Black dung beetle or?

Will I return after this? and if I have a choice, who would I be? come back as?

One, I have to take a look at what this life has been and if I demonstrated the highest and best capabilities known and available to me to match or exceed. After all isn't it about that? to be all that you can be and more before saying, "See ya next time"?

If it is not about this, life is for whatever reasons we come up with not all of which are lofty. There are those who embrace whatever and hell with all else. Consider the effects of that; don't look too hard. Not that this always leads to messes and worse for others or the world, but this posture or belief or whatever it is has no other reason but satisfy-me-here-now.  

Of course aspiration and just-let-fly and points between assume we can make rational choices, although even in full awareness, we surely don't always make the best ones. We just live, and without 24/7 vigilance, because this is impossible, drift along--mostly--the easiest, most convenient byways. Some have embraced the me-path, mostly. Some have chosen or drifted towards more other- or ascent-oriented paths.

I chose and drifted and was guided to follow less-me paths, although I had to learn lessons that put resurgent-me (a horribly selfish ego) back on a better way, or the best I could find at the time, too often having strayed from what worked best and was, in hindsight, the decidedly better.

So the question: What worked, or what conditions did I find myself in and how did I use or advantage my better self given what I forged or came my way? Given that honest and accurate assessment, I can begin to answer who would I be, or who I would come back as?

It would be nice to know in awareness some options and future conditions before finding a new self with years and years ahead as a black dung beetle in sisyphian hell.

I have no complaint about living-to-thriving this time round. But the purpose, the meaning . . . would that next time I could see that part more clearly and live like or as that. And the form and life's necessities would fit that function.

Is it possible that those who believe this is it and all we will ever have will not come back and we who have questioned, perhaps believed in the possibility of coming back and the like or the as of it will be afforded the opportunity? In other words, the promise is you get what you expect or hope for. Those who take care in this go round get another go.

Rest in that still point, for now.

So interesting, disappointing . . . a waste of our time

So interesting . . . but the writing you* sent me has no attribution/source other than you got it from a relative. So, what to say. Well, here is two cents.

The writing states: "Bernie married his college sweetheart, Deborah Shilling, and spent his small inheritance on a summer home in Vermont on 85 acres.  The shack had a dirt floor and no electricity, maintaining his proletariat credibility, but not impressing his new bride.  He refused to get a steady job, so his wife didn’t stick around long, divorced after 18 months."

According to the usual online sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders#Personal_life

and

https://www.biography.com/political-figure/bernie-sanders

whether they divorced 18 months or two years after marriage is unclear, tending toward the time being two years. Suspicions arise.

But no matter. Here is the real giveaway, except for the most obvious--see last sentences of the piece.

His choice of summer property was a cause for "un-impressing" his new bride, AND he didn't get a job--So she left. Seems like pure conjecture, unless it can be substantiated.

So judging for myself, interesting article/writing, but I wouldn't bet on anything being True until proven with documentation and the identity of who is writing this stuff, where published, date, etc.

As for the most commonly checked online sources, Bernie is all about his politics and political career, and how great, etc.

Sounds a little bit like Mayor Pete's Wikipedia profile, put up and maintained by him/his campaign, although avowed by them, "It's not so!" However the metadata for a recently uploaded, then deleted, photo of him, told the tale. Came from him or his campaign.

So who can you believe?

Today I vote for Edward Abbey. His piece on rednecks worth more than the political crap we are subjected to, so that we waste our time debating stuff like I have gotten into above. Our candidates are the best we have to offer? Give me a break. I vote for the likes of Edward Abbey.

Alternatively, your bringing this writing about Bernie to my attention has provided today's writing/research exercise, which I am very much thankful for.

Best,
kevin

PS The first three pages of a Google search on

"In all her years in congress Elizabeth Warren introduced 110 bills.  2 passed."

produced no reputable source for this article--all people, including at least one from China, posting and re-posting a decidedly suspect (opinionated) text from an unknown source.

PPS Oh, this is priceless; I didn't get it at first. "Bernie’s past, including a brief stint living in a kibbutz in Israel is cloaked in secrecy. (It worked for B Hussein.)" A reference to our former president suggesting there was a cover-up, etc., about his biography, birthplace, etc. Opinion/conspiracy!

No . . .I have drawn my own CONCLUSION--the article on Bernie on the face of it is not credible.

PPPS Example of just one of the places where you can find this article (and waste(?) your time), an article purportedly a "contribution to public/civic discourse" circulating for probably for over a year by my best guesstimate.

https://www.ini-world-report.org/2020/02/18/who-is-bernie-sanders/

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* From a friend who sent me a copy of the contribution, which can be seen via the link just above.

Xewr8f&s32@u#ru#a2ha Ha ha!

UPPDATE, 04.07.17

Here is another in the same genre. Who knows? Maybe Mailik is back under a new name?

[begin message]

From: toson tamara
I am very sorry to disturb you with my little problem. But I hope that you will understand to help me as fast and as possible.
  Right now I am house arrested and I am being house arrested for 2 years due to some slight misunderstanding that I had with the former company where I used to work. So I cannot currently do anything on my own because I have 2 police men who are custodying me here in my house. So even if I have to go to the toilet there is one of them who is always standing near by me. This is exactly why I need your help Mr. because I have some documents that I deposited into a security company here in London/UK about 3 years ago and this documents are holding a transfer worth of 4.6 million british pounds. All I want you to do for me is to assist me in clearing this documents from the security company as my beneficiary or next of kin so that the lock box that these documents are in can get delivered to you there in your country on my behalf. I will write to the security company as soon as I get your reply to notify them that you are to clear this lock box on my behalf as my beneficiary. So as soon as the delivery of the box commences to you I will get a suitable lawyer who will accompany the delivery of these documents to you, so together you and him will clear the transfer of the 4.6 million dollars into an account there in your country. And after I will continue with the purchasing of your property as I said. This lock box that is containing the documents has a security code that opens it I will give the codes to you as soon as the delivery of the lock box commences to you.
    I was not supposed to be able to write this email or use anything that has the access of the internet but because I have one of these 2 police men who are custodying me here in my house as a friend. He understands me and gave me this idea, he is standing next to me right now as I write to you. I am writing to you because I like your property and also would prefer to leave this country as soon as everything is rectified with your assistance. I am originally from Austria but I have lived most of my life here in England. I wrote to 4 other house owners wish I was also interested in but you were the only person that replied to my message so I hope that you can be able to help me. 10 percent of this 4.6 million british pounds is going to be for you because of your help assistance. So please I need you to understand me and try to help me as soon as possible. I will be most grateful...

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My response was to have him write in German, which he did, and then the messages stopped.

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In 1995, computing students at the university where I was teaching had a field day discussing a letter that came from someone in Nigeria promising a fee if the recipient could help "the poor soul" move money out of that country. The letter failed some credibility criterion--I don't recall what it was but it was surely contained, then as now, within a very careful reading of text. Over twenty years later, the phishers in Nigeria(?) are still at it, only the appeal to heartstrings has changed to the plight of refugees trying to take a nest egg out of Syria.

As a part of appearing legitimate, a phisher recently sent me this image of his I. D., which was attached to his(?) email message. Does it convince you?*

Phishing ID Specimen

Here is the letter. You might receive something like this. If so, suggest you ignore and delete, although some study of the pitch and any "evidence" to establish credibility, such as the above image, would be well worth the time.

[begin message, not the original formatting]

Greetings my dear,  

How are you and your family today, I pray you are all safe and good?

I thank you for your response to my mail on your property? which i am interested in, i read the details of your  property? and i like it and i am ready to pay for it on your Said price. I am Contacting you in great confidence hoping that you are a very reliable and trustworthy person and therefore would be helpful to me.

My name is Dr.Abdal Malik, a Medical Doctor by profession / volunteer and a member of the Red Cross, I am from Syria. I contacted you because of the sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union, Which prevent us from Securing our financial transaction here.

I have the sum of 2.7 million euros Which I discovered in my brother's save ground, my late brother Mizrahi Abdal, who was killed in the al-Omari Mosque Massacre. He was a very successful contractor in Kuwaiti Oil city and was privately dealing on gold dust and bars before his untimely death.

The ongoing civil unrest in my country Syria have changed my future and if we come to a concrete agreement i will send the money to you for safe keeping till i make my way and come to meet you in your country very soon, i will need the  property? and that is why i contacted you, please help me to achieve achievement this.

I will give you 15% of the total money (2.7million euros) for your assistance / participation. I hope I am been fair on this deal.

Where i am now we can only communicate through the Red Cross communication facilities which only permits me to send emails and we can not make phone calls now because no network at Bab al salaam area since it what blocked by the government.

Please if you are interested in helping me in this transaction i will give to you the complete details you need for us to carry out this transaction successfully. I have a very good means of sending the money out of Syria to your country with the help of a red cross jet that brings relief materials from Europe. Please, you are in a position to help me start a new life. I have already lost my wife and my 12 year old daughter in the chemical attack when i went to work to save the lives of other people. Please my life is in danger in the hands of Asaad military and ISIS terrorist.

I would owe you my life if you help me. I wait for your fast response so i can give you further details upon hearing from you. Please reserve the  property? for me and consider my request for our mutual benefit and life ahead.

Best Regards

Dr.Abdal Malik

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Am I an alarmist? I think not. Do a search on these keywords--phishing scam Syria--and you will, for example, omit address and phone number from your email signature . . . among other things.

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* Comments on the phishing I. D. image above.

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 (Key to decryption included--request if not obvious.)

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