you, Crapp!!

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Cathartic! Count me in.

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Thank you, Gail!!

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You’re extraordinarily interesting. A deserter vs. a prisoner of the war of two requisite, sides of a sinking battleship.

Casual nihilism and moral entropy ratcheted up to violent anarchy and psychopathic transhumanism vs. mono-dimensional canned evaporated milk, long past the 12/26/1956 exp date, replete with the Good Book, anticipating the Rapture.They will be grossly disappointed.

It’s a race to the nadir.

Huxley was eerily prescient. We’ve been sleepwalking into willful slavery.And we’ll love our servitude.

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Thank you!!!

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Months back you hit upon a topic that was mind blowing. Repeated resets. Spot on.

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Great idea!!

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Thank you, Dennis!

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Nov 9, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

Is it too late to request a link?

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Oh no, not at all! I will be sending the link tonight. Thank you again, Debbie!!

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Hi, Tessa, I would very much like to join in tomorrow, but I can't seem to find a way to send you an email so here I am in the comments. Your work has only recently come onto my radar -- which to me is surprising considering the avenues I have been exploring over the past few years -- but my philosophy/situation (as it continues to develop) suggests to me that I'm in the right place.

I am a working artist ("traditional" portraits, etc.) and art educator seeking ways to preach my gospel, as it were. About 18 months or more ago, as I observed the rise of AI and the ubiquitous falsity all the visual imagery we are bombarded with our entire lives (film & TV, and now, CGI, deep fakes, digital "art", etc.) I developed a concept which is the subject of a forthcoming essay: "Real Art can Save your Soul in a False World". Not long after, I realised that I was not at all unique in my thinking and that there are, and have been, many voices saying similar things which was both gratifying and edifying (I mean, from Aquinas to Guenon, for example). In my essay, I also propose that "Robots don't Create, they Calculate" or put slightly differently; that "Humans Create; Robots Calculate". Again, not unique, but new to me. And now, after "discovering" you and your followers and friends -- who seem to have been fighting those very same robots for longer than I have -- I can think of no better crowd to begin exchanging with and learning from. Wonderful!

Thank you for your time and prodigious efforts.

Juan Martinez

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Thank you, Juan!!! And yes, robots merely calculate, that's exactly it!! I will be sending the link to paid subscribers, I just comped you, and I got your email (thank you)

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Thank you, Tessa!

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Nov 9, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

I would like to be included in the club, thanks

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I am so glad you want to participate! I will send out an email later tonight.

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Nov 13, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

It was good to see you on zoom Friday. I like your tweets too and do so as TerryF_FL. Your research and clear, loving expressions are deeply appreciated.

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Thank you so much, Terrance!! It was wonderful to meet you

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Hello Tessa. I would love to join but am not sure if I will be free by 2:00. Can you tell me how to join if I am? This is a great idea!

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I'd ask to join, but as of late I have nothing good to say

only dark swirling negativity here

uwu

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Maybe it will cheer you up? If you like, you can join as an observer at first. I would love to meet you, you have been commenting for a long time, and I've always enjoyed your comments!

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Thank you Tessa, I think that's a good starting point.

Your writing attracts good people so yeah I think I'd like that.

I'll send you an email, then.

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Thank you, Aion!! I emailed you

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only prob is I don't have your email, but I think you have mine....

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This sounds like such a great idea. Best of luck with it. I haven't got any way to zoom call so I won't be able to join you.

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Thank you, Dominic!

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Nov 9, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

This is a really great concept. I trust that the new and exceptional leaders who will lead us away from this tyranny, will be born from initiatives like this one.

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Thank you, George. I think each of us is a leader of our own life's choices, and that frankly is the most important leadership we can aspire for.

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Nov 9, 2023·edited Nov 9, 2023Liked by Tessa Lena

face to face…..heart to heart…..soul to soul……soulfully we flow and grow….

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Yes, and thank you Larry!!

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LANGUAGE AND MYTH, by Ernst Cassirer:

In this important study Ernst Cassirer analyzes the non-rational thought processes that go to make up Culture. He demonstrates that beneath both language and myth there lies an unconscious “grammer” of experience, whose categories and cannons are not those of logical thought. He shows that this pre-logical “logic” is not merely an undeveloped state of rationality, but something basically different, and that this archaic mode of thought still has enormous power over even our most rigorous thought, in language. poetry and myth. www.doverpublications.com. copyright 1946.

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I have a tennis lesson every Friday--and I don't get home until 3 pm. I wish I could join. Can I show up late?

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My calculation that it will go for an hour and a half or so, and absolutely!

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I would love to please participate, but cannot afford another paid subscription at this time. I think I have something valuable to contribute as James Roguski would attest: https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/amazing-amy

Thank you so much.

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I will comp you, Amy! I have seen you perform, your are incredibly talented!

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THANK YOU SO MUCH!

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My pleasure

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