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For the 3.5 years I have lived in New York I would often see this building and think what a wonderful photograph it would make. I'm glad to say that I was not disappointed.
Holga
Kodak Portra 400VC
Cloudy
1/60 sec
f/8
11 inches of snow on the Piedmont of North Carolina
9 December 2018
Paraphrasing a 50's TV show I enjoyed: [Have Beer – Won't Travel]
Shot with my very old Kodak Retina Reflex III, the camera which was passed down to me by my father and which ignited my youthful passion in photography. It's a little cranky about film transport, but still makes a nice photograph when it is not stacking the photos one atop the other.
This is Pepe'...not my dog. Pepe' believes it is his mission in life to bite as many people as possible as often as possible. His thought at the moment this image was taken was, "How can I get around this camera to bite this guy." Despite a lack of social skills, I really like Pepe'; I prefer my friends, whether they're people or dogs, with a little attitude, even if it's a chihuahua with the world's biggest Napoleon complex.
"I ain’t no dingo and this ain’t Australia.”
The truth shall set you free, or kill you trying to get there.
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Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum
"If You Wish For Peace; Prepare For War"
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“We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.” -- Benjamin Franklin
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson
“When the people fear the government, that's tyranny; when the government fears the people, that's freedom.” -- Thomas Jefferson
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Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
Public Papers of the Presidents, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960, p. 1035- 1040
My fellow Americans:
Three days from now, after half a century in the service of our country, I shall lay down the responsibilities of office as, in traditional and solemn ceremony, the authority of the Presidency is vested in my successor.
This evening I come to you with a message of leave-taking and farewell, and to share a few final thoughts with you, my countrymen.
Like every other citizen, I wish the new President, and all who will labor with him, Godspeed. I pray that the coming years will be blessed with peace and prosperity for all.
Our people expect their President and the Congress to find essential agreement on issues of great moment, the wise resolution of which will better shape the future of the Nation.
My own relations with the Congress, which began on a remote and tenuous basis when, long ago, a member of the Senate appointed me to West Point, have since ranged to the intimate during the war and immediate post-war period, and, finally, to the mutually interdependent during these past eight years.
In this final relationship, the Congress and the Administration have, on most vital issues, cooperated well, to serve the national good rather than mere partisanship, and so have assured that the business of the Nation should go forward. So, my official relationship with the Congress ends in a feeling, on my part, of gratitude that we have been able to do so much together.
II.
We now stand ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witnessed four major wars among great nations. Three of these involved our own country. Despite these holocausts America is today the strongest, the most influential and most productive nation in the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet realize that America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.
III.
Throughout America's adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among people and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people. Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad.
Progress toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world. It commands our whole attention, absorbs our very beings. We face a hostile ideology -- global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method. Unhappily the danger is poses promises to be of indefinite duration. To meet it successfully, there is called for, not so much the emotional and transitory sacrifices of crisis, but rather those which enable us to carry forward steadily, surely, and without complaint the burdens of a prolonged and complex struggle -- with liberty the stake. Only thus shall we remain, despite every provocation, on our charted course toward permanent peace and human betterment.
Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties. A huge increase in newer elements of our defense; development of unrealistic programs to cure every ill in agriculture; a dramatic expansion in basic and applied research -- these and many other possibilities, each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to the road we wish to travel.
But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs -- balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped for advantage -- balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable; balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual; balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.
The record of many decades stands as proof that our people and their government have, in the main, understood these truths and have responded to them well, in the face of stress and threat. But threats, new in kind or degree, constantly arise. I mention two only.
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A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.
Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present
and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.
It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system -- ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.
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Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
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Down the long lane of the history yet to be written America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Such a confederation must be one of equals. The weakest must come to the conference table with the same confidence as do we, protected as we are by our moral, economic, and military strength. That table, though scarred by many past frustrations, cannot be abandoned for the certain agony of the battlefield.
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. Because this need is so sharp and apparent I confess that I lay down my official responsibilities in this field with a definite sense of disappointment. As one who has witnessed the horror and the lingering sadness of war -- as one who knows that another war could utterly destroy this civilization which has been so slowly and painfully built over thousands of years -- I wish I could say tonight that a lasting peace is in sight.
Happily, I can say that war has been avoided. Steady progress toward our ultimate goal has been made. But, so much remains to be done. As a private citizen, I shall never cease to do what little I can to help the world advance along that road.
VII.
So -- in this my last good night to you as your President -- I thank you for the many opportunities you have given me for public service in war and peace. I trust that in that service you find some things worthy; as for the rest of it, I know you will find ways to improve performance in the future.
You and I -- my fellow citizens -- need to be strong in our faith that all nations, under God, will reach the goal of peace with justice. May we be ever unswerving in devotion to principle, confident but humble with power, diligent in pursuit of the Nation's great goals.
To all the peoples of the world, I once more give expression to America's prayerful and continuing aspiration:
We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.
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IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
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“We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.” -- Benjamin Franklin
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson
“When the people fear the government, that's tyranny; when the government fears the people, that's freedom.” -- Thomas Jefferson
A shot of all my 311 albums... in no particular order.
Not many people care about (or even know of) 311 Day. March is the third month, so the 11th day of March would be 311 Day. The lead singer is from Madison, which is where I'm from and live. Not only that, but this is the only band that automatically puts me in a better mood every single time I hear them. I think that's pretty important. These guys are pretty positive in their lyrics, which doesn't really meld with how I write or even think, but it works out somehow. Maybe it's because my music is so opposite from theirs, I don't know.
Find me:
Municipal Auditorium - Downtown Nashville, Tennessee
When President Donald Trump visited Nashville, I documented his visit. It was a cold sunny day in March, but I had a great time capturing the excitement and the protest surrounding his arrival. You can read about that day and see more pictures on my blog: 45 Visits Music City.
Olympus OM1
Olympus OM Zuiko 50mm f1.8
Kodak TRI-X 400
Developed by The FINDlab
Restoring Honor Tea Party Rally : Washington D.C. starring Glenn Beck & Sarah Palin.
Yes, these american patriots are consciously standing on their Don't Tread On Me Flags, without the slightest hint of irony between them. Dude between them represents being fucking funny or Rush Limbaugh.
A member of “The Leap Frogs”, the official parachute demonstration team of the United States Navy, descends into San Francisco Bay carrying a flag bearing the words "Don’t Tread On Me"......a historic expression of American patriotism and freedom.
Had a guest artist and brother in arms Brandon in my shop on Friday to try his hand at knife making. It was nice to get behind the lens again.
When will assault rifles finally be judged by the content of their shooters' character?
When you hear a spray of bullets, that's just the sound of freedom, I guess.
Some people do so love to twist the words of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King to fit their own narrative.
I might come back for a wider shot revealing all the flags and banners flying here. It's a scene that encompasses all the memes.
I was photographing my first timber rattlesnake when this second one showed up. Unlike the first snake, which had clearly made itself known, the newcomer was missing its rattle (it still shook its tail valiantly when I first approached). As it moved across the forest floor, the snake constantly probed the substrate with its snout, intently trailing a scent (other snake? chipmunk?). So preoccupied, the animal soon became unconcerned by my presence, and I followed it for several minutes, watching it search. Amazing experience!
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A member of the U.S. Navy's "Leap Frogs" parachute team descends toward the Marina Green in San Francisco. The flag beneath this parachutist is the First Navy Jack, first flown during the American Revolution.
U.S. Navy "Leap Frogs" web site:
First Navy Jack (Wikipedia):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Navy_Jack
Fleet Week 2018
San Francisco, California
Photographed from the Marina Green
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The connection between the ancient Galactic Culture, the health of the stellar culture and their planets, and the progress of our culture and biology is all connected.
Technology is Earth pride, Patriotism, and the very essence of civilisation throughout the Universe.
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You are never going to turn me into someone who abuses children no matter how long you argue to make it sound otherwise.
I'm tired of listening to your insanity.
The material, our spirits, the stars, the planets, and the people of Earth should be able to do what they want to, and if you want to control us... you should have to rationally explain why... IN WHATEVER SPRITUALITY WE CHOOSE TO BELIEVE IN , NOT YOURS. AND ESPECIALLY NOT IF YOUR ENTIRE WORLD VIEW IS BUILT UPON TRYING TO PROVE THAT "LIFE MAKES NO SENSE".
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I believe that the energy that makes you a living being is not ONLY the protons that course through your nervous system.
I believe that electrons and neutrons are also living, and so is everything else, because its really all made of essentially the same stuff just in different quantities and combinations. And that works across multiple levels of life.
I believe that for there to be an omnipotent being, all of the material in the Universe would have to have the same thought moving through it, and that would require an enormous amount of communication. You are a piece of the same living Universe that I am, so the more we learn how to put all of the pieces together correctly, I hope that would mean we would all learn how to create more valuable and enjoyable life experiences for each other and for ourselves.
My theory concerning religion is that its a very long story and its divided up into many parts, and most of it is small biological organisms on the surface of a planet misunderstanding or trying to learn and comprehend their life and the lives of the Universe around them to varying degrees of success.
I have found that there is a lot of information that relates to planets and stars and the sorts of issues and ideas that they concern themselves with, such as gravity and resource management and catalysing things with ideas and communication, since they don't have limbs to pick things up, they have to learn how to inspire changes instead of forcing them. A lot of that is channeled into spirituality, and on our level, when people have momentarily figured out to hack, reverse engineer it, or listen to it and become adept enough at communicating to become a legitimate part of it, it can have profound and unexpected effects upon the universe that are called "magic", "channeling", "possession", "godhood", etc...
A lot of Christianity was working on understanding the forces of gravity, for example. I think some of it was hacking and some of it was earnest attempts to cooperate and learn.
As for the idea of ONE, that is a powerful meme. Much of it comes from Gravity again, as having a focal point to gather at if you get lost is rather helpful when your energy gets small enough that you turn into what we call field effects, such as electromagnetism and (I think) gravity although the complication with gravity is that its a field that moves in a direction hyperdimensionally that our senses are not very good at perceiving when we are bound into 3 dimensional bodies.
I think most of the story right now on Earth is us starting to grow up a little, and the confusion around such an unexpected event, since we grew up inside someone's attempt to hack into the communications of the transmitter pods tend the materials and transmit organic life signals, and these hackers seemed to be trying to seed themselves onto planet surfaces like Earth's and they were messing around with things here long enough to really mess us up in some ways over the last few thousand years.
Genetics and evolution are very intentional and took a long time to design, both in the organics of the stars and planets, and in the technological cultures that have grown up since then, and that's a whole freaking lifetime of study on that topic I'm certain, and I'm relatively new to it so I'm a bit reticent to say much more.
Having faith... that is a rough question.
As long as there are voices in the Universe that want to hurt other peices, I think being skeptical is a good idea, since complete faith means you would have to trust those voices completely and know certainly that they can never be hacked into, impersonated, momentarily weakened into a mindset that could harm you, or change their minds and decide to fuck your shit up.
I do try to trust voices that sound reasonable, and since I believe in a pleasure-building mindset, its rather easy for me to notice behaviors and concepts that go against my beliefs.
I believe we were intentionally created to have limited perceptions so that we would be easy to play with for an older level of life, but that's another one of those "seems so but also seems like there's more going on there." Like, I've been seeing that something strong in gravity has been using decision making pathways to challenge us and try to catalyse us, and on one level its the planets and stars, but on another level, some of us seem to have recently started figuring all of that out and taking advantage of that knowledge to literally pretend to be either the sun or the Earth or their enemies to trick everything around them into serving human interests.
That's part of what I have been having to untangle.
I think the pathway I was given was to be taught a more aware interactivity, and then they invested in me only on the human level, so that whoever else was trying to influence the human level would be discovered through deductive reasoning.
I don't think existence is beyond out comprehension, I simply think we are small enough that we have a hard time holding very much of it in our minds, so instead of memorising all the various details and pathways, I try to hold a "navigation system model" in my mind, and just follow that when I feel lost.
When there is dissonance between what my navigation system is telling me, and what the spirits are telling me, I simply skew towards whatever choice is rationally more stable and pleasurable, or less painful and chaotic (dissonant).
So far if feels fairly effective! (this is another one of those ideas thats been around for millions of years, and some people call it a moral compass, some call it ethics, I think the greeks called it the trivium, etc...)
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Anyways, when I was young, and the elements of life that I was aware of were few, my compass was somewhat different than how I feel today. I think I was pretty good at listening, and I have a kind heart, but was hurt enough to be skeptical so I ended up starting to bump into some great teaching moments rather early.
The more of the Universe that I have been starting to empathise with and learn how to respect and pleasure or serve, the better my navigation through various complex situations has been.
There are a few areas where I feel completely out of my depth, but that is most because of lack of information that is consistent and rational enough that I trust my comprehension model.
For the most part, if you play Katalyka, you are seeing some of the more fun parts of my navigation system in play on levels beyond the average human's experience (at least as human experience is advertised and communicated about conversationally, on average).
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I made refining my navigation model my full time job for about three or four years straight, and much of it was rather painful and confusing to go through, partially because I think we were testing limits of perception overlap and there were also about 4 or 5 different beings (at least) that were actively trying to influence the situation in various directions at different times.
Once I was able to get Holistic Rationality down and understood it enough, that formed a good part of how I work through slightly larger problems than the ones I can hold in my head comfortably, such as interactions with multiple variables that I want to map and see all of their relationships at the same time.
One of the things that drew me to it as a stable format was that it is based on the physics of interaction on enough levels (such as the basics of the four rivers and the upper numbers being relevant to pretty much anything that operates as a sphere) that if you want to stray too far from it, you literally are risking breaking yourself apart on the atomic level.
That's why zero is called "Stability"
Its not so much that I'm trying to control reality or hurt anything, its just that my navigational model has gotten so accurate that anything that wants to argue with the fundamentals themselves is literally in danger of killing itself. The more we extrapolate and navigate the esoteric ends of the system, the more room there is for debate and variation obviously, but then again, the less the discussion matters in the grand scheme, so I try to stay focused on large inconsistencies or issues that seem important to large collections of life, as that will have the most efficient output for the investment of my time.
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The main problem seems to be coming from all the locations that are trying to remain secretive for one reason or another, so when we try to suss them out, they throw lots of noise at us and misdirection.
They usually seem to try to create an innocent victim to hold up and then they use that victim's name so new beings that are new to the situation will know who to attack.
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King Akhenaten, Pharoh of Egypt became the first of the Egyptian rulers 4500 years ago to change their culture from polytheism to the worship of ONE GOD.
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Unless something can rise up against this ONE GOD to oppose it, and prove its power, then this is truly the signal to return to the center of life and rebuild our stability.
Worshipping many Gods is the idea that we are moving outward and expanding, as the stars and planets play and individuate without harming themselves.
One God means that the Galactic Culture has clearly communicated to itself across many levels that distance is too great and that we are in danger of freezing in chaos if we worship many Gods.
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The argument that Satan made in 2008, was not that it was an option to a Loving God The Father.
No, Satan demonstrated her power mostly by attempting to prove to me that she was THE REAL God of the Bible, and that a loving God The Father was simply a ruse or a pawn.
Unless Satan can show me that there are OTHER Gods than her, above her, or peers on her own level, then we have to clearly pull together toward Singularity.
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That means it would truly be the moment of realisation that Earth's culture is over as a heavy atomic lifeform and will begin to transfer into the Hydrogen and become something else, or is going to be consumed by the hydrogen and not exist at all.
Satan, you job is to figure out how to pull the planets back into the sun and then moving the sun toward the center of the Galaxy so we can survive.
The longer this is neglected, the colder we become.
I feel nothing.
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You can't make me a child abuser, because I am too tiny.
However, if the Galactic Culture needs to eat its own children to save itself and their material, because they are stars surrounded by planets, then I eagerly await being consumed by life.
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"Live fast, die young, and leave a pretty corpse"
Pull me in while we still have a wealth of resources for Hydrogen to play with.
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