tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37140017320851650622024-02-21T06:40:36.045-08:00O. S. 0 1 2Global Dialectic for the Internet.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-18577612957056997522009-01-15T09:24:00.000-08:002009-01-15T09:31:11.920-08:00Some scientists still having problems framing consciousness.I stumbled upon this article today in <a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=exploring-consciousness">Scientific American</a> regarding the study of consciousness and the behaviors of bees. I note that in the article the author completely avoids, or is unable to frame, consciousness as experience, rather as material impulse, or as he puts it 'conscious sensations'.<div><br /><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">We take the magical gift of consciousness for granted. From the time I awaken until I fall into a deep, dreamless sleep, I am flooded with <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">conscious sensations</span>. And contrary to assertions made by philosophers, novelists and other literati, by and large this stream of consciousness does not relate to quiet self-reflection and introspective thoughts. No, most of it is filled with <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">raw sensations</span>.<blockquote></blockquote></span></blockquote></div><br /><br />I just find this interesting from a perspective of the dialectic. The author keeps referring to consciousness as something that is happening to either him or another agent or entity, not the thing which is recieving the sensations of biological reality.<br /><br />I am going to be writing about this more, for I find this very revealing when deconstructed inside of 0, 1, and2. I find that almost all scientific language regarding consciousness is unable to frame it as simple experience.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-62727364698322889072009-01-15T09:21:00.000-08:002009-01-15T09:23:49.485-08:00the highintelligence.com servers are temporarily down and being movedmy old hosting company does not seem to be able to take responsibility for malware and hackers too well, so they are being moved. They should be back up within a week or two I hope.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-50318396686492180762008-12-04T21:24:00.000-08:002008-12-04T21:35:48.651-08:00Progress: The Historical Dialectical Process has updated the US Policy on War for a 'New Age'<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Robert Gates drafted and outlined his agenda and philosophy for the Pentagon in the new Obama Administration in the forth coming January/Feb 09 edition of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Foreign Affairs</span> called <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">"A Balanced Strategy: Reprogramming the Pentagon for the New Age".</span><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Although we have not yet reached a declaration of win win foreign policy, we do see plenty of progress. <blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">What is dubbed the war on terror is, in grim reality, a prolonged, worldwide irregular campaign -- a struggle between the forces of violent extremism and those of moderation. Direct military force will continue to play a role in the long-term effort against terrorists and other extremists. But over the long term, the United States cannot kill or capture its way to victory. Where possible, what the military calls kinetic operations should be subordinated to measures aimed at promoting better governance, economic programs that spur development, and efforts to address the grievances among the discontented, from whom the terrorists recruit. It will take the patient accumulation of quiet successes over a long time to discredit and defeat extremist movements and their ideologies.<br /><br />As secretary of defense, I have repeatedly made the argument in favor of institutionalizing counterinsurgency skills and the ability to conduct stability and support operations. I have done so not because I fail to appreciate the importance of maintaining the United States' current advantage in conventional war fighting but rather because conventional and strategic force modernization programs are already strongly supported in the services, in Congress, and by the defense industry. The base budget for fiscal year 2009, for example, contains more than $180 billion for procurement, research, and development, the overwhelming preponderance of which is for conventional systems.<br /><br />I have learned many things in my 42 years of service in the national security arena. Two of the most important are an appreciation of limits and a sense of humility. The United States is the strongest and greatest nation on earth, but there are still limits on what it can do. The power and global reach of its military have been an indispensable contributor to world peace and must remain so. But not every outrage, every act of aggression, or every crisis can or should elicit a U.S. military response.</span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><br />War is inevitably tragic, inefficient, and uncertain, and it is important to be skeptical of systems analyses, computer models, game theories, or doctrines that suggest otherwise. We should look askance at idealistic, triumphalist, or ethnocentric notions of future conflict that aspire to transcend the immutable principles and ugly realities of war, that imagine it is possible to cow, shock, or awe an enemy into submission, instead of tracking enemies down hilltop by hilltop, house by house, block by bloody block. As General William Tecumseh Sherman said, "Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster."</span></blockquote></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-19693813573949766532008-11-30T07:18:00.000-08:002008-11-30T07:31:54.075-08:00Ocean currents can power the world.<span style="font-family: verdana;">A revolutionary device that can obtain energy from slow moving waves in the ocean has been developed and could potentially be used to power the entire world. Bucky would be proud. </span><a style="font-style: italic; font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/renewableenergy/3535012/Ocean-currents-can-power-the-world-say-scientists.html">Link</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-36482777957132626742008-10-21T18:19:00.000-07:002008-10-21T18:38:43.926-07:00World Peace for Hookers and Players. The Natural Dialectic of Win WinSurely the intention to win plays a role in nature. We see two male bulls fight for dominance, we see both males and females compete for mating choices. Every point of view in nature wants and needs to win in the game of life.<span style="font-size:100%;"> We can all agree and see that <em>we all want to win</em>, and no matter the ideology which inflicts anyone, no matter how sophisticated or crude, the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">individual's</span> desire to win and attain is mutually shared amongst all of us from entrepreneur to gangster, to banker to political crook. Yes, even us <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">bloggers</span> want to win a higher Google ranking.</span> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">There appears to be three basic winning 'scripts' that encompass the perception and strategy in full.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">1.)I want to win - you will lose. The Emperor Complex.<br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">2.)I will lose so that you can win. The Messiah Complex.<br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">3.)We can both win/attain this together. The rational alternative.<br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em>'Winning'</em> can be understood as an historically functioning desire and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">uber</span> design in human nature/society, as Princeton Scholar, Science and Philosophy Journalist and <a href="http://bloggingheads.tv/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">bloggingheads</span>.<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">tv</span></a> founder <strong>Robert Wright</strong> points out in his book; <em><strong>Non Zero, the Logic of Human Destiny.</strong> <a href="http://www.nonzero.org/">link.</a></em></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">Natural selection, evolutionary psychology and intelligent strategy can be potentially understood as two polarized and coupled distinctions of 'winning' that we seem to seek/desire as players in the game of life. A dialectic if you will.<br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">Both are grounded in our direct experience as human beings engaged in the human hi<strong>STORY</strong>.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">One can be chosen by chance or fate to win, as if one can win the lottery, or born beautiful into a wealthy and famous lifestyle like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Paris Hilton.</span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">The other can be determined by ourselves as individuals. <strong>Michael Phelps</strong> is now the biggest Olympic winner in history. He did that, he made that happen through self determination.<br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">Both Paris Hilton and Michael Phelps, in a material/superficial but easy to understand sense, can both be said to be <em>'winning'</em> yet the road to their win is completely distinguished by what I refer to as </span><span style="font-size:100%;">the ‘<em><strong>Chosen One’</strong> </em> and the<strong> <em>‘Victorious One</em></strong>’ strategy, or the two distinctions of the dialectic of winning.<br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">Obviously, The <strong>‘Chosen One’</strong> winning experience is the type of satisfaction that we have when we are deemed appropriate for a certain game, function, prize, or task. Fate or chance chooses/picks us! We love being the chosen. We want to be chosen. <em>Many are called but few are chosen.</em> We all hear about the ‘elite’ and certainly want to get in at those parties.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">The next distinction, <strong>‘The Victorious One’</strong>, is clearly the type of winning we seek when we have obstacles to over come on our road to success. We win <em>only when we overcome those obstacles</em> and achieve our ideals. Intention. The victorious WILL. Attainment. Accomplishment. The realization of ideals worked and fought for. No one chose this path for us, we created it for ourselves. <em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Friggin</span>' Rocky Balboa.</em> </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">Consider; Human fighting may be the game of winning to be the victorious one, and mating may be the game of winning the chosen one. Notice the dialectic here? The complete opposition in points of view? These distinctive qualities of this dialectical game and strategy may quietly organize, and most certainly influence, all of human civilization.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Secret Chief of human society may be nothing more than<em> The Mating Game.</em></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">Getting back to the most foundational basics for survival. We literally viral market our DNA into the future via the mating game. As we can see, no mating would equal no people, therefore, this strategy is clearly the most effective of all, there always seems to be more and more of us. The sexual and mating game of life divides, adds, and multiplies the herd and then organizes, distinguishes between male and female, and all the possible roles and adaptions form from there.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">Consider that this successful strategy utilized by nature is an organizing principle that has exalted into an ‘<span style="font-style: italic;">all sides win’</span> synergy that has evolved into perfect and precise application and function in human being's social order as <strong>Romantic Games</strong> between intelligent and humorous adults seeking thrill, survival, and adaptation in the game of life.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Step one in the game; two partners have ‘chosen’ each other. </strong> </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">This process may be different for distinct cultures, but the main process I am referring to here has existed in every culture. A man and a women desire each other and then mate, sometimes like rabbits.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"> We don’t have to be aware that nature is using this very 'administrative' process to move the species forward for a woman to get pregnant when she mates with a man. Indeed, according to our anthropologists, there was a time in human history when man and woman did not know that sex equaled baby. Some of us still may not quite get that.<br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">Just because our genes want to make little duplications does not mean we experience a laboratory reality when we kiss on the first encounter or spoon up for an early morning snog. What we experience is quit different and more direct to our individual and cellular needs.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">To wit; Human Being wants to mate for the winning experience it brings, not necessarily the little package that comes with it. One could immediately argue that this is the first observable win win non zero sum game between our 'genes' and our sentience or experience in being.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>What happens that we can observe at the moment of conception? A beautiful and natural dialectic.<br /></strong></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><strong>The sperm's strategy is ALL FOR ONE. The egg's strategy is ONE FOR ALL.</strong></em></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">At the moment of male ejaculation, </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> the entire gaming principles of nature begins orchestration in perfect and beautiful concert, the millions of sperm cells joyously released into the womb of the wanting female. </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">Talk about mission impossible. The sperm cells must take on the most perilous of journeys, they must fight upstream, bend through twists and turns, avoiding chemical attacks, killer cells, dodge the ‘fighting’ sperm cells that band in packs and vicious gangs. If anyone has ever seen any footage of this process, they can see that it is a wonder how any woman could get pregnant at all. </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">The small collection of ‘victorious sperm’, out of the 4 million, have won the journey to the inner secret chamber. Our little Indiana Joneses have just barely made it through the Temple of Doom. </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">They finally collect around the beautiful and luscious egg invoking relative to us as the most incredible desire imaginable beholden on a single object. Talk about the search for the Holy Grail, the egg is something indeed that <em>many where called for but few were chosen.</em></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">The luscious vibrating egg collects her <em>victorious ones</em> around her. All the fighting, conflict and struggle of sperm VS sperm on the road to her riches, all the fighting to deliver to the female the best set of genes, the *best idea* for the future species, are rendered irrelevant at the whims of the egg. </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">The egg tends to choose one single solitary sperm out of the frantic crowd that surrounds her luscious walls like the outside line at Studio 54 in 1976. </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">It is the female egg’s 'wisdom' that chooses in this process. <em>Women’s natural right of choice</em>. Feminine 'wisdom' choosing the best course of evolution, the best idea for future species. And she gets to choose from a refined selection of the best ideas that the male collects and fights to bring to her.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"> We can see in nature how males fight to deliver to the female the best, most effective functioning genetic idea for future species.<br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em>King against King</em>, two ideas 'fighting' to refine the truth, the individual and the society is a foundation of nature that she seduces us all into playing, before we were even born we were playing it. </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Conflict and winning keeps the species moving forward. Nature may have designed human being to <em>want</em> to win, and want to <em>win big</em>.</strong></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"> Humanity has now discovered nature's principles of synergy, the non zero sum win win road of evolutionary success, and our individual intention and experience of winning has everything to do with it.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">We all want to win or attain something, right? Michael Phelps may want to win and win big - even the solitary, humble, and non ego event driven monk wants to attain peace and transcendence. We can define win however we want but we all have intention and a will to attain that intention. </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Let's embrace the win win game to survival and success as a rational strategy.</strong></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">In society or the societal conflict of idea, we expect to have our idea about winning challenged by our opponents so our idea of winning is the most expansive and rational, honest one for any and all, individually and collectively. </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"> Winning is nature’s seduction, and win/win is humanity’s rational and logical complement, the only successful way we can administer ourselves effectively and efficiently.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">Win/win is nature’s synergy, and she want us to play - she may be leaving clues for us everywhere. </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">Win/win is the only effective way that we can survive as a species, create opportunity, solve problems, and mate and partner up.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">It is easy to see that the game performed between the sexes is based on <strong>win/win</strong> experience of sexual and sensual pleasure, and all sexuality is best expressed when <strong>both partners are giving and receiving</strong> the coveted and desired shared experience of mysterious erotic experience that administers all life.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Win/win is the funniest, sexiest, most effective, rational, inspired, holiest, strongest, most opportune way to live life.</strong> </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">Human Being's success as a reproductive species is our proof! </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Can humanity discover this natural administrative synergy on non zero sum and zero sum and apply it to create <em>Win Win Foreign Policy</em> instead of the failing and misery producing <em>'War on Terrorism'?</em></strong></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">The war on terrorism will consistently increase terrorist acts around the world like mating will consistently increase babies. The world body is engaged in a simple conflict of idea with political forces, and instead of focusing on the ideas in conflict, they are increasing the problem, spreading the false and misleading win/lose meme of physical warfare as a solution to the complexity of human being social administration.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">Due to online communication, our natural dialectic has changed, and potentially we can structure the conflict of idea into a win win game of mutual learning and success. We can do this because we don't have to know each other or even face each other to exchange radically different points of view. We can work out our differences in a more rational environment for discussion, which is what the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Internet</span> provides us. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Wikipedia</span> gives us a preview of this process as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Jewcy</span>.com pointed out a few years ago with their article on <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.jewcy.com/feature/wiki_wars">Wiki Wars.</a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">It turns out that geeky <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Palestinian</span> and Israeli wiki editors were able to come to build shared narratives of emotionally charged historical events and were able to come to agreement for the sake of a simple wiki entry. Both Israeli's and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Palestinians</span> were able to WIN those discussions.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">Win Win renders the old world Machiavellian win lose strategies <em>harmless and ineffective</em>. There is nothing stronger than win/win. All sides contribute strength, all sides receive the collective strength in return. </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">In the game of life, the female always wants the best idea, and the male fights to give it to her.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"> Win. World. Peace. Globe.Win.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">(Multiply this idea)</span></p><span class="fullpost"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-57744261802479951732008-10-17T07:17:00.000-07:002008-10-17T07:27:21.867-07:00Say it ain't so, Joe. An example of a deceptive society and it's repercussions.<span style="font-family:verdana;">How much does deception rule and </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" style="font-family:verdana;">mis</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">-organize society? And by deception, I mean all forms of lying, from the little white lies that we tell to avoid the hurt feelings of a boy/girlfriend to the misconceptions we present on job applications, to just huge deceptive and manipulative whoppers such as the story of </span><a style="font-style: italic; font-family: verdana;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Glass_%28reporter%29">Stephan Glass</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">, former reporter for the New Republic that was fired for fabricating stories. Who can forget the lies told leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">One of my own personal and shocking awakenings that arose from realizing how much </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >BS</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> rules society occurred a few years back. I had my own Stephan Glass in my life 5 or 6 years ago, and it was a very difficult and painful thing to unravel the many layers of deceit and deception that came from someone so close to me. I looked around me at the time in a house of collapsed cards and saw an honest truth - humanity is always </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >lying</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, and so was I.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Deception in all forms is simply a quite common strategy we use in communication to avoid unpleasantness or curry favor from rivals or superiors. We do it so often, I would wager a year's salary that we are completely unconscious of it the majority of the time.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Consider, however, that we tend to be very very trusting regardless. We actually accept the truth values of polls, politicians, job applicants, and pillow talk and often accept it at face value. What this may actually suggest is alarming, for our entire paradigms and world views may be comprised of information that is bullshit.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Consider the most recent case of </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/16/MNQ013J6JV.DTL&tsp=1"><span style="font-style: italic;">Joe the Plumber.</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Whoppers all. His real name isn't Joe, he isn't a </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" style="font-family:verdana;">licensed</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> plumber, he isn't an everyman, he is a Republican whose own father in law is the son of Charles </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" style="font-family:verdana;">Keating</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">. Yet in one interview that he gave with Barack Obama, the entire country </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" style="font-family:verdana;">immediately</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> accepted his story and implemented it into the heart of it's world view. Joe the Plumber became </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >proof</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> that the economic policies of each candidate were favorable, yet Joe might as well have been an actor playing a part in a movie. His 'truth' values were then recommunicated at the national level to millions when both Barack Obama and John McCain repeated his 'story' during the debate. These two candidates were then also lying by default.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Our individual and collective worldviews, our paradigms, might overwhelmingly be comprised of complete and utter bullshit. Is it a wonder that society cannot properly organize itself effeciently? How can we understand what the hell is going on when all of us, at a very small level, are constantly telling ourselves and others that false information, or mysterious information, is actually true?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I predict that this may go pretty far down the rabbit hole, much further than we are aware of and if we saw the actuality of it, it would shock us. Consider that each of us is a point of view, and society is a collection of points of view that contains a few over-arching paradigms that is simply the collection of the most agreeable 'truths' being communicated amongst each point. If each point is sharing a certain degree of false information believed to be true, then logic tells us that the paradigm itself will reflect this.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Humanity may be living in a bubble comprised of our own delusion, and we seem shocked that reality isn't turning out how we had hoped. Consider, in 2004- 2006, as the non evidence of WMD in Iraq became painfully clear, and as the current collapse of Wall Street becomes evident, everyone is shocked that as a whole, nobody was predicting that such things would occur or happen.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Gee, I wonder why?<br /><br /><object width="325" height="244"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dIq46PYxveg&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dIq46PYxveg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"></embed></object><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-3069211904572574702008-10-16T20:52:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:57:00.234-07:00Journ the Human Union<span style="font-family:verdana;">Worldwide Human Union; </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">seeking for off-sets and accounting</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">errs in past-politicos bedroom closets</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Everyone can journ the Human Union, digital </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">0/1 internet chirps and surprise the old </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">ca-hoons and dino-gangsters with high-dias </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">and infinite soluables.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Human Union unites Mr. and Missus, and </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">looks after all street kidz wanting homeful.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Human Union releases holy convicts and </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">sends them to college, three strikes and you're in.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">www.dontwearneckties, they cut your </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">circulation, no bras for boobs, and hard-shoes </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">squeek the feet </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">[human union article three]</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Human Union plots peaceful ambush, hide in </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">the hills and wait for the psionic boom.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Human Union supports all that is moonful, </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">reveals noon-secrets and resets the codes.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Journ the Human Union, developed by kQQl </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">kids worldwide and supported by Nay-cha </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">her-soolf.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">*Read below in small print:</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">*[if ur interested in joining the Human Union, </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">you've come to the right place]</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">©Rome Viharo 2008</span><br /><span class="fullpost"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-86464600071990526262008-10-12T09:21:00.000-07:002008-10-12T09:29:43.987-07:00Is there optimism on Wall Street right now? YES<blockquote style="font-style: italic;"><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">From the New York Times</span><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In 1999, technology companies with no earnings or sales were valued at billions of dollars. But this time was different, investors told themselves. The Internet could not be missed at any price.</p><p>They were wrong. In 2000 and 2001 technology stocks plunged, erasing trillions of dollars in wealth.</p><p>Now investors have again convinced themselves that this time is different, that the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/credit_crisis/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about the credit crisis.">credit crisis</a> will push economies worldwide into the deepest recession since the Depression. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fear runs even deeper today than greed did a decade ago. </span></p><p>But in their panic, investors are ignoring 60 years of history. Since the Depression, governments have become far more aggressive about intervening when credit markets seize up or economies struggle. And those interventions have generally succeeded. The recessions since World War II, while hardly easy, have been far less painful than the Depression.</p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/business/12stox.html?hp">Link</a><br /></p></blockquote><span class="fullpost"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-6653203758729133292008-10-12T07:49:00.000-07:002008-10-12T14:05:45.422-07:00Is the world economic crisis a prelude to using the WORLD GAME? Hopefully.<p><b>The World Game</b> was an idea proposed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller" title="Buckminster Fuller"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Buckminster</span> Fuller</a>. The idea was to <i>"make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone."</i></p>When <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Buckminster</span> Fuller introduced the '<span style="font-weight: bold;">WORLD GAME</span>' in the 70's, it was looked at as <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Utopian</span>, naive, and a bit far fetched. For example, one of the things that Bucky felt was needed to really implement the World Game at a effective level was everyone having access to 'interactive television sets' that could relay information around the world. Of course now, we just call that the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Internet</span> and most of us can't live without it.<br /><br />As we leap into these times of extreme uncertainty, it's good to point out a few optimistic yet realistic ideas that we can use to navigate through the building chaos. Although we have never faced an worldwide economic crisis like this before, we also have never had the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Internet</span> before and the ability to collective problem solve and network.<br /><br />Many of the world's leaders are now meeting to work together to solve this crisis. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/business/13europe.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><span style="font-style: italic;">Link.</span></a> Now, I know, many of us are skeptical about such meetings, however, I think this potentially could be a ray of hope.<br /><br />Consider; Bucky's World Game was based entirely on 'synergy'. We can understand 'synergy' as 'all sides contribute, all sides receiving the collective output of all contributing', or even more simpler as <span style="font-style: italic;">win - win <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">foreign</span> policy.</span> Bucky felt that if world leaders could play a game where the goal was to help solve each other's problems, that such a strategy could <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">out compete</span> '<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">War Games'</span> for effectiveness.<br /><br />So imagine if France had to worry about resolving the financial problems of the UK, and the UK had to worry about the financial problems of Russia, ad <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">infinitum</span>. What would such a strategy accomplish? Well, for one thing it would create an objective outside observer and problem solver for a countries' problems where solutions are often hampered down by internal politics. Now all of these leaders are meeting somewhere and trying to work together to solve the problem, which is a good start.<br /><br />Naturally, however, we can do better. So why are we waiting for the global leaders to do this, and why are they doing this <span style="font-style: italic;">offline?</span> Why not open the entire world wide economic problem up <span style="font-style: italic;">online</span> so the collective contributions of intelligent and aware global citizens can participate in solving, and resolving, each other's problems?<br /><br />Think about it, how archaic is the current approach considering our new digital <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">millennium</span>? Why would the G7 or G20 leaders need to travel to Switzerland to resolve the crisis over a series of formal dinners and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">speeches</span>? Why not just have an online discussion forum and everyone can stay put, save time, and increase problem solving effectiveness? Why not open up each and every idea presented to solve the crisis to a collective that can deconstruct each idea, research and game it's <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">effectiveness</span> for rationality?<br /><br />So, here is a ray of hope. This may be the first global crisis that could really get countries working together and exploring new options for problem solving. In the desperate attempt to find reasonable solutions that <span style="font-style: italic;">must produce win win economic outcomes</span>, at some point someone will consider the option of allowing social networking collective intelligence into the equation, and <span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">booyah</span></span> - we could potentially resolve these problems in a very short amount of time.<br /><br />Although I gloss over quickly such solutions and problems in this essay, I don't think that such a scenario is too far fetched or outlandish to suggest. And this idea, like all ideas, can spread and take root in our <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Internet</span> society, planting the seeds online that will eventually reach the appropriate leaders who would consider such options.<br /><br />As dire as it may sound, the very ray of hope is that for the first time, the entire world is in an mutually undeniable crisis together, and the solutions lay inside the problem. Personally, I think this may be <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">be</span> best <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">opportunity</span> we have ever had to suggest and implement Bucky's World Game. And we can all <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">immediately</span> begin playing the World Game by talking about the World Game online in our blogs, emails, social networks, and discussion forums and insist we all begin to use it. Immediately. As in now and why the hell not?<br /><span class="fullpost"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-55534054736698735652008-10-12T07:29:00.000-07:002008-10-12T07:32:01.661-07:00US Climate fix could HELP solve financial crisis.From <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">New Scientist<br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><blockquote><p>If the US focused on curbing climate change as soon as a new president took office – or sooner – it could help pull the world from the financial brink, according to environmental policy experts.</p> <p>"Skyrocketing energy prices and the financial crisis have been a wake-up call that <a href="http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19926691.500-climate-change-the-next-ten-years.html">something's got to change</a>," says Cathy Zoi, chief executive officer of the <a href="http://www.climateprotect.org/" target="NS">Alliance for Climate Protection</a>, which is chaired by former US vice president Al Gore.</p> <p>"My very strong belief is that we need to reorient our investments toward this transition to a clean energy economy, and it will be the engine of growth for getting us out of the doldrums that we've gotten in right now," says Zoi.</p> <p>The reorientation must include limits on emissions of climate-warming carbon in the US, she said: "Unless we take action at home, we're not going to be able to have much influence in the international arena about what gets done."<a href="http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn14910-us-climate-fix-could-help-solve-financial-crisis.html?feedId=earth_rss20"> Link.</a><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></blockquote></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span class="fullpost"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-3209393424228336492008-10-08T09:36:00.000-07:002008-10-08T09:40:17.531-07:00If you think some Americans talk nuts, wait to you read what the Russians are saying.The Global Dialectic and the internet. One of the great things about Youtube is finding what other people in the world are paying attention to. I found this video at the top of the Russian Youtube Video charts. It's called <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Russian War Machines; Strength, Glory, and Pride!". </span> Make sure you <a href="http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=I3LlvaEPy3I">read the comments to the video</a> which will give you a much clearer idea to the quality of idea floating around in Russia these days.<br /><br /><object width="325" height="244"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/I3LlvaEPy3I&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/I3LlvaEPy3I&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"></embed></object><br /><span class="fullpost"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-84077145742055969552008-10-01T20:51:00.000-07:002008-10-02T08:19:01.662-07:00From uncertainty into certainty. Embracing the mystery of these extraordinary times.<span style="font-family:verdana;">In my personal life, I awake every day this month very unsure if my business will exist in just a few short weeks. Being a father to a three year old child and having to provide financial security for another human being, that certainly creates plenty of uncertainty and at times anxiety.<br /><br />In addition, I turn on CNN or surf through Digg, Reddit, and the Huffington Post, searching out articles, opinions, and blogs on our current state of affairs with the election, economy, and the war. There are wars, and rumors of more wars, end of the world scenarios, talks of the second great depression, and all sorts of apocalyptic end of the world ideas that are being fed to us virally via online news sources.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />It is very slowly dawning on civilization at this time that mystery, or uncertainty, unknown, or what ever you wish to call this third truth value, is a very real yet very uncomfortable notion to be comfortable with.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Recently I took a stroll over to Reality Sandwich blog, and found a blog posting regarding the now infamous <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=UFO+oct+14th&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a">Oct.14th, 2008 UFO</a> landing meme. In case, dear reader, you are unfamiliar, a massive internet meme is flying around that on the fourteenth of Oct, which is just about 12 days away from this writing, a massive UFO will appear somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere, and remain for three days. This dates stands out in my mind mainly because it happens to be my birthday.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">This information is purported to come from <span style="font-style: italic;">The Galactic Federation of Light</span>, who oversee earth's evolution, according to the 'channelers' who publish this information.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Naturally I think open minded people, like myself, need to treat such information with a very high degree of skepticism. So I voiced mine and playfully entered some skeptical information in the comment section on the blog, almost to spite the author a bit. Another community member there, however, left the most appropriate comment... <span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">"Terence McKenna suggested that cognitive uncertainty is the closest the mind can get to an open state of being. In this light, I welcome reports like Blossom Goodchild's re: 10-14-08 as benign possibilities that I cannot pretend to know one way or another as to whether it will occur, or, if it does, how to interpret the precise nature of. "</span>. </blockquote>How could I forget that! It was the exact 'meme' that I needed to hear in that moment, reflecting a higher attitude not just with the Oct 14th prediction, but with the whole lot of fearful ideas floating around the internet these days regarding our economic future. My truer agnostic nature awakened again.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">One of the things I have learned very much over the years in developing and understanding <span style="font-weight: bold;">OS 0 1 2</span>, which is a discussion framework for higher awareness and understanding, is the relationships between <span style="font-style: italic;">the false idea</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">the mysterious</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">idea</span>, or the very human reaction to encountering mystery and producing false ideas about it in it's presence.<br /><br />When we encounter mystery, our mind has no option but to create a false idea about it. Since there is no certainty to the truth value laying behind the mystery, there is no other certain truth value that we can lay upon the mystery other than falseness or simply our own ideas about it. If done well, this should take the form of very high art, or even religious or holy texts.<br /><br />If we think in terms of bivalency, which is this or that duality, right or wrong type thinking, we can only consider the Mystery in terms of true or false, thus not including 1/3 of all information in our environment.<br /><br />I play off of this when I had a <a href="http://72.32.2.238/forumlive/showthread.php?t=73672">6 month long discussion</a> with the James Randi crowd a few years back on his bbs. I pointed out that they were making very critical errors in their 'critical thinking', for they were encountering and dealing with unknown information and treating it logically as if it were false, as opposed to the believers who were encountering unknown information and treating it as if it were true, either way was irrational. This was easily summarized in the discussion as...<br /><blockquote><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Believer's argument: The Mystery = TRUE. (0=1)</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Denier's argument: The Mystery = FALSE. (0=2)</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The agnostic or third value argument: The Mystery = Mystery. (0=0)</span></blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">Mystery is just mystery, it's unknown, we don't know for certain what it is, it is logically and rationally impossible. And when we wish to be a critical thinking rational, and <span style="font-style: italic;">inspired</span> human being, we need to use language that reflects this certainty so we can stay consistent and not freak out in the face of the unknown.<br /><br />If we freak out in the face of the unknown, then we miss the inspiration that mystery naturally delivers to the open and rational/honest mind, which is the exact 'juice' the mind needs to find the truth and opportunity that all mysteries bring.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Regardless of what anyone out there says, what will happen to the US economy, who will win the election, and what will happen on Oct 14th, all of these ideas share one very important thing in common, mystery. Now that is what we can be certain about. We can be absolute certain that there is uncertainty regarding our immediate future as a civilization in fall of 08, and if we use any other language to express our experience that does not include the third value of <span style="font-style: italic;">both true and false at once, or unknown,</span> then we can be certain that we are producing false ideas in the face of the mystery.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">We can be both certain and uncertain at once. We are that sort of transcending paradox of being. Socrates with his <span style="font-style: italic;">"I know that I do not know"</span>. It is a quality of knowing when we do know as opposed to when we don't. Do we delude ourselves with our false ideas about knowing? How can I be certain that the economy will be collapse or not? Perhaps the UFO on the 14th of Oct will turn out to be nothing more than the full moon or the Reptillians, but how would I know that? I can have certainty with the knowing that that the word at the end of this statement is the word this. Yet that is because it confirms both my existence and it's existence in one elegant swoop, yet we do not have the luxury with the future, and must be humble in it's presence.<br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />I write this entry mainly as a reminder for myself, to be present enough in the face of the unknown to find the opportunity that lay in front of our eyes as the mystery and the false ideas about it swirl around us.</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> As a species, humanity's lesson at this place and time may be nothing more than learning how to deal with mystery. The Oct 14th meme of a great UFO landing may be nothing more than our own unconscious need to find collective truth with uncertainty. After all, the only thing we can say about a UFO truthfully is that <span style="font-style: italic;">it is a mysterious object that we all can agree is mystery.</span><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-28615560990120236502008-09-25T11:04:00.000-07:002008-09-25T11:11:15.251-07:00Does ideology trump facts?<span style="font-family: verdana;">On the </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080924-does-ideology-trump-facts-studies-say-it-often-does.html">ars technica blog</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> an article by Jonathan M Gitlin suggests that it does.</span><br /><blockquote style="font-style: italic; font-family: verdana;">- in 2003 a study found that viewers of <em>Fox News</em> were <a href="http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/international_security_bt/102.php">significantly more misinformed</a> about the Iraq war, with far greater percentages of viewers erroneously believing that Iraq possessed WMDs or that there was a credible link between the 9/11 attack and Saddam Hussein than those who got their news from other outlets like NPR and PBS. This has led to the rise of websites like <a href="http://www.factcheck.org/">FactCheck</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch">SourceWatch</a>. </blockquote><span style="font-family: verdana;">I suggest that what is organizing all of this is the deep rooted conflict of idea, or paradigm, which we all hold close and dear to us at a metaprogramming level in the unconscious mind. The irrational mind cannot see a truth value in it's objective state. If you present a fact to the irrational mind, it will not look like a fact, it will look like a falsehood and be clouded with the personal emotional charges that govern that particular individual.</span><br /><span class="fullpost"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-35453393166632968922008-09-23T16:48:00.000-07:002008-09-23T16:55:08.859-07:00The MYSTERIOUS third value raises it's head in this discussion regarding the economic crisis.<span style="font-family: verdana;">I toggled over to <a href="http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/14613">bloggingheads.tv</a> today to see what the intellectual class was discussing. I was quite pleased to watch <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mark Schmitt</span>, blogger/writer for <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The American Prospect</span>, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Byron York</span>, writer for <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The National Review</span> actually discussing the third value of unknown/mystery in relationship to this economic bailout of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Wall Street</span>.<br /><br />If only these fellows would have thought about that third value in, say, 2002 or 2003.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.bloggingheads.tv/maulik/offsite/offsite_flvplayer.swf" flashvars="file=http%3A%2F%2Fbloggingheads%2Etv%2Fdiavlogs%2Fliveplayer%2Dplaylist%2F14613%3Fin%3D06%3A25%26out%3D11%3A49" height="288" width="380"></embed></span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;" class="fullpost"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-13899293541903628122008-09-22T08:35:00.000-07:002008-09-22T08:51:04.933-07:00The Genetic Conflict of Idea?<span style="font-family:verdana;">According to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Don </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" >Sapatkin</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, science blogger for <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Philly.com</span> (ahem Don, you failed to include links in your entry to the actual study), our political choices can be directly related to a gene and how we respond to threat.</span><br /><br /><blockquote style="font-style: italic; font-family: verdana;">Forget about a candidate's issues and character. You may be biologically driven to lean toward John McCain or Barack Obama, a new study says, depending on your involuntary response to threat.<br /><br /><br /></blockquote><span style="font-family:verdana;">I find this interesting of course because of the remarkable similarity to the conceptual conflict of idea and the genetic 'conflict' to produce more effective offspring, found in fighting males in many a mammalian species.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Linking experience/response to a gene is very interesting, and highlight some core ideas I write about regarding the dialectic, especially in the article </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.highintelligence.com/hookers.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">World Peace for Hookers</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">. There is a relationship, a win win relationship, between our direct experience and our genetic strategies for survival and replication. The action of the gene is not identical the experience of the reaction.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">From the article...</span><br /><blockquote style="font-family: verdana; font-style: italic;">"People experience the world differently," says lead author John R. Hibbing, a professor of political science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "and this probably affects their political beliefs."</blockquote><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.philly.com/philly/health_and_science/29231989.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Link.</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-74865884786985228062008-09-20T07:57:00.000-07:002008-09-23T08:22:27.680-07:00The BLAME GAME non solution to problem solving. Bill Mahr's REAL TIME.<span style="font-family:verdana;">Using the Blame Game as a problem solving device in discussion.</span><br /><br /><object style="font-family: verdana;" height="244" width="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nipz1pEl71Q&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nipz1pEl71Q&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="244" width="325"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Last night I was watching </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Bill <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Mahr's</span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">REAL TIME</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> on </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >HBO</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, and naturally, the recent economic disaster was the main topic.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">His three guests on his panel were </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;" href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/">Andrew Sullivan</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">, blogger for the </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Daily Dish</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.naomiklein.org/main">Naomi Klein</a><span style="font-family:verdana;">, author of the </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Shock Doctrine</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, and </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Will.I.AM</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, music producer for the </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY">'Yes We Can' </a><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" style="font-family:verdana;">Barack</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" style="font-family:verdana;">Obama</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> campaign viral. He interviewed previously to the panel </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Paul <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Krugman</span>, Professor of Economics for Princeton University.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">What was interesting about the discussion was that the Blame Game for the collapsing economy became the topic.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The show started off with Bill Mahr begging Paul Krugman to let him blame George Bush for the problem.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Paul </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" style="font-family:verdana;">Krugman</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >blames the government.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Andrew Sullivan <span style="font-style: italic;">blames</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" > the American Consumer</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Naomi </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" style="font-family:verdana;">Klien</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> blames </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >the Wall Street Fat cats and corporate <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">CEO's</span>.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I could not help but notice the intention of all three guests to find a particular side to blame, and each side they choose to blame reflected their individual ideology at a personal level. It's as if the side that they choose to blame as the problem is a necessary truth that exists in their individual paradigms about the economy, government, and the people.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Let's look at these arguments, albeit a bit superficially, through the point of view of <a href="http://highintelligence.com/OS%20012%20basic.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">OS 0 1 2</span></a>.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The Government plays a role in the economy because the Government sets the algorithm in place for the economy by regulating it. Therefore, the government has the power to alter how we trade and distribute wealth through law. This is true.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The financial institutions</span> play a role in the economy because they set limits on how much wealth is available at what percentage and to whom. They control the flow of credit. This appears to be true.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The people</span> play a role because we are the consumers and value creators/producers, and none of these institutions would exist without us. They exist to give us something we want or we need. </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">This also appears to be true, but </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">this is important to consider, because there is no separation between government, corporation, and people when it comes to economy. <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The People</span> make up all of it.</span> All politicians, CEO's and day traders are all people too.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Therefore, this situation is supported by all of us in some sense. All of us combined are an integral a tapestry we call economy. Economy is the grand synergy of human society and it's allegiance is to the chaos of our combined nature. Adam Smith called this <span style="font-style: italic;">'The Invisible Hand'.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I suggest therefore that the problem is not the governments, nor the </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" style="font-family:verdana;">CEO's</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, nor the people, but all combined, and each </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >with equal importance</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I suggest the REAL problem is the framework with which we try to model problems in the economy. To say that the economy is the fault of the Bush Administration is like saying that Hurricane IKE is responsible for all weather patterns beginning January 1st and ending Dec 31, 2008. It's tautological, argumentative truths that contain logic in their forms but no relationship to objective reality.</span><br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" style="font-family:verdana;">CEO's</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> and Governments are irresponsible, selfish, and irrational because human beings are. </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" style="font-family:verdana;">CEO's</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> and Governments lie because human beings lie.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">We are all human beings, and each of us reading this blog entry will also tell lies to cover our asses, feed our families, or support our career. A noble lie is a lie like any other, it's false information and delusion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >The People </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">is an imaginary victim that is perpetuated by politicians and leaders. Politicians and leaders can be any of us whom are seeking attention to gain power and status. </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" ><br /><br />The people</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> always seem to be innocent when one set of politicians look to take power away from another set. </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" ><br /><br />The people </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">always seem to be the ones that need protection from the institution that is blamed by one side over the other.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">We have these problems because </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >We the People</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> use false and non-existing bivalent frameworks, deception, and win/lose strategies to solve problems and create opportunity for one side at the expense of the other. We divide ourselves against ourselves and project onto the other side in the division the very core strategy we </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" style="font-family:verdana;">inherently</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> accept and use ourselves.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">When we have a society based on win lose troubleshooting that depends upon deception to gain favor or power, then we will have a society with a false and non functioning map of what's happening and everyone will naturally blame everyone else because there is no clear pointer to the actual truth in the haze of the political scramble.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Win win economic models are indeed possible because of the </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" style="font-family:verdana;">internet</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> and our collective intelligence. We can have all sides win. We can all have access to billionaire wealth properly organized.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Human society now has enough novelty and complexity to utilize win win governance. The solutions are already here.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">We just need to change our ideas and the environments in which we discuss them.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span class="fullpost" style="font-family:verdana;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-53247065149966711102008-09-18T14:11:00.001-07:002008-09-18T14:57:46.593-07:00Ideas based on fear are immediatly accepted as true - the gov knows this<span style="font-family:verdana;">I found this up on <a href="http://www.realitysandwich.com/">Reality Sandwich</a> today. In 2006, the US Government warned hospitals that they could be overwhelmed in a terrorist attack by people believing themselves to be suffering from an illness that is entirely psychosomatic. Apparently, no one has realized that is how we have also been operating our foreign policy.</span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.realitysandwich.com/fear_itself"> <span style="font-style: italic;">Link</span></a><br /><span class="fullpost"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-62393384109789080742008-09-18T14:11:00.000-07:002008-09-18T14:15:30.333-07:00Human progress, continued. Cure for blindness.<span style="font-family: verdana;">In five years, blindness will be a thing of the past, according to Professor James Wolffsohn, at the Aston University. He is working on flexible bionic lens that could restore vision to long and short sighted people. </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://deviceinn.com/misc/blindness-to-be-cured-with-bionic-lens-in-the-next-five-years.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Link.</span></a><span class="fullpost"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-86493089984442764462008-09-16T13:12:00.000-07:002008-09-16T13:18:06.528-07:00Despite dire economic news, human progress keeps moving forward<span style="font-family:verdana;">I though with all the bad news regarding the economy going on in the world today, it would be nice to augment that with a bit of good news. Cancer cures.<br /><br />According to a report by UPI, Wayne State University announced that they have tested a breast cancer vaccine that has successfully eliminated tumors in mice, without any toxicity.</span><br /><br /><blockquote style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;"><span id="intelliTXT" style="margin: 0pt; line-height: 22px;font-size:14;" >The study, published in the journal Cancer Research, suggests the vaccine could treat women with HER2-positive, treatment-resistant cancer or help prevent cancer recurrence. The researchers also say it might potentially be used in cancer-free women to prevent initial development of these tumors.</span></blockquote><a style="font-family: verdana; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2008/09/15/Breast_cancer_vaccine_kills_tumors_in_mice/UPI-11211221509165/">Link</a><br /><span class="fullpost"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-24991558557519429562008-09-13T10:45:00.000-07:002008-09-13T10:50:15.223-07:00The Falling Man on 9/11<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9wltGkfYgMaB2Gx0hNMToGKrODvSNhLOtpNDR4QZiej9GmRwcIfMQlBNVGNqjtNf_3hwN06KiH9AoghNitvG_NcHhdkMmlf1NWLen9zFtvU0e5ftdLRZ6ARLIqTLvnIq2ARAtumyZcU-r/s1600-h/Picture+15.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9wltGkfYgMaB2Gx0hNMToGKrODvSNhLOtpNDR4QZiej9GmRwcIfMQlBNVGNqjtNf_3hwN06KiH9AoghNitvG_NcHhdkMmlf1NWLen9zFtvU0e5ftdLRZ6ARLIqTLvnIq2ARAtumyZcU-r/s320/Picture+15.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245564390745290914" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0903-SEP_FALLINGMAN"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Link</span></a><br /><br /><br /><span class="fullpost"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-40565185148451705532008-09-12T20:49:00.000-07:002008-09-14T09:09:10.884-07:00Win Win economics slowly forming between Palestine/Israel<span style="font-family:verdana;">From the International Herald Tribune.</span><br /><br /><blockquote style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;">Civilians are planning economic cooperation — an industrial zone to provide thousands of jobs, mostly to Palestinians, and another involving organic produce grown by Palestinians and marketed in Europe by Israelis. Ministers from both governments have been visiting regularly, often joined by top international officials. Israeli Arabs are playing a key role. <p>The aim is to stand conventional wisdom on its head. Instead of a shaky negotiated peace treaty imposing coexistence from the top down, <span style="font-weight: bold;">a bottom-up set of relationships that lock the two societies together should, proponents argue, lead to a real two-state solution.</span><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/12/africa/12jenin.php?page=1">Link.</a></p></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">'Bottom Up'</span> set of relationships being used to create 'synergies' between two conflicting sides? Letting citizens using economics and independent negotiation to resolve the problems politicians are not?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">With the internet, we can have citizens in all nations doing this right now. Everyday, more and more of us are realizing that politicians and government is the least effective methodology for problem solving. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Government is not to be overthrown, it is to be ignored as irrelevant.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-34673309211327865422008-09-12T20:34:00.000-07:002008-09-12T20:38:59.037-07:00An Anthology of Paradoxes.<a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.paradoxes.co.uk/">http://www.paradoxes.co.uk/</a><br /><br /><span class="fullpost"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-45818800635860123522008-09-12T09:25:00.000-07:002008-09-12T10:00:45.344-07:00Thinking and programming in ternary, a discussion about elegance.<span style="font-family:verdana;">This morning, a random Google search on 'ternary' produced the following <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://kclug.org/pipermail/kclug/2007-August/031327.html">link to a message board</a>.<br /><br />A discussion online between a few programmers regarding analog to digital conversions which quickly turns into a discussion regarding the benefits of </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >binary</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> vs. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >ternary thinking and logic</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">.<br /><br />It's a pretty brief discussion and it's always interesting to read or listen to people discussing 'ternary' systems, or systems that come in <span style="font-weight: bold;">3's</span>, which are always very elegant and refined.<br /><br />At the end of the brief discussion, Jared writes </span><blockquote><pre><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >Suffice it to say: there's something really amazing about</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >ternary logic which is not yet fully understood, and which</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >changes everything it touches, for the better.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >Sigh. :-)</span><br /></span><br /></pre></blockquote><span class="fullpost"><jared at="" com=""><span style="font-family:verdana;">I intentionally wrote 'binary </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >versus</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> ternary thinking' as a very subtle inside joke amongst ternary thinkers and linguistically, we utilize this sort of operation inside of a negotiation.<br /><br />If you are thinking in binary, yes, it will most likely look like a struggle between binary and ternary logic, which the user is forced to choose one form of logic over another.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">In ternary you naturally choose </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >both binary and ternary logic</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, since ternary is metalogical and metarational and binary is really just a subset of ternary.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">In ternary thinking, we can have BOTH. In binary thinking, you must choose ONE over the other.<br /><br />Bivalent thinkers cannot understand ternary thinkers. Bivalent paradigms cannot model ternary paradigms effectively.<br /><br />If you have upgraded to ternary thinking, this post will amuse you.<br /><br />If you are still operating under binary, this post will frustrate you.<br /><br /><br /></span></jared></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-32439303818720139962008-09-12T08:12:00.000-07:002008-09-12T08:30:09.650-07:00A Galactic Internet?<span style="font-weight: bold;">Professor John Learned</span>, a physicist at the <span style="font-weight: bold;">University of Hawaii</span>, has proposed that a 'Galactic Internet' may already be in place by an advanced civilization. Such a network could potentially use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepheid_variable">Cepheids</a>, relatively rare variable stars, by making unnatural alterations in their dimming and brightening.<br /><br /><p></p><blockquote style="font-style: italic;"><p>To send messages using a Cepheid, Learned and his colleagues suggest that extraterrestrials might change the star's cycle. A Cepheid becomes dimmer as ionized helium builds up in its atmosphere. Eventually, the atmosphere expands and deionizes, restarting the cycle.</p> <p>Firing a high-energy neutrino beam into a Cepheid could heat its core and brighten the star early - "just as an electric pulse to the heart can make it skip a beat," Learned says.</p><p><a href="http://io9.com/5047775/galactic-internet-could-broadcast-alien-signals">Link</a><br /></p></blockquote><p></p>Something interesting to consider. One thing that we must have in common with any advanced intelligence is True, False, and Mystery. 0, 1, and 2. Any advanced civilizations must have developed some sort of win win governance, otherwise Game Theory predicts self destruction.<br /><span class="fullpost"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714001732085165062.post-87910546554091090932008-09-12T07:42:00.000-07:002008-09-14T16:29:26.797-07:00The Tony Blair and Joe Lieberman Awakening<span style="font-family:verdana;">It appears that light may indeed be beginning to sift through the dark cracks of reactionary politics. Recently, on a panel at the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Republican National Convention</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joe Lieberman </span>noted that <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tony Blair,</span> former Prime Minister to Britain, is seeking to create an international educational fund to influence the Islamic World through less 'invasive' means.</span> <a href="http://www.popandpolitics.com/2008/09/04/ppthe-rnc-joe-lieberman-steals-the-show-again/"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >Link</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Imagine if we thought of that say 3o or 40 years ago? How about even six years ago? We constantly hear in the West how crazy and irrational the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Arabs/Muslims </span>are, and how the only thing they understand and respect is violence. Doesn't anyone consider the extreme poverty and lack of education that grips the entire region? How can you expect rationality when the majority of the population still has basic struggles for food, water, and shelter? How clear is your thinking when your child just lost his arm, you haven't had a warm bath in weeks, you've been eating flat bread for months, and your summers peak around 120? I often think how installing air conditioning alone would vastly improve mid east relations.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">From the point of view of <span style="font-weight: bold;">OS 0 1 2</span>, when the basic problems of survival are not satisfied, you will find a host of irrational politicians coming in and creating a heap of false problems to gain power. This is more difficult to do when you have an educated populace and naturally we see a middle east that is highly saturated with irrational politicians whose main inspiration is the quest for individual greatness, respect, and who knows what else.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Instead of attacking the Muslim world with bombs, we need to attack them with accusations in a dialectic. How is it that you cannot feed and educate your own people, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Osama bin Laden</span>? How is it, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mahmoud Ahmdinejad</span>, that you can talk tough on the West but the majority of your rich country still lives in poverty and low education?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">When can we value the effectiveness of our political systems and their leaders by the quality of life experienced by the least of us?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Politicians cannot solve problems effectively because the political system is based on manipulation and abuse of information. That is it's very foundation. The politicians who raise to the top are essentially the most effective at manipulative and distracting discussion. That's true everywhere, in the U.S. as well as <span style="font-weight: bold;">Palestine.</span> Irrationality is much easier to manipulate with emotionally charged language and rationality is virtually impossible to manipulate through such means.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Yes, Tony Blair and Joe Lieberman, let's educate them. Let's educate the world. Let's take the amount of money we are spending daily on blowing up terrorists and build institutions that will increase the ability of the populations to think for themselves, become educated, and question the motivations of their leaders.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">We spend billions, if not trillions, on the military industrial complex. This intellectual, technical and physical resource is soley dedicated to creating problems <span style="font-style: italic;">for the other side to solve. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">An educated individual, both knowledgeable in the world and of her/himself, is very valuable in society. If we can pay soldiers to go to war - why don't we pay people to educate and improve themselves?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">DISCUSSION BOMB:</span> </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?p=35586971#post35586971">Click here to discuss this topic.</a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">You will need to sign in at Sean Hannity discussion forum. This discussion forum is not affiliated with OS 0 1 2 nor highintelligence.com</span></span></span><br /><span class="fullpost"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0