When people say 'stop thinking about it' or 'stop being depressed', they actually mean 'stop producing depressed discourse'- the 'inescapability' of these things is in their recursive self-production via 'thinking about them'

Beckett's 'The Unnamable' is practically a demonstration of this- written from the point of view of a disembodied voice (it's only embodiment is 'in the text') self-generating its own claustrophobia through its inability to cease
Lest anyone think I'm being dismissive of mental anguish, I suffered from 'depression' and 'anxiety' for a long time- in my early 20s- before I developed the spiritual confidence to affirm what I'd intellectually always suspected: that these things have no actual existence
On my 1st ever podcast appearance w/ @kaschuta, I describe evil as 'nothingness eating itself into the world'- the fact of a thing being non-existent doesn't mean it doesn't inflict harm- the harm it inflicts its the friction of the non-existent entering an existent medium

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1. Mini Thread on Conflicts of Interest involving the authors of the Nature Toilet Paper:
https://t.co/VUYbsKGncx
Kristian G. Andersen
Andrew Rambaut
Ian Lipkin
Edward C. Holmes
Robert F. Garry

2. Thanks to @newboxer007 for forwarding the link to the research by an Australian in Taiwan (not on

3. K.Andersen didn't mention "competing interests"
Only Garry listed Zalgen Labs, which we will look at later.
In acknowledgements, Michael Farzan, Wellcome Trust, NIH, ERC & ARC are mentioned.
Author affiliations listed as usual.
Note the 328 Citations!
https://t.co/nmOeohM89Q


4. Kristian Andersen (1)
Andersen worked with USAMRIID & Fort Detrick scientists on research, with Robert Garry, Jens Kuhn & Sina Bavari among


5. Kristian Andersen (2)
Works at Scripps Research Institute, which WAS in serious financial trouble, haemorrhaging 20 million $ a year.
But just when the first virus cases were emerging, they received great news.
They issued a press release dated November 27, 2019:

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