New Moon Ashes

What You feel in Your Heart
I tend to follow my heart, and my gut.

So far it has left me alone and abandoned, and in some cases exploited.

Starting to question whether or not this will ever pay off.
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06-10-2013, 04:22 AM (This post was last modified: 06-10-2013 04:23 AM by Fixed Cross.) Post: #2
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RE: What You feel in Your Heart
I know how that is.
In fact the only times where I made lasting progress that I still feel, solid as rock, is when I let my mind play around with what my gut and heart were driving towards, and create something higher from it.

It’s not either the heart or the mind, it’s the mind designing to secure what the heart wants, by applying it in intelligent and creative ways.

This is also the key to tantra. Let the energies rise, and then as they are in full force, begin to shape them in sophisticated, functional patterns.
The only problem is that this requires patience and concentration. And that’s not always easy when there are gut-energies at stake.
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RE: What You feel in Your Heart
No, it’s not always easy, but what you said helped.

Thanks.
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Bitcoins/Litecoins/NMC/PPA
It’s looking like these will end up being gold/silver/copper/whatever

Currently Bitcoin is trading at ~150 USD
Litecoin and NMC/PPS are yet to really stabalize, but are around 3.5 and 0.01 respectively.

I have heard rumors that it’s being intentionally popularized and bloated by the government so they can crash it and destroy any momentum is has going.

It crashed in 2011 and came back, though. So I am wanting to say that the cryptocurrency is here to stay.
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04-06-2013, 12:12 PM (This post was last modified: 04-07-2013 08:40 PM by Q.) Post: #2
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We could start a NWO fund and ride this wave if anyone has any extra cash. I plan to jump into Lite and NMC as soon as I can figure out to get my Canadian dollars into this thing. It’s… hard. Lately all the banks are cutting ties to any money exchangers that you could use to buy up CryptoCoins.

The war has started.
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I fucking sat and watched this way back when, and didn’t think so myself, “I should throw $300 into this thing.”

Literally 2 years before that I had my computer ready to actually mine but then I sort of was like “fuck this.”

Things could been different, boys and girls. But then again, ain’t nobody got time for the shoulda coulda wouldas.
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04-06-2013, 08:12 PM (This post was last modified: 04-06-2013 09:30 PM by BigTom.) Post: #4
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I’ve gotta be honest, I only know about bitcoin and I am deeply, deeply suspicious. For one thing, no one has been able to give me a simple answer to how it works. It seems they’ve invented a whole load of terms that mean something in the bitcoin world but are meaningless to anyone who isn’t using them. This smacks of a tree house kind of mentality, to me.

Second, how is it that there is a limited supply of them? I appreciate that having a limited supply creates a kind of built in deflation so as an investment they may (just may) make sense. But it means they are rubbish as an everyday transactional tool. Who limits the supply, and what happens if someone goes over the total designated number? How is forgery combated and thus the limit enforced? Given that most of the people using bitcoins don’t even understand it well enough to explain it to a non-user that’s a worry.

Third, it seems the only way you can use a bitcoin in the real world to buy something is either off another bitcoin user (which the limited supply means is very limited in number) or by cashing them out into dollars or pounds or Euros or whatnot. Thus, they haven’t really subverted anything, they are just a kind of digital tag along to real money.

Fourth, given that one of the obvious aims of the centralised banking and financial structure is a cashless society, this all strikes me as pre-conditioning.

Fifth, the recent spike in bitcoin prices has made the mainstream news. That doesn’t happen unless it has been done deliberately. You think the mainstream news talks about an alternative currency in a positive light without it having been co-opted? I remember just before the spike that several of my online friends who previously didn’t seem to know about Bitcoin were suddenly embracing it like it was the new sliced bread. Do you think that happens without a buzz (and thus a bubble) being deliberately generated? Now that the prices has gone up that makes bitcoin owners feel like they are smart, part of an elite who gets what’s going on, when of course they aren’t any fucking richer than they were yesterday. They can’t use those bitcoins to buy food or pay their electricity bill. They are being put in the exact same position as all those traders in the City and on Wall Street who thought at the top of the bubble that they were the kings of the world. If a big crash does happen (rather than a gradual managed decline) then those bits of encrypted code aren’t going to be worth anything.

All that said, I am not opposed to investing in a different digital currency if you wanted to pool a few bucks and take a punt. If nothing else it would be an interesting experiment.

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I have heard rumors that it’s being intentionally popularized and bloated by the government so they can crash it and destroy any momentum is has going.

I’m definitely suspicious too. I mean… it was on the Good Wife.

However, the answers to your questions as to how cryptocurrency works are out there. It’s basically just an algorithm that releases bits in relation to the number of people solving the problems. So if more people mine, the “difficulty” goes up.
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04-06-2013, 09:29 PM Post: #6
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That seems to me like a reckless faith in what’s basically a made-up bunch of symbols with no inherent value.

And they are asking me to trade real things for this? In relative terms, I can see how the paper money that’s accepted everywhere for everything even with its built-in inflation is more attractive to a lot of people. But I suppose it’s about exploring what’s possible.
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Well, an algorithm is hardly a bunch of made-up symbols to any extent beyond any other linguistic or logistic formation.
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04-07-2013, 01:33 AM Post: #8
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And if I were backing my entire currency with syllogisms then I’d expect the same resistance.
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04-07-2013, 06:14 AM Post: #9
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BigTom, is paper money really any more made up? Using your criteria for calling the bitcoins made up bs, what saves paper moneyz?
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04-07-2013, 06:24 AM Post: #10
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RE: Bitcoins/Litecoins/NWA
The physical backbone is the mining structures. It scales with technology as it advances.

Where this differs from what I would expect TPTB would want in a world currency, is everyone can mine if they want to and feel like it.

The Russians have these big rigs. So do hacking groups. There is a certain open lawlessness here that many people, myself included, seem to like in comparison to the current alternative.

They might have seeded it; we might have thought it up.

Apparently the head crypto is very mysterious. Often/sometimes people get into that field to avoid b&, but also the people in that field are sometimes the ones comiting the acts that the viewers need to encrypt. That is, that dark ritual stuff overlap between the government, corporation, and elite occult - the sex slavery ring I’m not saying this guy is anything other than the inventor, just that the whole encryption field is ostensibly a little bit shady so that is something to consider.
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RE: Bitcoins/Litecoins/NWA
Of course, obviously he would want to hide his identity, so I might be over thinking this.

The question is this: now that it is out in the open, can it be made viable by -us-? I mean, even if they gave it to us that doesn’t mean we can guerrilla warfare this thing.

When I go on these boards it’s like the Wild West, as I said. Shit is happening right now. This is a moment of flux. We should pay attention. I have to go to my parent’s house today, I plan to do some more research into investing. Stay tuned.
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04-07-2013, 06:59 PM Post: #12
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(04-07-2013 06:14 AM)pezer Wrote:
BigTom, is paper money really any more made up? Using your criteria for calling the bitcoins made up bs, what saves paper moneyz?

The fact that everyone, everywhere, accepts it in exchange for things. That’s what gives it value.
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That wasn’t the criteria you used to dismiss bitcoins.
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Bitcoin will be the biggest transfer of wealth in human history and it’s all going to the most technologically advanced, visionary thinking and intelligent demographic. Just think of what they will do. It wasn’t about connections, nepotism or being born to the right family, it was about seeing what others couldn’t and being technologically advanced enough to participate. This is history in the making.
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No advantages over dollars.
You mean besides the fact that you can send money to anyone in the world, immediately, without an intermediary that stipulates whether you may or may not do so? One of the reasons people have problems exchanging Dollars for Bitcoins highlights this fact: Payment processors like Paypal and Google Checkout have terms of service dictating what you’re allowed to buy. Bitcoins are not on the list. If anything you should be pushing for a currency that cuts out a middleman like that for your own sake, since those same payment processors present you with restrictions that are unneeded.
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I’ve been trading currencies of all kinds as a hobby for over seven years. You want some free advice, /g/? Stay FAR away from BTC right now, either as accepted payment or a currency to hold. I’m actually trying to weigh some short options on this. When the currency implodes, and it will very soon, the fallout is going to be EPIC. If you haven’t sold your holdings, now is the time if you haven’t done so already. The first leg down is going to move very fast.

This time next year, you’ll be able to buy BTC for pennies on the dollar. Those of you who know how markets work probably know what I’m talking about already.
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That’s what people have been saying for YEARS. It has only appreciated in value since then. There have been a few crashes, but if you didn’t panic you would have gotten your money back with massive interest every single time.
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I DON’T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK TO DO
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Other than build a fucking time machine so I can go back and put some money on the cubbies.

Some of these stories are making me sick to my stomach.
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04-08-2013, 12:06 AM Post: #20
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(04-07-2013 07:32 PM)pezer Wrote:
That wasn’t the criteria you used to dismiss bitcoins.

I didn’t dismiss them. I expressed suspicion.

(04-06-2013 09:29 PM)BigTom Wrote:
That seems to me like a reckless faith in what’s basically a made-up bunch of symbols with no inherent value.

And they are asking me to trade real things for this? In relative terms, I can see how the paper money that’s accepted everywhere for everything even with its built-in inflation is more attractive to a lot of people. But I suppose it’s about exploring what’s possible.

See, when it’s a choice between a currency backed by symbols with no inherent value, and a currency backed by nothing but accepted everywhere, the fact of it being accepted gives it a provisional value that is worth more than the provisional value of bitcoin. If you don’t believe me then feel free to trade all your ‘worthless’ paper money for bitcoins, see how far you get.

If you make it work and prove me wrong then I’ll be the first to admit it.
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Other than build a fucking time machine so I can go back and put some money on the cubbies.

Some of these stories are making me sick to my stomach.
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RE: Bitcoins/Litecoins/NMC/PPA
You’re turning I to a bit of a Corbet zealot.

This same thing happened in 2011 and Bitcoin bounced back. One of the wallets being hacked at this point is an inevitability that has now transpired. Moving forward the right amount of security will be present.

Bitcoins have many flaws that Litecoins don’t. It may not prevail as the leader.

Anyway, none of this has to do with goin back and putting some money on the cubbies. Whether or not this is a viable longterm currency is irrelevant to making money.
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m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=ADXs2C4Vm…DXs2C4Vmho

Look at all that syntactical garbage. Fuckin mobile. And I can’t embed on my phone. Blep.

Anyway, this the cubbies thing I keep referencing. Great movie. Probably seen it like 50 times with my sister.
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04-08-2013, 03:07 AM (This post was last modified: 04-08-2013 03:09 AM by Q.) Post: #24
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Remember the dot.com bubble? How money was simply up for grabs? It’s like that. I need to throw $50 into this just in case before Wednesday. If I lose it I at least won’t be kicking myself for not trying.
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K I’ve watched the Corbet thing twice:

All he really says is two sites have been hacked. It’s been more than two, but in a Wild West scenario that is going to happen. Without question. And like I said it will drive security to the levels it should be at.

Instead of suggesting caution but interest, Corbet is just taking the same old conspiracy stance of not really saying anything and injecting fear of ‘the master plan’ into the dialogue.

I’m kinda tired of it. For a guy who has been ‘following this since 2011’ he seems to have little to no knowledge of the technical side of it.

You could be right that this will not last, but seriously. What a completely useless report.
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(04-08-2013 02:18 AM)Q Wrote:
You’re turning I to a bit of a Corbet zealot.

This same thing happened in 2011 and Bitcoin bounced back. One of the wallets being hacked at this point is an inevitability that has now transpired. Moving forward the right amount of security will be present.

Bitcoins have many flaws that Litecoins don’t. It may not prevail as the leader.

Anyway, none of this has to do with goin back and putting some money on the cubbies. Whether or not this is a viable longterm currency is irrelevant to making money.
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K I’ve watched the Corbet thing twice:

All he really says is two sites have been hacked. It’s been more than two, but in a Wild West scenario that is going to happen. Without question. And like I said it will drive security to the levels it should be at.

Instead of suggesting caution but interest, Corbet is just taking the same old conspiracy stance of not really saying anything and injecting fear of ‘the master plan’ into the dialogue.

I’m kinda tired of it. For a guy who has been ‘following this since 2011’ he seems to have little to no knowledge of the technical side of it.

You could be right that this will not last, but seriously. What a completely useless report.

I hate to break this to you but that isn’t Corbett, it’s some guy on youtube who buys and sells silver.

Nonetheless, I accept that the report is extremely biased, I wasn’t posting it because I found it particularly credible, more because it kinda fitted with one of your comments. Clearly the guy’s agenda is to shit on bitcoin, but he does raise the perfectly fair point that bitcoin has no real answer to this. It’s like watching a brand new anarchistic society realise that getting rid of government doesn’t mean people won’t get raped.

That said, I am not opposed to people buying bitcoins or similar, I’m just saying that there’s a long way to go from bitcoin to a proper monetary revolution.
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The thing about the order from chaos thing is that once the chaos stage begins, anything can happen. We’ll have to watch this carefully this week.

Lol that is funny I totally thought that was Corbet. My bad.
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Damn dude, I am getting infected with your bitcoin desire. I’ll see what I can do.
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THE CUBBIES!
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Mining either LTC or NMC starting tomorrow. Gonna try to buy some if I can sort out this bank shit in Canada.
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Right, it’s almost perfect. What we need is an algorithm that can produce an unlimited amount of bitcoins, yet which complexity would regulate the flow by the same peer-to-peer logic.
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Bitcoin is one part of this thread.
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Interesting, yes… It’s much more than a currency, it’s a system of currency.
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You nailed it.
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And, to finally answer BigTom’s question, the final unit of value is hardware.
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Money is weird.
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A friend of mine who invests in bitcoin showed me that bitcoin’s own data indicates that there were periods of extremely high buying and selling immediately prior to the major fluctuations in recent days.

Naked short selling isn’t really possible with bitcoin so they are having to do it the old-fashioned way. I say don’t put any money on the Cubbies that you can’t afford to lose. But then, I don’t bet on sports even when I know I’m going to get the result right. That’s because I’m sometimes horribly wrong, like when I predicted Alonso would win this year’s Malaysian Grand Prix.
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Gambling is only for those that can be masochistic if needed, true enough. Anyway, don-t bet more than you can afford to loose is good advice for this and any new gambling enterprise.
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Thanks guys.
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How bout stopping eating when I’m full up?

RE: Bitcoins/Litecoins/NMC/PPA
So how are you getting along? Has your algorithmic prospecting resulted in a stack of digital coins that are worth more in fiat currency than they were this morning?

I don’t mean that question anywhere near as cynically and sarcastically as it probably comes across. I’m genuinely interested.
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RE: Bitcoins/Litecoins/NMC/PPA
No. It’s like impossible to get any money online in Canada. There is one bank that allows it, and the friend I have with that bank is in Vegas.

The bitcoin stuff is likely done. It might go a bit higher. I am just watching Litecoins. It’ll prob go from 5 where it’s at now to 25-50. I’m gonna throw some money on there when I can.

I consider the psychedelic experience one of the most occult subjects that exists. Basically what the West has in the way of well-known shamanism even remotely broaching the academic/intellectual sphere is Carlos Castaneda, and Terrence McKenna.

Somewhere, many of the Egyptian Mystery School occult ‘sciences’ are written down, and can be used (imo) to shape reality to the will of the user. I mean that’s really what most of that stuff seems to be about. When you read seminal people like Crowley, Regardie, it’s clear it’s all about intention. Even people who diverge from classical occult systems - like Gurdieff - still stress the immense importance of intention and willpower. … and then transformation occurs.

When it comes to the dealing of and dialogue with the ‘entities’ found in the mushroom and DMT experience, it is entirely different. As someone who has gone deep enough into this world, and someone who has read and listened to a lot of Mckenna, I can confidently state that intention has less to do with what is going on. It is a primarily a process of gnosis. A ‘download’ if you will, from a consciousness that is old, powerful, and not really of this reality. In fact, the intention part of all this is basically just an initial offering. “Hey, I would like to experience [this].” Then away you go. … and then the transformation occurs.

Just to put the above into perspective: psilocybin is one molecule from being DMT. In high doses, it effectively is DMT, and as most of us (should know at this point), DMT is released in large doses when we dream, meditate, and when we die. In fact, it’s the catalyst for dreaming. Put in my own words, it’s the master key for the dimensional doorway.

This is one of those areas where we know, publically, next to nothing. I know the government has played around with joint dreaming and basically Inception type stuff. So obviously that would include (oral) DMT, shrooms, and I would imagine every other drug as well. That DMT is a schedule 1 drug that could land you in federal prison - something found in the human body and almost all plants - then it might give an indication as to what they found, and why they don’t want us playing around with it.

Have you ever had a hardcore hallucinogenic experience? What is your take on it?

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MCKENNA’s Evolution

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McKenna proposes an interesting theory:

[flash(0,0)]http://www.youtube.com/v/LFQh4jhQFWc[/flash]

Basically he cites a study where infants are successfully taught sign language before they are successfully taught to talk. For him, this points to language being much more ingrained in our DNA at the level of body movements and basic grunts - not unlike apes and chimps.

In actuality, ‘speech’ is only about 35,000-45,000 years old. Fucking fire is 6x as old as talking is. McKenna makes a very Wittgensteinian distinction between the syntactical representation of nature itself - after all, DNA is basically a language - and ‘speech.’ For him it’s a technology. An invention. But who developed this tool? Or more importantly, how did we move from pointing to symbols and and emoting through gestures to using phonetics to do the same thing through representation.

The answer is drugs obviously:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

He thinks that mushroom imparted the ability in someone to basically spasm out a sound for a gesture while tripping. Synesthesia of language.

Now, this sounds pretty out there, and McKenna himself admitted freely they a lot of them were simply entertainments. However, let’s continue. It gets better.

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EVIDENCE

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All right so time for some evidence.

[vyoutube]KsZbxRzWYLc[/youtube]

What he’s saying here is simple: the great embarrassment for evolutionary theory is the human neocortex. It is the most dramatic transformation of an organ of a mammal in the entire fossil record, so since the human neocortex is the organ that thought up the theory of evolution, it has to account for this its own rapid emergence in the human evolution. In about 2 million we went from being higher primates… to humans. That is a very short window of time in the evolutionary context - what the hell happened? At this point the earth was already extremely old. Life was everywhere, but the fire of intelligence had not found the conditions to spark - what the hell happened?

He thinks it’s shrooms. A group of humans wandered into a pack of shrooms, started using them, and basically profited from it.

Shrooms in low doses actually greatly enhance, for example, eyesight, and could theoretically cause a pack to become much better hunters. More in tune with the land. etc. The type of dose you might get just nibbling on forage. Chemical binoculars.

Shrooms in higher doses causes arousal. Chemical outbreeding of non-shroom users in the same area.

Shrooms in the highest doses nail you to the ground in hallucinagenic ecstasy. As we explored above, this can lead to spontaneous bursts of vocalized ‘internal’ syntax. Chemical Glossolalia

And boom… the neocortex, and humanity as we know it, is born.

This seems like a longer version.

[flash(0,0)]http://www.youtube.com/v/bjxkgseWeyo[/flash]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjxkgseWeyo[/youtube]

A bit of background. Sheldrake is the guy who philosophized about morphogenic fields. I don’t feel like explaining that again, so just google him and that. Not sure who Ralph Abraham is.

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HEFTER.ORG

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RE: Psychdelic Drugs
What McKenna says about DNA is extremely interesting…
Symbolic representation is perhaps a requirement for reproduction -
in other words, life = language…

I can see that. It explains the rapid nature of evolution quite well -
as all mutations would already carry ‘meaning’ on a symbolic level, even if randomly arranged, the arranging-tools are not random

That in turn explains why art, as the use of an instrument, is so quickly more real, more alive, than ‘prosaic’ life.
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I want to try shrooms someday but I don’t know any drug dealers. Not a single one.

The main reason why I want to try it is to see one of my spiritual specie. They come in many forms, but I wish I could fully physically see one.

I think if we could fully disable the filter that is on our mind, temporarily, it would expand our consciousness so much.
I wish psychadelics were all legal.

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RE: Hermeticism
I hadn’t listened to this video before. It’s really good. It’s just T-Ken talking at some… talk he gave. I don’t know many people I’ve listened to who are more well-read. It’s like any book or subject is a breeze for him. Oh T-Ken. He’s missed.
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30 minutes… that’s a great talk so far.
The book he talks about where I was just at.

" Modern science is an incredibly demonic enterprise. "
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“He could cast the best Horoscope of Europe.” -

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dee

An angel dictates political advice in reversed latin.
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" Alcibiades was arrested for possession and distribution of the Eleusinian mysteries. "
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Yeah I listened to the whole thing, as I assume you did.

Fuck I wish he was still alive. He’s such a treasure trove of knowledge. It’s just him droning on - only audio - and I was just sitting there staring at the screen captivated.

That reversed latin thing was a nice tidbit of information. I want a Whey Stone…
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I understand hermeticism as a mix of many old forms of knowledge and magic.
I am not as well versed as I’d like to be. I’m mainly focused on the mental and astral plane, and on my inner reality. I have limited download amounts on my present internet plan, so I can’t check out a 4 hour video. One of my old friends spent allot of time reading about magic and occult things. But I lost contact with him.

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Proximity Ethics
I am looking for theories of proximity ethics for a new article I’m writing.

I remember in one of my ethics classes there was a scenario:

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A person is walking by a river, late for some important thing, and they see a stranger drowning in a river. Do they save them? If they could simply pay a couple dollars to save them, would they do it right then and there?

I figure, like in my ethics class, we could at least look at different approaches to this issue. It seems pretty straightforward, but the issue becomes expansive.

This is one that is pertinent in today’s interconnected, but still starving world. Part of the reason why more people don’t give in strategic ways is because the ethical problem is mostly undefined, and only through illumination of the issue, can a strategy be formed.

But if anyone knows of any specific academic resources for proximity ethics that is what I am looking for primarily.
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A person is walking by a river, late for some important thing, and they see a stranger drowning in a river. Do they save them? If they could simply pay a couple dollars to save them, would they do it right then and there?

I was hoping someone else would start a discussion on this, because I found it interesting, but to me it seems mostly straight-forward. If I’m supposed to be the “a person” when considering this, then yes. I’d try to save someone if I saw them drowning. I’d pay a couple of dollars to save them as well. If someone was standing there saying, “Well, you can go save them yourself or pay me a couple of dollars to do it for you” I’d probably pay a couple of dollars.
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RE: Proximity Ethics
I probably would to, and I think most people, because you’re close to another human being and it’s just an instinctual thing.

However, say you were walking by a television set that showed you a person that would otherwise die in some other country.

I guess basically what I’m trying to explore is the disconnect between an interconnected global culture, but a lack of interconnected global ethics.

Or do we want that?
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Well along with the disconnect is a matter of trust.

Of course it’s easier to walk away from a situation that you see on television than it is to walk away from something that is happening before your very eyes. I’m sure we could have an entire conversation about that, but anyway yeah, that’s the basic disconnect - it’s not reality if it’s not happening in front of me. In my opinion, this is mostly a comfort/survival thing. I’m sure you’ve experienced what happens when you spend too much time thinking about all of the horrible stuff going on in the world. I kind of talked about that over on ILP, when talking about politics and the recent election, and the hopeless feeling I get when I think about how screwed we really are. I can’t be productive in my daily life with that kind of mindset. I have to block it out the majority of the time, otherwise I’d end up feeling hopeless about everything and I’d probably become a nihilist and end up committing suicide. It’s a matter of practicality - turning a blind eye to horrors in the world allows them to continue, but there’s still the matter of having our own day-to-day lives, our own little dramas and troubles that we have to deal with.

But about the trust thing, I don’t know if this happens to you, but when I see those commercials for organizations that are trying to get people to donate money to help put some starving child in Africa into clothes, feed them, and get them an education, I’m always wary. How much of my money is actually going to help these children? My mom and I once decided to sponsor a little boy in Africa. We were at what basically amounted to a teen-oriented revival for our church, and there was some organization that had an entire set-up there and they were roping people in left and right. We gave a bunch of money, and were supposed to get further information, along with pictures of the child we were sponsoring and letters from him, but we never heard anything again. I think that’s probably an issue for more people than just myself. I mean, how much proof do we actually have that the money we give is doing what we intend it to do?

In your scenario the expectation is that you would see the result of your money immediately, at least that’s how I read it, so I don’t know if “drowning” is the best example, but I suppose that’s neither here nor there.
btw ^^ all of that makes me feel stupid.
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Well I’m just trying to get at, fundamentally, the nature in which we decide that a stranger we don’t know needs help over a stranger we don’t know, who lives further away.

You’re right: a lot of those supposed charities are scams, but I’m just talking hypothetically. If it was guaranteed, many people still wouldn’t do it.

I’m kind of perturbed over the responses my Slave Labor App article received at ILP (and hence why I left for good). I kind of just assumed that people had reached the point where they were looking for ways to actively help the world, but many pages later all that’s been revealed is that people are largely looking for excuses not to. Are these excuses justified?

I guess I just want to explore the issue. Am I being overly idealistic here? Is Kristwest right that we should leave these people to govern themselves? Does that stand at odds with the globalizing nature of the world?

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I’m sure you’ve experienced what happens when you spend too much time thinking about all of the horrible stuff going on in the world.

I am one of the most sensitive people I know. For a while this used to weigh on me and threatened to drive me insane. I don’t really have an answer, but the one I do have is found in instances just like the above.

Whenever I get depressed I tell myself that I’m still pretty much one of the luckiest people to live in the upper 5% of wealth on the planet. I worked in a factory type environment once. It was fucking INSANE. I cannot even put into words how much I hated it. Always working. No breaks ever. All this illegal stuff that you can’t complain about because you never stop working. I was only there for like 5 or 6 months or something and It’s almost like it’s scarred me for life. When I think about it now I like… shudder. And that was nothing compared to this.

Waxing philosophical on a forum is super easy. We really should try and have thicker skin. Me, you, everyone here. There are people in the world who deserve it.
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RE: Proximity Ethics
I didn’t read the thread on ILP, and maybe I should do that.

What was Kris talking about, leaving people to govern themselves?

I have more thoughts on this, but I want to get them in order, and maybe also check out that thread on ILP. I’ll get back.
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Her view was basically just excuses as to why she shouldn’t have to act differently.
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I’ve read part of that thread. It turned into a bunch of bickering fairly early on, so I lost interest.

I do have some things to say, though. I just don’t have time while I’m at work, but I’ll get on it tonight.
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Okay so I read more of the ILP thread, I read your article, and I read the links in your article.

I remember once getting into an argument with you because you were trying to spread awareness about some issue or another, and I demanded that you come up with some kind of working plan, or stfu. I do still see the value in that, but I think I have a more clear idea now of just how ignorant people really are, and that educating them is a battle in and of itself. Then, of course, you have to keep their attention, which I think is what “proximity ethics” is really all about. How do you stop people from turning the channel mentally, how do you motivate them to do something about the issue.

In your article, you brought up social media and how this can be used to both spread awareness and effect change. I thought it was an excellent point. We see examples of what the internet can do every day, how it can bring us together, on a large scale, to focus on a common goal. Computers are changing the world, and I feel that, if the internet can remain in the hands of the people, there is a chance that more good will be done than bad, in the long run.

As for Kriswest’s argument that people need to stand up for themselves and we would somehow be doing them a disservice to speak out and try to change things, I’m a little bit conflicted. I agree with her, but I don’t think everything is quite that cut and dried. There are times when it is appropriate to…well, to ditch someone. To let them suffer with the consequences of their actions, to let them learn a lesson from their circumstances. However, I don’t think it’s quite right to let a downtrodden and desperate person drown in the shit while you kindly step over them. I also saw a lot of clouding the issue by pointing to the “bigger picture” in the responses in the ILP thread, and that bothers me. I tend to look at the world fairly practically, which is why the argument I mentioned before happened between you and I. If there’s a problem, the practical thing to do is find a solution, not sit around waxing philosophical about whether or not the self-sufficient tribes in the Amazon are more or less disadvantaged than the exploited Cambodian garment workers.
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See, I liked my slave labor app solution more: if you don’t want to do it for the justice of the people in the world getting slave fucked, then do it for future society’s perception of you. But ultimately I came up with 2 solutions/reasons. I think that is not bad.

Did you read all the links? Because these people -are- trying to make their voices heard. They formed a union and the police came and skull kicked everyone into the hospital, presumably because they were paid off. Keep in mind they’re going up against one of the biggest corporations in the world.

So… are you suggesting that they need to ‘do it on their own?’ These people obviously need outside help. Kriswest thinks these people just need to ‘work really hard,’ when they’re working harder than any of us ever have in our lives…

RE: Proximity Ethics
I don’t think they need to “do it on their own,” no. I think they need help. A lot of the things that Kris probably thinks can be accomplished through hard work are possible because she’s had advantages in her life because of where she was born.

The Cambodian garment workers would be who I was referring to when I said what I said about stepping over people who are in the shit. While I do firmly believe that many things in life need to be learned on one’s own, I don’t think this situation applies. Everyone needs a hand sometimes.

My brain is not all here right now (long day) and I’m afraid I’m not making sense, and I know I’m not able to say all the things I really want to say right now, but I will say this – the attitude that Kris displayed in that thread is a very American one, and I’m not proud of that.
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See, I liked my slave labor app solution more: if you don’t want to do it for the justice of the people in the world getting slave fucked, then do it for future society’s perception of you. But ultimately I came up with 2 solutions/reasons. I think that is not bad.

Did you read all the links? Because these people -are- trying to make their voices heard. They formed a union and the police came and skull kicked everyone into the hospital, presumably because they were paid off. Keep in mind they’re going up against one of the biggest corporations in the world.

So… are you suggesting that they need to ‘do it on their own?’ These people obviously need outside help. Kriswest thinks these people just need to ‘work really hard,’ when they’re working harder than any of us ever have in our lives…

Okay, my mind is a bit more calm now, but I thought about this again and got kind of pissed off…

Fuck me, Kris’ point is really short-sighted. I did read all the links, and I’m saying…like, obviously, these people are working hard. As you said, they’re working harder than any of us ever have. Clearly, hard work isn’t the answer. They’re trying to stand up for themselves using the means the people in my country employ every day, that isn’t working either, so…what are they supposed to do? I’m wondering if the next step shouldn’t be rioting, so they can all lose their jobs and some of them, probably, their lives. That would be a lot easier on this end, you know?
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I need to know once and for all what the triple 6 trinity means, and why, like Francis Dolarhyde, I have become obsessed with these paintings.

More Guns Equals Less Deaths.
Every example I’ve looked at categorically states this is the case.

What does everyone think about guns?
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(12-25-2012 07:44 AM)Gobbo Wrote:
Every example I’ve looked at categorically states this is the case.

What does everyone think about guns?
naturalworldorder.org/gazing-into…andy-hook/

As I said on ILP at great length, I think the US fascination with guns is driven by pop culture and that the constitution is meaningless. I think the idea of resisting government tyranny through owning guns is ludicrous, both in principle and in practice, and that this myth about ‘every despot disarms the population’ is the sort of lie you could only get away with spreading in a country like the US where 99% of people are completely idiotic.

Furthermore, I think the US government wants the population to own guns rather than the opposite. After all, they do sod all to enforce gun laws and massively subsidise the companies that make the guns, no to mention overtly encourage black markets like drugs which provide a means, motive and opportunity for a huge black market in guns.

I think your claim of ‘every example’ is disingenuous because look at the US compared to the UK - far more guns in the US, far more deaths, far less guns in the UK, no greater government tyranny.

In short, I think the kneejerk conspiracy theorist attitude of some on the ‘Right’ towards mass shootings is just as exploitative and just as moronic and just as massively untrue as the kneejerk ‘ban the guns’ attitude of some on the ‘Left’. I think it’s an utterly stupid discussion in its present format that has nothing to do with facts, nothing to do with reality, and everything to do with encouraging Americans to ultimately destroy themselves and each other.
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Yeah but government aside, there is something sort of mutually assured about guns. I don’t use them. I use my mind, but still - people don’t act like stupid fuckers when they have some fear of the other person.

I kind of look at the Wild West as an example of what I’m talking about.

I’m not sure what I’m saying, exactly. ‘Guns’ is pretty new to me. I didn’t really think about them before, but now I am. So that alone is noteworthy. Clearly all this propaganda is working to some degree.
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Anyone saying I’ll take your guns to ensure your security is well and good, but when they simply can’t ensure it, what are they working towards? The question of whether we should have guns or not isn’t a question of guns or disarmament for the time being, it’s a question of power.

If you have the power to defend yourself, you are thus empowered. With great power comes great responsibility – through responsibility you are likely to learn a greater level of respect. If only cars were held to the same account guns are, we’d have had them banned a while ago. But what does this achieve? We can respect cars and not even think of banning them, but guns! If there is a 100 car pile up with 60 child deaths, we don’t talk about cars… because why, the motive isn’t as discernible?

So are we to have select groups have select tools in order to ensure we supposedly harm ourselves as little as possible?

At a time when Police kill us more than the overblown terrorists, why aren’t we at war against the police as opposed to the terrorists?

You have these psychos, these sane men, taking cars, trucks, and god knows, killing God knows how many everyday, and we have to worry about guns, because they don’t get us to work like cars do, to let us feed the animals that cause most of our problems with the fruits of our labour.
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12-28-2012, 02:52 AM Unread post Post: #5
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(12-26-2012 05:52 AM)Gobbo Wrote:
Yeah but government aside, there is something sort of mutually assured about guns. I don’t use them. I use my mind, but still - people don’t act like stupid fuckers when they have some fear of the other person.

I kind of look at the Wild West as an example of what I’m talking about.

Most people in the Wild West weren’t armed all the time. But I know what you mean about the rationale, and I’m not fundamentally opposed to that, I just think the notion that today’s Americans, with today’s attitudes, being allowed even more guns will only result in more mutual destruction.

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I’m not sure what I’m saying, exactly. ‘Guns’ is pretty new to me. I didn’t really think about them before, but now I am. So that alone is noteworthy. Clearly all this propaganda is working to some degree.

Which propaganda are we talking about? I see in the US gun debate the same polarisation, the same strategy of tension, as in so many domestic counter-insurgency programs. Over here in the UK, I’ve heard both the pro-gun and anti-gun celebrity-endorsed propaganda, I’ve heard both sides seeking to exploit this event to advance seemingly contradictory policies and values.

Because ultimately what’s it a choice between? Either banning guns in some way, thus affirming the notion that the state has a righteous monopoly on the use of violence, or giving Americans the means to kill each other at even higher rates. Either extreme plays into the same people’s hands, just like in pretty much every mainstream political debate.
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12-28-2012, 03:03 AM Unread post Post: #6
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(12-26-2012 02:59 PM)W.C. Wrote:
Anyone saying I’ll take your guns to ensure your security is well and good, but when they simply can’t ensure it, what are they working towards? The question of whether we should have guns or not isn’t a question of guns or disarmament for the time being, it’s a question of power.

If you have the power to defend yourself, you are thus empowered. With great power comes great responsibility – through responsibility you are likely to learn a greater level of respect. If only cars were held to the same account guns are, we’d have had them banned a while ago. But what does this achieve? We can respect cars and not even think of banning them, but guns! If there is a 100 car pile up with 60 child deaths, we don’t talk about cars… because why, the motive isn’t as discernible?

Because most cars, most of the time, are used peacefully to accomplish useful things. Guns are solely designed to kill things in an efficient manner.

It’s a ludicrous, and massively over-used analogy. In fact, it isn’t an analogy, it’s just gun-loving bullshit.

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So are we to have select groups have select tools in order to ensure we supposedly harm ourselves as little as possible?

I’m against the general population being armed on a continuous basis, that doesn’t mean I’m in favour of the police shooting people and getting away with it. It isn’t an either/or choice, however much they (the mainstream) try to make it into one.

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At a time when Police kill us more than the overblown terrorists, why aren’t we at war against the police as opposed to the terrorists?

A good question, that has little to do with the gun debate. Fight the police all you like, they’re a shower of bastards. In fact, to borrow a phrase from my brother, they are a power shower of bastards.

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You have these psychos, these sane men, taking cars, trucks, and god knows, killing God knows how many everyday, and we have to worry about guns, because they don’t get us to work like cars do, to let us feed the animals that cause most of our problems with the fruits of our labour.

We have invested HUGE amounts of time, money and effort in making vehicles harder to steal and safer when they do crash. No amount of time, money or effort will turn a gun into a tool of peace.

Seriously, it’s an absolutely ridiculous analogy if you stop and think about it for a moment - the sort of thing hick gun-lovers will lap up, but the sort of thing intelligent people should view with the same scepticism as those who say that the government should be the only people who are allowed to use violence to accomplish things.

Did someone say the age of Horus was coming?

By the way I think Gobbo’s article on the main page does well to explain that the guns issue is not the main issue. The main issue is the psychology of the killer, and this is linked convincingly to antidepressant-type drugs. I do not think that more guns means more violence - look indeed at Switzerland and Russia - but I will believe in a second that more antidepressants means more violence, more chaos, less judgments by acting agents.

But then unfortunately any strong motive is capable of sending people over the edge - only three or four generations ago, a nation would gladly send its whole male population to a near certain death. Perhaps it is only that we do not any longer have any motives left that the killing is happening inside rather than outside.

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(12-28-2012 03:03 AM)BigTom Wrote:
Because most cars, most of the time, are used peacefully to accomplish useful things. Guns are solely designed to kill things in an efficient manner.

It’s a ludicrous, and massively over-used analogy. In fact, it isn’t an analogy, it’s just gun-loving bullshit.

At the same time, most guns in public, most of the time, are not used to kill as much as bows and arrows are not used to kill (if say bows and arrows had equal ownership rates). The highest uses for public guns are target practice, private collections or self defence.

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I’m against the general population being armed on a continuous basis, that doesn’t mean I’m in favour of the police shooting people and getting away with it. It isn’t an either/or choice, however much they (the mainstream) try to make it into one.

I agree. I mean, this whole thing has arisen again as a result of the Newtown affair – in which an assault rifle was used in a state where assault rifles already have tougher laws. It appears they’re now pushing for other states to adopt similar measures, apparently because it worked so well in Newtown.

Why they do not look to education and training as the Swiss do becomes apparent in the fact that they simply don’t want the people armed.

An old thing I like to do is to watch what isn’t being and hasn’t really been reported on, which is related to events like this. What I found is that in instances where armed citizens have stopped a potential massacre or crime, it is almost seldom reported.

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A good question, that has little to do with the gun debate. Fight the police all you like, they’re a shower of bastards. In fact, to borrow a phrase from my brother, they are a power shower of bastards.

True enough, but they’re a difficult bunch to go to war with. Not all are bad, but all have a vast array of protection against law, etc.

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We have invested HUGE amounts of time, money and effort in making vehicles harder to steal and safer when they do crash. No amount of time, money or effort will turn a gun into a tool of peace.

No amount of time, money or effort will turn cars into safety machines either. We’re not going to live in a totally safe society. Ever. As this is the case, I would prefer to be able to defend myself and my property rather than having to rely solely on those Police.

I agree with some regulations, and I agree with education. I disagree with banning practically anything wholely, as any ban simply sends the object of the ban to the black markets and creates gangs, etc, to maintain the same. I understand higher availability will inevitably place some guns in the hands of those that otherwise wouldn’t have them. Thats life.

I do wonder why we don’t invest more time, money and effort into education in general – Why we don’t stop disecting human emotions and labeling them psychological conditions to be sold as worthy of drugging oneself up for. But I don’t wonder why this is the case for long.

In Australia, we had the Port Arthur Massacre as the flase flag justification to take away our guns. The UN is actively pursuing gun bans worldwide. I think I’m with the ‘gun nuts’ on this one. You disarm the world and only Governments will really be able to use violence to accomplish things – more things against disarmed populations.

That said, I don’t think you can ever really ban something like a gun, so long as you have people who can make or smuggle guns – you can only reduce a quantity and a chance of any real backlash from those public groups/militias, who are being painted as terrorists because they’re not government owned.

You know, and you probably can do this too, I can walk down the street today and buy a gun if I so desired. It is not safer. But I would say the time of guns as we know them, is coming to a close soon enough anyway – to be replaced and enhanced over time with technological advancement. But again, this isn’t about guns and never has been, it’s about power. They want to have it, and they don’t want us to because, in my understanding of what they’re selling, ‘we’re a danger to them and to ourselves.’
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12-28-2012, 02:01 PM Unread post Post: #9
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RE: More Guns Equals Less Deaths.
Guns are an equalizer. You take a human with some potentially negative physical traits - specifically size and strength - and give that human a gun, those traits become poisonous. An intelligent human understands that a society which permits the relatively weak to carry guns is not one in which physical superiority or mental agility is a means to a positive end, since even mental overpowerment can reisult in the death of the non-aggresive mentally fit person. Guns bring us all down to the same level. The level of a reptile with venomous spray.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with the reptile. And we can live with it. We may prefer not to, but we do need to learn how.

Sometimes we stick them in prison. Or a mental health hospital. Or shove them in an orphanage. Or kill them outright. The human and its reptile equivalent. It doesn’t matter how we attempt to rid the world of dangers, they will continue to exist. I believe it is incumbent upon us as individuals to prevent the venemous from harming us by eliminating the need for the attack.
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There’s nothing inherently wrong with the reptile. And we can live with it. We may prefer not to, but we do need to learn how.

Well said.

Something I feel is kind of pertinent here is the concept of that person who can talk their way out of anything. This doesn’t apply to all gun cases, but it shows the power of the mind, and how it could potentially be applied to the social case in question here.
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(12-28-2012 09:43 AM)W.C. Wrote:
(12-28-2012 03:03 AM)BigTom Wrote:
Because most cars, most of the time, are used peacefully to accomplish useful things. Guns are solely designed to kill things in an efficient manner.

It’s a ludicrous, and massively over-used analogy. In fact, it isn’t an analogy, it’s just gun-loving bullshit.

At the same time, most guns in public, most of the time, are not used to kill as much as bows and arrows are not used to kill (if say bows and arrows had equal ownership rates). The highest uses for public guns are target practice, private collections or self defence.

This is irrelevant. They are designed to kill. Cars aren’t. Very few people are deliberately killed with a car. Loads of people are deliberately killed with guns.

It’s a bullshit analogy.

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I’m against the general population being armed on a continuous basis, that doesn’t mean I’m in favour of the police shooting people and getting away with it. It isn’t an either/or choice, however much they (the mainstream) try to make it into one.

I agree. I mean, this whole thing has arisen again as a result of the Newtown affair – in which an assault rifle was used in a state where assault rifles already have tougher laws. It appears they’re now pushing for other states to adopt similar measures, apparently because it worked so well in Newtown.

Had the restrictions been properly enforced then the Newtown massacre would not have happened. The argument that different legislation or improved enforcement might be the solution is perfectly reasonable. Yet it’s this sort of mocking ‘because regulation worked so well in Newtown’ that we here from the gun-lovers, and which for some reason you’re repeating word for word without considering whether or not it is bollocks. Because it’s obviously bollocks - one drunk driver killing a group of children is not a reason to get rid of all laws governing cars, or driving, or drink driving, or to get everyone drink driving so that they are all equally dangerous to one another.

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Why they do not look to education and training as the Swiss do becomes apparent in the fact that they simply don’t want the people armed.

They clearly do want the people armed - they subsidise the weapons manufacturers who make the weapons, they pass crappy regulations which help create a black market and then systemically fail to enforce those regulations, in particular failing to enforce them against the black market they helped to create. They also subsidise the film and TV industries who glamourise guns, gun violence and gun ownership, while also portraying the world as horrible and scary, thus giving people the ready made ‘it’s just for self-defence’ excuse for buying a gun.

Set against all that evidence that they do, in fact, want US citizens to have guns and invest huge amounts of time, money and effort in encouraging them to buy guns, your argument is that they don’t ‘look to education and training like the Swiss do’. As someone else pointed out in this same debate on ILP - the Swiss have state-mandated, conscripted military service. Can you see how quickly the ‘everyone owns a gun’ becomes ‘everyone is part of the state military’, i.e. how quickly the Libertarianism becomes Fascism?

Seriously, the ‘they want our guns’ position is just as ridiculous as the ‘they take our jobs’ position regarding immigration. It’s just a tabloid-style rallying cry for the mob. I cannot express to you in strong enough terms (without being very rude) how dimwitted the whole guns debate is, and the extent to which it is a waste of your time believing in either of the two apparently polar-opposite positions we are offered by the mainstream media. The gun nuts love pointing out that Switzerland has lots of guns but little violence.

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An old thing I like to do is to watch what isn’t being and hasn’t really been reported on, which is related to events like this. What I found is that in instances where armed citizens have stopped a potential massacre or crime, it is almost seldom reported.

Give me some examples, because I can think of literally dozens of mass shootings in countries where gun ownership is quite widespread but none of the supposedly self-defending population lifted a finger to stop the person or persons perpetrating the mass murder. Look at the Breivik attack in Norway - Norwegians are gun owners, they like to hunt and like shooting-based sports and despite being a socialist country with a massive public sector they don’t have particularly strict gun control regulations. Certainly it’s a lot easier to get a gun in Norway than it is here in the UK. Funny how you never hear the gun-lovers using Norway as an example, possibly because it doesn’t fit their tobacco-chewing right-winged worldview whereby ‘socialism’ is equivalent to Satanism.

Anyway, Breivik was tramping about on that island, shooting people and phoning the police to tell them he was on the island shooting people, and all around the lake were people who owned guns and had boats who could have tried to stop him. They did nothing. Now, that’s partly due to the national character of the Norwegians, somewhat applicable to Scandinavians in general, that they are an essentially peaceful bunch who weren’t prepared for something like this. Norway has no history of mass-casualty terrorism, even though guns are quite widely available. But even in the US, where this kind of thing happens on a regular basis, and where they have a supposedly gung-ho national character, it is almost never a member of the public who stops the mass-killer. If they are shot, they usually shoot themselves or are killed by the police. If you’ve got counter-examples then lay them on me.

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A good question, that has little to do with the gun debate. Fight the police all you like, they’re a shower of bastards. In fact, to borrow a phrase from my brother, they are a power shower of bastards.

True enough, but they’re a difficult bunch to go to war with. Not all are bad, but all have a vast array of protection against law, etc.

I don’t really mean going to war with them, I mean holding them to account as a means of persuading them to change. Having police of some sort isn’t necessarily a bad idea, in fact they are sometimes useful and competent. That can be encouraged.

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We have invested HUGE amounts of time, money and effort in making vehicles harder to steal and safer when they do crash. No amount of time, money or effort will turn a gun into a tool of peace.

No amount of time, money or effort will turn cars into safety machines either.

And yet, they are used safely most of the time. Guns are not.

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We’re not going to live in a totally safe society. Ever. As this is the case, I would prefer to be able to defend myself and my property rather than having to rely solely on those Police.

Again, it isn’t a choice between one or the other.

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I agree with some regulations, and I agree with education. I disagree with banning practically anything wholely, as any ban simply sends the object of the ban to the black markets and creates gangs, etc, to maintain the same. I understand higher availability will inevitably place some guns in the hands of those that otherwise wouldn’t have them. Thats life.

That isn’t my argument against gun ownership.

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I do wonder why we don’t invest more time, money and effort into education in general – Why we don’t stop disecting human emotions and labeling them psychological conditions to be sold as worthy of drugging oneself up for. But I don’t wonder why this is the case for long.

In Australia, we had the Port Arthur Massacre as the flase flag justification to take away our guns. The UN is actively pursuing gun bans worldwide. I think I’m with the ‘gun nuts’ on this one. You disarm the world and only Governments will really be able to use violence to accomplish things – more things against disarmed populations.

All over the world we see the covert agencies of Western governments arming insurgent populations. Methinks they are quite happy for people to run around on the ground with guns killing each other while they fly about in their spy satellites and supersonic bomber jets. As above, I’m looking at their actual behaviour rather than their rhetoric.

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That said, I don’t think you can ever really ban something like a gun, so long as you have people who can make or smuggle guns – you can only reduce a quantity and a chance of any real backlash from those public groups/militias, who are being painted as terrorists because they’re not government owned.

You know, and you probably can do this too, I can walk down the street today and buy a gun if I so desired. It is not safer. But I would say the time of guns as we know them, is coming to a close soon enough anyway – to be replaced and enhanced over time with technological advancement. But again, this isn’t about guns and never has been, it’s about power. They want to have it, and they don’t want us to because, in my understanding of what they’re selling, ‘we’re a danger to them and to ourselves.’

Us having guns gives them a lot of excuses for a lot of things. They want us to have guns, 95% of their behaviour shows this. I think that adopting anything from either side of this poisoned and poisonous debate is extremely foolhardy. I’m not trying to insult you here, but as I say I can’t express this in strong enough terms. It’s an utterly stupid debate, and no basis for arguing about degrees of regulatory control vs. the relevance of individual rights. The debate as it currently stands misconstrues EVERYTHING it discusses.
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I cannot express to you in strong enough terms (without being very rude) how dimwitted the whole guns debate is, and the extent to which it is a waste of your time believing in either of the two apparently polar-opposite positions we are offered by the mainstream media.

To be fair, though, you are presenting this argument where you’re envisioning fighter pilots nuking civilians mobs of people with their ‘guns.’

It’s not so much about how a literal war would play out. It’s about the symbolism behind this. If the Americans give up their guns, then it’s basically admitting defeat.

This is all in the context of obliterating the constitution, which is a cleverly genius piece of literature I might add.
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I agree with Gobbo here. It’s the symbolism, the constitution, the ‘spirit’ of the US that is at stake. We are talking about a country where the violent nature of man is relatively un-repressed, accepted. This has disadvantages and advantages. The disadvantages are obvious, the advantage is that it makes for a very dynamic environment, the American psyche is exceptionally powerful. The second amendment creates the idea (whether it’s illusory or not is of no practical significance) that people are truly free, that they have the right to resist government. This is unheard of in other nations, and I think that it is a massive improvement over the past ten millennia or so.

My sentiment is equal to what Gobbo expressed: if Americans hand over their guns, they’re admitting defeat, failure of their project. The project was based on trust in the self-regulating power of the human being, and for this reason it is important to focus on this anti-depressant issue. Antidepressants are a direct attack on mans capacity to self-regulate - they eliminate mans responsibility for his own state of mind, thus for his acts. Antidepressants form a direct attack on mans ‘soul’, his self-governing capacity. Guns only form a danger when this capacity has been overruled.

Essentially the 2nd amendment speaks of a tremendous optimism, an unprecedented faith in mankind. Whether this faith is justified or not, to scrap the right would be a huge step backward, leading Americans to submit to the ancient and still wide spread idea of Faraoic rulership which they had successfully challenged for a while.

Government prescribing the right to resist government is enlightened, even if the right is only symbolic.
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I cannot express to you in strong enough terms (without being very rude) how dimwitted the whole guns debate is, and the extent to which it is a waste of your time believing in either of the two apparently polar-opposite positions we are offered by the mainstream media.

To be fair, though, you are presenting this argument where you’re envisioning fighter pilots nuking civilians mobs of people with their ‘guns.’

That is the military model of the future I’m working with, derived largely from US military counterinsurgency manuals, CIA trends reports and the Command and Conquer computer game series, yes, you’d be right about that.

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It’s not so much about how a literal war would play out. It’s about the symbolism behind this. If the Americans give up their guns, then it’s basically admitting defeat.

Sure, which is one of the main reasons I’m not in favour of banning guns. I think people should voluntarily choose not to own guns.

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This is all in the context of obliterating the constitution, which is a cleverly genius piece of literature I might add.

An awful lot depends on whether the rights and freedoms outlined in the constitution are supposed to apply to everyone, or to a select few. The select few who wrote it appear to have been mainly concerned with according themselves such rights (to bear arms or own property or whatever) rather than people at large. After all, they didn’t want their slaves bearing arms, did they?

There is a lot of stuff in the constitution which is outmoded gibberish, though of course it isn’t those bits that are being dissolved, it’s the bits about not kidnapping and imprisoning people because you feel like it.
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(12-29-2012 02:26 AM)Bran Wrote:
I agree with Gobbo here. It’s the symbolism, the constitution, the ‘spirit’ of the US that is at stake. We are talking about a country where the violent nature of man is relatively un-repressed, accepted. This has disadvantages and advantages. The disadvantages are obvious, the advantage is that it makes for a very dynamic environment, the American psyche is exceptionally powerful.

I think this is extremely one-sided and simplistic. There’s no such thing as ‘the American psyche’. Almost all of the Americans I’ve met have been weak-minded, lazy, nasty idiots. That’s nothing to be proud of or for the rest of the world to emulate.

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The second amendment creates the idea (whether it’s illusory or not is of no practical significance) that people are truly free, that they have the right to resist government. This is unheard of in other nations, and I think that it is a massive improvement over the past ten millennia or so.

Yeah, because no other nation has any history of resisting their government. Only Americans, and look how well they’ve done at it! It’s not like the US government is the largest, most destructive institution the world has ever seen.

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My sentiment is equal to what Gobbo expressed: if Americans hand over their guns, they’re admitting defeat, failure of their project. The project was based on trust in the self-regulating power of the human being, and for this reason it is important to focus on this anti-depressant issue. Antidepressants are a direct attack on mans capacity to self-regulate - they eliminate mans responsibility for his own state of mind, thus for his acts. Antidepressants form a direct attack on mans ‘soul’, his self-governing capacity. Guns only form a danger when this capacity has been overruled.

Or when they get into the hands of kids who’ve been bred on a diet of poverty and glamourisation of gun violence.

Leaving aside this myth of the American project being something other than the same old story of white colonisation, I do agree with you - there is a logic to a large number of people owning and carrying guns that breeds a certain mutual respect. You would see a lot less of the glib cynicism that has come to dominate American youth culture because that passive-aggressive, put everything else down and then pretend you don’t care about it attitude is hard to maintain towards someone carrying a gun.

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Essentially the 2nd amendment speaks of a tremendous optimism, an unprecedented faith in mankind. Whether this faith is justified or not, to scrap the right would be a huge step backward, leading Americans to submit to the ancient and still wide spread idea of Faraoic rulership which they had successfully challenged for a while.

Government prescribing the right to resist government is enlightened, even if the right is only symbolic.

Government prescribing the right to resist government is absurd because it means the government can simply take that right away as and when it pleases. A people trying to form a government from a starting point that includes the right to resist government is enlightened. And I’m sure that some of the people who went to America way back when weren’t doing it with colonisation in mind, but had more enlightened ideals. Praise those people and those ideals all you want, but that alone does not to my mind defend the Constitution as a whole, let alone the American Project as a whole. If it fails, I think it will fail because those ideals weren’t applied to everyone, and were never intended to be applied to everyone. I’m open to being persuaded otherwise on that.

To be clear, I’m not in favour of banning guns, and I agree it would be a huge symbolic step in the US that would not be positive for them. But likewise I’m not in favour of this ‘everyone should be armed to the teeth’ idea. I think the existing gun debate in the US is exceptionally stupid, but then every political debate in the US is the same way. The notion that there is anything in that debate that the rest of the world should admire and emulate appalls me. I think that there are far better arguments for gun ownership (without descending into gun fetishism) and I am glad to see some of those arguments on this thread.

Indeed, both yours and Gobbos posts remind me of this:

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Had the shopkeeper not owned a rifle then his subsequent act of kindness would not have been possible. This is an example of the threat of force being used for good which both entertained me and I think embodies the kinds of values you’re talking about. I’m not going to labour the point that the man in question was a Muslim American, a curious mixture to consider when picking apart this tiny but symbolically important event.

I’m kind of with you, I just have utter contempt for mainstream US political discussion, and see no reason to revise that regarding the gun debate. All this roundabout bollocks about ‘every dictator in history has disarmed the population’ is the sort of thing you could only get away with in a country where people know no history, where they genuinely don’t realise that there have been dictators, Faraoic rulership, the divine right of Kings etc. for millenia before their country, as they conceive of it, ever existed. Not all of those dictators, kings, Pharaohs sought to disarm their populations - plenty of them either didn’t give a toss because they had other things to worry about or actively sought to arm the population for various reasons. The principle of resisting government is very important, and American gun ownership is a symbol of that, I do get it, but that doesn’t excuse the sheer crap spouted in defence of that gun ownership. Having the right conclusion for a hundred wrong reasons is not something that the rest of the world should be admiring or emulating.
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Had the shopkeeper not owned a rifle then his subsequent act of kindness would not have been possible. This is an example of the threat of force being used for good which both entertained me and I think embodies the kinds of values you’re talking about. I’m not going to labour the point that the man in question was a Muslim American, a curious mixture to consider when picking apart this tiny but symbolically important event.

I’m kind of with you, I just have utter contempt for mainstream US political discussion, and see no reason to revise that regarding the gun debate. All this roundabout bollocks about ‘every dictator in history has disarmed the population’ is the sort of thing you could only get away with in a country where people know no history, where they genuinely don’t realise that there have been dictators, Faraoic rulership, the divine right of Kings etc. for millenia before their country, as they conceive of it, ever existed. Not all of those dictators, kings, Pharaohs sought to disarm their populations - plenty of them either didn’t give a toss because they had other things to worry about or actively sought to arm the population for various reasons. The principle of resisting government is very important, and American gun ownership is a symbol of that, I do get it, but that doesn’t excuse the sheer crap spouted in defence of that gun ownership. Having the right conclusion for a hundred wrong reasons is not something that the rest of the world should be admiring or emulating.

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Things like knives and base ball bats can be deadly too. A gun is more deadly, but still, people always have the means to a killing or a violent act. Do you want to ban knives and base ball bats?
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12-30-2012, 01:00 AM Post: #17
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(12-30-2012 12:37 AM)Dannerz Wrote:
Things like knives and base ball bats can be deadly too. A gun is more deadly, but still, people always have the means to a killing or a violent act. Do you want to ban knives and base ball bats?

That’s it, try to drag the discussion back to the most basic, moronic level you can…
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He has a point.

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I think this is extremely one-sided and simplistic. There’s no such thing as ‘the American psyche’. Almost all of the Americans I’ve met have been weak-minded, lazy, nasty idiots. That’s nothing to be proud of or for the rest of the world to emulate.

You’re missing the point. This has nothing to do with whether all of this is ‘smart’ or not.

Britain is the brain, the US is the arm. Before the bankers co-opted the US it was probably the best structure the world has ever seen for realizing the human potential. Britain is completely conquered. No one there could revolt even if they wanted to.

People look to the US because once the guns are handed in there, the arm is free to fist the body into a new world order, but we’re not completely there yet.
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(12-30-2012 08:11 PM)Gobbo Wrote:
He has a point.

No, he doesn’t, because that has NOTHING to do with what I said. In particular, I never said guns should be banned, so responding ‘other things are dangerous, why don’t you ban them too?’ is completely stupid. Seriously, if the quality of discussion here is no better than on ILP then I want nothing to do with it, and that post was just like ILP.

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I think this is extremely one-sided and simplistic. There’s no such thing as ‘the American psyche’. Almost all of the Americans I’ve met have been weak-minded, lazy, nasty idiots. That’s nothing to be proud of or for the rest of the world to emulate.

You’re missing the point. This has nothing to do with whether all of this is ‘smart’ or not.

Britain is the brain, the US is the arm. Before the bankers co-opted the US it was probably the best structure the world has ever seen for realizing the human potential. Britain is completely conquered. No one there could revolt even if they wanted to.

Says a person who has never been to Britain and has no idea what’s going on over here. Britain has had plenty of revolts, far more than the US.

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People look to the US because once the guns are handed in there, the arm is free to fist the body into a new world order, but we’re not completely there yet.

If I truly believed that my future freedom was dependent on Americans owning guns then I’d kill myself. This is a great example of what I mean about simplistic conspiratorial views of the world leading to despair.
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Why are you so mad? This issue clearly has some other element to it I’m not seeing. Did you ban him for the comment a couple posts up? That seems excessive.

I’m going to try and explain this fully, and give it the attention it deserves.

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I’m kind of with you, I just have utter contempt for mainstream US political discussion, and see no reason to revise that regarding the gun debate.

We’re not asking you to revise your position. We’re asking you to phrase this in the context of the World Stage. You’re right (and I didn’t mean to sound insulting) I’m sure people could revolt in Britain, but in the sense of the World Stage that would be kind of coming from left field. By all means, do that. I hope that happens.

But the spotlight is on the US. Or perhaps it just seems that way living next to it in Canada.

I don’t like it anyone more than you do. Perhaps even less… But the reality is that everyone kind of looks to the United States because they have made a lot of noise. And as I alluded to with the constitution, a lot of that noise has blossomed from the type of intellectual spirit that is shared by Britain, but as someone who lives in a British colony myself, I would say more unchained. Maybe you don’t agree with that, but I just think it is. Or at least has been more so in the past 200 years where such a thing could even be possible.

If that country can somehow… as I said, not fist us the world, then it’s a story that the world can jump on board with. They can’t advance the plan without that arm of theirs. And in the hands of the people, it’s game over. It’s the easiest place for the tipping point to occur. It’s the top of the iceberg. I truly think it matters if the US gives their guns in.

So in that way arguments like Dan’s are somewhat valid. This site is think tank, is it not? It is more kind of a transparent (hopefully fun) steering the masses where we try to provide a clear and concrete solution. When people ask me about these shootings I say: “Don’t give in guns.” I think our work is basically coming up with a coherent answer and saying, 'Here you go." to anyone who wants to read. History has shown it’s something like 6-9% of society is what is needed to basically turn public opinion and change everything entirely.

Addressing Your Response to the OP

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As I said on ILP at great length, I think the US fascination with guns is driven by pop culture and that the constitution is meaningless.

Sure, but you don’t live there, and the people that are going to supposedly bomb everyone in your scenario are people who do, and who believe in those things so… well let’s move on.

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I think the idea of resisting government tyranny through owning guns is ludicrous, both in principle and in practice

Sure, but everything in society is ludicrous. Every war call, at first glance, is logically absurd. It’s about the social reaction. Us talking about this is kind of weirdly both very dumbed down and simplified, but also very complex.

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and that this myth about ‘every despot disarms the population’ is the sort of lie you could only get away with spreading in a country like the US where 99% of people are completely idiotic.

If I was a dictator I would do this. The basic logic behind it makes sense, even if ‘every one’ didn’t do it.

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Furthermore, I think the US government wants the population to own guns rather than the opposite. After all, they do sod all to enforce gun laws and massively subsidise the companies that make the guns, no to mention overtly encourage black markets like drugs which provide a means, motive and opportunity for a huge black market in guns.

This is a fair point. But in the wake of Sandy Hook, if you say to someone 'Yea man, Let’s hand in our guns and watch some SNL," then, really nothing is accomplished other than in one more instance someone learns to just acquiesce to the government’s demands. Once again, this is about digging our heals in. Finding key instances to do that.

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I think your claim of ‘every example’ is disingenuous because look at the US compared to the UK - far more guns in the US, far more deaths, far less guns in the UK, no greater government tyranny.

This is kind of another discussion. We can talk about if you want. I’m getting tired of typing and I feel like this will be long.

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In short, I think the kneejerk conspiracy theorist attitude of some on the ‘Right’ towards mass shootings is just as exploitative and just as moronic and just as massively untrue as the kneejerk ‘ban the guns’ attitude of some on the ‘Left’. I think it’s an utterly stupid discussion in its present format that has nothing to do with facts, nothing to do with reality, and everything to do with encouraging Americans to ultimately destroy themselves and each other.

It’s all kneejerk. We’re down to the final chess moves here. People always say that people who always say the world is going to end are just some part of society that is always there – and maybe so – but we’re approaching the point where revolt will be impossible for a long time, until some like… Harry Potter or something is born 1000 years from now and upsets the system.

What would you say, ultimately, in the face of all this to the public?

“Meh… this discussion is pointless.”
All right I’ll turn my guns in then. Thanks tinfoil.

or

“Well, you shouldn’t but more to the point, you should look at gun ownership and gun violence in this way…”
Oh, interesting… maybe I’ll check out that article you mentioned.

We need to get over seeing the public discussion as intellectually insulting or whatever. You gotta get up in that shit and just roll with it. Have a couple drinks. Get a buzz on and just grin and bear it. We need the public. We also need you.
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The plot seems to be going like this:

Take the guns - I don’t think we can disagree they want to do this. They keep throwing shooting after shooting at us. They really want it.

So why? - I think it’s so skyrocket the crime rate with riots and Battlefield Los Angeles type stuff so they can bring in Martial Law.
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(12-30-2012 11:05 PM)Gobbo Wrote:
I’m going to try and explain this fully, and give it the attention it deserves.

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I’m kind of with you, I just have utter contempt for mainstream US political discussion, and see no reason to revise that regarding the gun debate.

We’re not asking you to revise your position. We’re asking you to phrase this in the context of the World Stage. You’re right (and I didn’t mean to sound insulting) I’m sure people could revolt in Britain, but in the sense of the World Stage that would be kind of coming from left field. By all means, do that. I hope that happens.

But the spotlight is on the US. Or perhaps it just seems that way living next to it in Canada.

Of course, a shooting or a presidential election or a new gun law in the US gets reported the world over.

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I don’t like it anyone more than you do. Perhaps even less… But the reality is that everyone kind of looks to the United States because they have made a lot of noise. And as I alluded to with the constitution, a lot of that noise has blossomed from the type of intellectual spirit that is shared by Britain, but as someone who lives in a British colony myself, I would say more unchained. Maybe you don’t agree with that, but I just think it is. Or at least has been more so in the past 200 years where such a thing could even be possible.

If that country can somehow… as I said, not fist us the world, then it’s a story that the world can jump on board with. They can’t advance the plan without that arm of theirs. And in the hands of the people, it’s game over. It’s the easiest place for the tipping point to occur. It’s the top of the iceberg. I truly think it matters if the US gives their guns in.

I’m not denying it matters, but I don’t see the US as being the place where a tipping point can be encouraged or created. The people are just too stupid and too vain. Look at how the American truth movement has responded to the economic crisis - it just blames ‘the government’ or ‘the elite’ or thinks that sitting in a park or voting for Ron Paul is somehow going to solve things. The simple fact of Americans consuming far more than they produce is never discussed. The simple fact of there being physical limitations on growth and consumption is never discussed. Far easier to just blame ‘the government’ and pretend that if they weren’t keeping us down we’d all be millionaires because we’re Americans and we’re just that damn good.

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So in that way arguments like Dan’s are somewhat valid. This site is think tank, is it not? It is more kind of a transparent (hopefully fun) steering the masses where we try to provide a clear and concrete solution. When people ask me about these shootings I say: “Don’t give in guns.” I think our work is basically coming up with a coherent answer and saying, 'Here you go." to anyone who wants to read. History has shown it’s something like 6-9% of society is what is needed to basically turn public opinion and change everything entirely.

I’m not disagreeing with any of that except for that arguments like ‘Dan’s’ (by which you mean the same tired old gun-fetishists who say the same thing no matter what happens and which Dan lazily and crudely and uncritically repeated for no apparent reason) are even remotely valid. They may be useful in persuading stupid people of true conclusions because they sound like they are valid and encourage an emotive, tabloid response. Rhetorically, they have force. Logically, they are bullshit.

Call me idealistic if you must, but I think we can find ways to be both logical and rhetorically forceful at the same time.

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As I said on ILP at great length, I think the US fascination with guns is driven by pop culture and that the constitution is meaningless.

Sure, but you don’t live there, and the people that are going to supposedly bomb everyone in your scenario are people who do, and who believe in those things so… well let’s move on.

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I think the idea of resisting government tyranny through owning guns is ludicrous, both in principle and in practice

Sure, but everything in society is ludicrous. Every war call, at first glance, is logically absurd. It’s about the social reaction. Us talking about this is kind of weirdly both very dumbed down and simplified, but also very complex.

The social reaction has been ‘they wanna tek ma gurns’, from what I can see. Pretty dim, and not something I feel I can work with.

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and that this myth about ‘every despot disarms the population’ is the sort of lie you could only get away with spreading in a country like the US where 99% of people are completely idiotic.

If I was a dictator I would do this. The basic logic behind it makes sense, even if ‘every one’ didn’t do it.

Whether the logic behind it makes sense or not is irrelevant, only whether dictators actually do this. Look at Saudi Arabia - clearly a dictatorship, yet they have pretty lax gun laws that aren’t really enforced and lots of private gun ownership. That’s the opposite to Britain, an elective democracy. In Russia there’s more private gun ownership than in Britain, but in North Korea there’s far, far less private gun ownership, indeed it is among the lowest in the world.

There’s no simple correlation between dictatorship and banning gun ownership. There just isn’t. Rather than making a judgment on the basis of something sounding right, I actually bothered to look:
gunpolicy.org/

All kinds of information from all over the world on, for example, private gun ownership vs. government gun ownership. There is no simple pattern that would sustain even your moderated position, let alone the ‘every dictatorship in history…’ crap that I objected to.

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Furthermore, I think the US government wants the population to own guns rather than the opposite. After all, they do sod all to enforce gun laws and massively subsidise the companies that make the guns, no to mention overtly encourage black markets like drugs which provide a means, motive and opportunity for a huge black market in guns.

This is a fair point. But in the wake of Sandy Hook, if you say to someone 'Yea man, Let’s hand in our guns and watch some SNL," then, really nothing is accomplished other than in one more instance someone learns to just acquiesce to the government’s demands. Once again, this is about digging our heals in. Finding key instances to do that.

Your argument makes no sense. If the government isn’t trying to disarm people then giving up your guns is not acquiescing to their demands.

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I think your claim of ‘every example’ is disingenuous because look at the US compared to the UK - far more guns in the US, far more deaths, far less guns in the UK, no greater government tyranny.

This is kind of another discussion. We can talk about if you want. I’m getting tired of typing and I feel like this will be long.

I’m not particularly interested in that conversation, save to say the real world does not conform to the fantasies of American conspiracy theorist gun-fetishists. It’s only because they are really fucking stupid and have no history that they believe it. What’s your excuse?

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In short, I think the kneejerk conspiracy theorist attitude of some on the ‘Right’ towards mass shootings is just as exploitative and just as moronic and just as massively untrue as the kneejerk ‘ban the guns’ attitude of some on the ‘Left’. I think it’s an utterly stupid discussion in its present format that has nothing to do with facts, nothing to do with reality, and everything to do with encouraging Americans to ultimately destroy themselves and each other.

It’s all kneejerk. We’re down to the final chess moves here. People always say that people who always say the world is going to end are just some part of society that is always there – and maybe so – but we’re approaching the point where revolt will be impossible for a long time, until some like… Harry Potter or something is born 1000 years from now and upsets the system.

I don’t accept this.

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What would you say, ultimately, in the face of all this to the public?

“Meh… this discussion is pointless.”
All right I’ll turn my guns in then. Thanks tinfoil.

or

“Well, you shouldn’t but more to the point, you should look at gun ownership and gun violence in this way…”
Oh, interesting… maybe I’ll check out that article you mentioned.

I’d tell them what I’ve told people here - that the mainstream arguments around gun ownership are bullshit and a waste of everyone’s time, but that I’m not in favour of banning guns because of other reasons (some articulated by yourself and others on this thread). Simple enough, and doesn’t involve lying, making up stuff, glorifying guesswork about history and the present day, or acquiescing to stupidity in the name of reaching out to people.

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We need to get over seeing the public discussion as intellectually insulting or whatever. You gotta get up in that shit and just roll with it. Have a couple drinks. Get a buzz on and just grin and bear it. We need the public. We also need you.

I’m not interested in dumbing down what I have to say in order to reach more people. If you make that compromise then you just end up using the same means as the people you’re fighting against when they have much more money and infrastructure and are much more practiced and established. I’m happy to have a discussion about gun ownership and why it is important and what Americans should do, but I’m not willing to put up with arguments that I know to be untrue just because I agree with their conclusions.

Otherwise, what’s the point of even talking about it?

(12-31-2012 01:42 PM)Gobbo Wrote:
The plot seems to be going like this:

Take the guns - I don’t think we can disagree they want to do this. They keep throwing shooting after shooting at us. They really want it.

So why? - I think it’s so skyrocket the crime rate with riots and Battlefield Los Angeles type stuff so they can bring in Martial Law.

I disagree that they want to do this, for the reasons I have outlined in detail that no one has countered. Perhaps you should watch less movies and read more factual information.
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The social reaction has been ‘they wanna tek ma gurns’, from what I can see. Pretty dim, and not something I feel I can work with.

I think we have to try, though. That is to say: it is the reaction. And they do want to take the guns. I’ll come back to this when I address where or not America is being beyond saving.

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Whether the logic behind it makes sense or not is irrelevant,

Is it? Why? Because factually not every dictator has banned guns? I don’t really care about that. As long as some dictators have, then the story works. Now that I know the truth I’m obviously not going to lie on purpose but… I guess my point is this:

Do we need to be 100% factual about everything we say to a populace that clearly doesn’t give a fuck about facts? I’m comfortable with the high 90’s.

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I’m not disagreeing with any of that except for that arguments like ‘Dan’s’ (by which you mean the same tired old gun-fetishists who say the same thing no matter what happens and which Dan lazily and crudely and uncritically repeated for no apparent reason) are even remotely valid.

Those types of arguments needs to be injected into this discussions for the public to hear. Again. And Again. That is to say, the whole gun law issue is fucking absurd in the first place and it can be reduced to that one argument.

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Rhetorically, they have force. Logically, they are bullshit.
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Call me idealistic if you must, but I think we can find ways to be both logical and rhetorically forceful at the same time.

This will be the main issue with forming our identity here. Probably the smartest thing XZC ever said to me before he became boring was that I/we need to make all of this entertaining because no one will care otherwise. Alex Jones uses fear and craziness to be successful, we need to find our niche. I don’t claim to know what it is. I would like logic to be heavily involved. When I wrote my article I thought it was fairly indicative of what we were trying to achieve. Kind a creative refusal to dumb ourselves down.

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All kinds of information from all over the world on, for example, private gun ownership vs. government gun ownership. There is no simple pattern that would sustain even your moderated position, let alone the ‘every dictatorship in history…’ crap that I objected to.

What I’m striving for is to be strategic. It’s not persuasive saying to people in a rhetorical war ‘Well, um, technically there is no pattern…’ If I’m basically trying to mess with their plans, I’m trying to educate people - yes - but with facts that will bring them to my side of the debate.

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If the government isn’t trying to disarm people then giving up your guns is not acquiescing to their demands.

The government is trying to disarm people. I know you think they can just nuke everyone and like I said, that is certainly true…but they want all the guns. The society they want will have no private gun ownership. I’ll explain this more in a second.

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I’m not particularly interested in that conversation, save to say the real world does not conform to the fantasies of American conspiracy theorist gun-fetishists.

I feel like you think it’s these hicks who can’t use Google. I’ve seen the stats to back all these arguments. Well it’s basically the same stat anyway: the UK has more violent crime than any other nation except Australia. Also, the UK has more cameras pointed at people than (I think) any other nation on earth. And a culture that revolves around subservience to a family.

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It’s only because they are really fucking stupid and have no history that they believe it. What’s your excuse?

Like I said… the UK is a fountain of violence. I don’t know what you want me to say, every example I looked at reflected what I wrote. Everything I’ve seen about the UK is ‘worst in Europe’ ‘top 5 most violent nations in the world’ etc. I am wrong here, or… is it the case that there are no guns in the UK, and it’s also really violent?

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I don’t accept this.

Well, it might not be 1000. And I’m thinking more of an Aeon Flux type thing now.

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I’m not interested in dumbing down what I have to say in order to reach more people.

There is a difference between dumbing a statement down, and making it universally palpable. Actually… I don’t know if there is.

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I disagree that they want to do this, for the reasons I have outlined in detail that no one has countered. Perhaps you should watch less movies and read more factual information.

This is maybe something for a new thread, but the gun represents the phallus, and the NWO is all about emasculating males. It’s not something they want anyone to have in the new world. What I’m referring to is a form of power beyond the level of a war playing out, and the logistics of how you could drop a nuke on the public. I’ve said that several times now. This is about the symbolism behind owning a gun, and that is especially true in the US, where it’s even more a part of the culture. That culture has to be destroyed.

You disagree because you cited a few historic examples where dictators haven’t taken guns? Please keep going… I require more. Before we continue you should explain, in full detail, why you believe that this envisioned society they have will be one where people are cruising around with conceal and carry.

I’m actually quite surprised you think this.

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I think this is extremely one-sided and simplistic. There’s no such thing as ‘the American psyche’. Almost all of the Americans I’ve met have been weak-minded, lazy, nasty idiots. That’s nothing to be proud of or for the rest of the world to emulate.

And your reaction here makes me think you’re going about this the wrong way. There is America, the literal place, where you go there and it’s dirty. But then there is the idea of America. Just here in this couple sentences you’re conflating the idea of the society found in the constitution with what has transpired after 100 years (exactly this 2013) of Britain taking over the fed and co-opting the society into a shitty one.

Logistically, America is already dead, and yes, they could just nuke everyone. Taking over the world is more than that. In a way, the people have to accept it, and be somewhat aware that they are themselves fucking themselves over. It cannot be some military takeover. It has to be through crushing the USA into the physical and social chaos that will give rise to the New World.
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(01-02-2013 05:05 PM)Gobbo Wrote:
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Whether the logic behind it makes sense or not is irrelevant,

Is it? Why? Because factually not every dictator has banned guns? I don’t really care about that. As long as some dictators have, then the story works. Now that I know the truth I’m obviously not going to lie on purpose but… I guess my point is this:

Do we need to be 100% factual about everything we say to a populace that clearly doesn’t give a fuck about facts? I’m comfortable with the high 90’s.

Sadly, you don’t have facts in the high 90s. Students in the US are taught in civics class that Hitler banned guns. He actually liberalised the existing laws, with the notable exception of gun ownership for Jews (who most of these same gun-loving, civics-class-quoting Americans think were secretly running Nazi Germany).

While we may not need to be 100% factual, repeating inaccurate bullshit will make us look very, very, very stupid. By all means make the argument that in the US, here and now, the effort to reduce or eliminate private gun ownership is a move towards dictatorship, but don’t extrapolate backwards from that and re-invent history.

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I’m not disagreeing with any of that except for that arguments like ‘Dan’s’ (by which you mean the same tired old gun-fetishists who say the same thing no matter what happens and which Dan lazily and crudely and uncritically repeated for no apparent reason) are even remotely valid.

Those types of arguments needs to be injected into this discussions for the public to hear. Again. And Again. That is to say, the whole gun law issue is fucking absurd in the first place and it can be reduced to that one argument.

This trivialises what you are claiming is an issue of fundamental, if symbolic, importance.

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Call me idealistic if you must, but I think we can find ways to be both logical and rhetorically forceful at the same time.

This will be the main issue with forming our identity here. Probably the smartest thing XZC ever said to me before he became boring was that I/we need to make all of this entertaining because no one will care otherwise. Alex Jones uses fear and craziness to be successful, we need to find our niche. I don’t claim to know what it is. I would like logic to be heavily involved. When I wrote my article I thought it was fairly indicative of what we were trying to achieve. Kind a creative refusal to dumb ourselves down.

And it is a strong article. I am coming round to the feeling that drama, the narrative form, is the best way for me. I am good at coming up with stories and writing them. I do keep coming back to the fact that, despite the modest success of my films, I could do so much more with the material at my disposal. What these disagreements do help with is us coming to terms with that particular problem and try to figure out how to solve it.

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All kinds of information from all over the world on, for example, private gun ownership vs. government gun ownership. There is no simple pattern that would sustain even your moderated position, let alone the ‘every dictatorship in history…’ crap that I objected to.

What I’m striving for is to be strategic. It’s not persuasive saying to people in a rhetorical war ‘Well, um, technically there is no pattern…’ If I’m basically trying to mess with their plans, I’m trying to educate people - yes - but with facts that will bring them to my side of the debate.

And I think that if you’re intentionally going to deploy facts that you know do not tell the whole story that you have to be very careful in what you logically deduce from those facts, lest you accidentally contribute to achieving the opposite to your desired effect.

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If the government isn’t trying to disarm people then giving up your guns is not acquiescing to their demands.

The government is trying to disarm people. I know you think they can just nuke everyone and like I said, that is certainly true…but they want all the guns. The society they want will have no private gun ownership. I’ll explain this more in a second.

I’m not really disputing that their ideal society would be one where the state enjoys a total monopoly over the just use of violence. But I’m also aware that if they do want to destroy the US as a superpower, to sacrifice it as a means of bringing out an even more international framework of government than exists already, then letting the people have their guns and shoot each other en masse with them is a very convenient way of doing it. Reminiscent of the French Revolution, in fact.

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I’m not particularly interested in that conversation, save to say the real world does not conform to the fantasies of American conspiracy theorist gun-fetishists.

I feel like you think it’s these hicks who can’t use Google. I’ve seen the stats to back all these arguments. Well it’s basically the same stat anyway: the UK has more violent crime than any other nation except Australia. Also, the UK has more cameras pointed at people than (I think) any other nation on earth. And a culture that revolves around subservience to a family.

It depends on what you mean by violent crime, and how you interpret the statistics. Curiously, when I looked up that thing about being second only to Australia what first came up was a Daily Mail article. The Daily Mail is basically written to agitate people in useful directions. Their fundamental story is ‘it’s all going to hell in a hand basket’, both in the specific article and in general across their coverage of everything. That is the position they occupy with regards to everything.

The Daily Mail is also the chief newspaper devoted to flattering coverage of the Royal Family. Now, why do you think those two things - massive obsession with portraying Britain as falling apart and relentless promotion of the Royals - would go together? I’m sure you already know without me having to articulate it.

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According to the figures released yesterday, 3.6 per cent of the population of England and Wales were victims of violent crime in 1999 - second only to Australia, where the figure was 4.1 per cent.

Scotland had a slightly lower rate of violence, at 3.4 per cent.

In the U.S., only 2 per cent of the population suffered an assault or robbery.

There is no nuance in these stats, it’s simply a percentage of the population who suffered from a specific group of crimes. If, for example, the assaults in Scotland were more savage than those in England then these stats wouldn’t reflect that. Nor would your repeating of them.

Now, there is a problem in this country with young people getting very drunk and getting into fights. It happens in every reasonable sized town and city on every weekend. There are many shows devoted to glamourising this, and in particular glamourising the police response to this whereby the offending parties are treated with total contempt. Obviously they pick the dumbest, drunkest, most noisy examples to put in the broadcast shows. Basically the same thing as the Daily Mail coverage.

As to the CCTV - the study that gets most widely quoted in the sources of news that I know you read is immensely flawed. It took a sample from a busy street in London (where there is fuckloads of CCTV) and assumed the rest of the country was the same, when it really isn’t. My normal day does not include being captured by CCTV, with the possible exception of the privately-owned CCTV in certain shops which I don’t find at all unreasonable. It’s their shop, their stock, if they want to point a camera at it then they can, just as if I want to wear a hat and deliberately take a route through the shop that means I won’t be recognisable then I can.

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It’s only because they are really fucking stupid and have no history that they believe it. What’s your excuse?

Like I said… the UK is a fountain of violence. I don’t know what you want me to say, every example I looked at reflected what I wrote. Everything I’ve seen about the UK is ‘worst in Europe’ ‘top 5 most violent nations in the world’ etc. I am wrong here, or… is it the case that there are no guns in the UK, and it’s also really violent?

It isn’t really violent. Seriously violent crimes are relatively uncommon, though the Daily Mail makes sure to report on as many as possible in as lurid detail as possible. There is a lot of petty drunken fighting. It has nothing to do with banning guns. This is what I mean about having to be careful about what you deduce from partial readings of statistics.

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I disagree that they want to do this, for the reasons I have outlined in detail that no one has countered. Perhaps you should watch less movies and read more factual information.

This is maybe something for a new thread, but the gun represents the phallus, and the NWO is all about emasculating males. It’s not something they want anyone to have in the new world. What I’m referring to is a form of power beyond the level of a war playing out, and the logistics of how you could drop a nuke on the public. I’ve said that several times now. This is about the symbolism behind owning a gun, and that is especially true in the US, where it’s even more a part of the culture. That culture has to be destroyed.

You disagree because you cited a few historic examples where dictators haven’t taken guns? Please keep going… I require more. Before we continue you should explain, in full detail, why you believe that this envisioned society they have will be one where people are cruising around with conceal and carry.

Look at the European monarchies. Every one a dictatorship in the modern sense of the word, and hardly any of them banned guns. It may be a big symbolic issue in the here and now in the US, but that doesn’t mean it was always the same everywhere else, or even most of the time in most other places. I’ve given you examples. Now you give me some examples of how governments have banned gun ownership as a means of promoting, establishing or enhancing dictatorship.

There’s a big distinction to make between their ideal society and their method for getting there. In looking at what they are trying to do in the here and now I look at their actual behaviour, and that tells me they want US citizens to have guns. My guess is that their aim is to induce some kind of violent anarchy that will reduce the population, and thus excuse a massive rearrangement of America’s place in the order of things.

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I think this is extremely one-sided and simplistic. There’s no such thing as ‘the American psyche’. Almost all of the Americans I’ve met have been weak-minded, lazy, nasty idiots. That’s nothing to be proud of or for the rest of the world to emulate.

And your reaction here makes me think you’re going about this the wrong way. There is America, the literal place, where you go there and it’s dirty. But then there is the idea of America. Just here in this couple sentences you’re conflating the idea of the society found in the constitution with what has transpired after 100 years (exactly this 2013) of Britain taking over the fed and co-opting the society into a shitty one.

Britain didn’t take over the Fed. That’s just another simplified myth of the lazy ‘alternative media’.

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Logistically, America is already dead, and yes, they could just nuke everyone. Taking over the world is more than that. In a way, the people have to accept it, and be somewhat aware that they are themselves fucking themselves over. It cannot be some military takeover. It has to be through crushing the USA into the physical and social chaos that will give rise to the New World.

And people owning guns is a vital part of that chaos. If they didn’t, then how do you get the blood in front of the cameras that shocks people in accepting a more formal dictatorship? What better excuse to ban guns in one fell swoop than widespread shootings? That’s the revolutionary method. The incremental method would be loads of small shootings and steady passing of legislation to limit gun ownership. Indeed, Bush II passed legislation making it easier to get guns, but increasing the profiling of those who were buying them. That could be used as part of either the incremental or the revolutionary strategy.
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This trivialities what you are claiming is an issue of fundamental, if symbolic, importance.

Yes. Fair enough. I agree that for our purposes we should be as intellectually rigorous as possible, but I’m saying part of our purpose is dissecting what needs to be said to the general population of our friends, and family, etc. I don’t come at them with the complex stuff. Sometimes in simplification obviously there is some minor distortion that occurs.

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Look I get your point about sourcing, most of the info I’m basing my opinions on come from the Harvard article I cited in the article. We don’t need to focus on the UK specifically.

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Now you give me some examples of how governments have banned gun ownership as a means of promoting, establishing or enhancing dictatorship.

That isn’t my point though. My point is that they are clearly trying to do that now. If you do not see that trend in the media then I find that kind of crazy.

Either that, or something else is going on. I think I’m going to start a new thread.

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Supplements
We should definitely have a thread about supplements.

I’ll start with a couple.

beyondtangy.com/

This is a supplement mix that has all of the 91 nutrients you’re supposed to get a day. I heard about through Alex Jones and that Dr. Joel Wallach guy that comes on his show. It’s really good. You eat less, feel better. I got my family to try it and then seem to like it as well.
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Tongkat Ali

Probably my fav supplement that exists behind maybe Vitamin B12. Here is why:

For guys it enhances you sexually in pretty much every way
Same thing for women
It’s great for bodybuilding - strength, endurance, etc
Decent for overall mood/concentration/energy
Linked to prevention and treatment of numerous cancers
Thoroughly researched and scientifically documented
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Vitamin B-12

I put this on here because it’s something the body requires, and is (especially if you are a vegetarian) harder to get through natural sources. It’s like seafood, beef, and eggs. So, yeah, maybe pick this one up.
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I don’t advocate using supplements if you can otherwise get it from food, (as it is superior) but like I said, the body needs 91 a day. Most people prob get like 17.
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Vitamin B1 - Thiamine

This baby helps restore brain/nervous system function, and at high dosages, gives alcoholics or drug addicts the control to quit. I also heard it aids in de-calcifying the brain, which is probably why most the world is deficient in this one (you’ll get it from grass fed beef, and other foods that aren’t too common, etc, but the world feeds cattle grain, etc).

I generally take a multi-B 150mg vitamin, which includes all the b-vitamins at 150mg a pop (as I drink a lot).
Chlorella

Superfood, a green algae which helps alkalise the system and remove heavy metals and toxins. Anyone who has had a vaccine with mercury, etc, or anyone who drinks flouride, anyone who just wants to rebalance their acidity/alkaline levels, and anyone with a bit too much radiation even, this stuff is just great, and I can’t recommend it enough.
Astaxanthin

…65 times more powerful than vitamin C, 54 times more powerful than beta-carotene, and 14 times more powerful than vitamin E. 550 times more powerful than vitamin E and 11 times more powerful than beta-carotene at neutralizing singlet oxygen. It aids against radiation and sunburn. It stabilises blood sugars, it increases sperm count.

It crosses the blood-brain barrier AND the blood-retinal barrier (beta carotene and lycopene do not), which has huge implications for the health of your eyes (third eye health!). It reduces DNA damage, and is a very powerful natural anti-inflammatory with no adverse reactions thus far found.

Also: It is virtually impossible to obtain the recommended daily amount of astaxanthin from diet alone because there are only a few prime sources: microalgae and sea creatures that consume the algae (salmon, shellfish, and krill). The list of this things benefits go on and on, I recommend looking into it for those interested.
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Shit son!

That last one is crazy. Or sounds like it
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…65 times more powerful than vitamin C, 54 times more powerful than beta-carotene, and 14 times more powerful than vitamin E. 550 times more powerful than vitamin E and 11 times more powerful than beta-carotene at neutralizing singlet oxygen.

Yea I guess I mean, what does that mean exactly?
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Sorry, I missed a bit of what it was supposed to say in copying some info, as I knew there was more than I could explain:

‘When it comes to free radical scavenging: it is 65 times more powerful than vitamin C, 54 times more powerful than beta-carotene, and 14 times more powerful than vitamin E.’

‘Astaxanthin is far more effective than other carotenoids at “singlet oxygen quenching,” which is a particular type of oxidation. The damaging effects of sunlight and various organic materials are caused by this less-stable form of oxygen. Astaxanthin is 550 times more powerful than vitamin E and 11 times more powerful than beta-carotene at neutralizing this singlet oxygen.’

Check out the articles I got it from here or here if interested further, and I’m sure there are other sites and sources which will explain it without the whole sales pitch at the end. I like Mercola though, as he provides his sources and updates regularly.
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Cha ching. Buying some.
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Natural Happy

L-Dopa/Mucan Puriens

This some kind of precursor to dopamine. You just put some in a smoothy or a tea or something and you start to feel happier. Things are brighter. Seems to be fairly harmless. I recommend it to anyone. I use it all the time if I haven’t been to the gym in a while and I just am feeling sort of blah.

5-HTP

A little bit different. Generally it’s used after you do E or something to refresh your serotonin levels, but you can also use it for sleep scheduling. Usually you take like 1 pill for the former and two for the latter. I don’t recommend it as much because it can be somewhat hardcore if you overdose. Serotonin poisoning is actually pretty serious. I have this one but I don’t use it as much, but it’s also way easier to get. I had to order the mucana puriens.
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Fixed Cross’s Meat Eater Morality
Me: I’m against masonry because it is destroying the world, and it will lead to a situation where I’m either dead, or in some shitty society that I don’t want to be in.

FX: Yeah you can’t believe that because you eat meat.

Me: Excuse me?

FX: You’re treated like cattle because you treat actual cattle like cattle. So you would be a hypocrite.

Me: I don’t care.

FX: There is no morality. Your conception of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ doesn’t apply to them because they’re operating outside of right and wrong.

Me: So?

If there is no morality, then I’m free to invent my own where I view them however I want. That’s what they did to me. Same thing. If there is no morality then everything is arbitrary. If they arbitrarily see me as ‘evil’ then I can arbitrarily see them as evil.

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Gobbo, you seem to want them to behave toward a particular aim. You want them to attend to what you see as important. They want people to behave toward a particular aim. They want people to attend to what they see as important.

You seem to want to blindly follow some leader whose plans you are not privy to. So who is making more of a mistake? I would much rather be a meat eat hypocrite than some cultist zealot who just goes along with something because of some childish allure to power.

As I said in another thread, there is a difference between a group saying, ‘There is no morality’ and, and you saying in response, “Oh, really? Well then my death is justified. Here is a gun.”

Anyway to sum this up, the ol’ ‘Do What Thou Wilt’ idea doesn’t only apply to Masons. Both of you need to think on that.
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For the record, this is not a dialogue that actually took place.
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RE: Fixed Cross’s Meat Eater Morality
“There is no morality” makes no sense, clearly there is a lot of morality going around, everyone has his morality. You may mean “there is no objective morality”. So then what you said can be understood as follows:

" If there is no [objective] morality, then I’m free to invent my own where I view them however I want. That’s what they did to me. Same thing. If there is no [objective] morality then everything is [subjective]. If they [subjectively] see me as ‘evil’ then I can [subjectively] see them as evil. "

And yes, of course you can. Not only are you free but you are compelled by your nature as an individual to shape your own values. Only when you give in to mob-culture will you not shape your own values. This is not the problem. I don’t object to you viewing Masons the way you view them. I think it’s perfectly valid that you despise them given what you tell me you know about them.
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We all came from a philosophy site. I think we can fill in the subjectives and objectives.

If you want to dance around your beliefs without explaining them, fine.

But I’m probably going to continue calling you out in different ways until you do.
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(01-07-2013 08:57 PM)Gobbo Wrote:
You seem to want to blindly follow some leader whose plans you are not privy to… some cultist zealot who just goes along with something because of some childish allure to power.
It’s kind of humorous that someone would accuse Me of that. But I guess that would complete the circle of accusations.

(01-08-2013 03:50 AM)Fixed Cross Wrote:
“There is no morality” makes no sense, clearly there is a lot of morality going around, everyone has his morality. You may mean “there is no objective morality”. So then what you said can be understood as follows:

" If there is no [objective] morality, then I’m free to invent my own where I view them however I want. That’s what they did to me. Same thing. If there is no [objective] morality then everything is [subjective]. If they [subjectively] see me as ‘evil’ then I can [subjectively] see them as evil. "

And yes, of course you can. Not only are you free but you are compelled by your nature as an individual to shape your own values. Only when you give in to mob-culture will you not shape your own values. This is not the problem. I don’t object to you viewing Masons the way you view them. I think it’s perfectly valid that you despise them given what you tell me you know about them.
Yeah, that ----^^^

Although technically and philosophically, it should be “universal” and “personal” rather than “objective” and “subjective”, but just a technical distinction.

Generally I see a degree of good in a werewolf, but when they begin to howl at the Sun, thinking it is merely a brighter full Moon, there is a problem. {{and no, I am not referring to the Masons as “the Sun”}}
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I’m sorry I was an asshole.

Especially if you are a part of some secret order whose plans you are entirely privy to.
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For the record, I am still incredibly confused. I’m not disagreeing with the above - I stated it, just in a shorthand I thought that everyone here would understand because this topic has bean discussed thoroughly.

That’s why I am so confused. Perhaps you guys are content to allow that (which is why I’m pissed off) but perhaps that is all in my head. If so then, like I said, I apologize. If it is intentional, though, then I think that is not fair. Or rather, if you do not recognize fairness, know that if you are going to play games with me then I will probably get angry.
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Your representation of our dialogue is simply wrong. I have never said these things and I never would. I should be the one who is pissed off at you for falsifying, lying about me. And actually I am, but I can get over that.

Second, the burden is on you, my friend. You are the one throwing around accusations, and with my endless request to back them up, you just seem to amuse yourself, as you have bluntly ignored and ridiculed those request.

Finally, what those beliefs are that you think I have but do not explain is also a mystery. I and James are the only ones here giving some clarity about what we believe in. Read my articles on the front page for godssake.
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You didn’t say that exactly, but that is more or less what I am getting from you. I’m writing it from my perspective of confusion. You’re right. I will re-read your articles.

As for me backing statement up, I wish I could put it into words. I wish I had a link to show you. Believe me, I really do. Sometimes - most times - what I think is incredibly obvious is not to everyone else.

I hope I am wrong here. I hope that it’s all good in the upper echelons of the G hood.
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No one on THIS site is trying to “play games” if not you.
If anything we are the exact opposite, trying to clarify something that has been intentionally confused, a “played game”.

But clarifying anything that has gotten confused takes a lot of humble patience and learning seemingly irrelevant things until the “light” can come on. That is true on any subject matter.

Both FX and I have pointed out what we believe on “the top level”. In my case it is simply that “it is ALL merely NOISE”.

Does that mean that it is all for the taking?
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Everything is permitted to today’s hedonistic Last Man – you can enjoy everything, BUT deprived of its substance which makes it dangerous. This is why Lacan was right to turn around Dostoyevski’s well-known motto: “If God doesn’t exist, everything is prohibited!” God is dead, we live in a permissive universe, you should strive for pleasures and happiness — but, in order to have a life full of happiness and pleasures, you should avoid dangerous excesses, be fit, live a healthy life, not harass others… so everything is prohibited if it is not deprived of its substance, and you end up leading a totally regulated life. And the opposite also holds: if there is God, then everything is permitted — to those who claim to act directly on behalf of God, as the instruments of His will.
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Excellent. God represent(ed)(s) the ultimate value, and as the intensity of value-holding determines ones willpower and thus freedom/executive power, when God falls away the will is chained. Man falls back to the animal values of survival and procreation.
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Perhaps now we can reconvene with worthier deities.
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Perhaps. I proposed a God once, as you will remember. So did you.
I have not been tending to my God recently.
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I have, and I’ve been flirting with some heavily marginalized areas. The dark side, that is, how mismanaged it has been thus far. My God has given me a task; or, rather, I have given myself a task in relationship with my god, and I am preparing heavily for it. As I am, a capitalist slave, my direction is one suggested by Badiou: to create an impossible space within the possible. I seek allies, and you would not believe how few people I have come across capable of and willing to looking at this god, this task.

Maybe I’ll be posthumous too, but the night is young.

I think we are doing slow but good work in the philosophy forum. If I may suggest something, a gift from my god, it’s to stop seeking permanence. You had a massive idea: to do alchemy with philosophers. Oh, we have our a prioris, but even those are part of the fluxes if we do the chemistry right.

That’s why I’m loving the idea of a debate. We have brought good lumber here, good paint; let’s make some fires and paint some paintings. You could feature it on the front page if you set the proper writing standards.
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What topic?

It has to pull in the masses with it’s universal gravitas.
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I obviously vote philosophy, ie epistemology/ontology.

There’s no need for clumsy wording though, we can bring this to the masses. How about: is there a difference between what you already know and what is fundamentally true?

Though, in those plain terms, it may prove a challenge.

Maybe drugs? We could do some good work with drugs, and there’s an ocean of things to say.
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I think we need something more polemic. That’s kind of my thing.

I was thinking of some kind of ‘what if’ ideas.

Like one time someone explained to me why free energy tech would actually destroy society. At the time it sounded like some excuse, but looking back maybe it wasn’t. It was something to do with how we need some sort of deficiency for the market to work. Anyway it doesn’t matter, but something like this:

A device is made know to the public by the government about technology that can provide free energy [under these stipulations]: Will this be a detriment to society? ILP argues yes, we argue no. Or reverse. Something like that.
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There is more than one type of meat eating. Scavengers can eat meat without having to kill the animal. Then there is the type where you have to kill the animal. But you see, death is natural. From a spiritual perspective, meat and plants are quite similar, because they both contain life force. A bit of bad stuff, quite a bit of good stuff. The act of killing doesn’t directly equate to the act of eating. There is also a difference between truly destroying life, and recycling life. I don’t happen to believe that wolves get bad karma from eating rabbits, for example. When we take in the energy of another life, it is both destructive and creative. It contributes to a faster way to gaining a heightened state of energy and also existence. Some specie, I believe, are soul eaters too. This isn’t 100% evil, even though it does lead to pain for others and some feed back loops which are hard to benefit from or detrimental.

I plan to study this more, but I had made a type of tea where the live plants were left in water. As they live and die, and then the bacteria and yeast live and die, they release spare life force and a bit of consciousness too. Now, if you can have enough life and death cycles inside of a fluid, the particles are stored, and it is actually a spiritually strengthening substance later. I think there is something deeply important about decomposition and life-death cycles. Normally when we eat, we capture only one cycle, but if you can get lots of cycles inside water to store it, then it has a special spirit consintration.

The reason why I mention this is because I think it is relative to the process with meat and plants. Food is all about absorbing value which has been generated through these cycles.

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There are three fundamental means to convert a particle;

  1. Attrition and replacement
  2. Saturation
  3. Corruption and implantation

RE: An Occult Strategy that You Might Want to Know
Interesting. I will comment more later.
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I keep trying to respond to this, but I don’t know.

I feel like this (to me) best exemplifies the whole aliens thing. I think there are aliens, but I think for the most part the whole ‘alien’ part of the troofer movement is a fabrication to distract people. Likewise the whole illusion that there is something else besides aliens we should be searching for fits into the scenario you presented as well.

I know that, for example, the ADL puts out hate propaganda against Jewish people because they have some sort of strategy to always be persecuted. It’s clearly a strategy that works. There could be a similar thing going on with the masons, leading people to believe that there is some sort of demonic inner core when really that is a distraction as well.

This is something I think about often, because of course where does it end? It can go on forever. People getting tricked who think they are tricking.

…this is why humans need to be psychic. How can you wade through it all otherwise? Personally I think hummus makes you psychic.
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The Truth-seeker is an investigator with the endless task of seeking hidden gems too hot to sell.
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(01-29-2013 07:36 AM)JSS Wrote:
The Truth-seeker is an investigator with the endless task of seeking hidden gems too hot to sell.
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Likewise, the hummus maker.
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(01-29-2013 08:25 AM)Gobbo Wrote:
(01-29-2013 07:36 AM)JSS Wrote:
The Truth-seeker is an investigator with the endless task of seeking hidden gems too hot to sell.
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Likewise, the hummus maker.

My first temptation would be to roll my eyes at the notion that hummus could have such a property. But due to being aware of the make of “psychic powers” and their dependencies, I have to suspect that to a degree, you might actually be right.

The more essential concern would be the reduction and simplification of denutrients within the body (as mentioned in the RM: Physiology thread).
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I heard you ask FX if he had ever directly experienced something definitively supernatural.

I have directly witnessed someone remote view (across hundreds of miles) to within 95%-98% accuracy. And then they demonstrated they could do this again, and again, and then again to my skeptic girlfriend when she refused to believe me.

Obviously you’ll just think both me and her are mistaken somehow. That is to be expected. She had the same attitude before she experienced it first hand.

Hummus cannot make you psychic, as there is a definitive logistic to how that type of thing works. It is great for fibre, though.
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As to your presumption of my skepticism, realize that I have done the whole “remote viewing” and more myself. I don’t think you can get more direct witnessing than that. The distinction is that I also watched the mechanism as well.
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Right. Cool man.

This isn’t a bragging contest. Err not for me, at least, I’m just talking with you. I’m not (that) psychic. I freely admit this. In fact, what I said originally I said under the impression that you didn’t think these things were ‘really’ possible. That is, that you wanted to explain it ‘down.’ I see that isn’t the case.

For a while I would meditate and actively try and hone that sense, but then my interests moved onto other things. I’m kind of psychic enough. My intuition has only steered me wrong a couple of times in my life.

Anyway, if your point is that you know the mechanism, and that I don’t, you’re right. I was born into it so I don’t care so much. Plus, really there are multiple ways to achieve psychic vision, some of them even involving technology. It would be cool to know the actual mechanism behind it all, but I assume, by nature of the fact that you said you were in some ‘order’ or another, you have some reason why you are prohibited fro sharing that type of information.

I have the supposed ritual to attain etheric sight saved from the days when CBSWORK was actually putting out information. It involves being vegetarian for a year, and I got to like 8 months before I started to get all weak and stuff and I switched back to meat. From my one correspondence with him, I think that persona might be disinfo, still, it would be cool to try the ritual.

I actually read one post on a forum where this woman did it, and then wanted to turn it off. She was going insane. He was kind of like, ‘Eh, it’s permanent.’ Might be more disinfo, but obviously etheric sight exists, so the story is a powerful one.

It might seem like I don’t take this stuff seriously because I joke around so much, but it’s serious.

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As to your presumption of my skepticism, realize that I have done the whole “remote viewing” and more myself. I don’t think you can get more direct witnessing than that. The distinction is that I also watched the mechanism as well.
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RE: An Occult Strategy that You Might Want to Know
Gobbo, would you be able to tell me what it takes (remote viewing)?

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I don’t know specifically. I was telling about how I know someone who can do it.

But anyone can learn if they practice enough. Just keep at it, and eventually you will develop your sensitivity. There are different exercises.

Also get some orgonite, as that destroys the energetic blockages that Reich talks about, which is key to unlocking the hidden potential in the human body. Also, being a vegetarian helps as animal blood is magnetized, and it interferes with the magnetism of the human body which, when working properly, acts as an antennae of sorts.

Dan~ would be a good person to talk to.
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I’ll ask, but I don’t know if he would help a chaotic satanist.
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I don’t think he will care about that distinction you’ve made.

yeah
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Ok also this

This is not only an issue for Science to realize, but all of society. Positive Potential-to-Affect, PtA, is a higher ability (“potential”) to affect or produce effect. Negative PtA is a lower ability to affect. Thus if anything is to be produced, it is easier to do with positive potential.

If something is to grow, it requires the potential to cause that effect, or Potential-to-Affect. Due to this, a positive endeavor has a greater potential to grow than a negative endeavor. But also because of entropy, it requires more potential to grow more positive than it does to grow more negative.

A positive endeavor uses its higher potential to produce more affect and also to hold onto it. A negative endeavor uses what potential it has to give away its potential and thus has less to hold onto. Then having less potential disallows the negative endeavor to affect as much change as before. But the positive endeavor has more potential with which to affect more change than before.

You can think of it in terms of a conservative bank and a liberal bank. The purpose of the conservative bank is to gain more money (influence, wealth, and/or potential). The liberal bank serves the purpose of giving away money or reducing potential.

The conservative bank has a greater task to face than the liberal bank and thus requires more people to handle more transactions. But because it is keeping money rather than giving it away, it has the money with which to pay its employees. The conservative bank not only requires more, but also can afford more, thus it grows to its maximum potential by acquiring more “mass”.

The liberal bank has the opposite concern. It takes very little to give away money and thus needs very few employees. But also because it is giving away money rather than holding onto it, it can only afford very few employees. The liberal bank accomplishes its maximum negative potential by maintaining low “mass”.

If the conservative bank grows too large in it mass, it will begin to have the entropy problem involving size but it can stabilize and still pay everyone, thus be anentropic at a large size.

If the liberal bank grows too large, it simply runs out of funds with which to keep its employees, its “mass”. And thus due to the lack of potential being maintained, the liberal bank stabilizes and becomes anentropic at a small size.

Potential has a bottom. But it doesn’t have a top.

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Physical subatomic particles do that exact same thing on their own terms. A positive potential particle becomes anentropic at a larger size than a negative particle. The negative particle, in order to achieve lower potential, must give away its affectance. And the positive particle so as to achieve its higher potential, must hold onto its affectance.

Thus in the universe, one should expect to find small negative particles and large positive particles. And they do. Of course by altering the ambient environment sufficiently, either type of particle can be caused to become similar to its anti-particle. The differences in potential that cause this effect are minuscule. But within the same environment, a positive particle will always be stable and anentropic at a larger size than a negative particle because the positive particle is maintaining it potential-to-affect in the positive direction.

In society when it comes to positive and negative issues, the rules, morals, and ethics and the consequences they bring, are formed by these same principles. Stability is the issue for the society as a whole. When it comes to emotions and the mind, these same concerns hold true.

The universe provides structure automatically. One need not create artificial designs such as to compete against it. Let negative things be small and fleeting. And let positive things slowly accumulate. And learning to discern the difference in those is a positive.

The tools, thoughts, people, and methods that help to discern positive from negative are what a positive society accumulates and is what “positive” means.
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Excellent. It may seem obvious, but the beauty is in the method whereby this almost self-evident truth is reached. In VO terms I would have to say this: Every self-valuing in the universe values only what is available to value, but by drawing these particular values from what is available, it cultivates what is around it to increasingly embody that value. That makes sense but slightly stretches the definitions. This is good.

If you will allow another question: can you give a short RM definition of the difference between electromagnetic and gravitational force?
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can you give a short RM definition of the difference between electromagnetic and gravitational force?
That is pretty easy, although not obvious to scientists.

Firstly, “force” is an after-effect, an aberrant effect that does not actually exist except via perception. In reality, particles “migrate” due to aggregation and dissemination of their internal affectance (“energy”). There is nothing actually pushing or pulling them any in direction. They simply have cause to grow toward one direction and shrink from the other direction. They are always reforming their constituents, their “affectance” and are actually only the center of the congestion involved. It is much like a crowd of people shifting while the individual people are coming and going from the scene. The “particle” is merely the congestion, not the people themselves. And thus when the center of congestion shifts, it is perceived that the “particle” has shifted, when in reality, merely more people got involved on one side as others left the other side.

But then the issue of EM versus gravity is even simpler. Gravity is simply randomized EM to the point that the total average EM over a portion of space is zero, but on a much, much smaller scale there is nothing but EM “wavelets” buzzing around.

There is actually only one “field”; “Affectance”, the altering of potential-to-affect, PtA.

That field is described simply in each of its differential forms;

  1. PtA - the steady state or “instantaneous value”
  2. The changing and 1st derivative of that state, “PtA/dt”
  3. The 2nd derivative of that state, “Pta/(dt^2)”
  4. Every higher derivative is also included to infinity resulting in an “infinite series” that accurately and perfectly describes literally every point in space with a single equation.

That equation is then placed into a tensor matrix so as to describe literally any and all of space regardless of its content. Nothing else can ever exist.

A computer program has been developed to demonstrate that in fact, particles will form in positive, negative, and neutral charges without having to be told to do so. And those particles do in fact behave exactly as Science has noted subatomic particles to behave. No prior assumptions, principles, or observations from Science were required other than to note the exact similarity.

An additional note is that the mysteries of “Electroweak force” and “Strong force” are also easily seen as to their exact cause and are in fact, merely aberrant effects also, not separate entities, “forces” or “gods”.
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It may seem obvious, but the beauty is in the method whereby this almost self-evident truth is reached. In VO terms I would have to say this: Every self-valuing in the universe values only what is available to value, but by drawing these particular values from what is available, it cultivates what is around it to increasingly embody that value. That makes sense but slightly stretches the definitions.
That is exactly true, but I don’t think it “stretches” any definitions.
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" Gravity is simply randomized EM to the point that the total average EM over a portion of space is zero "

I suspected as much. So what is E=mc² ? - mass times the second derivative of the max potential of change? The consequences are wonderful, as we can so explain all ‘supernatural powers’ that humans have been seen to have exerted - one needs only to de-randomize a small portion of ones mass to be able to exert an enormous electromagnetic energy - and let that in turn work on mass, to restructure, ‘heal’ (or destroy).

If one manages to manipulate ones whole electric field, would it be possible magnetize oneself so as to levitate against the field of the Earth?

One logical way to cause this de-randomization would be breath. Consciously, directionally breathing connects the intention with the physical body. All the rest to which it comes down is method.
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I am not always sober in my assessments. But I am quite driven to find an explanation for the phenomena I have experienced and witnessed. The idea that mass is collapsed energy implies that it can be de-collapsed, exploded. And this is what every kundalini-yogi and tai chi master will confirm. To move mass with intentional, directional breath creates surges of electrical energy.
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The Mind and the Physical universe have analogous ontologies. What is true in principle for one is true in principle for the other. Both have their own “energy” and “matter” (hence the statements, “This doesn’t matter to me” as well as “all objects are formed of matter”). In both cases, their matter is formed from their energy. Each is a metaphor for the other and by mixing these metaphors, one creates mysticism, often used by religions and magicians.

I try to not mix my metaphors. Wink
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This is a very good example of the utilization of RM within physics;

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Doppler cooling, which is usually accompanied by a magnetic trapping force to give a magneto-optical trap, is by far the most common method of laser cooling. It is used to cool low density gases down to the Doppler cooling limit, which for Rubidium 85 is around 150 microkelvin. As Doppler cooling requires a very particular energy level structure, known as a closed optical loop, the method is limited to a small handful of elements.

In Doppler cooling, the frequency of light is tuned slightly below an electronic transition in the atom. Because the light is detuned to the “red” (i.e., at lower frequency) of the transition, the atoms will absorb more photons if they move towards the light source, due to the Doppler effect. Thus if one applies light from two opposite directions, the atoms will always scatter more photons from the laser beam pointing opposite to their direction of motion. In each scattering event the atom loses a momentum equal to the momentum of the photon. If the atom, which is now in the excited state, then emits a photon spontaneously, it will be kicked by the same amount of momentum, but in a random direction. Since the initial momentum loss was opposite to the direction of motion, while the subsequent momentum gain was in a random direction, the overall result of the absorption and emission process is to reduce the speed of the atom (provided its initial speed was larger than the recoil speed from scattering a single photon). If the absorption and emission are repeated many times, the average speed, and therefore the kinetic energy of the atom will be reduced. Since the temperature of a group of atoms is a measure of the average random internal kinetic energy, this is equivalent to cooling the atoms.
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Societies have been having this done to them for thousands of years, “heated and cooled” by design. The exact principles are identical to that of physics.
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That’s a very educative and entertaining video. I’m happy to know how this works. Remarkably simple, and value ontology is even more naturally applicable here than I thought it would be.

In VO terms then: the atom can only value photons of (frequency-)value that is interpretable in terms of it’s (frequential) self-value.

On the question of mind and matter - since they are both ultimately made of the same affectance, I would say that there is a limited validity to approaching them as separate ontologies, even though I see that it’s necessary when we do approach them as ‘mind’ and ‘matter’ - per definition different systems of definition.

So I will take your answer as a careful ‘no’, and respect that. But for the record, from experience I know that mass can be ‘exploded’ into energy though intent and occult method. I also think that there is nothing implicit in RM that forbids this – even though, if no RM explanation of the methods is available, it is not to be considered actively possible either.

What I - and every neuropsychologist with me - would be interested in is the connection of thought to action, and conversely of matter to thought. How does the brain ‘contain’ the mind?

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Also - can you explain E=mc^2 in terms of RM? Is c then not the maximum rate of change?
This is at least the idea I’ve had since I was first confronted with the formula - that the speed of light is like the ‘edge’ or ‘border’ of the universe - the limit implicit in it’s physicality so to speak.
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RE: Rational Metaphysics: An Introduction and a Beginning
(01-10-2013 04:20 AM)Fixed Cross Wrote:
On the question of mind and matter - since they are both ultimately made of the same affectance, I would say that there is a limited validity to approaching them as separate ontologies, even though I see that it’s necessary when we do approach them as ‘mind’ and ‘matter’ - per definition different systems of definition.
A different ontology can be formed for the identical reality. An ontological distinction is merely made by the choice of defined concepts to use as the elements of understanding. The distinction between the materialist and the spiritualist is merely one of a different choice in how to explain the same reality. Although due to that difference, both using the same words for different things, and presumptions being made along the route of building higher understandings of complex things, each ontology comes to a different conclusion concerning several issues and thus each declares the other to be “wrong”.

Because the attempt to explain the mind and its psychological concerns in terms of electric potentials gets extremely complex, I prefer to simply form a different ontological set of elements. The mind deals, for example, with hope and threat. But try to explain every use within the mind of hope and threat in terms of electric potentials. The wording and thought chains get very cumbersome for even the slightest common concern. It would be like trying to explain why your wife got upset about the toilet seat being up in terms of sub-nuclear physics. Confused

(01-10-2013 04:20 AM)Fixed Cross Wrote:
But for the record, from experience I know that mass can be ‘exploded’ into energy though intent and occult method.
Can you demonstrate that?

RM is about clarifying, not mystifying. As VO should be as well.

(01-10-2013 04:20 AM)Fixed Cross Wrote:
What I - and every neuropsychologist with me - would be interested in is the connection of thought to action, and conversely of matter to thought. How does the brain ‘contain’ the mind?
Fundamentally, it is analogous to software and hardware. The software is the functioning of the hardware and the mind is the functioning of the neurological system. And realize that “software” and “hardware” are merely two separate ontologies used to understand the same device. Why don’t they use sub nuclear physics as their ontology?? Dodgy

The hardware responds to software issues and the software responds to hardware issues, because they are the same device. When the interconnectivity starts getting too complex and information dependent, you stop talking about the hardware involved and use a software model. And you stop talking about the brain and start talking about the mind. If the neurologist doesn’t understand the mind it is probably because he is still trying to use a neurological ontology in the same way that a materialist tries to use a material ontology while trying to explain complex and sophisticated interactions that would be best explained with a spiritual ontology.

The materialist attempts to over simply the complexity of the system, as often does the spiritualist. The neurologist or psychiatrist does the same. They generally need a good psychologist (well… if they can find one).

In RM, all things become clarified, which inherently removes mystery. Relatively magical things can be done, but they are never magical to the one who understands them (regardless of the ontology).
(01-10-2013 04:28 AM)Fixed Cross Wrote:
Also - can you explain E=mc^2 in terms of RM? Is c then not the maximum rate of change?
This is at least the idea I’ve had since I was first confronted with the formula - that the speed of light is like the ‘edge’ or ‘border’ of the universe - the limit implicit in it’s physicality so to speak.
Well several issues arise in that question;
A) Those are physics terms, not far more precise RM terms.

B) The terms “mass” and “energy” are not well defined in physics and “energy”, “vacuum”, and “temperature” are all actively being redefined as we speak.

C) The equation is actually merely the first portion of an infinite series wherein the other terms are insignificant.

D) RM (or more specifically AO) uses different units of measure than contemporary physics for different defined entities. And thus a “Rosetta Stone” is required to translate between contemporary physics measurements and those of RM.

In RM, that equation would be saying something like this;
“The total affectance within a congestion of affectance is equal to the congestion’s amount of reluctance to accelerate times the speed of affect squared.”

In RM, a “mass particle” is merely a congestion of affectance. And no mass particle has definite bounds. The congestion that defines the particle has merely a chosen degree of congestion as its defined border. Thus the amount of congestion within it is somewhat a matter of choice as to where you want to draw the line between what is the particle and what isn’t. But the term “mass” is more related to the amount of inertia that particle has due to that congestion. So the equation is actually relating the inertia to the total affectance content within an arbitrarily chosen border.

What the equation reveals for physicists, is that the speed of affects is related to the congestion’s reluctance to move. RM knows that as obvious from the very beginning even before a particle is ever formed.
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I can not demonstrate it no. I can at best link you to a short clip (the only video on the page). We see these things differently, I realize, but I can simply not dismiss my experience in order to fit inside a world view of someone else. I am certain you would not ask me to do this.

When I am using your method to explain things that I experience, I am not mystifying. I am in fact clarifying. I respect your preference to keep realms separately, but you will agree that there has to be a connection between all separate ontologies, as all is part of the same.

Does RM contain definitions of the transitions from matter-ontology to mind (hopes&threats)-ontology?
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On the video - the bit that matters is the people with the swords stuck through their cheeks. Unfortunately I only edited the trailer, and I have no idea what the director did with the rest of the material, but the thing that struck me as bizarre then was that when they withdrew the swords from their cheeks, the wounds were instantly healed. This was in fact the reason why I did not want to edit the whole film - it was way too intense and bizarre. This whole crucifixion festival alone was enough to strain my nerves.
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Value ontology serves very usefully to explain the mind and matter in equal terms - value. Be these values hopes and threats, or frequencies, or something altogether different. We may be opposed here, in that I would rather see it as mystification when one keeps what I see as different layers of the same ontology, separate as categorically different ontological realms.

I am particularly interested in the connections between one and the next layer. I realize that this is where the least is known, by anyone. Neither scientists nor yogis claim to know how this works. The yogis insist that it works and do not seek an explanation the scientist usually evades the matter, otherwise he would have to explain it.

But please do consider this something of my personal interest, not an indication of where I think the RM thread should be heading. I can very well understand that you do not see merit in discussing areas where you have not acquired absolute certainty yet. But in fact you did already provide me with a great deal to work with here - the definition of the difference between matter and energy is quite brilliant.
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RE: Rational Metaphysics: An Introduction and a Beginning
(01-11-2013 06:15 AM)Fixed Cross Wrote:
I can not demonstrate it no. I can at best link you to a short clip (the only video on the page). We see these things differently, I realize, but I can simply not dismiss my experience in order to fit inside a world view of someone else. I am certain you would not ask me to do this.

What “experience” and have you directly seen anything “supernatural”/“magical”?

(01-11-2013 06:15 AM)Fixed Cross Wrote:
I respect your preference to keep realms separately, but you will agree that there has to be a connection between all separate ontologies, as all is part of the same.

That’s true. There is only one reality for every ontology to be describing.

(01-11-2013 06:15 AM)Fixed Cross Wrote:
Does RM contain definitions of the transitions from matter-ontology to mind (hopes&threats)-ontology?

Certainly. But they are almost exactly the same as hardware to software translations.
(01-11-2013 06:21 AM)Fixed Cross Wrote:
On the video - the bit that matters is the people with the swords stuck through their cheeks. Unfortunately I only edited the trailer, and I have no idea what the director did with the rest of the material, but the thing that struck me as bizarre then was that when they withdrew the swords from their cheeks, the wounds were instantly healed. This was in fact the reason why I did not want to edit the whole film - it was way too intense and bizarre. This whole crucifixion festival alone was enough to strain my nerves.

Why did you believe a FILM wherein someone seemed to have “instantly healed”?
(01-11-2013 06:32 AM)Fixed Cross Wrote:
Value ontology serves very usefully to explain the mind and matter in equal terms - value. Be these values hopes and threats, or frequencies, or something altogether different. We may be opposed here, in that I would rather see it as mystification when one keeps what I see as different layers of the same ontology, separate as categorically different ontological realms.

Such is done ONLY for sake of simplification. If you would develop VO in detail and further, you would end up having to do the same thing. As it is, when you explain that a proton “values itself”, you are implying a consciousness and conscious will. Does VO explain the difference or just state that consciousness is something different, and thus a “willed valuation” is different than a “non-willed valuing”.

(01-11-2013 06:15 AM)Fixed Cross Wrote:
I am particularly interested in the connections between one and the next layer. I realize that this is where the least is known, by anyone.

I wouldn’t say that it is particularly unknown. It is just a whole lot of details that end up merely putting you back where you were with the additional understanding as to why it seemed strange/mysterious before. After that point, you end up sounding like everyone else as if you didn’t really know when in fact, you can tell that there is just too many details to go through. Hardware and software people have this same issue.

(01-11-2013 06:15 AM)Fixed Cross Wrote:
Neither scientists nor yogis claim to know how this works.

I claim to know how it works (and what parts don’t), regardless of whether scientists or yogis do or don’t. And I am not alone in that. It stays a “mystery” merely because of the complexity in trying to get someone to see the connections between what THEY thought was separate entities that were in fact not really separate at all. That is exactly what magic is all about; “unseen influence/connections” and “presumed connections/distinctions that weren’t really there”.

(01-11-2013 06:15 AM)Fixed Cross Wrote:
the definition of the difference between matter and energy is quite brilliant.

Thanks. It kind of tickled me a little when I stated it that way. Blush
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I have also never witnessed the interior of the sun directly, or the continent South America. But this video that I edited, I saw the raw material. I did not want to know it. The guy asked me to edit the whole thing but I declined. it just did not fit in my - life. Consider spending a month or three racing through material of people tormenting themselves, being crucified for fun, etc. Regardless of their recovery, that’s just not okay, a strain on my emotions. It did cost me the chance to work and live in Spain, which is too bad.

Anyway – given your definition, I would not call such things supernatural. Naturally, all things that occur within nature have an explanation in terms of nature. As ever, there are ‘‘miracles’’, which only means, events occurring by laws we are not aware of yet.

I can see how to a great extent the analogy hardware-software applies. However, nature did of course not divide itself categorically. Unlike with computers, it is a continuum, so there must be some possibility for the software, the mind/conscious intent, to address the hardware directly. It is logical that this requires intricate knowledge of both software and hardware.

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It stays a “mystery” merely because of the complexity in trying to get someone to see the connections between what THEY thought was separate entities that were in fact not really separate at all.

Exactly.
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RE: Rational Metaphysics: An Introduction and a Beginning
(01-14-2013 03:11 AM)Fixed Cross Wrote:
I have also never witnessed the interior of the sun directly, or the continent South America.

There is a big difference between the easily believable things proposed and the hard to believe things that are proposed. The more difficult to believe, the more evidence is required and the more the mediator between the event and the person is to be suspect.

(01-14-2013 03:11 AM)Fixed Cross Wrote:
As ever, there are ‘‘miracles’’, which only means, events occurring by laws we are not aware of yet.

Or complexities that we did not imagine. New “laws” are not required.

(01-14-2013 03:11 AM)Fixed Cross Wrote:
I can see how to a great extent the analogy hardware-software applies. However, nature did of course not divide itself categorically. Unlike with computers, it is a continuum, so there must be some possibility for the software, the mind/conscious intent, to address the hardware directly. It is logical that this requires intricate knowledge of both software and hardware.

Realize that nature had no need for “understanding”. It is by our need for understanding that WE create ontologies that serve our chosen purpose. When things seem too complex, we divide them into categories for the sake of independent study; physics, medicine, sociology, chemistry,…

Hardware and software merely represent two reasonably distinct fields of study even though they are always intertwined and really the same item.

The brain and the mind are very similar. They are merely distinct areas of study for us. There is no physical distinction in the item being studied, rather merely the ontology being used so as to more easily see relationships.

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It stays a “mystery” merely because of the complexity in trying to get someone to see the connections between what THEY thought was separate entities that were in fact not really separate at all.

An example of merely an ontological distinction that causes a great deal of philosophical futile debate;

What is called “an idea” is said to be “stored in memory” (such as the idea of a perfect circle). But what is hardly ever realized by anyone in the field or not, is that the “idea” IS the particular arrangement of memory, it is not merely “stored” in memory. Thus many people argue about “where is the idea itself??? And how does the mind operate with it?”

The mind operates with ideas merely by calling up the memory arrangement that IS that idea. The idea is NOT a separate entity from the arrangement itself.

If merely the memory arrangement were taken from one brain and put into another, the second mind would instantly contain the “idea”. The idea of a perfect circle (or any mathematical concept) is established merely by the brain arranging its memory mechanism into a order that is to represent the concept. There is nothing else there.

But obviously there is a distinction in ontology. When working with a brain, one does not think in terms of “an idea sitting at this location in the brain”. That person thinks in terms of “memory configurations being set in this particular fashion”. Yet the two are actually identical, merely different words that led people to believe in many arguments and mysteries.

An additional issue relating to this is the ontological difference between modern Science and Religion. In Religion, an “angel” is merely what modern Science calls “an idea”. They are identical, but merely a different word used in two different ontologies. The notion of angels having wings is merely conveying the notion that ideas carry or “fly” from place to place. Angels can be very powerful - the notion that ideas can be very powerful. Angels must “earn their wings”, meaning that an idea must prove its worth in order to be propagated.

Of course the Christians, in this anti-Christian age are immediately accused of trying to deceive and making up fantasies. But who is really making things up? The notion of angles and the meaning of the word is thousands of years old, hardly an invention of the Christians. There is an understandable difference in ancient ontology and modern Science ontology and the associated words. But they hardly ever actually conflict.

Do angels exist? For those who understand, “you wouldn’t even be able to ask the question if they didn’t”.
Do words exist? … same response.

Those who fail to understand and promote extended misunderstandings (as is very common in modern Science) are the ones inventing mysteries and falsely accusing." />

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I have no problems so far.
Only if you think that “infinity” is a set value can you have a problem with this.
But I would appreciate an explanation on “tensor analysis”.
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Infinity is a relative quantity to other infinities.

Divide two lines infinitely, a 1 meter line and a 2 meter line.
Both have an infinite number of points, yet one has twice as many as the other.

Actually I really didn’t expect many people to have trouble with the cardinalities of infinity issue. It’s the tensor analysis that gets hairy. But at least no one has to go through relativity mind games.

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FC’s Value Ontology could be perhaps better named “Value Response Ontology”, VRO. As such, a common misunderstanding could be readily resolved.

If an object has consciousness, its values are based on conscious perception, “Value Conscious Ontology” (a subset of VRO) but if it has no consciousness, its values are based on inherent filtering responses that cause the object to be sustained over time, rather than the conscious choices that a conscious being uses to accomplish the same goal.

As VRO, it becomes identical (or at least almost) to that of RM:Affectance Ontology, RM:AO. With the exacting definitions that RM requires, it becomes RM:VRO and becomes irrefutable.
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I don’t see what prevents VCO and conscious choice from co-existing.
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I do.

The OP singlehandedly cleared up some stuff that had me confused. Nice.
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Will someone point it out? Or are your elephants more sacred than mine?
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(04-20-2013 09:59 AM)pezer Wrote:
I don’t see what prevents VCO and conscious choice from co-existing.

The general concept is that things respond in accord to their own values.

A common first impression is that VO is claiming that inanimate objects have a value system and that implies a consciousness of some kind. The denial and argumentation begins.

If VO was named “Value Conscious Ontology”, VCO, it would skirt that argument and imply that it is only referring to conscious entities.

But the basic concept actually extends beyond merely the conscious beings (which is why I accepted it from the start). The problem is that most people are not metaphysicists in even the slightest way, and for them, a distinction is needed so as to avoid the apparent incorrectness of the proposal.

If Value Response Ontology is proposed, VRO, it is clear that we are talking about responses which might or might not be of a conscious nature. So when anyone asks of the need for consciousness in order to have “values”, it is easy enough to merely explain that within all responses, there are two types; conscious and unconscious.

The ontology strictly involving the conscious variety could be called “VCO”, forming a Value Conscious Ontology. But literally all existing things must actually have a response which inherently values themselves, even unconscious things. That happens to be a provable fact. Thus merely by naming it “VRO”, “Value Response Ontology”, it includes truly all existence, not merely conscious entities. And the fact of that gets a chance to be presented before total rejection sets in on a false presumption of the ridiculous notion that all entities have consciousness.
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(04-20-2013 10:26 AM)pezer Wrote:
Will someone point it out? Or are your elephants more sacred than mine?

Was trying to put it into words but JSS got it.

I couldn’t see how, say a rock, was involved in VO because to me it sounded like a very cerebral thing.
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But that’s, in fact, part of it. Value Ontology raises the question with proper fear: What is the similitude between consciousness and a rock?

I could say chemistry; but smell, taste, gaze, touch and sound all explain it better.
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Consciousness requires remote recognition. But the point is to propose something that is not immediately rejected, not to inspire argumentation. What is or isn’t conscious would still be an issue to address and no matter which is decided, VRO wouldn’t be proven wrong and rejected.

When I talk about Rational Metaphysics, I use two words that very many people have issue with before even considering what the subject might actually be. “Rational” is associated with Espinoza, who said a few things that I could agree with but quite a few that I couldn’t, and “Metaphysics” is associated with a great many all too imaginative flakes inventing every kind of nonsense so as to seem mysterious (much like modern quantum physics). So a better title could probably have been found, just not by me.
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You worry too much. I rarely pay attention to your terms and definitions. That is, I see the things you mention and immediately check your style for evidence of it, I don’t look at the terms or definitions very long.

"What is or isn’t conscious would still be an issue to address . . . "

I feel like I addressed it, and you just strolled on by, warning about not addressing it.
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It is evidently much more difficult for the general thinker to understand my reasoning than I held for possible (the Math Fun thread revealed this to me) so I can see the strategic merit that you are presenting. That is not a yes, but not a no either. Some things need to be taken care of for this to become an asset.

(04-20-2013 07:52 AM)JSS Wrote:
FC’s Value Ontology could be perhaps better named “Value Response Ontology”, VRO. As such, a common misunderstanding could be readily resolved.

If an object has consciousness, its values are based on conscious perception,

Later on you correct or clarify this. As you say it here, it is error. Conscious perception is based on values. Remote recognition is an extended, evolved form of value-response.

Make sure that your modeling does not allow for the suggestion that values derive from consciousness.

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“Value Conscious Ontology” (a subset of VRO) but if it has no consciousness, its values are based on inherent filtering responses that cause the object to be sustained over time, rather than the conscious choices that a conscious being uses to accomplish the same goal.

This is dangerous terrain. Conscious choices are, as seen through the lens of VO, not essentially different from unconscious choices. There is a great deal more processing involved. But the chooser is still utterly bound to what he is, a particular standard for value.

VO begins with the subject (affecter/affected), where RM begins with the circumstance (affecting).

Not all objects are self-valuings. They are however all composed of self-valuings. This is of the essence. VO ‘ranks’ between the active and the passive rather than between the conscious and the unconscious. Consciousness derives from self-valuing. But a subject does not have to be conscious to self-value. It does have to self-value to be a subject. You can wear a rock down from a diameter of a meter to a diameter of a centimeter. It still is “a rock”. It’s not a self-valuing, its essence is not tied to any particularity except that it is made of a certain type of elements. It’s not itself an entity.

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So you are saying that if your consciousness was turned off, your values would not change at all? Bein unconscious a painting would still be pleasurable experience? A rainbow? The site of a murder would have the same meaning?

I can see that my post on Clarity was notably unclear (thus to whom would I be actually writing a book?).
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Worry not JSS, we are not readers but welders. Your book would be probably quite good as your ideas stand.

As regards unconscious in proximity to stimuli, well there are different terms of valuing in each circumstance. I like how Fixed Cross approaches the gap: consciousness is an effect of networks of valuing. Clarity can stand, but we claim it to be categorically dependent on the self-valuing subject who makes things clear, or for whom things are made clear.

Or, to put it my way, what I just said only makes sense because I am saying it and you are reading it. By itself, it doesn’t even exist.
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So you are saying that if your consciousness was turned off, your values would not change at all? Bein unconscious a painting would still be pleasurable experience? A rainbow? The site of a murder would have the same meaning?

What do you mean? How can I exist if my consciousness is turned off?
This is a false hypothetical. I am not an unconscious being. Thus my values are related to my consciousness, as they are related to me.

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I can see that my post on Clarity was notably unclear (thus to whom would I be actually writing a book?).

If not for those like me who have not yet have had the fortune of reading your thoughts, then for the scientist thirsty for reason, or if all that is too lowly, do it for Apollo.

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There is only one thing that literally everyone here (or even elsewhere) could know without question is worthy of doing on this or any site.

But can you figure out what it is?
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04-06-2013, 03:43 AM Post: #2
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Meditation?
How bout getting off all these antibiotics?
How bout stopping eating when I’m full up?
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Learning things we didn’t know before.
Science is found in the question “how do you know?”
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(04-05-2013 06:36 PM)JSS Wrote:
There is only one thing that literally everyone here (or even elsewhere) could know without question is worthy of doing on this or any site.

But can you figure out what it is?
Finding one’s blind spots, realizing a problematic habit/reaction one has, learning about something one didn’t know about before in general.
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(04-07-2013 11:51 AM)Heathen Wrote:
Finding one’s blind spots, realizing a problematic habit/reaction one has, learning about something one didn’t know about before in general.
Learning of one’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT)?
…and those of his surroundings.

Or perhaps discovering the means to do that.

My personal answer is;
Clarify, Verify, Instill, and Reinforce the Perception of Hopes and Threats unto Anentropic Harmony… else suffer.
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Impedance matching -
you are right about that. But RM can not be instilled properly if you rely on sole posts. EVERY post needs to make the reader aware of the context in which you are saying it.
The logical steps from impossibility of absolute homogeneity to particle-creation are evident to me, but not to everyone. And they need to be for anyone to understand. At least, I had to understand that before I could understand (and thus accept) the rest.
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Quite true, but remember that everyone defines their own impedance (their “value assessments”). Thus every signal propagation (“the message”) takes a different amount of time for every individual. If a single signal (a “truth”) were presented, almost no one would hear it as a truth unless they already knew it and wanted it to be a truth. The signal would match the timing for at best maybe one person out of millions.

So the solution to that is to maintain a constant signal such as to allow for every timing. Some people hear it immediately, very few, others take much longer. But it isn’t quite that simple really. There is an exponential response curve; the more people who have gotten the message, the faster others get the message. Thus it is an exponential signal propagation issue over time and “distance” (the number of people).

The only real problem in the past has been that the “signal” hasn’t been constantly immutable. I won’t go into all of the errors of those preceding us, but that is what it boils down to.

In electronic engineering, the entire process is very common and easily seen as a signal being sent down a cable or wire. If there is the slightest change in impedance from point A to point B (from one person to the next), the signal is expected to partially get through and partially reflect back (argumentation). But if point A is what is called the “source” with an extremely low impedance (an immutable argument), every reflected bit gets reflected back and the entire signal eventually passes point B (the other person eventually learns every detail with no argument left to make). And from there of course, point B encounters point C and so on.

With RM, point A, the original source, need not always be there if point B can ever get the entire message, because then point B becomes the source for point C. Of course, if both A and B are present, point C gets the message much quicker (because they are not really in perfect line, C has contact with both A and B, thus twice the immutability, even lower impedance to deal with, “more momentum”).

With propagation through people (the “flight of the angels”), there are a number of discreet obstacles, “impedance(s)”. One very significant impedance involves the number of other people who have accepted the signal. As long as it is the exactly correct signal, that exact signal will exponentially come to match any and every impedance, “obstacle”. This is the issue of “authority worship”. Even though the number of people does not actually equate to authority correctness, it does equate to respect of the issue and thus attention and consideration. No matter how completely wrong a thought might be, if 10 million people are believing it, it will get attention and consideration.

The point is that in order to impedance-match the worst of all impediments (ILP for [intentional] example), the source must be immutable and constantly available to reflect argumentation (answer all questions).

Of course, you can obviously tell that this has been only the beginning of a very long lecture concerning propagation of values throughout a society (often referred to as “propaganda”). Propaganda is certainly a good thing if, and only if, the message is immutably correct (“Worth While”).

And this is the message;
Clarify, Verify, Instill, and Reinforce the Perception of Hopes and Threats unto Anentropic Harmony… else suffer.

RM is merely an example that overshadows all of current Science.

And even without any RM concern, any film or book to be viral must adhere to that same message, else…
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Else nothing, which is infinitely more than nothing. I am starting to agree with ChainOfBeing’s view that this whole investigation is more obsession with influence than influence. In my experience, abstract structures are like the structure that holds up a rocket ship before and during launch. At the moment of ignition, it all kind of crumbles apart, and its true value is revealed.

This is why I think you should get drunk and blurt it all out. Drugs are excellent ignitors.
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Life is better lived, than talked about.

If you want influence, go and get it. “There is more wisdom in your body than in your highest philosophy”. What beautiful chaos this speaks to, in so far as “diving in” will produce the most potentiating ripples and unknown causal influences, that build and combine in unpredictable ways, that generate and spread based on their own physical geometry and law which all investigating and truth-seeking can merely hint at.

Peeling back the layers is great, but only if we are doing this in the real world of our living and not in a sterile operating room.

I would argue that if we lack influence it is probably because we do not really want it, something strong in us holds back our desire, perhaps caution, or fear, or apathy, or a sense of future concerns, or maybe just distraction. All of these may combine or cause one another to produce lack-of-influence, meaning lack of willingness to subvert the analytical mind for the sake of jumping in.

There is no way to know what it feels like to jump into a pool of cold water than actually doing it. You cannot describe this to someone who has not done it or something like it. Influence is like this too: the most naive are the most rewarded.
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I just realized a “spell” that I could personally cast upon each member of this forum (a procedure) that would cause them each to become “Buddhistically Wise”. Their intelligence would skyrocket. Their perception would become awesomely accurate. They would learn whatever they chose so very much more quickly. They would become more healthy. And each would inherently spread the effect throughout society. It would even work for the “retarded” (the “slowed” due to neurological contamination). Twenty years ago, I could have done it much more readily (and in a very small way actually did without realizing it).

There is a psychological trick (aka “spell”) that works on everyone. Hell, it would even work on animals; monkeys, squirrels, mice,… dubiously even fish. Homosapian, less so due to the degree of confusion and interference with instincts. It involves the “induction” process spelled out in more advanced RM.

And ooooo… it could be fashioned into a film, requiring little else.

Unfortunately, I will not have the time or resources to actually do it now. But the question is, would anyone choose to sign up for it?

Why or why not?
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No, because you refuse to address any of my own spells. How can I join a project where I feel the director is not open to any ideas but his own?
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I will join. Please elaborate further.
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I suppose it would depend on what you mean by Buddhistic Wisdom.
I have some issues with Buddism.
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I was merely referring to Buddhism in a general sense of maintaining a higher, wider, and more serene perspective of one’s situation such as to be less often misled.

What I would propose is a type of “pseudo-self-hypnosis” that induces that general type of perspective by consequence. I say, “pseudo” because actual hypnosis refers to non-cognitive, unaware influence upon your inner processes and is the actual mainstream adversary throughout society (and has been for thousands of years, commonly referred to as “socialist propaganda” and “false flagging” and today even “Hollywood film making” - “Rain makers”). Hypnosis is a way of getting the inner life to go along with the upper management or the outer manipulator.

What I would prose is something contrary to such actual hypnosis that leads a mind (and a society) toward not being so easily misled. One critical element is the fact that it is not unknown to the conscious as to what is taking place or why. It would work either way, but is not intended to trick the person into thinking or doing things contrary to what they could see for themselves to be wise. In effect, it wakes them up (the “red pill” dispersed into the water).

Although the direction is contrary to such hypnosis induction, it uses the same principle. It merely allows for conscious awareness thus, “self-hypnosis” and “pseudo” because being lulled into a transitive sleep is not at all required.

The technique is simply to use your experiences (such as movie scenarios) to induce your instinctive senses toward clarifying and verifying your actual situation before jumping to presumptive conclusions concerning what you need or don’t need to do. The average person is very prone to merely presuming the first most obvious thought and going from there. Every religion and every war has been led by such a natural tendency within the populous. It is a common temptation, and even an addiction that leads to a mental blindness of what is really going on. Every con artist depends on it.

The counter-trick is to instill into your habits the process of ensuring that you know a little more of your situation before you attempt to decide what to do next. Communication to your inner mind has always been the challenge, especially sense your inner mind can so easily derail your conscious mind (emotions overriding reasoning). Your inner mind has to have a good reason for not taking charge of your entire mind and by consequence defeating the whole point in having a mind at all. Of course the reverse must also be avoided. The conscious mind should certainty avoid the attempt to control all thought within (the socialist dictator trying to control all thought throughout the country).

By experiencing the right effects, incentives toward keeping a reasonable balance against presumption can be instilled into your inner “populous” such that your inner mind does not want to take over everything, nor does it want to be taken over. Cooperation between the inner and higher processes is established merely by displaying the right experiences to the inner and with the higher’s understanding. It is much like displaying films concerning the travesty of a nuclear war so as to prevent the populous from rushing into a willingness to start one.
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We agree on the premises.

What is the spell?
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I want to add that psychology is less like math and more like cooking in that, no matter what formula you use, the end result is always determined directly by the specific chemistry of the ingredients used. There is no escaping historicity.

We would have to trick the mark into accessing his/her own ingredients, lest they become dependent on their “savior’s” nectar.
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The Cooking vs Math observation is very good.
But very interested in the spell as well.
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(05-10-2013 10:17 PM)pezer Wrote:
We would have to trick the mark into accessing his/her own ingredients, lest they become dependent on their “savior’s” nectar.
That is the whole point, to allow for people to become themselves again.

This part only addresses the psychological issues, mostly ADHD oriented issues. There are still medical and genetic issues to be straightened out by the cooperative mass of them.
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What is this? But I am up for this.

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I dislike discussing “spells” openly because the trend today is to use them in the most negative way. But today such things are being used so grandly anyway, I’m not sure that it matters what is being discussed (much like the rest of RM).

The key to this kind of spell is the fact that your mind (subconscious) remembers changes in affects far more than affects. The universe is about the changes and every intelligent entity instinctively knows that (else it wouldn’t be able to live).

Take the example of the gambler. She will subconsciously remember the sudden wins far more greatly than the gradual losses. That is what creates an addiction and has been used to usurp money from the populous for a very long time. Today, being a formulaic age, that scheme is being used throughout all of society; financing, politics, advertising, propaganda,… And right under your nose (ie “hypnotically”).

But now what if somehow gambling was a good thing for you? What if, by whatever means, gambling somehow caused your life to be actually healthier and your mind to be more clear and attentive? Even if it did cost you more money, you would at least be getting something out of it besides hours of entertainment. It would be a healthy thing to do even though it would still be an addiction. Realize that merely trying to stay alive is but an addiction. So “addiction” doesn’t always equate to “bad”.

My technique, my “spell”, would be to have you experience that same kind of effect (being gradually annoyed with “losses” then suddenly “rewarded” by the removal of the annoyance) except only rewarded by mentally positive thoughts and actions. That would be far more effective than the old standard “rubber band” punishment method wherein the person remembers to not use the rubber band method because it is associated with discomfort rather than reward.

Dieting is another old standard that works backwards from its intent and for the same reason. The reward of breaking the diet instills the memory of how good it felt to eat - exactly the opposite of what was intended. Alcoholism is similar. You gradually begin to feel better by avoiding drinking, but the first drink you have later very suddenly makes you feel great - the exact opposite of what you need to stop the alcoholism.

The trick is to ensure that the reward or the removal of the annoyance is quite sudden and associated to a positive mental attribute. I happen to know what those attributes are on the most fundamental level and thus would propose to clean up that level and let the rest take care of itself, “cleanup the soul and free the spirit”.

Positive attribute would include things like;

  1. Instilling - Memory
  2. Clarifying before presuming (patience)
  3. Verifying before insisting
  4. Reinforcing before leaving (reliability)
  5. Harmonizing over conflicting (getting along and progressing)

And perhaps more, but merely those kinds of things on the subconscious level greatly improves mental faculties.
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Cool. With you so far.
How bout getting off all these antibiotics?
How bout stopping eating when I’m full up?
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Btw, a common misunderstanding due to the words, is that “you are conscious and your subconscious is not”. That isn’t at all true.

The fact is that your subconscious is also aware and conscious but merely of different concerns and often more conscious than “you”. The problem has been that you are not conscious of its consciousness and thus presume that it is either not there or simply a servo to your requests (a mindless slave). That is exactly the same presumption that national and global leaders make concerning their group and the rest of the populous.

The “Buddhistic” challenge is the attempt to get both to become One. That means that your subconscious is trying to achieve the same things that your conscious is trying to achieve, merely on a different level of awareness. Religions and governments do what they do for that same kind of reason except usually with little respect for the populous’ opinions (their “subconscious”).

So the question then becomes, “what is it that both parties should be trying to accomplish such that they could agree on any compromises?” (“what laws of the land “should” be enforced so that everyone can get along without dissension?”). And that leads to the philosophical question, “What is my purpose?”

I think that most here can agree that purpose is relative. And what this spell is all about is addressing “Your purpose for you”, not “what purpose another might have for you”. It is about getting you to be able to do what you choose to do for your own purposes. And the aim of this is merely to get you to become more united within yourself such that you can achieve such purposes, whatever they might be. How to cause you to have;
A) better memory
B) better attention
C) better decisions
D) better accomplishment toward your choices
E) and less consequences from not having those things; mistakes, frustration, depression, anger, futility, conflicts…

… and all of it happening within plain conscious sight in a way that you will tend to remember as a pleasant experience such as to mildly want to do it again - “a film/experience that felt good and you want to see again and again”… and profit by it.
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I would be colser to getting convinced if it didn’t feel like a sales pitch.

Don’t shift my focus to catchy peripherals. What is the meat?
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The “meat” isn’t as interesting as the bone and marrow from which comes the blood upon which the meat is dependent.

The Marrow
Inside every CPU is something called an ALU, Arithmetic Logic Unit. That little device is what is actually adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, ANDing, ORing, and XORing the binary bits for the CPU. It is the fundamental thinking unit without which a CPU couldn’t do much more than shift data around from one point to another.

That ALU is formed into the hardware, non-upgradable, because it is universal in computer processing. Every CPU must have one (at least one), else it is horrendously slow, if functional at all. Note that a great many other functions that are also universal to computers are not in the hardware and that is what makes some computers much slower than others. The “clocking speed” is merely one aspect of computer speed concerns.

As I am incorporating Jack into a mud-slow computer, I am having to software emulate the fundamental thinking process of Jack, thus making Jack horrendously slow. In reality, that fundamental process is even more universal than any ALU. Not only does every thinking thing have to use that same process, but literally every volume of the entire universe, whether occupied by any mass or not, is also using that exact same process. The process is truly universal in every sense. Yet I am having to software emulate it, making it millions of times slower than it could be.

As you think about your situation and what you might want to do or not each minute of each day, you are, in effect, software emulating what could be a fundamental thinking process that could have been incorporated into your “wetware” (and in some cases is). In other words, rather than your instincts using their resources to deduce your thoughts, your mind is mechanistically stepping through a thought process much like cognitively adding numbers, one digit at a time.

In a few rare cases, people are found who can add or multiply large numbers seemingly instantly (eg Max in the film Pi). That is what happens when such a fundamental process occurs on the instinct level rather than the cognitive level.

What I am talking about in this thread is a means to cause almost anyone to be able to do such a thing, except not merely referring to adding or multiplying numbers. I am talking about causing your cognitive thinking processes to become much more instinctive, much like when you read without having to sound out the words, “speed reading”.

Given an infant, with the right experiences, his normally cognitive thinking could be formed into his synaptic matrix, an “ALU” in his “CPU”. The result would be his ability to think thousands of times faster than you. But as I said, I am not talking about merely doing arithmetic, but rather all basic thinking concerning anything, making all of your thinking comparatively instantaneous.

But let me make it clear, I am NOT talking about everyone knowing the same things and always deducing the same things and always wanting the same things and always behaving the same ways. The old adage, “all geniuses think alike” is not really true. They merely think MORE alike given the same circumstances. Thinking is still dependent upon specific knowledge and goals.

Since the process that I am referring to is truly universal, it never needs upgrading. It is not a “software patch” or a “Rev 2.0”. It is an ALU for any thinking thing, that is more in the wetware than what typically occurs. It is very much like ensuring that an infant has proper nutrition as he grows so as to ensure a healthy brain and body. Poor nutrition can (and does) affect the ability of the brain to think and thus what it does think, but it almost never improves it.

Your experiences are in effect, poor nutrition that has caused your thinking potential to be dramatically reduced, much like emulating the adding and multiplying function in the software because the hardware had a corrupted ALU. You, each of you, has a corrupted “ALU” (largely due to medical experiences rather than psychological).

So the “spell” works toward incorporating a universally useful thinking process, that you already do every day, into your subconscious such that it happens immediately rather than having to go through “sounding out the words” or cognitive thinking. It makes you into an instinctive genius.

And the method is as I was just talking about, experiencing sequences of events (thus communicating to your own subconscious on its level) such that it “instantly” responds in a more rational, healthy, intelligent, “all-considering” way. And that is before your conscious is even aware that you were thinking anything at all. It balances all of your concerns at hand before jumping to presumptive conclusions, thus making your moment by moment decisions far more coherent considering whatever you might be trying to accomplish.

All it really takes is little more than watching appropriate and entertaining films, although many other means of such communication could also be involved. Those experiences would involve simply “inducing” encouragement toward “looking before leaping” regarding every sub-thought or inspiration the person forms. And it is all in the unusual direction of reward for right rather than punishment for wrong.
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I think we are all somewhat familiar with your skeletal structures. Your approach, what I perceive when you conjure Rational Metaphysics, is all structure, and that has been my criticism. I want the meat, leave these bones for the dogs later. I get it, the thing has bones, some joints, made of calcium and other stuff, fine.

What is your system holding up?
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(05-21-2013 07:50 AM)pezer Wrote:
What is your system holding up?
Your ability to learn, be more conscious and aware, and succeed.
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Learn, be conscious, aware of, and succeed at what?
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05-21-2013, 12:47 PM Post: #19
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I think I get it.
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RE: Buddhistic Wisdom for All
Good metaphor, JSS.

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A good experiment to display the principle involved would be to show two pictures side by side and ask an audience to note which of the two they like more. Then after watching the film (having nothing directly to do with the pictures), ask them again. Although, they might have to watch it several times depending on how well the film was made.

The theory is that on average the audience will begin shifting their preference toward one of the two pictures even though the pictures had nothing directly to do with the film.

That type of thing is going on in every film produced by Hollywood, every commercial, and every television series already (social engineering). It is the mainstay of the motion picture industry (and especially television) and propaganda societies. The difference is in the level and direction of designed affect. Most films and TV programs are produced in an effort to program young children into favoring socialistic ideals (new age morality). What I am talking about has nothing to do with presumed ideals other than cleaning up the thinking processes of inefficiencies and inner dissonance. What they want to do with their greater thinking capacity isn’t my job to worry about.
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05-22-2013, 11:52 AM (This post was last modified: 05-22-2013 11:53 AM by pezer.) Post: #22
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Maybe it isn’t, but how will you then get them to care? What sells the process is the end result, I don’t think you can side-step that. Even if the result is relative to the user, intentions, etc, the result must be sold, and sold honestly, if you wish for any power of legitimate weight in the propagation of these ideas.
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Btw, excellent image. You made things clear in a very physical way. I hope you can see that my objection is not about the clearness of your delivery.
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05-23-2013, 01:29 AM (This post was last modified: 05-23-2013 01:29 AM by JSS.) Post: #24
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(05-22-2013 11:52 AM)pezer Wrote:
Maybe it isn’t, but how will you then get them to care? What sells the process is the end result, I don’t think you can side-step that. Even if the result is relative to the user, intentions, etc, the result must be sold, and sold honestly, if you wish for any power of legitimate weight in the propagation of these ideas.

Well, I certainly couldn’t argue with that.
But then if I “sell it”, you get upset that I am selling you something.
If I don’t “sell it”, you tell me that I must.

There are ways to get things to sell themselves. But I’m a believer in making sure there is an actual legitimate product before giving it to marketeers and spreading it like a virus.
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That’s fine too, I understand prudent withholdings. Just tell me that.

I don’t like feeling like you are selling me something when you won’t tell me what it is you are selling, shifting my attention to peripherals and stuff.

If this was just an exploratory probe, consider me impressed and continue your work.
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05-26-2013, 06:00 AM Post: #26
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What you aren’t seeing is that I HAVE told you… and thus you over-suspect something hidden.
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If you have told me, then I’m disappointed with the product. Nihilism doesn’t need reifying.
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Congrats on this undertaking!
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05-09-2013, 04:30 PM (This post was last modified: 05-09-2013 04:36 PM by JSS.) Post: #3
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Oh… don’t congrats on the undertaking just yet.
All I have done so far is get through establishing that it is possible.
There is a hell of a lot of work and trials to get through before congrats are really in order.

If all goes well, it won’t be too long before many people, perhaps some from here, will be playing with the program themselves and even adding to it. Later an “.org community” site should be set up for the open source collaboration.

I would hope that most of the future progress comes from others.

…but of course, I still have to come up with a fun practical application that doesn’t require a professionally complete version… hmm…
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Get on it!
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05-10-2013, 09:33 PM Post: #5
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Interestingly the day before I posted that OP, I had verified that VB 2008 could do a very specific required function and the next day, I chose (unwisely) to upgrade the VB 2008 to the “VB 2008 Express” (something I usually tend to avoid). And naturally, when dealing with Microsoft, the upgrade not only deleted that function but removed all traces of it from my drive. When I went to find an older VB 2008 installation, I couldn’t find anything that didn’t refer right back to MS and the upgrade.

There is a work around (although it wasn’t easy to find) and it takes much longer to process and of course, just happens to be something done millions of times for each frame and thus increases the rendering time far past what I had already surmised to be disturbingly slow. But such is life when living in a Bill Gates hegemony.

So far, I haven’t run into anything to stop it, merely slow it down.
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Stop the Bill Gates Hegemony?

Mark my words, 20 years from now Windows will be what AOL is now. Strictly for Old Men who can’t use Linux or whatever open source software is biggest then.

I haven’t paid for or stolen my OS for about three years now. It’s the same kind of bliss one feels when you take a week-end trip and just decide to leave your cellphone home.

If smart dudes like you start migrating to Linux, even if it makes your work 10x harder, that could be 10 years.
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Realize that I have to deal with the market, regardless of what that market is. You can’t go deep into the forest and decide to build your house of of brick and steel merely because it would be more reliable.

Getting into the coding of this suddenly made me realize the ton of work that I did in order to decide on the theoretical structure required that led to the ton of work I did in order to build the fundamental structure (out of the forest) that led to the ton of work that built the processes that led to the ton of evidence to have to explain. It is a bit like inventing the technology that built the equipment that built the DNA that built Jack who built the House (that Jack built).

…no wonder I had to take a long break… Dodgy
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(05-10-2013 10:07 PM)pezer Wrote:
Stop the Bill Gates Hegemony?

Mark my words, 20 years from now Windows will be what AOL is now. Strictly for Old Men who can’t use Linux or whatever open source software is biggest then.

I haven’t paid for or stolen my OS for about three years now. It’s the same kind of bliss one feels when you take a week-end trip and just decide to leave your cellphone home.

If smart dudes like you start migrating to Linux, even if it makes your work 10x harder, that could be 10 years.

Most likely. But as someone who has used Arch (bang), Fedora, and Ubuntu, I still keep coming back to Windows on my dual boot. Sometimes I just want to shit to work without doing bunch more work.
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Oh, don’t be so sensitive.

I realize all that. What I’m saying is that it matters what forest you take your trees from. A perfect formula does not this rule change. An Ikea couch made of mijao is still gonna run you a lot more than the same building process used on the pine Ikea. Here I am only proving that capitalist bias exists, but it points to the fact that the end result depends intrinsically and inevitably on historical continuity. Windows is easier, yeas, and I know you might think I’m being moralistic here, but it fucking matters what you make your work with.

This, as any crazy anarchist knows, is how they get to you. Not the laws. Not the information. They get to you through your materials and your history. But that’s another story.

I’m not saying it’s “smart.” I’m saying it’s profound. It’s a sliding scale, it reaches into the very shit of reality. Where before people honored Gods, now we honor ourselves, and have their shit! But that’s another story too.

Isn’t that the whole essence of magic? That materials have a historical relationship with force?
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It’s not so much the easy part. But sure, fair enough.
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05-15-2013, 04:41 AM (This post was last modified: 05-15-2013 04:53 AM by JSS.) Post: #11
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Well after running some benchmarks, it looks like I am not going to be able to get the render speed above about 0.5 seconds, if that much. That wouldn’t be a serious problem, but the GUI is a problem. It seems that I have to have it switch to an object mode during any rotation adjustments being made by the user. And spacey clouds don’t objectize well. The good is that it can render straight to a video file, watchable at a much faster rate. I guess I’ll find out… still sorting my through MSBS. Dodgy
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I am very curious. It seemed like the most challenging part, of the whole media-philosophy endeavor.
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Me too.

Mostly because I have no idea what you are talking about, which rarely happens.
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05-18-2013, 09:15 PM (This post was last modified: 05-18-2013 09:28 PM by JSS.) Post: #14
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(05-17-2013 11:00 AM)Q Wrote:
Me too.

Mostly because I have no idea what you are talking about, which rarely happens.
What this is about is me creating a program that other people can use in order to watch why it is the the universe exists and behaves the way it does. I refer to that program and “Jack” because if you argue with RM, you obviously “don’t know Jack”.

So far things are going horribly slow. Not only do I have to learn and deal with MSBS (Microsoft Bullshit in the form of VB 2008, wherein “VB” stands not so much for Visual Basic as much as “Virtually Blind”) but also image processing, which despite being tremendously complex, is at least algorithmically sensible, and find inventive ways of fitting Jack’s huge brain into this small box, and ensure that the GUI is usable by other people to play with and learn from, and get past my degenerating state of mind. Any confusion in any one area leads to a huge task of figuring out which area to begin debugging first, next, and last.

Thus far, I have it processing the 100 layers of visual (animators typically deal with about 20). I put enough of the engine in it to display “clouds” of affectance in space in 3D (although I haven’t got the perspective issues worked into it yet). At this point, I have to run it for hours waiting for accumulation of affectance to form particle seeds (the beginning of particle formation). I do have some pop-up windows to artificially create particle seeds for sake of not having to wait days or weeks for random events to take place at just the right spots to be observed, but I have to go through their natural formation for a while before I can instruct it on “particlizing” (short for reducing thousands of tiny affectance bits into a single particle, allowing for much, much faster processing speeds).

It’s getting there, but could sure use an MSBS expert. The most dragging and frustrating aspect is the conflated issues of MS. I imagine the release product is going to be terribly embarrassing in the eyes of an actual professional programmer, but… se la vie. I have to make quite a number of compromises concerning the programming style, algorithms, and mathematics, merely to get it into this tiny box. And the camera resolution kind of sucks at the moment.

All in all, it is a philosophical ontology come to life in this age of computer technology that includes and supersedes Science methodology - Rational Metaphysics:Affectance Ontology.
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Science is still waiting to be impressed.

Yo, maybe we should have a for and against debate on science. What do you think? We could formalize it up, maybe post it on the FP.

I’ve been itching to defend science at length for months now, I’m starting to get philo-blue balls.
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James,

Why do you have to use VB? Unless you work for Microsoft you should probably never use VB.

Just my two cents. Anyway, I grt the theory. I just don’t get the mechanism for how the video ‘works’
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(05-19-2013 02:08 AM)Q Wrote:
James,

Why do you have to use VB? Unless you work for Microsoft you should probably never use VB.

For the same reasons that you speak English on the internet and FC’s script is in English.

(05-19-2013 02:08 AM)Q Wrote:
I just don’t get the mechanism for how the video ‘works’

I don’t get the question. Undecided
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If English was demonstrably a poor language to communicate with by-and-large, I would learn something else.

But that is a good response.

Ignore the other question.
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And good luck! This sounds cool.
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Kewl.
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This is the oddest thread I have ever seen.
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(05-29-2013 03:02 AM)pezer Wrote:
This is the oddest thread I have ever seen.
That is an interesting comment.

Science and technology go hand in hand. And programming and technology go hand in hand. Thus programming goes where Science goes.

But more interesting is a very concerning issue with Science. How do you personally know that an electron exists? Until you can personally do something that verifies what you are being told, you have to merely have faith in the current church of Science.

On the other hand, I personally have verified that electrons absolutely must exist just as it is preached at the pulpit. And I did that very cheaply, without the millions of dollars of equipment normally required. And I did it with Jack.

Jack allows the people themselves to verify what they normally merely have to take on faith from others. It isn’t required in a society for every believer to be able to verify what their church preaches, but it is critically important that enough of them can, else the church begins to lie for sake of ulterior motives.

Jack isn’t merely about physics or even about a new ontology of existence, but about a society being able to keep its preachers in check. It is about verifying the verifying that Science was supposed to represent in the first place.

Until you really know Jack, you really don’t know Jack.
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Awesome response, I’m finally learning to communicate well with you.

Yes, beautifully said. We agree on the situation of the faith in science. Where we split is in the where-to-now? I don’t believe that the next step is a purification of the church of science, to oversimplify your point, but rather to look at the scientific text and ask ourselves “do we even need electrons? Where did the questions that led to electrons come from?”

I am deeply suspicious, and I have written about this, about the monolith of science of the authorities. It seems to me that most of the originators had either God or the state in their hearts, and thus had a security, a series of assumed yesses and nos, a series of feelings that science needs that were kept from science. The result is a science that gets ahead of itself.

In other words, before we make sure electrons exist, I believe we have to make sure we need to find out whether electrons exist. Even more, perhaps, I believe we have to take science from the beginning, in a way, much like Nietzsche in a way took philosophy back to the beginning. Scientists need to recognize their laberynth.
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Perhaps you are unfamiliar with Jack…

What Jack teaches is what must aberrantly come from a chosen set of behavioral principles for a universe. Jack allows for you to be the God of your meta-universe. You choose the principles of behavior (ie “affects”). And then Jack basically says, “okay, if behavior is to be as you say, then the following is what your meta-universe will end up being”.

But you must begin your universe with absolutely nothing but an infinite void of nothingness, no particles, no electrons, quarks, atoms, fields… nothing. If trees are to form within your universe, you must choose the principles by which absolutely nothing became trees. Jack presumes nothing from Science, nor religion, nor myth, nor good or bad. Jack is a “reboot of thought from scratch”.

That is how Jack can verify what Science or anyone else proposes as “the truth”.

Socially, what Jack offers is the foresight into what your society would actually become given a specified set of morals or rules of behavior, “if humans behaved in this way… then this is what would necessarily come of it…”.

Psychologically, Jack reveals, “given a chosen personal behavior, XYZ, the following is what would necessarily come of such behavioral principles.”

In economics, Jack does the same, “given this set of trade rules, the following is what must necessarily become the financial situation.”

Jack doesn’t care what it is that you are talking about nor what you are trying to gain from it. Jack merely presents a picture of the future in accord to your chosen principles, “If you were THE God and set forth the following laws of the universe, then following from that choice, would come this…”

Jack verifies hypotheses by saying, “okay, if the universe around you works as you suggest, then the following should be what you see around you…”. If that isn’t what you see around you, then you know that something is amiss with your hypothesis.

Because from a specific set of principles, electrons, protons, and such formed and behaved exactly as Science has observed, Jack has demonstrated that those principles must be the actual truth underlying the universe that Science is watching.

Jack IS a reboot of Science, of “knowing”.
If Science disagrees with Jack, Science doesn’t know jack.
If Religion disagrees with Jack, Religion doesn’t know jack.

Until you know Jack, you seriously don’t know jack, I don’t care who you are, were, or will be.

Thus, let’s put Jack in a box and let the world finally learn jack about what they are dealing with and their fantasies of reality.
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There is no choice in the “rules” of the universe, only distorted echoes. If Jack doesn’t know science, he deserves his last name.

If Jack cannot understand the no-thing of nothing, then I’d rather not know jack shit.
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(05-31-2013 09:49 AM)pezer Wrote:
There is no choice in the “rules” of the universe.
That is what Jack is revealing.
But to reveal that requires the ability to play and fantasize about "what if"s. Jack reveals the "what if"s such that it can be seen that in reality there really is no choice.
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I feel another circle about to begin, I’m gonna drop out again. I think I know all there is to know about this Jack at this point.
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(05-31-2013 12:10 PM)pezer Wrote:
I feel another circle about to begin, I’m gonna drop out again.

Yeah, I saw that in you as well.

(05-31-2013 12:10 PM)pezer Wrote:
I think I know all there is to know…

And then…


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And yeah, that is the problem in the world.
There was a time when I thought that I knew too.
But Jack showed me differently.
The only thing that matters is merely how much you care whether you are actually right about what you think that you know.
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I heard that about Yaweh, too. You can either be up front about your theories and get the attention of smart people, or be all mystical and promisy and get the attention of slaves.

I’ll see you around, man.
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(05-31-2013 01:47 PM)pezer Wrote:
I heard that about Yaweh, too. You can either be up front about your theories and get the attention of smart people, or be all mystical and promisy and get the attention of slaves.

I’ll see you around, man.
You still aren’t getting it.
Jack is open source. That means that you can examine WHY and HOW it does everything that it does… no mysticism involved.
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Referring me to some source is not being up front about your theory.
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“open source” means that not only can you see the programing steps within, but you can even modify them to your liking. It is merely an issue of logic. If you don’t believe that 2+2=4, it isn’t like you are going to get voted off the planet. It ALLOWS you to see the make of it and even modify it and draw whatever conclusion you like. It isn’t a judgment or prison. And seriously isn’t likely to even be taught in schools. Chill out.
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Listen, the only risk is me not paying attention to you. That is as out as I can chill. I know what open source means. You are still referring me to it. That is still not being up front about your theory.

Math is post-facto. This is the circle, and the promisy attitude.
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“And yeah, that is the problem in the world.
There was a time when I thought that I knew too.
But Jack showed me differently.
The only thing that matters is merely how much you care whether you are actually right about what you think that you know.”

Text book mistiky promisy.
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I don’t know Jack Shit, but I do know science. It is about having a reason to do shit. You seem to just be puffing methodology into the air. Not evern particularly innovative or surprising methodology. I might as well go to a school and get bored there.
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You: Let’s trick people into being smart.

Me: Fuck that.

You: You don’t get it.

Me: No, you don’t get it.
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What you aren’t getting is that it is “anti-trick”. It exposes tricks, even any that it might even be accidentally doing. It is the opposite of what you are complaining about.

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Ah, but then I’m not anti-tricks either. I’m just pro-good taste.
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(06-01-2013 03:21 AM)pezer Wrote:
Ah, but then I’m not anti-tricks either. I’m just pro-good taste.

Yes, I am all too aware that it wouldn’t make a bit of difference what I proposed.
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on the contrary, it would. Taste involves all the digestible parts of the whateveritisyouaresellinghere.
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Jack in the Box is an attempt to publish an interactive “e-book” that not only explains the logic of a theory concerning reality, but visually demonstrates it and also allows the reader to toy with the principles involved; modifying constants, amending principles, removing affects, and so on. The reader gets to say, “But what if…” and actually see the answer to his speculation take place.

In addition, addons can be made so as to greatly expand all of what is being explained. So the book isn’t merely “a book”, but rather a “distributed wiki-book” with the potential to grow into explaining and demonstrating everything involved in Science, society, and reality. It is a library built upon a seed of affect.

In effect, it represents a growing, evolving, intelligent entity in that it can answer questions posed in the form of hypotheses or proposals, “What if…?”, and answer the questions through demonstration even though it had no idea of what kind of question the reader was going to ask.
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Just an update…

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You, for example, in merely explaining that little bit, should be able to create a small animation of what you just described almost as easily as you wrote it out. JiB allows for that. It helps you produce an article with pictures, animations, emulations, interactive emulations, and/or videos to go along with your text.

But an animation is merely a series of graph pics which could be anything. An animation doesn’t have to conform to any realism. The point to an animation is merely to convey a motion related idea. The Bender animation program does a really good job of that (after you learn about hundred new special key strokes). The Bender type of animator is merely a subroutine in JiB. But an emulation is very different.

For an emulation, you must defined the inherent behavior of all objects within the pic such that the emulator can perform those behaviors toward the natural conclusion of where they lead. You merely place the objects and define their properties. JiB takes over from there and shows you what would result given what you have said. You sit back and watch the natural/logical consequences of your theory. That is how you learn.

The part that you just described would be trivial for JiB. But it doesn’t mean anything unless it is emulated, not merely animated. Those waves are hitting other things and each other. If you don’t emulate that activity, then you are only showing what you wanted to be seen. You are “affirming the consequent” of your hypothesis, which renders it pointless.

Anyone can propose a “what if” scenario while focusing on one tiny portion of the scene, but the “Devil is in the details” concerning everything else that you are not focused on. For an emulation to produce the pattern that you are looking for, you have to allow that pattern to be the end result of inherent behavior. It can’t be merely what you programmed into the scene, else it is pointless.

The particles that form from RM:AO are not programmed in. They naturally form due to the inherent nature of the afflates. And then further, those particles actually end up behaving exactly as physics would describe subatomic particles with all of their polarity, gravitation, magnetism, and momentum issues. That is where the final empirical proof comes in.

When your theoretical ontology inherently produces ALL of the very many observed behaviors, then you have proven your theory.
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Update note;
Unless you have a PhD in MSBS, never, ever try to do anything but the most trite and mundane task in VB. It’s hard to tell whether Gates works for the Devil or the other way around. Confused It’s like trying to romance your Chinese gal using a Chinese dictionary with three quarters of the words torn out.

I was expecting to have to put some of JiB in assembly merely for sake of CPU time, but it is looking more and more like everything but the window itself is going to end up being in assembly… assuming that I can manage to hack the hooks in.

But the problem isn’t that it is “Basic”, but rather the unbelievable bureaucratic rat’s nest that all “Visual…” compilers have been formed into, whether C++, C#, or whatever… wasting weeks on trivial MSBS cryptological obfuscation… surgery in the dark with dirty instruments. I feel like I have spent a year on another planet.

So okay, you guys were right… should have started with Python, or just about anything else. As it turns out, most addenda; dll’s, addon’s, and such will be producible by JiB anyway. So I suspect it wouldn’t have mattered what language I had begun the effort.
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06-13-2013, 09:26 AM Post: #47
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I feel for you. I really do.
How bout getting off all these antibiotics?
How bout stopping eating when I’m full up?
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Microsoft reminds me of a bad wife;
…always trying to help in ways that you really didn’t want
…always charging you extra for anything you actually did want
…always cleaning up something that was exactly how you wanted it
…always trying to bend your mind into her way of thinking.
…always tempting you into doing what almost works… but not quite.
…always using up the toilet paper and wearing out the washing machine.
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lol yeah, that about sums it up. I haven’t been married though, so I don’t actually know.
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I have wasted probably 80% of my time investigating possible ways to get MSBS to manage the task in a reasonable amount of time. Now I have given that up. In MSBS it is just going to take as long as it takes, seconds become minutes and even hours.

But an interesting thing I have discovered concerns image processing.

The “pixel” is defined by 4 values; A, R, G, and B.
What is interesting is that the “A” controls the amount of affect that a pixel is to have upon the surface it is placed upon (the opacity of the color being shown). And I happen to be trying to display something called “Affectance”. That “A” term in the equation, conceptually, exactly matches what I am trying to display. Thus in order to display the “amount of affectance” at a point, I merely set the “A” value in the pixel definition to the affectance value.

The color merely represents the potential involved; high, low, neutral. Unfortunately the color scheme isn’t quite as simple merely because I didn’t want red and blue to indicate negative versus positive potential, although I had chosen the green to indicate a neutral.

I just thought it was a bit interesting that the natural consequence of today’s image processing just happens to exactly reflect the ontology of Affectance (other than color choices… which I guess I could change my mind on).

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Do you think it is intentional, or it just worked out that way?

I am still super interested in this project, btw.
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You mean both from the latter group take 2-3 min, or for each set, the latter one in the set does?

As to why I would be curious, I fail to see why this wouldn’t be interesting, but knowing programming and getting your analogies helps.

In the objective, this is just interesting.
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(06-26-2013 10:46 AM)Q Wrote:
You mean both from the latter group take 2-3 min, or for each set, the latter one in the set does?
The actual time depends upon how many and what size afflates [objects] it has to process. That first pair, I think was 2,400. The second 24,000. For most of my work, I run around 240,000 and that is what takes the 3-4 mins.

The visual distinction is a matter of resolution. The first in the pairs is an attempt to use a low resolution (for sake of speed). The screen resolution is set to 1/4 of the actual pixel resolution. The latter of the pairs sets each pixel (in high level language, believe it or not). And that is why it takes so much longer.

Actually, I don’t think I really have any choice. After seeing some other pics of particle growth, I don’t think I could bare using the low res. (it actually looked far too Radio Shack anyway). And before the reduction for sake of posting, those high pics look even better (like stars in the night sky).

(06-26-2013 10:46 AM)Q Wrote:
As to why I would be curious, I fail to see why this wouldn’t be interesting, but knowing programming and getting your analogies helps.

In the objective, this is just interesting.
I’m not used to that kind of reaction… Big Grin

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And then in addition, another very time consuming part is the actual visualization of those interactions for sake of communication (communication being the pentacle concern of the 5 Satanic concerns for population control in one of the Satanic paradigms).

Each individual afflate represents a picture that must be merged onto a background containing all of the others, in effect yielding 240,000 layers. That has to be done for each and every frame. Trying to do that in MSBS requires either very intimate knowledge of MSBS or a lot of personal time researching various methods available so as to minimize presumption and maintain reasonable visual accuracy. Since MS isn’t very forthcoming with details, such research ends up wasting tremendous personal time only to reveal in the end that in many cases MSBS just doesn’t cut it, hence the need to jump into assembly code (which I have found MS actually has often resorted to merely to get around their own MSBS confusions).

So the actual functioning of Jack isn’t really all that complicated and in hardware would be almost instantaneous, but trying to do it in obfuscated “structured” software and produce a good communication tool for others to use ends up being a horrendous project.

…btw, while I was typing this out, JiB popped up with a limit breach indicating that it now has 3000^2 operations to do in order to resolve the particular contingency that it was emulating, requiring about an hour of my time for each frame… time to scratch that one.
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And then in addition, another very time consuming part is the actual visualization of those interactions for sake of communication (communication being the pentacle concern of the 5 Satanic concerns for population control in one of the Satanic paradigms).

Indeed. It is the hardest part.

But, I will let you in on a little secret: getting metaphors and seeing the essence of what someone is trying to say is one of the things I do the best.

It’s funny what is happening here, because I am visualizing the visualization you are talking about - the metaphor for how the universe and it’s people communicate.
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Re: ANSUZ. The way I’m pronouncing it, it sounds like Answe

Postby Maniacal Mongoose » Sat Oct 01, 2016 3:00 am

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Is a rune a sign MM? a non-physical thing?

There is no such thing as truly non-physical, everything in contact with us is physical in its affect. Whether or not we are aware of the contact and it’s affect is another story.
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Postby MagsJ » Sat Oct 01, 2016 9:26 pm

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The runar from Holland said this: They're keys. Keys to realities.
The mind is the door/lock in which they are inserted. The vaster realms of mind/world/experience/reality is what lies beyond.

So similar to koans, tarot… that sorta thing, but of European origin? I think this has piqued my European side’s interest, so will do a bit of research on origin.

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    ..the other blonde in the video.. not the singer, but the other blonde.. a Delevigne.. daddy owns half of London.. an Aristocrat, model, and youngest sister of three... she gets around, don't she.. as well as Dita, Flea, and Marilyn Manson. 


Tantalizing info.
She single?

She bi…

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Delevingne was born in Hammersmith, London, the daughter of Pandora Anne Delevingne (née Stevens) and property developer Charles Hamar Delevingne. She grew up in Belgravia, London, one of the wealthiest districts in the world.[15][16]

Delevingne has two older sisters, Chloe and model Poppy Delevingne. Her godfather is Condé Nast executive Nicholas Coleridge[17][18][19] and her godmother is actress Joan Collins.[20] Delevingne's maternal grandfather was publishing executive and English Heritage chairman Sir Jocelyn Stevens,[15][18] the nephew of magazine publisher Sir Edward George Warris Hulton and the grandson of newspaper proprietor Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet.[21][22] Her paternal great-grandfather was the Canadian-born British politician Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood,[9][15] and her maternal grandmother Janie Sheffield was lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret.[15][23] Through one of her maternal great-great-grandfathers, Sir Lionel Lawson Faudel-Phillips, 3rd Baronet, Delevingne descends from the Anglo-Jewish Faudel-Phillips baronets; two of her ancestors on that line served as Lord Mayor of London.[24][25][26]

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Delevingne is a self-described animal lover and following the high-profile killing of Cecil the lion in 2015, the actress auctioned her personal TAG Heuer watch, raising £18,600 for WildCRU.[108]

Delevingne has a tattoo of her lucky number, the Roman numeral XII, on her side under her right arm, and "MADE IN ENGLAND" on the sole of her left foot.[109]

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Postby Maniacal Mongoose » Sun Oct 02, 2016 9:38 am
Not sure of what to make of Ep1?
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Postby Fixed Cross » Mon Oct 03, 2016 3:41 am
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Bixesual is usually simply extremely sexual.

Or a sign of greed…
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Postby Maniacal Mongoose » Fri Oct 07, 2016 3:43 am
Initiation? The pure, pale ‘Man’ in red? What am I missing?

Chop, chop! Episode 2? I realize that season’s are getting shorter but I’m aging over here and I will picket your studio if I have to wait 'til '17 for the second dang episode.
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Postby Fixed Cross » Fri Oct 07, 2016 5:34 am

MagsJ wrote:

    Fixed Cross wrote:
    Bixesual is usually simply extremely sexual.


Or a sign of greed..

Greed is good.

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Initiation? The pure, pale 'Man' in red? What am I missing?

Chop, chop! Episode 2? I realize that season's are getting shorter but I'm aging over here and I will picket your studio if I have to wait 'til '17 for the second dang episode.

Wait is this at me? I hope so.

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Postby Fixed Cross » Fri Oct 07, 2016 11:55 pm
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Postby Maniacal Mongoose » Sat Oct 08, 2016 1:43 am
Are the runes drawn to you like you are to the runes?

Initiation? The pure, pale 'Man' in red? What am I missing? 

From Ep. 1. Why red, cloth, hanging, there? I recognized that rune from the 2/3 vid. of The Primordial Painter. You made that or was that made for you? Possibly a trick question.

What was the rune made of? If you tell me masking tape, you will be psychically slapped silly in your sleep.

So runes for divination and activating energies into patterns to interact with other patterns? Runes carved in stone are specific to do what exactly? It’s quite different to come across a natural rune than to forge a rune to manipulate it.
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Re: ANSUZ. The way I’m pronouncing it, it sounds like Answe

Postby Fixed Cross » Sat Oct 08, 2016 5:17 am

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Are the runes drawn to you like you are to the runes?

Is the Earth drawn to me like I am to the Earth? I would say yes. But the force is mainly the Earths. I am attracted to the runes in their old old soul. It is clean like permafrost.

    Initiation? The pure, pale 'Man' in red? What am I missing? 





From Ep. 1. Why red, cloth, hanging, there? I recognized that rune from the 2/3 vid. of The Primordial Painter. You made that or was that made for you? Possibly a trick question. 

It runes the street. I do it to increase Odins might. I chose this rune because it is the one I trust most to protect. It is the one given to me by the noble warrior of Othinn!! ha. The red cloth I bought along with some other textiles when I got the house that Pezer discovered, we turned it into a dojo first.

What was the rune made of? If you tell me masking tape, you will be psychically slapped silly in your sleep.

I guess it is masking tape. (Is Joker ok with this?)

So runes for divination and activating energies into patterns to interact with other patterns? Runes carved in stone are specific to do what exactly? It's quite different to come across a natural rune than to forge a rune to manipulate it.

Yes.
I let the runes that came to me first, end 2002, work their way into my soul. Then, last year, I drew my first rune.
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Postby Maniacal Mongoose » Sat Oct 08, 2016 5:42 am
I’ll have to ask Joker if he’s okay with using crappy tape for ancient symbolism.
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Postby Fixed Cross » Sat Oct 08, 2016 7:21 am
Praise be to Othinn
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Postby Fixed Cross » Sat Oct 08, 2016 7:41 am
Praise be to Othinn
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Praise be to Othinn
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Postby Fixed Cross » Sat Oct 08, 2016 3:45 pm
Praise be to Odin.

You may understand it when you have a child.
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Postby Maniacal Mongoose » Sat Oct 08, 2016 8:38 pm

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Praise be to Odin.

You may understand it when you have a child.

You’ve had a child?

Nevermind, you enjoy directing your dissatisfactions my way, your nausea. I guess I hold you to a standard much higher than you are capable of exuding. I’m sorry about that. Forgiven?
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Postby Fixed Cross » Sun Oct 09, 2016 5:03 am
I refer to the degree of care and loyalty, and pride in having raised one.
It’s the only way you could understand your insult, and my reaction to it.

I realized again yesterday that it did truly take me some twelve years to understand how to make a rune, after I first saw Johannes make one. So I dont blame you for your ignorance, just for your modern habit of inserting it cheerfully into moments where knowledge is built.

Learn from this, as I am the standard you try to discern, and I am far higher than to be indifferent to insults to the thing I value most purely of all.
Being equals valuing.
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Postby Maniacal Mongoose » Sun Oct 09, 2016 6:22 am
The Teacher wrote

Being equals valuing.

Equals? I need more convincing.
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Postby Fixed Cross » Sun Oct 09, 2016 7:19 am
Yes, of course. But on the other hand, I think you know it is true.
What happens if we fail to see any value in anything anymore?

And that is just our conscious valuing.
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Postby Fixed Cross » Sun Oct 09, 2016 7:21 am
Consider this, I wrote just to someone to quickly explain my position; power relates to power through value.

and since the world is will to power, -
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Postby Maniacal Mongoose » Sun Oct 09, 2016 7:46 am
Thank you for agreeing that we are equals.

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Postby Fixed Cross » Sun Oct 09, 2016 8:15 am
Equality doesnt exist to my mind. We either respect someone or we dont. I approach all beings with respect first. Then they determine if and how they are worthy of it. I have never met anyone remotely alike to me, except in the way I am equal to all entities, to the smallest quark, which silly men think of as less alive than they. If only they could be as alive as a quark, they would experience vaster joys than a heart could bear… so that is why they dont.

We are valuing and a certain degree of power to recognize that. Honesty is power. It doesnt equal it, but it is it.

Now, I wrote this, about my Man-Rune on the red curtain; this story is a feather in the wings of its soul.

Essentially we build by projecting our valuing on the world. We shape our experience by being drawn to what we need, and we see only what we need.
When you take a psychedelic trip, your functionalityobsession of the neurosyste subsides and you see what is also there, and you see value in every single little pattern
you perceiv - infinite awe inspiring power and beauty in every unraveled thread of the carpet. This is precisely because you see the valuing that is inherent in these patterns; when we see a being, we see a pattern of values
that we recognize; we never see the self-valuing unless we go into its perspective, which some people can do to very deep levels. Psychics and shamans are able to take
on the valuing pattern of their subject and then adjust it from within, by going through the process together with the person. The perception changes, of the entire reality;
the self is changed. What remains constant is the valuing; it has become vigorous again, it is valuing more of the world through its own powers, whic are always power to give, create, bestow, put forth, project, initiate, substantiate. Will and Imagination is the term I associate most closely with what Nietzsche really meant when he spoke of the will to power,
as he explicity put forth that willing to power is an interpreting - of the world into ones own pattern. Not all patterns can do this to all patterns, obvously. This impossibilty
of all to be free to dispose with all as they wish is the monster of energy, as which N sees the inside world.
But I see inside the willing to power; and what shows its face is the world; will to power is that same lust that wants eternity, and that is only understandable through very real joys -
real values being attained.
So what I do with the runes as Odin did and all after him, (Odin was probably a man, a Shaman, the Havamal is likely a real account, very earthy and clever) is to project them.
I say Birch, because I want you to have that experience.

The Birch is the most thirsty tree of all.
She resembles the wholesome transfiguration of the womb, and to impregnate her flesh with the runes births events that bear characters, names, faces, and destinies.

Not all runes catch on, but all of your first ones will.

I dont know other trees that are close to Birch in satisfaction of the Runic wills.
But I am sure no tree will be indignant to receive one.
Sick trees will be healed. Powerful trees will reach all the way into the Galactic Center, where all enduring motions on Earth are rooted.
People wiht planets conjunct the Galactic center have severe powers that often consume them, and as often propel them into deep significance. The planet funnels
that gyroscopic logic into the electrical system, ‘mind’, as the chord is cut, and you have a god of sorts. Pezer has his Dark Moon, the second center of gravity
in the moons elipse around the Earth, pertaining to the Labyrinth, on it - powerful image makers, like Spielberg or Tom Cruise, would have things like Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter there.
erotic models Neptune, - the Mayans, so I leanred during a study of them from 1998 to 2012, revered Hunab K’U, the galctic center, claiming that he is in all trees.
I listened to trees for clues and it seemed indeed that there was a depth that reaches beyond the Earth. I liked the concept, so I allowed it to linger and maybe I could
figure it out. I finally realized it’s just a matter of force patterns and long timespans, the consistency that trees have, the Relativistic forces are great, their inner pressure
is truly massive, far what one would expect, their position is stable on the Earth which makes a nice floppy star pattern wth respect to the center around which the Sun revolves,
so yeah, they would be rooted to a good degree in that center.
I understand value as pervadinh all matter and light and electricity and gravity, that all are simply valuings entwined, that what we experience as valuing is simply or necessities, as they exist in a continuum all the way up from the quarks and the positrons and the fictional elements they need in Cern because they dont understand the rune, and coherence.

Knots…

all runes are 1, 2, 3, or 4 lines.

That is enough to create vast tensions. Any more lines, in fact, inevitably bring about harmonies. Euclides and Pythagoras were on to this, but harmonies were what they were after.
Not Othinn - he’s got an appetite for lightning more than for music. But also for free women rather than submissive ones. The North is cold because hearts are warm - no fear lives
in Odin, just knowledge that all comes to an en, even he - as he is a mortal god, a bleeding god and a seeker - wolf god, wind god.

Thank Yggdrasil and Hwerrgelmir.

And the

Vaarwel Oude Es!

Oh but Ash dont take runes, Ash give rune.

Take!

Hail Odin.

Hail Loki also. Always also Loki.
Loki means Fire Giant.

Odin means what can not be expressed as it is the inward thing. Loki and Odin are brothers. Sometimes they play and for a few blessed moments the sun is the center of the wind.
One can evoke this, runically. But that is dark magic… or past dark magic… and is the planet Mercuty that regulates this, and enables it.

None of this I have not myself derived on my path to the Superman - it is all my blood. Only to say, when you reject and question it which you surely must in many parts,
that this will never become relevant to me. I can teach, not learn. Not about this. About many things, but not about my own blood.

People say Nietzscheans are crazy. And they blink.
Nietzscheans agree - and don’t blink.
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Fitness to live is a matter of the conditions in which one’s living is to take place, if that is really how you want to look at it.

Change the individual or change the situation, you decide.
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So, Only those who have a fitness to live in the conditions in which one’s living is to take place, are those who are not afraid to die…?

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[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/25/the-wire-creator-us-drug-laws]A Market Economy That Doesn't Have a Social Contract[/url]


The war on drugs; the war on the poor


I'm not sure we can distinguish anymore...


It morphed. To the point where [b]it's really about social control.[/b]

[b]I'm not entirely unconvinced that the war on drugs is not now largely intended to be a war on the poor... now.

At this point it's about doing something with the 15% of my country that we don't need any more for our economy.[/b] We've lost our manufacturing base and we don't need a laboring class.

There are a lot of undereducated people which the economy has thrown away.


Living in an alternate America and have no purpose. [b]There is an existential crisis for the poor.[/b]

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If the law didn’t forbid it, they might be trying out alternative projects, new styles of social economics.
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Some follow the philosophy of ethical hedonism.

Some sublimate their sexual energy.

Some practice the art of celibacy.

Have you consciously entertained any one of these philosophical disciplines?


How has sexual energy affected your philosophical pursuits?

Have you experienced any notable results in the field of sex and philosophy that could help any fellow members?

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I found one of the greatest philosophical insights one night that I had shitty sex with a distasteful hooker, and still the next day the reality of the world itself was replenished.

As a more or less celibate person in general, I notice that sex falls into the category of freedom of approach, the freedom to act as one wants. It certainly thus negates the freedom of distance, the freedom to choose what one wants. Of course, choice is always bound in deeper instinct, the freedom of distance more recognizes and remembers than acts.

In other words, people that don’t get laid are free and intellectually superior, while people that get laid are pussy whipped and 10x the people for it.
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At bottom there is one type of energy, and where this does not release sexually, it needs to be released otherwise. The saying: “an intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex” carries truth, but this appears fair to me only in the case where sex is at least partially exhausted in its interestingness, where it is known to a certain depth. In all other cases, the pursuit of sex needs to accompany philosophy - I have no respect for the attitude that justifies celibacy because it forces energy into the mind. This would deprive the pupil (that’s what I consider a ‘real’ man or woman to be - a pupil of life) of experiences such as the one named by Pezer, but also others, endless others.

When sex becomes ideationally exhausted, we get perversion, reliance on fetishes, ‘imaginative approaches to the deed’. Only an intellectually incapable mind can fall in this trap, as indeed sex itself is not an ideational realm, recognizing its roots in the primitive should be enough to understand this. Sexual energy however can be used, even if driven up as sex-force - base eros - to drill into fields of ideational potency, the creative mind, imagining facility. Sexual desire and philosophy are consecutive stages. And indeed it follows that the greatest philosophers were all more or less celibate. Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Kant and also that Socrates, for whom sex was a normal daily business, was a relatively empty philosopher.

The crux however to me is that where sex is near, philosophy is most powerful. Wherever the possibility of fulfilling the potency is imagined, seen, with a good degree of vivacity, the poetic instincts in the philosopher really merge with the practical deep-chest-breathing that belongs to the real world.

The ‘real’ question, for a pupil of life, is: How does sexual energy transmute into thought? To ask this without the assertion ‘sex deprives of ideas’ is perhaps difficult, as the pain of facing an incapacity to get laid can be a strain on the thinking process and a threat to its honesty - so there is only one solution - hunt.

See mans powerdrive as two hounds - one lust, the other ambition. The intellectual is able to sublimate ambition into curiosity (the ambition of the mind) and the lover is able to sublimate lust into ‘style’ - cultural sophistication. The two meet in what is known as human power – wherever humans have exerted, displayed (Schopenhauers Will and Imagination) historical power, they have managed to both consummate and sublimate sexual urge. Life becomes a celebration of itself – and in such a philosophical orgasm man created marriage, and probably several other great institutions of humanity - War perhaps being the primordial one.
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A philosopher a man who transgresses himself. In order to do this he must harness the untamed passions, without compromising them, becoming “beast” but holding a perspective on truth. Then he breaks truth.

How does one harness untamed passions? A combination of skill and strength - how does one hold a perspective on truth? Fate – or metaphorically, blood (substance) and soil (circumstance).

Or, to speak with Machiavelli, “Virtù”.

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“Become yourself” means “know your virtue”.
Spinoza holds virtue as adequate knowledge, which he, in his tomfoolery, holds for equal to power. This can only be true if knowledge applies to “all that matters is the quantum of power that one is, all the rest is cowardice”.

Exact knowledge of power is adequate knowledge.
“Clarity concerning hopes and threats”.

Even in the most genius intellect, this knowledge is only partially abstractable to become communicable, reason. The other part is Quality.

Every formula (and our man’s formula is: “a goal and a straight line”) is a vessel for a variable. This can not be named, this can only be applied, this is what, if you’ll excuse my French, “comes out”… and “seeds” - I would like to have a cup of tea now, with Aleister Crowley and his bag of pharmaceuticals.
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Bill,

You have been hypnotized into lusting to fuck white women… end of story.

You have no idea why or how and you never will… but it has nothing whatsoever to do with philosophy, merely genocide from people much smarter than you.
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For me, sex produces happiness and a calming and lowering of instinctual disharmony and tensions. Like opiates, but not as potent of course. The body recedes for a while so that the mind becomes more free to just exist.

Sex is philosophically interesting in so far as happiness and instinctual-pathological organization and disorganization are interesting. And like Pezer said, there is also a distance involved, a factor of dispassion vs. impassioned living, which distinctions can be rendered more palatable or at least noticeable through the lens of regular sex or a regular lack of sex.

And like any drug, sex can also become an addiction, which is also quite philosophically interesting in its own right, of course.
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That is true, but it evades the concept of energy as value-propery: Eros. There is much more to be said. Perhaps what I say makes uncomfortable, I felt I was touching on a rather significant truth, one that philosophy often avoids - hence its worldly impotence.
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That energy you mention is so intricately and deepy divided into separating flows, sub-flows and counter-flows; much had been built now upo the separateness of this divided substance. I do not see how you mean to reach a state of singularity here with respect to Eros itself, regardless of our theorizing as to its inherent structural-property value to self-valuing.

Like the idea of god, this view only serves to open and sustain a certain kind of vantage, a mode of experiential possibility and (re)organization. But the set up is already what it is, we tweak it here or there only in the interests of better serving the needs of this set up, what emerges from its many layers and orders of causality-affectation.

I guess I find little value in reifying things too far beyond the reality of their property and existence, even where this serves some noble end. To employ these images (eidos) requires a certain naïveté for they to be effective, a naïveté that for better or worse I seem incapable of sustaining.
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JSS, I think it is moe fair to say that you have brainwashed yourself out of wanting to fuck pretty white girls. This is the sense in which sexual sublimation is weakness, one may fool onesself that one is bigger than sex.

It is like food and health nuts.
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ll Wiltrack"
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No biggie but I’m having a little trouble in understanding the one post directed towards me:

You have been hypnotized into lusting to fuck white women… end of story.

You have no idea why or how and you never will… but it has nothing whatsoever to do with philosophy, merely genocide from people much smarter than you.

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsJtiAVKIDc[/youtube]
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RE: ~ Holy Thugs of Venezuela ~
Agreed.

I enjoyed it a lot, these spike docs are very good.

Humans need to believe in something…

quote=“Bill Wiltrack”
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Sitting here in my eighteen year old truck parked on what the police call heroin alley. It’s a dark, damp morning.

I’m a dinosaur. I am old enough to remember three social wars in my country; the war on poverty, the war on crime, and the war on drugs. I need only step out of my vehicle and begin to walk in order to find out how these wars turned out.

Based upon the outcome of these social wars I got the feeling I know how our latest war, the war on terror is going to turn out.

Looking out over Martin Luther King Boulevard before I exit and walk to the last job in Cleveland, I remember a quote from the late, great Dr. Martin Luther King Junior, Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. Life-like figures emerging from the blackness, make their transactions, and then disappear back into the beautiful, sardonic park called Rockefeller.

The emerging blackness in our veins makes a transaction in our brain then disappears into the beautiful, sardonic park called high.

As I fall victim to the actors in this crossroads of wars I found myself in, I wonder, am I also the creator?

As we fall victim to the actors in the crossroads of wars we find ourselves in, I wonder, are we also the creator?

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My thesis for this thread: This video is extremely telling. Especially towards the end. This video defines characteristics that are similar to ALL religions. Interesting. Deceptively deeply interesting…

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Black history month represent.
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The same, but gone through a purification. We are living the death of the Allah zeitgeist, and the birth of the Science zeitgeist. Don’t you notice that there has been tnesion from moment 1 between these forces? No synthesis has been, or will be possible.
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Btw, well come.
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Thanks for the posts and welcome. I do like the idea of consciousness as the next zeitgeist. It appears to be a primary consideration in current science and philosophy.
I don’t think religion will go extinct. It seems to flourish in times of transition. In the West it has evolvedv from concepts of tribal dieties to deism, pantheism, panentheism, etc.
As for a science/religion synthesis, I believe it may be possible from a Spinozan POV; but, I’ve been told that Spinoza was actually an atheist.
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Religion and consciousness, as you smartly put it, are at odds. Science can seduce the religious man by providing its obvious power, but religion, faith, has as a pre-requisite that you believe without understanding. Lack of understanding, which was the genesis of both religion and science, in religion becomes also a goal, a point of pride. From this, I believe, it follows that the more science progresses, and with it, understanding, the less religion is possible.

In this sense, yes, many will turn to Gods, but they will be retrogrades tomorrow as a monarchist is today. They exist, but they are considered odd wackos and obviously stuck in the past.

Of course, this is more of a mission declaration than a prediction; while religion can flourish almost anywhere, science and purely human consciousness take an inordinate amount of effort and intent.
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Also, to make a more strictly Nietzschean point, specifically Christianity has a retarding effect on science, to alter its north and influence; not its outcome, but the very questions that lead to scientific investigation.
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If you want to be technical about it, philosophy came before religion, or at least what we know of as religion today. The genesis of philosophy gave genesis to its (ab)use at the hands of mythology, birthing religion. Ancient religions in the East were more philosophies than anything else, the less impure combination of philosophy and myth. Religion muddied the waters.

In terms of a fifth zeitgeist, there may not be one – man has more or less exhausted his ideation, and (pseudo)science is doing a nice job of mopping up whatever might be left. I think the most likely outcome is that most people will become (re)converted into religious orders, science will more fully abandon philosophy and become merely the unthinking servant of fascist techno-capitalist control. I honestly struggle to see how any sort of authentic spirit of science or philosophy can continue to survive long in this world.

If Marx had lived today, he would have killed himself.
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Fuck Marx, give me Kropotkin. The tragic spirit is the one that seeks victory even with the heart, even when it is denied one by appearances.
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Here’s a good essay on this very subject, Crisis of the Mind, on what might come to be called the final diffusion of culture, to speak with Valéry.

“We later civilizations . . . we too know that we are mortal.”

beforethelight.forumotion.com/t43…of-culture
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We exist in a time that has been called the information age. We have split the atom and have sliced the gene. We have survived the death of the gods. We relegate truth to statistics.
All of this appears to have left a sore hole in erstwhile ideals that offer self-substantiation. Maybe there is no fifth zeiteist. Maybe we have to make do with the understandings we have.
IMHO,the evolution of a child replays evolution of our species (Piaget). The evoltion of the species replays the evolution of the child.
We seem to be in an age of transition.

I like Marx.
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05-31-2013, 03:20 AM Post: #12
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I like Marx too, but I’m not in love with him. He doesn’t see, doesn’t allow for life outside of zeitgeist. Zeitgeist is a phenomenon like any other, with a cycle, beginnings and ends, it is a mortal phenomenon.

In the end, we do have control. What’s scary about that is that we then realize that there are people directly acting upon our abilities to control certain important aspects of our philosophical lives. Mainly, and usually ultimately, the State.

Why has language stopped evolving in its bones?
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It’s still evolving, the question is rather, toward what? I see small signs, glimpses into what is coming- a more real, more fucking real power of language, man. But the death of forms, good and bad, is what clears away the space for the forms of the future. We can try to discern the subtler trends and smallest bits that are swirling and spinning in the evolutionary soup of modern logos. Also, we can create our own language, which is what I’ve been doing for about a year now, so far with great success.

The next stage is almost here.
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RE: The Fifth Zeitgeist
Are we entering what Chardin called the noosphere?

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Nietzsche General
So that Law of Manu in Nietzsche is pretty interesting.
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Oh, yes…

It’s dynamite.
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03-25-2013, 09:57 AM Post: #3
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It’s somewhat worth to keep in mind that Nietzsche’s source for the Law of Manu - some French douche - is thoroughly discredited nowadays. Nonetheless it’s much more important to note just what Nietzsche thought he found with it, namely the antithesis of Christianity. As codifications of ways of life they both preclude the possibility of new values, but whereas with Christianity we see the Chandala’s will to self-annihilation, in the caste systems we see an attempt at cultivating and perfecting multiple castes at once, all the while attempting to contain and eliminate the unwanted of the system. They both attempt to “improve” mankind, but one tames, makes man base, while the other elevates and ennobles. I’m of the opinion that you can read Nietzsche very literally when he speaks of a Christian will to nothingness, if you take him to believe, like the french douche Nietzsche read held, that the Chandala from the indian caste systems migrated and took with them - then further cultivated - the ethical prescriptions that were designed to contain and eliminate them in the first place.
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03-27-2013, 06:55 PM Post: #4
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I’ve been curious to track down Nietzsche’s French douches since I read him. I think I’m going to hit a library soon.
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Read Aphorisms 1 and 2 of the second essay of the Genealogy of Morals and let me know what you think of the ‘sovereign individual’.

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What’s true?
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Nietzsche was a philosopher of today. It happened, we clicked. It is now possible to realize the world of ideation for what it is, the whole of metaphysics,

all of living as a community

can now be re-appropriated down to the most honest land of experience. We know now how much of it is bullshit. Perhaps we are planning new bullshit!

The sovereign individual is the individual that suddenly notices himself dancing to many other peoples’ tunes.
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I have no idea what you’re talking about. I think you’re trying too hard to be profound. It was a simple question.
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No question about Nietzsche is simple. In fact, that might be the only simple answer you get in the whole of Genealogy of Morals.
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04-01-2013, 04:56 AM Post: #11
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Hmmm so true.
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'f you can’t stand the heat…
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Genealogy of Morals is a brick of dynamite. The fuse is reading it the whole way through, without wanting to be better than truth.
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3deep5me
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You like to keep score?

I guess someone should… Though, in general, it is those who love battle that loose count first.

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Freedom from the Trap
Sun Tzu warned about leaving the enemy with no means of escape. The system has learned that, all systems have learned that a trap overcome is many-fold more transformingly powerful than a trap barely escaped.

So you are stuck facing integration to the system or ruin? No escape at all?

Let your fear of death focus into a beam. In evolution theory, we call this an addaptive pressure. It’s a source of power about X% of the time for those who approach it blindly, 100% for those who approach it with seeing eyes.
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I like this.

It’s true. Sometimes I am surprised by my motivation to do certain things, but then I realize that while I am fairly calm day-to-day, I am frantically trying to escape this thing.
How bout getting off all these antibiotics?
How bout stopping eating when I’m full up?
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I think it’s a measure of how much fun you were able to have and to what degrees as a kid. You learn power through fun, and I would extend fun to anything absorbing.

If you built up certain power, to then have it stiffled is a form of death. The very essence, almost, btw, of the christian dogma. To use it to escape the trap in a way not yet learned… Well, now that’s there what we do call evolution.
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Yet I call even for more. I call for no escape.
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Or, rather, I am suggesting there is none.
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I am saying that in certain doom lies the ultimate optimism.

Ghost Town
It’s sort of funny coming here now that it’s a ghost town.

Hellooooo ooooo o

haha. All right time to do some work.

Also, I made my Pentad post for those that concerns.
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RE: Ghost Town
Something else is interesting:

Be careful of what you say. That is, I made an offhand remark about advertising, and now it has taken on a goliath life of its own. Pezer has literally run off to some South American gulag or something.

These things are highly fascinating to me. Perhaps that is why I make offhand remarks.
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That was no vain remark.

It is quiet… in here…

let’s dance through these empty halls and chant
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It was 100% offhand. Vain, or not.

It’s like some people are just waiting around to start hating stuff. It’s really that simple.

The ability to stay positive and actually like the world is something I have only seen in me and you, not even Tom.
How bout getting off all these antibiotics?
How bout stopping eating when I’m full up?

RE: Ghost Town
psst. Wanna see something?

glutenfreeandfuckedup.com/
How bout getting off all these antibiotics?
How bout stopping eating when I’m full up?

I can’t fail to see their point as well. We can only give if it’s day in court to convince anyone. I’m quite confident, yet not entirely (philosophically) certain. Fairly, the burden is not on the disbeliever but on on advertising itself to prove that it can be a constructive and nourishing thing especially as there is little precedent… or? You and me share the professional capacity to produce a functional image. We can value the art of advertising in terms of our self-value (as artists, creators) whereas to people who do not have a passion for esthetic engineering (value-appearance-creating) can only relate to it passively.

To some the truth is only the actual, the immediately real. To others the truth a possibility with the potential of being negated by another possibility-- truth as something to actively engage from the idea that this is what it means to exist, that it is the only thing that separates them from nothing. For them: to be is to act. Here’s an interesting subset of the rainbow cosmic contrasts that may fit this situation.

makara.us/04mdr/01writing/01tg/tapestry1.pdf

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Quote:
The burden is not on the disbeliever but on on advertising itself to prove that it can be a constructive and nourishing thing especially as there is little precedent… or?

That’s all fine, but leave that in the argument. You know? That’s just something we’re talking about on a forum. Why should that matter with respect to what we’re doing here, or people’s propensity to be here in the first place?

Quote:
To some the truth is only the actual, the immediately real. To others the truth a possibility

I can accept that I am a creative, and others are not, and that for them certain values lie elsewhere. I don’t accept using that psychological distinction to make comments about what is ‘real.’ We are philosophers, for frig’s sake. We shouldn’t be thinking that way. We should be embracing each other’s strengths, and just using what we have to make what we want in the world.

That’s why the people actually affecting change the world, different branches of anonymous that actually do stuff, are all people in different positions of power acting from their strengths in coordination. It’s not anarchists with little-to-no technical training protesting on the street; it’s people in offices with double lives.

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This is goddamn genius.
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Yeah so I would ask which elements these are.

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What happens when we converge 7 with the 9-wheel?

Two full cycles; 7x2=14, 14x9=126

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7999992 <— 56th term
8142849
8285706
8428563
8571420
8714277
8857134
8999991 <— 63rd term
9142848
9285705
9428562
9571419
9714276
9857133
9999990 <— 70th term
10142847
10285704
10428561
10571418
10714275
10857132
10999989 <— 77th term
11142846
11285703
11428560
11571417
11714274
11857131
11999988 <— 84th term
12142845
12285702
12428559
12571416
12714273
12857130
12999987 <— 91st term
13142844
13285701
13428558
13571415
13714272
13857129
13999986 <— 98th term
14142843
14285700 <— ( 100th term )
14428557
14571414
14714271
14857128
14999985 <— 105th term
15142842
15285699
15428556
15571413
15714270
15857127
15999984 <— 112th term
16142841
16285698
16428555
16571412
16714269
16857126
16999983 <— 119th term
17142840
17285697
17428554
17571411
17714268
17857125
17999982 <— 126th term

The 7th terms create the integers moving +1 on the left side and -1 on the right side.

Only the 7th terms, and continuing for some more terms,

999999
1999998
2999997
3999996
4999995
5999994
6999993
7999992
8999991
9999990
10999989
11999988
12999987
13999986
14999985
15999984
16999983
17999982
18999981 <— 133rd term
19999980
20999979
21999978
22999977 <— 161st term
23999976
24999975
25999974
26999973
27999972 <— 196th term

Amazing… counting down on the right from 99, and counting up on the left from 9.

Not to mention the unbelievable gymnastics these numbers are doing to maintain their original 142857 form… I went into this in my main mathematics topic, but for a brief refresher:

142857
285714
428571
571428
714285
857142

These hold their form and merely shift around to place the first terms in order.

999999

Term hitting on the 7; principle point of reconciliation between 7 and 9 (the 7-form breaks down, giving way to 9’s only).

1142856

To break down these numbers from here on our, we must identify the core of the original structure first; in this case it is “14285”, then we see there is a 1 in front and a 6 at the end.

1+6=7

Thus we add the front number to the end number, arriving at the original sequence, this number is “142857”, the eight term is also the first original term.

1285713

Same operation here; 28571 is the core, 1+3=4 so this number is “285714”, the ninth term here is also second original term.

1428570

Not sure what happens here. The 10th term is strange.

1571427

The core is 57142, and 1+7=8, so this is “571428”; the 11th term is also the 4th original term.

Now you see the pattern, and can figure out these others too.

1714284
1857141
1999998
2142855
2285712
2428569
2571426
2714283
2857140
2999997
3142854
3285711
3428568
3571425

To pick out a tricky one, look at “3428568”

The core is 4285, which means that two numbers have been changed.

Follow the rule, we add the first and last terms, 3+8=11

Now we have “4285611”

Now introduce a new rule, which will work in all such cases: that two-digit number at the end is split down the middle, first half adds to the preceding term, second half remains where it is.

So we get: 428571, this is the 3rd original term out of the 24th overall term.

Easier way is to just add 3+68 in the original number, to get 71 to complete it.

Another example with this rule,

4428567 is the 31st term

Identify the core: 4285

Add the front and end terms: 4+67=71

Now we have “428571”

Based on the splitting rule,

4+7=11, "4285611 is “428571”
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Re: 142857

icon_post_target.gifby Iona » Thu Jan 01, 2015 6:12 am

To see how truly complex and unbreakable this number is, look at these further multiples.

11571417

Core is 5714.

11+17=28, thus we get “571428” again.

28428543

Core is 4285.

28+43=71, so we get “428571” to complete it.

A harder one,

713427858

There are two possible cores, 42 and 85. Let’s try 42 first.

713+7858=8571 …bingo.

We combine them and get “428571”.

Can you even believe this? Utterly amazing. Now I am going to go way way up the chain and break down a huge one.

2134426437 <— the 14941st term

The only possible core is 42.

Adding in from the edges inward,

2134+6437=8571

Bingo. It is “428571”.

This number cannot be broken.
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Re: 142857

icon_post_target.gifby Iona » Thu Jan 01, 2015 4:17 pm

I know now what that 10th term is doing. Every 10th term is merely taking the regular form and adding a 0 at the end. If the 10th term lands on a non-7th term then it will be a “142857” +0 at te end, if the 10th term lands on a 7th term then it will be a “999999” +0 at the end.

999999/8=124999.875
999999/7=142857
999999/6=166666.5
999999/5=199999.8
999999/4=249999.75
999999/3=333333
999999/2=499999.5

999999x142857=142856857143
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Re: 142857

icon_post_target.gifby Fixed Cross » Thu Jan 01, 2015 5:35 pm

Amazing,
Marveling I ended up googling -

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/142857_%28number%29
decisionsciencenews.com/2013 … ng-142857/

Man has not been lazy, mathematics is perhaps truly the place where man is at his most manly, dignified, exalted, least debilitated. Here, philosophy can be at home and cause unadulterated beauty.

Primes are of course real in the sense of of a ‘number of objects’ - thus in as far as the numbers represent amounts. Thus we get a glimpse on the reality of the number seven.

I think that 7 is the first true prime.
1/3 = .33333 and 120.
1/5 = .2 and 72
Both are extremely well dividable, 1/5 even yields the golden ratio.

But 1/7 brings not ratio, but number. That is why it is prime, no will to be weird, no will to be – it must be split up. Even light finds in 7 its breakdown.

1/7 is the unbreakable number. 142857 142857 142857 142857 142857 142857 142857 142857

I wonder which primes first form this number in sequence.

1 2 3 5 7 2 4 8 1 5 2 4 1 5 7 2 8 5 7 4 8 1 7 2 8 7 2 4 8 1 5 1 5 2 4 5 7 4 1 5 2 8 1 2 2 7 1 4 7 2 4 8 5 7 8 5 2 8 1 7 2 4 5 1 5 7 2 7 4 5 7 2 8 7 4 1 5 2 1 5 4 5 7 8 1 7 2 8 7 2 4

1 2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113

11329535961

Notice: 60 is the first 369 prime filler meat that appears in this sequence. It fits nicely that 60 is the combination of the 9 and the 10, being 6.66666 of 9 and 6 of 10, and .666666 of 360.

But I really wonder where the sequence of primes produces this number directly.
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Re: 142857

icon_post_target.gifby Fixed Cross » Thu Jan 01, 2015 6:42 pm

A look at some ‘meat right off the prime’ – 369’s squeezed in most snugly.

1 2 3 (5 7) (11 13) (17 19) 23 (29 31) 37 (41 43) 47 53 (59 61) 67 [(71 73) 79 83 89 97 (101 103) (107 109) 113 127 131 (137 139) (149 151) 157 163 167 173 (179 181) (191 193) (197 199) 211 223 (227 229) 233 (239 241) 251 257 263 (269 271) 277 (281 283) 293 307 (311 313) 317 331 337 (347 349) 353 359 367 373 379 383 389 397 401 409 (419 421) (431 433) 439 443 449 457 (461 463) 467 479 487 491 499 503 509 (521 523)

6 12 18 30 42 60 72 102 108 138 150 180 192 198 228 240 270 282 312 348 420 432 462 522

The differences:

6 6 12 12 18 12 30 6 30 12 30 12 6 30 12 30 12 30 36 72 30 48
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Re: 142857

icon_post_target.gifby Iona » Thu Jan 01, 2015 11:04 pm

499

49 is 7x7, 9 is 3x3

7x7x3x3=441

441-9=432

432 is 9x48, 48 is 8x6

‘888888’ x 9 = “432” , 432+9=441, 441+(7x7)=490, 490+9=499

499 is ‘prime’, yet contains plenty of divisions in itself.

The point is that it cannot be divided into “hard edged numbers”, yet the fluidity within the number is great. 498 can be divided by 2, by 6, etc,. but 499 cannot be divided by anything, according to the prime system. Yet 498 and 499 can each break down in many ways as I noted above.

So given what we know now about numbers, what is the true meaning of “prime number”?
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Re: 142857

icon_post_target.gifby Iona » Fri Jan 02, 2015 6:27 pm

Fixed Cross wrote:A look at some ‘meat right off the prime’ – 369’s squeezed in most snugly.

1 2 3 (5 7) (11 13) (17 19) 23 (29 31) 37 (41 43) 47 53 (59 61) 67 [(71 73) 79 83 89 97 (101 103) (107 109) 113 127 131 (137 139) (149 151) 157 163 167 173 (179 181) (191 193) (197 199) 211 223 (227 229) 233 (239 241) 251 257 263 (269 271) 277 (281 283) 293 307 (311 313) 317 331 337 (347 349) 353 359 367 373 379 383 389 397 401 409 (419 421) (431 433) 439 443 449 457 (461 463) 467 479 487 491 499 503 509 (521 523)

6 12 18 30 42 60 72 102 108 138 150 180 192 198 228 240 270 282 312 348 420 432 462 522

The differences:

6 6 12 12 18 12 30 6 30 12 30 12 6 30 12 30 12 30 36 72 30 48

So these numbers are being regulated by ‘spaces’ determined in 3’s, 6’s and 9’s.

Therefore we can think of the prime numbers as expressions of emergence from within an implicitly 9-based system, primes are instances where the system produces convergences in the medial spaces between these points. The prime numbers themselves, starting with 7 as you noted, indicate the beginning and end delimitation points in between which rest mutable 9’s.

Hm… with this in mind I wonder if we can construct something really interesting here. Looking at those spaces themselves, we might try to group them up. In what quantities should we group them? Let’s try building a magic square with them.

7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61

Spaces in between,

4 2 4 2 4 6 2 6 4 2 4 6 6 2

4 2 2
2 4 6
4 6 4

Because every prime must be an ‘odd’ number, numbers in between will be even.

A space of 4 means there is 1 number situated exactly in-between the primes on either side, with another distance of 1 situated between that middle number and its bordering numbers, like this

19 (21) 23

In between we have 19 20 (21) 22 23

42 rings the 21 within the larger guards of 19 and 23. We know that 19 and 23 are “end points” delimiting the medial space of fluid 9’s. So let’s see about this space directly,

20+21+22=63

6+3=9
6x3=18 (9)

63 is a 36 mirror , 6x6=36

63 is “six 3’s”

333333 , 3+3 x 3+3 x 3+3 = 6x6x6 (three 6’s) = 216

21 is 7x3, 6 is 2x3, that is “72”

Notice also how the “six 3’s” and “three 6’s” transpose into each other as above.

6+6 x 6 = 72

The investigation into the medial space bounded by these two primes 19 and 23 reveals a lot of interesting stuff. The primes are ‘4’ distance apart meaning there is a distance of ‘3’ between them (the three numbers 20, 21 and 22). The average of those three numbers is 21. We just saw “216” and “72”, both are 9’s.

Let’s examine another medial space, I will choose something at random from a large list of prime numbers.

587 593

Distance between is ‘6’. That means there are 5 numbers hidden in-between which should constitute the fluid 9-space.

588 589 590 591 592

590 is ringed by 589 and 591, which is then further ringed by 588 and 592

That is 21 22 14 15 16 , or | 3 4 5 6 7 |

5 guarded by “1” and “1”

Together all that is “25”, or 5+1+1=7

2+5=7

And 5x5=25 (7)

So this medial space is actually a 7 (another prime).

The last medial space was 63 (9), which is 9x7

7, as the first true prime, may be important.

Working with the original numbers here we get, 2950, 2+9+5=16, 1+6=7

Converging the numbers 2+0=2, 9+5=14 (5), “25” , 2+5=7 , also “214” (7)

Or we use the 0 mirror 2955 and get 2+5=7, 9+5=14 (5), “75” or “714”

7+5=12 (3), 7+1+4=12 (3)

75 is “7|14”

“714” is 7 and 7x2

2950/9=327.7777… or 3|27 and 7/9

27 is 3x9

That is also “12”.777…

587 and 593 are also 20 and 17, the distance between which is 3, or

17-2=15 (6)

And

20-8=12 (3)

So the distance is a hard 7 (prime), but a fluid 3 and 6 (9).

Since these primes are set up guarding a medial space of five numbers rather than three numbers, perhaps this has to do with how the fluid 9’s construct a hard 7.

Random primes I pulled, one pair with a 3-distance between and one pair with a 5-distance between.

883 887 (3 spaces in between)

991 997 (5 spaces in between)

884 885 886 is 21 (3) ringed by 20 and 22 , 2 3 4

2+3+4=9 , or 884+885+886=2655 which is “18” (9)

2655/9=295 (7)

This is really getting back to my former work with 2, 5 and 7. These numbers are a kind of self-repeating organic matrix.

Now we see that the 3-space, again, is a fluid 9. What about the 5-space?

992 993 994 995 996

That is 2 3 4 5 6

2+3+4+5+6=20 (2)

992+993+994+995+996=4970 which is “11” (2)

Ok I have a theory…

Primes ringing medial spaces of 3 guard fluid 9’s, but primes ringing medial spaces of 5 are actually part of larger x3 patterns as 5x3=15 (6) or x9 patterns as 5x9=45 (9). These are two patterns going on under the primes… if we analyze a large set of them we might find these patterns under the numbers. This is going to take a while, but hey, I have nothing to do right now, so let’s do it.

307 311 313 317 331 337 347 349 353
359 367 373 379 383 389 397 401 409
419 421 431 433 439 443 449 457 461
463 467 479 487 491 499

In terms of medial spaces, this is

3 1 3 17 5 9 1 3 5
7 5 5 3 5 7 3 7 9
1 9 1 5 3 5 7 3 1
3 11 7 3 7

Would you look at that… 3’s but no 6’s at all.

Every medial space is ‘odd’. The 17 and 11 were especially surprising.

Keep in mind these are medial spaces we are interested in here. The idea is that the primes are ‘guarding’ these medial spaces which themselves constitute fluid 9’s of some kind. The trick I think is to isolate a medial space and determine its center and the ring around that center.

[307] 308 309 310 [311]

309 (3) ringed by 308+310=618 (6)

[311] 312 [313]

6 with no ring.

[313] 314 315 316 [317]

9 ringed by 314+316=630 (9)

[317] 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 [331]

9 ringed by 318+319+320+321+322+323+325+326+327+328+329+330

9 ringed by 3888 which is 27 (9)

So far we are holding the pattern, if the center is 3 it is ringed by 6, if the center is 6 it has no ring, and if the center is 9 it is ringed by 9. Let’s see if this holds.

[331] 332 333 334 335 336 [337]

1 ringed by 332+333+335+336=1336 (13)

Oh this is an interesting one. Prime numbers 331 and 337 (7 and 4) guard a core of 1 with a 13 ring.

[337] 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 [347]

9 ringed by 338+339+340+341+343+344+345+346=2736 =18 (9)

The rule holds here, 9 is ringed by 9.

[347] 348 [349]

348 is 3+4+8=15 (6)

6 with no ring. The rule holds again.

[349] 350 351 352 [353]

9 ringed by 350+352=702 (9) , the rule holds.

[353] 354 355 356 357 358 [359]

3+5+6=14 (5)

Before I calculate this ring I want to think about the pattern we are seeing here, to see if I can predict it.

We found 1 ringed by 13 (4), 3 ringed by 6, 6’s with no ring, and 9’ ringed by 9.

The even part of the fluid 9, which is 6, is unringed, meaning it does not need a “substance” gathered around it within the guards… this might be a clue for us. If 6 is ringless then we see the primes are guarding a 6-space itself, meaning that “6” is the key. When a different number is being guarded as the core, a ring is constructed around that core. The purpose of the ring might be to insulate the number as a nest.

1+4=5
3+6=9
6+0=6
9+9=18

1 gathers a 4 around itself to create a 5-substance, 3 gathers a 6 around itself to create a 9-substance, 6 stands alone as 6, and 9 gathers another 9 around itself to create a 18-substance.

9 doubles, 3 triples, 1 quadruples (and 6 remains as it is)

1x4, 3x2, 9x1

Now we have a core of ‘5’. How could 5 fit into this pattern?

The only thing I can think of with that 1 (4) is that it is set in between two 9’s ringed with 9’s. The pattern 1 5 9 may be important here if we want to situate the 5 in all this.

We might theorize that the 5 will also exist within a 9 ringed with a 9, meaning that the next pair of primes 359 and 367 should be a 9 with a 9 ring; but what will 5 ring itself with? 1 rings itself with 13 (4), 1+4=5. So maybe 5 rings itself with 4, 5+4=9?

Let’s try it out.

[353] 354 355 356 357 358 [359]

3+5+6=14 (5)

5 ringed by 354+355+357+358=1424 (11)

Oh, we have 5 with a 2-ring. That is interesting.

1 (13) and 5 (11)

1 constructs a 5-substance, 5 constructs a 7-substance.

We’ve seen previously that 1+4=5 and 2+5=7 are very important aspects of the numbers. I want to see if these patterns hold. So far there are no exceptions to how the cores in-between the prime guards work with their rings, so let’s keep going.

[359] 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 [367]

3 ringed by 360+361+362+364+365+366=2178 (18) (9)

The pattern broke down, but we see something else interesting. 3 invoked 9 here. That is 12 (3) again.

So far:

1 rings itself with 4 (and 1 is also “5” as 1 is 9+1=10 which is 5x2, think about the number wheel and how 9 might split itself directly down the middle… it can’t, but with the addition of ‘1’ it becomes “10” and splits directly down to 5.)

5 rings itself with 2
3 rings itself with 6 or 9
9 rings itself with 9
And 6 has no ring at all.

I’m skipping ahead to a few more ringless medial spaces, to see if the 6 rule holds.

[419] 420 [421]

6 with no ring.

[431] 432 [433]

Oh look here, we have a 9 with no ring! This 9 is guarded by “8” and “1”, while the last ringless space 6 was guarded by “5” and “7”… before that we had two other ringless spaces 6 guarded by 5 and 7 both times!

All right, we have a new pattern to theorize about.

Prime guards of 9 can guard 9-cores with no ring, while prime guards of 5 and 7 (5+7=3) can guard 6-cores with no ring.

[461] 462 [463]

A ringless 3 guarded by 2 and 4 (6).

We have, in terms of ringless cores, 3’s being guarded by 6’s and 6’s being guarded by 3’s, and 9’s being guarded by 9’s. Fantastic!

I am going to try some predictive magic here, based on what I now theorize. Let’s find some prime guards that match these configurations and predict what their medial space will do.

1607 1609

These I pulled out because they guard a ringless space, and these guards are 5 and 7. Remember last time we had this set-up? It was with these numbers,

[347] 348 [349]

Where a ringless 6 appears. So we will predict that another ringless 6 will appear in these new primes 1607 and 1609.

[1607] 1608 [1609]

1+6+8=15 (6), we were right.

Let’s try another ringless prediction. 2711 2713 is “2 and 4”, have we seen this yet? Yes, we saw it above with these numbers,

[461] 462 [463] , a ringless 3 guarded by 2 and 4 (6).

Let’s predict these new primes I pulled (and have not analyzed yet) will give us a medial space of a ringless 3.

[2711] 2712 [2713]

2+7+1+2=12 (3)

Bingo.
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Re: 142857

icon_post_target.gifby Iona » Fri Jan 02, 2015 10:14 pm

Continuing with some random Primes I pulled,

6599 6607 6619 6637 6653 6659 6661 6673
6679 6689 6691 6701 6703 6709 6719 6733 6737 6761
6763 6779 6781 6791 6793 6803

[6599] 6600 6601 6602 6603 6604 6605 6606 [6607]

6 ringed by 6600+6601+6602+6604+6605+6606=39618 ← look at that.

The prime guardians in this case are “11” (2) and “19” (1). It looks like such minuscule guardians force that ‘6’ to draw a massively fluid 9-ring around itself.

[6607] 6608 6609 6610 6611 6612 6613 6614 6615 6616 6617 6618 [6619]

7 inside a ring of 6608+6609+6610+6611+6612+6614+6615+6616+6617+6618=66130

66130 around 6613… wow. 7 and 7. I was wondering about that “7” being guarded here. Haven’t seen that yet.

The guards in this case are “19” and “13”, 1 and 4. 7+7=14

[6619] 6620 6621 6622 6623 6624 6625 6626 6627 6628 6629 6630 6631 6632 6633 6634 6635 6636 [6637]

4 with a ring of 6620+6621+6622+6623+6624+6625+6626+6627+6629+6630+6631+6632+6633+6634+6635+6636=106048 (19)

You know what I think is happening here… these larger values require more substance between the guards. As the fluid 9’s are necessarily larger the higher the numbers get. Primes are points of absolute divergence from the 9-order. They are “sentinels” between which values flow organically. Thus primes are a bit “unnatural” or rather like passageways between worlds.

I still need to do that analysis of multiple medial spaces together, but that will take some time… if anyone wants to help.
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Re: 142857

icon_post_target.gifby Fixed Cross » Sat Jan 03, 2015 1:58 am

This is amazing, this is a kind of field theory. What’s happening… yeah the primes are indeed those beyond-existence vortex points, markers of ‘flesh’ the word keeps coming to me before I think about it, in which the fluid 9’s are, looks like, the most plasmic form whereas the 7 is the most unyielding, which is why it appears in those ‘deserts’ –

But this would give “8” a supreme importance below the surface. 8 would be like the contingent operations director. Where 9 is the formal justification and 7 is the ‘destroyer’ that follows the perfect order of 6. 9 is extremely exalted, but it can never interfere. It always brings everything to a higher level of itself. 8 brings everything up one level and back one step. This is a very solid mechanism, as the expanse is measurable in two axes without having to use transformations. 1 up is 1 down, yet work is done. 8 is awesome, but works behind the scenes.

17_19 - 71 _73 107_109

These are some very fertile 9’s.
18, 72, 108 -

I am guessing 7 points to “chaos” (and dancing stars) - “difference” and 8 to superior order - “repetition”… It’s hard to be against 8. But he is truly the reverse of 1. He is the thing that allows for will to power-economy.
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Re: 142857

icon_post_target.gifby Fixed Cross » Sat Jan 03, 2015 3:02 am

8 primes

17 71

difference:
54

27 27!

17 + 27 = 44

71 - 27 = 44

44 = 8
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Becoming approaching itself as a thing – Valuing

tby Fixed Cross » Sun Sep 25, 2011 11:23 pm

Recapitulation of the beginning:

The primordial activity of all beings is self-valuation, and valuation of other potential in terms of its own self-value. From this follows the activity of being, balanced increase. Being, as a verb pertaining to all that to which this verb pertains, is composed of beings. But!

Existence is not included in being.
– Not all existence self-relates, is able to attract other ‘stuff like itself’ nor retains of itself a ‘form’ of any kind. Quantity without quality. Perhaps; lack of electromagnetism.

It is by a small accident that quantity emerged with a quality, and even rarer that it emerged as the very specific quality of self-relating – that is to say, having the capacity to attract more quantity on the terms of ones own existence – an element, a value.

element-essence-consistency-
what combines these is a quality which manifests as an activity, but which itself is not an activity.
What I propose is that we break this logic and say that element, essence, consistency is simply a type of activity, amounting to a form. A specific type-of-activity, i.e. the type that gives rise to form.

In general; Activity is nothing else than the presence of this emergent quality in a limited quantity of existence.

Consequently: we do not “act” in the proper sense – we enact our formula – what we call acting is what may also be perceived as stillness, consistency, quality – if we do not relate it to ourselves. Our own perspective is what calls for a notion of value, valuation – but if one would stand outside of it, all being is, is automatic value-attainment enabled to a specific, rather complicated, ultimately intelligent type of valuing.

Intelligence can be understood as being a result of valuation at the same time as a way of making valuation into a being. Intelligence, acting – both are implicit in being. When we say “he acts intelligently” we mean “he exists effectively”. When we say “he is intelligent” we do not imply as much - but we should.

An intelligent life-form is not usually how we address a lone creature dwelling in itself failing to procreate. On the contrary, we see group-mechanic, self-assertion as the ground of intelligence. So whereas the specific intelligence of the loner is often the key to strange and wonderful portals, the intelligence of the most successfully procreative being is ‘intelligence at its finest’. But procreation of humanity happens on different levels.
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Re: “being” approaching itself as a notion – Value
Unread postby von Rivers » Sun Sep 25, 2011 11:50 pm

recapitulation of the beginning:

The primordial activity of all beings is sex, and masturbation of other potential in terms of its own porn-collection. From this follows the activity of being, bumping nasties. Being, as a verb pertaining to all that to which this verb pertains, is composed of beings. But!

Existence is not included in being.
– Not all existence masturbates, is able to attract other ‘stuff like pussy’ nor retains of itself a ‘pussy’ of any kind. Plonker without pussy. Perhaps; lack of horniness.

It is no real accident that plonker emerges with a pussy, and even commoner that it emergers as the very specific quality of jerking off – that is to say, having the capacity to attract more pussy on the terms of how much it spends on dinner – the bill, a payment.

sex-porn-consistency-
what combines these is a plonker which manifests as an erection, but which itself is not an activity.
What I propose is that we use this logic and say that sex, porn, consistency is simply a type of sex, amounting to blowing a load. A specific type-of-activity, i.e., the type that gives rise to babies.

In general; Sex is nothing else than the presence of this emergent load in a limited quantity of pussy.
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Re: “being” approaching itself as a notion – Value
Unread postby Fixed Cross » Sun Sep 25, 2011 11:54 pm

Monooq wrote:
recapitulation

The primordial activity of all beings is sex, and masturbation of other potential in terms of its own porn-collection. From this follows the activity of being, bumping nasties. Being, as a verb pertaining to all that to which this verb pertains, is composed of beings. But!

Existence is not included in being.
– Not all existence masturbates, is able to attract other ‘stuff like pussy’ nor retains of itself a ‘pussy’ of any kind. Plonker without pussy. Perhaps; lack of horniness.

Yes! If that’s how it’s easiest for you to see it, it works in these terms as well.

It is no real accident that plonker emerges with a pussy, and even commoner that it emergers as the very specific quality of jerking off – that is to say, having the capacity to attract more pussy on the terms of how much it spends on dinner – the bill, a payment.

sex-porn-consistency-
what combines these is a plonker which manifests as an erection, but which itself is not an activity.
What I propose is that we use this logic and say that sex, porn, consistency is simply a type of sex, amounting to blowing a load. A specific type-of-activity, i.e., the type that gives rise to babies.

In general; Sex is nothing else than the presence of this emergent load in a limited quantity of pussy.

Not quite. Describe to me what causes the attraction to the pussy, and we’ll have the connection to your thread with the unfinished sentence, and what you are refusing to acknowledge there.
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Re: being approaches itself as value
Unread postby Fixed Cross » Mon Sep 26, 2011 12:40 am

Value is a term to describe the mechanics in all areas of life, of being, of consciousness -
interestingly, it is also the seed, tree and fruit of the current financial crisis.

Value-theory has value at this specific paradigm-end. If the western world cracks down on itself, we – the philosophers - will know exactly why this was happening, and it will be able to absorb much of the disoriented, disorganized, randomly-valuing intellect around it. To build an economy, to rule a state through legislative logic built on sound axioms, to allow for art, for the greatest expressions of beauty - to gain health, power, endurance, - is this not all the product of vision?

Value and vision -
Arriving at the second stage of this philosophy,
the part where it begins to make more literal sense.

Nature likes to hide but I like to watch it.
It attacks from within and I like to watch it
It becomes me I become it I attack myself
and my watching has become predatory
Life is suffering, cruel selfconsuming
but to the attentive there is teaching
and knowledge, deep enough to resist
is able to convert energy into power
and power into control through cultivation
of those things that matter to good people
work, dining, a movie and sex.
producing physical or metaphysical value, consuming physical value, consuming metaphysical value, consuming the merger of metaphysical and physical values.

These are simplistic terms of ritual. Our life consists entirely of making what we do understandable - and thereby acceptable to us. We convert it to our own terms. Ritual is the original means man developed for this. Later, this became custom, and later even fashion. But ritual has always remained valid in its primal form.
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Re: being approaches itself as value
Unread postby Fixed Cross » Mon Sep 26, 2011 12:54 am

Vision and ritual
the mechanics of valuing and being of value
more and more we produce ritualistic visuals
and hold to them, depend on them
visual rituals, constantly, our life becomes it
where 20000 years ago, only the Shaman was
privy to this kind of mayhem.

The shaman suffered, disproportionately
he saw and endured
the others could remain blind

but as of recently
our eyes have been opened
in ambiguous accident
of government incompetence
non-being allowed
or caused - self sabotage

Spirit is life that cuts into life
We were witness to that spirit
the holy spirit - it’s sin, not against it, but committed by it.
The committing of it, the actual fact, the factual act
the moment of transformation of matter
to annihilate for a moment the belief
in a conceivable world. Cruel and evil;
Spirit does as spirit is in shaping the good and righteous.
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Re: being approaches itself as value
Unread postby Fixed Cross » Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:36 am

Another translation of valuing to sexuality:

“The chaste man, the true Knight-Errant of the Stars, imposes continually his essential virility upon the throbbing Womb of the King’s Daughter; with every stroke of his Spear he penetrates the heart of Holiness, and bids spring forth the Fountain of the Sacred Blood, splashing its scarlet dew throughout Space and Time. His Innocence melts with its white-hot Energy the felon fetters of that Restriction which is Sin, and his Integrity with its fury of Righteousness establishes that Justice which alone can satisfy the yearning lust of Womanhood whose name is Opportunity.” - [Aleister Crowley, Little Essays towards Truth]

But to focus on this is beside the point of value - it is an excess, marked to create a reference. Valuing to the top of our limited capacity is an art, and the only artform that makes a human happy, which I think largely means willing to procreate.

This willing to merge with the world that is philosophical conception is a specific type of self-valuing, born out of an intellect bound to its superiority to its teachings. Anyone who has been taught worse than they were worthy of has an advantage in critical thought, and an averse attitude to normalcy. We are critical of normalcy – the entire conception of being as chaotic, coincidental, deterministically understandable – this all has been assumed with great ease after the rewards of such belief proved to be powerful means to create powerful means to create powerful means, etc.

We are a utilitarian race, though sometimes we arrive at a reason for all this utilizing of means to attain the end of more utilizing. NIetzschean ontology has this as the highest race, the higher man and thinks he will be unique and short lived. We may see it as the necessity of evolution – because evolution has been newly explained. Specifically, self-valuing as primacy in determination of evolutionary direction means in human terms: vanity. Natures ‘vanity’ is what accounts for the deeply cleft differentiation between species.

Every atom has a tendency to be what we call ‘unique’. Only to be so found it must play a part in a greater whole. He must become a necessary, wanted, desired substance of a molecule. He must feel his value, and be dependent on it, for the ‘rush’ (enhanced energetic context) it gives him to participate in this well oiled machine of strong monads. So the world creates itself as increasingly delicate value-attaining systems, who by their increased momentum of the coursing energy remain stable.

Our culture has arrived at a point where the rush is eroding our very being – only a skeleton will remain of what was once our sceptic wise-arse culture. Only the criticism remains, what dies is the presumption that the criticism is the truth. We philosophers of the future do not mistakes our tool for the artwork itself.
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Re: Becoming approaching itself as a thing – Valuing
Unread postby aletheia » Mon Sep 26, 2011 6:54 pm

Glad I dwell beneath the mountains
Smiling in the darkest night;
Here of love are many fountains
Flowing daily free and bright.

Dismissal of the primal act inferred:

Birth of quality (from quantity), given into a form. Certain prescriptions of law account for the organization and interactions of these forms. Careful not to effect too much distance here: from where do these laws arise, are they called into their existing by the very act of formation? Or are they that which guides the possibility of this formation before it is? Empiricism and teleology meet here, somehow (not yet entirely mapped out). So return to the primal act perhaps: employing coincidence here appears as a veil, masking deeper truths, smuggling in hidden assumptions outside the purview of the system.

We start with an is. This has always been the only place to start. If that is so, what then is the meaning of asking “from where” of this is? Discursive refraction and loss of focus, it would seem. Light hitting the diamond thought and straying dissolving into meaningless darkness. Can we shelve the question of ‘from where’ for the moment? I think we must. Such questionings ought appear before us when properly called for, when these questions properly call us, and not as an immature and premature objectification in the service of abject maintanence through control as closure. Moreover, if finitude cannot be overcome then at a certain point this objectification MUST stray from itself and lose its potency.

Systems organized as structures hinged on the forward momentum of energetic controlled release. The ultimate vanity: to concern oneself with one’s own system in the face of the process itself. Only the most vain, most valuing and brimming with potential for power might attempt this. Ignorance is lack of contact with the destabilizing other; where structure militates against this contact structure serves the ends of the beings of which it is ground and form. For what is this ignorance saved, then?..

So might we not waste this potential on postulatings that contain no actual implications from which a future might be derivable? Crude object-hood being the last refuge, we might call to this nihilism rather than resist it as if it were worthy of our efforts of resistance, as if it had such power. Warping the unknown into the image of an empty known: the last attempt to maintain artificial closure. But we now have a goal that is able to subordinate this need for seeking refuge in the already known.

Next stage?:

Unifications of formal content sublimated into velocity; e=mc^2. Must release mass as potential for movement if forward inertia is to be maintained across bridgings to new territory. Alchemy might be necessary here. Divine archetypes just might contain enough force to provide a railing on which to cling as the storm approaches. But the longevity of these constructs is a serious liability if they lose coherence where stripped from their archaic grounds. Should we content ourselves with seeking to clarify into sight the vision of the next stage, or with forming the art of a new Century within which mankind might come to forge the images of new constructs capable of withstanding the g-forces of exponential acceleration? We have determined outselves to be VAIN enough; how then might we concretize that around which we allow our intention to gather?
‘The daemonic genius is the only thing capable of surviving the odds of existence versus no existence… because of what it empirically tolerates though fundamentally defying it, the deepest existence is satyrical. The grin on a primordial sailor, grim to all things human, his enjoyment in the uncertainty. He knows himself by this very factor. Valuing the uncertainty of the universe as an extension of oneself - this sailor is the primordial being.’ [Source]

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Re: Becoming approaching itself as a thing – Valuing
Unread postby Fixed Cross » Tue Sep 27, 2011 1:16 am

Divine archetypes just might contain enough force to provide a railing on which to cling as the storm approaches.

Only if they are continuously understood, projected and perceived as continuously coming into being. Their power is in their spontaneous emerging, not in their intellectual truth. Understanding not as embedding a routine conception to represent some generalization, but as a more comprehensive perceiving-interpreting, making use of perceived limits to ‘guess’, to induce, to create. The adoption of the scientific method has been such a self-manipulation, we must now make another step. Vision itself no longer hidden as observation, but cultivated as the act of valuing, and consequently, of seeing deeper, valuing greater. This alone is healing, this alone can save races from decadence.

But the longevity of these constructs is a serious liability if they lose coherence where stripped from their archaic grounds.

Therefore we construct these constructs from the ground up.

Should we content ourselves with seeking to clarify into sight the vision of the next stage, or with forming the art of a new Century within which mankind might come to forge the images of new constructs capable of withstanding the g-forces of exponential acceleration? We have determined outselves to be VAIN enough; how then might we concretize that around which we allow our intention to gather?

As order is being defined, a pre-order is continuously being manifested. Since from such fluid grounds symbols emerge, we must relu on the self-creation of mythical narrative, under our intersubjective supervision. Regulating bu the purposeful juxtaposing of different aesthetics as if they are elements – with the intention to create a higher value, as in alchemy.

it will be useful to construct plays, narratives, symbolic conflicts. Above all, we must cultivate what hatred we feel, no longer dissolve it. Hate is no longer a sin, it is a requirement. A measure of it – no all consuming hate of course, but a biting, poisonous, aggressive and unpredictable lashing out against that which is troubling us, rather than to lash inwards, as philosophy has always done. The philosopher may come out of his cave, out of his jungle - as once he came from the mountain as a civilized saint, we come out of our wilderness with much less innocent intentions.

Are we to succeed, we also will cause mockeries of ourselves – the resistance we seek to develop to the rapid erosion of particularity has to mean something primarily to us, who are resisting. By resisting we create meaning, we derive meaning directly from the inflation of meaning, we’re reverse-speculating, and in the long terms this is of far greater interest than trend-surfing. Trend-creating is done by defying the operational logic of our lunatic society – lunatic, lunar, tides, phases, rhythm – setting in a new one. What we might ultimately aim for is to orchestrate our financial world, which is now hardly controlled, wild pulsating of value-attributions, into something of a symphony, where newly springing trends are assimilated into the melody, so to speak.

Anno 2011 no human plays the cosmic drum, there is no shaman great enough for all of us – still, all modern music is an attempt at this stabilizing representation. What lacks now is an honest vision, or simply honest, deliberate vision, a projection of a relatively exalted future. Vision made itself known to our time for a decade, in the beginning of the second half of the past century, we should not underestimate this remarkable time in the history of vision induced by music, sex and intoxication. We must hark back, and re-understand those principles on a higher arc. Arriving at a matured understanding of what the lads back then intuited – “The music of the spheres” as we may understand the electromagnetic webbing forever impacting our nervous system, could be the infrastructure of a relatively calm economic pulsating; reliable, predictable, well sustained. Under such circumstances culture would thrive, a global culture could be possible. It is still the question if this is desirable enough, desirable over enduring violent conflict.

Art and war – we may learn still much from how such a temporary gazing into the half cruel half beatific truth of the times as occurred in the 1960’s, produced the means of vision and ritual. This reckless visioning is going to be the measure of our philosophy – can we surpass the LSD - generation in terms of compelling vision? Can magic truly be made to happen, as a result of a philosophical project? This is of course highly doubtful – but to solidify whatever potential is given is a first step. This brings us back to the ‘divine’ archetypes – divinity is built on archetypes, as is man. But since these archetypes are derived from man, we have forever te freedom to interpret them as we wish, as we see fit, as they serve us best. Our mind has limits, these limits are the root of our creative power. We should master the essentials. To construct according to physical ‘logic’, learning about necessity. We are bound to the limits of our presence. But these limits are the requirements of creative power, the aesthetics of increase.
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Re: Becoming approaching itself as a thing – Valuing
Unread postby Fixed Cross » Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:34 pm

aletheia wrote:
Glad I dwell beneath the mountains
Smiling in the darkest night;
Here of love are many fountains
Flowing daily free and bright.

Dismissal of the primal act inferred:

Birth of quality (from quantity), given into a form. Certain prescriptions of law account for the organization and interactions of these forms. Careful not to effect too much distance here: from where do these laws arise, are they called into their existing by the very act of formation?

If you ask me, there are no such things as laws, just tendencies. The idea of absolute natural laws will always be invalidated once it has taken hold again.

Or are they that which guides the possibility of this formation before it is?

No, I think that this is not the case.

We start with an is. This has always been the only place to start. If that is so, what then is the meaning of asking “from where” of this is? Discursive refraction and loss of focus, it would seem.

Yes, the question must be “how is what is, is-ness?” Being as an activity, as a verb. A particular type of activity. We might even propose that not all activity is being.

Light hitting the diamond thought and straying dissolving into meaningless darkness. Can we shelve the question of ‘from where’ for the moment? I think we must. Such questionings ought appear before us when properly called for, when these questions properly call us, and not as an immature and premature objectification in the service of abject maintanence through control as closure. Moreover, if finitude cannot be overcome then at a certain point this objectification MUST stray from itself and lose its potency.

I agree, we need to abandon the notion of origin in terms of time and space. The origin is entirely in the activation of a mechanism, and this is due simply to the possibility of it occurring. The entire big bang theory, as ridiculous as it is as an attempt at explanation, may be abandoned.

Not to state that there has never been a big bang, but to observe that the notion of it isn’t very helpful, that it is not very different from “God”

Systems organized as structures hinged on the forward momentum of energetic controlled release. The ultimate vanity: to concern oneself with one’s own system in the face of the process itself. Only the most vain, most valuing and brimming with potential for power might attempt this. Ignorance is lack of contact with the destabilizing other; where structure militates against this contact structure serves the ends of the beings of which it is ground and form. For what is this ignorance saved, then?..

For being. In first instance, for the understanding one himself.

Recent philosophy and morality has made it impossible for man to exist as a proper being – it places him in a context that provides no ground for being, only for disintegration, enslavement to greater forces at the cost of loss of identity, self-value. We seek to reestablish the ground of being in an intellectual form. This has not yet been attempted. We can not yet say what the consequences will be for the rest of the world – for us however it means for one thing, total freedom from the degenerate stupidity that passes for an intellectual conscience. It might mean the means to a great, enduring power, sufficient to ultimately reorganize human thought and politics, to work on morality, to reinterpret morality in terms of a profound understanding.

So might we not waste this potential on postulatings that contain no actual implications from which a future might be derivable?

What may be wasted on such postulatings is out time — and no doubt, much time is wasted in this way. But we can not waste the potential of the notion itself. The question is: can we exploit this potential? Are we smart enough, is our will strong enough, are we power-hungry and practical enough?

Crude object-hood being the last refuge, we might call to this nihilism rather than resist it as if it were worthy of our efforts of resistance, as if it had such power. Warping the unknown into the image of an empty known: the last attempt to maintain artificial closure. But we now have a goal that is able to subordinate this need for seeking refuge in the already known.

Yes – our only ‘refuge’ is the future, the increase of spirit, of power, of vision, of experience, that comes with rooting oneself in the understanding of valuing as the root of being.

To organize in these terms is quite another step, and it speaks to reason that this requires much experiment. But experiment requires boldness, and boldness requires confidence. I am confident that value-theory warrants bold experiment, that it will produce new methods to power.

We have determined outselves to be VAIN enough; how then might we concretize that around which we allow our intention to gather?

When the time is ripe, when value-theory has been sufficiently understood and experimented with, forms will begin to arise automatically. The imagination will be affected, impregnated, and as collective, democratic, shared, broken up, compromised, castrated imagination declines in influence, there is now an alternative for the doom-scenario of ‘1984’ – power may now self-organize philosophically, for which it never before has had the means.
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Re: Becoming approaching itself as a thing – Valuing
Unread postby Fixed Cross » Tue Sep 27, 2011 5:00 pm

WHAT HAS BEEN OVERCOME BY THE INVENTION OF VALUE-THEORY:
Nietsche wrote:
594 (1883-1888)

Science–this has been hitherto a way of putting an end to the complete confusion in which things exist, by hypotheses that “explain” everything–so it has come from the intellect’s dislike of chaos.–This same dislike seizes me when I consider myself: I should like to form an image of the inner world too, by means of some schema, and thus triumph over intellectual confusion. Morality has been a simplification of this kind: it taught that men were known, familiar.–Now we have destroyed morality–we have again become completely obscure to ourselves! I know that I know nothing of myself. Physics proves to be a boon for the heart: science (as the way to knowledge) acquires a new charm after morality has been eliminated–and because it is here alone that we find consistency, we have to construct our life so as to preserve it. This yields a sort of practical reflection on the conditions of our existence as men of knowledge.

This problem has been solved; by understanding the atom as self-valuing, physics has become accessible to the heart.

595 (1884)

Our presuppositions: no God: no purpose: finite force. Let us guard against thinking out and prescribing the mode of thought necessary to lesser men!!

The lesser man wants to believe in objectivity, in determinism, in God, anything besides his own, acute valuation of himself and the world in his terms. Only strong subjects are capable of working with this theory.

596 (1886-1887)

No “moral education” of the human race: but an enforced schooling in [scientific] errors is needed, because “truth” disgusts and makes one sick of life–unless man is already irrevocably launched upon his path and has taken his honest insight upon himself with a tragic pride.

Truth is seen to be less ugly as it was once assumed –
since every being self-values, there is no possibility for an initial ugliness, only for an initial aesthetics.

Nietzsche, while being co-responsible for this theory, has been overcome. At least his weaknesses have been overcome.

597 (1886-1887)

The presupposition of scientific work: belief in the unity and perpetuity of scientific work, so the individual may work at any part, however small, confident that his work will not be in vain.

There is one great paralysis: to work in vain, to struggle in vain.

Again, a fundamental problem that has been overcome. “In vain”, what does that mean? It means: not pertaining to objectivity. Since objectivity is now understood as derived from subjective valuation, the act of valuing (also: vision) is seen as the ground of being, and can not be “in vain” – existence is no longer arbitrary, “outside oneself” – no, it is our work!

In vain to perhaps to God - but not to us!

The accumulative epochs, in which force and means of power are discovered that the future will one day make use of; science an intermediary station, at which the more intermediary, more multifarious, more complicated natures find their most natural discharge and satisfaction–all those who should avoid action.

Yes, yes, and with us, this stage has passed! A more direct, less ambiguous, self-simplified nature is being created – a type to dominate, a type in which action is justified, a type which can only be justified by action – a types whose actions justify the world to itself.
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Re: Becoming approaching itself as a thing – Valuing
Unread postby aletheia » Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:40 pm

Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul,
I would be a good fountain, a good well-head,
Would blur no whisper, spoil no expression.

What is the knocking?
What is the knocking at the door in the night?
It is somebody wants to do us harm.

No, no, it is the three strange angels.
Admit them, admit them.
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Re: Becoming approaching itself as a thing – Valuing
Unread postby aletheia » Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:41 pm

Fixed Cross wrote:
aletheia wrote:
Glad I dwell beneath the mountains
Smiling in the darkest night;
Here of love are many fountains
Flowing daily free and bright.

Dismissal of the primal act inferred:

Birth of quality (from quantity), given into a form. Certain prescriptions of law account for the organization and interactions of these forms. Careful not to effect too much distance here: from where do these laws arise, are they called into their existing by the very act of formation?

If you ask me, there are no such things as laws, just tendencies. The idea of absolute natural laws will always be invalidated once it has taken hold again.

Yes; something is, and this existing implies a how, a manner(s) of existing. We can never exhaust this is, either through exhausting its hows or any other means. Understanding this frees us from the mistaken need to try to “know it all”, to derive the is.

Or are they that which guides the possibility of this formation before it is?

No, I think that this is not the case.

Yes, that was a bad question.

We start with an is. This has always been the only place to start. If that is so, what then is the meaning of asking “from where” of this is? Discursive refraction and loss of focus, it would seem.

Yes, the question must be “how is what is, is-ness?” Being as an activity, as a verb. A particular type of activity. We might even propose that not all activity is being.

You have made this point repeatedly recently, it is a good one. But there are those who define being as is, is as being; how do you address them? Re: Plato, for a thing to exist it must participate in the being-ness of its own being existing, a shared “being a being-ness” by all existant things by virtue of their existing. Of course we have already answered Plato, but the kernal of my question is: how, in your method, do we walk that separating line between (improper) metaphysics and (proper) ontology? Being tied to activity, to value, seems to be the way you accomplish this. Activity itself is not being, value is not being, because these are not universals “floating” or abstracted prior to their “instantiation” through some existant thing. But those things which act, which value, these may be said to be in possession of being…? We might see a gradiation of being then, a continuum from non-being (existant “things” which do not value, at all) moving to progressively higher being (things that increasingly value and self-value)?

Light hitting the diamond thought and straying dissolving into meaningless darkness. Can we shelve the question of ‘from where’ for the moment? I think we must. Such questionings ought appear before us when properly called for, when these questions properly call us, and not as an immature and premature objectification in the service of abject maintanence through control as closure. Moreover, if finitude cannot be overcome then at a certain point this objectification MUST stray from itself and lose its potency.

I agree, we need to abandon the notion of origin in terms of time and space. The origin is entirely in the activation of a mechanism, and this is due simply to the possibility of it occurring. The entire big bang theory, as ridiculous as it is as an attempt at explanation, may be abandoned.

Not to state that there has never been a big bang, but to observe that the notion of it isn’t very helpful, that it is not very different from “God”

Agreed. What needs to be abandoned is the fruitless effort to derive the is. Abandoning this then frees us for real work.

Perhaps this misguided need to feel oneself has derived the is in fact is only a veil utilized to keep one from coming into the possibility of a more mature and powerful self-responsibility.

Systems organized as structures hinged on the forward momentum of energetic controlled release. The ultimate vanity: to concern oneself with one’s own system in the face of the process itself. Only the most vain, most valuing and brimming with potential for power might attempt this. Ignorance is lack of contact with the destabilizing other; where structure militates against this contact structure serves the ends of the beings of which it is ground and form. For what is this ignorance saved, then?..

For being. In first instance, for the understanding one himself.

Being as saved ignorance, as the raw potentiality of this saved ignorance to explode upon a new future moment with tremendous (self)valuing power?

Recent philosophy and morality has made it impossible for man to exist as a proper being – it places him in a context that provides no ground for being, only for disintegration, enslavement to greater forces at the cost of loss of identity, self-value. We seek to reestablish the ground of being in an intellectual form. This has not yet been attempted. We can not yet say what the consequences will be for the rest of the world – for us however it means for one thing, total freedom from the degenerate stupidity that passes for an intellectual conscience. It might mean the means to a great, enduring power, sufficient to ultimately reorganize human thought and politics, to work on morality, to reinterpret morality in terms of a profound understanding.

It might happen. In fact we might go as far as to say it is inevitable given what we know of humans, human history and life on earth generally. But this inevitability does not preclude the possibility of a very long and painful transition period. Perhaps mankind must first move through the opposite of this sort of utopianism (purging the negatives within the perspective) before utopia becomes possible.

The notion of reincarnation might be useful here: individuals reincarnate through progressive lives in order to learn what they have not yet experienced, to grow in ways other than how they have in previous lives grown. Similarly the species man might need to continue to pass through what it has not yet experienced in order to evolve to a higher form. What remains unsaid poisons us from within, as you said. In this sense willing away the “bad” is a childish methodology that will have to be abandoned at a certain point in mankind’s history, whether intentionally or not, replaced perhaps with a calling to this bad rather than a fleeing from it.

So might we not waste this potential on postulatings that contain no actual implications from which a future might be derivable?

What may be wasted on such postulatings is out time — and no doubt, much time is wasted in this way. But we can not waste the potential of the notion itself. The question is: can we exploit this potential? Are we smart enough, is our will strong enough, are we power-hungry and practical enough?

Interesting. First I thought your statement false, that we can waste this potential itself. This seemed to me very obvious. Then I thought back on my own life and past, and realized this has never happened, even and perhaps especially when it should have happened, it didn’t. I believe you are right here, somehow the potential itself cannot be wasted, it is always there, always dormant. Does this imply that this dormant potential can always, in theory, be awakened? Of this I am not so sure.

Crude object-hood being the last refuge, we might call to this nihilism rather than resist it as if it were worthy of our efforts of resistance, as if it had such power. Warping the unknown into the image of an empty known: the last attempt to maintain artificial closure. But we now have a goal that is able to subordinate this need for seeking refuge in the already known.

Yes – our only ‘refuge’ is the future, the increase of spirit, of power, of vision, of experience, that comes with rooting oneself in the understanding of valuing as the root of being.

To organize in these terms is quite another step, and it speaks to reason that this requires much experiment. But experiment requires boldness, and boldness requires confidence. I am confident that value-theory warrants bold experiment, that it will produce new methods to power.

Yes. Heaven has been replaced with the earth, as Nietzsche wanted; now we must replace the earth now with the earth of the future. Even if this means sacrificing our now for a future (and it always does mean just this, does it not?)

We have determined outselves to be VAIN enough; how then might we concretize that around which we allow our intention to gather?

When the time is ripe, when value-theory has been sufficiently understood and experimented with, forms will begin to arise automatically. The imagination will be affected, impregnated, and as collective, democratic, shared, broken up, compromised, castrated imagination declines in influence, there is now an alternative for the doom-scenario of ‘1984’ – power may now self-organize philosophically, for which it never before has had the means.

Yes. This provides plenty of justification for us to immerse ourselves in the project of this moment, this gives us plenty and more than enough to hope for. The loss of faith accompanied by Nietzsche has finally been allowed to renew, stronger, more potent and more practical than ever.

“The work of the eyes is done. Now go and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.” ~Rilke

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Lol Hahahahahahaha I had forgotten Timón Echurroneo. Tf did I even come up with that name, seriously. Timón Echurroneo.

Sudden – There is no step between not-quite-right or just-right and overdone. That is why we die, there’s no surfing time itself.

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December 22, 2012