My argument against all modern philosophers who disdain man's belief in a larger consciousness is that none of them did their homework. Religion has never been an "opiate". There has never been a time in the whole of our evolution when mankind did not have an intuitive sense of an under-lying universal force governing the ethical laws of cause and effect.
It was present as Animism throughout the 99,000 generations of the Stone Age.
It was present as Shamanism throughout the 600 generations of the Bronze Age
It was present as Scriptural Orthodoxy throughout the 160 generations of the Iron Age.
Subsequent religious Protest, beginning more or less with Aristotle, is simply a reaction to the gradual corruption of religious administration and its dogmatic attitude that refused to accommodate further scientif9ic investigations as to the meaning of existence..
What was not recognized by any of our so-called "big philosophers" whether they chose to be dead to their intuitions or not, is the enormous debt we all owe to our vast spiritual heritage. Not one of those developmental Ages would have progressed in a social context without a corresponding ethical governor. The eventual invention of scripture trying to define God via the written word was not only crucial to national cohesion and administration, it was also vital in the development of conscientious craftsmanship and a marked evolution of intellectual development .
Generations of painstaking learning the mechanics of grammar and syntax was the exact lesson required to organize human though into abstract thinking. If it was not for those thousands of unsung catholic missionaries and scribes who civilized the tribes, Nietzsche and his like would still be running around in bear skins.
IMO all our modern philosophers are dwarfs in comparison to the ancients who intuited and wrote our Scriptures. Nietzsche is simply a rebellious teenager. No brighter than I was as an atheistic teenager.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Definitions of Pseudo-Intellectual Phlosophers
1. Those who cannot make a simple common sense determination on what is good or bad without engaging in a convoluted argument over moral relativism.
2. Those who believe that they can determine the state of being by sitting in an armchair and never engaging the body in any form of ordeal that would cause physical discomfort.
3 Those who's life experience is obtained from books and have never suffered extreme pain and/or profound loss.
4. Those who life experience is obtained from books and have never experienced extreme ecstasy and/or profound peace
5. Those who are waiting for somebody else to prove that there is a Supreme Consciousness and have never investigated it for themselves.
7. Those who have already determined that a Supreme Consciousness does not exist
8. Those who think our ancestors where foolish for believing in ancient theological arguments that have served mankind for 6000 years and more
9. Those who do not realize that subsequent philosophical arguments over the nature of being are stumbling attempts to rehash what is already classic.
10. Those who take the above definitions as personal insults to their intelligence.
2. Those who believe that they can determine the state of being by sitting in an armchair and never engaging the body in any form of ordeal that would cause physical discomfort.
3 Those who's life experience is obtained from books and have never suffered extreme pain and/or profound loss.
4. Those who life experience is obtained from books and have never experienced extreme ecstasy and/or profound peace
5. Those who are waiting for somebody else to prove that there is a Supreme Consciousness and have never investigated it for themselves.
7. Those who have already determined that a Supreme Consciousness does not exist
8. Those who think our ancestors where foolish for believing in ancient theological arguments that have served mankind for 6000 years and more
9. Those who do not realize that subsequent philosophical arguments over the nature of being are stumbling attempts to rehash what is already classic.
10. Those who take the above definitions as personal insults to their intelligence.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Eco-Building
Most areas in the world have cave systems that can be used for living in. It is not more expensive then building a regular community. The technology and equipments already exist. To build underground there is a simple way to do that, use rammed earth technology, it is based upon Adobe but, far stronger. Check it out on the net. Rammed earth homes underground where there are no suitable caves is something your group may wish to investigate. There are variations depending upon the earth that surrounds you.
The idea of mankind re-inhabiting caves is far too backward thinking for me, no matter ecologically sound that might be. We have other ideas.
Our 40 acre property is situated in the middle of a dry lake bed. The silt pack is 80 foot deep. One of our future programs is to excavate ten acres or so down to that depth and cover the top with translucent fiber glass geodesic dome. Apartments will be carved out of the 80 foot cliff faces with boulevards and garden spaces in between each section. All sewerage will be pumped to surface reservoirs for purification and recycling. The finished complex will create multi-level earth insulated accommodation and recreation for a large community, possibly an old age center, complete with its own medical facilities. Our building costs are projected to be 1% (yes ONE) of what it would cost in a city. Energy consumption will be one third that of a surface complex.
The recovered adobe will fire enough bricks to build a circular chimney city, 5000 feet high, one mile in circumference, employing atmospheric thermal energy technology (ATEC) to generate electricity and condense water vapor for consumption. It will accommodate forested parks, streams, waterfalls and tree-lined boulevards. Every penthouse home with its own greenhouse orchard and garden. (Definitely not to be seen in my life-time - but on the drawing boards anyway and good future focus for the kids. Oh yes, did I tell you that I was a megalomaniac?)
The idea of mankind re-inhabiting caves is far too backward thinking for me, no matter ecologically sound that might be. We have other ideas.
Our 40 acre property is situated in the middle of a dry lake bed. The silt pack is 80 foot deep. One of our future programs is to excavate ten acres or so down to that depth and cover the top with translucent fiber glass geodesic dome. Apartments will be carved out of the 80 foot cliff faces with boulevards and garden spaces in between each section. All sewerage will be pumped to surface reservoirs for purification and recycling. The finished complex will create multi-level earth insulated accommodation and recreation for a large community, possibly an old age center, complete with its own medical facilities. Our building costs are projected to be 1% (yes ONE) of what it would cost in a city. Energy consumption will be one third that of a surface complex.
The recovered adobe will fire enough bricks to build a circular chimney city, 5000 feet high, one mile in circumference, employing atmospheric thermal energy technology (ATEC) to generate electricity and condense water vapor for consumption. It will accommodate forested parks, streams, waterfalls and tree-lined boulevards. Every penthouse home with its own greenhouse orchard and garden. (Definitely not to be seen in my life-time - but on the drawing boards anyway and good future focus for the kids. Oh yes, did I tell you that I was a megalomaniac?)
Regarding: ILovePhilosophy.com
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In some instances I have used questions asked of me in that forum in order to help explain posts that I make on this blog. It is only fair that I let you know who they are.
In some instances I have used questions asked of me in that forum in order to help explain posts that I make on this blog. It is only fair that I let you know who they are.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Bush's Legacy
Okay, but why is a mass change of consciousness inevitable?
It is my conviction that the evolution of human consciousness is an on-going event.
What present factors determine this?
Everything in our present behavior underlines our immaturity. Promiscuity, divorce, gambling with the market, fast cars, fast women, playing nuclear roulette. It goes go on and on. It is inevitable that we will and must grow up and achieve a more responsible attitude of adulthood.
How do they interrelate?
Some 200 million westerners HAVE grown up. They are no longer anchored on narrow national aims and religious bigotry. They are responsible parents. They are ontologists, globalists - looking down the road for a more sustainable human contract.
How can the poorest of us (in the entire world) get any poorer? They are subsistence, now.
The very poorest on the planet are already starving to death. The advanced nations are now on the line. Unemployment is projected by some economists to reach 15%. Under-employment will go over 30%.
10% verges on system collapse and we are almost there right now. The drain on everybody is exponential. We already have entire communities in the US who are at 25% unemployed. As all those millions of unemployed families start drawing on the system, for food, heath, shelter as they loose their homes and cars etc., the economic sunami will sweep over all of us. City economies are already failing. So are State economies. More and more thousands are joining the ranks of the needy every day. What is to stop it?
Even if Obama injects a one trillion dollar stimulus package each year over the next four years, all it will do is hold off the inevitable. The stark evolutionary fact is that capitalism has reached as far as it can go. It is at the end of its era of usefulness. It functioned very well in the era of nation building in an untapped New World milieu that fed itsef and the Old World. Those easy resources are now used up. Capitalism has no place in a global milieu. You cannot extract the necessary profits in order to sustain that ideology indefinitely. Just as we could not sustain a farm-based economy as our population exploded, so too can we not now sustain capitalist exploitation. We have to move to our next stage of evolutionary development. It has to be based on sustainable planet management. The New Age ethic is global stewardship - custodianship, not ownership and the vast waste of bureaucratic management, policing and armies that is required to sustain its artificial legality.
Our entire economic system is artificial. There is no real need for us to be in this dire situation. We have the brains, technology, resources, the need and tens of millions looking for and willing to work to affect a mass change of direction - but not the will. Our minds remain indoctrinated with the ideology that only money can change things. When in fact it is now the artificial barrier that is holding back everything. We have to train and focus our children in a new way
Not sure how one gets 10% as the number before the system collapses.
The US labor force is currently 138.5 million workers.
14 million workers and their dependent families out of work represents roughly one third of the population, needing food, shelter, health. No economic system can sustain that. The effect is two-fold. It does not benefit from their earnings and has to dip into its own reserves to keep them alive.
13% unemployed takes us over the edge. It is full system collapse
As an amateur economist, I know that
we have gone through 10% unemployment before.
Not for long and not with a population the size we have now.
Unemployment is not an leading indicator, it is a trailing indicator,
it tells us where we have been, not where we are or where we are going.
I does not matter how you want to look at it. We are dead in the water anyway.n.
Here is how I think recovery could happen.
In the second year of his presidency Obama will see that trillion dollar stimulus packages to not work.He will then have to completely ignore all concerns about deficits and go beyond just keeping the wolf from the door. It is possible at that stage, with enough people suffering, for him to declare an all-out sustainable war on poverty. He will get the Okay to go the whole hog. Print enough money to ensure 100% employment and put the entire country to work for the next decade in a complete make-over of the infrastructure and the way we do business.
The net worth of American assets is in the thousands of trillions of dollars. So borrowing hundreds of trillions on improvements to those assets will have a positive affect on the global economy and get everybody else doing the same thing. :QED
It is my conviction that the evolution of human consciousness is an on-going event.
What present factors determine this?
Everything in our present behavior underlines our immaturity. Promiscuity, divorce, gambling with the market, fast cars, fast women, playing nuclear roulette. It goes go on and on. It is inevitable that we will and must grow up and achieve a more responsible attitude of adulthood.
How do they interrelate?
Some 200 million westerners HAVE grown up. They are no longer anchored on narrow national aims and religious bigotry. They are responsible parents. They are ontologists, globalists - looking down the road for a more sustainable human contract.
How can the poorest of us (in the entire world) get any poorer? They are subsistence, now.
The very poorest on the planet are already starving to death. The advanced nations are now on the line. Unemployment is projected by some economists to reach 15%. Under-employment will go over 30%.
10% verges on system collapse and we are almost there right now. The drain on everybody is exponential. We already have entire communities in the US who are at 25% unemployed. As all those millions of unemployed families start drawing on the system, for food, heath, shelter as they loose their homes and cars etc., the economic sunami will sweep over all of us. City economies are already failing. So are State economies. More and more thousands are joining the ranks of the needy every day. What is to stop it?
Even if Obama injects a one trillion dollar stimulus package each year over the next four years, all it will do is hold off the inevitable. The stark evolutionary fact is that capitalism has reached as far as it can go. It is at the end of its era of usefulness. It functioned very well in the era of nation building in an untapped New World milieu that fed itsef and the Old World. Those easy resources are now used up. Capitalism has no place in a global milieu. You cannot extract the necessary profits in order to sustain that ideology indefinitely. Just as we could not sustain a farm-based economy as our population exploded, so too can we not now sustain capitalist exploitation. We have to move to our next stage of evolutionary development. It has to be based on sustainable planet management. The New Age ethic is global stewardship - custodianship, not ownership and the vast waste of bureaucratic management, policing and armies that is required to sustain its artificial legality.
Our entire economic system is artificial. There is no real need for us to be in this dire situation. We have the brains, technology, resources, the need and tens of millions looking for and willing to work to affect a mass change of direction - but not the will. Our minds remain indoctrinated with the ideology that only money can change things. When in fact it is now the artificial barrier that is holding back everything. We have to train and focus our children in a new way
Not sure how one gets 10% as the number before the system collapses.
The US labor force is currently 138.5 million workers.
14 million workers and their dependent families out of work represents roughly one third of the population, needing food, shelter, health. No economic system can sustain that. The effect is two-fold. It does not benefit from their earnings and has to dip into its own reserves to keep them alive.
13% unemployed takes us over the edge. It is full system collapse
As an amateur economist, I know that
we have gone through 10% unemployment before.
Not for long and not with a population the size we have now.
Unemployment is not an leading indicator, it is a trailing indicator,
it tells us where we have been, not where we are or where we are going.
I does not matter how you want to look at it. We are dead in the water anyway.n.
Here is how I think recovery could happen.
In the second year of his presidency Obama will see that trillion dollar stimulus packages to not work.He will then have to completely ignore all concerns about deficits and go beyond just keeping the wolf from the door. It is possible at that stage, with enough people suffering, for him to declare an all-out sustainable war on poverty. He will get the Okay to go the whole hog. Print enough money to ensure 100% employment and put the entire country to work for the next decade in a complete make-over of the infrastructure and the way we do business.
The net worth of American assets is in the thousands of trillions of dollars. So borrowing hundreds of trillions on improvements to those assets will have a positive affect on the global economy and get everybody else doing the same thing. :QED
I AM SEPARATE
Ego is a concept of a separate self hovering above Nature.
Ego is a phantom. A ghost haunting within
In order for Ego to manifest in consciousness there has to be an observer and the observed
Within the individual consciousness this sense of duality is created by an internal communication between the analytical and intuitive halves of the brain.
The personality is thus split in two
In essence these two halves represent the masculine and feminine halves of the psyche.
The objective of the communication is resolution
If no resolution is reached the persona cannot act.
Stalled action leads to schizophrenia and hysteria
In order for action to take place one side or the other must dominate
Intuitive domination leads to increased depths of internal inquiries
Analytical domination leads to external inquiry
Survival imperatives favor analytical domination
Ego is therefore predominantly calculating
It is the arise of a calculating ego two and half millions years ago, leavened by intuitive precautions regarding ethical trespass, which has driven the evolution of human consciousness through four increasingly complex Ages of social. spiritual and technological development.
Ego is a phantom. A ghost haunting within
In order for Ego to manifest in consciousness there has to be an observer and the observed
Within the individual consciousness this sense of duality is created by an internal communication between the analytical and intuitive halves of the brain.
The personality is thus split in two
In essence these two halves represent the masculine and feminine halves of the psyche.
The objective of the communication is resolution
If no resolution is reached the persona cannot act.
Stalled action leads to schizophrenia and hysteria
In order for action to take place one side or the other must dominate
Intuitive domination leads to increased depths of internal inquiries
Analytical domination leads to external inquiry
Survival imperatives favor analytical domination
Ego is therefore predominantly calculating
It is the arise of a calculating ego two and half millions years ago, leavened by intuitive precautions regarding ethical trespass, which has driven the evolution of human consciousness through four increasingly complex Ages of social. spiritual and technological development.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Ego - Vanity of Vanities
In the beginning there was ego
and vanity was everything. Eccl. 1.2
Ego manifested
from that magical moment
when the first hominid saw himself
as a separate reflective entity
Sharing then took on
a super-natural dimension
that went far beyond
the natural reflex
Ego saw itself
as the Great Provider
and enjoyed power through dividing
and sharing the hunt
So it was through vanity
that Man lifted himself
above all other creatures
and saw the Face of God
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