by mingman » Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:41 am
the internet can change nothing - and i agree it could be true that it is changing nothing<br><br>the internet is better information access - it is even better wisdom access - if people are listening, really listening deep deep, and taking to heart - really caring for their safety and happiness<br><br>sometimes it's a lot of yacker - a lot of birds on the wire going on and expending our limited energy discussing things that dont make a difference, that dont lead to a clearer vision, a better goalpath<br><br>there is no use in discussing katrina if we dont learn anything - if we just get a righteous buzz from not being the ones doing the evil - if the lesson doesnt sink in, because we are not thinking, just yakking off our thing<br><br>and lets not be complacent about the chances of the internet being manipulated - if there is anything good on the internet, ie, anything the evil dont want you to have, download it, save it - it may disappear off the net - people even being killed, for having the prohibited information, is not new<br><br>********nothing but ideas********* make change<br><br>what is the use of fighting for the good before you know what that is, before you make a determined, concentrated and endless effort to get the best truth? - you are going to go forward and build your dreams in your actions - one never stops doing - what if your dream is wrong, is not enough, is the wrong direction, the wrong emphasis, a fuzzy mix of good and nogood? - <br><br>jefferson went forward with his understanding, and halfbuilt the american dream because he halfunderstood what was necessary and essential for that dream of the land of the free - and the corporation swept away the dream - he should have tried to make the lesson of history the cornerstone of the american faith and hope and education<br><br>he saw the simple truth that tyranny is certain when there is great imbalance of wealth, when there are superoverpaid and superunderpaid - but he didnt make sure it was taught, widely known and widely accepted as true<br><br>you and i, also, could build a dream that will take 200 years - to fail - <br><br>the car is a set of ideas - no ideas, no cars - ideas, good, bad, confused, clear, are the root of everything we have made - [confused ideas may be behind the creation, the universe too! - after all, assume we are made in god's image; we are confused, so god is confused] - the society we have is always the effect of the mass or mess of ideas we all-together have<br><br>if everyone suddenly had no idea about traffic and looking left and right before crossing, like cats and possums and hedgehogs, there would be instant effect - bad<br><br>if today we learn the lesson of history, if the general human becomes clear and determined that inequity is fatal to life and happiness and *********shall not be allowed to be**********, the effect is instantaneous - good<br><br>there has to be thought, understanding, certainty, clarity before action - else action is uncertain in its good effects - there has to be determination of the destination before going - there has to be going, or else there is no getting there - but there has to be correct destination before going - else there is no getting there<br><br>'how lucky for leaders that people never think' hitler<br><br>although we know everyone will agree that fewer and fewer getting richer and richer, and more and more getting poorer and poorer will lead to violence - although we know everyone will agree that a policy of making fewer and fewer get richer and richer and more and more get poorer and poorer would be crazy - although no one would pay staff very different pays for same work - the general will is not at all clear that justice is beneficial - basically, the general unthinking will believes that more for me is always good, that getting out more than one puts in by work, is 'fine', is not theft, is not dangerous, is not fatal - <br><br>although we know that no one likes being stolen from<br><br>although history is unanimous on this, although the news shouts this every day, it has not been heard, although katrina shouts it, people have not turned a hearing ear to it - generally, people will not consider it for one moment, they think there is loss in it for them - people wont even check it out - they are acting on blind faith, not putting their faith under the light of testing, proving, judging, for a moment<br><br>you are suffering - you are suffering bush, for instance, you are suffering katrina - isnt that enough reason to grab maxwell's silver hammer and sound the wheels of your train? - is it a stupid thing, that an engineer goes along and checks that the wheels of the train are all they should be for safety, by hitting them with a hammer and listening to the rightness or wrongness of the sound?<br><br>'it is good [beneficial, useful] to let lie before one and [thus] take to heart what is' - [heidegger wrote a whole book [called 'what is called thinking'] <br>on this line of parmenides - <br><br>hell is undigested information, heaven is digested information - 'people these days get so much information, they lose their common sense' gertrude stein - and that was back in the 1930s!<br><br>the way to digest information [turn it to wisdom] is to stop inputs from the world, stop the inflow of new information - that's what the great pyramid was for, that is what 'dane holes' were for - [paul bragg, the superhealthy diet advisor to filmstars, believed that your body will start purifying itself of toxins as soon as you stop eating - makes sense - you cant be vacuuming while youre cooking]<br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>