Tuesday, July 26, 2005

 

He wrapped himself in quotes like a beggar in an emperor's purple.

“Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." --Albert Einstein

“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." --Henry Miller

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw

“What luck for the rulers that men do not think." --Adolph Hitler

“Experience is not what happens to you - it's how you interpret what happens to you." --Aldous Huxley

“Those who make peaceful reform impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." --J. F. Kennedy

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." --Martin Luther King

“It's never too late to be what you might have been." --George Elliot

“Life's like a movie; write your own ending, keep believing, keep pretending..." --Jim Henson

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite." --William Blake

“When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a life-long effect." --Peace Pilgrim

“Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love." --Lao Tsu

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish." --Euripedes

“The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity." --Ludwig Wittgenstein

“When we love, we are the universe and the universe lives in us." --O. Pirmez

“Ships are safe within the harbor, but is that what ships are for?"

“Opinions founded on prejudice are always defended with the greatest violence." --Hebrew proverb

“Man has no body distinct from his soul; for that called body is a portion of soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of soul in this age." --William Blake

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." --Douglaus Everett

“A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed... When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker, a raving lunatic." --Dresden James

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." --Robert A. Heinlein

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight." --Phyllis Diller

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will." --George Bernard Shaw “All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience." --Johann von Goethe

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart." --Helen Keller

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently." --Nietzsche

“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." --Frank Outlaw

“Happiness is the experience of loving life. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience. And love is looking at someone or even something and seeing the absolute best in him/her or it. Love is happiness with what you see. So love and happiness really are the same thing... just expressed differently." --Robert McPhillips

First the energy of God descends upon the Earth, then it pretends whatever it wants to be, then it ascends back to its source. You are God pretending to be whatever you are right now. Do you understand what this means? You have allowed yourself to descend, but by pretending to be less than what you are, you have not ascended back to God." --Thomas (Indigo Child)

“Wisdom is knowing what path to take next... Integrity is taking it." --Robyn Elprehzleinn

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice." --Meister Eckhart

“Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow--it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it." --Shakti Gawain

“We see things not as they are, but as we are." --H.M. Tomlinson

“It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." --Adler

“I hear and forget. I see and remember. I do and I understand." --Confucius

“Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them."" --William Blake

“The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation." --William James

“Intuition is not contrary to reason, but outside the province of reason." --Carl Jung

“The great mass of people more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a minor one." --Adolph Hitler

“You can discover what your enemy fears most by what he uses to frighten you." --Eric Hoffer

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." --Albert Einstein

“Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all." --Helen Keller

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." --Soren Kierkegaard

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man's life a sorrow and a suffering enough to disarm all hostility." --Henry Longfellow

“To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions." --Eckhart Tolle

“When you look at the long history of man, you see that more hideous crimes have been comitted in the name of obedience than have been comitted in the name of rebellion." --C. P. Snow

“Nothing happens unless first a dream." --Carl Sandburg

“If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful." --C. S. Lewis

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." --Mother Teresa

“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming." --Goethe

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." --Goethe

“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Was it worth it?"

"Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you." --Pericles

“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change - and to preserve change amid order" --Alred North Whitehead

“He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear." --Michel de Montaigne

“The only stupid question is one not asked."

“It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover." --Henri Poincare

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." --Carl Jung

“Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box."

“Wisdom begins in wonder." --Socrates

"He who dares nothing need hope for nothing."

"Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: kindness in another's trouble, courage in our own." --Adam Gordon

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs - even though checkered by failure - than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." --Theodore Roosevelt

“God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you." --St. Bernard of Clairveux

“If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others." --Dalai Lama

“Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own." --Chinese proverb

“Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks." --Will Durant

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." --George Bernard Shaw

“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer injury to our self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their self-importance, learn so easily; and why older people, especially if vain or arrogant, cannot learn at all." --Thomas Szasz

“When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane."

“This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." --William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

“Pay no attention to critics. No one ever erected a statue to a critic" -- Werner Ehrhart

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." --Eleanor Roosevelt

“The best way to know God is to love many things." --Vincent Van Gogh “It takes more courage to alter an opinion than to stick with it."

"Ex
pecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian." --Shari R. Barr

“Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe." --Robert Service

“Persistence. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." --Calvin Coolidge (President USA)

“Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, the other gold."

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." --Chinese Proverb

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." --Galileo Galilei

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"Life isn't measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away."

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." --Albert Einstein

“Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing." --Guy Kawasaki

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." --Plutarch

“The first rule of holes: If you are in one, stop digging."

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

"Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and the pig enjoys it."

"An optimist thinks that this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this is true."

"Years ago, my momma taught me that two wrongs don't make a right - but I soon figured out that three left turns do." --Jim Hightower

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day."

"If you lend someone $25 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it."

“If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you."

“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each guest has been sent as a guide from beyond." --Rumi

“All of life is a near-death experience."

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." --William James

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." --Teilhard de Chardin

"Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit." --Napoleon Bonaparte - stated near the end of his life

“My religion is simple, my religion is kindness." --Dalai Llama

“Life is what happens when you are making other plans." --John Lennon

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
--Mother Teresa

“Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." --Mark Twain

“There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre." --Heraclitus

“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." --Cherokee Expression

“What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things."

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

 

You Decide: Chicken Little or Oracle?

Is Kent Bentkowski another Chicken Little screaming, "The Sky is Falling!"?
Or
Is he prescient? (To know beforehand)
Draw your own conclusions, but beware- this document will most likely shock you.

This link downloads a 35 page pdf file which will interest anyone involved in America's future.

Friday, July 08, 2005

 

Dear Father

Dear Father,

I feel your guiding presence at all times in my life. Please know the material world you left is at a loss from your absence. I write to you today in great joy of the progress and potential of the unified humanity of Earth. Ten years ago on a sunny Wednesday in 2025, NASA charted a huge asteroid on a collision path with Earth, due to hit in one year. They named it "Fear." As the news of Fear spread, shockwaves emanated from every being on the planet- fear that our existence would be shattered in an Damoclean event. Churches, mosques, temples, and forests filled to the brim with humans begging God for a second chance. To each one of them, the universe gave only a cryptic message: "Find Unity through your diversity. Work together to be the change you desire."

Needless to say, confused were humans, and the holovision didn't help things by running endless simulations of possible outcomes. Thus for a few days, humans got drunk and did everything they said would do if the world was ending. They shot their enemies, threw orgies at their workplaces, took out advertisements for crack parties, and jumped off buildings. It's amazing how the impending death warps our perceptions and behavior.

Yet suddenly on Sunday of the next new week, people stopped in their tracks, looked around, and bourne the good global organism: The Gorganism. Throughout the world people dropped their guns, papers, and grudges. What's a imaginary border against an incoming Moon sized projectile? The Gorganism self-organized and transcended all nationalism to unify humanity under the common cause of survival- the most basic human instinct. Thousands of cooperative centers sprung up the next month, dedicated to networking the integrated Gorganism, deflecting and destroying Fear, and ensuring the survival of all parts of the Gorganism.

We questioned, what has provided energy for life since the primordial era? The Sun of course! We launched four hundred and twenty satellites with solar radiation concentrators. Next we launched one thousand space ships equipped with ultralaser pulse capabilities. We launched all of our nuclear warheads into space.

We called our cooperative benevolent forces Hope.

There was one month til the point of no return...

Fear entered our solar system around Mars, and proceded on a bullseye path for Gaia's gorganism, just as the scientists in starched white coats predicted.

But we were ready...

With cohesive timing seen in music symphonies, synchronized swimming, and flying bird formations, the Gorganism unleashed Hope upon Fear, and straight out shitcanned its ass. Our concerted Hope transformed the monstrosity of Fear into nothingness. Nothing remained of Fear after our Hopeful assault...

No, this isn't a feel-good movie. In retrospect, it is a conglomerate of clices. Yet there is nothing cliche about our precarious situation on Earth. If we cannot bind together as a species to progress off the planet, our evolution will halt with nuclear war, extraterrestrial apocalypse, or environmental destruction. It is our destiny, like all intelligent beings, to project our benevolent power throughout the universe. So please, when you go out today, don't be so quick to judge or assume. Blow a kiss to a stranger. Give ten dollars to a bum. Let someone cut in front of your car. Smile at your troubles- at least you are ALIVE to have troubles. Be glad there's no asteroid on a collision path. Contrary to the popular media, there are no aliens attempting to Destroy ALL Humans; no War of the Worlds (how did the aliens lose that one?).

Must you forget, we are all ALONE in this TOGETHER. If your mind is your God, and your mind is your universe, doesn't that imply your God is your universe. Don't feel bad about feeling good, it is your God's universal right of consciousness. Push you awareness toward the end of the God, and ground your happiness and self-worth in your eternal void of sweet nectar- the divine force from which we all come and return- the magical source of divinity- God's glorious muse.

The Earth is one wonderful Gorganism.

Love,
David

 

Dear Mother

Dear Mother,
What has happened to the Earthly garden of Eden we inherited? The unchecked consumption of billions of humans has ruined the Earth's ecological health. Still the corporations advertise their societal awareness. Deforestation has annihilated all but the most forcefully protected reserves. Still the logging companies insist they are environmentally conscious. Millions upon millions of species are extinct, chewed up by environmental destruction. Still the strip mining companies maintain they compensate for the damages. Runway global warming has melted the ice caps, flooding coastal cities across the globe. Still the fossil fuel industry denies the link between carbon emissions and fossil fuels. Ten million people die each year in resource wars. Still the militarism of the world continues. One hundred million humans are in prison. Still they write more laws and build more prisons. Three billion humans live in homeless starvation. Yet no longer do people mourne them, as it is a struggle for most people to feed themselves. The sky has turned black with pollutants, and flowers die as soon as they bloom. Yet the chemical factories refuse to stop pumping. Ultracapitalists live in rich leisured seclusion, controlling the world from their personal media machines. Yet the other 98% kill each other for scraps of food. The bad in human nature- unchecked greed, lust for power, and callousness- has triumphed. The dark days are omnipresent. What in God's name happened before I was born? Was the world always this way?

Love,
Melinda

Tuesday, July 05, 2005

 

Utilitarianism

Our society is utilitarian. We have no need of poetry, of arts, of imagination- after all

Degrees/levels/scales of Utilitarian Morality:

Negative: (Warning, you DO NOT want to look at these disturbing pictures!)
No mas! Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)- negative infinity
Great for business! Genocide - 10
Insanity! War - 9
Started WWI! Murder - 8 Ultimate violation! Rape - 7
Can I live? Abortion - 6
Mammals! Assault - 5Hurt my feelings! Insult - 4
Hemp for victory! Destroying a forest - 3
Damn treehuggers! Killing one tree - 2
Losing control! Suicide - 1
Antidote=Wiki Stupidity/Ignorance - 0.5
You can't eat it! Worshipping money - 0.25

Ambiguous: Laziness = 0

Positive:
Makes everyone feel good Smile + 1
Compliment Day! Compliment + 2
Like Johnny Appleseed! Planting trees + 3
Good for heart! Laughing + 4
Won't you be my neighbor? Befriending + 5
Reproduce Hedonism Sexual union + 6
Florence Nightengale! Build a Hospital + 7
800 million starving children Feeding Children! + 8
Wage Peace & satyagraha! Conquer War + 9
Hedonistic Imperative Conquer Suffering + 10
Type 7 Civilization Conquer Universe = Sideways eight (infinity)

How would your scale be different?
How moral are you?
Let's hear it folks!

 

Articles of Interest

Human settlers made it to the Americas 30,000 years before previously thought.

Even identical twins are unique


The Multinational powers who created poverty are in charge of its relief


TV hampers children's school performance in three large studies


Positive News around the globe

Exopolitics- Justice, Law, and Government in the Universe

Neoconservatives in their own words

Basic Human Facts 852 million people hungry throughout the world

 

Controversial Social Philosophy

The dotCommunist Manifesto is an interesting take on the future of free information and liberating class conflict.

The Hedonistic Imperative is a transhumanist dissertion about the essential need to overcome suffering as a halmark of existence. Novel for its extensive ethical analysis and utopic ideals.

 

Laughter

The cliche goes that flowers are the earth's laughter. But the effects of laughter as nothing to scoff at. Laughing binds communities together. Laughter assists grievers. Laughter allows us to move past the ugly truth. That chimpanzees are dumb humans who are sucked down the Earth's gravity well while the planet spins on its axis at 1000 miles per hour and zooms around the earth at 20,000 miles per hour, without answers to our questions of purpose, left to burn brightly and carve our own meaning. Laughing saves lives, just ask the getologists who remind us to laugh each other back to health:
Laughter = Health

 

Abortion

Since the goal of society is protecting and enhancing human life, abortions should be viewed as ethically dubious (just like wartime or genocidal destruction), especially as our technology gives us the ability to save the aborted babies' lives. They are screaming out without a voice, Can I Live? Can I Live? like Nick Cannon's music video on BET. Our society can break open a comet, put a man on the moon, build iPods, spend trilions of dollars on war, but it can't save the lives of the most defenseless in human society. A law against abortion is not needed. A societal consciousness transformation is needed. Real sexual education is essential, to prevent unwanted pregnancies and to stress the viability of adoption. Abortion should be only used in rare occasions when the health of the mother is in grave danger. George Bush pays lip service to the Right to Life cause, yet the numbers of abortions have increased since he came to office. He has stressed the failing abstinence education, leaving millions of youngsters misinformed and confused about their bodies.

 

Universal Design

What's Your Point of View?

David Spoey flew to Earth on a overnight trip. His home planet of Sobjecta frustrated him with its bland uniformity. Sobjectans were extropic transhumans who had vacated Earth in order to terraform a utopic scientific society in a faraway galaxy. Sobjectans lacked emotions, being completely logical and objective creatures, their one objective being the pursuit of lively intelligence. Sure their politics were a breeze. Sure their society provided all things. Sure they had long conquered death, hate, waste, and fear. But in their eternal goodness, they had lost most of their panache, and all of their rawness.

Earth was known throughout the universe as a harbor of romantic drama, of epic battles between good and evil- basically the best planetary reality show in the universal organism. You probably wouldn't get out alive, but time spent there was quite intensely fulfilling.

Landing softly in a NBC boardroom, David told a group of startled executives to remember to brush their teeth. David had seen the ravages of tooth decay in his Sobjectan denistry practice.

Walking down the street, David Spoey encountered the first bodhisattava (a benevolent human full of love). Noticing first her petite shoulders, wrapped with a white shawl and topped by a pair of piercing green eyes surrounded by shiny blonde hair. Her bosom leaked from the top of her shawl to present a valley of desire. Feeling David's stare, Melinda Tuttle introduced herself as a wave of light sensation swept her eyes into a crystalline gaze.
She said, "Describe the essence of the universe in one sentence."
David said, "An infinite cyclical capacity for change expressed in structured fluid mechanics."
Melinda ventured behind her eyes seeing a Mobius strip consisting of a spiral staircase painted black, spinning around to produce the barbar shop candy cane allusion.
David Spoey grokked her vision, "You are quite right, but limited. Your idea is part of the whole, but it is the essence of the universe, but it is not. Black is the absence of light and white is the presence of all visible light energy. If you have a dream within a dream, then which dream is more real? If you take a picture of yourself in a mirror, where does the reflexitivity stop?"

"You love the paradoxes dontcha Plato! Okay Mr. DoubleSpeak, but I'm an architectural student and I pictured what you described. How can something be essential and not essential at the same time? Put it in my terms."
Pondered for a second and responded, "Just as you design a complex building on different levels, the universe continuously designs itself anew on infinite scales."
Melinda struggled to accept this metaphysical assertion as David pressed on, unaware of his extremely rapid pace."

"The scale of organization ranges from the metagalaxial to quarks composing protons and neutrons and atoms. A brick in a building seems completely frozen into place, but the brick is really a pulsing quantum organism of self-organizing matter. Similarly, when you see a building, your brain is using its memory and senses to create the image of a building. Sobjectively, the building is an organization of pulsing quantum organisms. It is connected to yourself by photons, gravity, electromagnetic force- and most importantly by your consciousness. You see, the building ceases to exist without your point of view- by conceptualizing the building, your call into existence a form in your head which is connected to the physical building only by the patterns networking in your head.

Some would call this solipsism, but I call it realism. Your qualic image of the hylic world is only possible with your consciousness. The qualic building consists is an emergent property of massive neural architecture and microfluidic paraserial design. Of course there is a reality, but it is different for everyone, because consciousness is transformation. By becoming aware of an event, you transform the event. Once humans gained language and mnemetic abilities, their spirit allowed them to image the entire universe in their mind, and to envision it by warping light waves. Once we became aware of the universe's history, a pneumatic echo unleashed itself upon the emergent humanity.

And there you see how the cyclical 3.7 billion year design process employed by nature is quite slow, but efficient in convincing your brain of reality's existence and your significance- this is what sets you apart from animals, who have no awareness of reality, they know only senses and basic emotional reactions. They have no conceptual mindspace to ponder the universal essence. They have no symbolic language with which to converse, from which to build and transmit cultural knowledge.

Humans, as spiritual conscious beings, are able to remove themselves from reality- humans possess free will. Thus the ingenious design of your neural structure, produced through 3.7 billion years of experience, has designed an inherent immaterial consciousness emerging from the genetic code. Water flows down. Gravity attracts. And a human thinks. In fact, a human's mind is the design of his universe, which in turn is his mind. These reflexive paradoxical truths underscore the nature of being here."

Wow, is he done talking? I feel like Socrates and Salvador Dali had a child and fed him intellectual speed. She dropped her attention, and Melinda's mind wandered to drunken memories of Real World flirtations and booty shakes. It is surely nice to be blonde- I wonder what David thinks of my appearance, he seems so attentive to detail, I knew I should have waxed my face today! I better giggle sweetly while I give him the Come Get ME look.

Attention. "Let me get this straight. Everything and nothing are paradoxically the essence of the universe. The universe knows no wrong nor right, yet the purpose of the universe is infinite loving intelligence."
David was surprised at the success of his information transmission, and asked her silently if she would accompany him on his travels.

Melinda looked astonished, then resolute, then worried. She said, "I have a feeling you have some things to teach me, David. I would quit my job and travel with you, but I am not a rich woman- I am a poor architectural student trying to climb the corporate ladder."

David removed his currency printer from his pocket, "Oh, don't worry about that! The Federal Reserve gave me this handy device in return for past favors (on condition of secrecy). From what I hear, this is one of many such devices. I guess you haven't learned money has become a tool of economic repression, as it is hoarded on computers for war and profit instead of being applied toward humanity's issues."
"You can print United States Cash!?"
"You are a quick one!"
"Where do I sign up?"
"Well, the committment is non-binding, but you could certainly prove your committment to the team...by giving me a back scratch."
Ten minutes later, a raw-backed David printed 10 green bills worth $1000 and put them in Melinda's back pocket, prompting a single seed of desire thrust into his continual chatter of consciousness. That single touch germinated eons of sexual dormancy and resonated with forgotten sexual archetypes of powerful domination and pleasurable submission.
Curiously, David's content covalent companion had awakened in him a previously unknown mind-state, the impulse. Being immortal reduces impulses to a dull fade of unimportance. Every action is the reflection of past actions and experience. Yet somehow, this green planet of lustful attraction had cracked his shield of patience, and with the urgency of a soldier's last letter David pulled Melinda to a pulsing quantum orgasmic waterbed. Removing his illusional clothes he wished her naked and ensconced her in passionate embrace.
"I understand Earthly organisms. Their societal glue is sexual attraction- the urge to physically merge universes through mindful relations." When the Sobjectan viewers heard this through his hyperspatial consciousness projector, their minds were set afire with this sexual desire, and spared neither plants nor robots in their striving for sexual fulfillment. At their local Seventy Forty Six, KY jelly sold out.
Ending the eternal embrace, David dressed them both and removed a 3D holographic viewing map from his pocket with blinking destinations.
"Follow me, Melinda, muliebritous muse of my existence!"
Melinda smiled as two agitated policeman approached them, Shock Round guns pointed at them.
"Put your hands in the sky!"

 

Beautiful Picture From Space


The Universe is intelligently beautiful.

Monday, July 04, 2005

 

Grokster sued for lack of responsibility

Grokster sued because people can use their invention for illegal things- sharing joyful music!! Budweiser should be sued, same with all the car manufacturers, and all cigarette companies, because they have killed billions of peoples in human history. That’s genocide, folks, if we are ethically consistent. Alcohol kills 100,000 year in US, responsible for 50-60% OF all VIOLENT crime. Tobacco is a sinister lifelong get your cookie addiction presented for your coughing enjoyment by the evil corporations not giving you a vaporizer (a way to smoke the nicotine without burning any leaf- safe for lungs). Three million people die each year worldwide because of tobacco’s evil influence. Yet they are still allowed free reign over Western societies, promoted over any so-called illicit substances (which kill only 10,000 a year in the US) as defined by the Controlled Substances Act. Draw your own conclusions. 400,000 vs 100,000 vs 10,000...it all comes down to number of deaths and design of laws. Right now, the two most deadly substances are LEGAL. Driving a 2000 pound urban assault vehicle with a tank full of explosive fumes two feet away from another lane of death vehicles. Every new automobile death, of your friends, family, acquintances, and celebrities shall force you to reconsider human-driven autmobiles infavor of automatic networked electric vehicules- some open air, some in tubes, some in vacuum tubes, where transport is utterly and completely safe and foolproof. Only 100 people die every year from commercial airlines, but 50,000 Americans die each year from automobile accidents. 15,000 people are killed every year from guns, and another 80,000 injured in firearm attacks.

Without getting caught up in the actual facts, let's review the numbers:
Tobacco kills 400,000 Americans each year!
Alcohol kills 100,000 Americans this year and fuels 60% of all violent crime.
Automobiles kill 50,000 Americans each year.
Firearms kill 15,000 Americans each year.
All Illegal Drugs COMBINED kill 10,000 Americans each year.

Yet despite the relative harmlessness of illegal drugs, over one million Americans are in prison because of illicit drug violations. Why don't tobacco executives go to jail for when another of their valued consumers dies of lung cancer? Why don't gun corporations get sued when kids go on violent rampages? Why doesn't Budweiser pay for the funerals of those killed by drunk drivers like my friend Ashley Hach? Why do the drug laws restrict the growing of hemp and marijuana, a completey safe and benign drug? Why are 800,000 people arrested every year in the United States of America for growing marijuana, a plant that early American settlers grew for survival- providing food, oil, fiber, paper, clothing, and paint? Why did Thomas Jefferson and George Washington grow hemp plantations? Why was the Declaration of Independence drafted on hemp paper?

The TV sold me......Melinda the blonde drunk nympho obsessed with sex in real world selling pleasure, consumption, food, obesity, wealth, human, power, violence, anger, molestation, tragedy, comedy, war, guns, products, blood, patriotism, nationalism, jealousy, attention, celebrity, egotism, narcissism, discrimination, insults, ridicule, gluttony, ridiculousness, confusion, fear, doubt, uncertainty, wonderful fleshures.

WhaT did the television give you? Entertained yet?

 

In the year Twenty Fifty

By 2050, when there are 10 billion people, the gorganism (global organism) should be completely sustainable, integrated, and just. The social networking capability of the 4G global technology will have provided a global market for ideas and goods. Solar, wind, water, biomass, thermoelectric, pyroelectric, piezoelectric, kinelectric, and scalar energy shall fuel the economy, based on electromagnetism and hydrogen combustion. No fossil fuel combustion would be needed, because of its toxic side effects and Choice will be preserved until you harm another. Robots will build anything you want, so it is not necessary to work. Society will be a wonderful choice to join, providing nourishment, clothing, health care, entertainment, ethics, and sexual satisfaction. The collective emergent mind of one humanity united through diversity shall shout and expand throughout the galaxy and conquer aging, to become immortal and move to a level three civilization, one that is capable of creating galaxies. The liberty of the individual will be moderated by the ethical order of society. Individual reason without social ethics is unrestrained, and social ethics without individual reason are lame. A participatory panopticon sort of cyberocracy of a million elected people shall be the State’s current manifestation. As Hegel thought the State was God marching on Earth, this state shall be the face of God and evolution’s progress. The State shall protect children and assist parents. It should produce one stable and inclusive global currency, one based on a restrorative gift economy that makes everyone rich and allows the unimpeded flow of information.
Leaves and grass-cuttings shall be turned to glucose with amped up cellulase enzymes. Soy proteins will be eaten by almost everyone. Hemp is used for clothing, food, fiber, and paper, replacing the destructive scourge of deforestation. Self-assembling buildings, robots, cities, and organizations shall provide the ability for all lands to leapfrog their current stage in favor of a more justly and prosperous organization.
Evolution and God have since been shown to be one and the same. The self organizing emergent systems scaled from quarks to the universe are holographically part and the whole of God. Pantheism shall be the norm, as it had since been shown the continual nature of all things and the inseparability of consciousness. Ethics shall replace laws, and true crime considered only violent, with degrees of severity, addressed with massive rehabilitation and psychological treatment. BioNanotechnology will cure infectious diseases, genetic diseases, cancer, hunger, death, and provide avenues for transhumanist progression. War will disappear as it ceases to be profitable and is exposed as a cruel game played by the rich.
The biggest industries shall be energy (sustainable, renewable, free), health (food, water, nourishment, medicine), science (knowledge and technology), tourism, transportation (evolving automatic networked), media (creative and participatory panopticon), robotics, astronomy, terraforming, hedonism (experience, sex, drugs, happiness, pharmacy), and Aid. Being born into the gorganism shall guarantee a Social security number and 100 rotors and solar philm providing the energy to ensure one’s survival, always filling up one’s personal bank account with infallible, unstealable, inclusive, digital, automatic, legal value tender (money).
Self built farm buildings shall pour forth beautiful food. Work is available to those who want it,
the beach/woods/mountains/desert/plains/rainforest is available for those who don’t. Open design will allow anyone to design their own experience and software. The pursuit of happiness had since been shown to be the objective goal of all existence, as the end and the means towards intelligence. Neumerica replaced the United States Corporation, and restore the visions of the Founding Fathers of Life, Love, and Pleasure as pursuits of the individual guaranteed by the Constitution. Evolving networking transportation (ENT) shall provide free transport of persons and goods. ECID (evolving converging information device) shall be an integrated media center for creation and distribution of information or experience. EBID (evolving body information device) shall be worn as a Lance Armstrong bracelet to continuously analyze one’s health and monitor for potential ominous signs. Guns, Cigarettes, greed, glass bottles, and war have disappeared as the massive quantum shift in intelligence occurs, in favor of more wholesome pleasures. When you realize we share common ancestors as chimpanzees, when you realize we are just smart animals operating on nature’s 4 billion year trial-and-experience design, when you realize 10% of all humans are alive in 2005, when you realize only optimism is beautiful, when you realize the future shall be designed to be beautifully organized, when you realize the environment will become intelligent, when you realize we are progressing exponentially, you will be able to push your mind to the boundaries of the universe. You will no longer be confined to your skullish prison.

The Blue Plus Yellow Light revolution begins on 2012

 

Mission Statement

Evolution is the progressive force of I AM that pervades and is everything- because it is. The purpose of life is to evolve into the most harmonious/beautifull organized state, while orgastically experiencing the precious lows and artificial highs on the way. Humans look to God, the sky spirit, for reasons to hate gays, kill Iraqis, and postpone sex until marriage- when all we have to do is look inside ourselves at the potential of God. We possess the whole universe inside our being by existing, but we practically we are only part of the universal organism evolving towards intelligence.

Jesus was a liberal Jew who advocated caring for the weakest of society and forsaking wealth. He told the story of the Good Samaritan who sacrificed his time, money, and pride to take care of one considered beneath him in society. Gandhi and Thoreau stressed nonviolence and the potency of satyagraha- the truth force.

The United States must take its example from those who value the intrinsic value of every individual, such as Jesus, and not those who wage war for profit. Our people must wrest back the Constitution from the tattered mess it has become, and organize the powerful elements in our society to everyone's advantage, not the richest 5%.

Let's get some perspective:
The earth has lasted for 4.7 billion years.
Life for 3.7 billion years.
Written human history has existed for thousands of years.
Our American society we love has existed for just over two hundred years.

Think about this: we progressed from grunting apes to civilizations in hundreds of thousands of years. We went from computers the size of a football field to the iPod in fifty years. Our technological progress is exponentially increasing. Once we all learn to love each other (and enjoy the hell out of life), global cooperation will lead us into the promised land. So what is this plan to ensure global cooperation? How can we restore the garden of eden for human enjoyment and prosperity?

Paraphrasing John Lennon, one must coat political messages in honey. In other words, you have to convince people it is in their best interests to change, or else they won't. America's destiny is that of Good Samaritan. We started as the city on the hill.

Here's an American recipe for immediate change worldwide:
2 years of global peace barrage of information on every available medium: TV, magazines, Bluetooth, WiFi, Internet, books, pamphlets.
Our message is simple and translated into almost every language through the Rosetta Project:
http://www.rosettaproject.org/live
"Love not War! War may be profitable in the short run but is disasterous for our children's future. Let's work together to save not only ourselves but also Gaia, our mother planet. We must wage Peace. Cooperation must replace wasteful competition.
Simple math shows us the power of cooperation: 1 + 1 = 2 but 1 - 1 = 0. If we do not work together, we will perish. Love not War. Instead of allowing our political leaders to send the poor into battle while reaping the corporate profits, we must unify all peoples to transform the world into a just and fruitful global social organism."

During these years of the information barrage, America will bring its troops back to its borders, while reinvesting the unspent military funds into a widescale transformation of our economy into a sustainable and efficient one. It will halt all expensive military projects such as $2 billion B2 bombers.
The federal government will now be run as a business. It will assume control of the energy industry- and use the leftover military unemployed and those homeless to put Solar Philm On Everything. These nanotechnology-imbued solar philm produce free renewable energy, along with cleanly splitting water into hydrogen for use in automobiles. We shall utilize the massive amount of wind fuel given to us by Erdu, our mother Earth, and the infinite packets of energy hurled by the nuclear reactor called The Sun Ra.

China has employed a hybrid form of capitalism for the past decade, called market socialism. It combines the restraints of socialism with the economically stimulating value system of markets, and has ensured China's place as the new superpower. Unless we act now to preserve our manufacturing, energy, technological, and social progress, American shall diverge into a confused third world economy with only a sales/service economy. We must be completely energy independent- to secure our borders. We must balance our military spending with social spending, and not spread ourselves too thin by listening to oil or military interests. We must nationally integrate our energy, health, transportation, education, and pharmaceutical industries. We must ensure every citizen in America is raised in a stimulating and healthy environment, with endless opportunities to learn and to contributed to society. The confusing mess of taxes shall be annihilated, while a national sales tax will be implemented of 20%. Capitalism shall remain the name of the market, but the energy/health care/education/pharmaceutical industries must be radically changed in order to preserve our country's prosperity. The War on Drugs will be replaced by a disease treatment- taking the drug trade away from criminals, treating pain, and decreasing corruption. Drug abuse will be treated as it is, a social health issue, and will save the prisons for the violent criminals. Science will be heavily subsidized, as it is the reason why humans can expect to live for almost 80 years in the US, and (as applied knowledge) will be the savior of our land.

Reason and science and knowledge must be the rule of the land. Passion is good but only when put to good uses, not when defending an imaginary line on a map or a sky spirit who made gays and now hates them.

The Golden Rule is the law of the land. Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, Russell, MLK, Einstein, Andre from Outkast- they all have it right- Love not War. Life is too awesome and beautiful and full of potential to squander of petty human issues.

All humans have the right to shelter, food, health care, and clothing.
The rights of the individual trump those of the state, and when everyone pursues their best option (cooperation), everyone profits.

All empires eventually crumble, but we have a chance in this global information age to elevate human society- to leapfrog the current state of FUD (fear uncertainty and doubt) and change it to hopefull optimistic progress. To transcend our base instincts to kill and destroy in order to more imaginatively creative and organize our knowledge and abilities. In the scheme of things, would you rather just be another corrupt empire or catalyze the world's positive change?

The alternatives: rampant global warming, destruction of ecosystems, nuclear winters, genocides, violation of human rights, and extinction of humankind.

Again, the buzzwords are: "Love not War" "Knowledge over ignorance and prejudice" and "Solar Panels On Everything"

 

Everything is Relative

To a quark a proton is a brother. To an proton an atom is a football field. To an atom a rock is the galaxy. To a bacterium living on a boiling ocean thermal vent, Ohio is cold. To an Eskimo living in an Igloo, Ohio is hot. The sun is big to Mercury but small the Milky Way. The Milky Way is big to an ant, but small to the entire universe. Earth is big to a human, but small to the sun. The moon is big to one of its craters but is small relative to the earth. The point of these mental exercises is to stress the relativity of scale and discrimination. As humans we consider the universe from our observing point of view, but we are perceptually limited by our spatial and temporal dimensions. Each scale of the universe is discriminated and described by humans as different, which is logically defensible from our POV, but misses the essence of the universe. The universe is a continual organism engulfing infinite other organisms. Humans are the only known organisms with the ability to conceptualize and symbolically delineate categories, which accounts for our presumptious throne of knowledge. Fact is, we don't even know why we are here, how the universe is organized so, what is the fundamental basis of reality, and how our consciousness arises from the same chemicals present in the ocean.

Individual reason is callous without social ethics, and social ethics is lame without individual reason. An individual's power should derive in his service to social ethics and progress rather than her ability to subjugate his surroundings.

 

Great Links

Babel Fish Translate to and from 15+ languages: http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Chord Dictionary: http://hatbox.lib.virginia.edu/gtrchord/gtrchord/

Urban Dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com

Free Google Email with 2 GB storage: http://gmail.google.com

Free Scholarship Search: http://www.brokescholar.com

Metahistory: http://metahistory.org

Nikola Tesla. The Complete Tesla: http://www.frank.germano.com/nikolatesla.htm

Wealth and Power by Roger J. Wendell: http://www.rogerwendell.com/wealth.html

Virtual Chembook: http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vchembook/549sweet.html

The Rosetta Project: http://www.rosettaproject.org/live

Cost of War: http://costofwar.com/index-world-hunger.html

Take it to Karl: http://takeittokarl.blogspot.com/

Dual Mode Transport: http://www.ruf.dk/ This correlated with Evolving Networked Transport.

Inspiring Stories: http://www.gcforall.org/inspiringstories

Web Of Love: http://www.weboflove.org/

Abundance Center: http://www.abundancecenter.com/

Free Speech Coaltion: http://www.freespeechcoalition.com/

Abandoned: http://www.abandoned.ru/index.php

Partnership for Drug Freedom in America: http://deoxy.org/pdfa/

Cognitive Liberty: http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/map.html

Vote Hemp: http://www.votehemp.com/

World Bank Institute Governance & Anti-Corruption: http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/

Technorati: http://live8.technorati.com/

Universal Electric Vehicle: http://www.universalelectricvehicle.com/spyder.html

The Full Costs of the Car: http://afo.sandelman.ca/cc0.html

OpenCulture: http://www.ethicalpublicdomain.org/index.php/EPD/OpenCulture

Metamath Home Page: http://au.metamath.org/index.html

Cognitive Activism- new ways of knowing- http://www.organelle.org/organelle/index2.html

 

Sobjective Universal Energy = SUE

The known universe is made of energy. Our brains are the most complex organization of energy. Humans are the apex of the lucky intelligence wave of evolution. Nature, the cosmic muse, is benignly indifferent to our drama, but humans need drama to find meaning in their currently brief tale of fury, signifying everything and nothing simultaneously. We are all alone in this together. Our universe is our mind. However, our mind's consciousness allows one to know things outside of your universe (ie, the rest of the the organismal reality over 13.7 billion years old stretching from the moon to the dimmest star.) For 4 billion years after the Earth started, life evolved physically a great deal, shedding many costumes and producing innumerable experiences. But not until humans started to talk, to share their experiences, bioculturally- using shared symbolic language to conceptualize reality, that the universe transcended biology and entered the realm of iconsciousness. Every human has the unique feeling of being there, how unbearably lightly so. Whether that feeling is a collective societal delusional hunch, a holy spiritual soul controlling the physical body, a robotic animal glorified by institutionalized divinity, or all three, is really irregardless. One of the biggest lessons of reality is the infinite nature of our mind. Not many things are mutually exclusive. Everything is here, nothing really goes away, merely transforms. A wise cliche reminds us the only constant in the universe is change, which is the capability of energy, which is the purpose of intelligence- the goal of evolution, the product of love, hope, and frozen light. Our destiny as homo spiritus (not homoeconomus) is to transcend our limits to become goodly and godly powerful to honor the beauty of the universal design. Our mind's are only as limited as the fences we build and chains we tull around.

SUE ME

The universe started 13.7 billion years ago. To our perception, its mass and timespan are almost infinite. Our purpose is clear as intelligent, conscious, spiritual beings. We must use our ingenuity and cooperate to form an integrated social organism playing in concert with our mother, the earth, and our father- Chaos. The world collectively spends 1 trillion dollars on the military, before taxes. The total negative impact of that spending is enormous, as the war industry spawns millions of yearly deaths, rapages, pillages, and annihilation. The United States is using napalm in Iraq, under a different name. Basically they are using flammable polystyrene gel to stick to the skin of all vulnerable while burning it to a crisp. The rhetoric of spreading democracy and freedom by carpet bombing and napalm utilization is ethically bankrupt. The most powerful nation in the history of Earth has buckled to the power of transnational corporations who have corrupted the dream republic of the Founding Fathers into a vampiric parasitic social organism on the earth, one feeding off all of the earth including itself, and in return excreting fear, sanctimony, and

We have solar energy bombarding us every day. The trees realized this long ago, stopped moving, and decided to provide oxygen for us destructive, impatient, and emotional animals. A tree does not have feelings, it has no central nervous system, but it feels destruction. It just has no mainframe to register sensory suffering, cannot conceptualize suffering, has no symbolic memory or language from which to comment on the suffering. Most of humans social existence consists of a social bluff to maintain barriers of control and power. The trees realized the error of our flimsy language and dedicated themselves to cleaning our air of waste products, efficiently transforming CO2 into O2 in their photosynergistic existence. They take energy from the sun and water from the earth, and use it to shuttle electrons to transform CO2 into glucose and oxygen.

The earth is a living organism, which has spawned a self-aware species. We are the verge of becoming a technological singularity with ubuiquitous integrated networking, exponentially increasing intelligence, and the emergent properties of artificial intelligence. Humans have been engineered by nature for 3.7 billion years, since the first organisms came into being. Since the first bacterium engulfed an energety producing cell and enslaved it for its purpose. Since the bacteria enjoined with flagella to propel them along their way, which since evolved into human limbs as their nucleus expanded into our nervous system, to coordinate the cooperating and feedbacked information-based energetic systems comprising all of life and by extension the universe. The borders between life and death fade with the abillity of artificial hibernation, artificial intelligence, human-like robots, conscious machines, conquering of the biological aging process, and the attainment of physical immortality in technology and flesh-based humans.

We have enough kinemotion-kinenergy to produce kinelectricity for all of our society's needs, and then some. Let's survey a few options. We have solar photons bathing the earth at the speed of light, little packets of energy, little dollar bills falling from the sky. Why aren't we putting up a net? We do we still insist on combusting the earth's brown coaly and oily shit for power. When we burn the oil/coal for power, it boils water, which produces steam, which turns a turbine, whose rotors use the principle of magnetic induction to produce electric current. Wind blowing at least 100 mph in the atmosphere would do a much much better job of turning those turbines. Yet why don't we use the Mojave desert to electrically power all of the United States. Using its 25,500 square miles and declare it off limits to commercial airflight, and set up a solar wind dome (I call it a swome.) reaching up to 50,000 feat high, and 15 miles long. It would have one billion turbines, the rotors comprised of aerogel covered with a polymer matrix and an electromagnets for multiple magnetic inductions. All available surfaces would be covered with a hygroscopic water collector and solar philm, so it would harvest the photonic energy from the sun, and the available water vapor in air, all while providing massive currents from the high velocity winds in the upper atmosphere.

Because when you think about it, life doesn't change much. Only our actions and thoughts do. What strains one's mind today is tomorrow's common sense. All those loygers who derive their power by witnessing misery and deprivation in others must be exposed for their treachery against our godly designed universe. When you hurt another, you literally cause the universe pain. When you serve another, you are getting the universe drunk on euphoria. When the eternal battle between the forces of good and evil square off, know that both shall feel righteous, and both shall have a smile on their face. The only way to discern the difference is the product of one's labors, not the veracity of one's beliefs. Evil Beliefs could assure MAD for all of humanity through a Damoclean disaster through nuclear warfare. Good Beliefs could also save the world from war, hate, fear, destruction, hunger, and want. When it comes time to make the choice between war and peace, hate and love, knowledge and ignorance, progress and retardation, happiness and depression, repression and inspiration, competition and cooperation- please choose wisely. The time will soon be at hand- the forces of elite society repressing the lower classes shall be exposed by a weapon of their own forgery- the Internet, which shall free information and integrate a more just society with the help of the gold of humanity- those who are equipped with reason and compassion.

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