One rain falls. Each vine grows in its own direction.

Torn from the pages of the /abasleciel/ reddit.

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[Tempeh-Reborn writes:]

Hey Tempeh here (again) I see Eisel is back.

Egh I been on a new years resolution to not be a troll anymore, better for the soul. So not going to do that anymore. I talked enough shit to last me the next 5 years.

We haven't got a life update since you got banned from youtube..? Something I recall was you were working to become a fitness instructor?

Then you like moved to the Artic circle.. Nova Scotia or something like that.... going to go study Latin I think?

Yeah wtf... you were posting that you were like on death doorstep too and super vague about it. Whats up with Melissa is it over or what?

Give us some man behind the screen stuff.. Whats the plan... Who do you want to be 5 years from now?

It's cool if you hate me i probably would too.

Also any particular reason you came back and start posting bunch of stuff defending yourself all of a sudden? I don't blame you... more like it seems some of the stuff you posted online (and our commentary) might have had some negative life impacts. i.e banned from comedy clubs etc etc.

Not trolling I find you fascinating some good ways alot of bad ways. Want to know whats up last year or 2 you don't seem to have any objection of putting all the personal details public so give us an update.

Also my attempt to be an intellectual..... I don't really remember but obv big part of your work is criticizing the vegan movement. There was some lesson or something (I don't even remember what they were) you were trying to get across to vegans ideas from I think it was mothers against drunk driving.... Banning cigarettes public places etc.

So.. hot topic now is Israel with recent events... It seems the public perception of Israel especially on the right in the US is drastically changing to negative... Not the Nazi Wing but the "main stream youtube right" sort of people.

I know the anti Israel people say a lot of nonsense and probably have the same issues the vegan movement has... but... it seems there is a massive shift on this issue even with all the issues they have. Maybe the vegans can learn something? Or I am totally wrong and need to do some active research.

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Re: "Egh I been on a new years resolution to not be a troll anymore…"

My new year's resolution is to stop quoting Bob Dylan.

Re: "We haven't got a life update since you got banned from youtube..?"

I think life updates appear in pretty much each and every single thing I upload, en passant.

This includes updates about the series of crippling health conditions I've been through in the last two years or so.

Re: "Something I recall was you were working to become a fitness instructor?"

Yes, I took a course to become accredited as a gym employee of some kind (personal training and group classes… although each group class requires its own certification, supplemental to the course I took). It's a difficult question of, "How can I do something positive that contributes to this culture that I happen to be a part of?"

Ancient Latin, for example, is not the answer: that is something that would benefit nobody other than myself, as discussed recently on the channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62ICn1h77mU

Re: "Not trolling I find you fascinating some good ways alot of bad ways."

One rain falls. Each vine grows in its own direction.

You can quote me on that. In fact, you have my permission to put it on a t-shirt. ;-)

Re: "It seems the public perception of Israel especially on the right in the US is drastically changing to negative..."

Or, in other words, Conservatives are "catching up" with the Left: anti-Israel sentiment now unites the mainstream left and the mainstream right, whereas it differentiated the two before —even if the motivations for the left and right (in opposing Israel) are different.

My very short book, Blood in the Snow, that you can read for free, on the internet, if you don't want to buy it on paper, contains several blunt statements about the politics of Israel, even in "the blurb" visible on Amazon.

"We are taught that under totalitarianism everyone lives in fear, whereas in a democracy we should all be quite relaxed, but this is the opposite of the truth: under a totalitarian government you may relax in knowing that everything is someone else's problem --you have no sense of political responsibility. The Israelis must live with the agony of knowing that the massacres committed for them are also committed by them: they are responsible, democratically. And the result is constant fear: it is a kind of fear you cannot imagine because you've never lived in a democracy. This is the moral reality of democracy, and just like the Roman Empire, the massacres never end: the process of conquest, internally and externally, is infinite. We endure tyranny like the changes in the weather, but we endure democracy knowing that we ourselves are the weather: there is a unique kind of moral dread in drowning, knowing that we are the flood."

https://www.amazon.com/nihilismo-como-filosof%C3%ADa-moral-philosophie/dp/B0GRGP2TDZ

I'm assuming you don't want to read it in Russian translation. ;-) That is available, separately. ;-)

I devoted a great deal of time to the consequences of the George Floyd protests: why? Because that controversy demonstrates the ways in which people (most people, in this culture, in this era) are incapable of understanding democracy —and are intellectually incapable of participating in it. Something similar can be said about the democratic opposition to Israel —although, of course, we're talking about war and peace, religion and atheism, instead of police and education reform.