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Re: Pinchbeck's Mistake...( was: Re: Terence McKenna Land http://deoxy.org/mckenna.htm ) |
On Sep 20, 2007 at 6:56PM, "Prescott Bush" <prescott_bush@thefirsttwins.com> wrote:
"Senator John Cornyn" <http://cornyn.senate.gov/> wrote:
Senate Republicans blocked a real opportunity
to support our troops--a bipartisan bill to
make sure our troops have the downtime
they need. Now, they're grandstanding about
"supporting the troops" by trying to silence
you and me for calling them out. The U.S. Senate
just told you to sit down and be quiet.
They passed a resolution condemning MoveOn.org
and it has one purpose: to intimidate all of
us who care about responsibly ending this war.
They wanted to send a message that anyone who
speaks unpleasant truths about this war will pay.
To make everyone--especially politicians--think
twice before they accuse the administration
of lying. We're not going to let them get away
with it. So we're launching an ad to highlight
the truth in the Republican leader's home state.
http://pol.moveon.org/fightback/
http://www.moveon.org
"Actually, it's a lot of fun to fight,
you know. [...] So it's a hell of
a lot of fun to shoot them."
Lieutenant General James N. Mattis
http://www.usmc.mil/genbios2.nsf/0/35E4CF7347323B108525680800620EED
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0204-22.htm
[...]
Charges dropped against Marine.
Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis, said he
dropped the charges out of a
firm belief that Sharratt acted within
Marine Corps standards when forced
to make a split-second decision while
searching a house for insurgents.
http://tinyurl.com/yskarg
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0204-22.htm
While Blackwater and other firms reject the
label "mercenary" firms, Blackwater executives
have even turned the grey area in which they
operate into a brand asset. Blackwater has
been quietly marketing its services to foreign
governments and corporations through an
off-shore affiliate, Greystone Ltd.,
registered in Barbados. ...
http://www.indypendent.org/?p=1229
Blackwater USA
http://tinyurl.com/ypgjpx
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/archive/default.asp
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/about/corevalues.asp
http://www.nndb.com/people/926/000117575/
Rove's Real Legacy: Blackwater Privatizes National Security
http://iraqforsale.bravenewfilms.org/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-jacobs/blackwater-west_b_60474.html
The Mercenary Revolution:
Flush with Profits from the Iraq War,
Military Contractors See a World
of Business Opportunities.
http://www.indypendent.org/?p=1230
By Jeremy Scahill
www.indypendent.org/?pagename=author_search&a=Jeremy%20Scahill
If you think the U.S. has only 160,000 troops
in Iraq, think again.
With almost no congressional oversight and
even less public awareness, the Bush
administration has more than doubled the
size of the U.S. occupation through the use
of private war companies.
There are now almost 200,000 private "contractors"
deployed in Iraq by Washington. This means that
U.S. military forces in Iraq are now outsized by a
coalition of billing corporations whose actions
go largely unmonitored and whose crimes are
virtually unpunished. ...
http://www.indypendent.org/?p=1230
On Sep 17, 12:34 am, Zargoza Max <maze@liturgical.salts.org> wrote:
Planet Jupiter wrote:
Daniel "BreakingOpenTheHead" Pinchbeck's mistake
was in Taking Whitley "BuzzKill" Strieber ever so
seriously in these the absurd 'latter day
hurrying up end-times of hyper-convoluted complexity...'
Better to spend 179 minutes viewing David Lynch's
"INLAND EMPIRE," DVD: http://www.inlandempirecinema.com/
than get one's biochemistry all in a wave-dysfunctional-
state-vector-collapsed Find Muck!
Re: Terence McKenna Land http://deoxy.org/mckenna.htm
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On Jun 15, 2007 at 6:16AM, "Daniel Pinchbeck" <daniel@breakingopenthehead.com> wrote:
If anybody has a coherent point to make,
they can propose an article or essay for
my new web magazine, www.realitysandwich.com .
Yours,
dp
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
(-)(_)(-)
And...
Alien Dreamtime: My Fight with Whitley Strieber
by Daniel Pinchbeck
http://www.realitysandwich.com/node/516
[...] with the bestselling author of
alien abduction memoirs and science
fiction novels, and Dreamtime radio
host, Whitley Strieber. Both Strieber
and I were surprised by the virulence
of this verbal battle - he said that I
had assaulted him in his very being,
and that we were no longer friends - but
actually it was quite predictable based
on my analysis of his work and the alien
abduction phenomenon in 2012. Strieber
writes on his view of our argument here:
http://www.unknowncountry.com/journal/?id=300
The fight began as I explained my hypothesis
about 2012, noting aspects of our current
world that are unsustainable and will have
to change drastically if we are going thrive,
or even survive, as a species. I found that
Strieber kept harping on the negative aspects
of the situation, proclaiming that the
Internet was about to be overtaken by
corporate interests, and so on. He also
stated that there was going to be a huge
"die-off" of the human species in the
immediate future. He reiterated that this
was "definitely going to happen," and that
he "believed" it.
I argued that nobody knows what is going
to happen in the future, that at the moment
the earth is managing to support the human
population, and if we utilized our resources
better, incorporating new techniques and
alternative energy technologies, we might
not have to experience a massive, traumatic
die off at all. Strieber continued to assert
that this "die-off" was a fact -- that he
had done "the math," and there was no way
around it. As far as I know, Strieber is not
trained as an evolutionary biologist, and
even if he was, experts are continually
proven wrong. [...]
http://www.realitysandwich.com/node/516
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On Tuesday September 11th, 2007, "Whitley Strieber" <whitley@strieber.com>,
<news@unknowncountry.com> wrote:
War in Dreamland!
http://www.unknowncountry.com/journal/?id=300
[...] Pinchbeck accuses me of bringing on a dark future
by predicting it. That's magical thinking, and just as
impotent as its opposite--that you can create a positive
future by believing in it.
I say in the program that I believe that mankind is
going to experience a dieback, and this makes Pinchbeck
furious because he fears that just by saying something
like that, it will become true. I don't want to put
words in another man's mouth, but I had the impression
that he sees me as a sort of viral particle of negativism,
and that my perspective is designed to bring on the
destructions of which I warn--presumably, so that my
evil alien masters can inherit the ruined planet,
I suppose. [...]
http://www.unknowncountry.com/journal/?id=300
See also: http://www.realitysandwich.com/node/516
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Moon Monolith wrote:
DID YOU KNOW That *THE JINN* invented the
electric toaster oven?!! Hard to believe??!
YES! BUT...
It's ALL TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!
THE CHIEF CHARACTERISTICS OF THE JINNS
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/jinns.htm
THE SOUL OF MAN IS THE OBJECT OF THE WAR,
AND MAN HIMSELF IS THE BATTLEFIELD.
DR. RUDOLPH STEINER
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/jinns.htm
!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!
Visions of the Jinn
Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips
Ibn Taymeeyah's Essay on the Jinn
http://www.islaam.com/Article.asp?id=75
JINN: http://muttaqun.com/jinn.html
!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!
The Land That Developmental Time Forgot
http://primal-page.com/godwin.htm
Neuropsychological Bases of God Beliefs
http://primal-page.com/lobe.htm
"Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily,
merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream."
"There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of
success, nor more dangerous to manage, than a creation of
a new order of things." -- Machiavelli 'The Prince'
http://home.netcarrier.com/~rstevens/Karl_Rove-SS.jpg
<snip>
Doomsday in 2012?
by Dan Eden for ViewZone
http://www.mondovista.com/endtime.html
[...]
"... December 21, 2012, is a special day.
It represents the maximum possible
influences for solar flares..."
http://www.mondovista.com/endtime.html
"...It's also important to stress that
December 21, 2012 is only the
'solar maximum' but that the
gravitational effects of the Galaxy
have already started to assert their
influence on the Sun. The drift
towards alignment with the galactic
equator is relatively slow and, in
truth, has already started. But the
precise culmination of this, plus
the alignment of Jupiter and
Saturn all make 12/21/12
an onimous date. ..."
"... Our solar system is part of a huge disc
shaped collection of stars and planets called
the Milky Way. We're located somewhere on
the edge of the disc, slightly on top of the
narrow disc. But very soon we'll be moving to
the bottom of the disc. This change, from top
to bottom, begins on December 21, 2012.
On the same day when our Sun is at it's
solar maximum, the ecliptic of our solar
system will intersect with the Galactic plane,
called the "Galactic Equator" of the Milky Way!"
D. Eden http://www.mondovista.com/endtime.html
Dr. Rollin Gillespie
http://www.mondovista.com/paper01.html
Another Movie About the 2012 Apocalypse --
This One is for the Kiddies
http://news.survive2012.com/2007/05/another-2012-movie.html
5/17/2007 6:02PM by Christopher Campbell
In about five-and-a-half years, the world will
supposedly end. Don't worry, though, because
it will be a lot of fun. That is the impression I
get from Nickelodeon Films, anyway.
The kid-friendly division of Paramount is making
an action-adventure for the whole family that is
based on the idea that the apocalypse is coming
in December of 2012. Called simply 2012, the
movie will be about a family vacation during
that fateful month when, according to the Mayan
calendar, and some UFO theorists, something
devastating is expected to take place. 2012 will
be written by Tom Astle and Matt Ember, and it
will probably be directed by Tom Dey -- all three
of whom were responsible for Failure to Launch.
This is the second movie we've heard about so
far that has to do with the Mayan doomsday
prediction. The first is an adaptation of
Whitley Streiber's upcoming book
2012: The War for Souls, which Michael Bay
is making for Warner Bros. Though Nickelodeon's
2012 should be much lighter in tone, I have to
assume that the whole premise will still be a
bit scary for the intended audience -- unless
kids these days just aren't afraid of the end
of the world as much as I was (and honestly
still am). According to Variety, those involved
with 2012 have some time before they'll be
able to get started on the movie. Currently,
Astle and Ember are writing the
direct-to-video spin-off Get Smarter:
Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control and
reportedly Dey is expected to be
committing to other projects ahead
of this one. The trio better not take
too long, though, because they're
running out of time. In only six years,
either the movie will lose all relevance,
or we won't be around to see it.
www.cinematical.com/2007/05/17/another-movie-about-the-2012-apocalypse-this-one-is-for-the-k/
Sean Carroll
http://cosmicvariance.com/sean/
http://preposterousuniverse.com/
Scientists Simulate NDE:
Evidence SUGGESTS "Soul" Does NOT Exist:
http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/96865-1/
See also:
"Hold out your arm in front of you.
Whenever you feel like it,
of your own free will, flex your
wrist. Repeat this a few
times, making sure you do it as
consciously as you can.
You'll probably experience some
kind of decision process,
in which you hold back from doing
anything and then decide
to act. Now ask yourself, what
began the process that led
to the action? Was it you?" [...]
http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/journalism/NSmeme%201999.htm
[...]
The term meme was coined by biologist Richard Dawkins in his
1976 book, The Selfish Gene, which explored the principles
of Darwinism. Charles Darwin's insight is simple, yet often
misunderstood. It is this. If organisms vary, if only some
of them can survive, and if whatever helped them survive is
passed to their offspring, then the offspring will be better
adapted than their parents were. In this way the organisms
become designed, by the blind processes of copying and
selection, for the environment in which they live.
As Dawkins puts it, if you have variation, selection and
heredity, then you must have evolution.
Darwin did not have the benefit of our modern concept of
an algorithm, nor our tendency to look at everything from
fundamental physical processes to life itself in terms of
information. Yet he saw how this mindless procedure could
produce design without a designer. It was the American
philosopher Daniel Dennett who dubbed the process
"the evolutionary algorithm". At its heart is the
information that is copied, or the replicator.
In biological evolution, the replicators are genes,
but there is no reason why there should not be other
evolutionary systems, with other replicators.
This was Dawkins's point--that Darwin's insight
was too important to confine it solely to
biology--and he wanted another example.
So he invented the meme.
[...]
There is a long and venerable tradition of thinkers
who have rejected the idea of a real and persistent self.
The Buddha proclaimed that actions and their consequences
exist, but that the person who acts does not.
According to the Buddhist doctrine of anatta,
the self is more like an ever-changing construction
than a solid entity. The 18th-century philosopher
David Hume likened the self to a bundle of sensations
tied together by a common history.
Using more contemporary metaphors, Dennett argues that
the brain builds multiple drafts of what is happening
as information flows through its parallel networks.
One of these drafts becomes the story we tell ourselves
and includes the idea of an author of the story,
or a user of the brain's virtual machine--consciousness
is a "benign user illusion". So rather than being a
permanent, persisting entity, the self may be more like
a story about a self that does not really exist.
I believe these ideas have implications for the way
we live. As society becomes more complex, and memes
spread faster and farther, so our selves become more
complicated. The unhappiness, desperation and
psychological ill-health of many modern people may
reflect the fact that increasing numbers of memes
are using our poor over-stretched brains to construct
a false self for their own propagation. Perhaps the
user illusion is not so benign after all. Some would
even say that belief in a permanent self is the cause
of all human suffering--of fear, jealousy,
hatred and unkindness.
But is it possible to live life without the illusion?
One way might be to calm your mind. Techniques such as
meditation, say, can still the memes that are constantly
competing for your brain space, forcing you to keep
thinking. Long traditions of training in meditation
show this is possible: that years of practice can bring
emptiness, compassion and clarity of mind. Meditation,
at its simplest, consists of just sitting quietly and
clearing the mind of all thoughts, and then,
when more arise, just letting them go.
Meditation is itself a meme, but is, if you like,
a meme-clearing meme. Its effect is not to obliterate
all awareness, but rather to create an awareness
that is more spacious and open, and seems, perhaps
paradoxically, to be without a self who
is experiencing it.
If this memetic analysis is correct, the choices
you make are not made by an inner self who has
free will, but are just the consequence of the
replicators playing out their competition in a
particular environment. In the process they create
the illusion of a self who is in control.
Dawkins ends The Selfish Gene with his famous
claim that: "We, alone on earth, can rebel
against the tyranny of the selfish replicators".
Yet, if we take his idea of memes seriously, and push
it to its logical conclusion, we find that there is no
one left to rebel.
http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/journalism/NSmeme%201999.htm
George W. Bush's Favorite Museum?!
http://www.creationmuseum.org/about
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/19/3275/
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2872252.ece
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