Reflections From a Murky Pond

Kuchisabishii. It’s a Japanese term which literally means “lonely mouth,” and is used to describe when you’re not hungry, but you eat anyway because your mouth is lonely. It rather poetically sums up boredom or stress induced eating, i.e., the munchies.

I find this interesting – beyond how cool the word is in and of itself – because most of us in the West tend to think of the Japanese as being very reserved and unemotional – true Stoics even – and yet, their language is filled with words that describe many emotions and emotive actions. That, going by the mainstream thoughts among linguists, indicates quite the opposite.

Tags: Eating | Japan | Japanese | Language & Idiom | Society

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Yes, it’s true. The frogs of the world have nearly as many languages as the peoples of the world do. They don’t all go “Ribbit.” 😆

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Well, since our domestic and racial enemies are so very fond of reidentifying things – e.g., racism, sexism, violence, terrorism, men, women, and children – I’ve decided to reidentify firearms as cordless hole punchers. 😉

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Biden and Co. are, despite the facts and all normative definitions, proclaiming that America is not in a recession. Because, if you’re a Democrat, caused a huge problem for the majority of the American people, can’t or won’t fix things, and can’t convince anyone of note to believe it’s someone else’s fault, you go full-on Humpty Dumpty and “redefine” what the term recession means.

It’s just like they did with “vaccine” when their lies about the effectiveness of the COVID-19 “vaccines” were exposed. But then, it’s also just like their constituencies do with any other words that wish to, e.g., man, woman, gender, racism, sexism, misogyny, violence, and/or sexual assault.

Folks, I don’t think there’s an actual, true-born and rightly-raised American who doesn’t expect politicians and their appointees and hires to lie to us consistently. Nor do I believe that any of us even particularly care that they do so; it’s literally the core competency of their jobs. But, damn the fuck damn, is Biden and Co. ever stupid about it!

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The CDC, both bowing to the reality that COVID-19 vaccines don’t work and striving to maintain their magisterium, have decided to go full-on Humpty Dumpty and decide that words mean just what they choose it to mean – neither more nor less.

The CDC use to defined “Vaccine” as “a product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease.”, while “Vaccination” was defined as “the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.”

Now, however, the CDC defines “Vaccine” as “a preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases,” and “Vaccination” is now “the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce protection from a specific disease.”

What it comes down to is that they were forced to admit that the “preventative” medications that they were touting – and other parts of the government were forcing us to subject ourselves to – didn’t meet the CDC’s own standards for “Vaccines.” But, being what and who they are, their solution was to simply change their – and therefor de facto the government’s – definitions of “Vaccine” and “Vaccination.”

It’s a small change in verbiage. A minor and more honest definition change if one is speaking of anything coronavirus-related. But, it’s a change that opens the doors for massive and tyrannical government overreach.

Think about it. If a vaccine no longer has to provide a reasonably level of immunity to a disease, just some level of protection from it or its effects, what other medications can the government, with its long cultural and legal history of being able to demand people get vaccinated, force us to take?

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