And in the long run, the children themselves became the national resources to exploit. Graf made it his mission to keep those kids off of Earth and not subject to the nation's whims, but in control of a 'cooperative', the International Fleet.
Does China's actions set the stage for a Battle School in the Lagrange point?
Well...with an Xbox, HDTV and a phone, it'd be just like living in your parent's basement. Meals are brought to you and you never have to go outside. I know many gee...uh, people who would consider that heaven.
This is all backwards. The internet needs to stay open and free, but not in the light of a political posture, rather in the wide-open Wild-West setting. Any attempt by a government power to institute controls to prevent people from doing things on the internet will be twisted, distorted and not held in honor, especially by an American system that puts someone new with their own agenda in office every four years. Instead of governments taking measures to identify criminals, whatever identifies someone as a criminal in whatever space or time, individuals need to be holding themselves accountable for the actions that tend to make governments necessary. Getting rid of criminals shouldn't be a self-assigned duty of government, but rather self-governence should eliminate the criminal activities. Whatever Hillary Cilnton really means as an 'open and free' internet...that's not the same 'open and free' that you and I think it should be. .
I'm dreaming with you there buddy. Capitalism doesn't work with today's technology. I do think robots should be doing the jobs that people don't want to do. Instead of a salary based system, perhaps a resource based economy would make more sense. Money is only the energy of the banks and is used to facilitate the transit of goods in a supply and demand system. Right now I think the trick is to raise ourselves up enough that we can become interdependant with the systyem, instead of being a dependant of the system. then we can reach out and raise up others who have evolved enough to be able to handle the responsibility of being interdependant. It's a different perspective and comes from a different thrust of movement that today's enculturation tells us is how things work. It's based on sharing, not on greed.
Ever given thought to how much upheavel teleportation technology would cause in supply and demand? Trucking goes out of business...so does the postman. Think of the unions. No more shipping containers, no more reliance on oil for transportation of goods. No more big rigs, and kids of that age will think Transformers are wrong. The world's oil addiction is cured, and airplanes become irrelevant. National boundaries become moot because if teleporation beomes a portable thing, well, the world becomes like the Steam game 'Portal'.
Now just what kind of society can handle that kind of technology? Certainly not capitalism. I think it'd be something were there's more light...
You make a good point. I would build on your argument, saying that the current system of profit is outdated and cannot survive in a push-button culture. So long as people are motivated to share, replication will occur. That can't be stopped. To make pushing a sequence of buttons that allows one to share illegal just shows that the court system is outdated. Perhaps its time to start dreaming of a culture where piracy and counterfeit goods are irrelevant, and we mutually support each other instead of trying to profit off of each other. This assumed disenfranchisement of getting ahead today makes me sick.
What if there always has been a system that records everything? In the eastern religions there's a substance that permeates everything, sees everything and knows everything. It's called 'akasha'. Perhaps these kids are just familiar with things being recorded and it's us old fogies that think we're consequence-less just because we're able to keep things 'under wraps' when there really are consequences we're just not sufficiently aware of. What is karma? Why would there be reincarnation?
Of course we hit peak advertising. That occurred a long time ago with the dawn of the download. Why the hell would I want to sit through advertisements when I can download it and not watch them? Why would I want to see ads on the internet if I can turn them all off with AdBlock? STOP TRYING TO SELL ME THINGS I DON'T NEED!
The arguments posed in this thread are amusing at best, confused at worst. Perhaps the thing we need to learn collectively might be that our culture's perceptions on ourselves, the world and the universe are flawed. Only in the culture that has emerged in the past one hundred years do we consider 'civilized' society one where it's acceptable to manufacture consent, to use the science of psychology against each other in marketing and media, that war and violence are acceptable ways of conflict resolution. Only in this culture do we think that 'it's someone else's problem, they can deal with it' is acceptable. This separation of selves may have been necessary, but it's up to each one of us to do the internal defragmentation and recoding of our own 'programs'.
2220? Seriously, anyone who has watched the fast pace of evolution in computer technology should be able to step back and see the parallel ratcheting up in pace in other fields, like pharmaceuticals, finance, space exploration and environmental studies. Everything is on a schedule. Anyone who can't see this is likely in denial. There's certainly a lot of fear spread about the Long Count date.
I don't know, but it seems to me that the selfishness, greed and lack of regard for the environment we inhabit is something that cannot be sustained by the planet, and even society in general. The manipulation and disenfranchisement of the Other has reached epic proportions that have never been seen before in all of history. We are literally tearing each other apart. And people have come to believe that Nature is flawed, forgetting that humans are an intrinsic part of nature. Ridiculous ideas like putting mirrors in space to reflect light from the sun away from earth only serve to illuminate the collective darkness some seem to want to sustain. The tipping point we stand at today is one of responsibility. What will we chose to not stand for? Fate is something we each hold in our own hands.
The Mayans weren't counting days. They were counting something different. That idea is going to be foreign to anyone who thinks days are nothing but a linear sequence. I think anyone will agree that today's Gregorian calendar is more of a financial calendar. I see the Mayan's tzol'kin as more of a space-weather prediction system. Just because we're only now discovering the evidential existence of space weather doesn't mean that ancient civilizations didn't have their own unique ways and frames of understanding these concepts.
The most important thing any seeker can remember, whether they be a mystic or informational, is that too many journalists screw up the story. The only way to cut through the chaff is to feel one's way forwards.
This sort of thing really blows my mind. When necessary skills are taught by a machine, there's an over-reliance on the machines. I write short-stories and the like, and I prefer to hand-write the first draft and the second draft is when it goes into the computer. It slows me down and keeps the stories coherent. If I'm typing, my fingers start moving faster than my mind and I tend to start rambling.
My point is, all knowledge is communicated through language. If we can't educate each other on spelling, word structure and punctuation, relying on the computer to do it for us, there are basic literacy fundamentals that are not being met. Sure, computer literacy is important, but language literacy isn't just knowing how to read, but also how to write. The brain needs to know how to form words, and just pushing buttons to make a computer assemble the words is not teaching knowledge. It's teaching laziness. I might argue that while computer literacy may be on the increase, its at the expense of basic language literacy.
What makes you think that the adult perspective on science and the world has any grounding in reality? You're dreaming. I'm dreaming. All most adults do is build selfish egos, play games and lie to children in the name of controlling an illusion that is starting to fall apart. And parents wonder why their kids won't listen when they lie to them.
It amazes and sickens me how adults like to think they're right about everything and that children need to be fixed. It's symptomatic of the society we live in; address symptoms and try to fix things instead of looking at the actual causes and rooting them out.
I may be an adult, but the degree of adulthood cynicism and outright lying is something that has bothered me since I was a kid. Ender's Game summed it up quite nicely for me: 'sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth'
Maybe I'm overreacting to your statement that the study seems to be pushing the idea that there's literally a functional difference in their brain. The fact that you then ask 'Can we do anything about it?' and think that it might be useful seems very naive. Of course there's a functional difference, and that's important. WHY DO YOU THINK WE ARE WHERE WE ARE TODAY? Ethics, my dear. Just because you *can* do something doesn't mean you *should*. But what should be done that isn't being done? Adults like forseeable futures with retirement plans, reliable savings, investments and loans. Most adults are afraid of thinking for themselves and require dependencies like jobs, oil and money to function. Thing is, they're all just systems designed to sustain the so-called American Dream, which is really just another way of saying American Illusion. Today they're in the process of breaking down, but in the name of preserving this status quo we supposedly have change we can believe in. Instead of 'investing in our future' perhaps we should be divesting our current of the temples that channel our economic waters.
Yikes, I'm starting to ramble. Time to wrap this up.
Respect your child and learn how to learn from them, and they will teach you of the Mysteries. Try to label and classify 'disorders' in children and all you'll ever be doing is ignoring the societal issues that they are reflecting.
Interesting. So is human behavior different than human nature? And is human behavior influenced by the global environment of a century of wartime? Could all studies on human behavior in the past hundred years be wrong because of not accommodating for broadcast images of war?
How can we really think we know anything about human nature?
What exactly does 'perceive a threat to our species' and 'eliminate that threat' mean? In your context, it means asteroids. However, the greatest threat to our species isn't from space, it's the way we treat each other. So why the hell are we more worried about random rocks from space, when it's exactly that mentality that leads to all the wars and conflict on earth? Perhaps instead of trying to dominate, crush and otherwise cause further separation, we need to be figuring out how to live co-operatively on earth.
True elimination is digging out the seeds that grow ideas of conflict. Otherwise the weedwhacker of war is just spreading more.
Isn't vision what's really being argued here? It seems that everyone wants to see 9/11 in their own light. There will always be people who want to think that the simple answer is that the government did it. Just because one can watch the YouTube videos of the politicians indoctrinating the audience with words of '9/11' doesn't mean that they were behind the so-called 'attack'. The politicians certainly had their own, now-unravelling agenda after it, but were they responsible for it? Likely not. Maybe financed, through cash that can't be traced so that any investigation would turn up with empty leads.
Facts can be argued and are being used like bible verses. Paint with a big brush with bristles of bible verses, and you can depict any picture. Facts are not holy writ, especially when they are construed by people who are paid money.
What's the concern? Isn't it fear? Fear that the government could be responsible for such a thing? Or fear that some jihad might be organized enough to send a symbolic message that world trade is collapsing? Is it the sub-cultural knowledge that very few that don't watch YouTube know about the third building on 9/11, resulting in a severe blindness between the larger culture and the sub-culture? Is it fear that there could be something so deep here that goes beyond the Bush administration, beyond the World Bank and beyond even World War I?
Instead of arguing over who's right and who's wrong, perhaps what we need to be doing is working to abolish fear of basic survival in our communities. How can we be conscious of the larger world, and how can we respond to the great unknowns? Perhaps it all starts at home.
Does the sun rise in the morning? Does the moon rise at night? Do they have any effects on our world? Can we agree that these are immediate effects that are readily perceived by everyone in a grand way based on time? Okay. Let's talk about time.
Time is at the center of our consciousness. I saw a video, can't remember who it was, but the lecturer started explaining how calendars shape consciousness. I didn't agree with some of the later arguments, but felt he made a very accurate opening observation. Calendars determine when people pay bills, rent, mortgages, and sub-prime loans. They also determine what is old and what is young. They determine how often people are paid, they determine when the banks come collecting. Within the family, dates are important for birthdays, deaths, marriages, divorces and when the relatives come visiting. As well, don't forget a woman is a lot more aware of time than a guy. Time always passes with events in space.
Anyone can observe shifts in consciousness on seven year increments. As with everyone, they will vary, based on immediate environmental and familial factors. Folk wisdom even indicates that the body rebuilds itself once every seven years.
0-7 is the definition of self. 8-14 is the family definition. 15-21 is the social definition. 21-30 is the world definition. (Mid-life crisis anyone?)
Obviously when we're thirty looking back on seven, we begin to feel how perceptions of time differ with age. It becomes evident how major events in our younger lives colored our perceptions. Unless the changes were major within space, like moving from country to country, or changes to family, perceptions will stay relatively similar throughout life. Consciousness sees the immediate effects immediately, but the slower effects take time to be seen. We can see the sun rise and the moon set, but the rotation of the stars is much more subtle. Light pollution doesn't help this matter.
So, now that we can agree that time affects consciousness, lets get back to those planets. It's based on degrees. There's a high degree of solar influence because we're so much closer to the sun. The celestial spheres are a lot farther away so their influence is going to be of a much lower degree. Of course, the environment doesn't necessarily have anything to do with one's free will. What happens if free will is aligned with the stars? Well, the North and South American indigenous peoples applied a lot of import to the heavens. At the time, the Western World was going through enlightenment. Look at the results and prevalence of the attitude that grew out the dominant culture. Where are we today? What have we learned?
It's easy to let our scientific orthodoxy try to recontextualize history. But isn't it a mistake to allow our current lens cloud the full picture of history? Is this perhaps why we say history repeats itself? Perhaps the thing to learn is that every culture has it's own collective lens of perception.
Our scientific methodology has resulted in wonderful technology. It's so attractive that things like ipods and computers dominate our lives, sometimes making life easier and sometimes making it harder. The lens of perception with technology is only limited to your googling abilities and willingness to learn, since it's all there on the net. Without the scientific method, we wouldn't have the internet and be able to learn about things like ice core samples from the wiki.
Ice core samples indicate that in times past, the earth can change rather quickly. They also indicate we have higher concentrations of carbon dioxide than ever before. We've introduced a new variable into our atmosphere.
At the very least, processes that have been occurring with a regular frequency are overdue. Any human consciousness that is not aware of time on a larger geographic and cultural scale will inevitably try to reduce observations to an understanding that is framed
You maybe may not want to run applications over the internet, but what about Joe Average who might every once in a while need to use PowerPoint for his kid's schoolwork? If it could be loaded locally to execute within a local computer and then be removed after a given timeframe, wouldn't that be more cost effective for Joe Average? $5 for a day's use of a specialized application makes more sense than adding a hundred dollars onto a software suite.
Condos come to mind. Places to live for those who want to keep their families going for another hundred years. I'm not convinced anymore I can do this here on earth.
Visited the site, some very interesting stuff. I see that he's sent stuff to NASA regarding his technology, and that there's lots of work being done. I guess my question is, how much of this is being pursued by people with money and making it a reality? How long until the basics of the plasma state is taught in elementary schools?
Why might we distrust our technology? Perhaps because in the media all we hear is of the lack of confidence in technology. The RIAA's smear campaign on people is doing nothing but building resentment towards corporations and their concepts and implementations of technology.
Corporate vision in general needs to start showing high moral standards. As it is, technology itself is amoral. It is the use of the technology that makes it moral or immoral. This is what sets Google apart from everyone else, their vision high moral standard.
With our technological progress increasing, we need a media that can relate technological innovation and progress in a balanced yet engaging method. We need to trust that our technology will be used in a responsible manner.
No, not entirely on topic, but it does raise some concerns.
Fully agreed. I think the lack of personal accountability will span a few years before today's young teens become voting age and taking accountability much more seriously. They'll be the ones who blogged the stupidity of their adolescent years. They'll want a system of governence that they have direct control over, especially when they have seen what the worst can do now through their media. I'm anxious to see what they decide to do about this. Evolution begins to speed up with Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns.
If anything, childhood is changing due to many different factors.
Lazy parents are one big factor, but hopefully the media will realize it's capability to push the responsibility of parenting back onto the parents. Technology is always used for it's devious capabilities before it is used for it's positive influences. Some good television programming could begin to make parents feel more responsible for their kids. Try something like having a show on how raising kids in front of the TV makes them fat. Show what gorging on junk food does to people. It just takes money.
Technology is becoming smaller and cheaper. Convergence devices have an aesthetic that kids like. Just one device to do whatever they want. Just wait until a smartphone can be a PSP as well (or the PSP becomes a smartphone, whichever comes first).
Technology impacts children as they are not afraid of it. They post their lives to MySpace and don't bother filtering things. The biggest change to childhood that we don't understand yet is how our youth are expressing their independance and individuality by broadcasting it around the world. Give these youth five years to realize what they've done, and then they will be pulling for major changes in the way they are governed. Children aren't stupid, but people seem to think they are.
People like to be connected. Our children are now connected in ways that we weren't. It is up to us to figure out how to raise our children who are no longer ignorant of the world. They've long since lost their ignorance. Now we just need adults to realize this and start being involved, instead of legislating.
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And in the long run, the children themselves became the national resources to exploit. Graf made it his mission to keep those kids off of Earth and not subject to the nation's whims, but in control of a 'cooperative', the International Fleet.
Does China's actions set the stage for a Battle School in the Lagrange point?
Well...with an Xbox, HDTV and a phone, it'd be just like living in your parent's basement. Meals are brought to you and you never have to go outside. I know many gee...uh, people who would consider that heaven.
This is all backwards. The internet needs to stay open and free, but not in the light of a political posture, rather in the wide-open Wild-West setting. Any attempt by a government power to institute controls to prevent people from doing things on the internet will be twisted, distorted and not held in honor, especially by an American system that puts someone new with their own agenda in office every four years. Instead of governments taking measures to identify criminals, whatever identifies someone as a criminal in whatever space or time, individuals need to be holding themselves accountable for the actions that tend to make governments necessary. Getting rid of criminals shouldn't be a self-assigned duty of government, but rather self-governence should eliminate the criminal activities. Whatever Hillary Cilnton really means as an 'open and free' internet ...that's not the same 'open and free' that you and I think it should be. .
I'm dreaming with you there buddy. Capitalism doesn't work with today's technology. I do think robots should be doing the jobs that people don't want to do. Instead of a salary based system, perhaps a resource based economy would make more sense. Money is only the energy of the banks and is used to facilitate the transit of goods in a supply and demand system. Right now I think the trick is to raise ourselves up enough that we can become interdependant with the systyem, instead of being a dependant of the system. then we can reach out and raise up others who have evolved enough to be able to handle the responsibility of being interdependant. It's a different perspective and comes from a different thrust of movement that today's enculturation tells us is how things work. It's based on sharing, not on greed.
Ever given thought to how much upheavel teleportation technology would cause in supply and demand? Trucking goes out of business...so does the postman. Think of the unions. No more shipping containers, no more reliance on oil for transportation of goods. No more big rigs, and kids of that age will think Transformers are wrong. The world's oil addiction is cured, and airplanes become irrelevant. National boundaries become moot because if teleporation beomes a portable thing, well, the world becomes like the Steam game 'Portal'.
Now just what kind of society can handle that kind of technology? Certainly not capitalism. I think it'd be something were there's more light...
You make a good point. I would build on your argument, saying that the current system of profit is outdated and cannot survive in a push-button culture. So long as people are motivated to share, replication will occur. That can't be stopped. To make pushing a sequence of buttons that allows one to share illegal just shows that the court system is outdated. Perhaps its time to start dreaming of a culture where piracy and counterfeit goods are irrelevant, and we mutually support each other instead of trying to profit off of each other. This assumed disenfranchisement of getting ahead today makes me sick.
What if there always has been a system that records everything? In the eastern religions there's a substance that permeates everything, sees everything and knows everything. It's called 'akasha'. Perhaps these kids are just familiar with things being recorded and it's us old fogies that think we're consequence-less just because we're able to keep things 'under wraps' when there really are consequences we're just not sufficiently aware of. What is karma? Why would there be reincarnation?
Of course we hit peak advertising. That occurred a long time ago with the dawn of the download. Why the hell would I want to sit through advertisements when I can download it and not watch them? Why would I want to see ads on the internet if I can turn them all off with AdBlock? STOP TRYING TO SELL ME THINGS I DON'T NEED!
The arguments posed in this thread are amusing at best, confused at worst. Perhaps the thing we need to learn collectively might be that our culture's perceptions on ourselves, the world and the universe are flawed. Only in the culture that has emerged in the past one hundred years do we consider 'civilized' society one where it's acceptable to manufacture consent, to use the science of psychology against each other in marketing and media, that war and violence are acceptable ways of conflict resolution. Only in this culture do we think that 'it's someone else's problem, they can deal with it' is acceptable. This separation of selves may have been necessary, but it's up to each one of us to do the internal defragmentation and recoding of our own 'programs'.
2220? Seriously, anyone who has watched the fast pace of evolution in computer technology should be able to step back and see the parallel ratcheting up in pace in other fields, like pharmaceuticals, finance, space exploration and environmental studies. Everything is on a schedule. Anyone who can't see this is likely in denial. There's certainly a lot of fear spread about the Long Count date.
I don't know, but it seems to me that the selfishness, greed and lack of regard for the environment we inhabit is something that cannot be sustained by the planet, and even society in general. The manipulation and disenfranchisement of the Other has reached epic proportions that have never been seen before in all of history. We are literally tearing each other apart. And people have come to believe that Nature is flawed, forgetting that humans are an intrinsic part of nature. Ridiculous ideas like putting mirrors in space to reflect light from the sun away from earth only serve to illuminate the collective darkness some seem to want to sustain. The tipping point we stand at today is one of responsibility. What will we chose to not stand for? Fate is something we each hold in our own hands.
The Mayans weren't counting days. They were counting something different. That idea is going to be foreign to anyone who thinks days are nothing but a linear sequence. I think anyone will agree that today's Gregorian calendar is more of a financial calendar. I see the Mayan's tzol'kin as more of a space-weather prediction system. Just because we're only now discovering the evidential existence of space weather doesn't mean that ancient civilizations didn't have their own unique ways and frames of understanding these concepts.
One of the best introductions I've found to the Mayan Calendars is Ian Xel Lungold's presentation called The Mayan Calendar Comes North.
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-8689261981090121097
The most important thing any seeker can remember, whether they be a mystic or informational, is that too many journalists screw up the story. The only way to cut through the chaff is to feel one's way forwards.
This sort of thing really blows my mind. When necessary skills are taught by a machine, there's an over-reliance on the machines. I write short-stories and the like, and I prefer to hand-write the first draft and the second draft is when it goes into the computer. It slows me down and keeps the stories coherent. If I'm typing, my fingers start moving faster than my mind and I tend to start rambling.
My point is, all knowledge is communicated through language. If we can't educate each other on spelling, word structure and punctuation, relying on the computer to do it for us, there are basic literacy fundamentals that are not being met. Sure, computer literacy is important, but language literacy isn't just knowing how to read, but also how to write. The brain needs to know how to form words, and just pushing buttons to make a computer assemble the words is not teaching knowledge. It's teaching laziness. I might argue that while computer literacy may be on the increase, its at the expense of basic language literacy.
What makes you think that the adult perspective on science and the world has any grounding in reality? You're dreaming. I'm dreaming. All most adults do is build selfish egos, play games and lie to children in the name of controlling an illusion that is starting to fall apart. And parents wonder why their kids won't listen when they lie to them.
It amazes and sickens me how adults like to think they're right about everything and that children need to be fixed. It's symptomatic of the society we live in; address symptoms and try to fix things instead of looking at the actual causes and rooting them out.
I may be an adult, but the degree of adulthood cynicism and outright lying is something that has bothered me since I was a kid. Ender's Game summed it up quite nicely for me: 'sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth'
Maybe I'm overreacting to your statement that the study seems to be pushing the idea that there's literally a functional difference in their brain. The fact that you then ask 'Can we do anything about it?' and think that it might be useful seems very naive. Of course there's a functional difference, and that's important. WHY DO YOU THINK WE ARE WHERE WE ARE TODAY? Ethics, my dear. Just because you *can* do something doesn't mean you *should*. But what should be done that isn't being done? Adults like forseeable futures with retirement plans, reliable savings, investments and loans. Most adults are afraid of thinking for themselves and require dependencies like jobs, oil and money to function. Thing is, they're all just systems designed to sustain the so-called American Dream, which is really just another way of saying American Illusion. Today they're in the process of breaking down, but in the name of preserving this status quo we supposedly have change we can believe in. Instead of 'investing in our future' perhaps we should be divesting our current of the temples that channel our economic waters.
Yikes, I'm starting to ramble. Time to wrap this up.
Respect your child and learn how to learn from them, and they will teach you of the Mysteries. Try to label and classify 'disorders' in children and all you'll ever be doing is ignoring the societal issues that they are reflecting.
Interesting. So is human behavior different than human nature? And is human behavior influenced by the global environment of a century of wartime? Could all studies on human behavior in the past hundred years be wrong because of not accommodating for broadcast images of war?
How can we really think we know anything about human nature?
Who's to say that 'god' experiences days as twenty four hours?
What exactly does 'perceive a threat to our species' and 'eliminate that threat' mean? In your context, it means asteroids. However, the greatest threat to our species isn't from space, it's the way we treat each other. So why the hell are we more worried about random rocks from space, when it's exactly that mentality that leads to all the wars and conflict on earth? Perhaps instead of trying to dominate, crush and otherwise cause further separation, we need to be figuring out how to live co-operatively on earth.
True elimination is digging out the seeds that grow ideas of conflict. Otherwise the weedwhacker of war is just spreading more.
I for one welcome our squirrel overlords.
Isn't vision what's really being argued here? It seems that everyone wants to see 9/11 in their own light. There will always be people who want to think that the simple answer is that the government did it. Just because one can watch the YouTube videos of the politicians indoctrinating the audience with words of '9/11' doesn't mean that they were behind the so-called 'attack'. The politicians certainly had their own, now-unravelling agenda after it, but were they responsible for it? Likely not. Maybe financed, through cash that can't be traced so that any investigation would turn up with empty leads.
Facts can be argued and are being used like bible verses. Paint with a big brush with bristles of bible verses, and you can depict any picture. Facts are not holy writ, especially when they are construed by people who are paid money.
What's the concern? Isn't it fear? Fear that the government could be responsible for such a thing? Or fear that some jihad might be organized enough to send a symbolic message that world trade is collapsing? Is it the sub-cultural knowledge that very few that don't watch YouTube know about the third building on 9/11, resulting in a severe blindness between the larger culture and the sub-culture? Is it fear that there could be something so deep here that goes beyond the Bush administration, beyond the World Bank and beyond even World War I?
Instead of arguing over who's right and who's wrong, perhaps what we need to be doing is working to abolish fear of basic survival in our communities. How can we be conscious of the larger world, and how can we respond to the great unknowns? Perhaps it all starts at home.
*sigh* I get so sad reading this sort of debate.
Does the sun rise in the morning?
Does the moon rise at night?
Do they have any effects on our world?
Can we agree that these are immediate effects that are readily perceived by everyone in a grand way based on time? Okay. Let's talk about time.
Time is at the center of our consciousness. I saw a video, can't remember who it was, but the lecturer started explaining how calendars shape consciousness. I didn't agree with some of the later arguments, but felt he made a very accurate opening observation. Calendars determine when people pay bills, rent, mortgages, and sub-prime loans. They also determine what is old and what is young. They determine how often people are paid, they determine when the banks come collecting. Within the family, dates are important for birthdays, deaths, marriages, divorces and when the relatives come visiting. As well, don't forget a woman is a lot more aware of time than a guy. Time always passes with events in space.
Anyone can observe shifts in consciousness on seven year increments. As with everyone, they will vary, based on immediate environmental and familial factors. Folk wisdom even indicates that the body rebuilds itself once every seven years.
0-7 is the definition of self.
8-14 is the family definition.
15-21 is the social definition.
21-30 is the world definition. (Mid-life crisis anyone?)
Obviously when we're thirty looking back on seven, we begin to feel how perceptions of time differ with age. It becomes evident how major events in our younger lives colored our perceptions. Unless the changes were major within space, like moving from country to country, or changes to family, perceptions will stay relatively similar throughout life. Consciousness sees the immediate effects immediately, but the slower effects take time to be seen. We can see the sun rise and the moon set, but the rotation of the stars is much more subtle. Light pollution doesn't help this matter.
So, now that we can agree that time affects consciousness, lets get back to those planets. It's based on degrees. There's a high degree of solar influence because we're so much closer to the sun. The celestial spheres are a lot farther away so their influence is going to be of a much lower degree. Of course, the environment doesn't necessarily have anything to do with one's free will. What happens if free will is aligned with the stars? Well, the North and South American indigenous peoples applied a lot of import to the heavens. At the time, the Western World was going through enlightenment. Look at the results and prevalence of the attitude that grew out the dominant culture. Where are we today? What have we learned?
It's easy to let our scientific orthodoxy try to recontextualize history. But isn't it a mistake to allow our current lens cloud the full picture of history? Is this perhaps why we say history repeats itself? Perhaps the thing to learn is that every culture has it's own collective lens of perception.
Our scientific methodology has resulted in wonderful technology. It's so attractive that things like ipods and computers dominate our lives, sometimes making life easier and sometimes making it harder. The lens of perception with technology is only limited to your googling abilities and willingness to learn, since it's all there on the net. Without the scientific method, we wouldn't have the internet and be able to learn about things like ice core samples from the wiki.
Ice core samples indicate that in times past, the earth can change rather quickly. They also indicate we have higher concentrations of carbon dioxide than ever before. We've introduced a new variable into our atmosphere.
At the very least, processes that have been occurring with a regular frequency are overdue. Any human consciousness that is not aware of time on a larger geographic and cultural scale will inevitably try to reduce observations to an understanding that is framed
In other words, live an active lifestyle and eat healthy. Why does it take studies to prove this?
What's holding us back?
...profit!
Wait for it...
You maybe may not want to run applications over the internet, but what about Joe Average who might every once in a while need to use PowerPoint for his kid's schoolwork? If it could be loaded locally to execute within a local computer and then be removed after a given timeframe, wouldn't that be more cost effective for Joe Average? $5 for a day's use of a specialized application makes more sense than adding a hundred dollars onto a software suite.
Condos come to mind. Places to live for those who want to keep their families going for another hundred years. I'm not convinced anymore I can do this here on earth.
Visited the site, some very interesting stuff. I see that he's sent stuff to NASA regarding his technology, and that there's lots of work being done. I guess my question is, how much of this is being pursued by people with money and making it a reality? How long until the basics of the plasma state is taught in elementary schools?
Maybe take a peek at the Wiki entry about the cell processor for a good background of what it is capable of.
From dictionary.com:
mistrust - lack of confidence, distrust.
Why might we distrust our technology? Perhaps because in the media all we hear is of the lack of confidence in technology. The RIAA's smear campaign on people is doing nothing but building resentment towards corporations and their concepts and implementations of technology.
Corporate vision in general needs to start showing high moral standards. As it is, technology itself is amoral. It is the use of the technology that makes it moral or immoral. This is what sets Google apart from everyone else, their vision high moral standard.
With our technological progress increasing, we need a media that can relate technological innovation and progress in a balanced yet engaging method. We need to trust that our technology will be used in a responsible manner.
No, not entirely on topic, but it does raise some concerns.
Fully agreed. I think the lack of personal accountability will span a few years before today's young teens become voting age and taking accountability much more seriously. They'll be the ones who blogged the stupidity of their adolescent years. They'll want a system of governence that they have direct control over, especially when they have seen what the worst can do now through their media. I'm anxious to see what they decide to do about this. Evolution begins to speed up with Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns.
If anything, childhood is changing due to many different factors.
Lazy parents are one big factor, but hopefully the media will realize it's capability to push the responsibility of parenting back onto the parents. Technology is always used for it's devious capabilities before it is used for it's positive influences. Some good television programming could begin to make parents feel more responsible for their kids. Try something like having a show on how raising kids in front of the TV makes them fat. Show what gorging on junk food does to people. It just takes money.
Technology is becoming smaller and cheaper. Convergence devices have an aesthetic that kids like. Just one device to do whatever they want. Just wait until a smartphone can be a PSP as well (or the PSP becomes a smartphone, whichever comes first).
Technology impacts children as they are not afraid of it. They post their lives to MySpace and don't bother filtering things. The biggest change to childhood that we don't understand yet is how our youth are expressing their independance and individuality by broadcasting it around the world. Give these youth five years to realize what they've done, and then they will be pulling for major changes in the way they are governed. Children aren't stupid, but people seem to think they are.
People like to be connected. Our children are now connected in ways that we weren't. It is up to us to figure out how to raise our children who are no longer ignorant of the world. They've long since lost their ignorance. Now we just need adults to realize this and start being involved, instead of legislating.