February 2012
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Who Are The Oppressors?
The oppressors are those who want to control and manipulate the coercive powers of State, those who want to game the rules, change the playing board in which the game is played for their financial well-being, often at the expense of the citizen.
The oppressors are those who seek power solely for the sake of power, those who wish to legislate their own twisted version of morality on the rest of us...
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A Decree
We all share a common fate, and that is death, so while we are here, for this brief cosmic interlude which we perceive as our lives, let us act upon our higher human faculties to make this suffering which we know on the material plane less of a burden amongst fellow man. We can act as medicine for each other.
Our petty differences and boundaries exacerbated by nationalism, ethnocentrism, racism,...
August 2011
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Max-Neef's principles for economics "which should...
AMY GOODMAN: And if you’re teaching young economists, the principles you would teach them, what they’d be?
MANFRED MAX-NEEF: The principles, you know, of an economics which should be are based in five postulates and one fundamental value principle.
One, the economy is to serve the people and not the people to serve the economy.
Two, development is about people and not about objects.
Three,...
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“We watched the tragedy unfold
We did as we were told
We bought and sold
It...”
– Roger Waters :: Amused to Death :: 1992
July 2011
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“The crucified planet Earth,
should it find a voice
and a sense of irony,...”
– Kurt Vonnegut :: A Man Without a Country :: 2005
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“Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete...”
– Douglas Hofstadter :: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid :: 1979
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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...”
– Robert Heinlein :: Time Enough for Love :: 1973
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“The [people] are the primary units of the actual community, and the community is...”
– Alfred North Whitehead :: Lecture: Body and Spirit :: 1926
June 2011
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“It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of...”
– Charles Darwin :: Origin of Species :: 1872
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“Each one of us is potentially Mind at Large. But in so far as we are animals,...”
– The Doors of Perception, by Aldous Huxley 1954
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“…our 21st-century global computing platform is still running a...”
– George Dyson
May 2011
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“There is an almost sensual longing for communion with others who have a larger...”
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Starting Over →
“If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? ….
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“I think that we are at a crossing in the roads of history, history in the grand...”
– Cornelius Castoriadis
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“To admit that we are matter and mechanism is to ground our selves in the...”
– Chet Raymo from Skeptics and True Believers
April 2011
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“It is at least not impossible to regard the earth’s parts—soil, mountains,...”
– Stephan Harding in Animate Earth
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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor...”
– Frederick Douglass, 1857
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“…everbody thinks that compassion is important, and everyone has...”
– Lectures on Kamalashila’s ‘Stages of Meditation in the Middle Way School
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“Those who chase the glittering rainbows of the consumer society, who buy into...”
– Chris Hedges
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A Brief Histofuture of Human
Humans are created from data
Humans create data (verbal, then written) in order to try and explain the data they came from through contextualization and story
Verbal/written data accumulates upon other verbal/written data, forming an exponential increase in knowledge
An exponential increase in knowledge eventually leads to the advent of technology, which more efficiently analyzes data
An...
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“Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would...”
– Erich Fromm - Ch. 5 “Man in Capitalistic Society” Sect. C.2.b “Alienation”
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Johns Hopkins psilocybin study volunteer comments
From the study: Mystical-type experiences occasioned by psilocybin mediate the attribution of personal meaning and spiritual significance 14 months later
The following are:
Verbatim written comments about the nature of the spiritual experience for all 24 volunteers who rated the experience at the 14-month follow-up as being among the top five (including the single most) spiritual experiences of...
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“We, the current citizens of the United States, have all been raised to embrace...”
– Bruce Fein’s book “American Empire Before the Fall”
March 2011
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Modernity & Boundary
This is part II of the continuing series (see my first post, Breakthrough - A Short Story) where He ponders boundary, the ages, and what is possible.
Modernity and Boundary
He reflected upon painting with words, and thought he would continue, as it was good for him to finally put things on paper and out of his mind, he would share things this way. He decided to be Prometheus, but to wear oven...
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“I want to live in a world where people no longer have to be slaves to a system...”
– Type_One_
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“That the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil can shape the weather in...”
– Rebecca Solnit
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Breakthrough - A Short Story
This is going to be one of many short stories which compose a larger work, tentatively called “The Chronicles of He.” This is the first one called “Breakthrough,” and is about His awakening to the World. Through the larger work I hope to explore the universally resonant issues of being.
Commencement
And then the thought flashed through his mind, became almost an...
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“The Technological Program, culminating in the complete elimination of suffering...”
– Excerpt from Charles Eisenstein’s book ‘The Ascent of Humanity’
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“The way you teach it, America started from some ships that came to Massachusetts...”
– ‘Dan,’ the Indian Elder from Kent Nerburn’s book, “Neither Wolf nor Dog”
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“To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of...”
– Derrick Jensen, Endgame
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“We may have intellectual understanding of our interconnectedness, but our...”
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“Because machines could be made progressively more and more efficient, Western...”
– Aldous Huxley’s Introduction to the Bhagavad-Gita
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Aluna The Movie →
ALUNA is being made by and with the KOGI, a genuine lost civilization hidden on an isolated triangular pyramid mountain in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, nearly five miles high, on the Colombian-Caribbean coast. The Kogi say that without thought, nothing could exist. This is a problem, because we are not just plundering the world, we are dumbing it down, destroying both the physical...
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“The modern corporation is neither male nor female, doesn’t breathe or eat, can’t...”
– Thom Hartmann
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Do we create the world just by looking at it? →
As Einstein prosaically inquired once of a walking companion, “Do you really believe that the moon exists only when you look at it?”
Some physicists still find quantum mechanics unpalatable, if not unbelievable, because of what it implies about the world beyond our senses. The theory’s mathematics is simple enough to be taught to undergraduates, but the physical implications of that...
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Ken Kesey, The Art of Fiction No. 136 Interviewed... →
At the center of Kesey’s work are what he calls “little warriors” battling large forces. Over the years, some critics have praised his work for its maverick power and themes of defiance; others have questioned his wild and paranoid vision. He has been dubbed a renegade prophet, a subversive technophile, a spiritual junkie—characterizations that Kesey does little to discourage.
He lives in a...
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“Well I sometimes call myself a libertarian but that’s only because most...”
– Robert Anton Wilson
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A World Split Apart - by Alexander Solzhenitsyn →
The split in today’s world is perceptible even to a hasty glance. Any of our contemporaries readily identifies two world powers, each of them already capable of entirely destroying the other. However, understanding of the split often is limited to this political conception, to the illusion that danger may be abolished through successful diplomatic negotiations or by achieving a balance of...
February 2011
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“I’m continually stunned by how many seemingly sane people believe you can have...”
– Derrick Jensen
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“WHO is the happy Warrior? Who is he
That every man in arms should...”
– Character of the Happy Warrior
William Wordsworth, 1888
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“It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and...”
– John Steinbeck
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Watch
We can override our sensory input by a voluntary process, thought overrides external realities. This is not theory, this is science
Daily life continually confronts us with an exuberance of external, sensory stimuli competing with a rich stream of internal deliberations, plans and ruminations. The brain must select one or more of these for further processing. How this competition is resolved...
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A Winter Poem
Bluegrey light melds into The material forms in this room The chill outside permeates my Window into my soul This is how death must look This is how death must feel Bluegrey cold, bluegrey cold
A sip of coffee to bring back A sense of warmth, I have To try and feel Something warm, Something warm
Snow compressed underneath Transmuting all together into ice I continue through Through another...