Cheers

It may be too late to win, but it is not too late to try. And if you live in integration of specieshood, the ride will have been just fine.

‘my’ thinking is not solely mine. in fact, i do not know what is mine and what is ours.
most or ?all of what i say is not mine; it belongs to world lore.

the universal or panhuman knowledge is a forbidden fruit. that is one reason we have legalized schooling and delegalized drugs.

the two wars, the war on a broad enlightenment and drugs may continue until people obtain an elucidation of what is realy going on.

will it come one day from the top of the trapezoid structure? posssibly?
let’s hope that we can educate first the ‘illuminati’ [priests, 'educators', pols] and the ‘litterati’ help us educate the middle and the bottom of the trapeze. tx

Hubble’s observations suggested that there was a time, called the big bang, when the universe was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense. Under such conditions all the laws of science, and therefore all ability to predict the future, would break down. If there were events earlier than this time, then they could not affect what happens at the present time. Their existence can be ignored because it would have no onservational consequences. One may say that time had a beginning at the big bang, in the sense that earlier times simply would not be defined. It should be emphasized that this beginning in time is very different from those that had been considered previously. In an unchanging universe a beginning in time is something that has to be imposed by some being outside the universe; there is no physical necessity for a beginning. One can imagine that God created the universe at literally any time in the past. On the other hand, if the universe is expanding, there may be physical reasons why there had to be a beginning. One could imagine that God created the universe at the instant of the big bang, or even afterwards in just such a way as to make it look as though there had been a big bang, but it would be meaningless to suppose that it was created before the big bang. An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does place limits on when he might have carried out his job! [Stephen Hawking}, A Brief History of Time

As I was reading Hawking last night I had on Fox news and Bill O’Reilly was on and he had first Glenn Beck then Geraldo Rivera. After reading Hawking my mind was thinking about stuff and I watched Bill for awhile and my first thought was my God these people are nuts. Glenn Beck is starting something called 912 and was crying earlier on his show I mean actually crying and this 912 thing could be sort of a new religion for people to get there heads around. On the Bill show he said yes I am crazy, I agree. I think Bill is afraid Glenn is going to get better ratings. Then Bill was talking about the great left wing conspiracy and NBC and other groups that must be stopped. Then Geraldo was on and was talking about some murder case and called the people involved in that case trailer trash in so many words and drug addicts, strange. Now this case happens in America a million times but for some reason they talk about this one case over and over again. Why is it so important to them to do this? I guess they think people want to keep watching this over and over again the ratings thing and just maybe to keep people in kind of a prison for there mind. My son lives in a trailer and has a small farm and is making it the best way he can in this Mad Mad Mad World. My son and his son have more humanity and my grandson is only six then Beck and Bill and Geraldo combined. How do I know this well it’s kind of easy to see it doesn’t take a genius to know this.

Really, the rest of nature might be better off if we just croak, but if we manage to get over our superiority complex over the rest of nature, we might be able to contribute to the direction nature takes.

Actually, we ARE! As a part of nature, we may be contributing to the end of our own species. :P Nature naturally produces extinctions… We, with the help of the rest of nature, might just be running right off a cliff.

I’m mostly worried that some big arrogant empire run from a tiny hypocritical country, facing resistance worldwide, might decide that their fall is inevitable unless they drop a whole bunch of nuclear missiles (from wherever they retain control) on the areas where their most troublesome resistance comes from… Because they already resort to extreme violence for absurd reasons in the face of resistance, and they don’t seem to care that the whole world (pretty much) knows they’re full of sh*t.

Tell that to Australia…The models won’t die until there is nothing left. I may be wrong but I just don’t see engineering intervening with capitalism until it’s too late and too late for everyone-including the ruling class who still has to breathe the kind of air that’s left behind

One thing is 100% for sure.. “we all got it coming, kid.”

The old Henry Ford model was to pay his workers enough so that they could buy a Ford auto. The new Walmart model is to pay the workers so little they can afford to shop nowhere but Walmart.

and it’s astounding, beatiful, etc. however, it is entirely different phenomena, at least when it pertains to our intelligence [whatever it may be to each of us], that we have been deluded to a point that we are risking our and biota’s existence.

one can only adapt to the reality and not a fictitious one that we are daily bombarded with by ‘eduators’, priests, reporters, pols, and even an odd scientist.

and one needs only to omit one fact of import which pertains to present to us a fictitious reality.
yet, the ‘illuminati’ and other elitists, omit daily many facts. it’s like a jigsaw puzzle one is solving but not knowing that some tiles are missing.
and not being able to solve it, blames self.

this is what the ruling class has been doing to us for at least 8-10T yrs .
and because of that we ?all feel stupid, inadequate, out of it, etc. but it is not ‘gods’ nor nature which has done that but kings, nobles, clergy; both modern and ancient! tx

Guess it is determined by what your vantage point at that moment in fleeting time actually is. Maybe it is determined by nothing at all.

Ain’t this existence wonderful!

Power to whomever wants to take it.

We have them exactly where they want us.

They have us exactly where we want them.

[i think i'm going crazy!?!?]

We should listen more frequently, more attentively, to those who have already died.

Excellent piece.

It’s real hard to enslave someone who can push an asteroid with little to no energy investment, if you push him too far.

The future debate will probably resolve to this: pantropy or terraforming. If terraforming wins out, perhaps the fears expressed above will be more likely. If pantropy wins out, not so much.

Anyway – for some speculative treatment of the liberatory potentials of space exploration, expansion and accelerando: KS Robinson, Iain Banks, Ken MacCleod, LE Modesitt and Alastair Reynolds