Well two songs come to my mind. Of course Disappointed by Electronic. And by Yacht, I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler. Yeah. I am so highly disappointed; as I am sure most of you are too. Who could blame us? All I know at the moment is; the portal has been opened for a time so stand by if you wish... over and out for now.
Sunday, June 9, 2024
It really has been some time...
Well. Hmmm. I am attempting to stay alive. I do have serious fears that this is humanity's last decade, at least as full-on 'organic' humans. A merger of our creation that we call AI and the organic 'us' may be the only remnant that can survive the coming cataclysm. Trust me it is coming and soon. All of the tipping points have been crossed. It is far far too late. the Methane will soon spew. The dominos have long since fallen. This civilization is DONE! a new one may arise, or... The Earth may turn into Venus quicker that you can say 'ouch' too hot! We will soon see.
Monday, May 28, 2018
Been A While.
Reactions, trauma, emotions; reverberate through time.
I've been thinking about something... do you ever wonder about what is different about normally adapted, kind of communal people (at least with like kinded people), and more independent, go it alone, 'mavericks' for lack of a better word (Thanks Mr. McCain!)?
I do. I wonder if perhaps some souls are joined together in loose groups, almost as sort of tribes. Others are left to go it alone. I think I would be one of them, but I wonder if I may have switched somewhere along the way. More to come...
Love y'all, still...
I've been thinking about something... do you ever wonder about what is different about normally adapted, kind of communal people (at least with like kinded people), and more independent, go it alone, 'mavericks' for lack of a better word (Thanks Mr. McCain!)?
I do. I wonder if perhaps some souls are joined together in loose groups, almost as sort of tribes. Others are left to go it alone. I think I would be one of them, but I wonder if I may have switched somewhere along the way. More to come...
Love y'all, still...
Friday, June 26, 2015
This Momentous Day
Good Morning,
First, I must thank Dean Koontz for the title inspiration. I recently re-read 'From the Corner of his Eye' and it uses this phrase as an important plot point, among other things.
I do consider, well now it's yesterday; to have been a momentous day. The SCOTUS sided with humanity for a change, instead of corporations or institutions. It read the 14th amendment broadly, without regard to gender, and rendered I believe the correct decision. I am glad, and thankful, that it did.
President Obama read the eulogy for the Reverend Clementa Pinckney, and I was moved. I thought his use of the term "Original Sin of our Nation" when discussing slavery was, again, correct. To me at least. I am happy to see some of the states remove the confederate flag from their properties, and some retailers suspending sales of it and related merchandise.
These are good things, all of them. Little more than a week after the terror inducing murders in Charleston, it does renew my faith a bit to see some progress made. Seeing the invective and tantrums flinging everywhere from the far right is not so reassuring, but is of course expected. My concern though, again, is the process of scapegoating; of laying blame - that continues.
You may have read some of the articles about scientists determining that the planet is indeed entering a sixth mass extinction. You may have read that Homo-Sapiens (that's us!) are on the list of threatened species. The Christian Far Right has said for years that same-sex marriage will 'bring down civilization'. I fear the radical right may mix this all up into a fearful brew, and I truly do worry for the survival of our union, and indeed our nation. Whether any of it matters, whether humanity will even make if another 100 years regardless of what we do or don't do, weighs on my mind almost constantly.
I know this, it isn't 'gay marriage' that will bring down humanity. It's that old bug-a-boo MAMMON!
And Damn IT for messing up what should have been a wonderful day, for me.
Go ahead and keep celebrating - I'll sit up and stew about this for bit. I mean this... Don't mind me, just clearing my head.
Love 2 All, and 2 All a Good Rest, for it's early AM and I am too bed
First, I must thank Dean Koontz for the title inspiration. I recently re-read 'From the Corner of his Eye' and it uses this phrase as an important plot point, among other things.
I do consider, well now it's yesterday; to have been a momentous day. The SCOTUS sided with humanity for a change, instead of corporations or institutions. It read the 14th amendment broadly, without regard to gender, and rendered I believe the correct decision. I am glad, and thankful, that it did.
President Obama read the eulogy for the Reverend Clementa Pinckney, and I was moved. I thought his use of the term "Original Sin of our Nation" when discussing slavery was, again, correct. To me at least. I am happy to see some of the states remove the confederate flag from their properties, and some retailers suspending sales of it and related merchandise.
These are good things, all of them. Little more than a week after the terror inducing murders in Charleston, it does renew my faith a bit to see some progress made. Seeing the invective and tantrums flinging everywhere from the far right is not so reassuring, but is of course expected. My concern though, again, is the process of scapegoating; of laying blame - that continues.
You may have read some of the articles about scientists determining that the planet is indeed entering a sixth mass extinction. You may have read that Homo-Sapiens (that's us!) are on the list of threatened species. The Christian Far Right has said for years that same-sex marriage will 'bring down civilization'. I fear the radical right may mix this all up into a fearful brew, and I truly do worry for the survival of our union, and indeed our nation. Whether any of it matters, whether humanity will even make if another 100 years regardless of what we do or don't do, weighs on my mind almost constantly.
I know this, it isn't 'gay marriage' that will bring down humanity. It's that old bug-a-boo MAMMON!
And Damn IT for messing up what should have been a wonderful day, for me.
Go ahead and keep celebrating - I'll sit up and stew about this for bit. I mean this... Don't mind me, just clearing my head.
Love 2 All, and 2 All a Good Rest, for it's early AM and I am too bed
Saturday, June 6, 2015
Pulling back from my brink
Well, my few dear readers out there; hope I didn't freak anyone out too much. No, I'm not going to commit suicide anytime soon - I hope. I found my myself quite depressed the last few days, and then today I went into some sort of rapid cycling where I'm on the floor crying about the fate of humanity on minute, then talking to myself working out ideas, then crying on the floor again, then exhausted. Phew, it's just ... exhausting.
Anyway, about the voluntary suicide of the elderly thing ---- I do mean voluntary, and it would at best maybe give us a small knock down in global population ---- but I don't expect it to happen and am not sure I'd even want it to.
As for getting a handle on new births? Well, I think it's essential but the best we can do for now is empower women, give them autonomy over their bodies, and provide access to effective birth control. Anyone familiar with this issue knows the consensus is that this is the best humane way. It's all pie in the sky anyway...
The whole reason I say this is that I am hugely, deeply concerned about the fate of humanity. I truly am concerned that we are on the verge of effective extinction - and I can't bear the thought. Billions of years of evolution have brought us to this point. We can't fail! But, I'm afraid we can fail, actually. It terrifies me, more than anything.
Please forgive me if I offend, for that is not my intention.
Anyway, about the voluntary suicide of the elderly thing ---- I do mean voluntary, and it would at best maybe give us a small knock down in global population ---- but I don't expect it to happen and am not sure I'd even want it to.
As for getting a handle on new births? Well, I think it's essential but the best we can do for now is empower women, give them autonomy over their bodies, and provide access to effective birth control. Anyone familiar with this issue knows the consensus is that this is the best humane way. It's all pie in the sky anyway...
The whole reason I say this is that I am hugely, deeply concerned about the fate of humanity. I truly am concerned that we are on the verge of effective extinction - and I can't bear the thought. Billions of years of evolution have brought us to this point. We can't fail! But, I'm afraid we can fail, actually. It terrifies me, more than anything.
Please forgive me if I offend, for that is not my intention.
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Final Fucking Solutions and all that...
I think the best thing humanity could do, right now, to help some number of them to survive through this fucking nightmare we have created is.... to reduce their numbers now.
I think everyone over say 75 should voluntarily commit suicide now. Especially elderly 1st worlders, who use so many resources. Do the youth a favor and eliminate your selves.
I think all people of child bearing age should have to enter a lottery to determine if you get to reproduce or not. This lottery should be designed to encourage the ultimate genetic diversity with the fewest numbers of new humans. If we could accelerate the death rate and greatly reduce the birth rate in a humane way, we could quite quickly reduce our number to a manageable level. I hate to be harsh, but I think this is the necessary path - there are far too many of us. I, of course, will volunteer to die now ---- for I am done and have had quite enough, thank you very much.
So sorry.
I think everyone over say 75 should voluntarily commit suicide now. Especially elderly 1st worlders, who use so many resources. Do the youth a favor and eliminate your selves.
I think all people of child bearing age should have to enter a lottery to determine if you get to reproduce or not. This lottery should be designed to encourage the ultimate genetic diversity with the fewest numbers of new humans. If we could accelerate the death rate and greatly reduce the birth rate in a humane way, we could quite quickly reduce our number to a manageable level. I hate to be harsh, but I think this is the necessary path - there are far too many of us. I, of course, will volunteer to die now ---- for I am done and have had quite enough, thank you very much.
So sorry.
Not Yet! But, Soon...
I came around to tear your little world apart, and to break your soul apart. How sweet, these lyrics from Shirley Manson, Garbage.
I don't know what to think. I truly don't.
I just want to end. me. I don't want to exist anymore, for I think I am highly toxic. Guess I'll sleep on it tonight. But, I do feel like it would be best for the world if I just ceased to be.
Clap your hands! Everybody dance. Clap your hands, for I will soon be gone! Thank fucking god.
I don't know what to think. I truly don't.
I just want to end. me. I don't want to exist anymore, for I think I am highly toxic. Guess I'll sleep on it tonight. But, I do feel like it would be best for the world if I just ceased to be.
Clap your hands! Everybody dance. Clap your hands, for I will soon be gone! Thank fucking god.
Thursday, April 9, 2015
You name it, I can't.
Democracy. One man, one vote. I suppose it's an ideal, but it certainly hasn't been met to date. With all the freaking manipulations of any said 'district', what is one to think? Are we a representative democracy? Do we even remotely resemble one?
No. Not at all.
Therefore, I do not accept any legitimacy to our so called government. I think it's well past time to take the advice of the preamble and dissolve our current government and establish a new one. It is our right, specified in our Constitution, right?
I don't feel the need to say any more. It is time. IT IS TIME! It is beyond time...
No. Not at all.
Therefore, I do not accept any legitimacy to our so called government. I think it's well past time to take the advice of the preamble and dissolve our current government and establish a new one. It is our right, specified in our Constitution, right?
I don't feel the need to say any more. It is time. IT IS TIME! It is beyond time...
Thursday, March 26, 2015
The Worms of Fascism
The can of worms has been opened, by the governor of Indiana Mike Pence. This is how fascism will be written into law in the USA. Take a look at this summary of the laws implemented by the Nazi's between 1933 and 1939 here . If this law isn't challenged and nullified by the courts, you can expect more of them, in more states, to start appearing soon.
The logical extensions of laws such as this one, supposedly defending the religious freedom of Christian business people, are many. Imagine if the Jewish and Muslim members of our communities decided to follow the law, for one. You are Christian, get out of my shop. Jews only in our shop. How do we then identify who is who? Shall we wear pins identifying which sub-group one belongs to? A pink triangle, perhaps? What of mistaken identity? A man who may come across as a bit effeminate but has only had sexual relations with one woman, his wife, and lives to be a good Dad to his daughters - gets tossed out of a 'Christian' mechanics office. Does he have any legal recourse?
Worms, worms, worms... We don't want this, do we? Ask yourself this question and consider, very carefully, your answer.
The logical extensions of laws such as this one, supposedly defending the religious freedom of Christian business people, are many. Imagine if the Jewish and Muslim members of our communities decided to follow the law, for one. You are Christian, get out of my shop. Jews only in our shop. How do we then identify who is who? Shall we wear pins identifying which sub-group one belongs to? A pink triangle, perhaps? What of mistaken identity? A man who may come across as a bit effeminate but has only had sexual relations with one woman, his wife, and lives to be a good Dad to his daughters - gets tossed out of a 'Christian' mechanics office. Does he have any legal recourse?
Worms, worms, worms... We don't want this, do we? Ask yourself this question and consider, very carefully, your answer.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Dominionists, Fundamentalists - Yuck.
Been a long while since I wrote anything here. Not really sure why exactly, beyond I didn't think I had anything worthwhile to say (or couldn't hold it in my head long enough to get on blogger).
If you follow American Politics at all, I'm sure you've heard about Ted Cruz beating the other Republicans to the punch to be the first to declare his candidacy. He announced at Liberty University, the USA's largest Christian University and a center of Christian Dominionism. Not sure it's a word; if not I'm making it one.
As a reminder, I have a loathing for religious fundamentalism, of any stripe. The Dominionists qualify in my book as fundamentalists, and the most dangerous type at that. I'm not kidding here. Look at the power this minority of Americans has amassed in several southern states and in rural areas of most of the rest of the nation. I'm not necessarily accusing the residents of these areas of anything, but I AM accusing the upper echelon of the Dominionist leadership of several things. Treason, for one. The people who shout about a 'Christian Nation', the ones who mutilate our history curriculums removing anything they don't like or find uncomfortable (Civil Rights, Watergate, the ERA, the EPA, and so on - do you hear me Texas?); they don't understand even the idea of America!
I'll be the first to admit that America is nowhere near achieving its' ideals, but this is not the path to such a state - I promise. Guess I should explain my idea of America. It's a place where anyone, from anywhere, of any faith, of any ethnicity can come and learn about our country and if they so choose, take a pledge (and a test) to honor and defend our Constitution and become a Citizen of the USA. It is a place where no individual or institution can compel another individual to believe in any specific religion or belief system against their will. Period. You know, freedom of religion. It's a place where one can speak ones mind, as long as one doesn't speak harmful lies or encourage bodily harm to another. If there's a kernel of truth to what one is going to say, go ahead - if you dare!
It's also a place that is failing, in so many ways, right now. These times are full of existential challenges for all humanity, each and all. There is so much we could do. There is so much holding us back. There is already great calamity, and more is going to come. Much of this, unfortunately, is already 'baked in the cake'. Still, we should be working on stopping the harm. Finish baking so to speak. Try something new, perhaps?
Please, US Citizens, don't vote for Cruz. If you're asking me, I'd vote for Warren, Sanders, or Stein. Or, maybe someone truly new and different? Would that not be refreshing!
Love 2 Each and All...
If you follow American Politics at all, I'm sure you've heard about Ted Cruz beating the other Republicans to the punch to be the first to declare his candidacy. He announced at Liberty University, the USA's largest Christian University and a center of Christian Dominionism. Not sure it's a word; if not I'm making it one.
As a reminder, I have a loathing for religious fundamentalism, of any stripe. The Dominionists qualify in my book as fundamentalists, and the most dangerous type at that. I'm not kidding here. Look at the power this minority of Americans has amassed in several southern states and in rural areas of most of the rest of the nation. I'm not necessarily accusing the residents of these areas of anything, but I AM accusing the upper echelon of the Dominionist leadership of several things. Treason, for one. The people who shout about a 'Christian Nation', the ones who mutilate our history curriculums removing anything they don't like or find uncomfortable (Civil Rights, Watergate, the ERA, the EPA, and so on - do you hear me Texas?); they don't understand even the idea of America!
I'll be the first to admit that America is nowhere near achieving its' ideals, but this is not the path to such a state - I promise. Guess I should explain my idea of America. It's a place where anyone, from anywhere, of any faith, of any ethnicity can come and learn about our country and if they so choose, take a pledge (and a test) to honor and defend our Constitution and become a Citizen of the USA. It is a place where no individual or institution can compel another individual to believe in any specific religion or belief system against their will. Period. You know, freedom of religion. It's a place where one can speak ones mind, as long as one doesn't speak harmful lies or encourage bodily harm to another. If there's a kernel of truth to what one is going to say, go ahead - if you dare!
It's also a place that is failing, in so many ways, right now. These times are full of existential challenges for all humanity, each and all. There is so much we could do. There is so much holding us back. There is already great calamity, and more is going to come. Much of this, unfortunately, is already 'baked in the cake'. Still, we should be working on stopping the harm. Finish baking so to speak. Try something new, perhaps?
Please, US Citizens, don't vote for Cruz. If you're asking me, I'd vote for Warren, Sanders, or Stein. Or, maybe someone truly new and different? Would that not be refreshing!
Love 2 Each and All...
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Tonight on the tube
Good Evening out there,
Had the TV on earlier and suddenly there was Matthew McConaughey, talking like his character Cohle (is that it?) from True Detective. He's driving a vehicle and rambles on for a bit, then the view zooms out, and shows the luxury crossover/suv he's driving. It kind of shocked me to see him in an Ad for a car! Has he done any advertisements before (well, since he achieved fame)? He was discovered in that early 1980's film Dazed and Confused, doesn't seem he'd have to do commercials. Then again, Keanu Reeves did I think a Special K spot dancing around serving cereal, but that was before he did films. It just bothered me, for some reason. I have no knowledge of him, beyond things like People spreads I've read... but he's an Oscar Winner!
Anyway, I think the vehicle may have been a Lincoln. I wonder if Detroit is throwing a lot of money around "Hollywood" of late? Next break, an ad for Buick (one of those that's not a Buick ads). Someone uses 'Really?" very lamely. I think the whole really thing is on it's death bed.
I also think someone lobotomized me in my sleep! LOL? Maybe I should turn in this into a celebrity blog? haha.
Had the TV on earlier and suddenly there was Matthew McConaughey, talking like his character Cohle (is that it?) from True Detective. He's driving a vehicle and rambles on for a bit, then the view zooms out, and shows the luxury crossover/suv he's driving. It kind of shocked me to see him in an Ad for a car! Has he done any advertisements before (well, since he achieved fame)? He was discovered in that early 1980's film Dazed and Confused, doesn't seem he'd have to do commercials. Then again, Keanu Reeves did I think a Special K spot dancing around serving cereal, but that was before he did films. It just bothered me, for some reason. I have no knowledge of him, beyond things like People spreads I've read... but he's an Oscar Winner!
Anyway, I think the vehicle may have been a Lincoln. I wonder if Detroit is throwing a lot of money around "Hollywood" of late? Next break, an ad for Buick (one of those that's not a Buick ads). Someone uses 'Really?" very lamely. I think the whole really thing is on it's death bed.
I also think someone lobotomized me in my sleep! LOL? Maybe I should turn in this into a celebrity blog? haha.
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Now what?
Good evening fellow Humans,
Well, I guess that posting was kind of a waste of time. I admit, freely, that it didn't turn out the way I thought it would ---- I really wanted it to go someplace further than it did. Guess my heart wasn't in it.
I was reading some of escape from Wisconsin's blog (the Hipcrime Vocab) today and I found the ideas he presented intriguing; and the comments disheartening. Here it is (see, I figured this out). It does seem that we'll have to go far down the road of collapse before it will get bad enough, for enough of us, to actually do something to start deconstructing this corpora-capitalist nightmare that is engulfing us all. And, again, I think at that point a peaceful future may be unrecoverable from the ensuing mess that will be created by this collapse. Damn it! And to think when I was a kid I actually thought the best thing was for everyone to have a nice suburban home and two cars. I was a little kid! I gave that up when I was a young adult. When will the bulk of the North American population finally figure out that they've been hoodwinked? The only answer I see is - when it is TOO FUCKING LATE!
That's such a downer... I still pray for benevolent intervention, for I still feel it may be our only hope.
Well, I guess that posting was kind of a waste of time. I admit, freely, that it didn't turn out the way I thought it would ---- I really wanted it to go someplace further than it did. Guess my heart wasn't in it.
I was reading some of escape from Wisconsin's blog (the Hipcrime Vocab) today and I found the ideas he presented intriguing; and the comments disheartening. Here it is (see, I figured this out). It does seem that we'll have to go far down the road of collapse before it will get bad enough, for enough of us, to actually do something to start deconstructing this corpora-capitalist nightmare that is engulfing us all. And, again, I think at that point a peaceful future may be unrecoverable from the ensuing mess that will be created by this collapse. Damn it! And to think when I was a kid I actually thought the best thing was for everyone to have a nice suburban home and two cars. I was a little kid! I gave that up when I was a young adult. When will the bulk of the North American population finally figure out that they've been hoodwinked? The only answer I see is - when it is TOO FUCKING LATE!
That's such a downer... I still pray for benevolent intervention, for I still feel it may be our only hope.
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Let's Play Judgement Day
Happy Day, Fellow Humans!
First, I'll need to discuss some preliminary thoughts I suppose, so here goes:
Think of all humanity living on our lovely Earth today as one large software program. This software is deeply and negatively affected by individuals who, in effect, have a virus/viruses. You can label these viruses as you wish; selfishness, greed, love of mammon above all, psychopathy, take your pic (I guess one could think of the seven deadly sins, but Lust? Lust for power, perhaps - but lust for another if you intend no harm? I don't think so - but I could be wrong. Pride? It goeth before the fall? Not sure about that one either - maybe if it's taken over one's essence completely).
What I'm thinking of here is a paradigm of intervention, by some being or beings out there, to buy humanity some more time to evolve their spirits/souls , to fix our interaction with our Earth so she doesn't just kill us off (NTE), to provide a solution to what appears to be our 'energy crisis' that won't continue to befoul the earth, yet provide enough for all to live a decent life (forget about the house in the burbs with the picket fence and two cars - It's beyond that), and enable humanity to, at long last, live in relative peace and harmony - the ever unreachable state that I think we must achieve if we are going to continue on this earth - and, eventually, get off of it when Earth bites it for good (it will happen one day - but I was kind of hoping it would be a ways off, not in the next decade!). Perhaps we can eventually reach this stable state without intervention, perhaps even we must do it WITHOUT intervention (the tests I've referred to)? Perhaps, but I fear we may not be able to in the timeline we're in - I suspect we may be literally running out of time. So... I will entertain the possibility of intervention; and I imagine it going something like - this:
One day, suddenly, every electronic media device on earth starts broadcasting the same images and/or voices/text (In each person's native tongue - you hear/see/sense what you can understand, they can inhabit our electronica you know!). Every TV, every cell phone, every radio, every mp3 player, every computer/tablet whatever, every cd player, tape deck, hearing aid, --- anything that provides 'media' - is taken over to give us a series of updates about what is about to take place. Then, real time images coalesce in all the skies planet wide so all can witness the event (guess we'd have to heal those who can't see/hear to be fair - okay it all starts to fall apart - imagine it anyway - if they can do this they can just broadcast right into our cerebral cortex). It advises us that a final judgement is about to occur, and those that are judged to be harmful will be --- removed. They will just disintegrate to points of light and blink out --- perhaps to the great re-education camp for souls in the sky. The broadcast will include images of various 'power centers' as this 'antivirus program' operates; people will actually see certain other people just cease to be, both on the displayed images and right in front of their noses. This will be terrifying to most, but it will get the point across. The real powers that be will be speaking quite clearly on this day. Think of a kind of anti-rapture.
Once this process is complete, Thoughts of comfort and love will be imparted to all that remain until they are calmed down - perhaps all of humanity is put into a kind of trance for a bit. Instructions and advice will be given, new paradigms created - frameworks for the great work that then must commence to repair both humanity and, through humanity, the Earth (the Big Patch!). Help will be given to start this most monumental of tasks - technology that we can't understand that will look to be magic. Our new energy source will be given, but with this one all important caveat; Any attempt to weaponize this technology will result in the immediate termination of the Earth experiment - it will blink out of time, just like those whom were judged. This enforcement will be the one limitation placed on humanity - no more war or else. Peace everlasting, or Death everlasting. Perhaps we are given one more choice, give up the new power source and be on our own from then on (right back where we started!) - Our final choice...
... Well, I'm running out of steam for now. Yes, I'm crazy and I don't care!
Love, Peace, and Joy to All!
RtTBt
Oh yes, I forgot your song! Here you are loved ones... It's Army of Lovers from 1992:
First, I'll need to discuss some preliminary thoughts I suppose, so here goes:
Think of all humanity living on our lovely Earth today as one large software program. This software is deeply and negatively affected by individuals who, in effect, have a virus/viruses. You can label these viruses as you wish; selfishness, greed, love of mammon above all, psychopathy, take your pic (I guess one could think of the seven deadly sins, but Lust? Lust for power, perhaps - but lust for another if you intend no harm? I don't think so - but I could be wrong. Pride? It goeth before the fall? Not sure about that one either - maybe if it's taken over one's essence completely).
What I'm thinking of here is a paradigm of intervention, by some being or beings out there, to buy humanity some more time to evolve their spirits/souls , to fix our interaction with our Earth so she doesn't just kill us off (NTE), to provide a solution to what appears to be our 'energy crisis' that won't continue to befoul the earth, yet provide enough for all to live a decent life (forget about the house in the burbs with the picket fence and two cars - It's beyond that), and enable humanity to, at long last, live in relative peace and harmony - the ever unreachable state that I think we must achieve if we are going to continue on this earth - and, eventually, get off of it when Earth bites it for good (it will happen one day - but I was kind of hoping it would be a ways off, not in the next decade!). Perhaps we can eventually reach this stable state without intervention, perhaps even we must do it WITHOUT intervention (the tests I've referred to)? Perhaps, but I fear we may not be able to in the timeline we're in - I suspect we may be literally running out of time. So... I will entertain the possibility of intervention; and I imagine it going something like - this:
One day, suddenly, every electronic media device on earth starts broadcasting the same images and/or voices/text (In each person's native tongue - you hear/see/sense what you can understand, they can inhabit our electronica you know!). Every TV, every cell phone, every radio, every mp3 player, every computer/tablet whatever, every cd player, tape deck, hearing aid, --- anything that provides 'media' - is taken over to give us a series of updates about what is about to take place. Then, real time images coalesce in all the skies planet wide so all can witness the event (guess we'd have to heal those who can't see/hear to be fair - okay it all starts to fall apart - imagine it anyway - if they can do this they can just broadcast right into our cerebral cortex). It advises us that a final judgement is about to occur, and those that are judged to be harmful will be --- removed. They will just disintegrate to points of light and blink out --- perhaps to the great re-education camp for souls in the sky. The broadcast will include images of various 'power centers' as this 'antivirus program' operates; people will actually see certain other people just cease to be, both on the displayed images and right in front of their noses. This will be terrifying to most, but it will get the point across. The real powers that be will be speaking quite clearly on this day. Think of a kind of anti-rapture.
Once this process is complete, Thoughts of comfort and love will be imparted to all that remain until they are calmed down - perhaps all of humanity is put into a kind of trance for a bit. Instructions and advice will be given, new paradigms created - frameworks for the great work that then must commence to repair both humanity and, through humanity, the Earth (the Big Patch!). Help will be given to start this most monumental of tasks - technology that we can't understand that will look to be magic. Our new energy source will be given, but with this one all important caveat; Any attempt to weaponize this technology will result in the immediate termination of the Earth experiment - it will blink out of time, just like those whom were judged. This enforcement will be the one limitation placed on humanity - no more war or else. Peace everlasting, or Death everlasting. Perhaps we are given one more choice, give up the new power source and be on our own from then on (right back where we started!) - Our final choice...
... Well, I'm running out of steam for now. Yes, I'm crazy and I don't care!
Love, Peace, and Joy to All!
RtTBt
Oh yes, I forgot your song! Here you are loved ones... It's Army of Lovers from 1992:
Saturday, June 29, 2013
For JFM -
Good Morning from Savannah, Georgia, USA; Earth - Milky Way, our quadrant of our universe, and ???:
This is the album version of the Pet Shop Boys track 'Axis' from their new album 'Electronic' due out 7/15/2013. James would have loved this, and he may have known about it - not sure. Tech out my friend, R.I.P. or, whatever, just do it in peace!
This is the album version of the Pet Shop Boys track 'Axis' from their new album 'Electronic' due out 7/15/2013. James would have loved this, and he may have known about it - not sure. Tech out my friend, R.I.P. or, whatever, just do it in peace!
Friday, June 28, 2013
Here's the thing!
Good Day, fellow humans!
Here's the thing. If we are indeed alone in our universe, and if we are indeed faced with near-term extinction; maybe it is UP TO US to CREATE a platform for our afterlife. Maybe that platform will be what we know/ think of as AI (Artificial Intelligence). Think about it, we did come out of nature - 'it' made us somehow. The Earth is finite, sooner or later it will not be habitable by any flesh and blood creature. Perhaps this is all meant to be? I guess our universe is finite too, but on a much larger timescale. I withdraw all of my previous objections to the development of AI ---- we should embark on it NOW! I suppose many of us have, and good! Keep it up, because we may need that platform. I don't want to give in, I don't want to give up, I don't want capitulation. I want our ideas and thoughts and dreams and art and music to go on ---- forever! And, if we need to shove it all in some electronic box or bio-geezawhatsit thingamajig -- so what, SO BE IT!
That's all folks,
RtTBt
NotOmegaMan (okay, well maybe the omega of flesh and blood man, but I myself said 'we inhabit your electronica' - maybe I meant US!)
Here's the thing. If we are indeed alone in our universe, and if we are indeed faced with near-term extinction; maybe it is UP TO US to CREATE a platform for our afterlife. Maybe that platform will be what we know/ think of as AI (Artificial Intelligence). Think about it, we did come out of nature - 'it' made us somehow. The Earth is finite, sooner or later it will not be habitable by any flesh and blood creature. Perhaps this is all meant to be? I guess our universe is finite too, but on a much larger timescale. I withdraw all of my previous objections to the development of AI ---- we should embark on it NOW! I suppose many of us have, and good! Keep it up, because we may need that platform. I don't want to give in, I don't want to give up, I don't want capitulation. I want our ideas and thoughts and dreams and art and music to go on ---- forever! And, if we need to shove it all in some electronic box or bio-geezawhatsit thingamajig -- so what, SO BE IT!
That's all folks,
RtTBt
NotOmegaMan (okay, well maybe the omega of flesh and blood man, but I myself said 'we inhabit your electronica' - maybe I meant US!)
And now another side of the coin...
Good Day again, fellow humans:
Just want to link to the ArchDruid's weekly posting, for he as usual takes a more nuanced and balanced view of history and puts some of my more hysterical fears if not to rest, at least on the back burner simmering away. Negative feedback loops anyone?
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2013/06/imperfect-storms.html
I'd kind of like to see John Michael and Guy in the same room battling it out. Maybe they have? I don't know...
Just, let it be! Something, anything; just BE!
G'day mates...
Just want to link to the ArchDruid's weekly posting, for he as usual takes a more nuanced and balanced view of history and puts some of my more hysterical fears if not to rest, at least on the back burner simmering away. Negative feedback loops anyone?
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2013/06/imperfect-storms.html
I'd kind of like to see John Michael and Guy in the same room battling it out. Maybe they have? I don't know...
Just, let it be! Something, anything; just BE!
G'day mates...
Capitulation: Giving in, Giving up - Is it time?
Good Day, Fellow Humans:
As I work my way through this latest journey on the downside of the depressive side of the bi-polar wave, I - of course - have been reading again from Guy McPherson's blog 'Nature Bats Last'. Many 'guest posters' there have been writing about the acceptance of near-term extinction (NTE) and all that this process could entail. It's not a subject I recommend for the faint-of-heart, but if you truly are a tough old bird I suppose it may give you some empty GM food for thought.
So many of the tipping points appear to have been crossed; 400ppm concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere, the melting of the arctic, antarctic, Greenland, many glaciers, the growth of methane seeps in the continental shelf off of Siberia (methane at 1800ppm at latest? more than in 400,000 years I think), continued acidification of our oceans, the wackiness of the jet-stream, the reversing/ceasing of thermohaline currents in the north Atlantic --- the list seems endless. Guy seems quite sure that humanity will be all but gone in a mere 17 years or so, by 2030 - especially in the northern hemisphere (a few laggards may hang on in parts of the global south for a bit, perhaps).
And yet, humanity carries on. People still have children, buy homes (well, some of us), and generally commit and continue -- keeping the faith as I myself have so often encouraged. I wonder if I may be mistaken in encouraging this. Keep calm and carry on, right? I'm not so sure today. I actually cannot fathom why people would deliberately bring a child into this world now, at this point in time. That isn't to say seeing a young child's face doesn't bring a big grin to my face. I do recall this past mother's day walking my dog and passing by a young mother and her friend/sister getting triplets (yes, all three of them) out of the car (an undertaking in itself I'm sure) - and I shouted out a hearty 'Happy Mother's Day' to her; which she replied to with an equally heartfelt 'Thank you!'. Do I want her to interrupt her busy day to check out Guy's blog? I think not. But what do those of us whom are aware (or may become so soon) do? Well, Daniel A. Drumright posited in his essay 'The irreconcilable acceptance of near-term extinction ' that perhaps we should all develop contingency suicide plans - to be put into action at the time of our choosing. It does beat thirsting to death under the beating sun in a 100+ degree wet-bulb temperature hell on earth or beating slaughtered by a bunch of ravenous once human cannibals. Yuk, who even wants to think it? Well, Hollywood does so I suppose the ideas inherent to this meme do hold a macabre fascination for people. Scares me to death (well, almost).
So, as we watch our institutions turn on us all; as we witness a totalitarian police state take shape, as the gates to the FEMA camps start to creak open, as more and more of us slip through the gaping holes in the tatters of our 'safety net', what does one do? I'm thinking of making some room for the rest of you all - clearing the air just a teeny tiny bit. I of course beg for intervention from beyond, but that's pie in the sky...
Here's a link to Guy's blog for you masochists out there:
http://guymcpherson.com/2013/05/on-the-acceptance-of-near-term-extinction/
And, here's a link to an old favorite from my days of dancing to the 'rolling death noise' in Seattle. Maybe we all knew it all along... World Destruction!
Goodbye for now
RtTBt
OmegaMan
As I work my way through this latest journey on the downside of the depressive side of the bi-polar wave, I - of course - have been reading again from Guy McPherson's blog 'Nature Bats Last'. Many 'guest posters' there have been writing about the acceptance of near-term extinction (NTE) and all that this process could entail. It's not a subject I recommend for the faint-of-heart, but if you truly are a tough old bird I suppose it may give you some empty GM food for thought.
So many of the tipping points appear to have been crossed; 400ppm concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere, the melting of the arctic, antarctic, Greenland, many glaciers, the growth of methane seeps in the continental shelf off of Siberia (methane at 1800ppm at latest? more than in 400,000 years I think), continued acidification of our oceans, the wackiness of the jet-stream, the reversing/ceasing of thermohaline currents in the north Atlantic --- the list seems endless. Guy seems quite sure that humanity will be all but gone in a mere 17 years or so, by 2030 - especially in the northern hemisphere (a few laggards may hang on in parts of the global south for a bit, perhaps).
And yet, humanity carries on. People still have children, buy homes (well, some of us), and generally commit and continue -- keeping the faith as I myself have so often encouraged. I wonder if I may be mistaken in encouraging this. Keep calm and carry on, right? I'm not so sure today. I actually cannot fathom why people would deliberately bring a child into this world now, at this point in time. That isn't to say seeing a young child's face doesn't bring a big grin to my face. I do recall this past mother's day walking my dog and passing by a young mother and her friend/sister getting triplets (yes, all three of them) out of the car (an undertaking in itself I'm sure) - and I shouted out a hearty 'Happy Mother's Day' to her; which she replied to with an equally heartfelt 'Thank you!'. Do I want her to interrupt her busy day to check out Guy's blog? I think not. But what do those of us whom are aware (or may become so soon) do? Well, Daniel A. Drumright posited in his essay 'The irreconcilable acceptance of near-term extinction ' that perhaps we should all develop contingency suicide plans - to be put into action at the time of our choosing. It does beat thirsting to death under the beating sun in a 100+ degree wet-bulb temperature hell on earth or beating slaughtered by a bunch of ravenous once human cannibals. Yuk, who even wants to think it? Well, Hollywood does so I suppose the ideas inherent to this meme do hold a macabre fascination for people. Scares me to death (well, almost).
So, as we watch our institutions turn on us all; as we witness a totalitarian police state take shape, as the gates to the FEMA camps start to creak open, as more and more of us slip through the gaping holes in the tatters of our 'safety net', what does one do? I'm thinking of making some room for the rest of you all - clearing the air just a teeny tiny bit. I of course beg for intervention from beyond, but that's pie in the sky...
Here's a link to Guy's blog for you masochists out there:
http://guymcpherson.com/2013/05/on-the-acceptance-of-near-term-extinction/
And, here's a link to an old favorite from my days of dancing to the 'rolling death noise' in Seattle. Maybe we all knew it all along... World Destruction!
Goodbye for now
RtTBt
OmegaMan
Friday, June 21, 2013
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