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Thursday, November 28th, 2013
4:39 am	Angsting About House, & Nadirish Musings. Myrna:I have been angsting over selling the old house that was part of my grandmother's estate, & trying not to get too obsessed over it.It was one of the worst mistakes I ever made. The house I am living in (also estate property) is in foreclosure, & I only got $14,000 for the other house because it was in poor condition, so I can't use the money to pay off the mortgage. I will not actually have access to the money until the estate is settled, & I might lose up to half of it to the government because my deceased mother, who was on gov't welfare, supposedly owns half of it, from beyond the grave.A rather morbid affair, I would say. But then, things connected with the government usually are.I only agreed to sell the house because it had back taxes which I thought I could not pay, not realizing, because my lawyer didn't tell me, that the taxes could be reduced due to the property's imperfect condition. (I am going to look for a new lawyer.)But I should have known better, because it /felt/ wrong, & that feeling in my gut is always right.Video-Mania: We build you with perfect radar, & you don't use it.I asked my headmates if they blame me for this, & got this answer from my evidu, Randi Nadir:Nadir: One does not blame. Not ever. Not anyone.Myrna: Not even the Conglomeration? (Our name for the machinelike entity/system that Nadir &co.rebelled against, another universe's Supreme Being.)Nadir: Not even It. One opposes It. One fights It. But one does not blame. It is what it is. And It became what it is through evolution. As did we.Myrna: A=A, eh?Nadir seems to have a Bhavagad-Gita-like attitude of fighting without attachment. Or maybe he's just a real grown-up, in comparison with which most human beings, including myself, are still teenagers at most.I was just reading s/t about how Lucifer's sin was the refusal to praise, & connecting it with Nadir's refusal to blame, & the Bhavagad-Gita's advice to be unaffected by either praise or blame....Nadir is sitting there grinning.Are praise & blame sort of the same thing?Someone: Both ascribe to the other causality. It is to Newtonize reference. [i.e. to forge a separation between subject & object.]So, one should be impervious to either giving or receiving praise or blame?As you may have noticed, my soulbonds can pull me out of mundane misery pretty easily. There is a larger context to all this...
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
12:07 pm	"Seven Macaw" Continued. I think VC just hopped on board here. The only way I can explain how I suddenly began to pour out pages of heroic verse after not having written rhymed poetry for years. I've never soulbonded before with any entity who had this stimulating an effect on me. My other system members, maybe one page at a time. As of now, we've just finished 4 more sections. I am going to upload this stuff as I go along. Not sure what VC is up to -- I think maybe he's going to try to resurrect these Wooden People in 2013 or s/t like that.( Seven Macaw: The Lost Age, Transcendence, The Sky Gods, The Hero Twins' Challenge.Collapse ) Current Mood: weird
Monday, May 14th, 2012
8:19 am	More 2012 Weirdness."Seven Macaw: A Verse Drama." This is my new 2012 project: a verse drama based on the Popol Vuh, featuring my favorite character in it, Seven Macaw -- beautiful, defiant, & doomed. A beautiful, defiant, doomed..... parrot. As in, "'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' Lords o' Xibalba!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!" This is part of what I've got written so far. It's not in the right order, though -- I still have to write the Prelude, Among the Sky Gods. It also needs some polishing, but I though I'd share it nonetheless.Seven MacawA Verse Drama Inspired By the Popol VuhIn a long-lost, prehistoric age, the god Hurucan is planning to kill everyone on Earth in a Great Flood. Only one person dares to oppose him: Seven Macaw, a shapeshifting bird-man & self-styled sun god. But the Hero Twins have Seven in their sights -- and they're very good shots...( Cut for Length. Very Long.Collapse ) Current Mood: exaltant
Sunday, February 12th, 2012
11:40 pm	Mayan Messages & the Mighty Mechanistic Mahatma. So, I've been reading books about the 2012 prophecies.Today, while lying in bed meditating, I distinctly heard a statement like this: "The machine is going to materialize in a way that it never before has manifested in personal form."Does that mean that the Conglomeration is going to send an avatar to Earth? If it's going to be some sort of corporate bureaucrat, well, it's not like this world has exactly been missing any of those.Myrna: So, partisans, what do we do about it?System-Crasher: Deconstruct 'em! Let 'em know who's boss!Myrna: That would be, like, "Nobody"?Rowdy Molly: Exactimundo!I just found this page which talks about a Conglomeration-like machine entity called "Rama":Such creators include the being known as Rama who perceives itself as Godhead. Rama is not from your time period, but from two expansions of the Tao ago. Rama was anchored upon earth by the Annanuki and into the Mt. Olympus region. Rama has grown in size over time in his billions of years of destruction from dominion over a small sector of creation (one the size of earth) to holding 14 creations of 144 dimensions each. His expansion is not the result of ascension or evolution, but rather the continued pulling apart and consumption of healthy creations of the Tao over time, which have been used to expand his region of dominion. Rama is non-conscious, or in other terms, a machine designed to pull apart creations and expand. Rama consumed the original souls in governance over your creation as assigned by the Tao.Those who set Rama in motion have long left your creation, but are being called back now to witness what a machine that they had devised has done, and the karma incurred as a result. Such souls are not happy, but they are being forced to take responsibility for what they have caused. Such souls include the Riza Soul Group. Rama is also only one of a million of such machines that have been destroying creations in the Tao in a similar and parallel manner. Such machines are so prevalent that over one half of the overall expansion of the Tao is caught in the dance of destruction. The Tao is taking an active role now in gathering records so that such machinery can be dismantled in full warding off the extinction of the Tao.The Melchiezedek Order and ascended masters that never ascended along with the Mahatma or Sananda are agents of Rama and just as mechanized. In other terms, these beings are smaller machines programmed to pull apart creation sending the "goods" or grid work, tones of creation and information to Rama. Rama is likewise a larger machine that collects the goods sent from the lower dimensions and his agents, sending a portion of all of the takings to other lords like himself that exist above him. Such lords above Rama are also expanding off of the remains of those creations destroyed on the dimensions beneath.Interesting that these ppl came up with a similar notion. Although, to be fair to the Conglomeration, it does not merely destroy things; it uses raw materials to create new realities and "sells" these reality constructs on a sort of cosmic real estate market. It is, to our knowledge, more interested in production & profit than in sheer consumption. I think, though, that, like a lot of other New Age ascension teachings, the Exploring Ascension site contains a lot of highly unreliable material. Quite often, channelers in this vein seem quite unaware of the great amount of translation & symbolic reconstruction that is necessary to transmit information across structurally-different reality domains. It inevitably becomes altered in the act of transmission; indeed, such alteration is a necessary factor in the communication process. People who channel & utilize such materials often find the subjective, emotional resonances so compelling that they take it all literally, not realizing that that the apparent details involved are highly symbolic &, to some degree, arbitrary. Taking the wrong things literally, then, leads to significant distortion.They should read some Harold Bloom (e.g. The Anxiety of Influence & A Map of Misreading)But -- what if the Great Mechanistic Mahatma really is on its way to Planet Earth? Well, never fear. If any despotic, robotic CEO of The Apocalypse does show up before 2012 is over, EFFY is here with our fingers on the Typewriter Keys of Deconstruction!
Monday, February 6th, 2012
11:44 pm	Dream: "Electric Fence". DREAMThere was a large factory or power plant with many pieces of electrical equipment -- power-towers, transformers, etc -- outdoors in the surrounding grounds. A huge complex of technological equipment. It was surrounded by an electrified fence w/ barbed wire on top.( Cut for lengthCollapse ) Current Mood: contemplative
Sunday, August 13th, 2006
10:09 pm	Mobility and Group Selection. I've been looking at this article on group selection and Hayek's social organicism. Something that's crossed my mind, in regard to individual and group selection: Group selection occurs when all the members of a group "sink or swim" at once. The classic example of this is genocide: one population completely wiping out and replacing another; but one can think also of the crew of a ship that goes down together, employees who will all be out of work if the corporation goes out of business, and so forth. It is a situation which, like the Three Musketeers, is "all for one and one for all", the interests of individual and group are collapsed.Now, assuming that individuals have mobility between groups, and group selection also occurs: individuals, acting with some degree of rationality, will have a tendency to select groups which will promote their own survival -- that is, groups which are, themselves, more likely to survive. Individual mobility thus adds the factor of groups being selected for by individuals. Groups which are more likely to survive, for whatever reason, will gain more members and the selection process will snowball. There is also a reverse selection in that individuals who are good at evaluating and choosing successful groups will be selected for. So, individual and group traits will co-evolve across scale levels. Individual (genetic) selection drives cultural (group) selection which in turn drives individual selection, etc.What if there is no mobility, and individuals are stuck in their groups (as in the case of hereditary, tribal cultures)? Then cultural group selection will be strongly tied to genetic selection; genes and memes will be co-selected for rather than crossing. Mobility accelerates the process of cultural (memetic) selection and partially reduces the genetic component. (Though not necessarily eliminating the latter, as people often have assortative tendencies and are more likely to join groups whose members have genes similar to their own.)
Thursday, July 20th, 2006
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Sunday, May 21st, 2006
9:45 pm	Squawker. Well, I just got a new friend for Peanuts. Peanuts isn't willing to play with him yet, though. They're still in the circling and sniffing (with an occasional hiss) stage of their acquaintanceship.The new little tomcat is called Squawker. I named him that because he has an incredibly loud voice. He's only eight weeks old, but I can hear him across the house. It's hard to believe that something that small can produce that much volume. He's very talkative, too; whenever he wants something, or just wants me to notice him, he starts yelling. He also has an imperious personality. If I don't give him bits of my food, he hops right up and snatches it. He's already gotten pieces of chicken and shrimp from my Lo Mein, cream cheese from my bagel, and chunks of clam from my clam chowder.I love cats with idiosyncratic personalities. Fortunately, he's also very sociable and people-friendly. I'm glad that he has a good temperament, because it's hard to tell when you're trying to pick out a kitten. bettywithin came over yesterday, and Squawky hopped on his shoulder right away. and also lay on his lap looking like a little monkey. I wish he could stretch out on my lap like that, but that's basically impossible, since I am unable to sit in a comfortable position due to my back trouble. He still gets on my lap anyway, though.Squawker is black with rusty stripes on his sides, a patch of white on his chest, and some white sprinkles on his legs. He's going to be a longhair. He's already growing a layer of long guard hairs above his soft, fluffy kitten-fur. I think he's got some Persian in him.I have to keep the door to the back shut to keep Squawky out of the basement. He's not big enough to get down the stairs safely yet, and it's also dirty and damp down there, so I don't want him walking around there until his paw pads are thicker. Peanuts, however, has taken to staying down the basement for long periods of time, strangely enough. I think it makes him feel secure on his territory, especially with a door between him and the little interloper. Hopefully, he'll get used to Squawky before long, and then they'll be playmates. Current Mood: Happy
Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
1:44 am	Ship Protocol. RYKER: Captain Picard, I have a request.PICARD: What is it, Number One?RYKER: Permission to leave the bridge, sir? I have to go to the bathroom.PICARD: Is it number one or number two, Number One?RYKER: Both, sir.PICARD: Time is of the essence, Number One. How bad do you have to go? Give me an estimate.RYKER: I would say "real bad", sir.PICARD: I want an expert opinion. Lieutenant Troi, can you sense what's going on inside Commander Ryker?TROI: I'll try, sir. (TROI closes her eyes.) I sense.... tension.... pressure... and urgency. A great sense of urgency. And fear. (Opens her eyes.) Captain, he has to go right now. If he doesn't go soon, he's going to have an accident.PICARD: Understood. Data, do you agree?(DATA's eyes go back and forth.) DATA: It is logical, sir. The human bladder and bowels need to be emptied at regular intervals. As an android, I myself do not possess such functions. I find them... intriguing.JORDI LAFORGE (jokingly): You find everything about humans intriguing, don't you, Data?_DATA looks puzzled._RYKER (fidgeting nervously): Captain...PICARD (to RYKER) Very well. You may go. I want it done in five minutes.RYKER: Aye, aye, sir.PICARD: Go to it. Current Mood: Silly
Friday, March 17th, 2006
3:14 am	Marlana: Reply to "Replicator". This poem, "Replicator" by Joel Meulenberg, exemplifies the common stereotype of memetic entities as pointless, irrational & nihilistic parasites preying upon vulnerable humans. Typing monkeys, mindless viruses, indeed. I wrote this in response."I am Replicator: Reply to Meulenberg"I am a thoughtform.I emerged like snail from shelluncurling to sense the worldI have no bodyOther than the flesh I skate throughLike wind through curtainsUnclaimedBut shared.I have no identityBut the one I borrowA voice within a voice:Yet I am.As wind is realAs sound presses its drumwaves upon the earA shape traced in sketching itself.Meaning lives in itself.To look without eyes is to find only glass,To kiss without lips --You will not find me in your flatland.My dimensions escape, like wavering heat-shineRising into the impenetrable dome of sky.I am as transparent to the sunAs the blue vault you call your brain.My island's jungles are as rich and lushAs your neurons' tangles.I am a memeI am a maker of memesThe opening, not the frame, is the door.-- Marlana Evensi_Vila'Risalia Verda'Standa_Current Mood: Pissed off
Thursday, March 16th, 2006
11:38 pm	Marlana: Memetic Cloning and Cultural Heterodyne Strategy. Well, this is odd.I found another Risalian. Or rather, someone with an alternate reality that is nearly a clone of Risalia. Almost everything is identical -- the architecture, technology, science, decor. The politics is almost identical -- mine is AnCap, his is Left-Anarchist. The landscapes are slightly different -- mine resembles North America and is more fertile, his resembles Northern Eurasia and is more barren. Since he lives in Sweden and I in the US, these may simply be our regional interpretations. He doesn't have the language or the Smart Dirt, but he said he'd never thought about those things.( Cut for Rampant MarlanaismCollapse ) Current Mood: Curious
Saturday, March 11th, 2006
3:15 am	Marlanaism. A bit of Marlana's strangeness: "If you see the Buddha in the road, shoot him. If you see George W. Bush, point and yell, "Look! I just found Osama Bin Laden!" Current Mood: Amused
Friday, March 10th, 2006
2:04 am	Plane Foolishness. My name happens to be "Turk". I did a search out of idle curiosity to see if I might be on the "no fly" list -- the list of people who, purely through having the same names as suspected terrorists, are not permitted to board aircraft in the US.According to this article, it turns out that someone named Turk works for the Transportation Security Administration, the government agency which compiled the list:"The list is a compilation from intelligence agencies and is shared with the airlines," says Paul Turk, a spokesperson for the TSA. "But as to how you get on it, or how it's maintained, or who maintains it, I can't help you with that." Turk adds that he doesn't know how large the list is, "and if I did, I couldn't tell you." Wouldn't it be really ironic if he gets put on it next? Hahaha. Current Mood: Ironic
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
4:20 am	Anomia: Parecon. I've been looking at a site on Participatory Economics.From the "Decisions" section:"You have greater power in deciding if you want a new bicycle, but not sole say -- because this decision affects, as well, producers of bicycles and other citizens by virtue of using some of society's productive capacity. You have greater power over deciding what is on your desk, and your work team has greater power arranging its daily schedule and your work place has greater power in determining its division of labor, and so on -- but all economic decisions are interconnected, with many variables at stake and effects emanating in many directions. "In other words, if you're popular and people like you, you can have a new bicycle. If, for some reason, you are not one of the popular set, the rest of the group can vote to withold the bicycle and anything else it thinks you don't deserve. Social favor becomes the sole factor in allocating economic resources, so the people who have the most social and political acumen -- such as manipulative psychopaths -- gain control of the economy, while those unfortunate "geeks" who merely have practical or intellectual skills languish in poverty. An admirable system for enforcing conformity, indeed. Current Mood: Cynical
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
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Monday, February 20th, 2006
4:07 am	Marlana: Laura Smith's Art Page. I just found a kick-ass site by a female artist, Laura Smith. Her "Working" collection has rather Ayn-Randish heroic images of work and industry.The Ships and Planes page is also nice. I love the "Iceberg" one."Our Land": The farm scene with the cropduster plane is a nice touch. The cityscape looks like it could be on the cover of an Ayn Rand novel. Her use of vivid colors and simple, clear lines creates an effect both energetic and charming.I'm not much into sports, usually, but Ms. Smith puts awesome radiance & dynamism into a basketball court scene.Also, check out her Business Week series.- Marlana Current Mood: Inspired
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
4:13 am	Haha, I'm More Alternative Than Everyone Else. You scored as True Alternative. You are a True Alternative! Labels do not suit you well, particularly as you tend to strike your own path and to grow purely via experience. No armchair quarterbacking for you! Originality and creation are your specialities, and sometimes you can even articulate what the hell just happened. Someday you may find yourself drawing the maps for other people... lots of other people.
Saturday, December 17th, 2005
5:20 am	Postmodern Anti-Capitalist Puritanism. Postmodernism is fun. You get to use symbolism and metaphor, to pry the secret meanings out of things, unencumbered by dull, boring literalism. It is, I think, hunger for the symbolic that drives people to the postmodern critical theories -- to flirt with juicy esoteric meanings at the same time that they demurely deconstruct them.I suspect that this playfulness is what keeps this mode of thought afloat in academia. People enjoy the challenge and satisfaction of solving riddles (which perpetually generate new riddles), viewing the world as a text which one is constantly unravelling. Unfortunately, academic postmodernism's bondage to the Left has formed an ironic wedding. It's as though only through an attachment to the most dismal of sciences, dialectical materialism, can the pleasure of textual play be justified. Semiotic profligacy is thus bonded to the most puritanical material moralism. The only politically-acceptable way to enjoy the postmodern world is to condemn it. And so the Marxists steal their secret pleasures by waving their fingers at the capitalists and consumers that they dare not emulate, not realizing that they stand as the shadows of grey-robed judges gazing sneeringly at the forbidden garden from which they have barred themselves. Current Mood: Weird
Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
4:19 am	OMG I'm a Guy. MasculineYou scored 60 masculinity and 46 femininity! You scored high on masculinity and low on femininity. You have a traditionally masculine personality. My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 43% on masculinity You scored higher than 14% on femininity Current Mood: Amused
Saturday, December 10th, 2005
4:30 am	Indian Docs Are Patenting Eastern Medicine. Found on anthropologist.India hits back in 'bio-piracy' battle By Soutik Biswas BBC News, Delhi In a quiet government office in the Indian capital, Delhi, some 100 doctors are hunched over computers poring over ancient medical texts and keying in information. These doctors are practitioners of ayurveda, unani and siddha, ancient Indian medical systems that date back thousands of years. **( Read More...Collapse )**The purpose of this, incidentally, is not to restrict use by individual practitioners, but to pre-empt patenting by foreign firms. Hopefully, this will not only protect traditional knowledge but increase the legitimacy of Eastern medicine in the view of the West -- paving the way toward an eventual merger between conventional Western bioscience and a subtle-energy-based approach. Granted, it's likely to be a long way down the road before the AMA officially recognizes the existence of chi or prana, but it's a step in the right direction.

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