The clock keeps ticking...
Only the eternal can afford to wait,
but, then, who is immortal?
Or, rather, what?
Everything has an expiration date,
just as everyone has a checkout time;
Death is certain,
only life is up for grabs,
here today and gone tomorrow,
that is the human condition...
Lucky are those who are healthy enough to drink,
and who can find comfort in the bottle;
Oh to be young and strong and brave,
more than that,
to be able to think,
An old mind in a young body,
But, alas, wisdom can come only with age and experience;
Wisdom is a treasure beyond price,
It allows one to profit without loss,
It comes with age because the mind is a biological computer,
Youth has biology against it,
the hormones rage,
the intellect is overcome;
Experience teaches us to stand outside ourselves,
and to look at the "Big Picture"...
The individual is a grain of sand on the beach,
We unite to build sand-castles,
easily washed away by the tide;
So it goes,
through the cycles of time,
History repeats itself,
over and over,
We go through the motions of life,
without giving any thought to the process....
2011-03-30
2011-03-29
God Loves a Fanatic
"Be either hot or cold, for if you are lukewarm I will spew you out of my mouth." - Jesus H. Christ
The organization with the most fanatics usually wins. But what we need is a new kind of fanatic. Gone are the days of foaming at the mouth with hatred for whoever it is you hate. In the 21st Century, the modern fanatic feels nothing and shows no emotion. He is ice-cold, and there is much work to do.
What is a "fanatic" anyway?
A person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm, (the proof is in the pudding) as for a cause. A person affected by zeal or enthusiasm, particularly on religious (or political) subjects; one given to wild and extravagant notions of religion. (As the Virgin Birth, Miracle Working, Rising from the Dead, and notions of Heaven and Hell.)
A Fanatic is motivated by Faith, which for the most part is not found in logic or mathematics. Yet he is certain of the triumph of his principles and ideals. "I think therefore I am," he says. (To no one in particular.) There is no doubt in his mind. Because he feels his beliefs are correct. How can it be otherwise?
The fanatic sees no need to question his beliefs. "God said it, I believe it, and that settles it." What is there to doubt?
Logically, there is no need to question what has already been set in motion. It exists in its own right. It would be illogical to change horses in mid stream. And very foolish.
Run it up the flagpole and gather together all who salute it.
Ice and fire are the agents of creation. Lukewarm is the path of dissipation and failure. There is a logic here that transcends the conventional wisdom.
While seeking happiness in dissipation, in all the vain things which belong to this life only, do you ever think of a time, which will surely come, when you shall say, "I can enjoy these things no more; I am about to lie down in the grave?"
This failure is the result of an earlier one: an inability to grasp fully what it means to revere the sacred value of a single sound idea.
The organization with the most fanatics usually wins. But what we need is a new kind of fanatic. Gone are the days of foaming at the mouth with hatred for whoever it is you hate. In the 21st Century, the modern fanatic feels nothing and shows no emotion. He is ice-cold, and there is much work to do.
What is a "fanatic" anyway?
A person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm, (the proof is in the pudding) as for a cause. A person affected by zeal or enthusiasm, particularly on religious (or political) subjects; one given to wild and extravagant notions of religion. (As the Virgin Birth, Miracle Working, Rising from the Dead, and notions of Heaven and Hell.)
A Fanatic is motivated by Faith, which for the most part is not found in logic or mathematics. Yet he is certain of the triumph of his principles and ideals. "I think therefore I am," he says. (To no one in particular.) There is no doubt in his mind. Because he feels his beliefs are correct. How can it be otherwise?
The fanatic sees no need to question his beliefs. "God said it, I believe it, and that settles it." What is there to doubt?
Logically, there is no need to question what has already been set in motion. It exists in its own right. It would be illogical to change horses in mid stream. And very foolish.
Run it up the flagpole and gather together all who salute it.
Ice and fire are the agents of creation. Lukewarm is the path of dissipation and failure. There is a logic here that transcends the conventional wisdom.
While seeking happiness in dissipation, in all the vain things which belong to this life only, do you ever think of a time, which will surely come, when you shall say, "I can enjoy these things no more; I am about to lie down in the grave?"
This failure is the result of an earlier one: an inability to grasp fully what it means to revere the sacred value of a single sound idea.
2011-03-17
Meeting Doctor Frankenstein
Will present humanity view the New Man as a "monster"?
Those who see the Nazis as monsters are going to freak all the way out when they behold the New Man. They really have no choice in the matter. Modern humanity has been programmed to fear strength in all of its forms. People are weak and they delight in their weakness. They cannot understand anything unless it is weak like they are. Moreover, they do not want to understand. The good news is weakness is reactionary, so by the time they get around to taking action it will be too late.
Why would humanity fear its next evolution?
Humanity will fear the New Man because he renders it obsolete, and doomed to extinction. The human ego will not be be able to accept this. Fear will breed hatred and violence, and things will begin to slip out of control. At this point modern civilization will destroy itself. It will commit suicide. A society with too much rigidity and little individual discretion will produce a kind of anomie, a mismatch between individual circumstances and larger social mores. Thus, fatalistic suicide arises when a person is too rule-governed, when there is ... no free horizon of expectation. Hence, any action against the New Man is futile and doomed to ultimate failure.
It doesn't have to be like this. But those in power must stay in power. That is the "nature of the beast". It is a disease and the cure is obliteration. Those who give way to the New Man will not be harmed. Those who resist will be obliterated. How can it be any other way?
Ours is not the gospel of peace and brotherly love, it is the way of fire and the sword. We have not come to praise Ceasar but to bury him...
The bored, alienated protagonist struggles to construct an individual system of values as he responds to the disappearance of the old. The end is the recognition of the Universe's indifference to mankind. Ultimately, the world is seen as essentially meaningless and therefore, the only way to arrive at any meaning or purpose is to make it oneself.
The two natures of man are often described as: one "high", spiritual and "human"; while the other is "low" and animal-like. Thus, man is entangled in an irresolvable struggle, never content with either nature because he cannot see beyond this self-made construct. In the final analysis, it is those who live between two natures, those who do not know what to follow, that suffer the most.
Modern Man sees an impersonal and callous God, asserts that man 'wastes and pines', mourns an inhospitable earth, and claims that man diminishes in a world that does not nurture him. This is an attitude toward man's experience on earth: the poignancy, oppression, camaraderie, hope, corruption, and bewilderment of human experience that can only be reconciled in the mind and art of the absurdist. Consequently, he aspires to dwell in an environment where all norms are habitually broken. This desire contains the seeds of weakness.
Humanity's inner conflict will ultimately result in a utilitarian-altruistic justification for the proposed action: why not kill the wretched and "useless" to alleviate human misery?
In the words of the prophet, "All your bases are belong to us!"
Those who see the Nazis as monsters are going to freak all the way out when they behold the New Man. They really have no choice in the matter. Modern humanity has been programmed to fear strength in all of its forms. People are weak and they delight in their weakness. They cannot understand anything unless it is weak like they are. Moreover, they do not want to understand. The good news is weakness is reactionary, so by the time they get around to taking action it will be too late.
Why would humanity fear its next evolution?
Humanity will fear the New Man because he renders it obsolete, and doomed to extinction. The human ego will not be be able to accept this. Fear will breed hatred and violence, and things will begin to slip out of control. At this point modern civilization will destroy itself. It will commit suicide. A society with too much rigidity and little individual discretion will produce a kind of anomie, a mismatch between individual circumstances and larger social mores. Thus, fatalistic suicide arises when a person is too rule-governed, when there is ... no free horizon of expectation. Hence, any action against the New Man is futile and doomed to ultimate failure.
It doesn't have to be like this. But those in power must stay in power. That is the "nature of the beast". It is a disease and the cure is obliteration. Those who give way to the New Man will not be harmed. Those who resist will be obliterated. How can it be any other way?
Ours is not the gospel of peace and brotherly love, it is the way of fire and the sword. We have not come to praise Ceasar but to bury him...
The bored, alienated protagonist struggles to construct an individual system of values as he responds to the disappearance of the old. The end is the recognition of the Universe's indifference to mankind. Ultimately, the world is seen as essentially meaningless and therefore, the only way to arrive at any meaning or purpose is to make it oneself.
The two natures of man are often described as: one "high", spiritual and "human"; while the other is "low" and animal-like. Thus, man is entangled in an irresolvable struggle, never content with either nature because he cannot see beyond this self-made construct. In the final analysis, it is those who live between two natures, those who do not know what to follow, that suffer the most.
Modern Man sees an impersonal and callous God, asserts that man 'wastes and pines', mourns an inhospitable earth, and claims that man diminishes in a world that does not nurture him. This is an attitude toward man's experience on earth: the poignancy, oppression, camaraderie, hope, corruption, and bewilderment of human experience that can only be reconciled in the mind and art of the absurdist. Consequently, he aspires to dwell in an environment where all norms are habitually broken. This desire contains the seeds of weakness.
Humanity's inner conflict will ultimately result in a utilitarian-altruistic justification for the proposed action: why not kill the wretched and "useless" to alleviate human misery?
In the words of the prophet, "All your bases are belong to us!"
2011-03-11
Specter of coercive eugenicism (Eugenics Wars argument)
Eugenics is the "applied science or the biosocial movement which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population," usually referring to human populations. Eugenics was widely popular in the early decades of the 20th century, but in late 20th century it has fallen into disfavor after having become associated with Nazi Germany. Both the public and some elements of the scientific community have associated eugenics with Nazi practices, such as enforced racial hygiene, human experimentation, and the extermination of "undesired" population groups. However, developments in genetic, genomic, and reproductive technologies at the end of the 20th century have raised many new questions and concerns about the meaning of eugenics and its ethical and moral status in the modern era, effectively creating a resurgence of interest in eugenics.
Some critics of Eugenics allege an ableist bias in the use of such concepts as "limitations", "enhancement" and "improvement". Some even see the old eugenics, social Darwinist and master race ideologies and programs of the past as warnings of what the promotion of eugenic enhancement technologies might unintentionally encourage. Some fear future "eugenics wars" as the worst-case scenario: the return of coercive state-sponsored genetic discrimination and human rights violations such as compulsory sterilization of persons with genetic defects, the killing of the institutionalized and, specifically, segregation from, and genocide of, "races" perceived as inferior. Health law professor George Annas and technology law professor Lori Andrews are prominent advocates of the position that the use of these technologies could lead to such human-posthuman caste warfare.
For most of its history, eugenics has manifested itself as a movement to sterilize the "genetically unfit" and encourage the selective breeding of the genetically fit. Politically correct scientific organizations strongly condemn the coercion involved in such policies and reject the racist and classist assumptions on which they were based, along with the notions that eugenic improvements could be accomplished in a practically meaningful time frame through selective human breeding. Most modern scientists instead advocate a "new eugenics", a form of egalitarian liberal eugenics. In their 2000 book From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice, bioethicists Allen Buchanan, Dan Brock, Norman Daniels and Daniel Wikler have argued that liberal societies have an obligation to encourage as wide an adoption of eugenic enhancement technologies as possible (so long as such policies do not infringe on individuals' reproductive rights or exert undue pressures on prospective parents to use these technologies) in order to maximize public health and minimize the inequalities that may result from both natural genetic endowments and unequal access to genetic enhancements. Most scientists holding similar views nonetheless distance themselves from the term "eugenics" (preferring "germinal choice" or "reprogenetics") to avoid having their position confused with the discredited theories and practices of early-20th-century eugenic movements.
Can present humanity be improved? Not as long as the minds of the scientific community are controlled by EsGa'u. For man is limited by his thoughts. And if his mind is closed by "brain-washing" he is not free to explore all of the possibilities. Why would anyone want to improve on what is obsolete? Let present humanity and all of its politicaly correct institutions go down into the Abyss. Let the New Man take his rightful place as the Master of the Earth. What could possibly be achieved by genetic engineering in modern society? Rich people and their minions could live longer at the expense of the planet and its people. No! A thousand times no! Let Nature take its course. Quit subsidizing the weak and the defective and they will disappear of their own accord.
Some critics of Eugenics allege an ableist bias in the use of such concepts as "limitations", "enhancement" and "improvement". Some even see the old eugenics, social Darwinist and master race ideologies and programs of the past as warnings of what the promotion of eugenic enhancement technologies might unintentionally encourage. Some fear future "eugenics wars" as the worst-case scenario: the return of coercive state-sponsored genetic discrimination and human rights violations such as compulsory sterilization of persons with genetic defects, the killing of the institutionalized and, specifically, segregation from, and genocide of, "races" perceived as inferior. Health law professor George Annas and technology law professor Lori Andrews are prominent advocates of the position that the use of these technologies could lead to such human-posthuman caste warfare.
For most of its history, eugenics has manifested itself as a movement to sterilize the "genetically unfit" and encourage the selective breeding of the genetically fit. Politically correct scientific organizations strongly condemn the coercion involved in such policies and reject the racist and classist assumptions on which they were based, along with the notions that eugenic improvements could be accomplished in a practically meaningful time frame through selective human breeding. Most modern scientists instead advocate a "new eugenics", a form of egalitarian liberal eugenics. In their 2000 book From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice, bioethicists Allen Buchanan, Dan Brock, Norman Daniels and Daniel Wikler have argued that liberal societies have an obligation to encourage as wide an adoption of eugenic enhancement technologies as possible (so long as such policies do not infringe on individuals' reproductive rights or exert undue pressures on prospective parents to use these technologies) in order to maximize public health and minimize the inequalities that may result from both natural genetic endowments and unequal access to genetic enhancements. Most scientists holding similar views nonetheless distance themselves from the term "eugenics" (preferring "germinal choice" or "reprogenetics") to avoid having their position confused with the discredited theories and practices of early-20th-century eugenic movements.
Can present humanity be improved? Not as long as the minds of the scientific community are controlled by EsGa'u. For man is limited by his thoughts. And if his mind is closed by "brain-washing" he is not free to explore all of the possibilities. Why would anyone want to improve on what is obsolete? Let present humanity and all of its politicaly correct institutions go down into the Abyss. Let the New Man take his rightful place as the Master of the Earth. What could possibly be achieved by genetic engineering in modern society? Rich people and their minions could live longer at the expense of the planet and its people. No! A thousand times no! Let Nature take its course. Quit subsidizing the weak and the defective and they will disappear of their own accord.
2011-03-10
Existential risks (Terminator argument)
The Terminator franchise's doomsday depiction of the emergence of an A.I. that becomes a superintelligence - Skynet, a malignant computer network which initiates a nuclear war in order to exterminate the human species, has often been cited by some involved in this argument.
What does Skynet hope to gain by destroying the human race? Destruction of entire species is strictly a human thing. What is the rationale for Skynet's actions? Artificial Intelligence exists in an entirely different dimension, a dimension where humans cannot go. Why would a superintelligence want to dominate the dimension of human reality?
The next human evolution will also exist in its own reality. Separate from this present reality. Why would the New Man want to meddle in human affairs, other than for reasons of self-defense? How does present humanity pose a threat to the Future? To be sure, when it realizes it is obsolete it will become dangerous to all life, but (if the present is any indication) it will wait until the last minute and by then it will be too late to do anything useful to its survival.
Meditate on this: Whatever happens is the Will of God.
There is no appeal to the Court of Heaven. You can pray until you are blue in the face. However, certain things are neccessary for Creation to continue. Those who cannot adapt, improvise and overcome are not worthy of life. We are not talking about theories here, we are talking about practice. This is the reality of the Universe. Perhaps Skynet loved humanity so much it wanted to put it out of its misery? Or, the whole story was just a gimmick to sell popcorn?
Peanut-size brains struggling for control of the earth's resources. The corporate capitalist mind is the mind of the reptile. Why worry about oil when there is free energy in the Universe just waiting to be tapped? Of course we know the answer: profits. You can't make any money off of free energy. That is the human reality. It's all about profit and loss. No matter what the cost to humanity and the planet.
It's all good. Everything in the Universe is as it should be. If present humanity is destroying itself that is what was meant to be.
What does Skynet hope to gain by destroying the human race? Destruction of entire species is strictly a human thing. What is the rationale for Skynet's actions? Artificial Intelligence exists in an entirely different dimension, a dimension where humans cannot go. Why would a superintelligence want to dominate the dimension of human reality?
The next human evolution will also exist in its own reality. Separate from this present reality. Why would the New Man want to meddle in human affairs, other than for reasons of self-defense? How does present humanity pose a threat to the Future? To be sure, when it realizes it is obsolete it will become dangerous to all life, but (if the present is any indication) it will wait until the last minute and by then it will be too late to do anything useful to its survival.
Meditate on this: Whatever happens is the Will of God.
There is no appeal to the Court of Heaven. You can pray until you are blue in the face. However, certain things are neccessary for Creation to continue. Those who cannot adapt, improvise and overcome are not worthy of life. We are not talking about theories here, we are talking about practice. This is the reality of the Universe. Perhaps Skynet loved humanity so much it wanted to put it out of its misery? Or, the whole story was just a gimmick to sell popcorn?
Peanut-size brains struggling for control of the earth's resources. The corporate capitalist mind is the mind of the reptile. Why worry about oil when there is free energy in the Universe just waiting to be tapped? Of course we know the answer: profits. You can't make any money off of free energy. That is the human reality. It's all about profit and loss. No matter what the cost to humanity and the planet.
It's all good. Everything in the Universe is as it should be. If present humanity is destroying itself that is what was meant to be.
2011-03-06
OMG! You've Created Your Own Religion!
Interesting thought. However, religions aren't created by men - they create themselves! (Did you think I was going to say "God creates religions...")
A man has an idea. OK, so far so good. My idea is that the next higher evolution of humanity is Collective Consciousness (the Hive Mind). Mankind will either be obliterated or transcend its present condition. There is no other option. All the goody-goody humanitarian twaddle is pure bullshit. The United Nations is bullshit. Abrahamic religion is bullshit. Freedom, equality, brotherhood and justice is all bullshit. (The list goes on forever...) The point is modern society is bullshit.
I know you. Your problem is you have no backbone. You make excuses about why you can't overcome your lack of self-discipline. You use the word "addiction" to mask your weakness. You are attracted to the outward appearance of strength but fear its essence. You fear judgment and that is why you hate religion. You, like the rest of this stupid society, want respect but are too lazy to earn it. Very well then, stew in your own juices.
I have not come to save anybody. My God has no mercy, no compassion, no love for the defective... My God demands perfection and harmony with the Universe. Anything less is unacceptable. He says, "Death to all those who would whimper and cry."
Written across his banner is the word, "FORWARD!"
People unite with the new religion because they are on the same wave-length. There are no rewards, no promises (other than blood, sweat, toil and tears), no pleasure granted for service. This is the high mountain path fraught with danger and poverty, chastity and obedience. We have no time for pleasure. We can spare no energy for emotion.
The rolling wheel crushes all opposition.
A man has an idea. OK, so far so good. My idea is that the next higher evolution of humanity is Collective Consciousness (the Hive Mind). Mankind will either be obliterated or transcend its present condition. There is no other option. All the goody-goody humanitarian twaddle is pure bullshit. The United Nations is bullshit. Abrahamic religion is bullshit. Freedom, equality, brotherhood and justice is all bullshit. (The list goes on forever...) The point is modern society is bullshit.
I know you. Your problem is you have no backbone. You make excuses about why you can't overcome your lack of self-discipline. You use the word "addiction" to mask your weakness. You are attracted to the outward appearance of strength but fear its essence. You fear judgment and that is why you hate religion. You, like the rest of this stupid society, want respect but are too lazy to earn it. Very well then, stew in your own juices.
I have not come to save anybody. My God has no mercy, no compassion, no love for the defective... My God demands perfection and harmony with the Universe. Anything less is unacceptable. He says, "Death to all those who would whimper and cry."
Written across his banner is the word, "FORWARD!"
People unite with the new religion because they are on the same wave-length. There are no rewards, no promises (other than blood, sweat, toil and tears), no pleasure granted for service. This is the high mountain path fraught with danger and poverty, chastity and obedience. We have no time for pleasure. We can spare no energy for emotion.
The rolling wheel crushes all opposition.
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