You Are Magical, Extraordinary, Cool and Beautiful
We’re publishing a new piece today by Dr. Sinéad Murphy, an Associate Researcher in Philosophy at Newcastle University and Daily Sceptic regular. In this article, she responds to Dr. Will Jones’s essay about the unholy trinity – Covid, Climate Change and Critical Theory – that is being used by governments around the world to exert more and more control over their populations. Here is an extract:
There is a shop on the high street of one of Newcastle’s suburbs. On the window is emblazoned: “YOU ARE MAGICAL, EXTRAORDINARY, COOL AND BEAUTIFUL.”
To whom is the statement addressed? According to a 2019 study, over half of adults in this country are overweight or obese; up to 2018 at least, more were repeat users of opioid painkillers than in any other country in the EU; and during three months last summer, six million people in England were prescribed anti-depressants just to get through the day.
Whoever the shop’s sign is describing, it is not likely to be any of the beings of flesh and blood who daily pass it by.
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Goodbye Daily Sceptic.
I’m giving up because you introduce too many new topics too quickly. Barely had a chance to think about one than you lead on another allowing hardly any time to discuss topics with other readers.
Stick to the posts that interest you most, talk about them with others interested in those topics.
I have never, ever reported anyone for online spam.
There is always a first time.
Done 15.15; 9/11/21 (red flag icon upper right)
Ditto. 🙂 Same, done.
I agree. The Sceptic has been outstanding and the need for it has increased hugely recently in for example pulling out the falsehoods of UKHSA. Surely it is easily possible to keep pace with changing topics which after all are mostly interlinked. I do not just read the Sceptic, I have 6 other places where I am cross referencing on a daily basis such as the Spectator Online or Guido Fawkes or DT online so different topics from Toby et al is both stimulating and challenging.
I also have time as I am retired.
Learn to scroll past those things that do not interest you.
It isn’t a question of avoiding what does not interest me, I do that every day in roundup.
It is about maintaining the flow in topics of interst.
In the past roundup was all, readers took the conversation in any direction they collectively wanted, or as an individual without the chat coming to a sudden halt as readers move onto the next chat like gadlfys several times a day.
My Extreme view is that this should only be interrupted within, let’s say 12 hours of roundup going up, would have been for a headline from last year along the lines.
“Hancock forced to resign and arrested; Johnson called to the Queen, offers to spend rest of life in monastery in return for immunity as he spills beans”
Any thing else can wait a few hours IMHO
I had a similar experience. Now I tend to only read, and sometimes comment on, the News Roundup, Today’s Update, and the top few separate articles which really grab me. I remind myself that I don’t *have* to read or comment on everything. 🙂
Tried that Armtrup,
usually commenting on roundup topics of interest. and the next couple of articles only.
Yesterday I had 18 hours straight access to the site (bad signal in large public buildings so no YouTube).
Poor Luke spends all evening to produce a balanced multi sourced roundup at midnight but it’s effectively killed off by 7-8am with today just 25 comments, time was it might have been a couple of thousand.
I confined myself to just one topic on which I have some knowledge,
Thank you for your positive response and comment.
“nothing matters very much
and very little matters at all”
Your posts are rather negative and this ‘goodbye’ is in the same vein. If the site doesn’t suit your exacting needs that’s fine for you to go and post elsewhere.
Finally, thank you, goodbye.
Anything must grow to survive. Daily Sceptic is growing, it doesn’t mean it has to outgrow its early followers. As others have said skim past the articles which aren’t for you, just as you would any other publication
Well, I would miss your comments, k.
We are approaching an interesting juncture, I think, and this is one of the useful places that will report on aspects of it.
I agree with you and I said that last year.
If one article is current at a time, where virtually all comments go, more people get a reply to their replies, because more are watching that page at the time.
Raising the DS’s comment count is helpful … surely?
Thank you however my view is that all or most daily topics should appear in the roundup simultaneously for readers to dip in and out of as they chose with only very exceptional news to intrude (see fictional example above).
Some individual initial replies become considerable threads in their own right.
There is an icon 🔗 to hide replies to such lengthy threads if they are not of interest.
I hope you don’t leave the fold.
Your contributions are always valid and you are an essential part of this community.
A couple of weeks ago you replied to a post I wrote about my mother getting her booster shot. It was a detailed, thoughtful response, an act of kindness to a stranger on a screen.
Sometimes small acts of kindness are all we have.
Many of us are outliers/outcasts in our own lives. The contributions BTL have kept me sane in the last 20 months-
Don’t go.
I would hate to see you go – your comments are always interesting, insightful and honest; however I can’t see what you’re unhappy about here, honestly!
I understand her point. I compare it to a magazine. I open it, home in on the articles that appear to interest me most, but a week later open it again and realise that there were things of interest to me in other articles I had on first flicking through discounted.
When articles here appear so quickly, and then get displaced equally quickly there isn’t the opportunity to read them, let alone comment, never mind participate in an extended discussion, many of which on this site are invaluable for getting to the core of something or making someone look differently at what might be going on.
Add to that the daily comments disappearing in a puff and the fact that articles aren’t archived any more [or if they are I can’t find them].
I am fully aware there is a resources issue and am very grateful that we have this site at all for people of a mindset like ours. I’m just saying I can see where K is coming from.
I see your point, it probably does stifle debate. I said so at the time when they changed the format. Which is the reason for my absence for so long, that said it’s no different to any other site eg. Guardian or DM.
Perhaps the layout needs more thought?
The icy perfect appeal of zero, of the absolute, the hygienic virtual, etc. Rigorous self-control/deprivation. Like a kind of mass/state sanctioned/organised anorexia.
It/industrialised society appears to believe that it is engaging in addictive behaviour, that it is (unusually) out of control, and that something that it usually consumes is causing that loss of control, a driven and destructive dependency. ….
…. And perhaps it is. eg: petroleum/fossil fuels, a highly concentrated form of energy, ( like sugar, for instance ), in increasing use for 100 years now. ……
And/or perhaps it, the “developed”/westernised world, is “just” having difficulty accepting interdependency, the messy because less controllable state of being dependent on others … not self-sufficient/independent etc but “needy”.
“You Are Magical, Extraordinary, Cool and Beautiful”
Aw, you old flatterer you!
nothing beats entropy
“There is a shop on the high street of one of Newcastle’s suburbs. On the window is emblazoned: “YOU ARE MAGICAL, EXTRAORDINARY, COOL AND BEAUTIFUL.””
Just another bit of the hippy nonsense that places feelings ahead of truth. Which is fine when you are engaging in trivial social politeness, but poisonous when you are trying to run a country or raise a child.
Boris Johnson warns ‘too many’ fully-vaccinated elderly Britons are ending up in hospital with Covid as PM urges nation to get their booster vaccine
I do this, so you don’t have to, (visit the daily mail) it’s dirty work, but someone’s got to do it.
In today’s Daily Mail headlines:
“Frontline NHS staff in England must get two doses of the Covid vaccine by next spring or lose their jobs, the Government is expected to announce today.
Whitehall sources claim the April deadline will give enough time for unvaccinated employees to get their jabs.
More than nine in ten doctors, nurses and administrative staff in the NHS are already fully vaccinated. But some 110,000 out of 1.4million employees are yet to get their first dose.
Care home workers must be fully vaccinated against Covid by Thursday or face redundancy, after ministers announced they would make jabs compulsory for the sector in June.
It is feared that as many as 500 care homes may have to close in the coming weeks, leaving thousands of vulnerable people in urgent need of new places.”
Section 45 of the 1984 Public Health Act says mandating jabs is ILLEGAL
Do not resign, wait to be re-instated.
Yep hold the line, force them to sack you! It’s a game of chicken!
I know they know the law, What I don’t know is what their next trick will be.
The problem is if they put you on indefinite unpaid leave! You’d obviously need to look for other work, then what?
They cannot change your contract so the leave must be paid.
Normally putting you on unpaid leave would be interpreted as constructive dismissal, but it might depend on the terms of your contract and the details of whatever pernicious legislation they have brought in to enable this abomination. Seeking legal advice from an employment law specialist would be sensible.
I agree with both replies, but government lawyers must know this too, & of course tribunals & private litigation are stressful, expensive & time-consuming.
I guess they’re banking on people giving up & leaving or caving in to medical tyranny.
Once you’re jabbed it can’t be taken back!
Take more of the stuff that kills you
That was my first thought to.
After 9am each day the ‘working’ have left our nearby post industrial town. There is no work in the town except for council employees and shop assistants
I don’t wish to be unkind but what’s left behind is a sight to behold
The people who are left wander around the shopping street barely functioning above the level of an amoeba
Walking sticks are de rigueur in order to thwart the activities of the benny surveillance teams
The utterances of the terminally drab rarely rise above grunts with the favourite topic of conversation is illicit medication
I can see why the Toffs want rid of them
All of this will go away when Klaus Schwab’s most rococo carbon reduction policy of all kicks in – “You Will Be Eaten and You will be Happy.”
Eaten by fish as The Pig Dictator let slip
Human Scampi will be used to rebuild fish stocks
Now that’s what I call sustainable
Uptick for ‘most rococo’
Brilliant
‘Climate change is a far bigger problem than coronavirus’: Patrick Vallance warns Covid poses threat for ‘two to four years’ compared to up to 100 years for global warming
I thought he was a virologist or epidemiologist? What’s his expertise in climate scientism? Show me the money, what physical evidence is there of a “climate crisis”?
If I took their claims to a court of law based on common law principles, the claim a crime might happen based on a computer model would be laughed out of court and in all likelihood the plaintiff would be sanctioned for vexatious or malicious case.
Sanctioned or Sectioned?
Patrick Vallance’s official title is Royal Court Astrologer.
He’s a witch doctator
He’s actually correct. For once.
It ain’t corona that’s the problem, it’s criminal bastards like you Vallance doing your masters bidding.
I hope you rot in Hell.
According to a 2019 study, over half of adults in this country are overweight or obese;
I believe that figure has risen a great deal because of the regime’s lockdown policies, and even more so among children.
Great article, as usual, from Dr Murphy, but very strange choice of illustration when such things are usually awash with depictions of the young, females and ‘bame’.
Is it because negative topics can only be connected to an old white man?
O, that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those Les Dawson’s in England
That do no work today
Tbh, I did laugh at the juxtaposition with the title. I think it was intentional ironic humour, especially for those who remember Dawson and can imagine his characteristic response to such stuff.
Les Dawson always made me smile too.
Fifteen times more people will be at risk of heat stress if global temperatures rise by 3.6°F and almost HALF of the world’s population if they hit 7.2°F, Met Office warns
Why are they using Fahrenheit? Stephen Hawking would probably have had trouble converting this nonsense.
They must be obeying the US of A which barely understands that 7.5 billion people use metres and kilograms.
All the talk of ‘Zero’ illustrates to me that this approach is being led by corporations and the super rich. Industrial practices have focused on Kaizen priniciples for decades with the impossible target of Zero Defects being set for all processes in order to keep management and their structures under continuous pressure for improvements. What works for Toyota can work for World Government!
Am I missing something here, i’m not seeing it.
Sacked black AIG trainee, 23, wins damages payout after tribunal rules she was victimised by bosses who told her ‘unconscious bias’ did not exist in her team
To be black, don’t you actually have to be black? I thought cultural appropriation was a deadly sin.
Its all about divide and rule and creating internal conflict. This country is being destroyed from within and turned into a pseudo-communist state with a technocratic cherry on top
I just tried to share this on Facebook and am told ‘this contains unsuitable content and cannot be posted.’ People have reported it as ‘abusive’. Nuts.
Your problem is evident, the solution obvious.
Stop using Facebook!
I can assure you won’t suffer any adverse effects not using it. I never have, i’m doing just fine without it.
I can’t do magic, even ‘expelliarmus’. I’m completely average in most ways. I rejoice in being uncool. I’m long past the age when ‘beautiful’ could possibly be applicable.
I am also the ultimate bad citizen. I hate fascist buggers. I hate lies and zombyism. I love meat. I tear down covvinotices. I have a face. I have clean blood. I make a lot of noise. Long live me.
While the MSM condemns the use of ivermectin, the most populated state in India just declared they are officially COVID free after promoting widespread use of the safe, proven medicine. In addition to this, Ivermectin attaches to covid spikes and prevents them from binding to ACE2. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Another interesting piece by one of my favourite contributors. Loved the ending …we have good faces if we would only show them.
“beings of flesh and blood”
Perhaps the person who wrote this isn’t just looking at beings solely made up of flesh and blood. Let’s convert the unholy trinity back into the holy trinity of body, mind and soul. In this respect we all do have the capacity to be “MAGICAL, EXTRAORDINARY, COOL AND BEAUTIFUL.”
We are a lot more than what we see in the mirror and this gradual disconnect has created the perfect environment for the creation of mindless zombies, ready to follow any diktat power drunk leaders across the world wish to enforce on their citizens. Encouraging people to acknowledge their power and place in this world is perhaps a useful way to nudge them awake to the increasing insanity humanity is heading, before it is too late.