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The gods are laughing at us indeed...fabulous work! Did you do draw the cartoons?

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Feb 6, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

I like the story. The ordinary transmission of knowledge is subject to so much deformation through editing, false memory and propaganda that it cannot be taken as a substitute for direct perception of fact. It reminded me of a story that I have thought about several times in the last three years. It was written by Sheikh Qalandar Shah two hundred years ago. The Founding of a Tradition. Once upon a time there was a town composed of two parallel streets. A dervish passed through one street into the other, and as he reached the second one, the people there noticed that his eyes were streaming with tears.' someone has died in the other street!' one cried, and soon all the the children in the neighborhood had taken up the cry. What had really happened was that the dervish had been peeling onions. Within a short space of time the cry had reached the first street, and the adults of both streets were so distressed and fearful (for each community was related to the other)that they dared not make complete inquires as to the cause of the crisis. A wise man tried to reason with the people of both streets, asking why they did not question each other. Too confused to know what they meant, some said 'For all we know there is a deadly plague in the other street.' This rumor ,too, spread like wildfire, until each streets population thought that the other was doomed. When some measure of order was restored, it was only enough for the two communities to emigrate to save themselves. Thus it was that, from different sides of the town, both streets entirely evacuated their people. Now, centuries later, the town is still deserted and not so far away are two villages .Each village has it's own tradition of how it began as a settlement from a doomed town, through a fortunate flight, in remote times, from a nameless evil.

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Feb 6, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Funny. Sad. True.

Too bad this wasn’t a children’s book published in 2019. Maybe the child like mentality that took hold in 2020 could have been stopped.

Brilliant. Creative. True.

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Feb 6, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

We have a hummingbird nest in our avocado tree, an annual event. She's been incubating the eggs a few days (I think incubation is eight days, and about three weeks to fledge). Last night we had a thunderstorm. Powerful winds and heavy rain. I was concerned, but this morning there she sits. Nature never ceases to amaze.

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Feb 6, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

mathematical savant, artist. and comedian; fantastic

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Feb 6, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Great fun! Thanks for reposting this, Mathew.

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Feb 6, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Brilliant!!!

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Feb 6, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Bravo

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Love this! 💯

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Hey Mathew,

you've got a bestseller here...maybe as an illustrated novel?

As they say, he who laughs last laughs best, and wouldn't it be lovely if you had the last laugh ...?

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Feb 6, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

If we could just find a piece of that silly string and yank it hard enough maybe all this could be hilarious. I was thinking the other day, maybe what God means by "there will Heaven on Earth" is when we all go extinct. Thanks for the story, it was good.

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Feb 6, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Truly hilarious!

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On the whole island spearemectin was forbidden. And walking was discouraged, because it caused the alligators to spread. Each lizard is an alligators with the PCR-Test. (PCR= Parrot or Crocodile or Reptile). As "final solution" most people got injected with a strong toxic substance, because less people died of alligators 2 weeks after taking it. Frauci "the Science" was settled in his tower.

(Edit: added the PCR test, because lizards are not dangerous enough)

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Love the story. Sometimes it makes reality even more clear when you see things from a slightly different perspective (kind of like what JP Spears does)

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Great story to illustrate the "madness" (engineered madness) - very creative and clever.....and accurate.

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Brilliant! This can be made into a children's book telling the history of the covid era.

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