Cy,
Well, I did willingly give up my privacy 22 years ago, when I started talking to Ron, and especially when I said that I would hold him personally accountable for the monitoring of all my communications. When he asked how many agencies I wanted to be involved, I said, 'the more, the merrier'.
But that's just me.
Individuals and groups with nefarious agendas can be greatly aided by technology. Law enforcement does have a need to level that playing field.
It is the targetting of groups with specific political agendas that does raise a red flag. If everyone is being monitored, on an equal and limited basis, then there is, again, a more level playing field. It is patterns that are being targetted, not individuals and not content. The targetting is being done with the software. Personal investigation would be triggered only at preset chokepoints, or when there is a clear indication of criminal activity.
With anything less than this, would we not be opening our borders and our institutions to bad actors of all stripes?
Of course, there are groups who prepare to defend themselves against criminality on the part of the government. Various whistle-blowers do take risks to expose such activities. Due vigilance is warranted, on all sides. The vast majority of the population, however, will not involve itself.
But I'm woking at this issue from the other side. I am working toward cosmic transparency, which relates to the alleged omniscience of the Source. I hope to facilitate that omnisience, in which we will all participate. In regards to our knowledge, we are only self-limited. There are no external limits. We are already, always on candid-camera, so we might as well keep smiling.
From: Dan
Date: June 11, 2013, 10:27:01 AM EDT
To: Paul
Subject: further thoughts......
[.....]
[BTW, typically, my outgoing communications are posted to the web, while generally exempting the responses.]
I have no intention of cutting Jack out of any loop. I simply believe that our exploratory adventure is not yet prepared for his necessarily censorious overview.
As you rightly sense, the same caveat should also apply to your personal investigations relating to our discussions.
Where there may be a continuing common ground is in relation to your ongoing general assessment of the BPWH.
Yes, I do assume a proprietary interest in that regard.
It may well be that the outcome of this collaboration will be to throw cold water on the BPWH. That in itself would be worthy of some considerable effort. We could help to spare others of considerable pain and effort, by further elaborating upon the many [potential] pitfalls and defeaters of the BPWH.
In the furtherance of this particular objective, I would, on a timely basis, hope to be able to gauge your frame of mind wrt my pet hypothesis, while understanding the usual limitations on total candor.
Perhaps the best way to proceed, in that regard is to spell out for you my own biased assessments.......
(cont......)
From: Dan
Date: June 11, 2013, 11:01:24 AM EDT
To: Sam
Cc:
Subject: Re: Thorium Breeder Reactor potential
Sam and Bill,
Excuse me, but I'll be darned if I have ever evinced any 'excitement' concerning thorium, or any other supposed technological solution to an obvious human predicament.
What I am saying is that thorium energy is the most bastardized, orphaned and ostracized of all such proposed solutions. In relation to its interim potential, it has the least support of all the other possibilities, that have been hyped beyond most measures.
Being an avowed seeker of an eventual transcendental outcome, I only speak of technology when I detect serious imbalances within the status quo.
Bill's highly dismissive response only serves to underscore my point, in that regard.
From: Dan
Date: June 11, 2013, 12:08:51 PM EDT
To: Paul
Subject: Re: further thoughts......
(cont......)
Off the top, the BPWH has zero credibility.
We all experience dreaming, and we all experience waking. We generally evince considerable condescension toward 'dreamers' who do not adequately respect these boundaries.
The tremendous advances in science and technology ought to have put immaterialism out of business, centuries ago.
But, alas-alack, no such luck. Well, if you were so misguided as to actually google immaterialism, you would discover....... well, it has been several months, at least........
Wiki-pe redirects my inquiry to a single page entry on Subjective Idealism. I hardly know whether to laugh or cry, considering that human destiny, very likely, hangs in this balance.
(cont......2)
From: Dan
Date: June 11, 2013, 1:11:50 PM EDT
To: Paul
Subject: Re: further thoughts......
(cont.......2)
What is going on here?
Well, I am virtually a devotee of RAW, and his Cosmic Trigger. And let us not forget that I am subject to some fairly serious episodes of pronoia, sometimes aided and abetted by Catfish.
So, I am able to suspect that I am a likely beneficiary of the cosmic concealment of immaterialism, as so robustly evinced by wiki-pea.
Immaterialism is very lacking in the leadership department. I am the virtual winner of that title, by virtual default.
Nature is supposed to abhor a vacuum. There is an immaterialist vacuum. So, this vacuum must be of supernatural provenance.
Yet, OTOH, there is also a materialist vacuum, with all due deference to the four horsemen of materialism: Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris. They are also touted as the exponents of the New Atheism.
I doubt that I'm the only one to be singularly unimpressed by the general acumen of these gentlemen. They do have an entertaining stage presence, and their collective strategy is to take no theists prisoner. Their unworthy opponents are only to be eviscerated on the battlefield.
(cont........3)
From: Dan
Date: June 11, 2013, 1:45:57 PM EDT
To: Paul
Subject: Re: further thoughts......
(cont......3)
Nonetheless, the wiki-pea entry is the best possible one, IMHO.
Amongst many important details, do note the paucity of 'see also's'......
I love acosmism......
I used to suppose that I was an anti-acosmist, but now I may have to recalibrate.
Acosmists are alleged, therein, to be absolutists, but I used to suppose that I was an anti-absolutist.
Oh, dear, when it rains, it pours.
Now I begin to see the light. Pantheists are alleged to be cosmists. I find that strange, but also obvious. I had always tended to equate pantheists with mystics, and have frequently touted myself as a virtual pantheist.
But, no, that was wrong. Pantheists are tree-hugging animists, bless their hearts, but I am not that. Hey, don't get me wrong, I love trees, but not quite that much.
(cont.....4)
From: Dan
Date: June 11, 2013, 2:04:57 PM EDT
To: Paul
Subject: Re: further thoughts......
(cont.......4)
What I find of particular interest, however, is that the acosmists suppose the absolute to be impersonal. Why??
This is simply transcendentalism run amok.
I am a personalist, of the Boston persuasion. Why are there so many impersonalists? What are the existentialists? They come out of Kierkegaard, no? Surely, Soren was a personalist. I suspect that the existentialists are disposed to punt that issue, as is almost everyone, besides the xians.
And, the xians, in as much as they adopt the OEH, are headed down the path of deism and impersonalism, bless their befuddled hearts.
The only alternative to the OEH is the BPWH. Hey, it's us or rust!
(cont.......5)
From: Dan
Date: June 11, 2013, 2:40:36 PM EDT
To: Paul
Subject: Re: further thoughts......
(cont.......5)
Personalism is all about communalism. Persons do not exist in isolation.......
>> A winter's day
In a deep and dark December;
I am alone,
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
I've built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain.
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
Don't talk of love,
But I've heard the words before;
It's sleeping in my memory.
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.
If I never loved I never would have cried.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
And a rock feels no pain;
And an island never cries.
<<
From: Dan
Date: June 11, 2013, 2:49:23 PM EDT
To: Princess Aliyah
Subject: Back on the prowl......
http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/06/10/science/100000002273253/back-on-the-prowl.html
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