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Ooana Trien ~ Eric Arthur Blaire’s Mistress

@ooana

Feb 10

Fellow Jews - I’ve been thinking a great deal about something in Torah. I’m curious what you think.

It’s known that Moses was the first to say to God “if you do this, take me out of the book that you have written.”

Is it possible that this wasn’t the first time that this was said but the first time that this was heard?

What if the first time was Sarah…? Why would God say “sacrifice your son” then say “nope - didn’t mean it. Was just testing you.” Does this make sense? I don’t think it makes sense. Thoughts?

@Jewtastic @RonColeman @ymenken @Rabbishish @frank_zelenko @JustOwnItIsrael @JewsAreTheGOAT @Irishchutzpah @CaffMomREDACTED @JewsAreTheGOAT

@Jewtastic @RonColeman @ymenken @Rabbishish @frank_zelenko @JustOwnItIsrael @JewsAreTheGOAT @Irishchutzpah @CaffMomREDACTED The tragedy of course is that she didn’t survive that moment. Dying of shame is something perhaps very different for a woman than for a man. This is what I’ve been pondering lately as we approach Purim.

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Ooana Trien ~ Eric Arthur Blaire’s Mistress

@ooana

Jan 26

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Let me remind everyone how similar city planners are to public health narratives.

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Narratives are essential to the way any policy is justified ideologically at the expense of individuals.

“What’s wrong with saving lives since cars kill so many people?”

Well, nothing. Obviously. Don’t let people use this fallacy to convince you that somehow there is no cost to imposing zones upon the people of NYC.

Here’s a personal story for you, stop me if you’ve heard this one…

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Ooana Trien ~ Eric Arthur Blaire’s Mistress

@ooana

Jan 10

🧵The War On Memory, The Great War

“This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.” - Larry Kramer

“For the Greeks, the hidden life demanded invisible ink. They wrote an ordinary letter and in between the lines set out another letter, written in milk. The document looked innocent enough until one who knew better sprinkled coal-dust over it. What the letter had been no longer mattered; what mattered was the life flaring up undetected
…till now.”
‘Sexing the Cherry’ by Jeanette Winterson

Before the Gods ruled from Mount Olympus there was a war. The war was between the Old Gods called the Titans and the new Gods, the Olympians.

The female titans went below the ground while the male Titans were spectacularly defeated by the Olympians with Zeus and his brothers leading their army… /1

As the earth settled from the quakes of battle, the female Titans emerged, including one daughter of Gaia and Uranus, named Mnemosyne. She and her siblings were birthed from earth and sky. She…the Goddess of Memory.

Zeus took note, naturally, and Aros (erotic love) partnered them (socios). For nine consecutive days and nights they were intertwined… /2

After each night of their coupling was birthed nine daughters. One for each night of Aros and Socios - the nine muses.

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Ooana Trien ~ Eric Arthur Blaire’s Mistress

@ooana

Jan 4

What do radical Revolutionaries on all sides of the political spectrum share? What is the underpinning belief system that makes “woke” or awaken to a consciousness for those who insist to you that they are only in opposition to each other? What do they share in common?

They all believe that they have seen reality and that everyone else must be awakened to it. This is a false reality, an illusion. That false reality is socialist realism or socrealism/socreality.

So what is that? What is the socrealist way of viewing/the world and your place in it? What is this theory? More accurately what is this philosophy? (Cont)

We are not actually simply facing two different political ideas battling it out but rather one Religious idea masquerading as economic, philosophical and political, while I truth it is in fact a religious ideology with a method of absorbing all which opposes it into itself via the power of narrative. That is the Great Narrative and it has a structure. It also has a singular author. That author is Party.
More accurately it would be The Party Spirit or even Will.

Under the Soviet’s this term was Partiinost'. It is a transliteration of the Russian term. In Chinese, it is translated as Dangxing (Chinese: 党性). It can be variously translated as party-mindedness, partisanship, or party spirit.

It is one of the philosophical pillars of the Great Narrative which was, and still is, Socrealism or Socialist Realism.

These pillars are:
Klassovost (Class-mindedness or consciousness.)

Narodnsot (People/folk-mindedness or orientation toward the masses)

Ideinost (Idea-mindedness), emphasising that ideas should reflect those of the Party, as well as motivating people for a certain aim.

And of course

Partiinost (Party-mindedness) meaning that every expression was considered political, and the foundation of all knowledge is the Party. (Cont)

Often socrealism is defined as merely an aesthetic or a style applied to architecture and painting popularized during the Soviet Union. It is not. It is much older. It is also the foundation of every socialist regime bar none including; Hitler, Stalin, and Mao and it is alive and well.

We saw it just a few years ago in the ways in which Covid policies were merged with imagery and marketing and government - from the dancing nurses to masking policies. (Cont)

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Ooana Trien ~ Eric Arthur Blaire’s Mistress

@ooana

Aug 24, 2024

1796 - Washington announced he would not be seeking another term. His announcement was the first in what became the tradition of Presidents addressing the people before their departure as well as what was, until recently, how they departed from public service. 🧵

I have a favorite founding document that was once part of our shared general knowledge. It was delivered to the people in 1796 and some may recall portions of it from the score of the musical Hamilton.

It’s also one that seems to have been lost to our collective memory. Penned by Washington’s secretary, Alexander Hamilton it has been narrowed, in error, to focus mostly on avoiding foreign entanglements. Remarkably “forgotten” was what we were warned about most strongly.

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