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offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-07-10 11:17 [#02305537]
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I feel that I will believe most anything that sounds
rational because it maybe feels secure? Like the information
i offered in the previous thread i posted...I watched a clip
on the"venus project"

That is just horrible. Showing clips of spaceships and "this
is the future"

There will never be a Utopia because humans are competitive
by nature.

Peter Joseph proposes the sembiotic connection with nature,
yet he is trying to offer ways away from it. sounds like NWO
all over again.

Fuck it i think i'm just gonna enjoy my time in this
shithole while i still can i guess

Sorry bout the blogpost


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2009-07-10 11:48 [#02305540]
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cool sorted. :)



 

offline larn from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2009-07-10 12:06 [#02305547]
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Even if this new resource based system was in operation,
how do you offer incentive for someone to become a doctor
instead of being a maintenance worker?, because the doctors
would need 10 years of training and maintenance worker only
would need say 1 year of training, but they would both
inherent the same material properties and privileges . So i
don't really see how it can work based on that problem of
incentive.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-07-10 12:17 [#02305548]
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that's true, I feel that it's more sensible and
compassionate to build and change from our current
situation, rather than to propose a grand vision for the
future.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-07-10 12:20 [#02305549]
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well with a job-based society, it's competitive by nature as
well, so trying to incorporate a workforce into a
technocratic-nature society seems assinign anyway.


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2009-07-10 12:28 [#02305550]
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humans are not competitive by nature. not even dogs, lions,
bears, ants, or sharks. there is no competition in nature.
in a culture or society though there is competition.
societies are not natural so that is why there is
competition in them. nothing has any independent existence.
since all things are inter-dependent in nature, there is no
competition. its a living, complex organism. you dont look
at some clouds and say, "well, that cloud is bigger than the
other one, and it seems to be going over there and joining
that other one, they must be at war."


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-07-10 12:38 [#02305553]
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haha what? We are individual entities, and we all posses a
consciousness, it's not like we can see ourselves as a huge
organism anyway do that is really unrealistic. We as humans
(or if you include all animals as well also) are not some
giant collective consciousness, we all have the ability to
walk away from the pack, or join up and stay with the herd,
we all have the ability to kill ourselves, but unfortunately
to live we have to find ways to co-exist with others in
order to survive.

And yes i agree that in society, there is competition, which
may also explain the competition seen in nature, people seem
to think that animals have always been competitve, (ie. a
pack of lions w/e) but this may only be a result of the
human's affect on planet earth.

And clouds are very different from a living organism.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-07-10 12:39 [#02305554]
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*so that is really unrealistic


 

offline RussellDust on 2009-07-10 12:41 [#02305557]
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"well, that cloud is bigger than the
other one, and it seems to be going over there and joining
that other one, they must be at war."

errrm what can i say...that's a really odd example. You've
thought this through right?


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-07-10 12:43 [#02305558]
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pee pee poo poo


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-07-10 12:45 [#02305559]
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wieners


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-07-10 12:56 [#02305561]
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should i read this thread? is it any good?


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-07-10 12:57 [#02305562]
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ask because i generally skip over long posts (>2 lines) and
i noticed a lot of them in here


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-07-10 13:00 [#02305563]
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yeah after every two sentences i type i usually have to
remember what i'm writing about, it's like trying to sum up
10 lines in advance.


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2009-07-10 13:18 [#02305565]
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"not even dogs, lions,
bears, ants, or sharks. there is no competition in nature.
"

well, i'm quite sure there's no competition between dogs and
sharks. but competition in nature exists :D


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2009-07-10 13:23 [#02305566]
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haha what? We are individual entities, and we all posses
a
consciousness


without the cygnus there is no pulseclock. the universe
doesn't work without pulseclock, because we need to know
what a non-pulseclock is, which is what everything else
would be. then we can chop that up and get a cygnus out of
it. then we can create an illusion of separation, allow for
something like competition to "exist"

watch a pack of lions tear apart the wildebeast, they are
inter-dependent on each other. are they not? the prey is not
prey if there is not a predator. there is no predator if
there is no prey. they require each other. they are one
thing. competition implies there is more than one thing, and
one thing can possibly be superior to the other. the truth
is, the one thing is completely dependent on the other
thing.

so, even if that supreme being reaches total supremacy, it
will divide itself up. it needs non-supreme things to be
supreme. it will take parts of its' supreme self and make
them not-supreme.

And clouds are very different from a living organism.


is it? you are made up of 80% water. a cloud is water. it
is water in a gaseous state. you seem to be closely related
to a cloud then.


 

offline yoyoyoyo from Sweden on 2009-07-10 13:49 [#02305571]
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Above The Clouds


 

offline larn from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2009-07-10 14:58 [#02305583]
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Peter joseph talks about scarcity in nature, and that is why
animals are competitive, if they were fed from the sky, then
the idea is that they would not be competitive at all, but i
disagree somewhat, animals are very territorial, will fight
for land and some male species like to dominate other males
to attract females etc . So basically, animals want, food,
sex and land. animals will accept food falling from the sky
and not compete for it. animals will never stay in the same
place, so you can't give them all a fair share of land, and
they will always venture away from home looking for females.
so you can see clearly my point.

Peter joseph discusses very important issues about the human
condition, mass social engineering, control of resources,
which is as he says is socially crippling because it stops
us from really reaching our full potential. However he tries
to cover too much ground with some guess work and patchy
research, leaving many points and arguments to be thrown
back at him. But still, he is right in saying we need to try
a new approach and wake up to what is really going on around
us.

regards

Larn


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-07-10 14:59 [#02305584]
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im just gonna reply to your second sentence and say if you
didn't exist, i would still be here. Just like if i was
never born, you would still exist. The fact that i didn't
know you existed 5 years ago is proof of that.


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2009-07-10 15:09 [#02305590]
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there may be a utopia after we make contact with some alien
species and realize we can compete with them instead of
amongst ourselves.


 

offline larn from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2009-07-10 15:15 [#02305592]
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hi :P


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2009-07-10 15:16 [#02305593]
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Hi Larn :)


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2009-07-10 15:16 [#02305595]
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in the moment, right now, in which you are using these
symbols to form thoughts that make sense to you, you are
making me exist. i did not exist before this moment, and the
present moment is all there ever is. the future has not come
yet, the past is already gone. you are making me exist by
reading these words and believing that the thoughts and
feelings that arise within you because of them are coming
from another person. i am doing the same thing with you. we
are creating each other. we are totally dependent upon one
another. in this moment, right now, you are giving me life,
as i am to you.


 

offline RussellDust on 2009-07-10 15:17 [#02305596]
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Welcome to another edition of Bedtime Thinkers!


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-07-10 15:31 [#02305597]
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id like to contribute to this thread


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-07-10 15:33 [#02305598]
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if animals were fed from the sky thered be seom pretty cool
animals


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-07-10 15:34 [#02305599]
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my fish compete, they race to the food when i put it in
there. i just got some snails yesterday too they are neat


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-07-10 15:35 [#02305601]
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snails are the coolest animal to me right now


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2009-07-10 15:36 [#02305602]
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Joining us this evening to discuss these pressing maters we
have Cygnus, a laptop battle veteran and graduate of the
University of Bollocks, Mr Larn, the eminent thinker on
consumerism and waffle distribution and finally Pulseclock,
a man whose thoughts make me feel I'm locked in a coffin
watching a mouse make a tiny gallows to hang itself.


 

offline RussellDust on 2009-07-10 15:36 [#02305603]
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Seahorses are pretty sweet


 

offline Steinvordhosbn from London (United Kingdom) on 2009-07-10 15:36 [#02305604]
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I am that mouse.


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-07-10 15:37 [#02305606]
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if seahorses had shells theyd definitely be the coolest
animal


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2009-07-10 15:38 [#02305607]
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Human beings are definitely competitive in nature. Take two
human males who are normally docile, put them in a room with
an attractive female, and they will start competing with
each other until one or the other has the females
attention.

Nature is one massive cesspool of violence and hostility.
People seem to think that because trees, plants and house
pets are cute and aesthetically pleasing, that it means that
nature is some friendly flower than sings love songs and
shits fairy dust. Nature moderates itself by creating
animals that kill plants and insects, and other animals to
kill those animals. It requires this to keep everything
flowing.


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-07-10 15:39 [#02305608]
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i wonder what the nicest animal is. the animal that never
kills anything


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-07-10 15:41 [#02305610]
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its not cats cuz my cats have killed mice and bugs and i
think one of them maybe ate a bunch of baby hamsters once


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2009-07-10 15:43 [#02305611]
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Joining us this evening to discuss these pressing maters we
have Cygnus, a laptop battle veteran and graduate of the
University of Bollocks, Mr Larn, the eminent thinker on
consumerism and waffle distribution and finally Pulseclock,
a man whose thoughts make me feel I'm locked in a coffin
watching a mouse make a tiny gallows to hang itself.


 

offline RussellDust on 2009-07-10 15:47 [#02305613]
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Steinvordhosbn is that mouse!


 

offline Steinvordhosbn from London (United Kingdom) on 2009-07-10 15:49 [#02305614]
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Thank you for that eulogy, because I am now hanging lifeless
by my little mouse neck.

Doot Doot.


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2009-07-10 15:50 [#02305615]
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What happend there!? I went to make a cup of tea and it
posts again?


 

offline RussellDust on 2009-07-10 15:52 [#02305617]
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Apparently hides in water. aww, a mouse deer.


 

offline Steinvordhosbn from London (United Kingdom) on 2009-07-10 15:55 [#02305619]
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If you're as busy as I am then I imagine you've outsourced
your messageboard postings to an economical alternative in
India, where 24/7 dedicated staff come up with comments
based on your profile and browsing habits. Not all services
are as reliable as others however, and you do get what you
pay for.


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-07-10 15:57 [#02305621]
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im available to post for 5.00/post. high quality and trust
worthy


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-07-10 15:57 [#02305622]
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payment in xltronic points of course


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2009-07-10 15:58 [#02305623]
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8 (


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2009-07-10 16:18 [#02305630]
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Human beings are definitely competitive in nature. Take
two
human males who are normally docile, put them in a room
with
an attractive female, and they will start competing with
each other until one or the other has the females
attention.


humans are competitive by the standards of the society they
were raised in. if you were to get jivverdicker and a person
with creative ability locked in a room with a keyboard,
theyre both going to look at the keyboard differently. you
have conflicting interests that are the result of totally
differing upbringings.

you and i can't understand this because we are cultural
people. we are not very natural. there probably hasn't been
a natural person for thousands and thousands of years.

there is nothing present in nature that asks for
competition, or for any organism to think it is separate
from another organism, "superior" or what ever. that is
created by culture. spiders have poison to kill prey so they
can eat, not be "superior". competition implies that one
thing is better than the other. it implies non-balance.
nature is balanced. if a lion kills the wildebeast it's not
competition. they both win. there is no struggle.


 

offline RussellDust on 2009-07-10 16:20 [#02305631]
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wow


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-07-10 16:22 [#02305632]
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so are we talking about kids raised by wolfs


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-07-10 16:22 [#02305633]
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cuz i was raised by wolfs


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2009-07-10 16:24 [#02305635]
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utopia is inside of the "struggle" that pulseclock was
talking about, is all i am saying. struggle, violence needs
peace to exist. the two things are never separate. you cant
be and feel broke without knowing what its like to be and
feel rich


 

offline RussellDust on 2009-07-10 16:28 [#02305636]
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Imagine cygnus and cx in a room with a keyboard! I bet all
wars would end and famine would no longer exist. Within
minutes.


 


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