I personally have had several friends and family members serve in the military in positions where they did "pull the trigger," and not one of them is "psychotic" or even mildly dysfunctional. In fact, those who I know that have served in the military are commonly MORE socially functional than those who are not.
Let me get this straight. . .
You're telling me that people who, without question, kill other people for no arguably good reason and have no problem with it, are somehow not dysfunctional?
Right. Gotcha.
On a related note, psychopaths are often very charming and socially appealing to be around.
I'm not saying that your friends and family members are psychopaths. But I will say that mimicing psycopathic behavior is pretty stupid, and often the result of manipulations by a psychopath.
In the end, if it looks and smells like a rose. . .
So does every grandmother, labor union, charitable foundation, anyone else that owns a 401k or mutual fund that happens to include businesses that happen to do business in, around, or even indirectly related to any of the industries that play a role in the DOD's activities.
Your argument is utterly unrelated to the point in question. --The point being that one of the main reasons Cheney and Bush's crew in general started their war was in a deliberate effort to reap direct financial reward; from forcing the public to spend billions of tax dollars on weapons contracts from their own companies and the companies of friends, as well as to force the public into paying ludicrously high oil prices from which they, (Cheney and Bush, etc.), of course also get a cut. You can try to dress this up as the kind of savvy we should encourage in our leaders, but the criminal courts have another word for this kind of activity.
But aside from your flawed logic, (the mainstay of war mongers and neo-cons), there is something even more disturbing in your words. ..
It sounds suspiciously to me as though you actively endorse the idea of wholesale murder for the sake of profit. Perhaps I am wrong. ..
Still, it would come as no surprise to me if you not understand when I say that people in love with war are, to use a technical term, Fucked In The Head. Seeing as the brain must be used to understand itself, those with brain damage cannot reasonably be asked to recognize when they are, Fucked In The Head, so you'll just have to take my word for it. --Though since you clearly like to cherry pick words and ideas while ignoring the less agreeable points, (a classic symptom of the Fucked In The Head personality), I somehow doubt it'll do much good.
Likewise, anyone with an interest in not having the global economy further disturbed, in the long term, by having thugs like Saddam not only running a major fuel source but invading neighboring countries to control more of it, benefit.
Ahem. Saddam was helped into power by the C.I.A. --What does this tell you? --Probably nothing, so I'll illustrate it for you: With the Middle East in a permanent state of chaos, it is possible to manipulate the power structures over there so that all the oil wealth and profits from weapons sales flows neatly into U.S. (personal) coffers. Get it? Hell, you probably think that's a good thing.
Things would definitely have been tidier for Clinton if he hadn't been buddies with corrupt chicken farming industry types in the South, or hadn't handed out criminal pardons like candy to people sending checks to his campaigns and presidential library, too.
Also typical of the Fucked In The Head personality is the assumption that everybody who recognizes their, uh, condition, also thinks that Clinton was a hero. I ALREADY told you once; Those who remain stuck in the Left vs Right distraction are being chumped by the Good Cop, Bad Cop game. Get over it. And please try to use your eyes when you read my posts.
This is complete crap. There are people that want to kill people. Some of them even manage to take over countries, and use that country's resources to that end. Just like we need cops who can deal with the small minority that kill, rape, steal, intimidate... we need a military that can deal with the that same behavior when it plays out on a larger scale. And just like cops have to know how and when to use deadly force, so does a soldier or marine.
Ahem. Please see my words regarding cherry picking ideas and words. Your insistence on deliberate mis-interpretion so that you can continue your brainless rantings would be funny if I didn't think that there was an actual person out there, (you), who can make the world a shittier place for those of us who are not, Fucked In The Head.
I am not contesting the point that there are dangerous people out there who are killers. They exist. I said so already. --And I have no problem in
There are such things as counter-intelligence operatives; --An over-slick job description for somebody who has been pressed into working for the secret services because a) they have no morals and want the money, b) they are idiot nationalists, or c) they have been threatened with having their knee-caps reversed.
Public figures who spear-head movements are often targeted or planted to create focal points of public trust or civil action which can then later be used to mislead or otherwise sabotage a movement.
Pick your people carefully, according to deeds, not words.
Nice myth-spinning there. But ignoring your regurgitated lefty talking points, how would you like to send armed forces into a situation when they are likely to be under fire?
Oh yes, DO ignore the obvious. --Dick Cheney DOES in fact benefit from the war he helped to engineer. This is a cold truth. So what, exactly, about that is mythical? Hmm?
Regarding your comments about sending troops into fire zones. . . How does this resonate with the comments by the previous poster? --That is, the fact that war and war training turns normal people into psychotic lunatics?
To fight the 'bad guys' in Bosnia or 'protect' elections in Africa, you agree that turning people into permanently deranged psychotics is a viable solution? To fight the beast you must become the beast, eh? Isn't there a little loop-hole in that logic?
Think: If most people don't want to kill other people, then it stands to reason that we don't need to worry so much about people getting killed by people. Perhaps we ought instead to determine which of the small percentage of humans are really psychotic lunatics and then deal with them. --Or at the very least, not elect them into government positions. But I am sure that idea will be hard for most muggles to grasp.
In any case, please cut it out with that Left vs Right nonsense. Anybody who can't see why that idiot dance is pure distraction has their eyes glued shut. Psychopaths rule the world. You either play the fool and play along, or put your foot down.
Yes, and we've detected the presence of such "brown dwarfs" via gravitational microlensing observations. However, this kind of dark matter (MACHOS: MAssive Compact Halo Objects) can only account for a minority of the mass of dark matter, due to various observational constraints. Most of the dark matter has to be some kind of new exotic particle (WIMPs: Weakly Interacting Massive Particles), which is rather more speculative (but still strongly supported) than "burnt out stars and stuff".
And we have a winner. I was cringing while waiting for this arrogant remark, though hoped nobody would be dumb enough to present it. (And when I say "arrogant", I am referring to the human condition as a whole rather than individual myopia.)
Gravitational microlensing only works if there happens to be a lighted star between the observer and the subject, (a tiny little degree just off to one side, to be precise). Observational constraints indeed! Gravitational microlnsing is a clever way to prove the existence of brown dwarfs, not a way to perform a full spectrum 'scanner' sweep capable of mapping the heavens.
There is a whole lot of matter out there which is simply not illuminated. Period. The "Missing Matter" needn't be described by magical non-particles which, (ahem) have never been observed, and which make a lot less sense than the lights simply being out.
It strikes me that this is further evidence that it is the social acceptability of an idea which determines its Lemming-Magnet factor rather than the actual rationality, or in this case, the irrationality behind it.
That is, I thought serious scientists looked down their noses at things like ghosts. (Which is, of course, equally short-sighted of them.)
When a star burns out, it turns, "brown". This means, that against a black sky, you can't see it. --Hence, "Dark Matter".
The Universe is very, very old. --More than old enough for lots of stars to have burned out like this.
I really don't see a problem with the Dark Matter theory. In fact, I don't really understand why a theory is even required here. All which is being said is that, "Maybe it's still there even if it doesn't glow in the dark!"
Duh.
But then that seems to be largely the main problem with mixing science with the muggles; "Until I see it, I won't believe it!" People seem to have a lot of trouble recognizing that sometimes there are things affecting the world which don't immediately register on the 5 senses. Gee whiz. Perhaps it's time to graduate from kindergarten.
Kids who turn into bullies are often nasty from birth.
I've seen some kids growing up in a very loving community with very loving parents and excellent role models. Some of them are wonderful and use the resources at their disposal to grow strong and compassionate. But I've seen some really shitty kids who enjoy hurting and manipulating other kids. I think the individual person decides the route through life.
So teaching your kids Kung Fu is certainly fine, but there's nothing to say that one or more of your kids still won't grow up to be bullies. --Not even the very best in parenting can stop this. It can color the results and take the edge off perhaps, but from what I've seen, horrible people will use all the tools they have available to hurt others if that is their imperative.
When CBS and the Washington Post are covering something like this, it tells me two things. First, MMOGs are definitely mainstream now. Second, Sony made a mistake.
This story, and the dozens like it, tell me two things as well. First, that people are running like crazy from reality into the warm, waiting arms of entertainment. And Second, that times must be getting pretty rough if this is the case.
First of all, I must apologize. When writing my last two responses, I believed you were the original fellow who first called me an idiot, and I tailored my responses bearing that person in mind.
Anyway. . .
I think, you are just throwing words around without knowing its meaning or fully examining what you are saying.
This is not so. I have a very clear idea about how my thinking works. Rather it seems that we are tripping up on differing definitions of common words.
Everything is not energy. Your definition "physical expression of living energy" is just the proof that you are just contradicting yourself. If energy is "alive," there would be no need or way to express itself physically.
Everything IS energy, actually. Matter subdivided into its tiniest components bears little resemblance to anything we might call, "solid". The smallest parts are theorized by some physicists as being tiny strings of standing energetic wave-forms. Energy. Nothing more.
When I say, "physical expression of living energy" I use the word "physical" to mean the way we percieve the universe, as being filled with solid stuff. --This doesn't change the fact that all that "solid" stuff is really just space made up of tiny wave-forms.
For "energy" is to live its existence as a life, expression can only be mere description of result that its metaphysical transition take place where it can never be created nor destroyed.
I'm afraid I got lost trying to read that, but it sounds intriguing. Can you try explaining yourself again?
That's a mouth full. For a stone to have an awareness, "it" first must know what "it" is. To "know" what "it" is, it also must have an ability to reflect itself and others' existence in comparison. Stones carries properties, not awareness.
This is only true from your perspective. The stones might argue differently. A being which has awareness does not automatically mean it will be recognizable to you. Stones are not likely able to percieve your awareness, but you are alive nonetheless.
I study science, not Scientology... you must understand. You can call it "programming" or whatever.
Scientology is a dangerous cult. The science you study is similar in that it limits by design. True science does not make so many assumptions!
Mother Earth is not a being. [. ..] For anyone to say "Mother Earth" is a being, is artistic, philosophical, not scientific. I am not an artist nor philosopher, but I do know science. And I can't ration without it. In your view, perhaps, that is where you see me with faults.
You didn't understand this part of my last post. I'll try to explain once again. --The Earth is a "Being" in that it exists. It floats there, being the Earth. I'm using the root, "To Be", and from that, the Earth is an instance of something which can Be. Thus, it is a Being. Get it?
Now, because Everything is Energy, the Earth is also Energy.
Is Energy aware?
According to all that I have learned and experienced, I have come to think that we are all interconnected pieces of thought energy. --That all thoughts are energy, and all energy are thoughts. Thus, all that exists, (energy), must be a part of an awareness, and thus, alive.
In the "Real" world, this may seem ridiculous, but the "Real" world as you experience it is just a temporary perspective. Those atoms which make us up and which seem so solid and "real" are still just made of %99.9999999 (ad infinitum) space filled with little bits of vibration. So which is more real? The impression of the "real" world you carry around, or the true reality which can leave only an impression?
Bandwidth is being used up all the time by regular conversations.
Hey, now just hold on a second! --Many of those conversations are no doubt, business related. That mans deals are being made at this very moment. Money is being made! Billions and billions of dollars worth!
Hey! No fair! We, (the telcos) invested a huge amount in order to facilitate all those profitable conversations! By rights, WE should be the ones making all that money!
We want our cut!
And, by-golly, we'll use all the broken logic at our disposal to make it so!
I think that maybe you want to rethink some of this statement? The pink fiberglass is laid in, the stuff you spray in is cellulose. When have you built walls that are three feet thick? (Some folks are building fairly thick walls with hay bales, but this is a method that isn't common and doesn't mesh with the rest of your statement so we'll ignore it.) Do you know what materials cost would be for a place with walls this thick? Have you considered that the gains would be minimal over 8" or 10" thick walls?
Admittedly I am not a builder and I am still in learning-mode with regard to how to achieve my goals.
I do, however, know that materials costs can be kept to a minimum if one is clever in how ends are achieved. Building on a lot which has a stand of trees; I'd hire a portable sawmill to cut the lumber into the beams I need. This, from general estimates I've heard, cuts the materials cost for lumber in half. Further, there are a couple of small lumber mills in my region. They discard a great deal of off-cut. (The rounded and bark-covered portion of the tree.) They either cut it up and sell it as fire wood, but in many cases it is simply dumped in the forest. If you are willing to take the time in cleaning it, much of this discard is of building grade quality, and it's entirely free (minus your time and the truck you'd have to borrow).
There are also a number of old barns and houses which are torn down in my area from time to time which have perfectly good timber frames. Several people I know have rescued these old bones and have used them in their houses. Again, this is free wood of a very high quality.
I am entirely aware of Straw Bale construction as a possibility, and it is very cheep. (About $2.00 - $2.50 per bale.) Unfortunately, it's very hard to use in my region because it rains frequently. You have to make sure you keep the bales very dry until you've finished construction, or funguses and molds can become a problem.
Further, I figure a very thick wall, the way I'm picturing it, would basically increase materials cost on those walls by a bit less than double, since you're basically building two walls, an inner and an outer, and stuffing the space between with insulation. I don't really have a problem with this.
The (master) builders I've talked to in this region describe putting three feet of insulation on a couple of rooftops and that the R-Value there is well over 50. It is suggested that the walls need only be half as thick, so perhaps I'm thinking irrationally with a mind for over-kill, but I DO believe that the gains over 8"-10" walls would be measurable.
I believe that they are going to University. This may not be practical to him at the moment.
I didn't mention another great way to cut costs; get the hell out of University. It is often, in a practical sense, a huge waste of time and money. For very few areas of study can you not learn what you need on your own or through apprenticeship and get plenty of good employment afterwards without a degree. Some of the most successful and intelligent people I've met haven't used their degrees, or never got one in the first place. Certification is needless. People in the community you are serving learn quickly enough who is skilled and who is not.
$10,000? maybe. If you're frugal and your needs are modest. What makes you think that solar panels can do any significant collection in low-light conditions? I would love to hear about the solar panel that offers any real utility on a cloudy day.
I've seen the panels in action; watched the needle on the meter stay a nice margin above zero when the sky was grey and heavy with cloud cover. --Granted, the panels were only working at about %10 - 15% capacity as compared to days with direct sunlight, but that was still more power coming in than going out in this particular house. --I had the opportunity to care for an off-the-grid house over the course of several days. The house batteries, I was told, never drop
umm.. I'm not a scientist or philosopher, but I'm pretty sure "energy" is not "alive" regardless of its shape or form.
"Pretty sure" is another word for "assumption". Neither hold water. There is a lot more going on out there than convention wants people to look at.
Something with DNA would be a good start... [. ..] Something with DNA and self-awareness, preferably with neurological central nervous system or something like it... again, I'm not a biologist
This is the typical materialist view of reality, that nothing beyond the physical can carry awareness. (If you happen to be a race of non-physical beings, how better to hide yourself and your actions if you want to manipulate the human race for your own benefit? Reference Crop Circles, and UFOs for more on that broad subject, --although it is important to first drop your main-stream media-enforced assumptions. They are just part of the deception. Crop Circles especially are a good entry point; that's what they are designed to be; Question marks which very obviously don't fit into the orthodox scheme and encourage people to ask questions.)
DNA, to be certain, is a very powerful physical expression of living energy, but it is not required. When all is energy, why does only the energy which has congealed into matter count when numbering living entities? And given that, (which I suspect you aren't), why only number entities expressed in physical form which happen to coincide with your patterning and the type of awareness you are familiar with? Stones carry an awareness, although it is expressed and experienced very differently. Being 'Pretty Sure' that such things cannot be only signifies that you bought into the programming. There is a LOT going on outside the margins of official reality, and those who want to explore it may do so at will, (and without drugs, thank-you). Breaking the conditioning is the hard part, but after that, awareness grows rather quickly.
I think, "Mother Earth" is an expression and not to be taken as literal, but then again, I'm not a pagan...
Well, you being honest. You "Think" the above. That's a lot better than assuming you are right. Paganism is dumb, as it still cloaks reality in myths and ritual and other misdirecting nonsense. "Mother Earth" is simply a respectful term for the collective being of which we are all a part. --And I use the word "being," deliberately. A being is something which 'is'. How can this be argued? The planet is rich with awareness in countless forms and we all affect one another in very powerful ways which are not allowed for by the dogmatic orthodox belief systems.
There is no "Mother Earth", you idiot. Earth is a rocky planet and is not sentient.
Wow. You say that almost as if you really know what you're talking about. But, like 99% of the drones, you are making assumptions based on school science classes, what you watched on TeeVee, and what has been written by writers who are also drones.
In a universe where all there is is energy, (matter is an illusion, after all), how do you know which groups of energy are 'alive' and which are not? How do you define 'alive'? How do you define 'Sentient'?
Greater minds than yours have struggled with such questions without result, or have come up with answers far more insightful than your crude, baseless assumptions.
For the last 10 years, I've lived in a few different apartments and my electricity bill has not often been above 50, and often below.
Me too, for about 10 years. (Though my power bills, even shared among room-mates, have been higher than that. I think the age of the building figures into the equation.)
Anyway, if you want to start a family and live in a proper house, those costs suddenly become something to consider. My electricity bill for 2006, barring changes to global energy prices, is going to be about $2500. --It's an old rented house with poor insulation and electric heating. Until now I was a low-rent bachelor, but life shifts around and suddenly you need more space and things can quickly grow expensive. I am very much looking forward to building my own home. No rolling black-outs and huge energy bills for me, thank-you.
When old cycles end, they end. 8000 barges aren't going to turn anything around. Not in this reality. Come on. This is pie in the sky.
Too little is understood to be able to determine what the right thing to do is anyway, at least by enough people who will all agree at the same time. 8000 barges is a story for sci-fi dreamers. Reality is run by psychopaths, religious nut-jobs, and alien free-range farmers with dinner napkins tucked under their chins eagerly awaiting the slaughter.
Systems which do not respect life and Mother Earth, are doomed to fall hard. The U.S. is sinking fast and technology is not going to save us. Guaranteed. --Not because we aren't capable of thinking up good ideas, but because those who are in control are quite pleased with the direction of things. And the human elite who have a clue, (bastards), have chosen to ditch out on the rest of us and hide underground while the planet burns/freezes/gets hammered with comets. So 8000 Barges? Yeah. Dream on.
Mother Earth is pushing the re-set button. Get comfy with that idea.
1. Insulation. Lots and lots of insulation. Insulation is not sexy, but if you make very thick walls, like three feet thick, and spray in the fiberglass-pink, as well as use tin-foil to reflect infared back into the home. . , you can basically heat a home with minimal effort. A wood stove, or a heat from a compost heap set downhill from the house with circulating pipes to carry heat to the floors, etc., plus use of solar heat collection. . . Kill your heating bills. There are lots of clever ways to heat a place other than the conventional, super-wasteful methods we use today.
2. Build somewhere you can sink your own well. Run the pump with an electric motor driven from a solar panel. Keep a huge water storage tank buried next to your house. Never pay the water company ever again.
3. Solar collectors for power. Get off the grid altogether! Spend $10,000 on good panels, (which can collect even in low-light conditions), and batteries and all the wiring, etc., and you needn't pay another electricity bill ever again.
What's left?
4. Cancel your cable/satellite subscription. TV is for losers. Period. TV is a waste of time and money and brain cells. Simple.
5. Phone bills. . ? This is the only thing I'd keep. I like communication.
6. Food. Food is cheep now. Very cheep. When fuel costs continue to rise, trucking and transport costs will also rise. The cost of goods will have to go up. Bush's fucked up reality means the poor will starve. So buy lots and lots of cans and preserved food stuffs now. The depression is near. Be prepared. You think your food bills are high now? Hm.
Or more precisely, creating a population which will be inclined to accept a certain type of reality.
People hanker for the real world to fit what they think their brains are wired for. It's a subconscious drive. Once that reality is achieved, it hardly matters if there are discrepancies between reality and the simulator/mind-programming systems; Bush and his elitist friends are still getting rich in signing billions of dollars in weapons contracts.
It was the latest one out when I was putting software on my system.
It works flawlessly. It's teenie-tiny. It's appealing to look at. . .
Am I missing something here. . ? The only reason I ever go for updates on software is in the hope that an annoying design flaw is fixed, or that a much-needed feature will be added. When I finally load something onto my machine which does exactly what I want, I sigh with relief and then move on to other interests.
I'm fairly certain guys like me are not well liked around the headquarters of Commercialism Inc.
Software doesn't crap out after 2 years of use, but I guess with everybody so well programmed into thinking, "Old=Bad", that even when consumers step into the virtual world, they don't need to own products filled with time-bomb parts designed to fail after a set period. People are kind of chumpy this way. As my grampy used to tell me, "Buy it good, buy it once, learn how to fix it yourself."
Of course, that doesn't mean people shouldn't create new things for the sake of play; Playing means seeing what can be done next, what innovation can be whipped up. Playing is fun. But for computer music players, I don't really care. I have music. It plays. Why all the fuss?
I'd be very cautious about taking this story as an opportunity to grind a capitalist's axe when there's obviously something far more interesting going on.
This is a story being carried in the Big Media about Big Government, which means without any doubt that the whole issue is malarky intended to manipulate public thinking in specific directions.
What are some of those directions? What ideas are they trying to seed in our ever-fertile minds. . ?
Here are a couple which jump out at me. . .
1. "Oh, but Who could ever have stolen the data?" Translation: "Which government or group do we want to vilify and create fear around so as to justify further erosions to public rights and further war spending?"
2. "Ah, I see the FBI and our President are linked to Integrity and Efficiency." Translation: "The White House public relations department has determined that the people are waking up to Bush's psychopathic nature, so we'd better spend a lot more money reassuring them that Bush is really a good guy with moral integrity, otherwise we might lose control of this whole mess of a presidency and find ourselves swinging from a bunch of nooses."
It's a good idea not to fall so conveniently into the old "Right v.s. Left" nonsense. That's just the bad guys using the divide and conquer technique to stop citizens from forming healthy communities capable of standing against the control system.
So as I understand it, you are saying "I don't like games so slashdot shouldn't report about them".
Try understanding it this way. . .
Of the 160 or so topics and categories available on Slashdot under which a story might be posted, only twelve have to do with games. That's about 13%. However, during the last few weeks, it seems that more than 30% of the stories on Slashdot have been dwelling on games while all those other categories have been ignored. This is very unusual for Slashdot and it also looks like it might be a growing trend. I hope I am wrong.
There are lots of other sites on the web which are devoted to games, but there are NO other sites which are devoted to the type of news Slashdot has until now represented so well.
I don't mind a story about games from time to time, but this shift feels strange, and I'm not the first to notice it.
--When the world grows difficult, cowards turn inward to ignore problems. I tend to think that cowardice should not be fostered.
I think we've had enough 'news' about games to last us several weeks.
Has 'Zonk' been given some sort of mandate? Are Slashdot's advertisers not feeling confident in their reach for some sort of imaginary target audience?
For goodness sake.
There's an utterly fascinating real world going on out there. Talking about video games leads to video game addiction. What is Slashdot trying to become?
I've stolen a lot of software, and unless you are a giant dork, so have you.
I've used tens of thousands of dollars worth of code over the years on a variety of platforms from the Tandy CoCo to my current PC which I simply could not afford to have bought at the time. I don't feel guilty about this in the slightest. Now that I'm grown up, I turned around and now provide a lot of content to the world which has also been borrowed by people who haven't paid. Gee whiz. Life goes on, and the wheels keep spinning and there's still food on my table. How many software makers are starving? I'm serious. --If people are good at what they do, if they produce with passion, then if their work doesn't sell, it has nothing to do with piracy.
I'd also be curious to know. . . How many of those people who today make movies and software haven't also pirated a few dozen software titles when they were kids at home with their C64s, or Amigas or whatever? I didn't know a single computer-owning kid who wasn't also a software pirate. Not one.
What comes around, goes around. That's Karma and everybody pays. It's the credit card system of the Universe.
See, I've also bought a lot of software, and unless you are a giant dork, so have you.
Now that I am an adult with an income, I particularly enjoy buying software from small companies similar to the ones I ripped off as a kid. Not out of guilt or any sense of repayment; Motivation is much more pleasing when it stems from passion rather than pain. --And I genuinely enjoy making on-line purchases and downloading cool and clever bits of code. I understand the creativity and work required to create something, and how much encouragement and joy comes from seeing a sale made. I think it's wonderful to encourage passion and wit and creativity and bravery in those individuals who are willing to buck the system and listen to their souls. It feels great!
Look at "Doom". The first version was free! And does everybody remember what the end result was? Did people lose jobs and starve? Goodness, no! --The excitement generated from creating something new and truly clever creates energy, enough energy to feed and employ thousands of people.
The trick is making sure that you stay connected to the loop. There's nothing wrong with that. Being willing to Give energy freely means nothing if you don't also allow yourself to Take energy freely. The conduit must not be stymied at either end of the flow. "Give and you shall receive," is one of the truly valid, really good sayings in this reality, but it needs one little addendum I think. . , "Give and you shall receive, --but don't be silly about it."
The "Information Wants to be Free" saying is also a good one. It's so very true, but it works in ways a little more clever and mysterious than the laws of direct commerce allow for.
Wait... I see it now. I'm picturing myself sitting in front of a computer, with a huge bong in my hand. I feel like everything I say is very profound.
Profound? That's a matter of perspective. Accurate?
Well, I've been ahead of the curve for a few years now. The funny thing is that people don't apologize for being condescending twits when they find themselves face to face with certain realities. Or as one friend put it, "People laugh until they suddenly need your help getting rid of a terrorizing spirit. Then they believe all right."
I'd not been aware of the Stargate game cancellation, or your previous post, but was hit with a Stargate-style game idea about a week ago as well in a very strong way.
The muses, I don't think, are mythical icons. I think there is a very real effect at play. --That there are ideas which are directed to creative types with the aim of altering the human experience en masse. It's one of the ways societal control can be affected without visible strings.
Creative people will pick up on various signals, and then depending their alignment, will choose how to implement those ideas. I can think of a dozen or so instances where I've been hit hard with exciting ideas and have seen them put into production by various other creators within the expected time-frame. Channeled sources purport that there are many individuals engaged in thought projection work at this time.
There are two basic camps in the thought-projection crowd; those who want to see humanity become enlightened and free, and those who aim to control and eat us. The messages and inspirations each send out are designed to create media which will speed us toward one of those two ends. "Baywatch", for instance, was very body-centric and materialist, which are both extremely mis-directive traits. "Stargate", by contrast, does quite the opposite. I find it interesting that the two male leads from the two shows held some animosity for one another. . .
Much about Stargate strikes me as, 'Good Guy'. --Their message, while a bit sugary and simple around the edges, definitely deals in subject matter which starts people asking important and (very) relevant questions about human history. They've come out against Terrorism. They produce the show in Canada. Their message is one of reason. --They do have a few off-notes, such as Greys being depicted as both highly intelligent and friendly, neither of which is true. But the messages behind the show are otherwise good ones to explore. --Particularly with regard to the Atlantis stuff, and the vampire alien hoards, etc.
I question why the Stargate idea I was hit with involved a lot of war and conquest. --It is one of the reasons I chose to ignore it. (Not that I'm in any position to be making and publishing video games in the first place.) But it feels rather like counter psy-ops stuff to muddy a good message with violence and selfish activity.
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Let me get this straight. . .
You're telling me that people who, without question, kill other people for no arguably good reason and have no problem with it, are somehow not dysfunctional?
Right. Gotcha.
On a related note, psychopaths are often very charming and socially appealing to be around.
I'm not saying that your friends and family members are psychopaths. But I will say that mimicing psycopathic behavior is pretty stupid, and often the result of manipulations by a psychopath.
In the end, if it looks and smells like a rose. . .
-FL
So does every grandmother, labor union, charitable foundation, anyone else that owns a 401k or mutual fund that happens to include businesses that happen to do business in, around, or even indirectly related to any of the industries that play a role in the DOD's activities.
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Your argument is utterly unrelated to the point in question. --The point being that one of the main reasons Cheney and Bush's crew in general started their war was in a deliberate effort to reap direct financial reward; from forcing the public to spend billions of tax dollars on weapons contracts from their own companies and the companies of friends, as well as to force the public into paying ludicrously high oil prices from which they, (Cheney and Bush, etc.), of course also get a cut. You can try to dress this up as the kind of savvy we should encourage in our leaders, but the criminal courts have another word for this kind of activity.
But aside from your flawed logic, (the mainstay of war mongers and neo-cons), there is something even more disturbing in your words. .
It sounds suspiciously to me as though you actively endorse the idea of wholesale murder for the sake of profit. Perhaps I am wrong. .
Still, it would come as no surprise to me if you not understand when I say that people in love with war are, to use a technical term, Fucked In The Head. Seeing as the brain must be used to understand itself, those with brain damage cannot reasonably be asked to recognize when they are, Fucked In The Head, so you'll just have to take my word for it. --Though since you clearly like to cherry pick words and ideas while ignoring the less agreeable points, (a classic symptom of the Fucked In The Head personality), I somehow doubt it'll do much good.
Likewise, anyone with an interest in not having the global economy further disturbed, in the long term, by having thugs like Saddam not only running a major fuel source but invading neighboring countries to control more of it, benefit.
Ahem. Saddam was helped into power by the C.I.A. --What does this tell you? --Probably nothing, so I'll illustrate it for you: With the Middle East in a permanent state of chaos, it is possible to manipulate the power structures over there so that all the oil wealth and profits from weapons sales flows neatly into U.S. (personal) coffers. Get it? Hell, you probably think that's a good thing.
Things would definitely have been tidier for Clinton if he hadn't been buddies with corrupt chicken farming industry types in the South, or hadn't handed out criminal pardons like candy to people sending checks to his campaigns and presidential library, too.
Also typical of the Fucked In The Head personality is the assumption that everybody who recognizes their, uh, condition, also thinks that Clinton was a hero. I ALREADY told you once; Those who remain stuck in the Left vs Right distraction are being chumped by the Good Cop, Bad Cop game. Get over it. And please try to use your eyes when you read my posts.
This is complete crap. There are people that want to kill people. Some of them even manage to take over countries, and use that country's resources to that end. Just like we need cops who can deal with the small minority that kill, rape, steal, intimidate... we need a military that can deal with the that same behavior when it plays out on a larger scale. And just like cops have to know how and when to use deadly force, so does a soldier or marine.
Ahem. Please see my words regarding cherry picking ideas and words. Your insistence on deliberate mis-interpretion so that you can continue your brainless rantings would be funny if I didn't think that there was an actual person out there, (you), who can make the world a shittier place for those of us who are not, Fucked In The Head.
I am not contesting the point that there are dangerous people out there who are killers. They exist. I said so already. --And I have no problem in
Public figures who spear-head movements are often targeted or planted to create focal points of public trust or civil action which can then later be used to mislead or otherwise sabotage a movement.
Pick your people carefully, according to deeds, not words.
-FL
Oh yes, DO ignore the obvious. --Dick Cheney DOES in fact benefit from the war he helped to engineer. This is a cold truth. So what, exactly, about that is mythical? Hmm?
Regarding your comments about sending troops into fire zones. . . How does this resonate with the comments by the previous poster? --That is, the fact that war and war training turns normal people into psychotic lunatics?
To fight the 'bad guys' in Bosnia or 'protect' elections in Africa, you agree that turning people into permanently deranged psychotics is a viable solution? To fight the beast you must become the beast, eh? Isn't there a little loop-hole in that logic?
Think: If most people don't want to kill other people, then it stands to reason that we don't need to worry so much about people getting killed by people. Perhaps we ought instead to determine which of the small percentage of humans are really psychotic lunatics and then deal with them. --Or at the very least, not elect them into government positions. But I am sure that idea will be hard for most muggles to grasp.
In any case, please cut it out with that Left vs Right nonsense. Anybody who can't see why that idiot dance is pure distraction has their eyes glued shut. Psychopaths rule the world. You either play the fool and play along, or put your foot down.
-FL
And we have a winner. I was cringing while waiting for this arrogant remark, though hoped nobody would be dumb enough to present it. (And when I say "arrogant", I am referring to the human condition as a whole rather than individual myopia.)
Gravitational microlensing only works if there happens to be a lighted star between the observer and the subject, (a tiny little degree just off to one side, to be precise). Observational constraints indeed! Gravitational microlnsing is a clever way to prove the existence of brown dwarfs, not a way to perform a full spectrum 'scanner' sweep capable of mapping the heavens.
There is a whole lot of matter out there which is simply not illuminated. Period. The "Missing Matter" needn't be described by magical non-particles which, (ahem) have never been observed, and which make a lot less sense than the lights simply being out.
It strikes me that this is further evidence that it is the social acceptability of an idea which determines its Lemming-Magnet factor rather than the actual rationality, or in this case, the irrationality behind it.
That is, I thought serious scientists looked down their noses at things like ghosts. (Which is, of course, equally short-sighted of them.)
-FL
The Universe is very, very old. --More than old enough for lots of stars to have burned out like this.
I really don't see a problem with the Dark Matter theory. In fact, I don't really understand why a theory is even required here. All which is being said is that, "Maybe it's still there even if it doesn't glow in the dark!"
Duh.
But then that seems to be largely the main problem with mixing science with the muggles; "Until I see it, I won't believe it!" People seem to have a lot of trouble recognizing that sometimes there are things affecting the world which don't immediately register on the 5 senses. Gee whiz. Perhaps it's time to graduate from kindergarten.
-FL
I've seen some kids growing up in a very loving community with very loving parents and excellent role models. Some of them are wonderful and use the resources at their disposal to grow strong and compassionate. But I've seen some really shitty kids who enjoy hurting and manipulating other kids. I think the individual person decides the route through life.
So teaching your kids Kung Fu is certainly fine, but there's nothing to say that one or more of your kids still won't grow up to be bullies. --Not even the very best in parenting can stop this. It can color the results and take the edge off perhaps, but from what I've seen, horrible people will use all the tools they have available to hurt others if that is their imperative.
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This story, and the dozens like it, tell me two things as well. First, that people are running like crazy from reality into the warm, waiting arms of entertainment. And Second, that times must be getting pretty rough if this is the case.
-FL
Anyway. . .
I think, you are just throwing words around without knowing its meaning or fully examining what you are saying.
This is not so. I have a very clear idea about how my thinking works. Rather it seems that we are tripping up on differing definitions of common words.
Everything is not energy. Your definition "physical expression of living energy" is just the proof that you are just contradicting yourself. If energy is "alive," there would be no need or way to express itself physically.
Everything IS energy, actually. Matter subdivided into its tiniest components bears little resemblance to anything we might call, "solid". The smallest parts are theorized by some physicists as being tiny strings of standing energetic wave-forms. Energy. Nothing more.
When I say, "physical expression of living energy" I use the word "physical" to mean the way we percieve the universe, as being filled with solid stuff. --This doesn't change the fact that all that "solid" stuff is really just space made up of tiny wave-forms.
For "energy" is to live its existence as a life, expression can only be mere description of result that its metaphysical transition take place where it can never be created nor destroyed.
I'm afraid I got lost trying to read that, but it sounds intriguing. Can you try explaining yourself again?
That's a mouth full. For a stone to have an awareness, "it" first must know what "it" is. To "know" what "it" is, it also must have an ability to reflect itself and others' existence in comparison. Stones carries properties, not awareness.
This is only true from your perspective. The stones might argue differently. A being which has awareness does not automatically mean it will be recognizable to you. Stones are not likely able to percieve your awareness, but you are alive nonetheless.
I study science, not Scientology... you must understand. You can call it "programming" or whatever.
Scientology is a dangerous cult. The science you study is similar in that it limits by design. True science does not make so many assumptions!
Mother Earth is not a being. [. .
You didn't understand this part of my last post. I'll try to explain once again. --The Earth is a "Being" in that it exists. It floats there, being the Earth. I'm using the root, "To Be", and from that, the Earth is an instance of something which can Be. Thus, it is a Being. Get it?
Now, because Everything is Energy, the Earth is also Energy.
Is Energy aware?
According to all that I have learned and experienced, I have come to think that we are all interconnected pieces of thought energy. --That all thoughts are energy, and all energy are thoughts. Thus, all that exists, (energy), must be a part of an awareness, and thus, alive.
In the "Real" world, this may seem ridiculous, but the "Real" world as you experience it is just a temporary perspective. Those atoms which make us up and which seem so solid and "real" are still just made of %99.9999999 (ad infinitum) space filled with little bits of vibration. So which is more real? The impression of the "real" world you carry around, or the true reality which can leave only an impression?
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Hey, now just hold on a second! --Many of those conversations are no doubt, business related. That mans deals are being made at this very moment. Money is being made! Billions and billions of dollars worth!
Hey! No fair! We, (the telcos) invested a huge amount in order to facilitate all those profitable conversations! By rights, WE should be the ones making all that money!
We want our cut!
And, by-golly, we'll use all the broken logic at our disposal to make it so!
-FL
I think that maybe you want to rethink some of this statement? The pink fiberglass is laid in, the stuff you spray in is cellulose. When have you built walls that are three feet thick? (Some folks are building fairly thick walls with hay bales, but this is a method that isn't common and doesn't mesh with the rest of your statement so we'll ignore it.) Do you know what materials cost would be for a place with walls this thick? Have you considered that the gains would be minimal over 8" or 10" thick walls?
Admittedly I am not a builder and I am still in learning-mode with regard to how to achieve my goals.
I do, however, know that materials costs can be kept to a minimum if one is clever in how ends are achieved. Building on a lot which has a stand of trees; I'd hire a portable sawmill to cut the lumber into the beams I need. This, from general estimates I've heard, cuts the materials cost for lumber in half. Further, there are a couple of small lumber mills in my region. They discard a great deal of off-cut. (The rounded and bark-covered portion of the tree.) They either cut it up and sell it as fire wood, but in many cases it is simply dumped in the forest. If you are willing to take the time in cleaning it, much of this discard is of building grade quality, and it's entirely free (minus your time and the truck you'd have to borrow).
There are also a number of old barns and houses which are torn down in my area from time to time which have perfectly good timber frames. Several people I know have rescued these old bones and have used them in their houses. Again, this is free wood of a very high quality.
I am entirely aware of Straw Bale construction as a possibility, and it is very cheep. (About $2.00 - $2.50 per bale.) Unfortunately, it's very hard to use in my region because it rains frequently. You have to make sure you keep the bales very dry until you've finished construction, or funguses and molds can become a problem.
Further, I figure a very thick wall, the way I'm picturing it, would basically increase materials cost on those walls by a bit less than double, since you're basically building two walls, an inner and an outer, and stuffing the space between with insulation. I don't really have a problem with this.
The (master) builders I've talked to in this region describe putting three feet of insulation on a couple of rooftops and that the R-Value there is well over 50. It is suggested that the walls need only be half as thick, so perhaps I'm thinking irrationally with a mind for over-kill, but I DO believe that the gains over 8"-10" walls would be measurable.
I believe that they are going to University. This may not be practical to him at the moment.
I didn't mention another great way to cut costs; get the hell out of University. It is often, in a practical sense, a huge waste of time and money. For very few areas of study can you not learn what you need on your own or through apprenticeship and get plenty of good employment afterwards without a degree. Some of the most successful and intelligent people I've met haven't used their degrees, or never got one in the first place. Certification is needless. People in the community you are serving learn quickly enough who is skilled and who is not.
$10,000? maybe. If you're frugal and your needs are modest. What makes you think that solar panels can do any significant collection in low-light conditions? I would love to hear about the solar panel that offers any real utility on a cloudy day.
I've seen the panels in action; watched the needle on the meter stay a nice margin above zero when the sky was grey and heavy with cloud cover. --Granted, the panels were only working at about %10 - 15% capacity as compared to days with direct sunlight, but that was still more power coming in than going out in this particular house. --I had the opportunity to care for an off-the-grid house over the course of several days. The house batteries, I was told, never drop
"Pretty sure" is another word for "assumption". Neither hold water. There is a lot more going on out there than convention wants people to look at.
Something with DNA would be a good start... [. .
This is the typical materialist view of reality, that nothing beyond the physical can carry awareness. (If you happen to be a race of non-physical beings, how better to hide yourself and your actions if you want to manipulate the human race for your own benefit? Reference Crop Circles, and UFOs for more on that broad subject, --although it is important to first drop your main-stream media-enforced assumptions. They are just part of the deception. Crop Circles especially are a good entry point; that's what they are designed to be; Question marks which very obviously don't fit into the orthodox scheme and encourage people to ask questions.)
DNA, to be certain, is a very powerful physical expression of living energy, but it is not required. When all is energy, why does only the energy which has congealed into matter count when numbering living entities? And given that, (which I suspect you aren't), why only number entities expressed in physical form which happen to coincide with your patterning and the type of awareness you are familiar with? Stones carry an awareness, although it is expressed and experienced very differently. Being 'Pretty Sure' that such things cannot be only signifies that you bought into the programming. There is a LOT going on outside the margins of official reality, and those who want to explore it may do so at will, (and without drugs, thank-you). Breaking the conditioning is the hard part, but after that, awareness grows rather quickly.
I think, "Mother Earth" is an expression and not to be taken as literal, but then again, I'm not a pagan...
Well, you being honest. You "Think" the above. That's a lot better than assuming you are right. Paganism is dumb, as it still cloaks reality in myths and ritual and other misdirecting nonsense. "Mother Earth" is simply a respectful term for the collective being of which we are all a part. --And I use the word "being," deliberately. A being is something which 'is'. How can this be argued? The planet is rich with awareness in countless forms and we all affect one another in very powerful ways which are not allowed for by the dogmatic orthodox belief systems.
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Wow. You say that almost as if you really know what you're talking about. But, like 99% of the drones, you are making assumptions based on school science classes, what you watched on TeeVee, and what has been written by writers who are also drones.
In a universe where all there is is energy, (matter is an illusion, after all), how do you know which groups of energy are 'alive' and which are not? How do you define 'alive'? How do you define 'Sentient'?
Greater minds than yours have struggled with such questions without result, or have come up with answers far more insightful than your crude, baseless assumptions.
-FL
Me too, for about 10 years. (Though my power bills, even shared among room-mates, have been higher than that. I think the age of the building figures into the equation.)
Anyway, if you want to start a family and live in a proper house, those costs suddenly become something to consider. My electricity bill for 2006, barring changes to global energy prices, is going to be about $2500. --It's an old rented house with poor insulation and electric heating. Until now I was a low-rent bachelor, but life shifts around and suddenly you need more space and things can quickly grow expensive. I am very much looking forward to building my own home. No rolling black-outs and huge energy bills for me, thank-you.
-FL
Oh, that's so sweet. Wish I had mod-points.
-FL
Too little is understood to be able to determine what the right thing to do is anyway, at least by enough people who will all agree at the same time. 8000 barges is a story for sci-fi dreamers. Reality is run by psychopaths, religious nut-jobs, and alien free-range farmers with dinner napkins tucked under their chins eagerly awaiting the slaughter.
Systems which do not respect life and Mother Earth, are doomed to fall hard. The U.S. is sinking fast and technology is not going to save us. Guaranteed. --Not because we aren't capable of thinking up good ideas, but because those who are in control are quite pleased with the direction of things. And the human elite who have a clue, (bastards), have chosen to ditch out on the rest of us and hide underground while the planet burns/freezes/gets hammered with comets. So 8000 Barges? Yeah. Dream on.
Mother Earth is pushing the re-set button. Get comfy with that idea.
-FL
1. Insulation. Lots and lots of insulation. Insulation is not sexy, but if you make very thick walls, like three feet thick, and spray in the fiberglass-pink, as well as use tin-foil to reflect infared back into the home. . , you can basically heat a home with minimal effort. A wood stove, or a heat from a compost heap set downhill from the house with circulating pipes to carry heat to the floors, etc., plus use of solar heat collection. . . Kill your heating bills. There are lots of clever ways to heat a place other than the conventional, super-wasteful methods we use today.
2. Build somewhere you can sink your own well. Run the pump with an electric motor driven from a solar panel. Keep a huge water storage tank buried next to your house. Never pay the water company ever again.
3. Solar collectors for power. Get off the grid altogether! Spend $10,000 on good panels, (which can collect even in low-light conditions), and batteries and all the wiring, etc., and you needn't pay another electricity bill ever again.
What's left?
4. Cancel your cable/satellite subscription. TV is for losers. Period. TV is a waste of time and money and brain cells. Simple.
5. Phone bills. . ? This is the only thing I'd keep. I like communication.
6. Food. Food is cheep now. Very cheep. When fuel costs continue to rise, trucking and transport costs will also rise. The cost of goods will have to go up. Bush's fucked up reality means the poor will starve. So buy lots and lots of cans and preserved food stuffs now. The depression is near. Be prepared. You think your food bills are high now? Hm.
-FL
Or more precisely, creating a population which will be inclined to accept a certain type of reality.
People hanker for the real world to fit what they think their brains are wired for. It's a subconscious drive. Once that reality is achieved, it hardly matters if there are discrepancies between reality and the simulator/mind-programming systems; Bush and his elitist friends are still getting rich in signing billions of dollars in weapons contracts.
-FL
It works flawlessly. It's teenie-tiny. It's appealing to look at. . .
Am I missing something here. . ? The only reason I ever go for updates on software is in the hope that an annoying design flaw is fixed, or that a much-needed feature will be added. When I finally load something onto my machine which does exactly what I want, I sigh with relief and then move on to other interests.
I'm fairly certain guys like me are not well liked around the headquarters of Commercialism Inc.
Software doesn't crap out after 2 years of use, but I guess with everybody so well programmed into thinking, "Old=Bad", that even when consumers step into the virtual world, they don't need to own products filled with time-bomb parts designed to fail after a set period. People are kind of chumpy this way. As my grampy used to tell me, "Buy it good, buy it once, learn how to fix it yourself."
Of course, that doesn't mean people shouldn't create new things for the sake of play; Playing means seeing what can be done next, what innovation can be whipped up. Playing is fun. But for computer music players, I don't really care. I have music. It plays. Why all the fuss?
People like to fuss.
-FL
This is a story being carried in the Big Media about Big Government, which means without any doubt that the whole issue is malarky intended to manipulate public thinking in specific directions.
What are some of those directions? What ideas are they trying to seed in our ever-fertile minds. . ?
Here are a couple which jump out at me. . .
1. "Oh, but Who could ever have stolen the data?" Translation: "Which government or group do we want to vilify and create fear around so as to justify further erosions to public rights and further war spending?"
2. "Ah, I see the FBI and our President are linked to Integrity and Efficiency." Translation: "The White House public relations department has determined that the people are waking up to Bush's psychopathic nature, so we'd better spend a lot more money reassuring them that Bush is really a good guy with moral integrity, otherwise we might lose control of this whole mess of a presidency and find ourselves swinging from a bunch of nooses."
It's a good idea not to fall so conveniently into the old "Right v.s. Left" nonsense. That's just the bad guys using the divide and conquer technique to stop citizens from forming healthy communities capable of standing against the control system.
-FL
Try understanding it this way. . .
Of the 160 or so topics and categories available on Slashdot under which a story might be posted, only twelve have to do with games. That's about 13%. However, during the last few weeks, it seems that more than 30% of the stories on Slashdot have been dwelling on games while all those other categories have been ignored. This is very unusual for Slashdot and it also looks like it might be a growing trend. I hope I am wrong.
There are lots of other sites on the web which are devoted to games, but there are NO other sites which are devoted to the type of news Slashdot has until now represented so well.
I don't mind a story about games from time to time, but this shift feels strange, and I'm not the first to notice it.
--When the world grows difficult, cowards turn inward to ignore problems. I tend to think that cowardice should not be fostered.
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Has 'Zonk' been given some sort of mandate? Are Slashdot's advertisers not feeling confident in their reach for some sort of imaginary target audience?
For goodness sake.
There's an utterly fascinating real world going on out there. Talking about video games leads to video game addiction. What is Slashdot trying to become?
Computer games are masturbation for the mind.
Can we drop the games stories, already?
-FL
I've used tens of thousands of dollars worth of code over the years on a variety of platforms from the Tandy CoCo to my current PC which I simply could not afford to have bought at the time. I don't feel guilty about this in the slightest. Now that I'm grown up, I turned around and now provide a lot of content to the world which has also been borrowed by people who haven't paid. Gee whiz. Life goes on, and the wheels keep spinning and there's still food on my table. How many software makers are starving? I'm serious. --If people are good at what they do, if they produce with passion, then if their work doesn't sell, it has nothing to do with piracy.
I'd also be curious to know. . . How many of those people who today make movies and software haven't also pirated a few dozen software titles when they were kids at home with their C64s, or Amigas or whatever? I didn't know a single computer-owning kid who wasn't also a software pirate. Not one.
What comes around, goes around. That's Karma and everybody pays. It's the credit card system of the Universe.
See, I've also bought a lot of software, and unless you are a giant dork, so have you.
Now that I am an adult with an income, I particularly enjoy buying software from small companies similar to the ones I ripped off as a kid. Not out of guilt or any sense of repayment; Motivation is much more pleasing when it stems from passion rather than pain. --And I genuinely enjoy making on-line purchases and downloading cool and clever bits of code. I understand the creativity and work required to create something, and how much encouragement and joy comes from seeing a sale made. I think it's wonderful to encourage passion and wit and creativity and bravery in those individuals who are willing to buck the system and listen to their souls. It feels great!
Look at "Doom". The first version was free! And does everybody remember what the end result was? Did people lose jobs and starve? Goodness, no! --The excitement generated from creating something new and truly clever creates energy, enough energy to feed and employ thousands of people.
The trick is making sure that you stay connected to the loop. There's nothing wrong with that. Being willing to Give energy freely means nothing if you don't also allow yourself to Take energy freely. The conduit must not be stymied at either end of the flow. "Give and you shall receive," is one of the truly valid, really good sayings in this reality, but it needs one little addendum I think. . , "Give and you shall receive, --but don't be silly about it."
The "Information Wants to be Free" saying is also a good one. It's so very true, but it works in ways a little more clever and mysterious than the laws of direct commerce allow for.
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Profound? That's a matter of perspective. Accurate?
Well, I've been ahead of the curve for a few years now. The funny thing is that people don't apologize for being condescending twits when they find themselves face to face with certain realities. Or as one friend put it, "People laugh until they suddenly need your help getting rid of a terrorizing spirit. Then they believe all right."
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The muses, I don't think, are mythical icons. I think there is a very real effect at play. --That there are ideas which are directed to creative types with the aim of altering the human experience en masse. It's one of the ways societal control can be affected without visible strings.
Creative people will pick up on various signals, and then depending their alignment, will choose how to implement those ideas. I can think of a dozen or so instances where I've been hit hard with exciting ideas and have seen them put into production by various other creators within the expected time-frame. Channeled sources purport that there are many individuals engaged in thought projection work at this time.
There are two basic camps in the thought-projection crowd; those who want to see humanity become enlightened and free, and those who aim to control and eat us. The messages and inspirations each send out are designed to create media which will speed us toward one of those two ends. "Baywatch", for instance, was very body-centric and materialist, which are both extremely mis-directive traits. "Stargate", by contrast, does quite the opposite. I find it interesting that the two male leads from the two shows held some animosity for one another. . .
Much about Stargate strikes me as, 'Good Guy'. --Their message, while a bit sugary and simple around the edges, definitely deals in subject matter which starts people asking important and (very) relevant questions about human history. They've come out against Terrorism. They produce the show in Canada. Their message is one of reason. --They do have a few off-notes, such as Greys being depicted as both highly intelligent and friendly, neither of which is true. But the messages behind the show are otherwise good ones to explore. --Particularly with regard to the Atlantis stuff, and the vampire alien hoards, etc.
I question why the Stargate idea I was hit with involved a lot of war and conquest. --It is one of the reasons I chose to ignore it. (Not that I'm in any position to be making and publishing video games in the first place.) But it feels rather like counter psy-ops stuff to muddy a good message with violence and selfish activity.
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