Angelic laughter

(On two kinds of laughter)
Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels warriors for Good accept the demagogy of angels. Thigs are clearly more complicated.

Angels are not partisans of Good, but of divine creation. The Devil, on the other hand, denies all rational meaning to God's world.

World domination, as everyone knows, is divided between demons and angels. But the good of the world doe not require the latter to gain precedence over the former (as I thought when I was young); al it needs is a certain equilibrum of power. If there is too much uncontested meaning on earth (the reign of angels), man collapses under the burden; if the world loses all meaning (the reign of demons), life is every bit as impossible.

Things deprived suddenly of their private meaning, the place assigned them in the ostensible order of things (a Moscow-trained Marxist who believes in horoscopes), make us laugh. Initially, therefor, laughter is the province if the Devil. It has a certain malice to it (things have turned out differently from the way they tried to seem), but a certain beneficent relief as well (things are looser than thy seemed, we have greater latitude in living with them, their gracity does not oppress us).

The first time an angel heard the Devil's laughter, he was horrified. It was in the middle of a feast with a lot of people around, and one afther another the joined the Devil's laugther. It was terribly contagious. The angel was all too aware the laugther was aimed at God and the wonder of His works. He knew he had to act fast, but felt weak and defenseless. And unable to fabricate anything of his own, he simply turned his enemy's tactics against him. He opened his mouth and let out a wobbly, breathy sound in the upper reaches of his vocal register (much like the sound Gabrielle and Michelle produced in the streets of the little town one the Riviera) and endowed it withe the opposite meaning. Whereas the Devil's laugther pointed out the meaninglessness of things, the angel's shout rejoiced in how rationally oraganized, well conceived, beautiful, good, and sensible everything was.

There they stood, Devil and angel, face to face, mouths open, both making more or less the same sound, but each expressing himself in a unique timbre - absolute opposites. And seeing the laughing angel, the Devil laughed all the harder, all the louder, all the more openly, beause the laughing angel was infinitely laughable.

Laughable laughter is cataclysmic. And even so, the angels have gained something to it. They have tricked us all with their semantic hoax. Their imitation laughter and its original (the Devil's) have the same name. People nowadays do not even realize that one and the same external phenomenon embrace two completely conctradictory attitudes. There are two kinds of laugther, and we lack the words to distinguish them.

The book of Laughter and forgetting, M.K.
Part Three: The Angels, chapter 4

Computer OCD

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric anxiety disorder most commonly characterized by a subject's obsessive, distressing, intrusive thoughts and related compulsions (tasks or "rituals") which attempt to neutralize the obsessions.

Computer addiction is an obsessive addiction to computer use sometimes known as Dependency.

A variation of computer addiction is the proposed Internet addiction disorder, which suggests that people can not only be addicted to an object, such as a computer, but also an environment, i.e. the Internet.

There are easy ways to diagnose the like.

Fot one you can install Visual TimeAnalyzer.



Visual TimeAnalyzer automatically tracks all computer usage and presents detailed, richly illustrated reports.
* Easily log individual users or specific projects, and compile detailed accounts of time spent within each program.
* Track work time, pauses, projects, costs, software and internet use.

There is a 3 week trial, but this period is more than sufficient to get a basic idea of habit and rithm.

Another tool that can be used for the diagnosis is a small applet called PC On/Off Time



This free time tracking tool shows the times your computer has been active during the last 3 weeks, with no previous setup required. The software doesn't need to run in the background, because Windows OS tracks login and logoff times (working hours) by default, and the program analyses it.

If compulsive behaviour is observed, one can take measures.

Timeslot (Dutch) might be an option



You want that the child can use the computer, but within limits. But how do you arrange this without getting into a fight each time?

You do it by installing a simple and free piece of software: Timeslot. It aids the child to conform with the rules concerning the amount one can use the PC.

How does it work?

You can configure how ong a child can use the computer. It's easy to adjust the given time, any time you want. You just log in using the parent login. The programs basic policy is to shut down all programs when one exceeds the allocated time. I found security proper as I was unable to prevent the program from starting up once installed. Software removal is only possible using the parent login. Only backdoor is the date using safe mode.

An alternative is Parental Lock Guard (English)

Parental Lock Guard is a comprehensive application ideal for guarding your PC. With the powerfull defending mechanism, it can NOT be stoped in any usual way (without administrators password) known to the large people population: no close button, usual "X" buttons, no Task Manager "End process" or any "third party" software utility that can shut it down! That is also the biggest difference from the other applicatins with the same contents.

De praktische kant

Hel

Het lege hoofd drijft door mijn haar
De uren een schakel, van het heg
Steeds opnieuw in dezelfde cirkel
Rond en rond, en de maan vaart om

En al het kijken en denken
Gaan alleen daar
Waar geen waar is
En k niet naar de eigen voet Kijk

Doof leven
Woorden zonder klank
En alle stemmen steeds dezelfde zoem

Dat is geen droom
Het is een

Alleen


Hemel

Hier, is de lucht
Hier is, het water
Hier is er, aarde.
En dat groeit
Je zaait
Je plukt
En je bemint de vrucht

Want dat is het licht, dat is de liefde

Amen

Knowing is not enough

Are you speaking the truth? Well, now, after such a confession, I believe that you are sincere and good at heart. If you do not attain happiness, always remember the - right road, and try not to leave it.



Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself.

What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself. Avoid fear, too, though fear is only the consequence of every sort of falsehood. Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love. Don’t be frightened overmuch even at your evil actions.

I am sorry I can say nothing more consoling to you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on the stage.

But active love is labour and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science. But I predict that just when you see with horror that in spite of all your efforts you are getting farther from your goal instead of nearer to it — at that very moment I predict that you will reach it.

ebooks.edu

Not by the cover

Choosing Love: Puritanism In The New Russia

The eXile article

Last time, I mentioned how Russia's highly touted stability will come in the form of religious level Puritanism. Well, it's here, and damn, it came faster than I thought.

This year has officially been named the Year of the Family. Last year, as some of you may recall, was Year of the Child. I guess the feds figured that since we've all had babies now, it's time to get married and make it decent. Some cynics might say that this is a reaction to the consequences of incentivizing Russia's birthrate increase. The government has been offering a fairly significant amount of cash for every Russian child. One theory is that people might give birth strictly for the government payout, and then abandon their lucrative children. When you get out into the regions, the payout counts for a lot of dough, more than some people make in a year. Abandoned children on the other hand means more expenditure and stress on the federal system. Sure this all sounds awful, but some of the things that go on in Russia's provinces is pretty freakin' hairy.

Promotions for Russia's family focus are already out there in full force. One of the more visible campaigns on the streets is a series of billboards announcing that 2008 is the Year of the Family. The adverts show a fuzzy, gleeful family, with the slogan "We Choose Love." Some of the ads show a smaller family, others have a larger unit with grandparents, parents, kids and the weird uncle that always creeps you out.

In support of all this is a series of placed content on Russia's major television channels. ORT, the main federal TV channel, has been advertising something called the Wedding Awards 2007 Ceremony. As best as I could tell from the trailers, this is an Oscar-style glamorous event, giving out awards to the best weddings of 2007, whatever that can mean. Obviously nothing more than a staged performance to make getting married seem sexier, the TV bumpers showed a room filled with young wedding gown clad chicks and their goofy looking grooms, throwing bouquets, toasting with champagne and clapping along to the likes of Ivanushki International, Russia's version of Menudo.

Not to be outdone, Channel 3 had been promoting something called Stork Day. Apparently, the channel has invented an entire holiday around this family thing, and have come up with some sort of a variety hour to celebrate. Happy Stork Day, everyone.

The other main outdoor campaign happening right now is one in support of a direct mail program. As mentioned, the feds have introduced some pretty significant bonuses and rewards to incentivize Russian couples to propagate, and they've spelled these incentives out through a series of direct mail informational brochures. In order to ensure that these brochures are read, billboard announcements now dot the city giving folks a heads-up to have a look in their mailboxes for further information.

Folks, this isn't just passive propaganda. This family thing is becoming compulsory. In a place like Russia, there really aren't any rights and freedoms; instead there are permissions and, in this case, obligations. The feds have already set up a commission of psychologists who plan to oblige those units not falling into their model of a family to attend compulsory psychological rehabilitation sessions (http://www.vz.ru/society/2008/1/27/139813.html ).

In the eyes of the Puritans, this program must (and will) go beyond simply a system of rewards and incentives. Instead this is really just a system of punishment for those who don't get on board.

Not too long ago, some friends of mine were out at a park, enjoying a weekend afternoon. There were a total of nine people in the group - singles, couples, and my friends with their newborn. The group was having a few snacks, and some of them were sipping beer. A picnic, of sorts. They were approached by a militia officer patrolling the area. The first thing he wanted to know was which couple were the newborn's parents. After my friends owned up, the officer went on to fine everyone in the group with drinking in public EXCEPT my friends. In the officer's opinion, making babies afforded them greater rights, even at the behest of laws, above those without children.

Another recent development along this line: something's gone missing from Moscow's cash counters. Well, not really missing, but re-directed. Up until the end of last year, many produce shops, fast food joints and supermarkets had donation boxes, collecting money for Russia's orphanages. I'm not sure when this changed, but last week I began to notice that many of these collection boxes have disappeared. In their place are containers collecting money for Russian families who need help supporting three or more children. It seems that the chinovniki don't plan to give up their new Audis to finance their cash-for-tots promises.

In Russia, where instilling a fear of consequences has traditionally been the chosen form of incentivizing people, it seems now that people are being terrorized into choosing love in order to fulfill the state's desire to create more families and more babies. Perhaps someday soon we'll have to carry a sort of document, sort of like a Russian auto technical inspection certificate, one which you have to renew annually and carry with you at all times. A Love License. And if you're with your significant other, and don't have your Love License on you, well, then there's someone who will be getting a bribe that day. Choose love.

Marguerite Harl: la genèse des chrétiens

La deuxième partie est intitulée Réflexions. Le passage de la Bible d’Orient en Occident. L’auteur examine d’abord la chaîne de transmission de la Bible (ch. IX). La Bible hébraïque est parvenue à la civilisation européenne dans la traduction des Septante, non dans son texte fondateur en hébreu. L’A. considère les différentes formes de publication de la Bible à travers les siècles.

Actuellement, la Septante est oubliée : peu de théologiens se sentent attirés par l’actualisation des idées dans le judaïsme hellénistique. Longtemps absente de l’enseignement ecclésiastique, elle commence tout juste à y pénétrer. Mais la Septante est effacée de la mémoire juive comme de la culture chrétienne pour des raisons historiques d’antijudaïsme.

L’auteur s’interroge alors sur le Nouveau Testament (ch. X). Les textes avec leurs citations des Écritures juives témoignent de la naissance du christianisme. Dans les textes grecs qui forment le Nouveau Testament, se découvre l’usage des textes grecs de la Septante. Cependant, les citations grecques du Nouveau Testament ne sont pas toutes conformes au texte de la Septante des éditions modernes. Plusieurs explications sont proposées. Nous savons que la Septante circulait sous plusieurs états et qu’elle a pu subir des variations. Mais, il est évident qu’elle a été la matrice d’une langue religieuse grecque, d’origine juive, qui est devenue celle des chrétiens. La Septante transmet aussi au Nouveau Testament des citations originales qui introduisent des idées absentes de l’hébreu. Enfin, les citations de la Septante montrent comment le Nouveau Testament fait un usage orienté de celles-ci pour démontrer que Jésus est le Messie annoncé par les prophètes. Mais le judaïsme ne peut admettre que les chrétiens se disent « le vrai Israël » par la lecture de l’Ancien Testament.

Au onzième chapitre, l’A. considère la Bible lue en grec par les Grecs. Une période exceptionnelle a lieu dans l’histoire de la Bible : elle est écrite et lue pendant plusieurs siècles dans une parfaite homogénéité linguistique. Auteurs et lecteurs pratiquent la même langue, le grec. La Septante prend l’importance d’un texte de référence chez les Pères grecs et acquiert son statut de texte de l’Ancien Testament reçu par l’Église primitive. La Septante devient chrétienne par la lecture qui en est faite, la clé de l’interprétation donnée par Paul - « Tout a été écrit pour les chrétiens » - n’est pas remise en question. L’A. évoque le travail exemplaire d’Origène, philologue et théologien, sur les textes bibliques.

Au IIe siècle, la tradition chrétienne de langue latine a de façon indirecte la Septante comme texte biblique (D’Orient en Occident, ch. XII). Les chrétiens d’Afrique du Nord se servent de ses premières versions latines, Vetus latina. La mise en valeur de ces textes s’est faite au cours des cinquante dernières années à l’Institut bénédictin de Beuron. Les spécialistes apprécient les conséquences de l’origine grecque des Bibles latines utilisées dans le christianisme occidental des premiers siècles. Les « vieilles latines » apportent l’étape textuelle de la Bible inaugurée en grec par la Septante : le texte hébreu est médité et traduit dans une langue de logique et de clarté. Cette traduction s’est poursuivie en latin. Après avoir lu les Hexaples d’Origène, Jérôme apprend l’hébreu et décide de traduire la Bible à partir de cette langue. La connaissance du grec au Moyen Âge latin explique une certaine continuité entre le christianisme d’Orient et celui de l’Occident latin. Les exégètes utilisent le grec pour la critique textuelle de la Bible dans les « Correctoires », dès le XIIIe siècle.

Toutefois, dans l’ensemble, les références au « grec » ne renvoient pas à la Septante mais à l’une des « vieilles latines ». En 1546, au concile de Trente, l’Église catholique accorde une autorité juridique à la seule Vulgate. Le grec de la Septante est pris comme l’une des sources bibliques par les érudits chrétiens des XVIe et XVIIe siècles dans leurs discussions sur le texte hébreu. La Septante appartient au monde scientifique. Sa présence à Qumrân dans des rouleaux de la bibliothèque de la secte essénienne a revivifié son étude.

Le treizième chapitre, Traductions et tradition, aborde les questions suivantes :

- Qu’est-ce qu’un texte « premier » ?
- Comment l’atteindre ?
- Peut-on traduire le texte en d’autres langues, pour d’autres destinataires ?

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/jsj/1987/00000018/00000002/art00011
http://www.catho-theo.net/La-Bible-en-Sorbonne-ou-la

I suppose one can't translate theatre in different languages ..
Plato's cave doesn"t for example p

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How does one translate "Grim Reaper" in Greek or Latin?





futher reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_of_Death_in_religion

C6ntext

21:18. And in the morning, returning into the city, he was hungry.

21:19. And seeing a certain fig tree by the way side, he came to it and found nothing on it but leaves only. And he saith to it: May no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And immediately the fig tree withered away.

21:20. And the disciples seeing it wondered, saying: How is it presently withered away?

21:21. And Jesus answering, said to them: Amen, I say to you, if you shall have faith and stagger not, not only this of the fig tree shall you do, but also if you shall say to this mountain, Take up and cast thyself into the sea, it shall be done.

21:22. And all things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer believing, you shall receive.

21:23. And when he was come into the temple, there came to him, as he was teaching, the chief priests and ancients of the people, saying: By what authority dost thou these things? And who hath given thee this authority?

21:24. Jesus answering, said to them: I also will ask you one word, which if you shall tell me, I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.

21:25. The baptism of John, whence was it? From heaven or from men? But they thought within themselves, saying:

21:26. If we shall say, from heaven, he will say to us: Why then did you not believe him? But if we shall say, from men, we are afraid of the multitude: for all held John as a prophet.

21:27. And answering Jesus, they said: We know not. He also said to them: Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.


pr: http://www.askascholar.com/

Bleep Clusters: a new approach to social welfare & security costs

Or how to provide welfare & security insurance via wireless networking

It seems that the costs of providing services & support to elders is one of the main challenges for the coming decades. One only has to take a look at the tool Gapminder to grasp the global market. To tackle this dilemma one should take into account the various costs. The main ones are the diagnoses and treatments.

It is obvious that for a good number of caritas services, the diagnosis only requires basic surveillance, but still remains one of the major costs.

People loose focus or get demented but their bodies remain active sensors. If one could gather & relay specific data such as heart beat & temperatures alone ... most heart attacks, or more simple things such as agony would show up, even if the individual is unable to communicate his despair. Not everyone has the luxury of a private nurse.

I would suggest developing a device that has the combined abilities of a health watch & Bluetooth: the node. It registers the required information & relays info to a network gate: the hub. Current advances in wireless networks & chemo receptive electronics, can be result in an affordable lifeline.

When the monitor reaches threshold input, it sends out, or stops sending, a signal: the bleep, wich alerts other assigned nodes. The signal can be relayed by tuned servers. The node should also be able to activate an alarm if certain signals are received. It should allow costumers to sign up on watch list, or form watch groups themselves.

The monitor could be worn as a watch, necklace, earplug or bracelet. It simply requires skin contact.

Some possible market segments:

- Retired couples
- Hospital wards
- Soft security
- Families, as a way to keep a line open to the baby
- Policemen or citizens, in hazardous environments

The question is not the demand, it is is how to provide a simple & attractive platform that can be easily adopted by new users. To achieve this, some basic requirements would be:

- a node can teach another node to guard him
- affinity can be removed
- a node can attract attention
- build in alarm or activate an external device
- a node can easily be taken of
- the node could minimize power consumption & size by
- reducing intervals or signal strength & employing more hubs
- limiting the data stream to basic signal keys
- a node can be interfaced via wireless login in order to
- tune the threshold parameters
- tune transmission intervals
the software shell depends on application

People like to keep an eye out for their kindred. But our beloved ones are not always in sight. Network technology can provide partial solutions in this matter. The node can be designed user friendly and possibly be integrated with other P2P or PCB networks: mobiles & the internet (this would only be required for more advanced applications).

First market introduction should focus on elder couples & health institutions. If a device can be introduced that is simple enough for their needs, the unions might find the pill less hard to swallow. The tech is there, all it needs is some charm.

k

anno 16-1-08: patent application

Modern Art

Moderne kunst, dat is wat anders.






Of niet?

Java-Based Distributed Intelligent Agent Architecture

for Building Safety-Critical Tele-Inspection Systems on the Internet

Abstract

The inspection of SG (Steam-Generator) tubes in a NPP(Nuclear Power Plant) is a time-consuming, laborious, and safety-critical task because of several serious constraints including a highly radiated working environment, tight task schedule, and the need for many highly qualified human inspectors. In order to realize this kind of safety-critical and complex inspection using the Internet, intelligent agents based on Java distributed technologies were designed. The proposed agent architecture, which is a declarative commanding concept based on a layered architecture, was introduced to minimize the affect of Internet latency and maximize the reliability of an inspection system using tele-operation via the Internet.

Call for Participation:

The highly interdisciplinary area of Socially Intelligent Agents has attracted a number of active researchers who model, design and analyse agents (software or robotic) which behave socially. Much of this work is strongly inspired by forms of natural social intelligence characteristic of humans. This symposium will address recent technological, methodological and theoretical developments in the field of Socially Intelligent Agents (SIA's), as well as discuss social and cultural issues, and limitations and problems of Socially Intelligent Agents. A focus will be the issue of the 'human-in-the-loop'.
Both agents and humans can have different roles during agent-human interaction, e.g. as designers, users, observers, assistants, collaborators, competitors, customers, or friends. The symposium will concentrate primarily on socially intelligent agents that are either directly interacting with humans, showing aspects of human-style intelligence, supporting interaction among humans and/or modelling explicitly aspects of human social intelligence.
The symposium will focus on four Key Themes for which considerations of the 'human-in-the-loop' are crucial. Interdisciplinary approaches are particularly encouraged.
The symposium will comprise keynote talks, panel discussions and individual paper presentations, addressing one or several of the following Key Themes:

• 1) Connecting to SIA's: architectures and design spaces for SIA's; innovative user-interfaces, novel environments and new methodologies for software and robotic agents interacting and collaborating with humans and facilitating communication and collaboration between humans; hot approaches (emotional, empathic aspects) and cold approaches (intention and plan ascription, reasoning etc.); synchronisation in human-agent dialogue; the role of embodiment in human-agent interaction; exploiting anthropomorphism; believability and degrees of agent complexity
• 2) Learning and playing with SIA's: new applications of social agent technology in rehabilitation and education; SIA's as instructors, guides, teachers, assistants and friends; SIA's which support human creativity and imagination; SIA's in living environments (e.g. at school, at home, at work, on holiday, at meeting points)
• 3) Living with SIA's: social agent technology which influences attitudes/opinions/behaviour; issues of 'social relationships' between human and agent e.g. helping, competition and cooperation, autonomy and control, predictability, deception, manipulation, initiative, delegation, responsibility, conflicts
• 4) Growing up and evolving with SIA's: social agent technology which empowers humans, addressing the cognitive and emotional needs of humans; impact of SIA's on human society and culture; agents adapting to and supporting cultural diversity; ethical considerations

Submission Information

Potential participants are asked to submit a short paper (3 to 5 pages) describing their work in this area. Please send submissions via electronic mail to Kerstin Dautenhahn at K.Dautenhahn@herts.ac.uk. The text can either be submitted in plain Ascii format (preferred), or the submission can be made available on a Webpage and the URL is sent via email.

Important Dates:

• Deadline for submission of abstracts: 29th of March 2000
• Notification of acceptance/rejection: 25th of May 2000
• Camera-ready copies of papers: 10th August 2000

JHWH

Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea:

"Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God."

Is terrorism on the way out?

No

It is a new innovation afther nationalisation sinse mass war mobilisation has become an obsolete option in the art of war. the age of sealed Clausewitz nations, with seperate internal transportation & strict front lines, is a thing of the past. we all fancy the picture of alexander, napoleon or mao, but these features no longer seem practical.

The current art of war is one of transportation & the domination of such. In this a million bajonets are no longer usefull if you have to transport the boots that carry them.

As for terrorism, is only a recent tactic that employs the soldiers griefs as a battle asset. in this is attracts the desperate, as every rebellion has.

What is so curious about this guerillia is that the boots don't move. only the guns do. it seems this featere that has gained importance ever since planes started taking pictures.

Jihad is the new name. Except there are no worms in this tale, only news updates

Quote: They don't understand that... This is why they are doomed...

Forgiveness & Love

Quote:

11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known

Just watched ghost in the shell again & yep, this passage is littered around in the play. Didn't expect a jap to quote the Corinthians :)

But as always i have my doubts.

To speak in tongues as i know little else: i see this world where people walk around while listening to the weather report & rest of news like it's the oracle. See, the weather report was right. It's raining. It beats Stonehenge.

Then i see that people all live in cocoons, nothing new for that matter. Most stereotypes are acquired from something alike collective unconscious. Do not understand why they call it unconscious. People take note of it all the time. They talk about it when they don't know each other. Friends often have heated debates about it. It is the common ground where strangers meet. It is an instrument, played by musicians. It has grown deep under the skin the thousand years it has flourished from the cities, baptized at the first union of tribes. Rigid in stasis, fluent after catalyzing. It has gained momentum and achieved several new qualitative evolutions along the way. The book, paper and tube increased the heartbeat of society & reinvented the same structure ever again. Churches, Mosques and Schools alike. Dostoevsky's dialog with the inquisitor posed a question to the age old powers, that none of them seemed able to answer. Even so, as always, things mostly stayed the same if you don't mind the fractal distortion. His words were used and abused but the instrument remained familiar. People were trapped behind governmental & similar curtains.

Then some genius thought up the concept of an interactive network. More primitive forms have been around for ages but never did they bridge the divide that defines defines cocoon groups. A new world materialized while brands grew old.

Then to date: Neo, the 21cty superman is asked a question again. It seems Dostoevsky's ghost is revitalized when a Neo enters a white room, filled with screens & a man. The inquisitor asks his question again. The question is Zion. Neo is given a choice. Neo, the one who finds his death in the embrace of the infectious agent, a plague that frightens both the mechanical and human world.

How will this tale end? I do not know. But what do i see? The liquidation of national power. Lush profits for some accounts, fatalistic ones for others. As usual these are only the yield of seeds planted long before. In the high Art: movies, a clear shift to Barok themes is apparent. High contrasts, vivid demonifications & horrors. Victorian the new fad. A new beeldensturm started couple of years ago when Alex Jones & Papas gave the green light to a white revolution. Love, yes yes, but what is hidden beneath the curtain? Care to look or is it back to mindfulness.

Suppose it is true that forces work on the same scale they are applied to. This is the heart of the new civil wars. Who is loved. Who is forgiven.

Karel

Hearts & Minds

...

Ever since Plato, scholars have drawn a clear distinction between thinking and feeling. Cognitive psychology tended to reinforce this divide: emotions were seen as interfering with cognition; they were the antagonists of reason. Now, building on more than a decade of mounting work, researchers have discovered that it is impossible to understand how we think without understanding how we feel.

"Because we subscribed to this false ideal of rational, logical thought, we diminished the importance of everything else," said Marvin Minsky, a professor at MIT and pioneer of artificial intelligence. "Seeing our emotions as distinct from thinking was really quite disastrous."

...

Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist at USC, has played a pivotal role in challenging the old assumptions and establishing emotions as an important scientific subject. When Damasio first published his results in the early 1990s, most cognitive scientists assumed that emotions interfered with rational thought. A person without any emotions should be a better thinker, since their cortical computer could process information without any distractions.

But Damasio sought out patients who had suffered brain injuries that prevented them from perceiving their own feelings, and put this idea to the test. The lives of these patients quickly fell apart, he found, because they could not make effective decisions. Some made terrible investments and ended up bankrupt; most just spent hours deliberating over irrelevant details, such as where to eat lunch. These results suggest that proper thinking requires feeling. Pure reason is a disease.

...


The Boston Globe Article
April 29, 2007

Star Wars plot questioned

1.) Why were a handful of rebel fighters able to penetrate the defenses of a battle station that had the capability of destroying an entire planet and the defenses to ward off several fleets of battle ships?

2.) Why did Grand Moff Tarkin refuse to deploy the station’s large fleet of TIE Fighters until it was too late? Was he acting on orders from somebody to not shoot down the rebel attack force? If so, who, and why?

3.) Why was the rebel pilot who supposedly destroyed the Death Star reported to be on the Death Star days, maybe hours, prior to its destruction? Why was he allowed to escape, and why were several individuals dressed in Stormtrooper uniforms seen helping him?

4.) Why has there not been an investigation into allegations that Darth Vader, the second-ranking member of the Imperial Government, is in fact the father of the pilot who allegedly destroyed the Death Star?

5.) Why did Lord Vader decide to break all protocols and personally pilot a lightly armored TIE Fighter? Conveniently, this placed Lord Vader outside of the Death Star when it was destroyed, where he was also conveniently able to escape from a large-sized rebel fleet that had just routed the Imperial forces. Why would Lord Vader, one of the highest ranking members of the Imperial Government, suddenly decide to fly away from the Death Star in the middle of a battle? Did he know something that the rest of the Imperial Navy didn’t?

6.) How could any pilot shoot a missile into a 2 meter-wide exhaust port, let alone a pilot with no formal training, whose only claim to fame was his ability to “bullseye womprats” on Tatooine? This shot, according to one pilot, would be “impossible, even for a computer.” Yet, according to additional evidence, the pilot who allegedly fired the missile turned off his targeting computer when he was supposedly firing the shot that destroyed the Death Star. Why have these discrepancies never been investigated, let alone explained?

7.) Why has their been no investigation into evidence that the droids who provided the rebels with the Death Star plans were once owned by none other than Lord Vader himself, and were found, conveniently, by the pilot who destroyed the Death Star, and who is also believed to be Lord Vader’s son? Evidence also shows that the droids were brought to one Ben Kenobi, who, records indicate, was Darth Vader’s teacher many years earlier! Are all these personal connections between the conspirators and a key figure in the Imperial government supposed to be coincidences?

8.) How could a single missile destroy a battle station the size of a moon? No records, anywhere, show that any battle station or capital ship has ever been destroyed by a single missile. Furthermore, analysis of the tape of the last moments of the Death Star show numerous small explosions along its surface, prior to it exploding completely! Why does all evidence indicate that strategically placed explosives, not a single missile, is what destroyed the Death Star?

ty Seraph

10 False Flags that Changed the World

At it’s simplest, the term false flag means pretending to be the enemy.

The name comes from ships and armies that, in previous centuries, deceived their foes by displaying another country’s flag.

These days, false flag activities are much more sophisticated…and debauched. These aren’t your granddaddy’s covert operations.

Fake Terror, Deception, and Disgrace

The most commonly known false flag operations consist of an intelligence agency staging a terror attack such that an uninvolved entity gets blamed for the carnage.

Another type of false flag operation might consist of directing purposefully belligerent and trigger-happy clandestine demonstrators to mingle with peace activists in order to disrupt and discredit a passive protest event.

Yet another type of false flag activity consists of infiltrating the opposition, then making easily disproved claims which will embarrass and undermine the credibility of the organization.

An Ignorant Public Enables False Flags

When the Constitutional Convention closed in 1787, a lady asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy?”

Franklin replied: “A republic, if you can keep it.”

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10) Nero, Christians, and the Great Fire of Rome
09) Remeber the Maine, to hell with Spain
08) The Manchurian Incident
07) Secrets of the Reichstag Fire
06) Fake invasion at Gleiwitz
05) The myth of Pearl Harbor
04) Israeli Terrorist Cell uncovered in Egypt
03) Operation Northwoods
02) Phantoms in the Gulf of Tonkin
01) What did you think?