DIRTYBENNY WRITES

 

  Ekman ( 1985 ) broadly defined  duping delight  as any positive affective experience that occurs in anticipation of, during, or following a lie.  It is always striking to me to see the mockingbird repeating nature of terms and tropes that are propagated online in these communities.  This is especially so in groups that are supposedly challenging the given narrative. What we see is an emotional reaction that is inhuman.  It is abnormal and the entity expressing this is different than what we have experienced in our own lives.  Instead of questioning the bizarre inhuman behaviour of the entity being watched, a band aid of explanation is plastered over the observation....DUPER'S DELIGHT.  This immediately shuts down a discussion of what may really be going on here.  I have never seen or experienced "duping delight" in my 60 plus years of living.  https://dirtybennywrites.blogspot.com/2023/11/they-just-cant-fake-being-human.html https://di...

There are very few times that the noise and machinery of this civilization shuts down.  Christmas morning is one of those times.  Most stores are closed. People don't have to leave their homes to engage in BUSYness.  Even without the dampening blanket of snow, it is strikingly quiet this morning.   I revel in  it. There is so much noise around us that most don't even notice it.  Cars, trucks, horns, sirens, muzak, buzzes, beeps, notifications, etc.  It was always confusing to me that December 25, Christmas, is recognized as a national GOVERNMENT holiday, perhaps the biggest holiday of the year.  Which raises the question...why is it so important to the power structure to have this holiday?  The beast always has its purpose...it is just not what it reveals to us.  From an early age, the "separation of church and state" was rammed  into our minds. Sure seems like cognitive dissonance to me. 

For me, Christmas Eve is the most emotionally charged day of the year.  Over the course of my life, it was a priority to be home for Christmas.  I despise religion and it was my first awakening as a teenager to call out religion as a fraud.  Nonetheless, our Christmas tradition involved ethnic foods,  visiting relatives, reuniting with family, telling stories, and music.  These are all things that resonate deeply with me.  Regardless of priorities of my siblings, I would be home for Christmas to be with my parents to continue these traditions.  I would accompany my Mom to visit relatives houses over a several day period.  From the time we come into this world, we are looking to understand who we are and where we are at.  Our parents, family, and home give us our bearings.  We learn our immediate environment.  The more that that is deconstructed, the more we struggle to understand this place.  My parents bought their first home ...

 

 

The Kirk entity just cannot mask the seething hatred and anger in its eyes.

Terrific discussion on the music that is presented to us, how, and why.  Zeal raises an interesting point about how these celebrities often use intimate versions of their names to take down our guard. KATY Perry...not Katherine JOE Rogan...not Joseph Rogan BILL Gates...not William Gates I made the observation years ago that when I was young, all of my friends used intimate versions of their name.  STEVIE, FRANKIE, RICHIE, JOEY, ROBBIE, etc.   I have noticed in the Polka music world, this trend continues with all of the performers using intimate versions of their names. The participants also discuss the Mozart and Shakespeare entities and their unbelievable narratives.  I have previously raised the unbelievable story of BACH. https://dirtybennywrites.blogspot.com/2025/09/bachs-narrative-is-difficult-to-believe.html https://dirtybennywrites.blogspot.com/2024/04/why-were-so-many-of-great-composers.html I will differ from the participants on the origin of the Beatle...

 "Fundamentally, we still don't know what this is, who we are, what's this all about, yet we act as if we've got it all under control." This is rapidly becoming my favorite podcast.   Extremely interesting discussion including the nature and origins of nostalgia and how a child's world view changes as an adult given the scope of their world.