RichardY

If someone is a mass murdering sociopath, who finds murder funny. I don't vote for them. Or those aligned with them.

@Jcent The Scaleability problem would effectively solve itself, being more of a psychological problem, lateral as opposed to top-down, Cult like....... There is always some kid who's good at Art or Maths or whatever, if they teach to 2 or 3 that helps distribute the load. The important thing being that they are willing to do so, which would depend on various factors. Teachers in the UK and USA are probably the most unionised and vocal profession there is, you never ever see teacher layoffs, ever. Police and military can all be more easily made redundant despite being life and death. Or numbers dramatically reduced and outsourced. The video game thing was more of a joke, in reference to a video game of the same name. Although there are online schools developing, especially in the USA where homeschooling is more accepted. The sheer weight of available reasoning and referencing has got to have some sort of impact, if not censored or drowned out. Say this and that though. This is one big mammoth of an undertaking, whose ramifications are massive. Treat it with the respect it deserves. At the moment it's a very thin line between fantasy and vision and I would say the former, Jedi Academy.........

@Jcent Look into Buddhism, Jedi are basically Buddhists in the star wars universe. Don't reinvent the wheel. Buddhism from what I have read so far is flawed, however it may still provide some useful information, it's treatment of consciousness like a registry entry that can be deleted, like in a process to help free up processing power was interesting. Perhaps the darkside, Jainism also provides some useful information. As for scale-ability the students should effectively teach themselves, as was done in the Victorian era, through some form of incentive(money). Or perhaps through love of the order, which might only happen in East Asian countries where orphans are adopted to orders, rather than parents. I would say design a video game, but that has already been done. Would be useful perhaps if everyone on a forum patronised one historical intellectual to augment their knowledge for the collective.

@DayProv You miss understand me, optimistic; meaning the optimal, the best. Is different from being positive. You can be positive, and still utterly suck/perform-poorly at something. As I said Optimistic people generally haven't fared too well. Was thinking about how best to structure my being, given that Optimates were murdered at the end of the Roman Republic, and vast numbers of people murdered by genocidal regimes throughout the world. Being optimistic or indeed pessimistic does not seem a good way of going about things. I kind of prefer what the term "The Whigs" meant in the UK; "Cattle Herder".

Being positive is a good thing. I would distinguish it however from being Optimistic, as both Optimates in Ancient Rome, and optimistic people in Cambodia, Germany, France etc were generally killed/butchered en masse.

Health, Legs, and Mind.

Not really, just recently came back from the Far East and thought of it as a topic for conversation, if you were looking at a language it would provide structure to a plan. As it's not really a plan, but a template. If it's going to be expanded, more of a journal. In which case why not write a blog. Read a while a go there are four base processing methods of information. I can't remember the names, but I think they relate to the following. A) Integration of old information with new. Integral. Inductive. Dialectical. (very slow). My default. B) Integration of new information with old. Integral/Systematic. Deductive. Rhetorical. (slow) C) Addition of expanding chains of new information. Journaling. (Fast) D) Random allocation of space. Fragmentary. (Very Fast) All processing methods have advantages and disadvantages. I think they ascend in incidence, consciously being aware may provide some ability to alter the method. Buddhism seems to seek to breakdown chains of thinking, of which I tend to think of a Schopenhauer or U.G Krishnamurti, personality wise. A) I like the commonplace book suggestion of Leo, I have heard the suggestion before referenced by a New York teacher, Gato something, to Benjamin Franklin. The booklist is only a tip of the iceberg of what needs to be read, some discarded, others studied intently. B) may benefit from a systematic approach, commonplace book.... C) From expressing their journalism, or transcending that way of thinking. D) I'm not fundamentally sure, what can be done, journaling may help.

"As one of your great Actors Edmund Kean once said, Dying is easy, Comedy is hard." -Twilight Zone. (a small talent for war). So many facets to that quote I wasn't initially aware of. I suppose there are other dimensions, then the 5 or so initially aware of. Kind of disturbed. Where is Commander Keen when you need him.

Yes good for attracting the birds....

How do you know it's the nature of the language that is deceptive, and not your own unconscious? Desensitised does not mean unaffected. In fact desensitised makes things worse. Par exemple; if a person has leprosy, slicing off a digit becomes less noticeable, although that's probably the least of your worries.

@CreamCat Have you been to Japan or Asia?

Allow them to think they can get away with things, so it destroys their soul.

Morning Glory is a good one......

All mainstream sources of news information are garbage. Occasionally, there might be something precious, in with the junk. If they are all saying it, it's probably pure garbage. Like with a river the most salts are at the end, I like to go for the fountainhead or Spring, less people, purer, older springs being better. The media are the priests of the new world. Looking recently at 18th Century Literature, in specific "The Spectator". Can see the difference between old and new. Took one glance at the new and it's spiel and thought no. Besides the media is totally censored, with connections to Intelligence agencies, Youtube is hardly exempt. Dr David Kelly and Diana were obvious assassinations. Shutdown of the London underground maybe a decade a go can't remember when, blamed on a power cut, was also suspicious given it runs on a separate power generator. Yeah anyway, keeping up with the narrative can be important. I find it more like a pantomime, but instead of the kids staring intently, worrying etc "he's behind you". I'm laughing manically inside, perhaps even relishing it a bit. Except it's not a pantomime.

It's a dichotomy that is impossible to reconcile consciously. Was reading a review of Robinson Crusoe in a collection of essays on 18th Century English Literature. Anyway in the book he wants to engage in the slave trade, as being the best return on capital at that time. Sells a Moorish boy into slavery when marooned, for 30 pieces of silver to a Portuguese slave trader on the condition he frees him if he converts to Christianity. My point being that Capitalism is built on necessary evil, which results in a greater good. The Flip side it is also impossible to reconcile socialism consciously.

In Jest. The vampire. Even got an extra extra.... set of teeth, all symmetrical. Wisdom teeth sure, but didn't know you can have an extra set behind the adult teeth. Referred to as supernumeral teeth. Pretty small currently though, 2 upper and 6 lower. Became more aware of them after coming back from a cruise in Far East Asia. Cambodia. Thailand. Vietnam. Malaysia, Singapore. Basically stuffed myself with all inclusive food on board ship, plenty of sugar! and all you can eat smoked salmon! (for breakfast). Evolutionary speaking, people are perhaps descended from lampreys(a blood sucking eel), I remember a science technician at highschool/college mentioning it once. Something to do with how the oesophagus is positioned. Lampreys look a bit like those creatures off the Stargate series. Although as Buddha says you are going to die. Though if the Buddha was perfectly enlightened and was reincarnated 100,000 thousands of times, as it says in the Pali Canon, or at least the audible anthology of it. How does number admit of perfection? Wouldn't some sort of game of charades be more fun?

If I can, I like to try and get at the root of books on knowledge. Sure there's repackaged modern stuff, but What can I fillet that has stood the test of time? and hopefully avoid retreading old ground. How many self help books are based off of various religious texts or novels, why not just read them direct. If many self helps books are like energy drinks, I'm looking more for fine wines, trying to contrast and build a palette. There's a systematising element to books, so sometimes can be interesting to see references to various texts and try and get a through overview of what's available. I think religions can deal with various psychological aspects so various arteries to explore.

Fairly sure pragmatism is Evil, or at least undesirable. Although seductive. “Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.” (Henry David Thoreau) Sounds, like Keith Ledger's Joker, from "The Dark Knight". Although do not drink poison, and then drinking alcohol, or Arsenic maybe a good rule. Listened to "Walden" a while a go, I think Thoreau makes a few good points. The demand side of the goods produced by slavery I think is under addressed.

Break down habits. Although if someone is addicted to poor habits, probably good luck to identify and get anywhere. If you only knew the power of the darkside. I guess psychedelics could break down habit/neurons. I remember a video I watched by Peter Ralston talking about cooking a piece of toast over a fire by habit. The simplicity of just buying a toaster not occurring straightaway. Getting stuck in a chain, rather then originating action. I think I see the point of how a long chain of habits may make you less then you can be, although, sometimes leading to excellence. "Shadows and Dust Maximus!" Gladiator/Horace.

Vanity.

Some distinctions I noticed. Could be wrong, intuitively I feel the categories have relevance. ----------------------------------- Hinduism: Moral Relativism. Pantheistic God(Brahman). Enlightened caste holier than thou. Avatars. Buddhism: Amoral, No God/Atheistic, overcome Maya/Illusion(Evil). Accountability. Life negating, birth control (anti-clockwise swastika) Taoism: No Morality, if one follows "the way" how is morality relevant? It's not. Character Virtue: 3 Treasures; Kindness(Frankincense), Humility(myrrh), Simplicity (Gold). Islam: Moral Absolutism, Pantheistic God. Evil as spirits, such as jin. External Evil, those that will not submit to Allah and his prophet. Jainism: Moral Pluralism. Focus on habit, Karma Evil to be overcome. Accountability. Life affirming. (Clockwise swastika). Some form of ascension. Judaism: Morality. Messianic. Christianity: Transcendental Morality, Transcendent God. Accountability. Internal Evil, to be overcome, Risen Lord. Tengrism: No Morality. Sky god (Maya). Will to Power. Nordic Paganism: No Morality. Maya, Hall of the Mountain King, Narrative. A Pantheon of Gods(but flawed....), , . Aesir(lifeforce) fight the Vanir (Presumably, the Vain Beings) Will to Power Satanism: Amoral, Life affirming, Logical outcome of Objectivism, Will to Power. Scientology: No morality, ascent to godhood. Maximum Optimism. Conflux: Mad World, Donnie Darko or Nietzschean Universe. Heraclitus (the weeping philosopher) Maximum Pessimism. Drew the short straw, in absolute infinity. Eternal recurrence. Tangent Universe. --------------------------------------- Pantheism or Atheism, are functionally no different, As Spinoza noted,.... or even Deism. Spinoza's universe is absolute, as the one substance is God, which confers with a Newtonian(a Deist) absolute universe. However, I agree with Leibniz that the Universe is relativistic, as confirmed, but initially rejected by Einstein(bias towards Spinoza). Moral Relativism becomes obsolete as soon as people articulate moral judgements. Absolute Morality involves knowing, and is therefore a contradiction.

How you process information matters. I thought it was interesting looking at, neural activity scan, heat or something. No eyes and you're not reading this forum.

I thought Donald: Meaning World Ruler, was pretty cool. Trump: meaning triumph or something like a Trump card was also pretty cool. I think it shows how the Ego usually works in a regulating manner. I listened to his book on audible since he is president. "Art of the Deal." Kind of a take no prisoners, approach. Worked in construction, debt collection, and rent control. Before going into more mercantile real estate deals, high degree of responsibility, but less ownership. I suppose a different kind of temperament could push someone towards alcoholism, being around people focused on the bottom dollar. Although what major world leader or politician is not messed up, they all are.

Few thoughts. Awareness: I suppose you could feed your awareness. Audiobooks, looking at all points of view. Going for "a bigger boat". I like audio because you can turn off the sound if you're a bit of a gamer and listen to books instead. It might be possible to have limited awareness and more consciousness, which may decrease & increase respectively. Strange glimpses of future places in dreams, could be brain damage or some glitch. Or knowing the next song on the radio. I fairly sure it is possible to have vast awareness, but a lack of consciousness, like skynet from terminator. Yeah going for one thing is pretty important. Kundalini/meditation, Gym, More knowledge, Relationships. Suppose keeping a commonplace to organise as you go, is fairly useful. Leviathan, (or Behemoth(The Bull)): Personally though I think the serpent, can takeover, like in many religions, symbol for the unconscious I think. The idea that there is no price to pay for such an increase in consciousness unearned, doesn't strike me as right. Still curious though. People before and after psychedelics or perhaps kundalini are not the same, subtle twitches and flinching. It's not like adding more books to a library. Hermeas Mora, from the Elder Scrolls games. Yog-Sothoth, Lovecraft, Proteus, from Shakespeare. The creature out of LOTR in the pool. "do not disturb the water". Serpent from Dragon Age Origins. Deep Rising. Spectre and so on. --------------------------------------- Yog-Sothoth is coterminous with all time and space yet is supposedly locked outside of the universe we inhabit. Its cosmic nature is hinted at in this passage from "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" (1934) by Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price: It was an All-in-One and One-in-All of limitless being and self—not merely a thing of one Space-Time continuum, but allied to the ultimate animating essence of existence's whole unbounded sweep—the last, utter sweep which has no confines and which outreaches fancy and mathematics alike. It was perhaps that which certain secret cults of earth have whispered of as YOG-SOTHOTH, and which has been a deity under other names; that which the crustaceans(Jordan Peterson fans) of Yuggoth worship as the Beyond-One, and which the vaporous brains of the spiral nebulae know by an untranslatable Sign... Yog-Sothoth sees all and knows all. To "please" this deity could bring knowledge of many things. However, like most beings in the mythos, to see it or learn too much about it is to court disaster. Some authors state that the favor of the god requires a human sacrifice or eternal servitude. ---------------------------------------- NO NOT BILLY!!!!!!!! GET TO THE CHOPPA! oh wait wrong movie, same movie.

“Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea? Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more. March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less. Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland