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November 14, 2006
meditations on History channel
find the vital optimism (or “spirit”[=jing1shen2= spermgod!] or “inner child” or “passion” or “exhuberance” or “Goog” or “ohmy!” or whatevertheheckuwannajiaota) u once had and remember how to truly *play* your way thru life, at *least* to the extent it is prudent. (and if u forget how to do it even in the bedroom, ur relationship will deteriorate.)
we don't know the name of the guy who had unlimited authority and budget to build the manhattan project. Heckuva job tho.
the faithful religious person considers that YOU are the one who is not pragmatic.
When hillel or ayn rand says: “start with selfishness,” and people scorn their greed, these people who scorn should rather consider the audiences to which the rabbi / philosauthor wir talking 2:
good kind folks who just didn't know what to do with themselves ... the kind of folks who these days would go seek psychological counseling or take some other bold measure to offer direction and focus to their life. These kind folks are not the ones who need to be told to be more “selfless” (creatively giving, or “if i am only 4 me, what am i?” [part 2 of hillel's awesome formula]). They are the ones who need to be told to take care of themselves, fulfill their responsibilities and do an exemplary job just where they are (“act locally”), “if u r not 4 urself / don't ask a nanny state to wipe your butt”. It's the cock-sure m-fs out THERE (not us, ur friends, dearh!{that's meant to contain the condescension of "duh!" instantly transformed into the affectionate "dear!" with the "h" to remind the conversant that there is content feedback, in addition to emotion, being conveyed}) who need to be taught “selfless” creative giving, i.e., ethical capitalism, or one among the productive, pragmatic interpretations of “socializme”. And the way to teach them is not with words, but with deeds! (i.e., communication (not preaching), commercial exchange, and diplomatic relations) Hypocritically preaching selflessness (i.e., putting word before deed) is somewhere between the song of the tax man and the song of the thief. No woman worth her salt gives it up for a man who Asks for it.
Then the practical details follow “hurry up! No time like the present! “If not now, when?” {If not me, who?} mbmThey said'It's the music!^^^'”
they suggest there r too many UFOs that do too funky things by too many reliable sources to trivialize them (as Nasa and others do as a matter of policy). so perhaps we r as native tribesmen. i met a raellian in HK. remember them from the human cloning scam? they had a clever scheme -- believe the aliens are waiting to help us, but we've gotta chill out before they'll come down and deliver the next wave of kewl gear.
what 2 call “an excess propensity to conbine things which don't beling 2gether “? Messy overgenerally semantic antics?
Some phone phreak; some ... op
In 1973, between the birth of my bro & me, something shocking happened on the streets of NYC.
A man did something that had people stopping in their tracks and shouting in amazement. He talked ...
into his phone! Now it's whole new technologies we incorporate into out lives and then instantly take for granted. We must wonder a bit more, and please only a bit – let's not get self-indulgent now. Even if u don't just WANT 2 do it, u will find the competitive marketplace increasingly DEMANDS what i heard some author a few months ago describe this 21st century interpretation of American manhood as “childlikeness” ( i.e., as opposed to childishness). We r moving to minds that re-iterate like computers if only to save mental space to do the wondering we need to do to remain human. So it's not just wonder, but wonder in conjunction with a good accelerated learning / lifelong learning program.
(Mormon success may owe much to this kind of application of the “first things first” principle, and the “wonder” of “silly” religious activities is, under the right circumstances, a nontrivial pragmatic device.)
The next generation of networks will make it kewl to have virtual presences in the form of a remote robot-with-camera&mic that transmits the robot's view&sound environment to your proximate video display (in your zenglasses?+headphones), and you have simple commands to make the robot roll forward, or rotate wheels&face left or right, and of course you can also transmit your voice and view to them (the people around your robovitar). Kewl desu ne! I guess I should get a head-start by commissioning a 2d Lie shop that designs and sells robovitar avatars 4 the vir2all whirld, whith the understanding that sumdei these robovitar avitars whill bcum genuine robovitars irl! :P And then there's robovitar rights, 4 when the robovitars get in fights, & soon the robovitars will need us as we need plants.
The reason i want to hang with old people is because they know what's what and they r willing to tell u, but they'll only tell you when they're asked.
was not paying attention during the last bit where they explained y the next gen phone networks will save the world.
Ah the whirld 2 cum israel
Nice job, jistory jannel.
Posted by matt at November 14, 2006 09:30 AM