Rhosgobel Tent At TOT

[Aianawa]

The misanthropic leadership of Western-aligned nations is on display for the wise of the world to see.

Too bad it is a small audience.

Only a modicum of wisdom is required.

This not be public ?.

[modwiz]

This not be public ?.

It passed without contention, as intended,

Do you have a point to make? Because I do not.

Why try to get me to comment on world affairs beyond what I have done?

[Aianawa]

Sorry, my apoligies, i have done it before, please take it as a compliment.

[modwiz]

Sorry, my apoligies, i have done it before, please take it as a compliment.

Apology accepted.

Compliment received.

[modwiz]

I always enjoy Gordon White regardless of whether agreeing with everything.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr5_ALz5k9M

[Fred Steeves]

A duplicate post:

In The War of Narratives, I am an observer.

An observer with an opinion expressed by a combination of the following:

Ha! That's cute, kind of says it all as in a picture paints a thousand words. Those are many of my reactions dependent on what I'm looking at.

My 'feelings' about it are not for public view. They are irrelevant and and only vanity would drive me to opine.

Is that the purpose of being on a forum? (Adding that emoji to the menagerie )

[Aragorn]

Given that I have posted an announcement one week ago that so far only three people have looked at — and two of them are staff members — I am going to take the liberty of reposting the message here, with my apologies to Radagast if he were to feel that it's inappropriate for the Tent, but this here is after all a publicly visible thread, and it is imperative that our members be aware of the issue below.

Greetings Everyone,


I'm afraid I have bad news for all of our members who use a GMail account for receiving notification emails from the forum. In its arrogance, Google has decided that anything being sent out from our mail server is — quote — "unsolicited bulk mail and/or spam". This has happened several times before, and up until now, I was able to get the situation rectified each and every time.

At present time however, Google has assumed the arrogance to believe that their FAQ offers an adequate answer to all potential problems with GMail, and that it is therefore no longer required for them to leave a link to a contact form in which you can explain what the problem is. Emailing them directly is also futile, because then you simply get an automated email back, informing you of the fact that the email address you've sent your complaint to is no longer being monitored, added with a link to their useless FAQ.

The FAQ itself does allow you to comment on its usability by way of a feedback box, and so as a last resort, I've used that to tell them — in no uncertain terms, because I was seething — how defective their spam filter is if it marks our notification emails as "unsolicited bulk email" again only one or two months since I last contacted them about the same thing. So there's a 0.01% chance that an actual human being who's not afflicted with the perverse and psychopathic mindset of Google would actually bother to investigate the issue, but quite frankly, I think your chances at winning the lottery would be significantly higher.

The bottom line is that there's nothing I can do to remedy the problem, and that Google does not even allow anyone to contact them anymore for reporting whatever problem. If it's not in the FAQ, then it either doesn't exist or then it's your fault, period. Well, our domain information is completely in agreement with Google's guidelines — I have even added two records to our DNS information a couple of years ago specifically for compliance with Google's demands — and according to a check yesterday, we are currently also not on any blacklist. That could of course also have been the case — and it has already been in the past, and several times even — but it's not applicable to our current situation.

The only thing I can advise you to do if you wish to continue receiving notification emails regarding thread updates, private messages, et al, is to switch to a different mail provider and set the new email address in your account. If you cannot do this yourself, then I can help you with that if you give me your new email address — you can do this by way of a PM, of course.

Now, I don't know how things are in the USA and Canada, but over here in Belgium concretely, every internet provider by default offers one or several email accounts to their customers under the domain of the provider itself, and each email account can have a given number of aliases. I have however been told that the North American internet providers do not offer such service to their customers, but surely there will be other alternatives besides GMail and HotMail (which belongs to Microsoft). Just don't pick one that's hosted in Russia, because we're blocking those due to the incessant attempts from Russian hackers and spammers to sign up for an account here at the forum (and any other forum they have access to).

Sorry people; I've done the best I could, but this is out of my hands.


With respect,
Frank (Aragorn).

I would also like to add that at this point in time, the server is still receiving bounce messages from GMail on a daily basis, and therefore, I deem the odds at this situation getting rectified to be nil.

[Fred Steeves]

Wondering what the escape ratio is for this particular model...

[modwiz]

Some Jimmy Dore for some comic relief.

The speaker is emotional and laces his diatribe with multiple F- bombs. But, he has some good points to make.

No republicans, or their talking points, were used in the making of this video.

He posits a certain respect for republicans that I do not share. It is like watching two teams playing a fixed game. Poorly.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQbrIxl9cmY

[Fred Steeves]

I loves me a good rant, that one looked from the heart. The light bulb just popped on that it might not be just republicans who don't give a shit about him.

[Aianawa]

Happening lots world wide atm, feels like many are either , in their mind, blowing up other party and also their own OR embracing both and letting go, then what ???, usualllly looking elsewhere for their tribe or , yip , Within.

[modwiz]

Jason Reza Jorjani is a speaker I always enjoy. He uses language with precision and speaks from a grounded state of being.

As a lover of Wisdom it follows that I am also a philosopher. Ask any of my bored friends. Jason is my favorite modern philosopher.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7YgzYXB4ys

[modwiz]

I was able to follow Tom with many of his explanations of Tesla's work. First half of interview was the best part, IMO. He is a military guy and he gets into those applications later in the talk.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yJnYCpboGU

[modwiz]

Mark Twain had a good collection of pithy sayings.

“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
― Mark Twain

[Lord Sidious]

Mark Twain had a good collection of pithy sayings.

''What do you think god invented hand grenades for?''
Rob Halford